US11848645B2
In an example, a system includes an oscillator circuit on a chip. The oscillator circuit includes a charging current generator including a current mirror, an amplifier, and an on-chip resistor, where the on-chip resistor is coupled to a pin on the chip. The oscillator circuit also includes oscillator circuitry coupled to the charging current generator, where the oscillator circuitry includes a comparator, a phase generator, a first capacitor coupled to a first resistor, and a second capacitor coupled to a second resistor. The system also includes an external resistor coupled to the pin, where the external resistor is external to the chip. The system includes an external capacitor coupled to the pin, where the external capacitor is external to the chip.
US11848640B2
Wire or cable holder assemblies employed in a solar power system are disclosed. In some embodiments, an assembly could include a cap and a base configured with channels. When the cap and the base are clamped to an object (e.g., a solar module frame), enclosures defined by the channels and a surface of the solar frame module are formed to hold cables. In some embodiments, an assembly could include a plunger with at least one leg and a base that includes a receptacle for receiving the plunger and a hook for holding electrical cables. A leg include a rack having teeth adapted to fall into notches or spaces formed by complementary teeth of a pawl found in the receptacle that forms a ratchet which permits insertion of the plunger into the receptacle but not an extraction. If extraction is desired, an external force may be applied to release the pawl.
US11848638B1
This disclosure discusses devices and systems for attaching solar panels to metal roofs. A mounting device has two or more hinge bases that can pivot at various angles about a hinge platform assembly. The hinge platform assembly is optionally widthwise adjustable. The above-mentioned adjustments allow the mounting device to secure solar panels to various types of metal roofs such as flat, corrugated, and trapezoidal. The hinge platform assembly interfaces with various components of the solar panel racking system. The hinge platform assembly includes hinge sleeves that pass into slots within the hinge bases and surround hinge pins that project upward from the hinge bases. This allows the hinge bases to captively rotate about the hinge platform assembly.
US11848633B2
To provide a controller for AC rotary electric machine which can compensate error of the actual on-duty with respect to the command on-duty calculated from command voltage with good accuracy, with a simple circuit configuration. A controller for AC rotary electric machine detects an actual on-duty of the switching device based on the detection value of the midpoint potential which is the potential of the connection node of the series connection in the series circuit; calculates an on-duty error based on the difference between the command on-duty and the actual on-duty; and corrects the voltage command or the command on-duty based on the on-duty error.
US11848630B2
A motor system can include a motor configured to be operated according to at least a portion of an operation cycle specifying at least one target speed for the motor and a controller configured to obtain an estimated winding resistance of the motor, wherein the estimated winding resistance is determined based at least in part on an estimator gain factor, and wherein the estimator gain factor is inversely dependent on a speed of the motor; wherein the at least one target speed comprises at least one low speed such that at least a portion of the operation cycle is a low speed portion of the operation cycle, the at least one low speed having a speed of less than about 10 percent of a maximum speed of the operation cycle.
US11848618B2
Pulse sharing control to enhance performance in multiple output power converters is described herein. During a switching cycle, an energy pulse is provided to more than one port (i.e., output) using pulse sharing transfer. Pulse sharing transfer may enhance performance by reducing audible noise due to subharmonics and by reducing a root mean square current of one or more secondary currents. A primary switch is closed to energize an energy transfer element via a primary current. Energy may be shared among a first load port on a first circuit path via a first secondary current and among a second load port on a second circuit path via a second secondary current.
US11848617B2
Power converter electronic circuitries configured to harvest and store energy from at least the parasitic oscillation occurring during the operation thereof. Methodologies of using such energy for the current injection, carried out by discharging the parasitic capacitance across the switching elements to achieve zero voltage switching condition for these switching elements. In a specific case, the methodology of current injection (with the use of so harvested and stored energy) is self-adjusting, causing the optimization of the energy required to discharge the parasitic capacitance.
US11848613B1
A multiphase switching converter includes: a plurality of phases, an output capacitor, and a control loop. Each phase includes: a current detection device, a pulse width modulator, a set of switching devices, and an inductor. The control loop is configured to generate a first current signal to the current detection device of each phase of the plurality of phases. The first current signal is proportional to an average current generated by the plurality of phases. The current detection device of each phase provides a signal to a corresponding PWM to control a duty cycle of the set of switching devices to equalize the current generated by each phase and maintain a charge balance on the output capacitor.
US11848608B2
A control circuit for controlling a switching regulator includes a timer, a comparator, a driver circuit and a controller. The timer generates an input signal indicative of whether a predetermined amount of time has elapsed since an activation of a drive signal. The comparator is configured to compare a feedback voltage with a reference voltage to generate a comparison signal. The driver circuit is controlled by a control signal to generate the drive signal according to one of the input signal and the comparison signal. The control signal indicates whether a mode is enabled. When the mode is enabled, the driver circuit is configured to generate the drive signal according to the input signal. The controller is configured to, in response to an activation of the input signal, generate the control signal according to a result of a comparison of the feedback voltage with another reference voltage higher than the reference voltage.
US11848600B2
A three-phase multilevel inverter is connected to a first direct-current voltage source having a first voltage. Single-phase inverters are each connected in series to a corresponding phase of the three-phase multilevel inverter, and include a second direct-current voltage source, respectively, each having a second voltage. Combined output voltages, which are combinations of boost voltages generated by the three single-phase inverters and output voltages of the three-phase multilevel inverter, are supplied to a load. The control device adjusts a common mode voltage of the combined output voltages to be within a predetermined allowable range, and variation ranges of the line voltages in the combined output voltages to satisfy a specified condition established with the second voltage as a reference.
US11848595B2
A channel segment for a track of a mover device is provided, the channel segment comprising: opposite ends joined by a body forming a magnetic flux pathway between the opposite ends, the magnetic flux pathway being one or more of C-shaped, U-shaped and horseshoe shaped between the opposite ends, the opposite ends forming respective transverse magnetic flux pathways about perpendicular to the magnetic flux pathway; laminations of ferromagnetic material forming the body, the laminations about parallel to the magnetic flux pathway and about perpendicular to the respective transverse magnetic flux pathways; shear pins through the laminations, the shear pins positioned to reduce eddy currents one or more of in and around the shear pins; and a retention mechanism at the opposite ends, the retention mechanism configured to transversely fasten the laminations together at the opposite ends while remaining insulated from each other.
US11848594B2
A curvilinear track section of a linear motor system for use with a moving element including a machine readable medium, the track section including: a curvilinear track portion having a predetermined curved shape; a plurality of sensors provided to the track portion such that each of the plurality of sensors is oriented perpendicular to the direction of motion while the plurality of sensors are placed along the direction of motion and the plurality of sensors are configured such that the machine readable medium will overlap at least two of the plurality of sensors at the same time; and a processor configured to determine a position of the moving element on the curvilinear track section based on the readings from the sensors.
US11848593B2
A stator device for an electric machine, including a laminated core arrangement with a plurality of receiving grooves for receiving, in each receiving groove, at least one conductor element of a stator winding in a conductor channel, wherein the receiving grooves each provide at least one flow channel, wherein the laminated core arrangement includes a plurality of laminated core units which are lined up axially and which each provide axial groove sections of the receiving grooves, and wherein the groove sections associated with each of the plurality of laminated core units at least in part have a groove geometry variant taken from a group of at least two different groove geometry variants, such that the receiving grooves, over an axial extent along the laminated core arrangement, each have at least two different groove geometry variants.
US11848578B2
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems may include a damping circuit, configured to dampen a wireless power signal such that communications fidelity is upheld at high power. Additionally or alternatively, such wireless power transfer systems may include voltage isolation circuits, to isolate components of the wireless receiver systems from high voltage signals intended for a load associated with the receiver. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining fidelity of in-band communications associated with the higher power wireless power signal.
US11848574B2
A wireless receiver and transmission systems include a receiver antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information superimposed on an AC wireless signal. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, apply automatic bias control and gain control to generate modified electrical information, detect a change in the modified electrical information and determine if the change in the modified electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold. If the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, an alert is generated. Alerts are decoded into the electrical information.
US11848568B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining mutual inductance for effective wireless power transmission. The apparatus includes a resonance circuit unit including at least one transmission resonance circuit and at least one reception resonance circuit and configured to transmit power to the reception resonance circuit using power supplied to the transmission resonance circuit, and a controller configured to determine a mutual inductance value related to a transmission resonance circuit to which power is supplied when power is supplied only to any one transmission resonance circuit of the at least one transmission resonance circuit and power supply to another transmission resonance circuit is blocked, and to determine a sign of mutual inductance related to a transmission resonance circuit to which power is supplied when power is supplied only to a reference transmission resonance circuit and any one transmission resonance circuit except for the reference transmission resonance circuit.
US11848562B2
An electric vehicle charging station for connecting to a span of a high or extra high voltage transmission line, comprising: a tap for connecting to the span of the transmission line; a substation comprising one or more power voltage transformers; a plurality of electric vehicle chargers. The power voltage transformers are station service voltage transformers, auxiliary service voltage transformers, or power VTs. Said power voltage transformers may be star-delta transformers or star-star transformers. Said tap may comprises, for each phase of the transmission line: an insulator for linking a first and a second interrupted conductor points of an interrupted transmission line conductor; a drop conductor connected between the first interrupted conductor point and said substation; a shunt connector connected between the second interrupted conductor point and a point of the drop conductor or connected between the first and second interrupted conductor points.
US11848556B2
Provided is an power and communications network convergence system including wireless base stations, and DC grid groups, each grid group belonging to a cell. Each grid in the grid group has a DC line to which devices including a power generator and a power-storage are connected, and performs, based on state-information on each device, first control for reducing power fluctuations in the line. A first grid belonging to a cell performs, based on state-information on each grid, second control for interchanging power with a second grid belonging to the cell. If a power situation of a first grid group belonging to a first cell and a power-situation of a second grid group belonging to a second cell satisfy a preset condition, the first grid group performs third control for interchanging power with the second grid group.
US11848546B2
A flexible wire support structure extends between an axle and an inverter for an electric vehicle. The inverter is fixed relative to the vehicle body and the axle is moveable relative to the inverter during vehicle use. A wire extends between the inverter and the axle through a channel defined by the wire support structure. The wire support structure is attached at opposite ends to a first and second support structure, each of which allow pivoting of the flexible wire support structure in response to movement of the axle relative to the inverter. The wire support structure has a limited bend radius in response to movement of the axle, and blocks the wire extending within the support structure from being bent to a tight radius, thereby protecting the wire.
US11848540B2
A semiconductor laser element includes: a first nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductivity-type; a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity-type; and an active region disposed between the first nitride semiconductor layer and the second nitride semiconductor layer, the active region having a single quantum well structure. The active region comprises a first barrier layer, an intermediate layer, a well layer, and a second barrier layer, in this order in a direction from the first nitride semiconductor layer toward the second nitride semiconductor layer. The thickness of the first barrier layer is 20 nm or less. A lattice constant of the intermediate layer is greater than a lattice constant of each of the first barrier layer and the second barrier layer, and smaller than a lattice constant of the well layer. A thickness of the intermediate layer is greater than a thickness of the well layer.
US11848538B2
The present disclosure relates to an approach for monitoring the output power of a VCSEL or VCSEL array in a relatively compact, low profile package. A VCSEL device or VCSEL package of the present disclosure may generally be configured with a photodiode for monitoring output power of one or more VCSELs. In some embodiments, one or more VCSEL devices may be arranged over or on a photodetector, such that the photodetector is configured to detect light emitted through a bottom of the VCSEL. In such embodiments, the VCSEL device may have a patterned bottom metal layer and/or an etched substrate to allow light to pass below or behind the VCSEL to the photodiode. In other embodiments, a photodetector may be arranged on a submount adjacent one or more VCSELs, and may be configured to detect light reflected via a diffuser in order to monitor output power.
US11848529B2
The present disclosure provides a terminal block that can be kept compact. A terminal block has a housing made of a synthetic resin, a columnar metal connection terminal held by the housing, and a cylindrical metal joint part in which a device connection part of the connection terminal is inserted. The joint part has a cylindrical part in which the device connection part is inserted and a cylindrical part in which an end part of a device-side terminal electrically connected to the connection terminal is inserted. The connection terminal is electrically connected to the device-side terminal via the joint part.
US11848526B1
A portable welding ground attachment system used to attach a welding ground clamp (also called a work clamp or work cable) of an arc welder to a workpiece to be welded. The system is particularly useful in establishing positive connections between a work cable and extended lengths of pipe.
US11848525B2
A single-pair Ethernet device comprises a first input contact and a second input contact, which are configured for electrically contacting a single-pair Ethernet input conductor pair, further comprises a first output contact and a second output contact, which are configured for electrically contacting a single-pair Ethernet output conductor pair, comprises a first conduction path, which in at least one operation state electrically conductively connects the first input contact to the first output contact, and comprises a second conduction path, which in the operation state electrically conductively connects the second input contact to the second output contact.
US11848521B2
A plug connector (1) for connection of a data line, having a plug housing (2) with one or more connection elements (3) each connection element being for connection of a respective wire of the data line. The connection elements have one or more contact elements (4), and one or more conductor elements (5), via each of which a connection element (3) is electrically conductively connected to a contact element (4). Return damping of the plug connector (1) is reduced in that at least one portion (6) of the individual conductor elements (5) or at least one portion of the individual contact elements (4) is designed and arranged such that the wave impedance of the portion (6) is purposefully mismatched so that the value of the wave impedance deviates from the nominal wave impedance of the data line.
US11848519B2
It is aimed to reduce cost. A female connector (F) includes a female housing (30) to be connected to a male housing (10), a lock functioning portion (57) provided on the female housing (30) and configured to lock the female housing (30) and the male housing (10) in a connected state by being locked to the male housing (10), and a releasing member (63) attachable to and detachable to the female housing (30), the releasing member being a component separate from the female housing (30). The releasing member (63) can displace the lock functioning portion (57) to disengage the lock functioning portion (57) from the male housing (10) while being mounted on the female housing (30).
US11848517B2
A terminal block structure and an unbuckling unit thereof are disclosed. The unbuckling unit has a base member and a rotary member, the rotary member is connected to the base member to be operated. The rotary member includes a first arm part, a second arm part extended from the first arm part and a rotary part disposed between the first arm part and the second arm part. The second arm part has a buckling unit, and the rotary part is connected to the base member. When the first arm part is applied with an external force, the rotary member rotates about the rotary part as a rotation center to drive the second arm part to ascend. Accordingly, advantages of easily to be pressed and operated, simple in structure and convenient to be assembled are provided.
US11848515B1
A magnetic connector has a plug core disposed around a plug contact set and a receptacle core disposed around a receptacle contact set. The plug core defines a generally elongated circular plug core edge. The receptacle core defines a generally elongated concentric-circular receptacle core edge. The receptacle core edge defines an air gap, and the plug core defines an anchor configured to insert into the air gap. A coil is disposed around the receptacle core, and the coil, the plug core and the air gap define a magnetic circuit. The coil is electrically energized so as to form a magnetic field within an air gap, lock the anchor within the air gap and lock the plug contact set to the receptacle contact set accordingly.
US11848513B2
A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board carrying a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a connector attached on the outside of the housing by a flange. The connector covers an opening of the housing and includes contacts for direct electrical contact with the printed circuit board which passes through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a pressure compensator in the flange.
US11848509B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating body having a mating slot and multiple accommodating slots are in communication with the mating slot. Multiple terminals are accommodated in the accommodating slots. The terminals include ground terminals. Each terminal includes a connecting portion, an elastic arm, a tail portion, and an extending portion located between the connecting portion and the tail portion. The extending portion of each terminal extends obliquely downward and backward from the connecting portion. A grounding member is provided on the insulating body. The grounding member has a multiple upper and lower extending arms. A length of each upper extending arm is shorter than a length of each lower extending arm in the front-rear direction. The upper and lower extending arms respectively abut the ground terminals, thus shortening the transmission paths of the terminals. The grounding member and the ground terminals are in stable connection, thus reducing the resonance.
US11848502B2
An electronic device is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electronic device includes a housing, a first antenna module, a second antenna module, and a shared frame. The housing has an accommodating space. The shared frame is arranged in the accommodating space and comprises a first and a second support portion. The first antenna module is arranged on the first support portion, and the second antenna module is arranged on the second support portion. The first antenna module is for transmitting and receiving a signal of a first frequency band. The second antenna module is for transmitting and receiving a signal of a second frequency band. A virtual reference surface is defined below the housing, and a projection range of the first antenna module on the virtual reference surface partially overlaps with a projection range of the second support portion on the virtual reference surface.
US11848493B2
An antenna unit includes an antenna having at least two elements for emitting and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation. The antenna is arranged on a support substrate. Furthermore, the antenna unit includes an electromechanical actuator that is arranged on the support substrate and configured to take a control signal as a basis for mechanically deforming the support substrate along a spatial direction in order to adjust a distance between the at least two elements of the antenna along the spatial direction for the purpose of influencing an antenna parameter of the antenna. The antenna unit also includes a control circuit configured to generate the control signal based on a target value for the antenna parameter.
US11848490B2
Various devices are efficiently mounted on a pole while reducing the probability of spoiling the view around the pole. A cover assembly 100 includes a plurality of covers 1 and 2, the outer shapes of the covers being respectively shapes obtained by dividing a hollow elongated body at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction, each of the covers having an internal housing space portion; and mounting mechanisms 5 to 8 for mounting the covers on a pole 9 located to be surrounded by the inner peripheral face of each of the covers in a state in which the covers are arranged to form a hollow elongated body as a whole.
US11848485B2
An antenna module includes a feeding end, a first radiator, a second radiator, a third radiator, and a ground structure. The first radiator excites a first frequency and a second frequency. The second radiator extends from the first radiator and excites a third frequency with a part of the first radiator. The third radiator extends from the first radiator and excites a fourth frequency with a part of the first radiator. The ground structure includes a main ground surface and an extending portion extending from the main ground surface. The main ground surface is located below the feeding end, and the extending portion extends from the main ground surface to a bottom of the first radiator and is apart from the first radiator. An extending direction of a portion of the first radiator above the extending portion is orthogonal to an extending direction of the extending portion.
US11848482B2
A mobile terminal, including an NFC antenna. The NFC antenna includes a feed, an inductor and a capacitor that are connected in parallel to the feed. The NFC antenna includes one or more of a first distributed inductor, a second distributed inductor, a third distributed inductor, and a fourth distributed inductor. The first distributed inductor is located between the feed and the inductor, the second distributed inductor is located between the inductor and a first ground point, the third distributed inductor is located between the feed and the capacitor, and the fourth distributed inductor is located between the capacitor and a second ground point. The inductor includes a lumped inductor and a metal segment connected to the lumped inductor in series.
US11848479B2
A magnetic field focusing assembly includes a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a magnetic field, and a split ring resonator assembly configured to be magnetically coupled to the magnetic field generating device and configured to focus the magnetic field produced by the magnetic field generating device.
US11848467B2
A method is described for generating carbon-neutral electricity using purified hydrogen as an energy source. A recyclable LOHC is provided to the process for reversible dehydrogenation. Hydrogen generated by dehydrogenation is purified and electrochemically converted to electricity. Heat for maintaining the dehydrogenation reaction temperature is derived from combustion of a portion of the liquid products from dehydrogenation, the portion combusted being less than or equal to the portion of carbon-neutral component included in the recyclable LOHC.
US11848458B1
A system including a battery module configured for use in an electric aircraft includes at least a battery cell and a battery module casing. The at least a battery cell includes at least a pair of cell tabs and at least a conductor. The battery module casing includes at least a lithiophobic surface with an ejecta barrier and at least a nonlithiphobic surface that is configured to vent the cell ejecta. The battery module casing closely matches the dimensions of the battery cell.
US11848457B2
A battery with a generally cuboid body with a top face. A cylindrical terminal extending from a center of the top face, a top of the cylindrical terminal provided with electrical contacts. A left tab and a right tab provided extending from the top face proximate a left end and a right end of the top face, respectively. A peripheral portion of each of the left and the right tabs forming a retaining groove extending from the top face; and an inward facing portion of the peripheral portion of each of the left and the right tabs facing the cylindrical terminal provided with an arc radius centered upon the center of the top face. The battery interconnectable with a range of electronic devices via a range of vectors and/or mechanics.
US11848453B2
Provided is a method of preparing an intermetallic catalyst which includes applying ultrasonic wave to a precursor mixture solution including a noble metal precursor, a transition metal precursor, and a carbon support having an average pore size of about 6 nm to about 15 nm and a specific surface area of about 200 m2/g to about 2000 m2/g to form alloy particles in pores of the carbon support, and annealing the alloy particles in the pores of the carbon support to form intermetallic alloy particles.
US11848450B2
An anode for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: an anode current collector; and an anode mixture layer formed on the anode current collector, containing an anode active material, a conductor, a rubber-based binder, and a water-soluble polymer-based binder. The anode mixture layer comprises, relative to a total weight thereof, 1.0-2.5 wt % of the rubber-based binder and 0.5-1.5 wt % of the water-soluble polymer based binder. When the anode mixture layer is divided into ten equal parts in the thickness direction based on the current collector, a ratio (CA/CB) at an interval of 0 to 3 of a content ratio (CA) of the rubber-based binder to a total content of the rubber-based binder to a content ratio (CB) of the water-soluble polymer-based binder to a total content of the water-soluble polymer-based binder is larger than 1.0, and a ratio (CA/CB) at an interval of 7 to 10 is smaller than 1.0.
US11848439B2
A highly reliable electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery is provided. A highly reliable lithium-ion secondary battery is also provided using the electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery. The electrode for a lithium-ion secondary battery includes a current collector and an active material layer. The active material layer includes an active material, graphene, and polyimide. The active material includes a plurality of nanowires each of which grows with a silicon particle used as a nucleus and extends in one direction into a fine needle. The graphene includes a region in contact with the plurality of nanowires, and polyimide includes a region in contact with the graphene. The lithium-ion secondary battery uses the electrode as a negative electrode.
US11848436B2
Disclosed is method and device for forming an electrode plate. The method includes: performing tab cutting on a substrate so that the substrate forms a body portion, an edge portion connecting to the body portion, and a plurality of tabs that connect to the body portion but are separated from the edge portion; and performing edge portion cutting on the substrate to separate the edge portion from the body portion. The electrode plate is formed in two steps. First, the tab and the edge portion are separated, so that in the process of cutting, impact of vibration of the edge portion on the tab is small, greatly reducing the risk of deformation of the tab caused by vibration of the edge portion and damage to the tab caused by being pulled by the edge portion. Second, edge portion cutting separates the edge portion from the body portion.
US11848435B2
A battery includes an air cathode, an anode, an aqueous electrolyte, and a housing, wherein the housing includes one or more air access ports defining a total vent area; the battery exhibits a cell limiting current at 1.15V; a ratio of cell limiting current at 1.15 V to total vent area is greater than about 100 mA/mm2; and the aqueous electrolyte includes an amphoteric fluorosurfactant.
US11848429B2
A semiconductor device in which a circuit and a battery are efficiently stored is provided. In the semiconductor device, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a secondary battery are provided over one substrate. A channel region of the second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor. The secondary battery includes a solid electrolyte, and can be fabricated by a semiconductor manufacturing process. The substrate may be a semiconductor substrate or a flexible substrate. The secondary battery has a function of being wirelessly charged.
US11848427B2
A Non-Linear Voltammetry (NLV)-based method for charging batteries. It also relates to a fast charging system implementing this method. Adaptive charging, Non-Linear Voltage changing, and Relaxation are the key cornerstones of this method. Adaptive charging allows the system to balance the charging based on the user's time requirements, required charge capacity and the SOC and SOH of the battery. Non-linearly changing the voltage coupled with a suitable relaxation pattern allows this method to gain the maximum charge capacity without straining the battery.
US11848421B2
The present invention relates to an all-solid-state battery and a method for manufacturing the same. In an example of an embodiment of the all-solid-state battery and the method for manufacturing the same according to the present invention, a positive current collector is folded to electrically connect positive layers while a negative current collector is folded to electrically connect negative layers.
US11848416B2
The present invention relates to a thermosetting electrolyte composition for a lithium secondary battery, a gel polymer electrolyte prepared therefrom, and a lithium secondary battery including the gel polymer electrolyte, and particularly, to a thermosetting electrolyte composition for a lithium secondary battery, which includes LiPF6 as a first lithium salt, a second lithium salt excluding the LiPF6, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and a polymer or oligomer containing a unit represented by Formula 1, a gel polymer electrolyte prepared therefrom, and a lithium secondary battery including the gel polymer electrolyte.
US11848414B2
A solid electrolyte material can include a halide material represented by Li3-x-fMfRE1-yMeky(Cl1-u-p-qBruFpIq)6-x+y*(k-3), wherein the halide material includes at least two halide anions. The halide material can include reduced content of one or more impurity phase, including binary halide phase, oxyhalide phase, or ternary halide phase.
US11848401B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a multi-quantum-well structure, a first capping layer, a second capping layer, and an electron barrier layer stacked in order. The multi-quantum-well structure includes a plurality of alternately-stacked potential barrier layers and potential well layers. The first capping layer is a semiconductor layer, and the second capping layer is a p-doped semiconductor layer. Each of the first and second capping layers has an aluminum mole fraction larger than that of each of the potential barrier layers, and the aluminum mole fraction of the first capping layer is larger than that of at least a portion of the electron barrier layer. A method for preparing the semiconductor light emitting device is also provided.
US11848398B2
A flat bonding method of light emitting devices including bonding light emitting devices on a circuit board using a reflow process, and re-bonding at least a portion of the light emitting devices bonded on the circuit board using a press plate while pressing the portion of the light emitting devices.
US11848397B1
The present application relates to the technical field of solar cells, and in particular, to a method for preparing a solar cell, the solar cell, and a photovoltaic module. The method for preparing the solar cell includes: providing a substrate; forming a doped amorphous silicon layer on the first side of the substrate; performing laser treatment N times on the doped amorphous silicon layer to form N doped polysilicon layers ranging from a first doped polysilicon layer to a Nth doped polysilicon layer stacked in a direction away from the substrate, where N>1, a power, a wavelength and a pulse irradiation number of a nth laser treatment are respectively smaller than a power, a wavelength and a pulse irradiation number of a (n−1)th laser treatment, where n≤N, and the first doped polysilicon layer is disposed closer to the substrate than the Nth doped polysilicon layer. The embodiments of the present application are conducive to simplify the process of forming the solar cell.
US11848396B2
In an aspect, a method of forming a photoactive device comprises: providing a perovskite-surfactant solution, said perovskite-surfactant solution comprising a perovskite ink and a surfactant; and coating said perovskite-surfactant solution onto a receiving surface of a substrate thereby forming a layer of said photoactive device; wherein said layer comprises a perovskite material; and wherein an active area of said photoactive device is at least 1 cm2.
US11848395B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparing a bifacial PERC solar cell. The present invention has high photoelectric conversion efficiency, high appearance quality, and high EL yield, and could solve the problems of both scratching and undesirable deposition.
US11848388B1
Structures for a silicon-controlled rectifier and methods of forming a structure for a silicon-controlled rectifier. The structure includes a first well and a second well in a semiconductor substrate. The first well has a first conductivity type, and the second well has a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. The structure further includes a first terminal having a doped region that has a portion in the first well, and a second terminal including a second doped region that has a portion in the first well and a third doped region in the second well. The first and second doped regions have the second conductivity type, the third doped region has the first conductivity type, and the second doped region is positioned in a lateral direction between the first doped region and the third doped region.
US11848386B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to ferroelectric materials and semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor memory devices incorporating doped polar materials. In one aspect, a semiconductor device comprises a capacitor which in turn comprises a polar layer comprising a base polar material doped with a dopant. The base polar material includes one or more metal elements and one or both of oxygen or nitrogen. The dopant comprises a metal element that is different from the one or more metal elements and is present at a concentration such that a ferroelectric switching voltage of the capacitor is different from that of the capacitor having the base polar material without being doped with the dopant by more than about 100 mV. The capacitor stack additionally comprises first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer. The capacitor stack further comprises first and second barrier metal layers on respective ones of the first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer.
US11848383B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are to provide a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same and, more particularly, to a semiconductor device including isolation layers including an air gap, thereby minimizing stress to a substrate caused by oxide and improving performance of a device, and a method for fabricating the same. The semiconductor device according to the embodiment of the present invention comprises: a plurality of isolation layers each including a trench formed in a substrate and an air gap in a lower portion of the trench; an active region including a fin body disposed between the isolation layers, which are consecutively disposed, and a fin formed on the fin body, the fin having a narrower width than the fin body and extending in a first direction; a gate structure partially covering the active region and the isolation layers, and extending in a second direction; and a source/drain region covering the fin on both sides of the gate structure.
US11848373B2
A dummy fin described herein includes a low dielectric constant (low-k or LK) material outer shell. A leakage path that would otherwise occur due to a void being formed in the low-k material outer shell is filled with a high dielectric constant (high-k or HK) material inner core. This increases the effectiveness of the dummy fin to provide electrical isolation and increases device performance of a semiconductor device in which the dummy fin is included. Moreover, the dummy fin described herein may not suffer from bending issues experienced in other types of dummy fins, which may otherwise cause high-k induced alternating current (AC) performance degradation. The processes for forming the dummy fins described herein are compatible with other fin field effect transistor (finFET) formation processes and are be easily integrated to minimize and/or prevent polishing issues, etch back issues, and/or other types of semiconductor processing issues.
US11848341B2
A highly sensitive imaging device that can perform imaging even under a low illuminance condition is provided. One electrode of a photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of a first transistor and one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of a third transistor. The other of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor. The other electrode of the photoelectric conversion element is electrically connected to a first wiring. A gate electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to a second wiring. When a potential supplied to the first wiring is HVDD, the highest value of a potential supplied to the second wiring is lower than HVDD.
US11848335B2
A display device may include a first scan line, a first data line and a second data line, a first read-out line and a second read-out line. A first sub-pixel may be connected to the first scan line, the first data line, and the first read-out line. A second sub-pixel may be connected to the first scan line, the first data line, and the second read-out line. A third sub-pixel may be connected to the first scan line, the second data line, and the first read-out line. Each of the first sub-pixel, the second sub-pixel, and the third sub-pixel may include at least one light emitting element.
US11848326B2
Examples of an integrated circuit with gate cut features and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, a workpiece is received that includes a substrate and a plurality of fins extending from the substrate. A first layer is formed on a side surface of each of the plurality of fins such that a trench bounded by the first layer extends between the plurality of fins. A cut feature is formed in the trench. A first gate structure is formed on a first fin of the plurality of fins, and a second gate structure is formed on a second fin of the plurality of fins such that the cut feature is disposed between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
US11848324B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to an eFuse and gate structure on a triple-well and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a substrate comprising a bounded region; a gate structure formed within the bounded region; and an eFuse formed within the bounded region and electrically connected to the gate structure.
US11848323B2
A semiconductor device assembly includes a substrate and a die coupled to the substrate. The die includes a first contact pad electrically coupled to a first circuit on the die including at least one active circuit element, and a second contact pad electrically coupled to a second circuit on the die including only passive circuit elements. The substrate includes a substrate contact electrically coupled to both the first and second contact pads. The semiconductor device assembly can further include a second die including a third contact pad electrically coupled to a third circuit on the second die including at least a second active circuit element, and a fourth contact pad electrically coupled to a fourth circuit on the second die including only passive circuit elements. The substrate contact can be electrically coupled to the third contact pad and electrically disconnected from the fourth contact pad.
US11848321B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device comprises an output circuit configured to be electrically connected between a driving circuit and an external load circuit, and a protection circuit electrically connected to the output circuit and the driving circuit. The protection circuit comprises a first transistor having a base electrode, a collector electrode and an emitter electrode and a second transistor having a base electrode, a collector electrode and an emitter electrode. The base electrode of the first transistor is electrically connected to the collector electrode of the second transistor.
US11848320B2
According to an aspect, a power module package includes a plurality of power modules including a first power module and a second power module, a plurality of heat sinks including a first heat sink coupled to the first power module and a second heat sink coupled to the second power module, and a module carrier coupled to the plurality of power modules, where the module carrier includes a first region defining a first heat-sink slot and a second region defining a second heat-sink slot. The first heat sink extends at least partially through the first heat-sink slot and the second heat sink extends at least partially through the second heat-sink slot. The power module package includes a housing coupled to the module carrier and a ring member located between the module carrier and the housing.
US11848316B2
A display apparatus including a panel substrate, and a light emitting source disposed on the panel substrate, in which the light emitting source includes a substrate, an electrode disposed on the substrate, a light emitting structure disposed on the electrode and having an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, an n-type electrode, and a p-type electrode, a transparent electrode disposed on the light emitting structure, and an adhesive layer disposed on the light emitting structure, the n-type electrode is electrically connected to the electrode, the p-type electrode is electrically connected to the transparent electrode, and the adhesive layer is disposed between the p-type electrode and the transparent electrode.
US11848315B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a board including a front surface, a back surface facing an opposite side of the front surface, a first wiring pattern formed on the front surface, and a second wiring pattern formed on the side of the back surface with respect to the first wiring pattern; and a light-emitting element, a switching element, and a capacitor, which are electrically connected to one another by both the first wiring pattern and the second wiring pattern. Among the light-emitting element, the switching element, and the capacitor, a first predetermined element and a second predetermined element are arranged in a first direction and the second predetermined element and a third predetermined element are arranged in a second direction. The second wiring pattern forms a second current path opposite to a direction of a first current path. The second current path overlaps the first current path.
US11848309B2
A microelectronic device comprises a first microelectronic device structure and a second microelectronic device structure attached to the first microelectronic device structure. The first microelectronic device structure comprises a memory array region comprising a stack structure comprising levels of conductive structures vertically alternating with levels of insulative structures, and staircase structures at lateral ends of the stack structure. The memory array region further comprises vertical stacks of memory cells, at least one of the vertical stacks of memory cells comprising stacked capacitor structures, each stacked capacitor structure comprising capacitor structures vertically spaced from each other by at least a level of the levels of insulative structures, transistor structures, each transistor structure operably coupled to a capacitor structure and to one of the conductive structures of the levels of conductive structures, and a conductive pillar structure vertically extending through the transistor structures.
US11848302B2
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a chip. The chip package structure includes a conductive bump over and electrically connected to the chip. The chip package structure includes a ring-like structure over and electrically insulated from the chip. The ring-like structure surrounds the conductive bump, and the ring-like structure and the conductive bump are made of a same material.
US11848295B2
The power semiconductor apparatus includes: a semiconductor device 401; a bonding layer on chip 416 disposed on an upper surface of the semiconductor device; and a metal lead 419 disposed on the upper surface of the semiconductor device and bonded to the bonding layer on chip, wherein the metal lead 420 has a three-laminated structure including: a second metal layer 420b having a CTE equal to or less than 5×10−6/° C., for example; and a first metal layer 420a and a third metal layer 420c sandwiching the second metal layer and having a CTE equal to or greater than the CTE of the second metal layer. Provided is a power semiconductor apparatus capable of improving reliability thereof by reducing a thermal stress to a bonding layer between a semiconductor power device and a metal lead positioned on an upper surface thereof, and reducing a resistance of the metal lead.
US11848287B2
Provided a semiconductor device comprises, a plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced in a first direction; a plurality of mold insulating layers between the plurality of semiconductor patterns, a plurality of silicide patterns contacting the plurality of semiconductor patterns; and a plurality of first metal conductive films between the plurality of mold insulating layers and connected to each of the silicide patterns, wherein each of the silicide patterns includes a first sidewall that faces the semiconductor pattern, and a second sidewall which faces the first metal conductive film, the first sidewall of the silicide pattern and the second sidewall of the silicide pattern extends in the first direction, and the first sidewall of the silicide pattern and the second sidewall of the silicide pattern are curved surfaces.
US11848282B2
Semiconductor devices having metallization structures including crack-inhibiting structures, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a metallization structure formed over a semiconductor substrate. The metallization structure can include a bond pad electrically coupled to the semiconductor substrate via one or more layers of conductive material, and an insulating material—such as a low-κ dielectric material—at least partially around the conductive material. The metallization structure can further include a crack-inhibiting structure positioned beneath the bond pad between the bond pad and the semiconductor substrate. The crack-inhibiting structure can include a barrier member extending vertically from the bond pad toward the semiconductor substrate and configured to inhibit crack propagation through the insulating material.
US11848276B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package which is at least in part covered by an electromagnetic interference shielding layer. The method includes at least these steps: i. providing the semiconductor package and an ink composition having at least a compound comprising at least one metal precursor and at least one organic compound; ii. applying at least a part of the ink composition onto the semiconductor package, wherein a precursor layer is formed; and iii. treating the precursor layer with an irradiation of a peak wavelength in the range from 100 nm to 1 mm. Further disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising an electromagnetic interference shielding layer comprising at least one metal, wherein the semiconductor package is obtainable by the aforementioned method. Still further disclosed are a semiconductor package comprising an electromagnetic interference shielding layer having a specific conductance and thickness, and uses of an ink composition.
US11848274B2
A semiconductor package includes: a base chip; a first semiconductor chip disposed on the base chip; a second semiconductor chip disposed on the first semiconductor chip; a first insulating layer disposed between the base chip and the first semiconductor chip; a second insulating layer disposed between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip; a first connection bump penetrating through the first insulating layer and connecting the base chip and the first semiconductor chip to each other; and a second connection bump penetrating through the second insulating layer and connecting the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip to each other. The base chip has a width greater than a width of each of the first and second semiconductor chips. The first insulating layer and the second insulating layer include different materials from each other.
US11848273B2
Techniques for interconnecting chips using a bridge chip having through vias is provided. In one aspect, a structure includes: a bridge chip attached to at least a first chip and a second chip, wherein the bridge chip has at least one conductive through via connecting the bridge chip to one of the first chip and the second chip. The bridge chip can include a wiring layer having metal lines present between a first capping layer and a second capping layer, and the at least one conductive through via can directly contact at least a sidewall of at least one of the metal lines. A method of integrating chips using the present bridge chip is also provided.
US11848262B2
A semiconductor assembly includes an interposer that includes an insulating substrate, a plurality of upper contact pads on an upper surface of the substrate, and a plurality of lower contact pads on a lower surface of the substrate, a semiconductor package that includes a semiconductor die embedded within a package body and a plurality of package terminals exposed from the package body, a first passive electrical element that includes first and second terminals, a first electrical connection between the first terminal of the first passive electrical element and a first one of the lower contact pads via the interposer, a second electrical connection between the second terminal of the first passive electrical element and a first one of the package terminals, and a third electrical connection between a second one of the package terminals and a second one of the lower contact pads via the interposer.
US11848258B2
A semiconductor package includes a pad and leads, the pad and leads including a base metal predominantly including copper, a first plated metal layer predominantly including nickel in contact with the base metal, and a second plated metal layer predominantly including silver in contact with the first plated metal layer. The first plated metal layer has a first plated metal layer thickness of 0.1 to 5 microns, and the second plated metal layer has a second plated metal layer thickness of 0.2 to 5 microns. The semiconductor package further includes an adhesion promotion coating predominantly including silver oxide in contact with the second plated metal layer opposite the first plated metal layer, a semiconductor die mounted on the pad, a wire bond extending between the semiconductor die and a lead of the leads, and a mold compound covering the semiconductor die and the wire bond.
US11848249B2
There is provided a manufacturing method for a thermal conductive layer, with which a thermal conductive layer having a thermal diffusivity of 3.0×10−7 m2s−1 or more is manufactured on a support by using a composition for forming a thermal conductive layer, the composition containing a resin, a filler, and a solvent and having a concentration of solid contents of less than 90% by mass, the manufacturing method including a discharge step of discharging the composition toward the support; and a solvent amount reduction step of reducing a solvent amount in the composition such that a first solvent amount reduction time taken after the composition is discharged until the concentration of solid contents in the composition reaches 90% by mass on the support is 10 seconds or more for each position on the support.
US11848242B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of fin structures extending in a first direction over a semiconductor substrate. Each fin structure includes a first region proximate to the semiconductor substrate and a second region distal to the semiconductor substrate. An electrically conductive layer is formed between the first regions of a first adjacent pair of fin structures. A gate electrode structure is formed extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction over the fin structure second region, and a metallization layer including at least one conductive line is formed over the gate electrode structure.
US11848230B2
Different isolation liners for different type FinFETs and associated isolation feature fabrication are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes performing a fin etching process on a substrate to form first trenches defining first fins in a first region and second trenches defining second fins in a second region. An oxide liner is formed over the first fins in the first region and the second fins in the second region. A nitride liner is formed over the oxide liner in the first region and the second region. After removing the nitride liner from the first region, an isolation material is formed over the oxide liner and the nitride liner to fill the first trenches and the second trenches. The isolation material, the oxide liner, and the nitride liner are recessed to form first isolation features (isolation material and oxide liner) and second isolation features (isolation material, nitride liner, and oxide liner).
US11848228B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a base, a memory cell region on the base comprising a first plurality of conductive layers and a second plurality of insulating layers, wherein an insulating layer extends between, and separates, each two adjacent conductive layers of the first plurality of conductive layers. A first stacked body and a second stacked body are located on the base, and includes a plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of conductive layers fewer than the number of first conductive layers, and an insulating layer extends between, and separates, each two adjacent conductive layers of the plurality of conductive layers in each stacked body. The end portions of the stacked bodies include a stair portion having a stair-like shape wherein a surface of each of the conductive layers thereof is exposed.
US11848226B2
In one embodiment, a susceptor for thermal processing is provided. The susceptor includes an outer rim surrounding and coupled to an inner dish, the outer rim having an inner edge and an outer edge. The susceptor further includes one or more structures for reducing a contacting surface area between a substrate and the susceptor when the substrate is supported by the susceptor. At least one of the one or more structures is coupled to the inner dish proximate the inner edge of the outer rim.
US11848224B2
An electrostatic chuck includes: a ceramic plate; an adsorption electrode that is built in the ceramic plate; and a plurality of connection pads that are built in the ceramic plate to be electrically connected to the adsorption electrode. The connection pads are arranged stepwise.
US11848202B2
The present disclosure generally relates to process chambers for semiconductor processing. In one embodiment, a growth monitor for substrate processing is provided. The growth monitor includes a sensor holder and a crystal disposed in the sensor holder having a front side and a back side. An opening is formed in the sensor holder exposing a front side of the crystal. A gas inlet is disposed through the sensor holder to a plenum formed by the back side of the crystal and the sensor holder. A gas outlet is fluidly coupled to the plenum.
US11848189B2
A substrate processing method includes supplying a developing liquid configured to form a resist pattern onto a surface of a substrate on which a resist film is formed; performing multiple cycles of a cleaning processing of supplying a modifying liquid containing a modifying agent having a hydrophilic group onto the surface of the substrate on which the resist pattern is formed and supplying a rinse liquid configured to remove the modifying liquid onto the surface of the substrate; and drying the surface of the substrate after performing the multiple cycles of the cleaning processing.
US11848186B2
An inner source assembly for a mass spectrometer, the assembly comprising: a base; and a volume housing removably connectable to the base for retaining a repeller assembly therebetween, wherein one of the base and volume housing comprises at least two protrusions and the other of the volume housing and base comprises at least two corresponding slots to receive and retain said protrusions, wherein the protrusions are dissimilar to one another and/or the slots are dissimilar to one another.
US11848179B2
In a magnetron sputtering reaction space a magnetron magnetic field is generated. A further magnetic field is generated in the reaction space whereby a resultant magnetic field has a directional component parallel to a target plane which is larger than the directional component of the magnetron magnetic field parallel to the target plane in the reaction space.
US11848177B2
An electrostatic chuck for a substrate processing system is provided. The electrostatic chuck includes: a top plate configured to electrostatically clamp to a substrate and formed of ceramic; an intermediate layer disposed below the top plate; and a baseplate disposed below the intermediate layer and formed of ceramic. The intermediate layer bonds the top plate to the baseplate.
US11848174B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to devices and methods for generating and directing energetic electrons toward a target. More specifically, some embodiments relate to devices, systems, and methods for generating and directing energetic electrons based in the photoelectric effect and directing electric field-focused beams of the energetic electrons toward a target. Electron guns according to the present technology include one or more light sources to stimulate electron transmission, and a series of differentially charged stages to provide a hollow path allowing electrons generated by the photoelectric effect of the light irradiated on interior surfaces defining the path through the stages to travel to an exit of the electron gun. Each of the differentially charged stages have a different potential, thereby providing electrons having two or more different and tunable energy levels exiting as a beam from the electron gun.
US11848167B2
A contactor module is adapted to detect a switching state of a contactor. The contactor module includes a movable element that is arranged to transmit the movement of a switching element of the contactor to the contactor module; and a deflection lever attached to the movable element. The deflection lever is arranged to indicate the switching state.
US11848165B2
A ceramic reed switch includes a ceramic tube, and a first end cover and a second end cover, a first pin is disposed on an outer side of the first end cover, a first magnetic reed is disposed on an inner side of the first end cover, the first magnetic reed forms a cantilever beam structure on the first end cover, a second pin is disposed on an outer side of the second end cover, a second magnetic reed is disposed on an inner side of the second end cover, the second magnetic reed forms a cantilever beam structure on the second end cover, free ends of the first magnetic reed and the second magnetic reed are overlapped in the ceramic tube and form an air gap, and a contact is disposed on an overlapped end of the first magnetic reed and the second magnetic reed.
US11848154B2
Electromagnetic actuators for an elevator systems and encapsulated components thereof are described. The encapsulated components include an encapsulating body and a component assembly is arranged within the encapsulating body, wherein at least some parts of the component assembly are contained within a material of the encapsulating body.
US11848153B2
A periodic arrangement of magnets are used to form structures that channel the potential energy that a magnet possesses into kinetic energy in a controlled fashion to perform some useful work or function. One function is to create a magnetic chute that converts the potential energy of a magnetic projectile into kinetic energy that is used to channel the projectile to follow a path achieving high velocities along a path. The path is formed by assembling magnets periodically along the path in a certain fashion to create a magnetic chute that allows the magnetic projectile to slide easily along the path since the projectile is confined by the shape of the magnetic chute.
US11848149B2
Provided are a power supply member in a wireless power supply system, and applications of the power supply member. The power supply member includes: a first magnetic sheet that includes a first metal magnetic powder and a first resin, the first metal magnetic powder having a ratio of a length of a long side to a length of a short side is more than 1.0; a coil that is wound around and arranged on one surface of the first magnetic sheet; and a second magnetic sheet that is arranged on the same surface of the first magnetic sheet as the surface where the coil is arranged, is arranged on at least one of a side inside of an inner peripheral end of the coil or a side outside of an outer peripheral end of the coil, and includes a second metal magnetic powder and a second resin.
US11848147B2
A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion and a first flange portion, a first wire and a second wire that are wound around the winding core portion in the same direction, and a first terminal electrode that is disposed on the first flange portion and that is connected to a first end portion of the first wire. The shape of an outer edge of the first terminal electrode includes a convex curve.
US11848143B2
An electronic device and a method for manufacturing an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes an inductor. The inductor includes a plurality of line portions and a plurality of plate portions connected to the plurality of line portions. The line portions and the plate portions form a coil concentric to a horizontal axis.
US11848141B2
Provided is a reactor that includes a coil having a winding portion, a magnetic core having an inner core portion and an outer core portion, and a resin molded portion covering a surface of the magnetic core. The inner core portion is a single body having a non-separated structure, and includes a groove portion provided along a direction intersecting with the axial direction in a surface in the vicinity of an end portion of the inner core portion located in the axial direction. The resin molded portion includes an outer resin portion and an inner resin portion that covers the surface of the end portion of the inner core portion located in the axial direction and with which an inner portion of the groove portion is filled. The inner resin portion is continuous with the outer resin portion.
US11848137B2
Provided is a power conversion device, including: a casing having a recessed portion; a magnetic component accommodated in the recessed portion of the casing; a heat radiation plate, which covers an opening of the recessed portion of the casing, and is thermally coupled to the magnetic component; and a fixing band wound around the magnetic component and the heat radiation plate to fix the magnetic component to the heat radiation plate, wherein at least a part of the fixing band is accommodated in a band accommodating groove formed in the recessed portion of the casing. With this configuration, assembly dimensional tolerance caused between the magnetic component and the heat radiation plate can be eliminated and it is therefore possible to maintain high output and achieve downsizing.
US11848120B2
A cable includes a conductor, an insulator surrounding the center conductor, and a shield surrounding the insulator, wherein the shield has two foil layers and two braid layers. Each foil layer includes two foil surfaces, each braid layer includes two braid surfaces, and only one of the foil surfaces of the two foil layers confronts only one of the braid surfaces of the two braid layers.
US11848106B1
A clinical event outcome scoring system and method are used to determine a Severity of Illness Clinical Key (SICK) score, which is a probable degree of successful outcome for a patient about to undergo a specific clinical event, such as for example, coronary bypass surgery, hip replacement, bariatric surgery, discharge from a hospital for home recovery, a course of chemotherapy, radiation, or other treatment protocol. The system and method analyzes historical patient data to generate a statistical model for each specific clinical event of interest, which can then be used to determine a SICK score for a patient about to undergo the same clinical event. In some embodiments, the statistical model can be “fine-tuned” to render subcategories of statistical models tailored for certain patient populations about to undergo the same clinical event. In some embodiments, the statistical model can be augmented to take into account “outliers,” who have extra challenges not taken into account with the primary statistical model.
US11848103B2
Method and system of deploying a machine learning neural network (MLNN). The method comprises receiving a set of input features associated with data representative of a patient medical state at input layers of a trained MLNN, the trained MLNN comprising an output layer interconnected to the input layers via intermediate layers configured in accordance with an initial matrix of weights, a subset of the input features being activated responsive to a data sufficiency threshold reached in conjunction with deactivating, from the intermediate layers, a remainder of the input layers, the trained MLNN produced in accordance with adjusting the initial matrix of weights in diminishment of false positives in providing, at the output layer, a patient state diagnosis, and generating, at the output layer, a medical state diagnosis in accordance with the diminishment of false positives.
US11848097B2
A computerized method of automatically processing a medical imaging record using a machine learning model includes training a machine learning model prediction engine with historical medical imaging records, receiving a first medical imaging record from a first system, applying a set of specified approval criteria to the first medical imaging record to determine a provisional outcome, and in response to the provisional outcome being negative, selectively identifying an exception to the provisional outcome in response to input received by a user interface. In response to the exception not being identified, the method includes inputting a feature vector based on the first medical imaging record to the machine learning model prediction engine to generate a likelihood estimate, comparing the generated likelihood estimate to a target threshold, and in response to the generated likelihood estimate being greater than the target threshold, transmitting a signal indicating approval to the first system.
US11848091B2
A motion estimation system 80 includes a pose acquisition unit 81 and an action estimation unit 82. The pose acquisition unit 81 acquires, in time series, pose information representing a posture of one person and a posture of another person identified simultaneously in a situation in which a motion of the one person affects a motion of the other person. The action estimation unit 82 divides the acquired time series pose information on each person by unsupervised learning to estimate an action series that is a series of motions including two or more pieces of pose information.
US11848088B2
An inhaler tracker module is secured to an inhaler and has an activation sensor for sensing use of the inhaler. The tracker module includes a memory for storing inhaler use data, and a communications component for wirelessly transmitting the stored inhaler use data. The tracker module is wrapped around the inhaler body and includes a pressure switch located at the top of the canister to detect a user pressing the canister into the body for inhaler use. The tracking module has a standby mode in which it remains until inhaler use or until inhaler use data is stored and it is transmitted. A pairing function is provided.
US11848085B2
Methods and systems for classifying and editing insurance claims records are described. In one embodiment, a method, which can be performed by a processor, includes determining that a first prescription drug prescribed to a first patient should be filled by a pharmacy, determining a first guidepost date and a second guidepost date related to the first prescription, determining a third guidepost date associated with a second prescription, comparing the third guidepost date to the first and second guidepost dates to determine whether the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date, and filling and dispensing the first prescription drug as a full prescription supply and the second prescription drug as a full prescription supply on the same dispense date when the third guidepost date occurs after the first guidepost date and before the second guidepost date.
US11848073B2
A system for indexing, updating, and search haplotypes for genetic genealogical discovery in genotype databases. The system includes a pool of genetic indexes, a haplotype ingestion engine, and a haplotype query engine. The haplotypes of a number of individuals in a genotype database are indexed by a pool of multiple panels, and each panel pool can be dynamically updated by the insertion or deletion of individual haplotypes. A genetic genealogical search of a query haplotype against the database is achieved by first projecting the query onto a subset of panels in the pool, then conducting long match queries over each panel, and finally aggregating the identified long matches into Identical-by-Descent segments, i.e., DNA matches, between the query and the haplotypes in the database.
US11848071B2
Disclosed are systems and methods involving memory-side write training to improve data valid window. In one implementation, a method for performing memory-side write training may comprise delaying a rising edge or a falling edge of a first data signal, delaying a rising edge or a falling edge of a second data signal, and aligning the two adjusted signals to reduce a window of time that the data signals are not valid and thereby improve or optimize the data valid window (DVW) of a memory array. According to implementations herein, various edges of data signals and clock signals may be adjusted or delayed via dedicated trim cells or circuitry present in the data paths located on the memory side of a system.
US11848061B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a non-volatile memory device including a sense amplifier and an operation method thereof. The non-volatile memory device may include: a memory cell array comprising a plurality of memory cells; and the sense amplifier configured to read data of the plurality of memory cells and output the read data. The sense amplifier may include: a first stage sense amplifier configured to sense a voltage difference between a reference voltage and a voltage of a bit line connected to at least one memory cell among the plurality of memory cells, and perform a primary amplification of the sensed voltage difference; and a second stage sense amplifier configured to perform a secondary amplification of a first result of the primary amplification and output a second result of the secondary amplification.
US11848057B2
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. The memory system may include a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, the memory device being configured to output voltage information indicating whether an unstable state of an input voltage has occurred, the input voltage being provided to the memory device from an external power source, and a memory controller configured to store a read count indicating a number of times that one or more read operations are performed on each of the plurality of memory blocks and to control the memory device to move data stored in a first memory block for which the read count exceeds a threshold count to a second memory block, and configured to adjust the threshold count based on the voltage information.
US11848054B2
A memory device may include a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of word lines, and a plurality of bit lines. The memory device may determine, when programming a first memory cell among the plurality of memory cells to a target program state, a precharge time based on a number of times that a program voltage is applied to a first word line connected to the first memory cell among the plurality of word lines, and may precharge the plurality of bit lines during the precharge time when executing a verify operation on the first memory cell.
US11848028B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for invoking actions at a second user device from a first user device. A method includes determining that a first user device has an associated second user device; accessing specification data that specifies a set of user device actions that the second user device is configured to perform; receiving command inputs for the first user device; for each command input, determining whether the command input resolves to one of the user device actions; for each command input not determined to resolve any of the user device actions, causing the command input to be processed at the first user device; and for each command input determined to resolve one of the user device actions causing the first user device to display in a user interface a dialog by which a user may either accept or deny invoking the user device action at the second user device.
US11848025B2
In a method for efficiently and accurately measuring the intelligibility of speech, a user may utter a sample text, and an automatic speech assessment (ASA) system may receive an acoustic signal encoding the utterance. An automatic speech recognition (ASR) module may generate an N-best output corresponding to the utterance and generate an intelligibility score representing the intelligibility of the utterance based on the N-best output and the sample text. Generating the intelligibility score may involve (1) calculating conditional intelligibility value(s) for the N recognition result(s), and (2) determining the intelligibility score based on the conditional intelligibility value of the most intelligible recognition result. Optionally, the process of generating the intelligibility score may involve adjusting the intelligibility score to account for environmental information (e.g., a pronunciation score for the user's speech and/or a confidence score assigned to the 1-best recognition result). N may be greater than or equal to 2.
US11848020B2
A quantization apparatus comprises: a first quantization module for performing quantization without an inter-frame prediction; and a second quantization module for performing quantization with an inter-frame prediction, and the first quantization module comprises: a first quantization part for quantizing an input signal; and a third quantization part for quantizing a first quantization error signal, and the second quantization module comprises: a second quantization part for quantizing a prediction error; and a fourth quantization part for quantizing a second quantization error signal, and the first quantization part and the second quantization part comprise a trellis structured vector quantizer.
US11848014B2
Human-machine interfaces may capture interactions by humans with robots (e.g., robots with a humanoid appearance), the interactions taking a variety of forms (e.g., audio, visual), and may determine an intent of the humans or meaning of human responses via analysis of the interactions. Intent can be determined based on analysis of aural response, including meaning or semantics and/or tone. Intent can be determined based on analysis of visually detectable responses, including head motions, facial gestures, hand or arm gestures, eye gestures. Responses may be compared for consistency. Humans may be queried to confirm determined intended response.
US11848007B2
A display apparatus including a display, a voice input receiver, a memory, a communication circuitry and a processor. The processor being configured to control the display to display at least one first identifier corresponding to at least one first component on a first area in the screen during a first time such that one of the at least one first identifier is selectable by a first user voice input, and control the display to display at least one second identifier corresponding to the at least one second component on a second area in the screen during a second time different from the first time, such that one of the at least one second identifier is selectable by a second user voice input.
US11848003B2
An Internet-based application allows a trainee to record a performance of a scene containing roles A and B with performers for the scene's roles alternately speaking their respective lines. The system displays the lines in a teleprompter style, and based on the experience level of the trainee, may blank out increasing portions of the teleprompter-style lines. If the trainee is assigned role A, the system will present each role A line to be spoken by the trainee with a time progress bar indicating the speed/timing or time remaining for that line. The trainee's performance is recorded by a computer. The teleprompter timer ensures that the trainee's performance is coordinated with a take of role B, even though the trainee's take and the role B take are actually recorded at different times. The takes are played in tandem for evaluating effectiveness of the training.
US11847987B2
A display device includes a plurality of divided pixels each comprising a reflective electrode, a counter electrode provided so as to face the reflective electrode, a color filter provided on a side of the counter electrode opposite to a side of the counter electrode facing the reflective electrode, and a holding unit configured to hold a potential corresponding to an expression of a gradation; and an inorganic light emitter provided on the counter electrode side of the color filter, and configured to emit light.
US11847984B2
An example apparatus comprising: a controller configured to: access a content brightness map; determine an amplitude of a light emitting diode (LED) current based on the content brightness map, a target brightness, or a target color temperature; determine a pulse width modulation (PWM) sequence based on the content brightness map, the target brightness, or the target color temperature; determine an LED PWM signal based on the content brightness map, the target brightness, the target color temperature, or the amplitude of the LED current; transmit a signal indicating the LED current to an LED; transmit the PWM sequence to a spatial light modulator (SLM); and transmit the LED PWM signal to the LED.
US11847948B1
A driver includes first to Mth stages, where a first input signal and a second input signal are input to each of the first to Mth stages, and each of the first to Mth stages outputs a stage output signal, a first carry signal, and a second carry signal, where M is a natural number greater than or equal to 2. The first carry signal and the second carry signal output from a kth stage are the first input signal and the second input signal, which are input to a (k+1)th stage, respectively, where k is a natural number greater than or equal to 1 and less than M, and the first input signal and the second input signal, which are input to a first stage, are a first start signal and a second start signal which are alternately changed for predetermined frame times, respectively.
US11847941B1
A sign with the front comprising one or more image and/or text cut-outs. The cut-outs may be used in combination with non-cutout images or text, which are can be printed or otherwise fixed to the front. A sleeve or holder is disposed on the back of the sign to receive and secure one or more inserts. Inserts may then be inserted and removed through the top opening. Images, colors, or patterns on the side of the insert facing the front of the sign can be seen through the cut-outs by a viewer of the sign, and appear to fill the respective portions of the cut-outs. Inserts may be changed out periodically to change the appearance of the sign without changing the cut-out images and/or text. Inserts may be changed out daily, seasonally, for holidays, and for special events or other reasons.
US11847939B2
An assembly and/or an edge configuration of a wristband is described herein. In some implementations, a wristband may include a first end portion formed from a first perforated cut in a sheet of material. The first end portion is disposed on a first end of the wristband. The wristband may include a second end portion formed from a second perforated cut in the sheet of material. The second end portion may be disposed on a second end of the wristband that is opposite the first end. The wristband may include a strap portion formed from a percentage cut in the sheet of material. The strap portion may be disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion.
US11847931B2
Disclosed is an electronically adjustable joint, and associated systems and methods. A joint position of a multiple-axis joint, e.g., a 3-axis joint, can be tracked, as the joint moves through two or more dimensions. In an illustrative embodiment, the joint can provide a mechanical equivalent of a physical joint, e.g., a shoulder, elbow, hip, or knee, which can accommodate motion in rotational angle and/or tilt angle. In some embodiments, the joint includes electronically adjustable friction. An illustrative application provides electronically adjustable joints for an aging simulation suit, wherein one or more joints can be controllably stiffened in selective ranges, such that a wearer of the suit can experience the effects of aging, arthritis and/or other ailments. In an illustrative embodiment, a sensor can use four discrete 2-axis magnetometers to calculate the position of the magnet on the arm of the joint, to continuously sense and track the angle of the joint. In some embodiments, the system includes a mechanism, e.g., a servo, which can controllably tighten a socket around a ball joint, wherein the system can controllably adjust friction on the joint.
US11847930B2
A structure for providing accessibility to knowledge skills of load bearing includes several cubes. Each cube includes bores formed through each facet of the cube that are suitable for receiving pegs or link members, and each cube includes markings in order to assist in identification of the and/or an internal cube at a center of the cube.
US11847920B2
A system and a method are provided for feasibility evaluation of UAV Digital Twin based on Vicon motion capture system is disclosed, which establishes a mission feasibility evaluation model according to flight history data of a target UAV acquired by the UAV Digital Twin system. The mission feasibility evaluation model includes a UAV trajectory prediction module and a mission feasibility determination module. The UAV trajectory prediction module acquires real-time position and attitude information of the target UAV according to the Vicon motion capture system, and predicts target flight trajectory of the target UAV according to the real-time position and attitude information. The mission feasibility determination module compares the position difference between an end point of the target flight trajectory and preset designated mission point to evaluate feasibility of target mission of the target UAV.
US11847918B2
A method for the communication of at least two users of a networked traffic system. A first user sends pieces of exchange information using a first signal transmission path, the pieces of exchange information including first sensor data of the first user and a code representing the first user. The first user sends the representative code or one further representative code using at least one second signal transmission path. A second user receives the pieces of exchange information via the first signal transmission path. The second user ascertains using a surroundings sensor system second sensor data by detecting surroundings. The second user receives using the surroundings sensor system the code sent via the second signal transmission path. The second user associates the first sensor data and the second sensor data with one another with the aid of the representative code and/or with the aid of the further representative code.
US11847901B2
An address system for at least one fire loop 20 includes at least one remote unit 14, 16, 18 and an address card 102. The remote unit 14, 16, 18 is for installation on the fire loop 20 and for addressable communication via the fire loop 20. The address card 102 is for use with the remote unit 14, 16, 18 in order to provide an address for the remote unit 14, 16, 18. The address card 102 includes one or more of a plurality of optically recognisable colour elements 201-210 for encoding an address. The remote unit 14, 16, 18 includes an optical sensor 116 for identifying colour characteristics of the optically recognisable colour elements 201-210, and a control system 118 for determining the address from the colour characteristics.
US11847894B2
A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a control unit programmed to initiate an instance of a primary game and spin and stop virtual reel strips to display an outcome of the primary game. The control unit detects an appearance of a winning combination of game symbols in the outcome and provides an initial award based on the winning combination, and detects an appearance of the collect symbol and a credit prize symbol in the outcome, determines an amount of credits associated with the credit prize symbol, and a bonus award including the determined amount of credits.
US11847890B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
US11847883B2
Methods and systems for determining and providing automatic flags for what is classified as a “significant” bet. When the user makes a significant bet, a software application automatically records the play and may also record the user's reaction. The user does not have to provide an indication to record these clips.
US11847874B2
An ultra-wideband (UWB) anchor using a UWB ON/OFF operation method to minimize power consumption. The UWB anchor includes a power supply to supply power to the UWB anchor, a transceiver to transmit/receive a UWB signal to and from a UWB tag for performing ranging, and to transmit a reception failure when failing to receive the UWB signal from the UWB tag, and a controller to receive the reception failure from the transceiver and to end a ranging session when a cumulative sum of ranging failures for each ranging block reaches a maximum number of failed ranging round attempts.
US11847872B1
A system and a method for diagnosing a problem with a motor vehicle using sound. Ambient noise information for the motor vehicle is determined. Current sound information is received, and whether there is a variation in sound between the current sound information and the ambient noise information is determined. The ambient noise information is subtracted from the current sound information if the variation has been identified, to identify a sound anomaly. A sound anomaly signal is extracted and compared with predetermined anomaly signal information stored in a database. The predetermined anomaly signal information is associated with diagnostic information.
US11847869B1
A concurrent simulation of multiple sensor modalities includes identifying the multiple sensor modalities in association with a simulation scenario, determining a timeline interleaving a publishing or operating frequency of each of the multiple sensor modalities relative to each other, determining a current time interval of a sliding window in the timeline, determining a simulation segment of the simulation scenario using the current time interval of the sliding window, rendering a scene based on the simulation segment, executing a simulation to concurrently simulate the multiple sensor modalities using ray tracing in the rendered scene, and generating simulated sensor data of the multiple sensor modalities based on executing the simulation.
US11847864B2
A detection sensor or a user device is used to aid in providing authentication and activation of a door system when a user tries to access the door for ingress and egress. Operating parameters of the door systems may be set to allow ingress and egress only when a user is identified and authorized. As such, the operating parameters of the door systems may include authentication and activation parameters such that the door systems are controlled, at least in part, based on the presence of a user and/or a user device and the identification of the specific user. As such operating parameters may be different for different users or types of users. Moreover, the user device may be used to authenticate a user and control ingress and egress through the door automatically or through an authentication action taken by the user.
US11847863B2
Implementations of a licensing and ticketing system is provided. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a request for licensing information at a first computing device. In some implementations, the computer-implemented method further comprises retrieving at the first computing device licensing information from storage on the first computing device wherein the retrieved licensing information includes a unique license number issued by a governmental entity, a name, and a pre-stored photograph. In some implementations, the computer-implemented method further comprises capturing a current photograph at the first computing device after receiving the request for licensing information. In some implementations, the computer-implemented method further comprises transmitting at the first computing device the retrieved licensing information including the pre-stored photograph and the current photograph over a network to the second computing device. In some implementations, the computer-implemented method further comprises receiving ticketing information at the first computing device wherein the ticketing information includes a law citation.
US11847861B2
A method for extracting signatures and assigning signatory name attributions to the extracted signature images from unstructured digital documents is provided. The method includes: receiving a document that includes a signature; detecting a first region within the document in which the signature is present; applying a region-based convolutional neural network to the detected first region in order to demarcate a boundary that surrounds the detected first region; detecting a second region within the document in which a name that relates to the signature is present, by scanning the document to obtain a set of text words and then applying a named entity recognition (NER) machine learning algorithm to determine which text words are names; and assigning a signatory name attribution to the name that is present in the second region, based on a calculated distance between the name and the demarcated boundary.
US11847859B2
To efficiently determine learning data for estimating an unknown behavior by a machine, an information processing device according to the present invention is provided with: an information acquisition means for acquiring an image including a person; and a feature conversion means for converting skeleton information extracted from the image into a feature vector which indicates elements constituting a behavior of the person and is a lower dimension than the skeleton information.
US11847850B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, a metal electrode layer, a first passivation layer, a first electrode layer, a photosensitive semiconductor layer, a second passivation layer, and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer and the photosensitive semiconductor layer are both disposed on a surface of the first passivation layer away from the metal electrode layer.
US11847840B2
A distracted driver can be informed of his or her distraction by a visual notification. It can be detected whether a driver of a vehicle is focused on a non-critical object located within the vehicle. In response to detecting that the driver of the vehicle is focused on a non-critical object located within the vehicle, an amount of time the driver is focused on the non-critical object can be determined. When the amount of time exceeds a threshold amount of time, a visual notification of distracted driving can be caused to be presented on or visually adjacent to the non-critical object.
US11847833B2
Systems and methods for detecting a potential object for a powered door of a vehicle. The system includes an electronic control unit and a noncontact sensor, the noncontact sensor having a field-of-view substantially including an obstacle detection zone defined for a powered door. The electronic control unit is configured to receive data from the noncontact sensor, determine, based on the data received from the noncontact sensor, an object located at a position within the field-of-view of the noncontact sensor, determine whether the position of the object is within the obstacle detection zone defined for the powered door, and in response to the position of the object being within the obstacle detection zone for the powered door, perform an automatic action with respect to the powered door before the powered door contacts the object.
US11847828B2
A system, method and device operable to produce a video are disclosed herein. The system, method and device, in an embodiment, involve a recording session resulting in a video track. During the recording session, inputs are received at different points in time and a set of data markers are stored based on each one of the inputs. Each set has a first data marker and a second data marker, and the first data marker is chronologically located before the point in time of the input related to the set. Before or after the recording session, an additional input is received that is associated with an output. The output includes a visual output, an audio output or a combination thereof. A video is produced that has one or more desired portions of the video track. The video excludes at least one undesired portion of the video track, and the video includes the output or is otherwise playable to provide the output.
US11847826B2
A method for computing a dominant class of a scene includes: receiving an input image of a scene; generating a segmentation map of the input image, the segmentation map being labeled with a plurality of corresponding classes of a plurality of classes; computing a plurality of area ratios based on the segmentation map, each of the area ratios corresponding to a different class of the plurality of classes of the segmentation map; and outputting a detected dominant class of the scene based on a plurality of ranked labels based on the area ratios.
US11847821B2
A method for training a deep learning network for face recognition includes: utilizing a face landmark detector to perform face alignment processing on at least one captured image, thereby outputting at least one aligned image; inputting the at least one aligned image to a teacher model to obtain a first output vector; inputting the at least one captured image a student model corresponding to the teacher module to obtain a second output vector; and adjusting parameter settings of the student model according to the first output vector and the second output vector.
US11847819B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method which encompasses registering a tracked imaging device such as a microscope having a known viewing direction and an atlas to a patient space so that a transformation can be established between the atlas space and the reference system for defining positions in images of an anatomical structure of the patient. Labels are associated with certain constituents of the images and are input into a learning algorithm such as a machine learning algorithm, for example a convolutional neural network, together with the medical images and an anatomical vector and for example also the atlas to train the learning algorithm for automatic segmentation of patient images generated with the tracked imaging device. The trained learning algorithm then allows for efficient segmentation and/or labelling of patient images without having to register the patient images to the atlas each time, thereby saving on computational effort.
US11847814B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein to manage preferences for video search. In one implementation, a video processing service may receive a request for video data that satisfies one or more criteria, wherein the one or more criteria includes at least one color for an object. In response to the request, the video processing service may identify one or more secondary colors associated with the at least one color and update the one or more criteria to include the one or more secondary colors. The video processing service may then select the video data from a video source that satisfies the updated one or more criteria.
US11847812B2
An image generation method, apparatus, device, and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining contour information and target region information; determining at least one target contour according to the contour information and the target region information, the at least one target contour wholly or partly located in a target region; decreasing first coordinates of a plurality of contour points in the at least one target contour to obtain second location information, second location information of the at least one target contour includes second coordinates of a plurality of contour points in the at least one target contour, and the first coordinates of the plurality of contour points in the at least one target contour having a same decreasing extent; and generating a target image corresponding to the target region according to the second location information of the at least one target contour and the target region information.
US11847802B2
System and method for computing the 3D position of a semantic landmark in images from the real world
Systems arranged to implement methods for positioning a semantic landmark in an image from the real world during a continuous motion of a monocular camera providing said image, using in combination image information from the camera and GPS information, wherein the camera parameters are unknown a priori and are estimated in a self-calibration step, wherein in a subsequent step positioning of the landmarks is completed using one of camera ego motion and depth estimation.
US11847797B2
In a calibration method for a multi-degree-of-freedom movable vision system, a calibration template is placed in front of a camera component, each degree of freedom of movement of the camera component is rotated, several images including features of the calibration template are recorded using the camera component, position information of each degree of freedom of movement when the corresponding images are acquired is also recorded, and calibration results of the camera component and each degree of freedom of movement are calculated using a calculation component. The movable vision system comprises the camera component, the calculation component and a control component.
US11847794B1
The disclosed system may include a housing dimensioned to secure various components including at least one physical processor and various sensors. The system may also include a camera mounted to the housing, as well as physical memory with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the physical processor, cause the physical processor to: acquire images of a surrounding environment using the camera mounted to the housing, identify features of the surrounding environment from the acquired images, generate a map using the features identified from the acquired images, access sensor data generated by the sensors, and determine a current pose of the system in the surrounding environment based on the features in the generated map and the accessed sensor data. Various other methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11847789B2
An electronic device receives a first operation to start distance measurement on a measured target. The electronic device displays a first user interface on a display screen in response to the first operation. The first user interface is configured to display an image captured at any angle by a camera. The electronic device receives a second operation performed by a user based on the image. The electronic device adds and displays a first locating point on the first user interface in response to the second operation. The electronic device performs distance measurement on the measured target based on the first locating point to obtain a measurement result of the measured target, and the measurement result is displayed.
US11847780B2
Systems and methods for predicting a patient response to various agents and/or combinations of agents using ex vivo dosing and imaging are disclosed. In one example, a method of determining treatment efficacy includes analyzing a solid cell culture over time, e.g., first and second responses to a solid cell culture to respective treatments may be compared to determine a treatment efficacy of each treatment. Systems and methods for applying the treatments to the cell culture and analyzing the cell culture and efficacy are disclosed.
US11847771B2
A method includes obtaining at least one image and a ground truth map associated with the at least one image. The method also includes generating multiple optical maps using multiple algorithms and the at least one image. The method further includes, for each algorithm, identifying at least one score for the algorithm using one or more of the optical maps generated using the algorithm and the ground truth map. The ground truth map identifies one or more boundaries associated with one or more foreground objects in the at least one image. The scores identify how well the optical maps generated using the algorithms separate the one or more foreground objects from a background in the at least one image.
US11847766B2
A method and device for detecting bright spots on an image. The image is acquired from a field of view where a base extension reaction occurs, multiple nucleic acid molecules with optically detectable labels exist in the field of view where the base extension reaction occurs, and at least some of the nucleic acid molecules appear as bright spots on the image. The method includes preprocessing the image to obtain a preprocessed image; determining a critical value to simplify the preprocessed image to obtain a simplified image, determining a first bright spot detection threshold on the basis of the preprocessed image, and identifying candidate bright spots on the image on the basis of the preprocessed image and the simplified image, including determining a pixel matrix that satisfies at least two of conditions as a candidate bright spot.
US11847764B2
A generative adversarial network including a generator portion and a discriminator portion is constructed. The network is configured such that the network operates to enhance intensity images, wherein an intensity image is obtained by illuminating an object with an energy pulse and measuring the return strength of the energy pulse, and wherein a pixel of the intensity image corresponds to the return strength. As a part of the configuring, a loss function of the generative adversarial network is minimized, the loss function comprising a mean square error loss measurement of a noisy intensity image relative to a mean square error loss measurement of a corresponding clean intensity image. An enhanced intensity image is generated by applying the minimized loss function of the network to an original intensity image, the applying improving an image quality measurement of the enhanced intensity image relative to the original intensity image.
US11847763B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image reconstruction. The system may obtain an initial image to be processed. The system may generate a reconstructed image by performing a plurality of iteration steps on the initial image. Each of the plurality of iteration steps may include a first optimization operation and at least one second optimization operation. The first optimization operation and the at least one second optimization operation may be executed sequentially. The first optimization operation may include receiving an image to be processed in the iteration step and determining an updated image by preliminarily optimizing the image to be processed. The at least one second optimization operation may include determining an optimized image by reducing interference information of the updated image and designating the optimized image as a next image to be processed in a next iteration step. The interference information may include noise information and/or artifact information.
US11847751B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing augmented reality (AR)-based assistance within a work environment. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a camera having a field of view of a work environment, first images of at least part of the work environment, the first images overlapping with a field of view of a user wearing an AR headset; might analyze the received first images to identify objects; might query a database(s) to determine a task associated with a first object(s) among the identified objects; might generate an image overlay providing at least one of graphical icon-based, text-based, image-based, and/or highlighting-based instruction(s) each indicative of instructions presented to the user to implement the task associated with the first object(s); and might display, to the user's eyes through the AR headset, the generated first image overlay that overlaps with the field of view of the user's eyes.
US11847749B2
A system for preparing a mission from a digital mapping, includes a mission editor generating mission elements that can change over the course of several determined temporal phases, including on a network a mission server, a mapping server, a server for sharing at least one centre of the map and a plurality of augmented reality headsets, at least one of the augmented reality headsets, called master headset, being able to generate at least one command for modifying the centre, each headset being able to receive at least two sets of elevation and terrain tiles from the mapping server, the mission server interfacing with the headsets to share and update the mission elements and to change them over time.
US11847744B2
In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an end state of a first content item spanning a first time duration. In some implementations, the end state of the first content item indicates a first state of a synthesized reality (SR) agent at the end of the first time duration. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining an initial state of a second content item spanning a second time duration subsequent the first time duration. In some implementations, the initial state of the second content item indicates a second state of the SR agent at the beginning of the second time duration. In some implementations, the method includes synthesizing an intermediary emergent content item spanning over an intermediary time duration that is between the end of the first time duration and the beginning of the second time duration.
US11847735B2
An information processing apparatus obtains information corresponding to a scene in a virtual viewpoint image to be generated. The information is information based on a captured image including a product generated based on the scene in the virtual viewpoint image. The information processing apparatus outputs, based on the obtained captured image, a virtual viewpoint image of the scene corresponding to the product.
US11847731B2
Techniques are disclosed for interactive editing of virtual three-dimensional scenes. In the disclosed techniques, rendering is divided into (1) an interactive phase during which a user interactively edits a virtual scene while preview image frames are rendered using a modified ray tracing technique, and (2) a refinement phase during which full ray tracing is performed to show the user a final rendered image frame. The modified ray tracing technique may limit the number of bounces of light rays and/or the computations performed at each bounce, thereby reducing computational expense relative to a full ray tracing technique. Further, the modified ray tracing technique may be user-selectable and associated with a particular department within an animation studio.
US11847728B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary technically improved system and method for controlling the body movements and facial expressions of a digital character in real time by using: a body-motion capture system comprising a headset configured to be worn on a head of a user and comprising controllers and sensors that can be used to track at least one head or body motion of the user (including arms and hands); and correspondingly control at least one head or body motion (including arms and hands) of a digital character in real time based, at least in part, on the captured motion data; a mobile computing device configured to track and capture facial expression data relating to at least one facial expression of the user, and use at least that data to correspondingly control at least one facial expression of the digital character in real time; a microphone configured to capture an audio output of the user, and control an audio output of the digital character in real-time based, at least in part, on the captured audio output; an integration computing device configured to integrate the audio output, the motion data and the facial expression data to control the audio output, the motion, and the facial expression of the digital character; a vest configured to be worn on an body of the user and a structural member attached to the vest and configured to hold the mobile computing device at a predetermined distance from a face of the user so that the mobile computing device can track and capture the at least one facial expression of the user.
US11847718B2
Embodiments are described for placing a watermark over application windows in a desktop. For each application window that is opened in the desktop, the system can determine whether the application requires a watermark, for example, based on a predefined list that specifies which applications require watermarks. For each application window that requires a watermark, a uncovered watermark region can be calculated where the watermark will appear. An overlay can be placed over the application windows, for example in a top-level window that does not receive mouse and keyboard inputs, and the watermark can be drawn in the overlay over the location of the uncovered watermark region of each application. As a result, watermarks can be placed over a plurality of specified application windows in an efficient and convenient manner.
US11847716B2
Systems and methods are provided for the generation of augmented reality (AR) content that provides a shared AR experience involving multiple users. Shared AR experiences can improve the communication and collaboration between multiple simultaneous users. According to an embodiment, AR content is generated for a first user in a shared AR experience. The AR content includes at least one of a render of a model, a virtual representation of a second user in the shared AR experience, a virtual representation of a user interaction in the shared AR experience, and spatial audio content. Modifications to a shared AR experience are also provided. These modifications may be initiated based on instructions from one user and be reflected in the AR content generated for multiple users.
US11847714B2
An information processing device for drawing an object arranged in a three-dimensional virtual space, in an expression viewed from a virtual camera, the object including a field object associated with a two-dimensional plane defined by a first axis and a second axis, and a specific object arranged on the field object, the device including: a change processing unit changing a region of the field object falling within a viewing angle of the virtual camera; and a deformation processing unit deforming the field object, in which in a case where the region is changed by the change processing unit, the deformation processing unit makes a deformation mode of the field object different when it is determined that the specific object is positioned in the region after being changed and when it is determined that the specific object is not positioned in the region after being changed.
US11847705B2
Systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture that provide for acquisition, management, and/or utilization of surface segment data.
US11847702B2
A computer system may access data corresponding to a portfolio that comprises interest rate swaps and may calculate parameters for a compressed swap. The computer system may determine, based at least in part on the parameters for the compressed swap, a performance bond requirement attributable to the interest rate swaps. The computer system may compare the performance bond requirement to account data associated with a holder of the portfolio and may perform one or more additional actions based on the comparing.
US11847686B2
Product recommendations are selected according to a model. Product recommendations may be annotated with rules of the model used to select the products. A user may modify the model and be provided with a URL and a cookie associated with the modified model. Subsequent requests or the URL and presenting the cookie are processed using the modified model. A context may be associated with the cookie and modified by the user to observe performance of the model for the context. An interface may permit a user to specify rules for the model or otherwise model its behavior. User interactions with a website result in recommendations according to the model. A journey is recorded that records content, recommendations, and parameters of the model corresponding to the recommendations. The journeys of users may be filtered and visually presented to a user.
US11847684B2
Systems and methods for recommending an item from a plurality of items. The plurality of items includes chemistry-based features. The system comprises a computing device and a database. The database includes user preference data, item data, and mapping data. The system receives user input regarding user preferences, and associates user preference values with chemistry-based feature values. The system compares chemistry-based feature values for each item to the user preference values and returns items that best match. In one embodiment, the items are wines and the system uses chemistry-based features of wines such as wine volatile chemical compounds to return wine recommendations.
US11847677B2
An augmented reality-based lighting design method includes displaying, by an augmented reality device, a real-time image of a target physical area on a display screen. The method further includes displaying, by the augmented reality device, a lighting fixture 3-D model on the display screen in response to a user input, where the lighting fixture 3-D model is overlaid on the real-time image of the target physical area. The method also includes displaying, by the augmented reality device, a lighting pattern on the display screen overlaid on the real-time image of the target physical area, wherein the lighting pattern is generated based on at least photometric data associated with the lighting fixture 3-D model.
US11847675B2
An innovative system and method is implemented to facilitate a blockchain based labor arbitrage. The system uses a processor to manage labor arbitrage between business operator devices and laborer devices. The method starts with a description for a job request received from a business operator device. After distributing the job description, the method receives proposals from the laborer devices. Then method matches a primary laborer device to the job description and generates a smart contract in the blockchain between the business operator device and the primary laborer device. Upon job completion, the method verifies that all job requirements plus quality standards are satisfactorily met and signatures of both the business operator device and the primary laborer device are validated, the method transmits a compensation of a predetermined type and amount of cryptographic token to the primary laborer device. With any disputes, the method further provides an arbitration process.
US11847671B2
Methods and systems are provided for communication of one or more campaigns via personalized electronic messaging. An example method includes automatically creating an electronic communication personalized for each of a plurality of individual customers of a client. The automatically creating may include dynamic configuring the electronic communication for each individual customer into a single campaign for the client to optimize both relevancy for each of a plurality of individual customers and one or more desired business outcomes for the client. The dynamic configuring can include decision making using at least a business context. Performance goals of a business can comprise the business context. The decision-making can further use a user context and/or an external context. The electronic communication can be dynamically configured to include personalized recommendations and may further include personalized content and/or a personalized offer. Using various embodiments, marketing strategies for electronic communication can run on autopilot.
US11847668B2
Systems and methods for automatically aggregating, evaluating, and providing a contextually relevant offer or incentive is disclosed. One method obtains a plurality of offers for a customer. Each of the plurality of offers is then evaluated to determine a contextual relevance of each of the plurality of offers. Each of the plurality of offers is then sorted into a best contextually relevant offer to a least contextually relevant offer order. The obtaining, evaluating, and sorting is continuously repeated until a time for using an offer is identified. The system and method then present the best contextually relevant offer.
US11847667B2
Methods, computer-readable media, systems, and apparatuses for determining a safest road segment for traveling between two locations are provided. In some cases, a road segment safety rating may be determined for a plurality of road segments between the two locations based on historical data associated with the road segments and/or based on driving behavior data of an operator of the vehicle. An indication of the road segment determined as being the safest may be provided to the operator of the vehicle. An actual route of travel of the vehicle may be compared to the safest route. If the actual route of travel is different from the determined safest route, the operator may be notified that an award may be earned when the determined safest route is traveled. If the actual route of travel is determined to be safer than the determined safest route, an award may be earned.
US11847662B2
A computer-implemented method of fraud protection is described. A server may receive one or more keywords and a likelihood of fraud from an external source. The server may receive an image of a document from a user device, wherein the document comprises at least one of a written communication or a printed communication. The server may extract text from the image of the document, compare the extracted text to the one or more stored keywords, and calculate a confidence level of fraud. The server may send an indication of the confidence level of fraud to the user device.
US11847653B2
A system for authentication for a user device associated with a user, said system comprising: a processing system to generate a first user interface running on a screen of said user device, said first user interface comprising one or more components, wherein said one or more components comprises a first icon, which when activated, directs a user to a second user interface to select a secret pattern, a second icon, which when activated, generates a current randomly populated keyboard, further wherein said processing system provides a current Personal Identification Number (PIN) to said user by correlating said secret pattern with the current randomly populated keyboard, and a regular keyboard for said user to enter a PIN for authentication.
US11847649B2
A method for transmitting data between a mobile communication device and a server. The method includes running a mobile application on the mobile communication device. The mobile application is hosted on the mobile communication device through the server as a Software as a Service (SaaS). The method further includes transmitting data associated with the mobile application between the mobile communication device and the server, in which transmission of the data between the mobile communication device and the server is monitored through the server.
US11847641B2
A communications device for implementing an electronic payment process, the communications device including a receiver unit operable to receive a secure limited use key (SLUK) from a financial institution that is generated by the financial institution using a first limited use key (LUK) generated using a first key associated with the financial institution, an identifier which identifies a user of the communications device, and a variable code, and a subset of the characters of a passcode associated with the user of the communications device, each character in the subset being identified by its character position in the passcode, and the character position in the passcode of each of the characters in the subset being determined by a predetermined algorithm on the basis of a second key associated with the user of the communications device, the identifier which identifies the user of the communications device and the variable code.
US11847640B2
Methods, apparatus and computer software are provided for authorizing an EMV transaction between a user device and a point of sale terminal, particularly, but not exclusively, in situations where a secure element is not made available for the deployment of a payment application on the user device. The payment application is instead deployed to a processing environment that is outside of any secure element on the user device. The payment application is associated with a certificate and a corresponding hash. The hash is adapted to be generated on the basis of an application expiration date parameter, which is adapted to comprise data indicative of an expiration date of day level granularity associated with the certificate. During processing of the EMV transaction, the point-of-sale terminal verifies the hash, thereby establishing the authenticity of the application expiration date, and hence the validity of the certificate.
US11847638B2
A method includes establishing a first funds transfer account associated with a first device and a second funds transfer account with a second device, funding at least the first fund account, and selecting the second device as the recipient of a funds transfer from the first device. The method further includes sending a communications link request from the first device to the second device and receiving acceptance of the communications link request from the second device. The method then establishes a communications link between the first device and the second device, initiates a funds transfer from the first device to the second device, wherein the amount is designated at the first device, and verifies the funds transfer amount, the first funds transfer account, and the second funds transfer account. Then, the method transfers the amount to the second funds transfer account associated with second device.
US11847637B2
A method for maintaining database integrity comprises: receiving event data from a producer; converting the received event data to a standard set of ledger entries; publishing the converted entries to a database; determining if two accounts in the database balance out; performing a remedial action to maintain the database integrity if the accounts do not balance.
US11847635B2
An electronic payment device and methods of its operation are disclosed. The payment device has a secure element for storing payment tokens, each associated with a payment card; an input interface that enables a user to select from among the payment cards; a display interface; and a processor. In response to a user selection of one of the payment cards by way of the input interface, a descriptor of the selected payment card is displayed by way of the display interface; and an unconsumed one of the payment tokens associated with the selected payment card is activated to prepare the payment card device for effecting payment using the selected payment card, thereby consuming the payment token. The payment device also includes a wireless communication interface for receiving additional payment tokens, thereby replenishing the payment tokens.
US11847631B2
A point of sale (POS) device includes a nest portion and a cradle portion. The nest portion includes one or more payment card or near field communication (NFC) readers. The cradle portion couples to differently-sized interchangeable frames, which in turn help secure a mobile computing device to the cradle portion of the POS device. The mobile computing device is connected via a connector to the rest of the POS device. Payment card information read by the readers is conveyed to the mobile computing device over the connector for processing. The POS device may also include tamper detection circuitry.
US11847621B2
Systems and methods for verifying a digital title of an asset transferred via a math-based currency transaction. The method includes receiving a digital title request regarding an asset, creating a digital title for the asset in a digital title database, receiving, from a financial institution computing system, an asset transfer request regarding the asset that is the subject of the math-based currency transaction, verifying that an identity of a seller in the math-based currency transaction matches the identity of the owner of the asset. Then, responsive to the verification that the identity of the seller in the math-based currency transaction matches the identity of the owner of the asset, the method includes transmitting, to the financial institution computing system, a positive title verification and updating the identity of the asset of the digital title for the asset to match an identity of a buyer in the math-based currency transaction.
US11847619B2
At least some example embodiments provide a system-state monitoring method and device and a storage medium. The method includes determining a standard operation mode of a system, the standard operation mode including a plurality of operation states of the system in a unit time period. The method further includes determining, according to current operation data of the system, a current operation mode of the system and determining, by comparing the current operation mode with the standard operation mode, whether or not the system is in the standard operation mode. The plurality of operation states of the system are determined to be the standard operation mode, such that changes in system operation patterns can be readily detected, thereby facilitating a timely adjustment of the monitored system or peripheral mechanisms in cooperation therewith and improving system performance.
US11847616B2
In an aspect, an apparatus for wage index classification is disclosed. The apparatus may include a processor and a memory. A processor may be configured to receive a wage index from a user. A processor may also extract a candidate datum from a plurality of candidates. Candidate datum is then classified to a wage index classification data. This may be achieved through training a wage index classifier using candidate training data correlating candidate data elements to wage index classification data elements and classifying the candidate data to the wage index classification datum using the wage index classifier. A processor may then generate a wage compatibility score as a function of wage index classification data and a posting datum. Then a processor may be configured to transmit to a display device configured to display a wage compatibility score.
US11847612B2
A system is presented that profiles authors and social media data across different media platforms and is capable of determining the author's overall social impact. In one aspect, this is accomplished by using a data retrieval service to trawl various web-sites and social media platforms for information about authors which can then be associated with those authors in a profile database. In one example, an author may post an entry on his/her blog and the data retrieval service can access the profile information of the author, on the blog, where various aspects of the profile information (e.g., real name, employee information, home address) can be matched with candidates in a profile database. From the information gathered, authors can be linked across multiple, different platforms, and an overall social impact of each of the authors can be determined.
US11847609B2
Systems and methods change a user interface for the purpose of pairing a shipping container with an item that is intended to be shipped in the shipping container. Example embodiments include a machine-implemented method for accessing a shipping request, detecting a radio signal from a candidate container using a radio receiver, detecting an impact between a pairing device and a query container using an accelerometer, determining that the query container is the candidate container, and generating a shipping record that correlates the shipping container and the item. The device can further determine that the query container is the candidate container based on the signal strength and change in signal strength of one or more signals. The device can further detect an impact between the pairing device and the query container by ranking one or more sets of acceleration data collected by the accelerometer.
US11847607B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for multi-entity management of an ID node in a wireless node network. The ID node associates with a first entity user access device, which operates as a master node and communicates directly with a server over a first communication path. The first device separately communicates with the ID node over a second communication path, but the ID node is unable to directly communicate with the server. The ID node provides the first device with access to data collected by the ID node if an initial privilege authorizes it. After associating with a shipping entity master node, the ID node provides the shipping entity master node with the data collected based on a transferred privilege from the server. And then after associating with a second entity user access device, the ID node provides access to this second device if authorized by a destination privilege from the server.
US11847605B2
A data structure representing the state of courier assignments is described. For each courier assignment, the data structure contains: information identifying a destination location for the courier assignment; information identifying a drop-off protocol specified for the courier assignment, the drop-off protocol specifying a sequence of steps; and, for each of at least some of the steps of the identified drop-off protocol, a representation of compliance evidence collected with respect to the step of the courier assignment. The contents of the data structure are usable to present collected compliance evidence for steps of the drop-off protocol specified for courier assignments among the plurality of courier assignments, either contemporaneously or at later times.
US11847604B2
A method includes, in response to a determination that one or more authenticated delivery locations includes a first delivery location, identifying, using an unmanned aerial vehicle registry, one or more unmanned aerial vehicles based on at least one unmanned aerial vehicle characteristic associated with a medication delivery request. The method also includes determining, for each unmanned aerial vehicle of the one or more unmanned aerial vehicles, an availability status, selecting an unmanned aerial vehicle based on at least a corresponding availability status and at least one selection criteria, and instructing the unmanned aerial vehicle to transport the medication package from a starting location to the first delivery location.
US11847600B1
A system for identifying industrial ergonomics risk root-causes and providing risk control actions, comprising: a computing device configured to obtain textual information describing a series of tasks of a job and forces being exerted during the series of tasks; and a computing server system configured to receive and process the textual information to generate a set of textual entry to correspond to a unique identifier of the job, identify nouns and verbs in the set of textual entry via natural language processing techniques, perform dependency parsing and part-of-speech tagging to associate each identified verb in the set of textual entry with a root noun in order to identify action-object pairs and unpaired actions, determine ergonomic risk root-causes based at least upon the action-object pairs and the unpaired actions in the set of textual entry, and provide ergonomic risk control recommendations to mitigate the ergonomic risk root-causes.
US11847599B1
An example method includes obtaining data associated with a plurality of process workflows, performing an automated workflow analysis of the data at least by (i) evaluating workflow structures to identify at least one similarity between one or more portions of the process workflows, wherein the workflow structures are modeled from the process workflow data and, (ii) responsive to evaluating the workflow structures, clustering, based on the at least one similarity, the portions of the process workflows into at least one common process group that is shared between the process workflows, identifying, based on the at least one common process group shared between the process workflows, at least one process improvement that is associated with at least one of the process workflows, and outputting, by the computing system, a recommendation associated with the at least one process improvement.
US11847588B2
A method of managing a moving object in a fleet system includes: transmitting, by a user device, a moving object request message including a departure point and use time information to a server; receiving, by the user device, a list of available moving objects based on the moving object request message from the server: selecting, by the user device, a moving object from the list of available moving objects; transmitting, by the user device, reservation information based on the moving object selection information and the use time information to the server; and allocating the moving object to the user device based on the reservation information. The server may update allocation and placement information of a plurality of moving objects based on reservation information of a plurality of user devices.
US11847582B1
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.
US11847564B2
New and efficient protocols are provided for privacy-preserving machine learning training (e.g., for linear regression, logistic regression and neural network using the stochastic gradient descent method). A protocols can use the two-server model, where data owners distribute their private data among two non-colluding servers, which train various models on the joint data using secure two-party computation (2PC). New techniques support secure arithmetic operations on shared decimal numbers, and propose MPC-friendly alternatives to non-linear functions, such as sigmoid and softmax.
US11847550B2
A method, computer program product, and system perform computations using a processor. A first instruction including a first index vector operand and a second index vector operand is received and the first index vector operand is decoded to produce first coordinate sets for a first array, each first coordinate set including at least a first coordinate and a second coordinate of a position of a non-zero element in the first array. The second index vector operand is decoded to produce second coordinate sets for a second array, each second coordinate set including at least a third coordinate and a fourth coordinate of a position of a non-zero element in the second array. The first coordinate sets are summed with the second coordinate sets to produce output coordinate sets and the output coordinate sets are converted into a set of linear indices.
US11847548B2
A universal passenger seat system includes a system controller and a physical connection interface with a standardized communication protocol for coupling the system controller with seating hardware, at least one peripheral device, and at least one network connection. The system controller can also be in communication with a biometric sensor, a physiological sensor, and/or a situational data sensor. An artificial intelligence engine is communicatively coupled to or embedded within the system controller. The artificial intelligence engine is configured to determine a passenger status based on data received from the biometric sensor, the physiological sensor, and/or the situational data sensor and is further configured to generate one or more communication signals based on the data. For example, the communication signals can include control signals for the seating hardware, information signals for peripheral devices, or status signals for transmission via the network connection.
US11847542B2
An apparatus is configured to identify a plurality of temporal ranges, associated with a plurality of first identifiers and a plurality of sets of descriptive data, generate a plurality of temporal sections, wherein generating further includes dividing each temporal range into at least a temporal section of the plurality of temporal sections, receive at least a second identifier, wherein the at least a second identifier is associated with at least a temporal constraint and a set of second identifier data, classify, as a function of the inputs, the at least a first identifier to a particular temporal section of the plurality of temporal sections as a function of the plurality of sets of descriptive data and the at least a set of second identifier data and output the particular temporal section.
US11847507B1
Two or more semaphores can be used per queue for synchronization of direct memory access (DMA) transfers between a DMA engine and various computational engines by alternating the semaphores across sequential sets of consecutive DMA transfers in the queue. The DMA engine can increment a first semaphore after performing each DMA transfer of a first set of consecutive DMA transfers and a second semaphore after performing each DMA transfer of a second set of consecutive DMA transfers that is after the first set of consecutive DMA transfers in the queue. Each semaphore can be reset when all the computational engines that are dependent on the respective set of consecutive DMA transfers are done waiting on the given semaphore before performing respective operations. After reset, the first semaphore or the second semaphore can be reused for the next set of consecutive DMA transfers in the queue.
US11847504B2
A method for a CPU to execute artificial intelligence related processes is disclosed. The method includes: when executing TensorFlow on an electronic device, calling a corresponding AI model of TensorFlow according to content of program codes; determining and obtaining one or multiple sparse matrixes used by the AI model in performing calculations; executing a matrix simplifying procedure to the one or multiple sparse matrixes; executing an instruction transforming procedure to an instruction set applied for the AI model; issuing an instruction to a weighted CPU of the electronic device by the AI model according to transformed instruction set; and the weighted CPU, after receiving the instruction, averagely distributing multiple procedures indicated by the AI model to each of multiple threads of the weighted CPU to be respectively executed according to a weighting value of each of the multiple procedures.
US11847501B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for data protection in a cluster of data processing accelerators (DPAs) using a policy that determines a static partition of resources in each DPA in the cluster communicatively coupled to a host device. Each DPA has sensitive (secure) and non-sensitive (non-secure) resources. The host device and a DPA can access all resources of the DPA. Other DPAs can only access non-sensitive resources of a DPA. The partition of resources within a DPA is static and may be implemented in hardware or firmware. Resources include memory, one or more processing modules such as key generators and cryptographic modules, caches, registers, and storage.
US11847500B2
A method can include receiving, at a workflow controller, a machine learning workflow, the machine learning workflow associated with a first task and a second task. The first task is training a machine learning model and the second task is deploying the model. The method can include segmenting, by the workflow controller, the machine learning workflow into a first sub-workflow associated with the first task and a second sub-workflow associated with the second task, assigning a first workflow agent to the first sub-workflow and assigning a second workflow agent to the second sub-workflow, selecting, by the first workflow agent and based on first resources needed to perform the first task, a first cluster for performing the first task and selecting, by the second workflow agent and based on second resources needed to perform the second task, a second cluster for performing the second task.
US11847491B1
An apparatus for Machine Learning (ML) processing includes computational engines and a Central Processing Unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to receive a work plan for processing one or more samples in accordance with a ML model represented by a corresponding ML graph. The work plan specifies jobs required for executing at least a subgraph of the ML graph by the computational engines, the at least subgraph includes multiple inputs, and is executable independently of other parts of the ML graph when the inputs are valid. The CPU is further configured to pre-process only a partial subset of the jobs in the work plan corresponding to the at least subgraph, for producing a group of pre-processed jobs that are required for executing part of the at least subgraph based on the one or more samples, and to submit the pre-processed jobs in the group to the computational engines for execution.
US11847477B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for natively interpreting logic across disparate platforms. Rather than executing server calls that are computationally expensive, logic may be extracted into code segments that can be evaluated at run time by an interpreter. The interpreter is passed a set of evaluators, features, and contextual data, each of which is expressed in a domain specific language. An evaluator maps an identifier to a rule and describes one or more contextual data fields with which the rule is to be evaluated. A feature corresponds to a logical condition that identifies the evaluator and a return value that is returned if the condition is met. The interpreter identifies the evaluator from the feature being evaluated and evaluates its corresponding rule based on the contextual data provided to return a return value. One or more operations may be performed based on the return value provided.
US11847475B2
A system for integrating a telephone system and a computing system is provided. The system includes an interactive voice response (IVR) platform configured to: obtain a computer-readable command based on user input; determine a goal in the web application associated with the computer-readable command; and obtain information indicating a shortest navigation path to the goal, relative to other navigational paths to the goal in the web application. The system includes a cobrowse client configured to receive a document object model (DOM) of a current state of the web application from a cobrowse session for a web server hosting the web application. The IVR platform is configured to, based on the DOM, determine a next navigation action along the shortest navigation path; generate a user prompt based on the next navigation action; and monitor user progress to reach the goal in the web application using one or more updated DOMs.
US11847471B2
Various techniques are provided to implement fast boot for programmable logic devices (PLDs). In one example, a method includes receiving configuration data associated with a PLD. The PLD includes an array of configuration memory cells including logic block memory cells and input/output (I/O) block memory cells associated with the PLD's logic fabric and I/O fabric, respectively. The method further includes programming a subset of the I/O block memory cells with the configuration data, and providing a wakeup signal to activate functionality associated with a portion of the I/O fabric. The method further includes programming remaining configuration memory cells of the array with the configuration data, where the remaining configuration memory cells include at least a subset of the logic block memory cells. The method further includes providing a wakeup signal to activate functionality associated with at least a portion of the logic fabric. Related systems and devices are provided.
US11847466B2
In described examples, an integrated circuit (IC) includes a first temperature sensor, a processor, a second temperature sensor, and a reset module. The first sensor senses a first body temperature of the IC. The processor asserts a thermal shutdown signal if the first body temperature exceeds a first threshold. In response to the thermal shutdown signal, the second sensor asserts a reset request signal and senses a second body temperature of the IC. If the second body temperature is less than a second threshold, the second sensor asserts a reset end signal. The reset module outputs a system reset signal to the first sensor and the processor if the reset request signal is asserted, and outputs a system recovery signal if the reset end signal is asserted. The first sensor and the processor deactivate if the system reset signal is asserted, and activate if the system recovery signal is asserted.
US11847458B2
Methods and systems for determining a priority of a threads is described. A processor can execute branch instructions of the thread. The processor can predict branch instruction outcomes of the branch instructions of the thread. The processor can increment a misprediction count of the thread in response to an actual execution of a branch instruction of the thread being different from a corresponding branch instruction prediction outcome of the thread. The processor can determine the priority of the thread based on the misprediction count of the thread.
US11847451B2
A processing-in-memory (PIM) device includes a data selection circuit, a multiplying-and-accumulating (MAC) circuit, and an accumulative adding circuit. The data selection circuit generates selection data from input data and zero-point data based on a zero-point selection signal. The MAC circuit performs a MAC arithmetic operation for the selection data to generate MAC result data. The accumulative adding circuit accumulatively adds MAC sign data based on a MAC output latch signal to generate MAC latch data. A sign of the MAC sign data is determined by the zero-point selection signal.
US11847447B2
Quality indicators regarding a software project under development that has a plurality of functional areas are collected. Each quality indicator is normalized to a coverage of the functional area of the software project to which the quality indicator corresponds. The normalized quality indicators are correlated to previously identified anomalies of the software project, yielding an anomaly indicative value for each normalized quality indicator corresponding to a probability that the normalized quality indicator is revelatory of unidentified anomalies of the software project. A normal behavior for each normalized quality indicator is estimated. For each functional area of the software project, an anomaly score indicative of a likelihood of an unidentified anomaly within the functional area is calculated. The anomaly score is based on, for each normalized quality indicator corresponding to the functional area, how the normalized quality indicator departs from its estimated normal behavior as weighted by its anomaly indicative value.
US11847446B2
Predictive build quality assessment is disclosed, e.g., to predict performance of a candidate software build prior to deploying the candidate software build in a production environment. An example method can include comparing performance of a candidate software build with performance data associated with clusters of previous builds. A cluster having similar performance to the candidate software build can be selected. A source code graph for the candidate software build can be compared to source code graphs of builds included in the selected cluster. A previous build in the cluster, which is associated with a source code graph that is similar to the candidate software build's source code graph, can be selected. Individual performance data associated with the selected previous build can be inferred to be the predicted performance of the candidate software build, thereby informing decision making regarding further testing, modification, and/or deployment of the candidate software build into production.
US11847445B2
A computer-implemented method for detecting code regions related to specific processes in an application is provided including obtaining a call-graph of an application, each node of the call-graph representing a program in the application and each edge of the call-graph representing a call between programs, detecting merge points in the call-graph where paths from different entry points are merged, dividing the call-graph into sub-call-graphs at the merge points to create a macro-call-graph, each node of the macro-call-graph representing each of the sub-call-graphs, detecting code regions related to specific processes in each program in the application based on variable names corresponding to the specific processes, setting an initial state to each entry point of the sub-call-graphs, and identifying sub-call-graphs related to each specific process by using dataflow analysis with the initial states and the code regions based on entry states of the sub-call-graphs.
US11847441B2
A secure and flexible pipeline management solution includes determining, based at least on an order in which files are received, a precedence for defining variables, and when a file has multiple definitions for a variable, the order of appearance of the definitions defines precedence. A configuration file is generated with controlling definitions, which are based on the precedences, and a continuous integration continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline is executed dependent upon the configuration file. Multiple inheritances and string interpolation are supported. An advantageous result is a significantly simplified CI/CD pipeline that is secure, flexible, and is agnostic to the target environment. Thus, adding a new environment may not require the conventional (burdensome) task of adding further logical dependencies into the pipeline itself. The disclosed solution thus enhances efficiency and reduces errors when maintaining code bases.
US11847438B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing offline capabilities to customizable live applications in a cloud collaboration platform. The cloud collaboration platform may provide offline functions and a data application programming interface to devices connecting to the cloud collaboration platform. The offline capabilities allow devices to store data related to documents and customizable live applications in a local cache. The offline capabilities retrieve data from and store modifications to data within the local cache. The cloud collaboration platform may subsequently process the changes and determine if conflicts arise, resolving conflicts where appropriate and possible. The cloud collaboration platform may then determine a final state for a record, return the final state to the devices, and update the local caches.
US11847433B2
A change to a first version of source code of an application that is running with a debugger attached is identified, resulting in a second version of the source code. It is determined whether the change occurred with corresponding software suspended or not. The change is applied to the software without restarting the software, based on applying the change using edit and continue (EnC) when the change occurred with the software suspended, or applying the change using hot reload when the change occurred with the software not suspended. Subsequently, the software is suspended, and debug state is presented. The presentation includes presenting the second version of the source code after EnC, or after hot reload and when the software is suspended in an updated memory entity; or presenting the first version of the source code after hot reload and when the software is suspended in a stale memory entity.
US11847423B2
To prevent intent classifiers from potentially choosing intents that are ineligible for the current input due to policies, dynamic intent classification systems and methods are provided that dynamically control the possible set of intents using environment variables (also referred to as external variables). Associations between environment variables and ineligible intents, referred to as culling rules, are used.
US11847421B2
A discussion support device acquires, via a communication network, a plurality of comments relating to a main topic of a discussion, extracts a plurality of ideas, a plurality of favorable points, a plurality of unfavorable points, and a plurality of issues from the acquired plurality of comments, identifies a topology between the extracted plurality of ideas, plurality of favorable points, plurality of unfavorable points, and plurality of issues, and creates a facilitation structure to realize the identified topology.
US11847418B2
A technique making use of a few-shot model to determine whether a query text content belongs to a same language as a small set of examples, or alternatively provide a next member in the same language to the small set of examples. The related few-shot model makes use of convolutional models that are trained in a “learning-to-learn” fashion such that the models know how to evaluate few-shots that belong to the same language. The term “language” in this usage is broader than spoken languages (e.g., English, Spanish, German, etc.). “Language” refers to a category, or data domain, of expression through characters. Belonging to a given language is not specifically based on what the language is, but the customs or traits expressed in that language.
US11847413B2
Techniques are disclosed for building a dictionary of words from combinations of symbols generated based on input data. A neuro-linguistic behavior recognition system includes a neuro-linguistic module that generates a linguistic model that describes data input from a source (e.g., video data, SCADA data, etc.). To generate words for the linguistic model, a lexical analyzer component in the neuro-linguistic module receives a stream of symbols, each symbol generated based on an ordered stream of normalized vectors generated from input data. The lexical analyzer component determines words from combinations of the symbols based on a hierarchical learning model having one or more levels. Each level indicates a length of the words to be identified at that level. Statistics are evaluated for the words identified at each level. The lexical analyzer component identifies one or more of the words having statistical significance.
US11847398B2
Ground rule verification (“GRV”) design layouts may be automatically generated based on one or more design macros. The GRV design layout may be tested based on the one or more design macros by violating one or more ground rules using one or more GRV ranges. The testing may include electrical testing of the one or more GRV design layouts based on the one or more design macros. The one or more ground rules may be automatically selected and approved the based upon a degree of violation acceptability.
US11847396B1
Embodiments herein describe a techniques for identifying a first combinational cell 210 in a design for an integrated circuit, identifying a plurality of candidate combinational cells 205 to combine with the first combinational cell using a first criterion. The techniques also include combining the first combinational cell with at least one of the plurality of candidate combinational cells to form a multi-bit (MB) combinational cell 100. Upon determining the MB combinational cell satisfies a performance threshold, the first combinational cell and the at least one of the plurality of candidate combinational cells are replaced with the MB combinational cell in the design.
US11847395B2
A system for executing a graph partitioned across a plurality of reconfigurable computing units includes a processing node that has a first computing unit reconfigurable at a first level of configuration granularity and a second computing unit reconfigurable at a second, finer, level of configuration granularity. The first computing unit is configured by a host system to execute a first dataflow segment of the graph using one or more dataflow pipelines to generate a first intermediate result and to provide the first intermediate result to the second computing unit without passing through the host system. The second computing unit is configured by the host system to execute a second dataflow segment of the graph, dependent upon the first intermediate result, to generate a second intermediate result and to send the second intermediate result to a third computing unit, without passing through the host system, to continue execution of the graph.
US11847383B2
A method for determining a performance of a subgrade of an expressway section and a processing device thereof are used to accurately calculate a stress, a displacement, a velocity and an acceleration at any position inside the subgrade while analyzing the performance of the subgrade of the target expressway section, in full consideration of the moving speed and vibration characteristics of the vehicle load, the layered characteristics of the expressway and the unsaturated characteristics of the subgrade soil.
US11847382B2
A system for facilitating construction of a deck comprises a server, a client computer, and a database. A user inputs, through a graphical user interface on the display of the client computer, a configuration for the deck. The server receives the deck information from the client computer and determines, based on information in the database and the deck information, a parts list and instruction information. The instruction information includes information on the alterations to the parts needed to construct the deck. The parts list and the instruction information may be displayed on the user interface.
US11847381B2
Computer-aided design (CAD) models, and associated methods and systems, including topological and geometrical entities, graphical annotation information, and data structures storing non-native format semantic annotation information. Associated application programming interfaces (APIs) can include routines to return non-native format semantic annotation information stored in data structures associated with a native format CAD model. The APIs can include routines to identify whether annotations include data structures storing non-native format semantic annotation information, and to identify the types of the annotations. Graphical annotations can serve graphical display needs, while the semantic meanings from non-native CAD formats can be stored in placeholder data structures and, thus, be preserved. Manufacturing software applications can consume and act upon the semantic data via an API, thus, achieving automation benefits.
US11847370B2
An image forming system includes a plurality of image forming apparatuses and an information processing apparatus, and the plurality of image forming apparatuses include a parent apparatus and a child apparatus(es). The parent apparatus transmits, when receiving a print instruction that is transmitted from the child apparatus for outputting operated by a user, print data to the child apparatus for outputting. The parent apparatus transmits, when transmission instruction data is included in the print data, print image data included in the print data to a transmission destination apparatus such as a child apparatus other than the child apparatus for outputting, the information processing apparatus and a further external apparatus with which the parent apparatus can perform communication via a network.
US11847368B2
When a piece of management department data of target manager data is non-restriction data corresponding to all departments, a processor executes a first data editing process to edit all of a plurality of pieces of individual user data. When the piece of management department data of the target manager data is restriction data corresponding to a particular department, a processor executes a second data editing process to edit particular user data that is a part of the plurality of pieces of individual user data. The particular user data is one of the plurality of pieces of individual user data that includes a piece of belonging department data that indicates a department that has a predetermined correspondence relation with the particular department that corresponds to the piece of management department data of the target manager data.
US11847351B2
Storage object groups uniquely associated with respective host applications are processed to model, for each host application, the relationship between current utilized storage capacity of each host application and greatest possible utilized storage capacity of each host application without exhausting either the storage capacity of the storage system or the performance capacity of the storage system. The modeled relationships may be used to calculate headroom and performance impact scores for each host application. Storage object groups that have insufficient headroom for growth, e.g., as indicated by performance impact score, are deemed to be associated with host application workloads that are candidates for migration to a different storage system. The candidates may be ranked and selected for migration based on performance impact scores.
US11847345B2
Systems and method are provided for operating a multi-array memory that includes a left memory array and a right memory array of a memory bank. A command is received at memory input pins. A signal representative of the command is propagated to an array control inhibitor. An array inhibit command is received on one or more other pins of the memory and provided to the array control inhibitor. The array control inhibitor is used to prevent arrival of the command to one of the left memory array and the right memory array based on the array inhibit command.
US11847344B2
A base die is configured to receive a first data and a first encoded data in a writing phase, where the first encoded data is obtained by performing a first error correction code (ECC) encoding processing on the first data, perform a second ECC encoding processing on the first data to generate a second encoded data, and transmit a second data to a memory die in the writing phase, where the second data includes the first data, the first encoded data, and the second encoded data. The base die is further configured to receive the second data from the memory die in a reading phase, perform a first error checking and correction processing on the first data and the second encoded data, and transmit a third data in the reading phase.
US11847335B2
A trigger condition associated with latent read disturb in a memory device is detected. In response to detecting the trigger condition associated with latent read disturb, one or more blocks in the memory device that are impacted by the trigger condition are placed in a stable state to mitigate latent read disturb in the one or more blocks.
US11847333B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying duplicate sectors in a block of a plurality of blocks. The duplicate sectors in the block may be zeroed out. A data reduction operation may be performed on the block after the duplicate sectors are zeroed out.
US11847332B2
A data storage apparatus includes storage including a plurality of memory blocks and a controller configured to set an attribute of each of the memory blocks as a random memory block or a sequential memory block, and to manage validity of map data for data stored in each of the memory blocks using a map segment bitmap. The controller configures at least one memory block set by combining a set number of memory blocks, as a housekeeping event is triggered, and selects a victim block set from the at least one memory block set based on continuity of a logical address, or a number of valid map data, or both.
US11847331B2
A storage unit has one or more processing devices, a solid-state drive and an open blocks cache memory. The open blocks cache memory holds open blocks of data or metadata and holds closed blocks of data or metadata pending writing to the solid-state drive. Closed blocks of data or metadata are written to the solid-state drive and open blocks of data or metadata are written to the open blocks cache memory. Values for open blocks in the open blocks cache memory are tracked. The values are adjusted in a first direction when an open block is written to the open blocks cache memory, and the values are adjusted in a second direction when an open block in the open blocks cache memory is closed and written from the open blocks cache memory to the solid-state drive.
US11847323B1
A data storage device and method for host buffer management are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a read command from a host; read data from the non-volatile memory; identify a location in a host memory buffer (HMB) in the host that is available to store the data; write the data to the location in the HMB; and inform the host of the location in the HMB that stores the data. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US11847317B2
A processing device of a memory sub-system is configured to select, during a first period of time of a plurality of predetermined periods of time, a first voltage bin of a plurality of voltage bins associated with a memory device; perform, during a second period of time, a read operation of a block of the memory device, using a first set of read level offsets associated with the first voltage bin; determine a trigger metric associated with the first set of read level offsets; and responsive to determining that the trigger metric satisfies a predefined condition, performing a second read operation, during a third period of time, using the first set of read level offsets associated with the first voltage bin.
US11847316B2
Methods and systems for managing storage of data in a distributed system are disclosed. To manage storage of data in a distributed system, a data processing system may include a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC may present emulated storages that may be used for data storage. The emulated storage devices may be implemented with a storage pipeline that uses any number of storage devices that may be local or remote to the data processing system. The computing resources of the data processing system may view the emulated storage as a local device. The NIC may use its storage pipeline to service its own storage needs. By doing so, the NIC may improve the likelihood that its hosted applications have sufficient storage service access.
US11847309B1
Techniques for generating an auditory memory for an auditory event are described. An example technique includes obtaining a first audio content associated with an event in an environment. At least one attribute of the environment is determined, based on evaluating the first audio content. At least one emotional attribute associated with the event in the environment is determined, based on evaluating the first audio content. A second audio content is determined, based at least in part on the at least one attribute of the environment. A third audio content is determined, based at least in part on the at least one emotional attribute. An auditory memory including fourth audio content associated with the event in the environment is generated, based on the first audio content, the second audio content, and the third audio content.
US11847297B2
Disclosed is a real time virtual reality (VR) service provision method including registering a client profile in an application management server by a client device, the client profile including information on a VR image that the client device wants to request, by the client device, registering avatar profiles in the application management server by a plurality of avatar devices, the avatar profiles including information on a VR image to be requested by the avatar device, comparing the client profile and the avatar profiles with each other to search for an avatar profile, at least one piece of information of which is matched with the client profile, and providing a first searching result to the client device, by the application management server, receiving input of the client device, for selecting a specific avatar device in the first search result, by the application management server, matching the client device and the specific client device with each other by the application management server, and receiving a VR image from the matched avatar device by the client device.
US11847294B2
Disclosed is a method, a device and an electronic device for generating a desktop of a mobile terminal. Wherein, the method comprising: responding to a first control instruction, and generating a floating window, wherein the floating window is positioned at a first display level, the floating window is used for previewing the layout of the target application icons; responding to a second control instruction, moving at least one application icon of at least one desktop from an initial display position to a target display position on the floating window, wherein the at least one desktop is positioned at a second display level; and responding to a third control instruction, and generating a target desktop according to the target application icon layout.
US11847291B1
A touch film layer and a touch display panel are disclosed. The touch film layer includes a touch electrode layer, which includes multiple first touch electrode groups and second touch electrode groups. Multiple first touch electrodes arranged along a first direction are connected to form a first touch electrode group, and multiple second touch electrodes arranged along a second direction are connected to form a second touch electrode group. The first direction intersects the second direction to form an included angle of 90±30 degrees. The second direction is defined as a direction in which the touch film layer is curled or bent. The first and the second touch electrodes are strip-shaped electrodes. A long axis or long side of each strip-shaped electrode is parallel to the first direction, and a short axis or short side thereof is parallel to the second direction.
US11847289B2
A pressing sensor is provided that generates an output voltage of a first polarity by deforming with an operation plate when a part of a user's body touches the operation plate, and generates the output voltage of a second polarity by deforming with the operation plate when the part of the user's body is moved away from the operation plate. Moreover, a calculation unit calculates an electrical parameter integral value by time-integrating an electrical parameter that changes with the output voltage generated by the pressing sensor. The electrical parameter has a third polarity when the output voltage has the first polarity and has a fourth polarity when the output voltage has the second polarity. The calculation unit calculates a subtraction electrical parameter integral value obtained by subtracting a predetermined value having the third polarity per unit time from the electrical parameter integral value.
US11847286B2
A display device includes a display panel including unit pixel areas and an input sensor including first-line elements and second-line elements defining crossing areas with the first-line elements. First group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a first electrode. Second group elements among the first-line elements and the second-line elements are electrically connected to each other to define a second electrode, and the second electrode is insulated from the first electrode while crossing the first electrode. A first angle defined by a first direction and a second direction and a second angle defined in the crossing areas by the first-line elements and the second-line elements to correspond to the first angle are different from each other.
US11847283B2
A display apparatus including a display panel, an input sensor having an active area having a plurality of electrodes disposed therein and at least a portion of which overlaps the display area, and a non-active area which overlaps the non-display area. The active area has a central area and a peripheral area disposed outward from the central area. The plurality of electrodes include center electrodes which are disposed in the central area and peripheral electrodes which are disposed in the peripheral area and have a surface area less than that of the center electrodes. Each of the center electrodes includes a sensing pattern and a floating pattern, and each of the peripheral electrodes includes substantially only the sensing pattern. Thus, an embodiment of the inventive concept may provide the display apparatus that includes an input sensor having improved sensitivity in a peripheral area.
US11847259B1
Techniques of providing continual augmented reality navigation include combining first and second 6DoF poses from, respectively, a localization from a map in a vicinity of a location to an image and from predicted 6DoF poses based on IMU data.
US11847257B2
Systems and methods for tracking the position of a head-mounted display (HMD) system component. The HMD component may carry a plurality of angle sensitive detectors that are able to detect the angle of light emitted from a light source. The HMD component may include one or more scatter detectors that detect whether light has been scattered or reflected, so such light can be ignored. Control circuitry causes light sources to emit light according a specified pattern, and receives sensor data from the plurality of angle sensitive detectors. The processor may process the sensor data and scatter detector data, for example using machine learning or other techniques, to track a position of the HMD component. An angle sensitive detector may include a spatially-varying polarizer having a position-varying polarizing pattern and one or more polarizer layers that together are operative to detect the angle of impinging light.
US11847255B2
Provided is an anti-tamper protection circuit including a switch trigger port, a tamper signal transmission port, a power supply unit, and a signal output port. The switch trigger port is connected to a switch, the signal output port is connected to a digital movie server, and the tamper signal transmission port is configured to transmit a tamper signal transmitted to the signal output port through the tamper signal transmission port. In the present disclosure, when an LED display screen is powered off, a battery inside the digital cinema server would continue to power the digital cinema server to maintain proper functioning of the digital cinema server, the power supply unit also powers the anti-tamper protection circuit to guarantee anti-tamper operation of the anti-tamper protection circuit, thereby enabling continuous protection of information security and maintenance of digital copyright, and such that the requirements of information handling standards are satisfied.
US11847253B2
The technology disclosed herein enables efficient launching of trusted execution environments. An example method can include: receiving, by a first computing device, a request from a second computing device to establish a set of trusted execution environments (TEEs) in the first computing device; establishing a first TEE of the set of TEEs in the first computing device, wherein the trusted execution environment comprises an encrypted memory area and executable code; receiving, by the first TEE, cryptographic key data from the first computing device; establishing, by the first TEE, a second TEE of the set of TEEs in the first computing device, wherein the second TEE comprises a copy of the executable code; providing, by the first TEE, the cryptographic key data to the second TEE; and causing the executable code of the second TEE to communicate with the first computing device using the cryptographic key data.
US11847246B1
Techniques are described for communicating between two organizations without exchanging sensitive private information. One of the methods includes generating a token representative of private data. The method includes identifying at least one entity associated with the private data. The method includes associating the token with at least one entity. The method also includes providing information identifying at least one entity and the token to a machine learning system.
US11847244B1
A private information detector for data loss prevention is described. In one embodiment, a method includes training a first, machine learning model on a set of known application programming interface keys to detect application programming interface keys, training a second, machine learning model on code including known application programming interface keys to detect adjacent characters to application programming interface keys, scanning a repository with the first, machine learning model to select a proper subset of the repository that includes possible application programming interface keys and adjacent characters, scanning the proper subset of the repository with the second, machine learning model to detect and remove potential false positives of the possible application programming interface keys based on adjacent characters of the possible application programming interface keys to generate a list of probable application programming interface keys, and sending an indication for the list of probable application programming interface keys.
US11847225B2
A system on chip includes a memory, a main processor that runs an operating system, and first Intellectual Properties (IPs) that perform respective processing operations. The main processor operates to copy target firmware to the memory using a firmware loader, using a hypervisor, block access of the main processor and the first IPs to the target firmware before verification of the target firmware, and using the hypervisor, grant access to the target firmware by a target IP among the first IPs that corresponds to the target firmware after the verification of the target firmware.
US11847223B2
A method and a system for identifying indicators of compromise are provided. The method comprises: obtaining a given malware carrier configured for execution a main malware module; generating, based on the given malware carrier, an attack roadmap, the attack roadmap including a plurality of malware carriers; determining a malware class of each one of the plurality of malware carriers; generating a current list of indicators of compromise of each of the plurality of malware carriers; searching a database to locate at least one stored attack roadmap including a plurality of stored malware carriers; retrieving from the database a stored list of indicators of compromise for each of the plurality of stored malware carriers; generating an amalgamated list of indicators of compromise based on the current list of indicators and the stored digital list of indicators of compromise; storing, in the database, the amalgamated list of indicators of compromise.
US11847222B2
Embodiments described herein are capable of preventing the installation of unwanted software bundled with a desired application at runtime, while allowing the installation of the desired application to continue as expected. For example, the embodiments described herein create a decoy in memory that preempts unwanted code. The decoy attracts any illegitimate code and diverts it into a dead end (e.g., the code is isolated, thereby preventing it from properly executing), while installation of the legitimate code (i.e., the desired application) flows as expected. The foregoing detects that a reflective loading process of DLL associated with the unwanted application has occurred, identifies the entity that attempted to perform the reflective loading process, and prevents the entity from completing the reflective loading process without terminating the main installer. That is, the main installer will continue as usual (and install the desired application) while the installation of the unwanted application is blocked.
US11847220B2
There is disclosed in one example a hardware computing platform, including: a processor; a memory; a network interface; and a security module, including instructions to cause the processor to: receive a request to download a file via the network interface; download a first portion of the file into a buffer of the memory; analyze the first portion for malware characteristics; assign a security classification to the file according to the analysis of the first portion; and act on the security classification.
US11847213B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for cybersecurity are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve receiving, by an application capable of JavaScript execution, code for execution; executing, before execution of the received code, an intercepting code, wherein the intercepting code is configured to intercept at least one application programming interface (API) invocation by the received code; intercepting, by the intercepting code, an API invocation by the received code; determining that the intercepted API invocation results in a manipulation of a backing store object; and modifying an execution of the intercepted API invocation, wherein the modified execution results in a nonpredictable environment state.
US11847209B2
A memory device includes an address generator which generates a first physical address and a second physical address different from the first physical address. A first nonvolatile memory includes the first physical address, and a second nonvolatile memory includes the second physical address. An attack detecting circuit detects whether the first and second nonvolatile memories are attacked. The attack detecting circuit receives first data from the first nonvolatile memory and receives second data from the second nonvolatile memory, compares the first data and the second data with each other, and determines whether the first and second nonvolatile memories are attacked on the basis of a comparison result of the first data and the second data.
US11847204B2
Systems and methods for cloud-based management of digital forensic evidence and, in particular, to systems and methods for enabling cloud-based digital forensic investigations.
US11847202B2
A mobile terminal (1), a switch control method, and a computer readable storage medium. The mobile terminal (1) comprises a hardware security processor (11), a first information input device (12), and a control switch (14); when the control switch (14) is turned on, if first security information currently collected by the first information input device (12) does not match second security information stored in a storage module, or the second security information does not exist in the storage module when the first security information currently collected by the first information input device (12) is obtained, the hardware security processor (11) controls the control switch (14) to be turned off, so as to prevent a second information input device (15) of the mobile terminal (1) from uploading the collected information to a main processor (16) of the mobile terminal (1).
US11847186B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for obtaining a user evaluation configured to a natural gas energy measuring. The method may include obtaining natural gas statistics data and regional user data during a preset time period in a target area; obtaining a user evaluation prediction result based on the natural gas statistics data and the regional user data by a user evaluation model; determining whether the user evaluation prediction result is abnormal based on an actual user evaluation; and if the user evaluation prediction result is abnormal, adjusting the user evaluation prediction result.
US11847184B2
A matching accelerator in the form of a hardware accelerator configured to perform matrix multiplication and/or additional operations is used to optimize keypoint matching. An SSE calculation may be determined by utilizing the matching accelerator to perform matrix multiplication to obtain a cost matrix for two sets of keypoint descriptors from two images. The hardware accelerator may determine a best cost calculation for each keypoint in each direction, which is utilized to perform keypoint matching.
US11847182B2
In various embodiments, a data processing consent capture system may be configured to prompt the data subject to consent to one or more types of data processing (e.g., to provide a desired consent) in response to identifying particular cookies (e.g., or types of data processing) that a data subject has not consented to. The system may, for example, substantially automatically prompt the data subject to consent for one or more particular types of data processing in response to determining that the user (e.g., data subject) has requested that a website or other system perform one or more functions that are not possible without a particular type of consent from the data subject. The system may, for example, prompt the user to consent in time for a certain interaction with the website, application, etc.
US11847179B2
A method is provided. The method includes one or more of obtaining client device data including a plurality of facts from a client device, limiting the client device data according to selection criteria, comparing, using a neural network, the limited client device data to categorized historical data, determining, using the neural network, one or more closest matches between the limited client device data and the categorized historical data, and selecting, on the client device, content of interest from the one or more closest matches. Each fact includes an entity, an observation, and an object. Limiting the client device data includes reviewing the entity, observation, and object for each fact and one or more of eliminating facts having an entity, observation, or object that does not meet the selection criteria and removing data from entities, observations, or objects that uniquely identifies a user associated with the client device.
US11847176B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for correcting entity names. One method includes receiving texts and deriving a plurality of name-context pairs from the texts. The method further includes calculating a context consistency measure for each name-context pair and storing context-entity name data representing the name-context pairs. Another method includes identifying an entity name and one or more context terms from a query and generating candidate names for the entity name. The method further includes determining a score for each of the candidate names, selecting a number of top scoring candidate names, and using the selected candidate names to respond to the query.
US11847175B2
Techniques for table row identification using machine learning are disclosed herein. For example, a method can include detecting a table body in a document by processing the document using a machine learning (ML)-based table body model; predicting an initial table row index for one or more words among a plurality of words obtained in the document, wherein the one or more words are determined to be within the table body; and determining a table row index for the one or more words using an ML-based table row model that is trained based on the predicted initial table row index for the one or more words.
US11847164B2
A method, electronic device and storage medium for generating information are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of tag entity words from a target video, the tag entity words including a person entity word, a work entity word, a video category entity word, and a video core entity word, the video core entity word including an entity word for characterizing a content related to the target video; linking, for a tag entity word among the plurality of tag entity words, the tag entity word to a node of a preset knowledge graph; determining semantic information of the target video based on a linking result of each of the tag entity words; and structuring the semantic information of the target video based on a relationship between the node and an edge of the knowledge graph, to obtain structured semantic information of the target video.
US11847162B2
Methods and systems for selecting and presenting web resources (e.g. videos) are provided, the method includes: transmitting a first video to be played by a device associated with a user account; and during playback of the first video at the device: detecting an update to configuration data associated with the user account; determining, based on the update to the configuration data associated with the user account, a next video recommendation for the user account; and causing an indication of the next video recommendation to be displayed on the device.
US11847159B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for determining a glyph and a font from a vector outline by applying various combinations of hash-based querying, path-descriptor matching, or anchor-point matching. For example, the disclosed systems can select a subset of candidate glyphs for a vector outline based on (i) comparing hash keys of candidate glyphs with a point-order-agnostic hash key corresponding to the vector outline and (ii) comparing a path descriptor for a primary path of the vector outline to path descriptors corresponding to candidate glyphs. By further comparing anchor points between the vector outline and the subset of candidate glyphs, the disclosed systems can select both a glyph and a font matching the vector outline.
US11847155B2
Data processing engines are provided that include an electronic display, a decoding functionality selector, a decoding functionality generator in communication with the decoding functionality selector, and a decoding functionality verifier, each configured as described anywhere herein. Related methods of automatically constructing platform-independent decoders for encoded digital data encoded in particular formats are also provided as described anywhere herein.
US11847123B2
The disclosure relates generally to knowledge retrieval using ontology-based context matching. Conventional knowledge retrieval methods and systems are based on generative context that is modeled loosely as some meta data annotations. The meta data annotations do not provide sufficient semantic basis for meaningful context matching, compromising safety aspect. Other typical systems are designed such that the context is encoded into knowledge elements themselves, thus matching is too strict and the knowledge can only be used in contexts that match exactly, compromising the reuse aspect. The disclosed method and system explicitly models the context in which knowledge is generated, and matches the problem context with the generative context of knowledge, with respect to the underlying domain ontology, to assess the degree of similarity between the two, which then provides the basis for ranking the suitability of different knowledge elements for the problem context.
US11847116B2
Disclosed are a distributed database preprocessing method, a database proxy layer, a system and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The distributed database preprocessing method, applied to a database proxy layer, may include: receiving a request corresponding to a prepared statement; and performing processing according to the request corresponding to the prepared statement and a session identifier cached in a prepared statement cache library, a session corresponding to the session identifier cached in the prepared statement cache library is a prepared statement session where a connection is successfully established between a client and a database.
US11847115B2
A method of computing a join pattern agnostic aggregate function includes loading source code and parsing the source code to identify different database query operations. In response to the identification of an aggregate function in one of the different database query operations in which records in multiple tables are joined together in a table join, a multiplicity of primary keys are retrieved, each corresponding to a different one of the multiple tables and also an object of one of the tables referenced by the identified aggregate function. An existence of a fan out condition associated with the table join is then computed. On condition that an existence of the fan out condition is not computed a non-fan out sensitive implementation of the aggregate function is invoked with respect to the object. But, otherwise, a different, fan-out sensitive implementation of the aggregate function is invoked with respect to the object.
US11847111B2
Some embodiments employ a novel procedure of training an artificial intelligence system (e.g., set of deep neural networks) for anomaly detection in applications such as natural language processing and computer security. Token sequences selected from a training corpus are distorted according to at least one of a plurality of pre-determined sequence transformations, before being fed to a sequence analyzer. In turn, the sequence analyzer is trained to correctly guess which transformation was used to generate the respective input token sequence.
US11847110B2
A database session in an active standby server on which an active standby database resides receives a DML statement. The session is suspended while the statement is redirected over a database link to a primary database on which the statement is executed. Information associated with execution of the statement is communicated to the session in the active standby server. Redo records describing changes to the contents of the primary database are applied to the active standby database and control is returned to the session. Prior to commitment of a transaction including the statement, a query directed to data to which the statement was directed is received at the active standby server from a client and executed on the active standby database absent use of a database link based on whether information associated with a database session associated with the client matches the information associated with execution of the statement.
US11847099B2
The subject technology may be implemented by a device that includes at least one processor configured to encrypt a data object based at least in part on an encryption key. The at least one processor may be further configured to sign the encrypted data object with a private key and transmit the signed encrypted data object to a server for retrieval by another device. The at least one processor may be further configured to generate a sharing object corresponding to the data object, wherein the sharing object includes an encryption key and a public key that corresponds to the private key. The at least one processor may be further configured to encrypt the sharing object using a key of the other device and transmit, over a secure channel, the encrypted sharing object to the other device for subsequent retrieval and verification of the signed data object from the server.
US11847090B1
A method for Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) operating-mode synchronization between an SPI host and an SPI device, which communicate over an SPI bus, includes predefining, in the SPI device, one or more values on the SPI bus as indicative of lack of synchronization of an SPI operating mode between the SPI host and the SPI device. Re-synchronization of the SPI operating mode is initiated in response to receiving any of the predefined values in the SPI device.
US11847087B2
Systems and methods for chip operation using serial peripheral interface (SPI) with reduced pin options contemplate eliminating the chip select pins, interrupt pins and/or reset pins for host (also referred to as master)-to-device (also referred to as slave) communication links, while preserving the possibility of backward compatibility for legacy devices if desired. The communication link may include a clock line, a host-to-device line, and a device-to-host line. The host may use specific sequences of signals on the clock and host-to-device line to provide start and stop sequence commands, interrupts, or reset commands. By consolidating these commands onto the clock and host-to-device line, pin count may be reduced for portions of the host and slave circuits. Likewise, fewer (or at least shorter potentially) conductive traces may be needed to interconnect the host to the device. Such changes may save cost, make layout design easier, and/or save space within a computing device.
US11847086B2
Please amend the abstract of the specification as follows: Disclosed is a method for configuring an MMIOH base address of a server system. The method includes: when the server system is performing a power-on self-test, detecting a total capacity of all memories in the server system, and determining a minimum MMIOH base address of the server system according to an MMIO specification and the total capacity; if a target MMIOH base address range corresponding to a target PCIE device configured in the server system might be calculated according to a whitelist, and the minimum MMIOH base address is within the target MMIOH base address range, determining that the base address is the MMIOH base address of the server system, and storing the base address in a BIOS of the server system.
US11847076B2
Waveform circuitry and related apparatuses and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes a memory device to store waveform data corresponding to a waveform, a processor, and a waveform circuitry to autonomously pre-process the waveform data independently from the processor and provide the pre-processed waveform data to one or more peripheral devices. A pre-processed waveform corresponding to the pre-processed waveform is data different from the waveform.
US11847064B2
A method and system of translating addresses is disclosed that includes receiving an effective address for translation, providing a processor and a translation buffer where the translation buffer has a plurality of entries, wherein each entry contains a mapping of an effective address directly to a corresponding real address, and information on a corresponding intermediate virtual address. The method and system further include determining whether the translation buffer has an entry matching the effective address, and in response to the translation buffer having an entry with a matching effective address, providing the real address translation from the entry having the matching effective address.
US11847062B2
In response to eviction of a first clean data block from an intermediate level of cache in a multi-cache hierarchy of a processing system, a cache controller accesses an address of the first clean data block. The controller initiates a fetch of the first clean data block from a system memory into a last-level cache using the accessed address.
US11847058B2
A request to access data at an address is received from a host system. A tag associated with the address is determined to not be found in first entries in a first content-addressable memory (CAM) or in second entries in a second CAM. Responsive to determining that the tag is not found in the first entries or in the second entries, a particular entry of the first entries that each includes valid data is selected. A determination is made whether the particular entry satisfies a condition indicating that content in the particular entry is to be stored in the second CAM. The content is associated with other data stored in the cache. Responsive to determining that the condition is satisfied, the content of the particular entry is stored in one of the second entries to maintain the data in the cache.
US11847046B1
A network system to provide testing, resiliency, chaos and performance testing in a single tool that operates on cloud-based applications in real time. When applications are deployed on a cloud environment, the applications must be validated based on functional aspects, performance aspects, resiliency aspects, and test-code coverage ratio aspects. The system combines all these validations in a single package. The system provides a rich set of modules for functional validations, which can be combined as nodes to allow applications to be quickly validated for functionality. The extensible model of the same functional modules may also be used for performance testing. The system also provides resiliency and chaos testing mechanisms that push the applications into a constant state of perturbation. The system does so by detecting the application code and modifying the code at runtime to inject perturbation. The system monitors the recovery of the system from the testing.
US11847015B2
A combined data processing unit (DPU) and server solution with DPU operating system (OS) integration is described. A DPU OS is executed on a DPU or other computing device, where the DPU OS exercises secure calls provided by a DPU's trusted firmware component, that may be invoked by DPU OS components to abstract DPU vendor-specific and server vendor-specific integration details. An invocation of one of the secure calls made on the DPU to communicate with its associated server computing device is identified. In an instance in which the one of the secure calls is invoked, the secure call invoked is translated into a call or request specific to an architecture of the server computing device and the call is performed, which may include sending a signal to the server computing device in a format interpretable by the server computing device.
US11847001B2
An antenna package according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an antenna device including an antenna unit that includes a first radiator, and an intermediate circuit board coupled to the antenna device to be electrically connected to the antenna unit. The intermediate circuit board includes a core layer, a first feeding wiring formed on one surface of the core layer and electrically connected to the antenna unit, and a second radiator formed on the one surface of the core layer. A radiation coverage is expanded using an antenna included in the intermediate circuit board.
US11846999B2
A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body and a supporting mechanism is provided. The first body has a bottom surface and an opening located at the bottom surface. The second body is pivoted to the first body and has a rear surface and a magnetic part located at the rear surface. The supporting mechanism is disposed in the first body corresponding to the opening. The rear surface of the second body is rotated toward the bottom surface of the first body to allow the supporting mechanism to be magnetically attracted to the magnetic part. Afterwards, the rear surface of the second body is rotated away from the bottom surface of the first body, and the supporting mechanism is driven by the second body to move out of the first body via the opening. When the supporting mechanism is locked, a support shaft supports the second body.
US11846996B2
A rotating mechanism includes a first mount having a shaft hole, a second mount having a mounting part and a shaft part, a first engagement component, and a positioning assembly having a first positioning structure and a second positioning structure. The shaft part passes through the shaft hole so that the second mount is rotatable relative to the first mount. The first engagement component is fixed to the second mount and located on one side of the first mount away from the mounting part of the second mount, so that the first engagement component rotates relative to the first mount along with the second mount. The first positioning structure disposed on the first mount and the second positioning structure disposed on the first engagement component are matching recess and protrusion that are engaged with each other so as to position the first mount and the second mount.
US11846985B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area, a first upper plate disposed under the display panel and overlapping the first non-folding area, a second upper plate disposed under the display panel, overlapping the second non-folding area, arranged to be spaced apart from the first upper plate, a separation space being disposed therebetween and overlapping at least a portion of the folding area in an unfolded state, and a screen layer disposed under the first upper plate and the second upper plate. The screen layer includes first lines, second lines arranged in a weave pattern with the first lines, and a lower coating layer covering a lower portion of the first lines and the second lines and overlaps the separation space.
US11846982B1
A laptop case and shade component system. The clamshell style laptop case provides a lid and a base connected via a case hinge which joins the lid and the base along their corresponding rear edges. The lid and base, respectively, each have a front edge portion and left and right side edge portions. Two gussets interconnect the lid to the base along their respective two side edge portions. A shade component can be attached to a portion of the front edge and left and right side edge portions of the lid to shield a laptop device placed within the opened laptop case from direct sunlight. The shade component can be moved to its collapsed position via a hinge at its bottommost point, detached from the lid, and retained along the interior surface of the case's lid for storage purposes.
US11846979B1
Anomalies in a target object can be detected and diagnosed using improved Mahalanobis-Taguchi system (MTS) techniques. For example, an anomaly detection and diagnosis (ADD) system can receive a set of measurements associated with attributes of a target object. A Mahalanobis distance (MD) can be determined using a generalized inverse matrix. An abnormal condition can be detected when the MD is greater than a predetermined threshold value. The ADD system can determine an importance score for each measurement of a corresponding attribute. The attribute whose measurement has the highest importance score can be determined to be responsible for the abnormal condition.
US11846974B2
A processor has first, second and third ALUs. The first ALU has on a first side an input and an output. The second ALU has a first side facing the first side of the first ALU, an input and an output on the first side of the second ALU and being in a rotated orientation relative to the input and the output of the first side of the first ALU, and an output on a second side of the second ALU. The third ALU has a first side facing the second side of the second ALU, and an input and an output on the first side of the third ALU. The input of the first side of the first ALU is logically directly connected to the output of the first side of the second ALU.
US11846971B2
A system to provide increased visibility and insight into unexpected usage patterns for electronic devices is described. The utilization analysis system applies a utilization model to device utilization information. The utilization model is also used to determine one or more device usage patterns for the electronic device. These device usage patterns are used to determine an unexpected device utilization where the system responds to the unexpected device utilization with several hardware and software solution proposals to prevent damage to the electronic device and/or enhance the design and development of the electronic device.
US11846963B2
To provide an electronic device capable of a variety of display. To provide an electronic device capable of being operated in a variety of ways. An electronic device includes a display device and first to third surfaces. The first surface includes a region in contact with the second surface, the second surface includes a region in contact with the third surface, and the first surface includes a region opposite to the third surface. The display device includes first to third display regions. The first display region includes a region overlapping with the first surface, the second display region includes a region overlapping with the second surface, and the third display region includes a region overlapping with the third surface. The first display region has a larger area than the third display region.
US11846959B2
An electricity management system for a residential setting includes a controller that is coupled with a plurality of appliances. A plurality of sensors are coupled with the controller and respectively coupled to the plurality of appliances. The controller cooperates with the sensors and the appliances to generate a demand response plan for delivering electrical power to the plurality of appliances. The demand response plan includes a shifting strategy that regulates a delivery of electrical power based upon a regional pattern of electrical consumption, a shedding strategy that maintains a household consumption of electrical power below a household upper consumption limit and a modulating strategy based upon the respective operating cycles of the plurality of appliances that prevents a simultaneous peak electrical event within more than one appliance of the plurality of appliances. The shifting strategy, the shedding strategy and the modulating strategy are implemented contemporaneously.
US11846957B1
One example discloses a signal driver circuit, including: an input configured to receive an input signal; an output configured to transmit an output signal; a low drop-out voltage regulator (LDO) having a regulated voltage output; a set of voltage-modulated amplifiers having a first input coupled to the regulated voltage output, and a second input configured to receive the input signal; wherein the voltage-modulated amplifier is configured to amplify the input signal and transmit an amplified input signal on the output of the signal driver circuit; a de-emphasis controller, including a set of de-emphasis levels; wherein the de-emphasis controller is configured to selectively switch-on a first subset of the set of voltage-modulated amplifiers and switch-off a second subset of the set of voltage-modulated amplifiers based on the de-emphasis levels.
US11846952B2
A mobile robot platooning system includes a plurality of mobile robots operated for transfer of objects in a factory, and a central server connected to the plurality of mobile robots through wireless communication, and configured to set a path of the plurality of mobile robots to control autonomous driving of the mobile robots, wherein the central server is configured to group a platoon of the mobile robots required for processing a work, dispose the platoon of the mobile robots into a predetermined platoon form, collect state information of the platoon of the mobile robots, and control the platoon of the mobile robots to move in a synchronized form based on the state information.
US11846947B2
In one aspect, a system for an agricultural application includes an implement including a frame. The frame includes a center frame section and at least one movable frame section. A first imaging device is installed on the movable frame section. A second imaging device is installed inboard of the movable frame section relative to the center frame section in the unfolded position. A computing system is communicatively coupled to the first imaging device and the second imaging device. When the implement is in the unfolded position, the computing system receives image data associated with an imaged environment outward of the implement from the first imaging device. When the implement is in the folded position, the computing system receives image data associated with an imaged environment outward of the implement from the second imaging device.
US11846933B2
An apparatus, system and method of providing industrial analytics. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of sensors sensing performance indicators for an industrial process across multiple nodes, wherein ones of the multiple nodes are remote from each other; at least one machine learning module comprising non-transitory computing code executed by a processor. When executed by the processor, the code causes the steps of: receiving user input regarding at least the industrial process and a data set; selecting a model based on at least the user input, wherein the selected model comprises a plurality of learnings based on the performance indicators sensed by multiple sensors across at least multiple ones of the multiple nodes; applying the selected model to the data set; assessing at least the performance indicators for the data set upon application of the selected model; and outputting the assessed performance indicator.
US11846930B1
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for monitoring and/or controlling processing parameters for an industrial process. In various embodiments, a method is provided that comprises: receiving media of a processing region of an industrial process that comprises an object, wherein the media comprises media elements, and each media element comprises a field of view of the object; identifying a set of pixels found in the area of interest; and for each media element: extracting an attribute value from each pixel found in the media element; constructing an attribute profile comprising the attribute value for each pixel; mapping the attribute profile to a mapped profile that comprises at least one property value that correlates to at least one attribute value; and providing the mapped profile to a control system to use in controlling processing parameters of the industrial process.
US11846927B2
A method for generating print images for additive manufacturing includes: accessing a part model; accessing a set of dimensional tolerances for the part model; and segmenting the part model into a set of model layers. The method also includes, and, for each model layer: detecting an edge in the model layer; assigning a dimensional tolerance to the edge; defining an outer exposure shell inset from the edge by an erosion distance inversely proportional to a width of the dimensional tolerance; defining an inner exposure shell inset from the outer exposure shell and scheduled for exposure separately from the outer exposure shell; defining an a outer exposure energy proportional to the width of the dimensional tolerance and assigned to the outer exposure shell; and defining an inner exposure energy greater than the outer exposure energy and assigned to the inner exposure shell.
US11846918B1
An industrial automation system may include a first computing device that may receive operational technology (OT) data from industrial automation devices of an industrial automation system, determine identities of the industrial automation devices based on the OT data, determine that the OT data includes data attributes having variations as compared to additional OT data, transmit the identifiers and the data attributes to a second computing device in response to determining that the data attributions have the variations, receive containers including updated digital representations of the industrial automation devices from the second computing device, execute the containers to output additional data attributes, and send commands to the industrial automation devices to modify processes based the additional data attributes.
US11846913B2
Disclosed is an escapement mechanism with a locking anchor for a timepiece including a sprung-balance regulating organ, including an escapement wheel provided with a series of peripheral teeth, and a locking anchor including first and second locking pallets arranged respectively at one end of first and second arms to allow alternately engaging a tooth of the escapement wheel at each rotation step of the escapement wheel and of the anchor about their respective axis of rotation. This mechanism includes an impulse pallet adapted to be fixed to one the regulating organ to transmit an impulse by sliding a tooth of the escapement wheel on an impulse plane of the impulse pallet once at least every two oscillations of the regulating organ while the locking anchor includes a connecting member for permanent kinematic engagement in rotation to the regulating organ. Also disclosed is a timepiece incorporating such an escapement mechanism.
US11846909B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a drum cartridge; and a developing cartridge. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum having a rotational axis. The drum cartridge is drawable from the main casing in a first direction where the axis of the photosensitive drum extends. The developing cartridge is drawable from the main casing in the first direction. The developing cartridge includes: a developing roller; a front wall; and a first developing-device frame. The front wall is disposed at a downstream end of the developing cartridge in the first direction. The front wall has a first hole. The first developing-device frame supports the developing roller. The first developing-device frame includes a first boss extending in the first direction. The first boss goes through the first hole of the front wall.
US11846907B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a power supply, a toner container, a cover, a first harness, and a second harness. The power supply supplies power to the fixing device. The toner container compartment is between the fixing device and the power supply and receives a toner container. The cover is on the toner container compartment and moves into the toner container compartment. The first harness is coupled to the power supply, and the second harness is coupled to the fixing device. The second harness is detachably coupled to the first harness above the cover.
US11846901B2
An example fuser includes a flexible fixing belt, a backup member to form a fixing nip with the fixing belt, a heater substrate for heating the fixing belt at the fixing nip and having a first surface comprising a heating element pattern, a common terminal and a driving power supply terminal for supplying power to the heating element pattern, and a second surface in contact with the fixing belt, and a temperature sensor sheet comprising a temperature sensor, a sensing terminal and an electric wire connecting the temperature sensor to the sensing terminal, wherein the temperature sensor sheet is in contact with the first surface of the heater substrate such that the sensing terminal and the electrical wire do not overlap the common terminal and the driving power supply terminal.
US11846889B2
A diffraction pattern guided source mask optimization (SMO) method that includes determining a source variable region from a diffraction pattern. The source variable region corresponds to one or more areas of a diffraction pattern in a pupil for which one or more pupil variables are to be adjusted. The source variable region in the diffraction pattern includes a plurality of pixels in an image of a selected region of interest in the diffraction pattern. Determining the source variable region can include binarization of the plurality of pixels in the image such that individual pixels are either included in the source variable region or excluded from the source variable region. The method can include adjusting the one or more pupil variables for the one or more areas of the pupil that correspond to the source variable region; and rendering a final pupil based on the adjusted one or more pupil variables.
US11846886B2
The present invention relates to a novel photoacid generator compound cation, comprising an element having for 92 eV photons (extreme ultraviolet (EUV)) an absorption cross section of at least 0.5×107·cm2/mol; having at least two stable oxidation states; and selected from the elements of group 1 to group 15 of the periodic table of the elements. Additionally, the present invention relates to a photoacid generator comprising said photoacid generator compound cation and an anion. Furthermore, the present invention aims to provide a photoresist composition comprising said photoacid generator and an acid labile polymer. Finally, the present invention relates to a method of generating an acid using the photoresist composition and a method of forming a patterned materials feature on a substrate.
US11846883B2
A photoresist is disclosed. The photoresist includes a polymer with one repeating unit and an absorbing unit.
US11846870B2
A camera is configured for use with a removable camera lens cover, which can be secured to or removed from the camera by a user without the use of a tool set. The mechanism which allows the lens cover to be secured to and removed from the camera includes a set of wires embedded into the lens cover and a set of wedges protruding from the lens wall of the camera. To secure the lens cover to the camera, the lens cover is placed onto the front of the camera and rotated until the wires align with corresponding wedges, securing the wires underneath the tapered surface of the wedges. To remove the lens cover from the camera, a force is applied outward and normal to the lens cover, causing the wires to flex outward and enabling the rotation and removal of the lens cover from the camera.
US11846868B2
A projection apparatus (projector) includes a light source apparatus, an image generation unit that generates image light from the light from the light source apparatus, a projection optical system that projects the image light, a reflective optical element (reflection mirror) that forms the projection optical system, deflects back the image light, and causes the deflected image light to exit, a projection optics enclosure that accommodates the projection optical system, and a first opening section formed in the projection optics enclosure so as to open in the position of the reflective optical element (reflection mirror).
US11846867B2
A broadband radiation source device configured for generating a broadband output radiation upon receiving pump radiation, the device including: a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF) including at least one structurally varied portion having at least one structural parameter of the HC-PCF varied with respect to one or more main portions of the HC-PCF, wherein the at least one structurally varied portion includes at least a structurally varied portion located downstream of a position along the length of the HC-PCF where the pump radiation will be spectrally expanded by a modulation instability dominated nonlinear optical process, and wherein the at least one structurally varied portion is configured and located such that the broadband output radiation includes wavelengths in the ultraviolet region.
US11846859B2
A display panel is disclosed, including a substrate, a first metal layer, a first insulation layer, an active layer, and a second metal layer stacked sequentially, wherein the first metal layer includes a first electrode, the second metal layer includes a second electrode, the first electrode and the second electrode are partially overlapped to form a first overlapping region, a plurality of pads are disposed between the first insulation layer and the second metal layer, and a part of the pads are at least located in the first overlapping region, to improve an anti-static ability of the first electrode and the second electrode on an overlapping location.
US11846857B2
An array substrate and a display panel are provided. By arranging a drain and a connection hole in a range defined by two branch portions of a source, an area occupied by the drain is reduced, and the defective problems of bright spots or vertical lines displayed on the display panel due to a short circuit of the drain and data lines can be avoided.
US11846846B1
A display panel includes a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the TFT array substrate and the opposite substrate. The TFT array substrate includes a first substrate. The opposite substrate includes a second substrate. The display panel further includes a first viewing-angle improving layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first viewing-angle improving layer adjoins one film layer on the first substrate or the second substrate. The first viewing-angle improving layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate so that the first viewing-angle improving layer can be a stacked part manufactured integratedly with other film layers of the display panel. Thus, manufacture of the first viewing-angle improving layer can overcome a size limitation of a mold in a nanoimprinting technology, effectively improving a large-viewing-angle-display effect of a large-size display panel.
US11846845B2
An example of an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a display portion and a camera. In addition, the apparatus includes a thin film transistor substrate extending over the display portion and the camera. Furthermore, the apparatus includes an image generation layer disposed under the thin film transistor substrate within the display portion. Also, the apparatus includes a polymer dispersed liquid crystal disposed between the thin film transistor substrate and the camera. The polymer dispersed liquid crystal is to be switched between an opaque state and a clear state. The opaque state is to block the camera from receiving imaging light. The clear state allows light to pass through the polymer dispersed liquid crystal.
US11846836B2
An electro-optical waveguide modulator device includes a seed layer on a substrate, the seed layer having a first crystallographic plane aligned with a surface of the seed layer, an electro-optical channel extending in a first direction on the seed layer and having a second crystallographic plane aligned with the surface of the seed layer, an insulator layer on both sides of the electro-optical channel on the substrate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, an electrode barrier layer on the electro-optical channel and the insulator layer, and one or more of electrodes extending in the second direction. The seed layer and the insulator layer each comprise material having a refractive index that is lower than the electro-optical channel.
US11846833B2
An optical metasurface which shifts resonant frequency in response to changing temperature. The optical metasurface includes a membrane printed in a pattern from materials with a high coefficient of thermal expansion (“CTE”). The optical metasurface can include a plurality of high CTE fibers/structures in a first direction and a plurality of low CTE fibers/structures in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Alternatively, the high CTE substrate can include a plurality of high CTE fibers/structures in only a first direction. The high CTE substrate can include a plurality of high CTE fibers and a plurality of low CTE fiber in a pattern which creates desired sensing domains. An array of nanostructures is formed on the high CTE substrate. The array of nanostructures is designed to resonate with light transmitted through or impinging upon the optical metasurface. The resonant frequency of the response can be tuned thermally.
US11846825B2
Various embodiments include an interlock arrangement that may be used to attach a lens barrel to a lens carrier of a camera. In some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may restrict movement of the lens barrel relative to the lens carrier along at least an optical axis. In various examples, the interlock arrangement may include one or more grooves and one or more protrusions. For instance, a groove may be defined by the lens barrel or the lens carrier, and a protrusion may extend from the lens barrel or the lens carrier to at least partially into the groove. In some cases, the interlock arrangement may include an adhesive that at least partially fills gaps within the interlock arrangement between the lens barrel and the lens carrier. According to some embodiments, the interlock arrangement may include one or more recesses that provide inlets for the adhesive to be introduced to the gaps within the interlock arrangement.
US11846824B2
An apparatus for altering quantum of light passing through a lens of a photographic device. The apparatus comprises of a base assembly configured to be detachably coupled to the lens of the photographic device, a first assembly comprising a first filter, a second assembly comprising a second filter and a third assembly comprising a third filter. The first assembly is configured to be detachably coupled to the base assembly. The second assembly is configured to be detachably coupled to the base assembly. The third assembly is configured to be detachably coupled to the base assembly. Combination of the first filter and the second filter forms a first range of neutral density filter and combination of the first filter and the third filter forms a second range of neutral density filter.
US11846815B2
A planar lightwave circuit (PLC) assembly is used for a transceiver module that includes a circuit board having photodetectors mounted at a spacing from one another. A transmitter mounted on the circuit board is configured to transmit optical signals for a network. The PLC assembly includes at least one PLC chip and at least one fiber array. The PCL chip mounts on the transmitter and is configured to receive optical signals for the network. The fiber array has optical fibers connecting between the PLC chip and the photodetectors. The array's first end connected to the PLC chip has a first pitch between the optical fibers, while the array's second end has at least one connector connected adjacent the photodetectors and having a second fiber pitch, which is greater than the first pitch and is configured to the spacing of the photodetectors.
US11846811B2
A fiber optic connector with a hub extension positioned on the hub of the connector. Prior to assembly of the connector with the rear boot, the hub and ferrule assembly can be pushed backward within the front and rear housings to clear an anti-rotation portion of the front housing and turned for tuning. After complete assembly of the rear boot, the hub extension bottoms out against the boot prior to the hub and ferrule assembly disengaging the anti-rotation portion of the front housing, thereby maintaining the tuned position.
US11846807B2
Mid-infrared-transparent optical fiber products with enhanced resistance to OH diffusion are disclosed, which may be used fiber laser oscillator and amplifiers systems. In one embodiment, an optical fiber product may include optical fiber configured for propagation of mid-infrared radiation toward a light-radiating endface of or coupled to the optical fiber, and a diffusion barrier disposed on the light-radiating endface and configured for allowing the mid-infrared radiation emanating from the light-radiating endface to pass therethrough and for preventing OH diffusion therethrough toward the light-radiating endface. In another embodiment, an optical fiber product may include an optical fiber for propagation of mid-infrared radiation and an endcap coupled to the optical fiber for receiving therefrom the mid-infrared radiation and radiating out the mid-infrared radiation, the endcap being made of an endcap material that has no or a low amount of fluoride and that is less permeable to OH diffusion than the fiber-optic material.
US11846797B2
An optical device includes an optical waveguide and a plurality of reflective polarizers. The plurality of reflective polarizers include a first reflective polarizer and a second reflective polarizer disposed inside the optical waveguide so that the first reflective polarizer receives light propagating inside the optical waveguide, redirects a first portion of the light in a first direction, and transmits a second portion of the light in a second direction non-parallel to the first direction. The second reflective polarizer receives the second portion of the light from the first reflective polarizer, redirects a third portion of the light, and transmits a fourth portion of the light. A ratio between the first portion and the second portion of the light has a first value and a ratio between the third portion and the fourth portion of the light has a second value distinct from the first value.
US11846796B1
A backlight module includes a glass substrate, a light-outputting sheet, a light guide plate, and a reflective sheet. The light-outputting sheet is disposed under the glass substrate and has a light-outputting region and a light-shielding region. The light-outputting region is disposed corresponding to the glass substrate. The light-shielding region is disposed corresponding to an outer periphery of the glass substrate. The light guide plate is disposed under the light-outputting sheet and has a light guide region and a light mixing region. The light guide region is disposed corresponding to the light-outputting region. The light mixing region is configured to receive light of a light-emitting element and guide the light to the light guide region. The light leaves the light guide region and then sequentially propagates through the light-outputting region and the glass substrate. The reflective sheet is disposed under the light guide plate.
US11846785B1
A diffraction optical waveguide, a grating structure, and a display device are disclosed. An arrangement period of a grating line of the grating structure is T and the grating line has a cross-sectional profile with a narrow top and a wide bottom. The cross-sectional profile includes five feature points, which respectively have coordinates (0, 0), (L2, H2), (L3, H3), (L4, H4), (L5, 0), and satisfy: 0.2T≤L2
US11846778B2
A thin transparent layer can be integrated in a head mounted display device and disposed in front of the eye of a wearer. The thin transparent layer may be configured to output light such that light is directed onto the eye to create reflections therefrom that can be used, for example, for glint based tracking. The thin transparent layer can be configured to reduced obstructions in the field of the view of the user.
US11846769B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a projection apparatus that can improve brightness of a projected image while satisfying a safety standard for laser products. A saturation emphasis processing unit determines, in accordance with saturation of an image, a first emphasis coefficient that emphasizes luminance of the image, and converts a luminance signal of the image on the basis of the determined first emphasis coefficient. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a laser beam scanning type projection apparatus or the like that performs scanning with a laser beam as a light source.
US11846766B2
Medical borescopes, such as laparoscopes. In some embodiments, a medical borescope may comprise a handle and a tube extending from the handle, which tube may be configured to reduce electromagnetic interference within the tube. The borescope may further comprise a tip assembly positioned at a distal end of the tube, which may comprise an image sensor configured to take images through the distal end of the tube. The borescope may further comprise a dongle comprising an image processor configured to receive image data from the image sensor. The dongle may be removably coupleable with the medical borescope such that the dongle can be coupled with a plurality of distinct medical borescopes.
US11846763B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear unit that includes a plurality of lens units having negative refractive powers and a plurality of lens units having positive refractive powers, each distance between adjacent lens units changing during zooming. During zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, the first lens unit moves to the object side, and the second lens unit moves to the image side and thereafter moves to the object side. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11846760B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens, disposed in order from an object side to an imaging plane. One or any combination of the first lens to the seventh lens are formed of glass. One or both surfaces of one or more of the first lens to the seventh lens are aspherical. A pair of lenses, among the first lens to the seventh lens, allows paraxial areas opposing each other to be bonded to each other.
US11846752B1
A head-mounted display device includes a base, a first lens, a second lens, a first shape memory alloy (SMA) element, and a braking element. The first lens and the second lens are movably disposed on the base. The first SMA element is connected between the base and the first lens or connected between the second lens and the first lens, and is used to move the first lens and adjust a distance between the first lens and the second lens. The braking element is disposed on the base. The braking element brakes the first lens at a braking position. The braking element is separated from the first lens at a movable position.
US11846748B2
This disclosure presents a fault prediction system using a deep learning neural network, such as a convolutional neural network. The fault prediction system utilizes as input seismic data, and then derives various seismic attributes from the seismic data. In various aspects, the seismic attributes can be normalized and have importance coefficients determined. A sub-set of seismic attributes can be selected to reduce computing resources and processing time. The deep learning neural network can utilize the seismic data and seismic attributes to determine parameterized results representing fault probabilities. The fault prediction system can utilize the fault probabilities to determine fault predictions which can be represented as a predicted new seismic data, such as using a three-dimensional image.
US11846747B2
Devices, systems, and methods for sampling of gases to determine information regarding leaks are disclosed. Balanced sampling can be achieved by application of an inlet having a gas permeable membrane covering the opening. Extending the opening for a length can provide additional coverage for gas sampling. Connection of gas sampling instruments with analysis systems can determine leak information for use in remedying leaks, for example, from industrial equipment such as pipelines.
US11846746B2
Transportation security apparatus, system, and method to analyze images to detect a threat condition
In a transportation security technique, images are stored that are received from image capturing equipment deployed at respective screening nodes. The images are analyzed using a machine learning model, where presence of a particular object in an image indicates that a threat condition exists at the screening node. The analyzed images are transmitted to threat assessment components in accordance with predetermined criteria. An indication that the particular object is observed in the image is received from the threat assessment components. An indication that the particular object is observed in the image is transmitted to the screening node responsive to receiving the indication that the particular object is observed in the image. An indication of whether the particular object is present at the screening node is received. The machine learning model is trained based on the received indication of whether the particular object is observed in the image.
US11846741B2
Systems and methods for evaluating simulation models are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of evaluating a simulation model of a hydrocarbon field includes merging simulated reservoir data and actual reservoir data to generate merged reservoir data, and cross-linking the merged reservoir data with three-dimensional model data. The method further includes calculating one or more surface metrics from at least one of the merged reservoir data and the three-dimensional model data, calculating one or more subsurface metrics from at least one of the merged reservoir data and the three-dimensional model data, and calculating one or more overall history match indicators, one or more surface history match indicators, and one or more subsurface history match indicators from the one or more surface metrics, the one or more subsurface metrics, and the three-dimensional model data.
US11846740B2
A method for picking first breaks on a synthetic seismic dataset for a full wavefield travel-time inversion is provided. This method includes obtaining a synthetic seismic dataset and for each synthetic trace, determining a plurality of synthetic trace amplitude maxima and minima, determining a modified energy ratio trace, and forming a trace mask based at least in part, on an amplitude of the synthetic trace and on an amplitude of the modified energy ratio trace. The method further includes determining for each synthetic trace, a positive estimated first break based on the plurality of synthetic trace amplitude maxima and the trace mask and a negative estimated first bread based on the plurality of synthetic trace amplitude minima and the trace mask. The method concludes with determining a predicted first break for each synthetic trace from the positive estimate first break and the negative estimate first break.
US11846721B2
Signaling of TX/RX parameters for bistatic and multi-static radar in wireless communications systems
A radar system may comprise a radar server configured to determine (1) one or more transmit timing parameters and (2) one or more receive timing parameters. The radar server may provide the one or more transmit timing parameters to a first wireless communications system Transmission Reception Point (TRP) configured to use the one or more transmit timing parameters to send a transmit signal. The radar server may provide the one or more receive timing parameters to a second wireless communications system TRP configured to use the one or more receive timing parameters to receive an echo signal corresponding to a reflection of the transmit signal from a target.
US11846719B2
An anti-interference microwave detection module processes frequency-selection for reducing the interferences from the electromagnetic radiation of the frequency bands different from the frequency band of the anti-interference microwave detection module in the environment to the echo signal of the anti-interference microwave detection module. A Doppler intermediate-frequency signal is trend processed to obtain a fluctuation signal. The characteristic parameter of the fluctuation of the fluctuation signal is corresponding to the characteristics of the movement of the object in the detection space, so that the anti-interference microwave detection module is able to completely reflect the characteristics of the movement of the object in the detection space and reduce the interferences of the electromagnetic radiation in the environment, including the interferences of the electromagnetic radiation of the same frequency band of the anti-interference microwave detection module, to the fluctuation signal.
US11846714B2
Embodiments described herein provide for enabling a mobile device comprising a GNSS receiver to implement a modified PPP technique that utilizes orbit and clock information of a satellite that is broadcast from the satellite. In particular, embodiments may utilize a positioning engine to perform PPP error mitigation with respect to various error sources (e.g., troposphere, ionosphere, phase windup, etc.). With regard to errors stemming from satellite orbit and satellite clock, embodiments may utilize orbit and clock information from broadcast ephemeris data rather than obtaining precise orbit and clock information (e.g., from a third party provider). Further, embodiments may account for errors in this broadcast information by adjusting the ambiguity dynamic and/or ambiguity estimate term used by the positioning engine. This can enable the positioning engine to determine a solution more accurate than traditional GNSS without resetting.
US11846710B2
A motor vehicle is provided with at least four identical lidar-type anti-collision sensors (C1 to C4) respectively arranged on the four corners of the vehicle, each sensor (C1 to C4) having the same predetermined opening angle (θ) and defining at least one detection area around the vehicle (VP), with certain detection areas (ZR2, ZR3) overlapping in order to create redundancy, wherein the two left and right front sensors (C1 and C2) are positioned and oriented such that their respective detection areas are tangential to the offset (D1, D2) of the front left and right wheels (RA1, RA2), respectively, taking into account the maximum steering angle of the front left and right wheels (RA1, RA2), and wherein the two rear left and right sensors (C3 and C4) define detection areas (ZR0) that do not overlap with other detection areas, on the left and right sides, respectively, of the vehicle, the detection areas (ZR0) without overlap being tangential to the offset of the front left and right wheels (RA1, RA2) taking into account the maximum steering angle thereof.
US11846704B2
A survey system including a multibeam echo sounder having a projector array and a hydrophone array uses a multi-component message to ensonify one or more fans to estimate a Doppler velocity.
US11846684B2
During both invasive and non-invasive treatments and therapies, inaccuracies in locating the areas of interest mean that not all the area is treated, or the treatment is incomplete. A magnetic field probe 100, 1010, 102, 103 is provided that improves determination of a disposition of an implantable magnetic marker 200, the probe comprising a first 110, 120 and second 110, 120 magnetic sensor, substantially disposed along a transverse axis intersecting the longitudinal axis of the probe 150. The first 110, 120 and second 110, 120 magnetic sensors are close to the distal end 160 of the probe, and are separated by a minor sensor separation. A third 120, 130 magnetic sensor is provided close to the proximal end 165, separated by a major sensor separation from the second magnetic sensor 110, 120 close to the distal end 160, the major sensor separation being larger than the minor sensor separation; and the ratio of the major sensor separation to the minor sensor separation is in the range 1.25 to 40, preferably in the range 1.6 to 7.6. In this example, the second magnetic sensor is functionally configured and arranged to co-operate with both the first magnetic sensor and the third magnetic sensor. This may be implemented using three or more magnetic sensors. This provides a probe capable of accurately determining one or more dispositions of the implantable magnetic marker when the distal end of the probe is close to the marker and also when it is further away. In particular, including the pair of sensors close to the distal end may increase the sensitivity and accuracy of the probe.
US11846681B2
An estimation apparatus that estimates a degradation amount of an energy storage device includes: a storage unit; and an arithmetic processing unit. The energy storage device has a characteristic of including a first degradation area in which a temporal transition of a degradation amount shows a first transition and a second degradation area in which the temporal transition of the degradation amount shows a second transition. The storage unit holds first arithmetic data for calculating the degradation amount in the first degradation area, and second arithmetic data for calculating the degradation amount in the second degradation area. The arithmetic processing unit executes determination processing of determining a degradation area of the energy storage device, and estimation processing of selecting arithmetic data corresponding to the degradation area from the storage unit to estimate the degradation amount of the energy storage device.
US11846671B2
A method for recovering data included in a digitally modulated signal is described. The digitally modulated signal includes a symbol sequence. The method includes providing a mathematical model of the digitally modulated signal, the mathematical model describing the digitally modulated signal in terms of the symbol sequence and describing the digitally modulated signal in terms of a step response and/or an impulse response, and wherein the mathematical model also takes disturbances into account; and processing the digitally modulated signal based on the mathematical model, thereby recovering the data included in the digitally modulated signal. The disturbances include a random disturbance component modelled as a Gaussian disturbance, and include an inter-symbol interference component modelled as Gaussian noise, and wherein a dependence of the at least one step response on the symbol sequence is neglected within the mathematical model. Further, a measurement instrument and a measurement system are described.
US11846664B2
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) test systems include a FET-based pulse generator using pairs of back-to-back FETs coupled to produce an ESD pulse based on discharging a capacitor that is coupled in series with a device under test (DUT). A number of FETs can be selected based on an intended ESD test voltage magnitude.
US11846662B2
A period estimation apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to extract candidate periods being a target of period determination from an input pulse train, use at least one of the candidate periods extracted to determine whether the at least one of the candidate periods exists as an actual period, and, when determining that the at least one of the candidate periods does not exist as the actual period, suspend the period determination for the at least one of the candidate periods, perform the period determination for the at least one of the candidate periods determined to exist as the actual period, generate a pseudo periodic pulse train, adjust, based on a differential value between the pseudo periodic pulse train generated and the input pulse train, a pulse position of the pseudo periodic pulse train, and detect a periodic pulse train according to results of the period determination and adjustment.
US11846653B2
A scanning probe microscope and method for resonance-enhanced detection using the scanning probe microscope uses a light source that is modulated in a range of frequencies to irradiate an interface between a probe tip of the microscope and a sample with modulated electromagnetic radiation from the light source. The vibrational response of the driven cantilever in response to the modulated electromagnetic radiation at the interface between the probe tip and the sample is then detected. The amplitude of the vibrational response of the cantilever over the entire range of modulation frequencies is measured to derive a photo-induced force microscope (PiFM) value.
US11846646B2
For the method and system (1) for measuring physical parameters, several motion sensor assemblies (2) are arranged in different positions on a trampoline (10) and activated to measure any motion over time during jumps performed by a competitor on a trampoline. Following the processing of measurements made in each sensor assembly, data signals are transmitted to a base station (25). As a result of the various measurements received over time from each sensor assembly, the base station determines a time of flight for each of the competitor's jumps, and a position of contact of the competitor on the bed (21) to award points to the competitor for the performance of a determined number of jumps during the competition.
US11846645B2
In a method of measuring parameters of superabsorbents, the absorption capacity of superabsorbents is determined under pressure, by reducing the pressure applied to a sample of the superabsorbent stepwise and determining the absorption capacity at each pressure. In addition, the rise in absorption capacity after a reduction in pressure is measured as a function of time and this is used to calculate the swelling constant k or the characteristic swelling time τ. Swelling constant or characteristic swelling time or the magnitude of the difference in absorption capacity at two different pressures are used to determine further parameters of the superabsorbent.
US11846627B2
Provided is a method for more efficiently sorting out genetically modified cells. Specifically provided are a method for selecting a cell including a modified gene on a target locus in a genome, a method for producing a cell including a modified gene on a target locus in a genome, and an animal including a modified gene on a target locus in a genome, and a kit for selecting an animal including a modified gene on a target locus in a genome and cells including a modified gene on a target locus in a genome.
US11846621B2
A method of determining a radioactivity characteristic of a radioactive sample comprises positioning the radioactive sample on a plate, positioning the plate containing the radioactive sample in an optical plate reader, obtaining luminescence data via the optical plate reader based on light emitted from the plate containing the radioactive sample, and determining a radioactivity characteristic of the radioactive sample based on the luminescence data.
US11846617B2
A system for detecting an analyte gas in an environment includes a first gas sensor, a first contaminant sensor separate and spaced from the first gas sensor, and electronic circuitry in electrical connection with the first gas sensor to determine if the analyte gas is present based on a response of the first gas sensor. The electronic circuitry is further in electrical connection with the first contaminant sensor to measure a response of the first contaminant sensor over time. The measured response of the first contaminant sensor varies with an amount of one or more contaminants to which the system has been exposed in the environment over time.
US11846613B2
A strain testing rig for testing an elongate specimen has at least three restraints arranged to be spaced apart along the elongate specimen. Each restraint engages the elongate specimen at a respective contact location such that the strain testing rig defines an independent strain zone between each pair of adjacent contact locations. A drive mechanism moves the at least three restraints to stretch each independent strain zone such that the length of each independent strain zone increases independent of strain in the other zones. The restraints can be pivotably connected end-to-end as a chain linkage. The drive mechanism drives the chain linkage from a first position in which a forward facing side of the chain linkage which opposes the specimen is substantially straight to a second position in which the forward facing side of the chain linkage is convexly curved.
US11846610B2
Described are systems and methods for fixture identification in test systems. A method for fixture identification in a test system may include capturing image data representative of a first fixture of the test system with an imaging device. The method may further include transmitting the image data representative of the first fixture from the imaging device to a processor running an image recognition application. The method may also include identifying the first fixture based on the image data with the processor running the image recognition application.
US11846608B2
The present invention concerns an array processing image reconstruction method comprising: receiving a set of echo waveforms as measurements from the object of interest; defining a measurement model linking an unknown image of the object to the measurements; defining a data fidelity functional using the measurement model; defining a regularisation functional using a trained non-linear mapping, the regularisation functional comprising prior knowledge about the unknown image; defining an optimisation problem involving the data fidelity functional and the regularisation functional for obtaining a first image estimate of the unknown image; and solving the optimisation problem to obtain the first image estimate.
US11846600B2
Circuitry for measuring a characteristic of an electrochemical cell, the circuitry comprising: a comparator having a first comparator input, a second comparator input and a comparator output; a feedback path between the comparator output and the second comparator input configured to provide a feedback signal to the second comparator input; and a loop filter configured to apply filtering to the feedback path to generate the feedback signal, wherein the loop filter comprises the electrochemical cell.
US11846598B2
A reference electrode with a liquid-impermeable enclosure comprises a chamber for a reference electrolyte. The reference electrode also comprises a first electrode element comprises a reference electrolyte electrode surface arranged to contact a reference electrolyte located within the chamber and a second electrode element is provided at least partially outside the enclosure and comprises a sample electrode surface for contacting a sample. The first and second electrode are electrically connected through the enclosure. Alternatively or additionally, a conductive connecting element defining a part of the enclosure and/or extending through the enclosure electrically connects the first electrode element and the second electrode element.
US11846594B2
It is enabled to surely attach a sample holder to a goniometer head with good reproducibility in a relatively easy manner, the sample holder holding a porous complex crystal where a single-crystal is soaked. There is provided a single-crystal X-ray structure analysis apparatus that performs a structure analysis of a material, the apparatus comprising a goniometer having a goniometer head 514 to which a sample holder 310 is attached, the sample holder holding a porous complex crystal where a sample is soaked; an X-ray irradiation section that irradiates the X-rays to the porous complex crystal whose position is adjusted with the goniometer head 514, wherein a positioning portion for positioning the sample holder 310 to be attached is formed on a surface of the goniometer head 514, the sample holder 310 being attached onto the surface.
US11846592B2
A system and method for X-ray computed tomography includes a robotic arm that moves an X-ray emitter around a subject in a curvilinear path and an X-ray detector that captures 2-dimensional views while the subject is scanned. Movements of the emitter and detector are coordinated such that the position and angle of the emitter relative to the detector remains substantially constant during scanning. A processor uses computed tomography to reconstruct an image of the subject from the captured 2-dimensional views. The robotic arm varies the pitch of the X-ray emitter during the scan to enhance the spatial resolution of the reconstructed image. The processor generates a projection transformation matrix based on movement of the robotic arm for each captured 2-dimensional view that is applied during reconstruction.
US11846591B2
A non-destructive inspection apparatus is provided. The non-destructive inspection apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store commands for performing predetermined operations, and at least one processor operatively coupled to the at least one memory and configured to execute the commands. The at least one processor is configured to obtain information on a transmission amount of an X-ray by emitting the X-ray to a part of a bicycle, generate a gray scale image based on the information on the transmission, measure an amount of change in a gray value from one end to the other end of the part of the bicycle represented in the gray scale image along an extending direction of the part, and detect an area in which the amount of change in the gray value is equal to or greater than a threshold, as an abnormal area.
US11846588B2
The present invention relates generally to fire detection and alarm technology, and more particularly, to a detection component, a detection system and a fire alarm applicable for the Photoelectric Smoke Detection Fire Alarm. The scattering mechanism ensures scattering fitting with the receiving tube to make the size and detection accuracy of the fire alarm fulfill requirements, and the circuit detection system and maze structure improve detection accuracy and reduce the interference of external light.
US11846585B2
A droplet sensor includes an optical cover having a curved surface that forms a part of a spheroid, a protective film that covers the curved surface of the optical cover, a light source provided at a first focal point of an ellipse facing the curved surface, and a photodetector provided at a second focal point of the ellipse. The refractive index of the protective film is greater than the refractive index of a liquid to be detected. A sensing region is determined by a range of an incident angle at which a light beam emitted from the light source and incident onto the curved surface is totally reflected at the interface between the protective film and a gas, and is not totally reflected at the interface between the protective film and the liquid to be detected.
US11846577B2
Systems and methods are provided for counting particles in a fluid flow. In an aspect, coordinates of particles are obtained from video data of particles in a fluid, the video data made up of a sequence of image frames. The particle positions are linked in each pair of consecutive image frames of the video data. The linked particle positions are used to calculate particle trajectories through sequential image frames of the video data, and the particles are counted based on the particle trajectory. In another aspect, the particle positons within each image frame are transformed to estimated positions within a common coordinate frame. The estimated particle positions of a particle are grouped into a cluster center, and the particle count is calculated based on the cluster centers.
US11846570B2
A wind tunnel device is provided herein that enables the wind tunnel to transform between two modes of operation and/or to refresh/recondition air within the tunnel. The wind tunnel device may provide selective diversion of airflow within the wind tunnel. The diversion of airflow may enable the wind tunnel device to include a multi-configurable wind tunnel that can be operated as either an open-return wind tunnel or a closed-return wind tunnel. Additionally, or alternatively, the diversion of airflow may enable the wind tunnel device to recondition air within a closed-return wind tunnel.
US11846567B2
A method for estimating the sensitivity in an environment of a sound emission detector device capable of detecting a physical phenomenon producing a spatially limited sound emission, said detector device comprising a transducer array, said method comprising a) receiving at least one signal from at least one respective transducer of the transducer array, said array being place within said environment, b) estimating from the at least one signal received at step a) a detection threshold value of a spatially limited source sound emission parameter, c) estimating from the detection threshold value estimated at step b) a quantity representative of a magnitude of the physical phenomenon, d) displaying the quantity estimated at step c) so as to inform the user of the sensitivity of the detector.
US11846566B2
Integrity of a flexible bag is verified by a testing system, using helium to detect existence of a possible hole. The flexible bag is preliminary placed in vacuum chamber of a fluid-tightly isolated enclosure. After connecting a port of the bag to a helium feeding pipe, vacuum suction is performed to obtain vacuum outside the bag in the enclosure. Then, a first amount of helium is diffused in the internal volume of the enclosure through a gas permeable wall, to increase helium partial pressure outside the flexible bag. After, in a test phase while said vacuum suction is still performed, the bag is filled with a second amount of helium. A detector detects information representative of helium partial pressure in the internal volume, to allow detection of helium escaping from the bag, by analysis of a helium partial pressure drop.
US11846560B2
An automatic leveling system includes a platform, a leveling device provided on the platform, a loading tray provided on the leveling device, three reflecting devices provided on the loading tray, an image acquisition device provided above the loading tray, a height positioning device provided on an end of the image acquisition device facing the loading tray, a light source configured to emit light, and a controller coupled to the image acquisition device. The height positioning device processes light emitted by the light source into three paths of light to the three reflecting devices. The three reflecting devices reflect the three paths of light. The image acquisition device acquires the three paths of reflected light into a light signal. The controller detects deflection values of the loading tray according to the light signal and controls the leveling device to level the loading tray.
US11846558B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for wavefront reconstruction based on rotationally symmetric extended structured light illumination. The apparatus includes a laser device, a neutral density filter, a microscope objective, a pinhole, a collimating lens, a beam splitter prism, a spatial light modulator, a lens to be measured, and an image acquisition device that are sequentially arranged. The method permits modulation of incident parallel light into phase grating-like structured light by using a spatial light modulator. Based on the characteristic of non-infinitely small pixel unit of the spatial light modulator, changing the modulation pattern of the spatial light modulator may result in different forms of structured light. Not only the object to be measured but also the real structured light wavefront can be recovered by acquiring diffraction spots at the focal plane and simultaneously updating the object plane and the structured light plane using an algorithm.
US11846555B2
Disclosed is a pressure gauge comprising a pressure sensor and a pressure transmitter connected upstream of the pressure sensor and having an isolation diaphragm enclosing a pressure receiving chamber. A hydraulic pressure transmission path is connected to the pressure receiving chamber and is filled with a pressure transmitting fluid that transmits the pressure acting on the outer side of the isolation diaphragm to the pressure sensor The pressure gauge allows functional impairments of the pressure gauge to be detected early without having to change the pressure acting on the outer side of the isolation diaphragm. The pressure transmitter comprises an electronically activatable deflection device which is designed in such a way that, when activated, it exerts a constant force deflecting the isolation diaphragm, on the isolation diaphragm, or on an element connected to the isolation diaphragm.
US11846547B2
The present invention relates to a tubular wire shielding (9) for an exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement (1), the tubular wire shielding (9) comprising a first shielding tube (13) comprising one or more through channels for accommodating one or more wires (6a, 6b, 8a, 8b, 11a, 11b) and/or for accommodating one or more temperature measurement sensors (7), the tubular wire shielding (9) furthermore comprising a second shielding tube (14) radially surrounding the first shielding tube (14). It is an object of the invention to provide a tubular wire shielding (9) and an exhaust temperature sensor arrangement (1) which are of good mechanical stability. The object is solved in that the tubular wire shielding (9) comprises a first tube adhesive layer (15) arranged interposed between the first shielding tube (13) and the second shielding tube (14), the first tube adhesive layer (15) fixing the first shielding tube to the second shielding tube (14). Furthermore, the object is solved by an exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement (1), preferably comprising such a wire shielding (9), and a method for assembling the exhaust gas temperature sensor arrangement (1).
US11846539B2
A method and a system measure interfering influences on a checkweighing device. In the method, external interference data are obtained, as are interference data from the checkweighing device itself and interference data from an object being weighed, by calculating or mapping the weighing error data in the stationary state, in the operating state, and in the weighing state. The system for measuring the interference uses a meter and a processing apparatus. The meter and the processing apparatus perform an interference measurement and a compensation method. The amount of interference in the checkweighing device in each state and the amount of influence of the interference on the weighing performance is obtained, thereby facilitating the production, debugging, maintenance, and use of a checkweighing device.
US11846538B2
The invention provides a method and apparatus for checking the condition of a self-oscillating vibrating fork level switch. The switch includes a test facility that operates when the switch is taken from a closed loop feedback operating mode into an open loop test mode. Amplitudes of the received test signals are subjected to comparison with predetermined thresholds to establish the health of the switch.
US11846528B2
Systems and methods for identifying one or more points of interest in pipes or drain lines are described. Examples of points of interest include blockages caused by debris in the pipe or drain line. The systems are incorporated into drain cleaning machines. Also described are drain cleaning machines utilizing the systems.
US11846520B2
The present disclosure describes a method and an apparatus for determining a corrected position of a vehicle based on a stable landmark. The method includes determining a last known position vector of the vehicle; capturing an image within a vicinity of a vehicle using an imaging device; identifying a stable landmark within the captured image based on a previously constructed reference map of the vicinity of the vehicle; determining a correction for a position of the vehicle based on the determined last known position vector of the vehicle and the identified stable landmark; and determining an updated position of the vehicle based on the determined correction.
US11846517B2
A method and system for generating geographic routes using topographic data that has been transformed into vector tiles to enable large spatial networks to be reduced from large scale to small scale, wherein the networks are reduced based on the lowest cost path(s) across each vector tile (for example, shortest, fastest and/or safest route across the represented geographic area) whilst ensuring connectivity between adjacent vector tiles is maintained. Complex and vast networks can be simplified to the cost of moving across a single vector tile from edge to edge, with each zoom level comprising a plurality of vector tiles with varying levels of detail concerning the paths across each vector tile. Routes between two locations, particularly those covering large distances, can then be quickly and efficiently determined using the processed vector tiles.
US11846500B2
A three-dimensional depth measuring method using a structured light camera comprising a first projector, a second projector, and an optical sensor, according to the present disclosure, comprises: a step in which a first light pattern is projected by the first projector; a step in which a second light pattern is projected by the second projector; a step of filtering, by a color filter, a third light pattern in which the first light pattern and the second light pattern reflected from an object overlap, so as to separate the third light pattern into a first filtered pattern and a second filtered pattern; a step of localizing the first filtered pattern and classifying first feature points of the first filtered pattern; a step of localizing the second filtered pattern and classifying second feature points of the second filtered pattern; and a step of obtaining position information of the object on the basis of the first feature points and the second feature points.
US11846492B2
A bow sight light mounting kit for illuminating an archery bow includes a bow sight light control unit that includes a power source, a motion sensor, and a customizable timer; an LED light, the LED light adapted for being attached to the bow sight light control unit; and a first mounting plate, the first mounting plate attaching the bow sigh light control unit to the archery bow. The motion sensor detects a movement of the archery bow and sends a signal to the customizable timer; wherein the customizable timer adjusts the LED light to mode-1 after receiving the signal and keeps the LED light on mode-1 for a pre-set time period; the customizable timer adjusts the LED light to mode-2 after the pre-set time period; and the mode-1 and mode-2 are pre-set by a user to control a brightness and a blinking frequency of the LED light.
US11846491B2
Sights of the present disclosure comprise a housing supporting an optical sighting element, such as one or more lenses or iron sights. A first lateral side of the housing has a laterally-extending protrusion and a lead-in portion forward of the laterally-extending portion. In some arrangements the lead-in portion is laterally-inward of an outermost surface of the laterally-extending protrusion and has a surface roughness of less than 50 μm. In some instances, the laterally-extending protrusion has a width of at least 1 mm and the lead-in portion has a length of at least five times the width of the laterally-extending protrusion.
US11846490B2
A firearm accessory is rotatable on two axes through the use of a sleeve mounted on a bearing comprising of a first part and a second part the second part being rotatable and coupled to the first part facilitating a central opening and a first rotational motion and protrusions with at least one hinge from the sleeve attaching to a mirror device acting as a second rotational motion. An alternative teaches digital control of a swinging mirror assembly having spring acting ball actuators providing the digital action between the actuators and a surface. In another alternative, two armatures also are taught that connect a reflective device to a bearing mounted sleeve in front of or behind a target viewing device. Any of these may be directly rail mounted with appropriate attachment devices or directly connected to or manufactured as an integral part of a reflex sight, night vision, scope or similar viewing system of a firearm.
US11846476B2
An ejector mechanism for a firearm includes an ejector disposed at a forward face of a bolt. The ejector includes a hole designed to provide clearance for the firing pin to pass at least partially through the ejector. The hole may include a counterbore on a rear side of the ejector.
US11846472B2
A heat exchanger includes flat tubes, a header to which the flat tubes are connected, an inflow plate that separates a refrigerant inflow portion and a lower circulation portion, a vertical dividing plate that separates the lower circulation portion and an upper circulation portion, a lower dividing plate that divides the lower circulation portion into a lower ascent path on an internal side and a lower descent path of an external side, and an upper dividing plate that divides the upper circulation portion into an upper ascent path on a leeward side, and an upper descent path on a windward side, wherein the inflow plate includes an ejection hole on a leeward side and an internal side, and the vertical dividing plate includes a first passing port on a leeward side and an internal side, and a second passing port on a windward external side.
US11846467B2
An apparatus for the rapid cooling of packaged beverages that includes a thermally insulated immersion tank capable of containing a liquid refrigerant and an evaporator coil placed within the tank, where the container will be submerged while held by gripping means connected to a vertical rotation axis mounted on a vertically movable cart, both driven by driving means under the control of a control unit that commands a series of sequential steps such as driving the rotation of said axial rotation axis within a predetermined speed range and period of time followed by slowing down of the rotation of said axial rotation axis at a predetermined speed with a simultaneous vertical reciprocating movement of the container by means of the vertically movable cart for a predetermined period of time as many times as established by the control unit.
US11846459B2
An ice making machine having a refrigeration system designed for hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerants, and particularly propane (R-290), that includes dual independent refrigeration systems and a unique evaporator assembly comprising of a single freeze plate attached to two cooling circuits. The serpentines are designed in an advantageous pattern that promotes efficiency by ensuring the even bridging of ice during freezing and minimizing unwanted melting during harvest by providing an even distribution of the heat load. The charge limitations imposed with flammable refrigerants would otherwise prevent large capacity ice maker from being properly charged with a single circuit. The ice making machine includes a single water circuit and control system to ensure the proper and efficient production of ice. Material cost is conserved as compared to a traditional dual system icemaker.
US11846450B2
A tankless electric water heater system including a heating chamber having an inlet at a first end and an outlet at a second end, a heating element connected to the heating chamber, a first temperature sensor disposed near the first end of the heating chamber, a second temperature sensor disposed near the second end of the heating chamber, a flow sensor configured to detect a flow of water and disposed near the heating chamber, and a controller connected to the first and second temperature sensors, the flow sensor, and the heating element. The controller is configured to have a set point temperature, to detect temperature and flow data from the first and second temperature sensors, and the flow sensor, and to provide as output a power setting to the heating element.
US11846442B2
A ventilation system for an aviary including at least one exterior wall disposed between a floor and a roof. The ventilation system includes a first fan disposed in one of the at least one exterior walls. A plenum is disposed on one of the at least one exterior walls. A second fan is disposed in flow communication with the plenum. The present embodiments also provide a method of constructing a ventilation system in an aviary, which aviary includes at least one exterior wall disposed between a floor and a roof, a first fan, a plenum, and a second fan. The method includes disposing the first fan in one of the at least one exterior walls. The method also includes disposing the plenum on one of the at least one exterior walls. The method also includes disposing the second fan in flow communication with the plenum.
US11846440B2
Appropriate ventilation for a building space while maintaining building comfort includes tracking one or more interior environmental conditions within the building space and one or more exterior environmental conditions outside of the building space during operation of the HVAC system. An environmental model for the building space is learned over time based at least in part on these tracked environmental conditions, where the environmental model predicts an environmental state of the building space in response to operation of the HVAC system under various interior and exterior environmental conditions. A maximum allowed ventilation rate that can be achieved without causing the HVAC system to compromise on any of one or more comfort conditions of the building space is predicted using the environmental model. The outdoor air ventilation damper of the HVAC system is then controlled to provide an appropriate ventilation up to or at the predicted maximum allowed ventilation rate.
US11846432B2
An underlayment system is provided that includes a plurality of bosses that emanate from a common base member. The bosses and bases preferably include an opening therethrough that will allow for subsequent layers of adhesive to interact and bond to each other. The bosses are also spaced in such a way to help secure a wire snugly therebetween.
US11846428B1
A self-locking telescopic fire pit that is easily transportable. The self-locking collapsible fire pit is self-locking. The self-locking telescopic fire pit is collapsible. The self-locking telescopic fire pit comprises of a double walled base section, a middle double walled section that telescopically mounts on the double walled base section, and an upper double walled section that telescopically mounts on the middle double walled section. All sections define a cavity wherein air flows through. All sections define locking means that allow the self-locking telescopic fire pit to be locked in either an extended or in a retracted position.
US11846425B2
A pilot nozzle for a dual fuel turbine engine includes an inner air circuit, a gaseous fuel circuit radially outward from the inner air circuit, a liquid fuel circuit radially outward from the inner air circuit, an outer air circuit radially outward from the liquid fuel circuit and the gaseous fuel circuit, and a shroud radially outward from the outer air circuit. The shroud is configured to stabilize a pilot re-circulation zone downstream from outlets of the inner and outer air circuits and the liquid and gaseous fuel circuits.
US11846420B2
A combustion chamber for a turbomachine including an annular casing delimiting an inner volume of the combustion chamber and provided with a chimney extending to the outside of the inner volume and delimiting a passage for a penetrating part, and a bushing mounted floating on the chimney, further includes: a main air collection chamber open to the upstream arranged facing the downstream portion of the chimney; and a through-opening of the annular casing, connecting the inner volume to the main air collection chamber. The air collected by the main air collection chamber is injected into the inner volume via the through-opening and can cool an annular casing zone downstream of the chimney.
US11846417B2
A micro-mixer bundle assembly and a combustor and a gas turbine having the same are provided. The micro-mixer bundle assembly includes a plurality of micro-mixers, each of the plurality of micro-mixers including an inlet portion formed on one side and through which a first fluid is introduced and a feed hole formed in a circumferential wall and through which a second fluid is fed, wherein the first fluid introduced through the inlet portion and the second fluid fed through the feed hole are mixed to form a fluid mixture which is injected into a combustion chamber, and a plurality of micro-mixer bundles, each of the plurality of micro-mixer bundles including the plurality of micro-mixers arranged therein, wherein a cross-sectional shape of an outlet of the micro-mixers disposed in one of the micro-mixer bundles is different from a cross-sectional shape of an outlet of the micro-mixers disposed in the other micro-mixer bundles.
US11846410B2
A support accessory is provided for an LED lamp, and the support accessory includes a frame and a supporting leg. The frame is configured to be detachably coupled to the LED lamp, and the supporting leg is configured for supporting the frame on at least one certain support surface when the LED lamp is installed. Wherein, in a first state, the supporting leg is fixed to the frame, and in a second state, the supporting leg is slidably coupled to the frame and can slide relative to the frame to adjust length of the supporting leg between the frame and the at least one certain support surface.
US11846397B1
The present disclosure provides a strip-type lamp assembly including a plurality of light bars, a plurality of lamps detachably arranged on the plurality of light bars, and a connecting member detachably connected between every two adjacent light bars of the plurality of light bars. The present disclosure not only can flexibly disassemble and assemble the plurality of lamps, but also can assemble various light bars with different lengths and shapes.
US11846396B2
A linear light-emitting diode (LED) lamp comprising a normally-operated portion and an emergency-operated portion is used to replace a luminaire operated only in a normal mode with alternate-current (AC) mains. The normally-operated portion comprises a fly-back converter whereas the emergency-operated portion comprises a rechargeable battery, a bidirectional circuit, a boost converter, a self-diagnostic circuit, and a control circuit. The linear LED lamp can auto-switch from the normal mode to an emergency mode according to availability of the AC mains and whether a rechargeable battery test is initiated. The bidirectional circuit is configured to convey a forward electric current and a reverse electric current to and from the rechargeable battery, respectively. The self-diagnostic circuit is configured to provide multiple sequences and to auto-evaluate battery performance according to the multiple sequences. During an auto-evaluation period, a terminal voltage on the rechargeable battery is examined with test results displayed in a status indicator.
US11846393B2
A distributed hydrogen energy system adds onto existing infrastructure of a localized renewable energy microgrid and utilizes excess generated energy to power an electrolyzer to produce hydrogen gas on site that is compressed and stored in a stationary pressure vessel. The stored hydrogen gas can be used directly within the local renewable energy microgrid wherein the stored hydrogen gas is converted to energy through use of one or more fuel cells or can be used in the context of a distributed energy system wherein the stored hydrogen gas is shared as part of a larger distribution network via pipeline or via one or more portable pressure vessels.
US11846384B1
A tilt angle adjustment mechanism capable of both discrete and fine adjustment includes a bracket, a housing tiltably connected to the bracket and a wheel disposed between the bracket and the housing and rotatably connected to the bracket. A spiral guiding member is provided on the wheel and engages with a curved row of evenly spaced detents at the housing to fix the housing to the wheel at plural predetermined tilt angles defined by the detents to achieve discrete tilt angle adjustment of the housing, and rotation of the wheel drives the spiral guiding member to slide through the curved row of detents and causes the tilt angle of the housing to continuously change with the rotation.
US11846379B2
The present invention relates to a variable-flow-path air valve for water hammer prevention and a design method. The variable-flow-path air valve includes a valve body with a top provided with an air intake-exhaust port. A ball valve seat and a floating ball are arranged below the air intake-exhaust port. The valve body is provided with at least one swing check valve configured to be opened inward. The swing check valve includes: a swing valve disc connected to a valve body hinge, a variable-flow-path air inlet controlled by the swing valve disc to open and close, a device for limiting the opening degree of the swing valve disc, and a sealing device. In the present invention, the air valve takes in air through the air intake-exhaust port and the variable flow path, and discharges air only through the air intake-exhaust port.
US11846374B2
A pipe joint with a socket, and a pipe fitted into the socket. An annular seal is compressed between the socket and the pipe. The seal is electrically conductive and resiliently flexible. The socket or the pipe has a recess which houses the seal. The recess has a ridge in a base of the recess and the seal has a groove which extends around a radial periphery of the seal. The ridge fits into the groove to fool proof the installation, such that a standard non-conductive O-ring seal is more difficult to install in error.
US11846373B2
A profiled clamp with a profiled strip and an annular seal element. The profiled strip has two clamping heads which are connected together via a clamping element. The profiled strip has at least one radially outer positioning aid which has a spring elastic contact section for adapting to a shape characteristic of a line end that can be coupled to the profiled clamp, the aid being arranged in an axially offset manner to the profiled strip.
US11846371B2
A flexible conduit used for transportation of hydrocarbon fluids for off-shore and on-shore oil and gas applications includes an inner pressure sheath, at least one reinforcing layer at least partially disposed around the pressure sheath, an outer protective sheath at least partially disposed around the at least one reinforcing layer, and optionally a thermally insulating layer disposed between the at least one reinforcing layer and the outer protective sheath. At least one of the inner pressure sheath, outer protective sheath, and the thermally insulating layer is manufactured using a thermoplastic blend (TPB) composition. The TPB compositions disclosed herein are useful for the formation of at least one polymer layer of the thermoplastic umbilical hoses used for transportation of hydrocarbon fluids.
US11846367B2
A mixer faucet having a left-right clicking mechanism and configured to increase a degree of freedom of the faucet is provided. The mixer faucet includes a lever handle and a valve assembly. The valve assembly includes: a tilting lever that is configured to move in conjunction with a movement of the lever handle, turn forward and rearward, and also turn leftward and rightward; a lower case; an upper case; a lower sealing member; an inner sealing member; and a click rotary member. The click rotary member is exposed to the outside of the valve assembly. The click rotary member is rotated leftward and rightward by a rotation force applied from the tilting lever. The click rotary member includes a first click engaging portion. The upper case includes a second click engaging portion. An engagement between the first click engaging portion and the second click engaging portion generates a left-right click.
US11846366B2
A solenoid includes a first fixed iron core and a second fixed iron core located on a first end side and a second end side of an axial direction of a coil, a first movable iron core and a second movable iron core located therebetween and attracted by the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core by passage of current through the coil, respectively, a spring that biases the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side, and a leaf spring that regulates movement of the first movable iron core to the second fixed iron core side with respect to the second movable iron core. The movement of the first movable iron core in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction of the coil with respect to the first fixed iron core and the second fixed iron core is regulated.
US11846364B2
An electromagnetic valve is configured with an electromagnetic section, a flow path section, and a sealing member between them. This separate arrangement improves a degree of freedom for arranging inflow and/or outflow passage. This separate arrangement also enables to reduce a size of the electromagnetic section. A plunger comes in contact with a central portion of a spherical portion of a valve member. A normally open compression spring comes in contact with a peripheral portion of the valve member. The valve member can be reliably seated on the normally close valve seat even if the plunger is slightly tilted.
US11846363B2
Valve for an airbag system for a motor vehicle and airbag system for a motor vehicle The invention relates to a valve for an airbag system for a motor vehicle, having: a housing (20) which extends along a longitudinal axis (21) and surrounds a cavity (22) having a taper (17) and surrounds a control chamber; an electrically switchable pilot valve (15) which selectively seals or releases a pilot opening (6) of the control chamber (5); a piston (3) which is arranged in the cavity (22) and can be displaced along the longitudinal axis (21) relative to the housing (20); an equalization line (4, 18) which connects an inlet (1) of the valve (100) to the control chamber (5) for fluid communication, wherein: a sealing seat (2) is formed at the taper (17) in order to block a gas flow from the inlet (1) to an outlet (14) of the valve (100) in a closed position, in which the piston (3) is in contact with the sealing seat (2), and to release said gas flow in further positions; the control chamber (5) is arranged on a first side (24) of the piston (3) facing away from the sealing seat (2); and the piston (3) has a first diameter on a side (23) facing the sealing seat (2) and a second diameter (26) on the first side (24), the first diameter (25) being less than the second diameter (26).
US11846362B2
The disclosure relates to a solenoid valve comprising a housing body made of a thermoplastic, a coil, and a metal yoke which is at least partly arranged about the coil, wherein the housing body is designed as an injection molded part which surrounds the coil, and electrically insulating additives are added to the thermoplastic in order to increase the thermal conductivity thereof. The housing body is formed with grooves on the housing body exterior, and the metal yoke is designed as a component which partly surrounds the housing body and is mechanically connected to same.
US11846361B2
To provide a safety joint that can immediately shut off a hydrogen gas flow path at the initial stage when a plug (nozzle side member) comes out of a socket (fueling apparatus side member) to prevent release of hydrogen gas. In a safety joint (100, 100-1, 100-2) when the plug (10) is disconnected from the socket (20), a plug side shutoff valve 5 and a socket side shutoff valve 24 close, a mechanism for closing the socket side shutoff valve (24) includes a socket side spring (23) for urging a socket side valve body (25), a socket side rod (22) connected to the socket side valve body (25), and a support member (26, 27, 28) for supporting (mounting) the socket side rod (22), the support member (26, 27, 28) moves, together with the plug (10), to a state that the support member (26, 27, 28) does not support (mount) the socket side rod (22) when the plug (10) is disconnected from the socket (20).
US11846358B1
A rotary valve includes a rotary valve body defining a passageway from a first passageway port at an axial end surface of the rotary valve body to a second passageway port at an outer circumferential surface thereof. A valve housing has an inner surface defining each of an opening rotatably receiving the rotary valve body therein, a first housing port through which a fluid flows transverse to the axis of rotation of the rotary valve body, and a second housing port through which the fluid flows transverse to the axis of rotation of the rotary valve body. A flow path is formed between the inner surface of the valve housing and the outer surface of the rotary valve body with the flow path providing fluid communication between the first housing port of the valve housing and the first passageway port of the rotary valve housing.
US11846346B2
A gear unit includes an input shaft, output shafts and a differential having two planetary gearsets with a plurality of gearset elements. A first gearset element is connected to the input shaft, a second gearset element is connected to the first output shaft, and a third gearset element is connected to a gearset element of the second planetary gearset. A second gearset element of the second planetary gearset is connected to a housing, and a third gearset element of the second planetary gearset is connected to the second output shaft. A first output torque transmittable to the first output shaft. The gearset elements of the first planetary gearset and second planetary gearset have a helical toothing such that a torque is transmittable between the two output shafts.
US11846303B2
An impeller for use in a centrifugal blower, the impeller includes a hub defining an axis of rotation for the impeller; a plurality of inclined blades, the plurality of inclined blades extending away from the hub; and a plurality of reverse inclined blades, the plurality of reverse inclined blades extending away from the hub. Each of the plurality of inclined blades are joined to an adjacent inclined blade at least in part by a reverse inclined blade.
US11846291B2
A blower includes a blower body and a nozzle. The blower body includes a housing having an inlet opening, a motor housed in the housing and at least one fan housed in the housing. The nozzle is connected to the blower body and extends in an axial direction. The nozzle has a discharge opening formed in its one end in the axial direction and at least one vent hole formed in a different position from the discharge opening.
US11846288B2
A scroll compressor including a scroll assembly comprising an orbiting scroll and a non-orbiting scroll; and a silencing device provided above the scroll assembly and comprising a partition plate and a silencer. The partition plate is used to divide an interior space of the scroll compressor into a high-pressure chamber and a low-pressure chamber, and the partition plate has a central through-hole. The silencer is arranged above the gas outlet, the silencer is fixed to the central through-hole, and is independent from the scroll assembly. The silencing device of the scroll compressor can eliminate noise and seal the divided high-pressure and low-pressure chambers, and can be arranged flexibly without interfering with the scroll assembly.
US11846285B2
The pump comprises a casing; a statoric part stationarily housed in the casing; at least one impeller arranged for rotation in the casing. A process fluid path extends though the statoric part and the impeller. A bearing rotatingly supports the impeller in the casing and a bearing lubrication path is provided, to circulate a fluid flow through the bearing. A rotary screw integral with the impeller and rotating therewith when the pump is operating provides a pumping action on process fluid such that rotation of the impeller promotes process fluid circulation by means of said rotary screw through the bearing lubrication path.
US11846278B2
Centrally optimizing production of a reservoir that has a plurality of wells comprises monitoring production of each well in the reservoir using one or more respective sensors at each well. Sensor data indicative of the monitored production of each well from the one or more respective sensors is input to a central processing device for processing to evaluate the production of each well. The production of each well is evaluated to identify opportunities for optimizing production by the plurality of wells in the reservoir. In addition, one or more actions are taken using the central processing device to optimize production by the plurality of wells based on the identified opportunities for optimizing production.
US11846276B2
A suction muffler is provided. The suction muffler has a housing assembly, at least one partition plate and a first tube. The housing assembly defines a cavity and has a suction port and a discharge port. The partition plate is provided in the cavity to divide the cavity into at least two muffler cavities. The two muffler cavities each has a first muffler cavity and a second muffler cavity. The partition plate defines a penetrating hole to communicate the first muffler cavity with the second muffler cavity. The suction port corresponds to the first muffler cavity. The first tube has a portion provided in the first muffler cavity. One end of the first tube is in communication with the suction port. The other end of the first tube passes through the partition plate and is in communication with the second muffler cavity.
US11846274B2
A device for use by an individual varying in form, i.e. shape, during its use and allowing for the user to select multiple variations of form either discretely or in combination and for these dynamic variations to be controllable simultaneously and interchangeably while being transparent to the normal use of the device, including the ability to insert, withdraw, rotate, and actuate the variable features manually or remotely. According to embodiments of the invention localized and global variations of devices are implemented using fluidics and electromagnetic pumps/valves wherein a fluid is employed such that controlling the pressure of the fluid results in the movement of an element within the device or the expansion/contraction of an element within the device.
US11846272B2
A cable holder, in particular for a cable of a wind turbine, to a cable harness, to a tower, to a wind turbine and also to a method for fastening a cable. In particular, a cable holder, in particular for a cable of a wind turbine, preferably for a medium-voltage cable connected to a medium-voltage transformer of a wind turbine, comprising a cable mount with a funnel-like cavity and also comprising an elastic insert, which is arranged within the funnel-like cavity, wherein the cable mount and the elastic insert are arranged and designed such that the cable can extend through the funnel-like cavity and the elastic insert can be clamped in between the cable mount and the cable.
US11846254B2
An integrated propulsion system for hybrid rockets includes an oxidizer tank, a rocket engine, a pressurization device, a pressurization device and an oxidizer pipe and valve unit. The rocket engine is disposed within the oxidizer tank partially and located on a first side of the oxidizer tank. The pressurization device is disposed, at least in part, within the oxidizer tank, is located on a second side of the oxidizer tank opposite to the first side of the oxidizer tank, and is configured to regulate an overall pressure level within the oxidizer tank. The oxidizer pipe and valve unit is connected to the oxidizer tank and the rocket engine, and is configured to control feeding of an oxidizer from the oxidizer tank into the rocket engine.
US11846253B2
An injector for a liquid rocket engine includes an array of injector elements. Each injector element includes a central passage and a plurality of peripheral transverse passages. The central passages are configured to provide axial injection flow and the peripheral transverse passages are configured to provide swirl injection flow about the axial injection flow. A portion of the injector elements are configured to provide the swirl injection flow in a clockwise direction and another portion of the injector elements are configured to provide the swirl injection flow in a counter-clockwise direction. The injector elements are arranged to form a plurality of circumferential rows. The injector elements of each individual circumferential row are either all of the clockwise direction or all of the counter-clockwise direction. At least one of the circumferential rows is of the clockwise direction and at least one of the circumferential rows is of the counter-clockwise direction.
US11846249B1
A gas turbine engine is provided that includes an engine core and a bypass duct. The engine core includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section and a core flowpath. The compressor section includes a radial flow compressor rotor. The core flowpath extends through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section from a core inlet to a core exhaust. The bypass duct includes a bypass flowpath that extends outside of the engine core from a bypass inlet to a bypass exhaust. The bypass inlet is disposed along the compressor section and fluidly coupled with core flowpath.
US11846245B2
A method for a model-based open-loop and closed-loop control of an internal combustion engine includes the steps of: determining, via a combustion model, injection system setpoint values for controlling injection system actuators, according to a setpoint torque; adapting, during an operation of the internal combustion engine, the combustion model according to a model value, the model value being calculated from a first Gaussian process model for representing a base grid and a second Gaussian process model for representing adaptation data points; determining, by an optimizer, a minimized measure of quality by changing the injection system setpoint values within a prediction horizon, and, in an event that the minimized measure of quality is found, the injection system setpoint values are set as critical for adjusting an operating point of the internal combustion engine; and monitoring the model value in respect of a monotony which is predefined.
US11846244B2
A method for operating an injection valve by ascertaining an opening time and/or closing time of the injection valve on the basis of a sensor signal. The method includes: providing an analysis point time series by sampling a sensor signal of a sensor of the injection valve; using a nonlinear, data-based first submodel in order to obtain a first model output on the basis of the analysis point time series; using a linear, data-based second submodel in order to obtain a second model output on the basis of the analysis point time series; ascertaining the opening time and/or closing time as a function of the first and second model outputs.
US11846238B2
A turbofan gas turbine engine includes, among other things, a fan section, a core engine, a bypass passage, and a bypass ratio defined as the volume of air passing into the bypass passage compared to the volume of air passing into the core engine, the bypass ratio being greater than or equal to 10. A gear arrangement drives the fan section. A compressor section includes a low pressure compressor section and a high pressure compressor section. A turbine section drives the gear arrangement. An overall pressure ratio is provided by the combination of a pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor section and a pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor section, and greater than 40. The pressure ratio across the high pressure compressor section is between 7 and 15, and the pressure ratio across the low pressure compressor section is between 4 and 8.
US11846235B2
A sound attenuating cell includes a first sound attenuating cavity defined between a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The first sidewall is opposite the second sidewall. The first sidewall includes a first undulating surface and the second sidewall includes a second undulating surface. A deflector is coupled to the first undulating surface. The deflector extends from the first undulating surface toward the second undulating surface. The first undulating surface is axially offset from the second undulating surface to define a tortuous path between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. The first sound attenuating cavity has a first end and a second end. The first end is opposite the second end, and an inlet and an outlet of the first sound attenuating cavity is defined at the first end. The sound attenuating cell includes a second sound attenuating cavity nested within the first sound attenuating cavity.
US11846230B2
A load adaptive linear electrical generator system is provided for generating DC electrical power. The electrical generation system includes one or more power generation modules which will be selectively turned on or off and additively contribute power depending on the DC power demand. Each power generating module includes a pair of linear electrical generators connected to respective ones of a pair of internal combustion piston based power assemblies. The piston in the internal combustion assembly is connected to a magnet in the linear electrical generator. The piston/magnet assembly oscillates in a simple harmonic motion at a frequency dependent on a power load of the electrical generator. A stroke limiter constrains the piston/magnet assembly motion to preset limits.
US11846222B2
Systems and methods for conditioning an aftertreatment system. For example, a computer-implemented method for conditioning an aftertreatment system of a hybrid system including an electric motor and a combustion engine includes: determining whether the aftertreatment system is in a first temperature zone below a first temperature threshold; determining whether a power demand corresponding to the operation of the hybrid system is in a first power demand zone below a power threshold; and if the aftertreatment system is determined to be in the first temperature zone and the power demand of the hybrid system is determined to be in the first power demand zone, setting the hybrid system to compressor mode to heat the aftertreatment system.
US11846210B2
A system for maintaining electrical power continuity in a steam-based power plant is provided. The system includes a fossil fuel-fired power generation unit and an electrical power storage apparatus. The fossil fuel-fired power generation unit is operative to generate and provide electrical power to an electrical power grid. The electrical power storage apparatus is electrically coupled to the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit and operative to: receive and store electrical power from the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit during periods of surplus electrical power generation by the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit; and to provide electrical power to a component of the fossil fuel-fired power generation unit during periods of electrical power shortage by the electrical power grid.
US11846207B2
A nozzle assembly for a gas turbine engine and methods for assembling a nozzle assembly are provided. In one example aspect, the nozzle assembly includes an outer wall and an inner wall radially spaced from the outer wall. The outer wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The inner wall defines a plurality of mounting openings spaced circumferentially from one another. The mounting openings defined by the inner wall are positioned circumferentially between adjacent mounting openings defined by the outer wall. The nozzle assembly includes vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the outer wall in a radially inward direction and vanes that are inserted through the mounting openings of the inner wall in a radially outward direction in an alternating manner.
US11846206B2
A turbine vane of a turbine engine is described. The turbine vane includes a blade and a root. The root includes a stilt having lateral flanks with a curvilinear profile. The stilt includes a frangible zone suitable for undergoing a breakage of the stilt if radial forces higher than a threshold are exerted on the vane, in particular centrifugal forces during an overspeed state of the turbine. The frangible zone includes at least one oblong frangibility recess formed on at least one of the lateral flanks of the stilt, the oblong recess extending in an axial direction of the stilt along a longitudinal axis parallel to or included in a minimum cross-sectional plane which contains a minimum cross-section of the stilt.
US11846198B2
A turbomachine, particularly for a rotary-wing aircraft, including a gas generator provided with a rotary shaft, a first reversible electric machine, a power turbine rotationally driven by a stream of gas generated by the gas generator, at least one accessory from among an oil pump and a fuel pump, an accessory gearbox comprising a gear train configured to drive said at least one accessory, and a second electric machine. The second electric machine is reversible, said first electric machine is mechanically coupled to the gas generator, the accessory gearbox and the second electric machine are mechanically coupled to the power turbine, and the turbomachine is devoid of any kinematic coupling between the gear train of the accessory gearbox and the shaft of the gas generator.
US11846192B1
An airfoil assembly and a method of forming the airfoil assembly, the airfoil assembly having a trunnion, a spar, and a set of inserts. The trunnion having a flared socket with an open top. The spar extending from the flared socket and through the open top. The spar having a first end located within the flared socket.
US11846188B2
Disclosed are a method for rotary clearing in a stripping tooth holder of a mining machine and a rotary clearing device in a stripping tooth holder implementing the method. The rotary clearing device includes a reciprocating impact power box (2), a stripping tooth holder (3), a rotary clearer supporting mechanism (4) and a rotary clearer (5), where the rotary clearer (5) includes a shifter (6) and a clearing drive roller (7), the reciprocating impact power box (2) includes a reciprocating impact power box power member (8), the reciprocating impact power box power member (8) supports and drives the stripping tooth holder (3), the rotary clearer supporting mechanism (4) is arranged on the reciprocating impact power box (2) or on the stripping tooth holder (3), a rear end of the stripping tooth holder (3) is connected to the reciprocating impact power box power member (8).
US11846187B2
Several embodiments of a drive pin retention system for mining chains comprise a drive pin, dowel pin, and retainer, wherein the dowel pin is fitted through the holes of a retainer aligned with the holes of the dowel pin and pressed with force so that the tolerance between the dowel pin and retainer is very close. In one embodiment, the retainer is tack welded and then the dowel pin is tack welded to further increase the tolerance and prevent loosening or movement of the retainer due to vibration.
US11846178B2
A method of determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well; a subsea well; and a system for determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well are disclosed. The method of determining an estimated flow rate for at least one phase of a multi-phase fluid flowing from a subsea well comprises determining a mass or volumetric flow rate of a fluid in a completion or production tree of a subsea well; determining a Water Liquid Ratio (WLR) of said a fluid via a water sampling device; determining an upstream fluid pressure and an upstream fluid temperature of said a fluid at a location upstream of a production choke valve in the subsea production tree via at least one pressure sensor element and at least one temperature sensor element of the subsea production tree; determining a downstream fluid pressure and a downstream fluid temperature of a fluid at a location downstream of the production choke valve via at least one pressure sensor element and at least one temperature sensor element of the subsea production tree; determining a downhole fluid pressure and a downhole fluid temperature of said a fluid via at least one pressure sensor element and at least one temperature sensor element located downhole in the completion; and providing each of the determined mass or volumetric flow rate, water liquid ratio, upstream fluid pressure, upstream fluid temperature, downstream fluid pressure, downstream fluid temperature, downhole fluid pressure and downhole fluid temperature as respective inputs for a statistical estimator unit and, via the statistical estimator unit, determining an estimated flow rate for each of at least one phase of fluid flowing downstream of the choke valve.
US11846177B2
This disclosure provides a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly, in one aspect, includes a flange housing, the flange housing including a mating surface for engaging a wellhead and an opposing surface, an interior cavity extending into the flange housing from the mating surface, and an exterior cavity extending into the flange housing from the opposing surface. The sensor assembly, according to this aspect, further includes a connector in sealed engagement with the flange housing proximate the exterior cavity, and a control line extending into the interior cavity through the connector. The sensor assembly, according to this aspect, further includes a sensor coupled to an exposed end of the control line proximate the interior cavity, the control line slidable within the connector, the exterior cavity and the interior cavity to move the sensor between a retracted position and an expanded position to accommodate different thickness wellheads.
US11846175B2
A system is described for estimating well production and injection rates of a subterranean reservoir using machine learning models. The system may include a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the processor to perform various operations. The processor may receive a set of static geological data about at least one subterranean reservoir in a subterranean formation. The processor may apply a trained convolutional neural network to the set of static geological data and data on initial states of dynamic reservoir properties to determine dynamic outputs of the subterranean reservoir. The processor may determine well data by extracting the set of static geological data and the dynamic outputs at well trajectories. And, the processor may apply a trained artificial neural network to the well data and subterranean grid information about the subterranean reservoir to generate estimated well production and injection rates.
US11846170B1
Described herein are systems, apparatuses, methods and computer-readable media that monitor and evaluate the density of a slurry of materials provided to a wellbore. Such systems and methods may be used when a volume of solids used in a hydraulic fracturing process is mixed with a volume of fluid when the slurry of materials is formed according to a hydraulic fracturing rule. This slurry may then be provided to the wellbore such that a hydraulic fracturing process may be completed. Here the solids may include a specific type of sand, a proppant material, or other material. Fluids used to make the slurry may include water, chemicals, or other liquids. A density of the slurry may be identified based on measurements that identify a mass of solids and volume of fluid that are provided to form the slurry.
US11846167B2
In at least one embodiment, a system for a blender tub overflow catch is disclosed for fracturing operations using a fracturing fluid blender. In at least one embodiment, the system includes a first tub that may be a blender tub and a second tub forming a blender tub overflow catch that is adapted to circumvent an outside diameter of the first tub to catch overflow fluid from the first tub so that it can be directed back into the first tub upon a determination that the first tub has a capacity to handle the overflow fluid.
US11846164B2
In one example, a downhole system includes a housing configured to be releasably connected to a tether, projectile fire control circuitry disposed within the housing, a block chamber connected to the housing, and the block chamber includes one or more reloadable chambers each configured to be loaded with a respective projectile, and a firing system operable to directly, or indirectly, control the firing of a projectile, in response to a command issued by the projectile fire control circuitry.
US11846162B2
The invention relates to a subsea deployable installation and workover control system (IWOCS) skid (1) for connection to a subsea component (2), the skid (1) comprising: a wireless communication unit (3) for communication with a wireless communication unit (4) at a topside installation (10); a control system (69) for data storage and/or data filtering and transferring the filtered data to the wireless communication unit (3) and receiving data from the wireless communication unit (3); a self-contained fluid system comprising a fluid supply tank (5, 8), the fluid system being configured to be connected to a fluid connection on the subsea component such as to provide fluid to the subsea component (2); an electric power source (7) for supplying electric power to the communication unit (3) and the control system (69). It is further described a method of performing installation or workover operation(s) on a subsea component using an installation workover control system (IWOCS) skid.
US11846160B2
A coating architecture is disclosed that includes a substrate having a surface finish Ra of 0.3μ or finer, an intermediate layer overlying and in contact with the substrate; and a solid lubricant layer overlying and in contact with the intermediate layer. The test results of applying the coating architecture to a reciprocating hammer drill utilizing the coating is also disclosed.
US11846156B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a production valve. In one embodiment, a production valve includes a tubular having one or more first openings therein; a sliding member positioned within the tubular and having one or more second openings therein, configured to move between a first closed position wherein the first openings are offset from the second openings to close a fluid path and a second open position wherein the first openings are aligned with the second openings to open the fluid path; a remote open member positioned within the tubular, coupled to the sliding member in the first position and decoupled from the sliding member in the second position; and a first and second seal positioned between the tubular and at least one of the sliding member or remote open member, the first seal having a first seal area, and the second seal having a second greater seal area.
US11846146B2
A power tong includes a lower tong and an upper tong, each with multiple grippers distributed around a tubular passage, for gripping a lower tubular and ripping an upper tubular respectively. A torque actuator includes a first hydraulic drive and a second hydraulic drive, for rotating the upper tong relative to the lower tong. The first hydraulic drive and the second hydraulic drive each have a drive shaft that supports a guide wheel for cooperating with a guide track, and a pinion for cooperating with a rack, which guide wheel and pinion are concentrically, mounted on the drive shaft of the hydraulic drive. The hydraulic drives are mounted with the drive shafts parallel to the main axis, and the upper tong or the lower tong comprises a guide track receiving the guide wheel and a rack cooperating with the pinion.
US11846139B2
Methods of capturing carbon dioxide in a wellbore can include installing a sealing element in the wellbore. The sealing element swells in the presence of carbon dioxide and can be used for capturing the carbon. The sealing element can include a carbon-swelling material, such as a carbon-swelling polymers, metal-based materials, or combinations of elastomeric polymers and metal-based materials. The sealing element can also include combinations of different carbon-swelling materials, fillers or other compounds, and materials that are not carbon swellable. The sealing element can create a seal, form an anchor, or create a seal and form an anchor in the wellbore after swelling.
US11846125B2
The invention relates to a locking device for car doors, especially for car doors without door handles, having an electronic control unit for the authorization of access, which is connected to one or more sensors for a first operating step, i.e. a proximity sensor, a touch sensor etc. and/or an antenna for a wireless communication, i.e. a NFC (near field communication) antenna for NFC-communication with a smart device like a smart card, a mobile phone, a smart watch, a smart key, etc., and a driven mechanical lock/or unlock unit including a latching element for latching the closed door end position. According to the invention, a latching element is provided to block an intermediate position 3 of the car door 1, wherein at least one sensor 5, 5′ is accessible and/or active in the intermediate position 3 of the car door 1 for a second operating step and not accessible and/or not, active in the closed end position 2 of the car door.
US11846117B2
A fluid current producing apparatus assembly for use in a body of water includes at least one receptacle 2, current producing apparatus 3 and inflation and deflation apparatus 22c. Each receptacle 2 includes a body forming at least one enclosed inside space which further contains at least one independently inflatable and deflatable compartment 19 therein for receipt of a fluid to at least inflate at least a portion of the receptacle. Each receptacle includes a body having an inner surface 17b, outer surface 17a and at least one internal chamber 19 which is inflated by the inflation and deflation apparatus 22c which modifies the outward shape of receptacle 2. When the fluid is forced by current producing apparatus 3 over the outer 17a of each receptacle 2 or chamber from a front of the current producing apparatus 3 or away from the current producing apparatus 3, and fluid is drawn in predominantly from around the current producing apparatus 3 and the sides of the at least one receptacle 2 back to the current producing apparatus 3 in a circuit of flow, thereby creating different current or wave patterns for the water flowing over the outer surfaces 17a of, inflatable, chamber portions 30, 31. A method is also included.
US11846115B2
A modular, removable, and tool-free, user-installable fencing system includes modular, stand-alone bases that avoid the need to drill into or permanently modify expensive pool decks to secure the fence in place. The system includes fencing modules which include fence panels and a secure-access gate module that can be positioned and repositioned anywhere along the fence. The fence modules and gate modules are connected via hinge clips assembled onto the fence panels and poles inserted through the hinge clips and into the modular bases. The hinge clips allow rotation of the fence panels around the poles.
US11846102B2
This disclosure is directed to retention clamps that may be included in post-tensioning assemblies. More specifically, in some embodiments, a sheathing-retaining clamp for a post-tensioning assembly may comprise a body adjustable between an open position and a closed position, wherein in the closed position, the body is configured to wrap around a tendon assembly of the post-tensioning assembly, and a fastening mechanism configured to lock the body in the closed position. In some such embodiments, the sheathing-retaining clamp may additionally comprise a plurality of compression ribs that extend radially inwards from the body in the closed position and that are configured to directly contact a sleeve of the tendon assembly.
US11846099B2
An acoustic seal comprising an extrusion, which comprises a body portion and a plurality of deformable protrusions that project from the body portion, the protrusions comprising a first protrusion and a second protrusion that are spaced from one another. A sound proof booth comprising the seal.
US11846093B2
A Waterless Floor Drain Trap Valve is provided as a drain line backup to withstand the pressure from water/sewage reversing direction and flowing into the occupied space of the building. During usage, as a nut on the top of the Valve is tightened, the expandable outer seal forms a plurality of seal points within the inside diameter of the floor drainpipe while almost simultaneously the bottom cover travels in an upward direction further compressing the expandable outer seal and providing robust sealing to prevent backflow into the living space. The Waterless Floor Drain Trap Valve is further configured to connect remotely to various diagnostic devices, mobile platforms and applications for real-time monitoring of the valve performance.
US11846088B2
An automatic vehicle speed control system for use in a vehicle having an implement is disclosed. The automatic vehicle speed control system includes: a controller configured to: set a speed of the vehicle to a creep setting; monitor one or more operating conditions of the implement; and automatically adjust the speed of the vehicle based on the one or more operating conditions of the implement.
US11846083B2
A wedge locking element (10) for a locking device of a quick coupler A for coupling the pin P2 of an attachment to earth working machinery. The wedge locking element (10) has a sloping wedge surface (13). Projecting from the wedge surface (13) is an engagement surface (12) with which the attachment pin P2 can engage but not apply any substantial driving force to the wedge locking element (10) in the event of failure of a force maintaining the wedge locking element (10) in a position where the pin P2 is retained with the coupler A. The pin engagement surface (12) lies in a plane that is substantially in line with the direction in which the locking element (10) is, in use, moved by the driving force.
US11846081B2
The trench shoring apparatus includes first and second side panels connected in a parallel spaced-apart configuration by a connecting rod pivotally connected to one end of one or more pairs of lateral arms. The other opposite end of the one or more pairs of lateral arms is hingedly connected to the side panels, such that translational movement of the connecting rod in a direction parallel to the side panels causes the spaced-apart panels to move between retracted and extended parallel spaced-apart configurations.
US11846076B2
A self-propelled milling machine has a machine frame 4 supported by running gears 6A, 6B, a working device 5 provided on the machine frame 4 for working the ground, and a conveyor device 12 for removing material. The conveyor device 12 has a boom 13 which is mounted on the machine frame 4 so as to pivot about an axis of rotation X which is perpendicular to the machine frame. The pivoting apparatus 16 for the boom 13 is characterised by at least one mechanism 16A, 16B having a plurality of mechanism links and the joints A, B, C, D connecting them and at least one linear drive 17A, 17B for driving at least one of the mechanism links. The mechanism may be designed as a planar four-link pivot joint mechanism 16A, 16B, the machine frame 4 forming a mechanism link of the pivot joint mechanism.
US11846074B2
Absorbent product including a laminate of at least two plies, wherein the absorbent product has a measured Y-Connected Area parameter greater than 20 and a Surface Channel Spacing of less than 2.5 mm. The absorbent product has high strength and low machine direction stretch.
US11846069B2
A refiner segment for refining lignocellulosic material, has a surface including a plurality of bars extending along a direction between an inner periphery of the refiner segment and an outer periphery of the refiner segment, and a plurality of dams, each of the plurality of dams extending between a corresponding pair of adjacent bars among the plurality of bars, wherein at least one of the plurality of dams is a three-dimensionally extending body including three sides, the three-dimensionally extending body extends between the corresponding pair of adjacent bars and includes a curved side, forming one of the three sides, facing the inner periphery of the refiner segment, the curved side having a concave curvature with regard to the inner periphery to thereby form a rounded section in an area defined by the at least one of the plurality of dams and the corresponding pair of adjacent bars.
US11846065B2
A new method of delivering more precise amounts of carpet mill dye to regions of discoloration using a roller-ball applicator enables precisely metered delivery of the three primary dye colors to discolored carpet fibers. The method eliminates the need for a water extraction, enables the restoration of a more uniform color pattern, and eliminates dye overspray outside of the treated region that is inherent with the use of a spray bottle. The applicator is held with a loose grip and the roller ball is alternately moved in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions while in contact with the carpet fibers to be dyed. This ensures that dye is delivered to all sides of the fiber. To ensure even dye penetration and improved motion of the roller ball, an emulsifier is added to the dye solution. After each application, a microfilament cloth is wiped across the treated region.
US11846064B2
A laundry appliance uses a determination of a frequency of compressor temperature response, refrigerant mass flow rate, or both to determine accumulation of lint in a filter. Based on the determination, various corrective actions can be taken including notifying the user, shutting off the appliance, initiating an automatic cleaning sequence for one or more lint filters, and combinations thereof.
US11846063B2
A lock switch module for an appliance door-lock is provided. The lock switch module may include a PCB (printed circuit board) with an insulating support, multiple conductive tracks applied to the insulating support, an electrical connector, multiple terminals connected to respective conductive tracks, and a door-lock switch that is electrically connected between two of the conductive tracks. A locking pin can move between retracted and extracted positions and cooperate with the door-lock switch to correspondingly change the door-lock switch's state. A low voltage electric motor has a rotating output shaft and is connected electrically to at least two conductive tracks of the PCB. A transmission mechanism is operatively positioned between the output shaft of the electric motor and the locking pin to drive, following the actuation of the electric motor, the movement of the locking pin between the retracted and extracted positions.
US11846059B2
A combination washer/dryer machine has a rotatable drum inside a cabinet. The drum has an external surface. A tub is positioned inside the cabinet. The drum is rotatable in the tub. The tub has an inner surface. A seal extends between the exterior surface of the drum and the inner surface of the tub forming a desired gap during both washing and drying operations and minimizing bypass of drying air during the drying operation.
US11846058B2
A laundry appliance includes a cabinet defining an interior cavity. A frame has a raised outer edge and defines a support structure. A first panel is received by the outer edge of the frame and rests upon the support structure in a first lid configuration. A second panel is received by the outer edge of the frame and rests upon a portion of the support structure in a second lid configuration. A trim is selectively coupled to the support structure in the second lid configuration.
US11846052B2
The present invention concerns a method of producing a moulded mineral wool insulation product, said method comprising the steps of providing a mixture by mixing mineral fibres with a binder composition, and providing said mixture in a mould form, and then curing the binder, wherein the binder composition comprises at least one hydrocolloid, and then removing the moulded product from the mould form.
US11846051B2
A ghillie suit manufacturing apparatus includes: a camouflage yarn feeding unit adapted to continuously feed camouflage yarns having different colors required for camouflage by a given distance from the left side to the right side and from the right side to the left side; a knotting unit adapted to tie the camouflage yarns fed from the camouflage yarn feeding unit on both side end portions of the camouflage yarns to form knots on both left and right sides of the camouflage yarns, while having given distances between the knots; and a cutting unit adapted to cut given portions of the camouflage yarns located between the knots formed on both left and right sides of the camouflage yarns by means of the knotting unit.
US11846041B2
The present disclosure provides a method for facet-selective passivation on each crystal facet of colloidal nanocrystals via solution-phase ligand exchange process, thereby providing highly-passivated and colloidally-stable nanocrystal inks. This ligand exchange strategy separately addresses polar and non-polar facets precluding from deleterious nanocrystal aggregation in the colloid. The method involves the introduction of alkali metal organic complexes during metal halide conventional solution exchanges, and one specific example is Na+·Ac−. Alkali metal ions stabilize and passivate non polar facets whereas polar facets are passivated through metal halides. This strategy leads to a significant decrease in nanocrystal aggregation during and after ligand exchange, and to improved photophysical properties stemming from this. The resulting nanocrystal solid films exhibit improved stability, retain their absorption features, and have a minimized Stokes shift.
US11846040B2
A silicon carbide single crystal contains a heavy metal element having a specific gravity higher than a specific gravity of iron. An addition density of the heavy metal element at least in an outer peripheral portion of the silicon carbide single crystal is set to 1×1015 cm−3 or more.
US11846028B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a molybdate-based composition and a conversion coating obtained therefrom that can replace conventional and toxic chromate-based conversion coatings in a variety of applications and industries. The molybdate-based composition provides conversion coatings that exhibit anodic inhibition and rapid repassivation when applied to objects, such as metal-based objects, and do not contain hexavalent chromium. The molybdate-based composition and conversion coating can be used to reduce corrosion. Embodiments of methods of protecting objects, such as metal surfaces, with the molybdate-based conversion coating also are disclosed.
US11846025B2
Described herein is a technique capable of adjusting an inner pressure of a process chamber into a high vacuum state in a short time. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a process chamber; a main exhaust line including a first pipe, a first opening degree adjusting valve, an opening/closing valve and a pressure sensor; a bypass exhaust line including a second pipe and a second opening degree adjusting valve; and a controller configured to adjust an inner pressure of the process chamber by: (a) adjusting an opening degree of the second opening degree adjusting valve; (b) closing the second opening degree adjusting valve and opening the opening/closing valve and the first opening degree adjusting valve; and (c) closing the opening/closing valve and the first opening degree adjusting valve and adjusting the opening degree of the second opening degree adjusting valve.
US11846022B2
A thin-film-deposition machine includes a chamber, a carrier, an extraction ring and a dispensing unit. The chamber includes a containing space and an extraction channel disposed around the containing space. The extraction channel is partitioned into a first, a second and a third channel areas. The carrier is disposed within the containing space. The first channel area is connected to the third channel area via the second channel area. The third channel area is formed with a height greater than that of the first channel area. The extraction ring includes a plurality of extraction holes and a ring channel. The extraction holes are disposed around the carrier for extracting gas from the containing space to the extraction channel, sequentially via the extraction holes, the ring channel. Thereby an even and steady flow field can be formed above the carrier and the thickness uniformity of film deposition can be improved.
US11846013B2
An apparatus leverages a physical vapor deposition (PVD) process chamber with a wafer-to-target distance of approximately 400 millimeters to deposit tantalum film on through silicon via (TSV) structures. The PVD process chamber includes a source that is configured with dual magnet source compensation. The PVD chamber also includes an upper electromagnet assembly exterior to the chamber body in close proximity to the source, a magnetron assembly in the source including dual magnets with dual radius trajectories, a shield within the chamber body, and a plurality of grounding loops that are symmetrically spaced about a periphery of a substrate support assembly and are configured to provide an RF ground return path between the substrate support assembly and the shield.
US11846011B2
Exemplary semiconductor processing chambers may include a substrate support positioned within a processing region of the semiconductor processing chamber. The chamber may include a lid plate. The chamber may include a gasbox positioned between the lid plate and the substrate support. The gasbox may be characterized by a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The gasbox may define a central aperture. The gasbox may define an annular channel in the first surface of the gasbox extending about the central aperture through the gasbox. The gasbox may include an annular cover extending across the annular channel defined in the first surface of the gasbox. The chamber may include a blocker plate positioned between the gasbox and the substrate support. The chamber may include a ferrite block positioned between the lid plate and the blocker plate.
US11845998B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of submicron-sized polymer particles and micron-sized polymer beads, wherein the polymer particles or beads or both are functionalized with phosphorus acid groups. The composition of the present invention is useful for providing a matte finish on substrates, such as leather, textiles, wallboard, decorative coatings, concrete, and wood, with improved stain resistance. The present invention also relates to a leather substrate coated with a clear matte finish comprising an acrylic or styrene-acrylic polymer film and micron-sized polymer beads, wherein the film or the beads or both are functionalized with a phosphorus acid monomer.
US11845993B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for diagnosing and characterizing cancer. In particular, provided herein are compositions and methods for selecting MRI imaging methods for prostate tumors.
US11845989B2
The present disclosure provides methods of treating patients having an ophthalmic condition, methods of identifying subjects having an increased risk of developing an ophthalmic condition, methods of detecting human angiopoietin like 7 (ANGPTL7) variant nucleic acid molecules and variant polypeptides, and ANGPTL7 variant nucleic acid molecules and variant polypeptides.
US11845988B2
Methods and systems may perform cell-free identification and/or monitoring of pregnancy-related states. A method for identifying or monitoring a presence or susceptibility of a pregnancy-related state of a subject may comprise assaying a cell-free biological sample derived from the subject to detect a set of biomarkers, and analyzing the set of biomarkers with a trained algorithm to determine the presence or susceptibility of the pregnancy-related state.
US11845979B2
Provided herein are methods, compositions, and kits for the detection of immune cell clonotypes and immune cell analytes within a biological sample.
US11845978B2
A method for detecting and characterising a microorganism in a clinical sample includes introducing the clinical sample to a first culture vessel and simultaneously transporting and incubating the clinical sample in a thermally insulated compartment of a sealable container. A test aliquot is removed from the sample and the remainder of the sample is further cultured. DNA is removed from the test aliquot and nucleic acid tests are performed on it to identify the microorganism and to detect the presence or absence of one or more genetic antimicrobial resistance markers in the microorganism. One or more nucleic acid probes or primers are used to perform the nucleic acid tests. It is detected whether or not the probes or primers have hybridised to DNA or the primers have been extended. If a microorganism is identified, then an antimicrobial susceptibility test is performed on the cultured clinical sample.
US11845975B2
The present disclosure provides a body fluid extract comprising micro RNA.
US11845968B2
The present invention provides engineered deoxyribose-phosphate aldolase polypeptides useful under industrial process conditions for the production of pharmaceutical and fine chemical compounds.
US11845966B2
The present disclosure provides methods for manufacturing a fXa derivative protein at large scale leading to high yield of highly pure protein product. The method may include adding a detergent to a sample that contains a polynucleotide construct encoding the protein and purifying the protein through a soybean trypsin inhibitor (STI)-based affinity chromatograph, an ion exchange and mixed mode chromatograph and a hydrophobic interaction.
US11845962B2
Provided is a method for large-scale production of lentivirus by using GMP-level serum-free suspension cells. Said method comprises the following steps: (a) providing a seed solution of packaged cells; (b) inoculating the seed solution in a first culture solution; (c) carrying out subculture of the packaged cells; (d) starting a liquid change operation when a liquid change trigger condition is met; (e) repeating steps (c) and (d) 1, 2 or 3 times; (f) starting a transfection operation when a transfection trigger condition is met; (g) optionally performing liquid change after transfection; (h) cultivating the transfected packaged cells; (i) starting harvesting and liquid change operations when a liquid change trigger condition is met; (j) repeating steps (h) and (i) 1, 2 or 3 times; (k) combining each of the recovered liquids; and (1) performing a purifying treatment. The culture solution used in each step is a serum-free cell culture solution.
US11845960B2
Forced expression of a handful of transcription factors (TFs) can induce conversions between cell identities; however, the extent to which TFs can alter cell identity has not been systematically assessed. Here, we assembled a human TFome, a comprehensive expression library of 1,578 human TF clones with full coverage of the major TF families. By systematically screening the human TFome, we identified 77 individual TFs that induce loss of human-induced-pluripotent-stem-cell (hiPSC) identity, suggesting a pervasive ability for TFs to alter cell identity. Using large-scale computational cell type classification trained on thousands of tissue expression profiles, we identified cell types generated by these TFs with high efficiency and speed, without additional selections or mechanical perturbations. TF expression in adult human tissues only correlated with some of the cell lineage generated, suggesting more complexity than observation studies can explain.
US11845956B2
Certain populations of small cells present in adult human tissue can undergo activation/development to form human pluripotent stem cell populations. These small cells are generally less than six micrometers in diameter and are CD49f-positive, and are referred to herein as human early stage precursors or CD49f+ cells. Accordingly, provided are cell populations and compositions with enriched CD49f+ cells from adult human tissue samples and methods and compositions for promoting activation/development of these CD49f+ cells. Upon differentiation, the activated stem cells can be used for various therapeutic purposes.
US11845954B2
The invention provides methods for specifically altering the DNA sequence in a genome, in particular for genome editing by deleting or replacing a sequence of interest. Advantageously, the invention uses two non-identical sequences naturally occurring in a genome as target sites two which DNA-recombining enzymes are generated. The invention is in particular useful for medicine, in particular to repair a mutation in a genome or to delete predefined genetic material from cells or tissue and to cure diseases. An advantage of the invention is that it allows precise site directed altering of DNA without engaging host DNA repair pathways and thereby works without inducing random insertions and deletions (indels).
US11845953B2
Provided is a method for altering a targeted site of a DNA in a cell, including a step of stimulating the cell with a factor inducing a DNA modifying enzyme endogenous to the cell, and bringing a complex of a nucleic acid sequence-recognizing module specifically binding to a target nucleotide sequence in a given DNA and a DNA modifying enzyme-binding module bonded to each other into contact with the DNA to convert one or more nucleotides in the targeted site to other one or more nucleotides or delete one or more nucleotides, or insert one or more nucleotides into the targeted site.
US11845948B2
Disclosed herein are the nucleotide sequences of the Chromobacterium subtsugae genes. In addition, the amino acid sequences of proteins encoded by the C. subtsugae genes are provided. Nucleic acids, vectors and polypeptides comprising the aforementioned sequences are also provided. Homologues, functional fragments and conservative variants of the aforementioned sequences are also provided. Compositions having pesticidal, bioremedial and plant growth-promoting activities comprising C. subtsugae genes and proteins, and methods for the use of these compositions, are also provided.
US11845947B2
The present invention provides an improved Helminthosporium turcicum-resistant plant, in particular a maize plant which comprises a polynucleotide with one or more resistance-conferring genes, for example on a truncated chromosome fragment from the accession Pepitilla, as well as a cell, a tissue, a part, grain and seeds thereof, an isolated polynucleotide which comprises one or more resistance-conferring genes against Helminthosporium turcicum, a vector, a transgenic plant cell and a transgenic plant containing this polynucleotide. Furthermore, the invention encompasses suitable markers and their use in introducing resistance or the transgene into a plant, as well as the identification of improved maize plants which comprise a truncated chromosome fragment.
US11845944B2
The disclosure relates to a promoter induced by fungal rust. More specifically, the promoter is induced by the pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi, i.e. the Asian Soybean Rust. The disclosure further provides for recombinant genes comprising the promoter and methods of producing a transgenic plant that involves introducing or providing the recombinant gene to plant cells to create transgenic plant cells, and regenerating transgenic plants from the transgenic cells.
US11845937B2
Described are RNAi agents, compositions that include RNAi agents, and methods for inhibition of a double homeobox 4 (DUX4) gene. The DUX4 RNAi agents and RNAi agent conjugates disclosed herein inhibit the expression of a DUX4 gene. Pharmaceutical compositions that include one or more DUX4 RNAi agents, optionally with one or more additional therapeutics, are also described. Delivery of the described DUX4 RNAi agents to skeletal muscle cells in vivo, provides for inhibition of DUX4 gene expression and a reduction in DUX4 levels, which can provide a therapeutic benefit to subjects, including human subjects, suffering from certain skeletal muscle-related diseases or disorders including Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSHD).
US11845936B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for stable genetic modification of cultured mammalian cells. The genetic modifications can be used to produce cultured mammalian cells for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
US11845935B2
Some embodiments of the invention include a nucleic acid molecule comprising natural nucleotides, non-natural nucleotides, an LNA which comprises one or more RNA core molecules, or an RNA molecule which comprises more than one RNA core molecule. Some embodiments of the invention include a nucleic acid molecule comprising an RNA molecule which comprises more than one RNA core molecule. Other embodiments of the invention include a nucleic acid molecule comprising a DNA molecule encoding the RNA molecule (e.g., vector or viral vector). Other embodiments include compositions or pharmaceutical compositions that comprise the nucleic acid molecule. Some embodiments of the invention comprise reducing miR-143 in a cell. Other embodiments of the invention include methods to deliver a protein across the BBB. Other embodiments include methods for treating disease (e.g., LSD, neuronopathic disease, neurodegenerative disease, Hurler syndrome, or MPS I). Additional embodiments of the invention are also discussed herein.
US11845913B2
The invention relates to a non-corrosive degreasing concentrate and ready to use formulation. In particular, non-corrosive compositions capable of removing polymerized grease as effectively as some alkali metal hydroxide (i.e. caustic) based degreasers without requiring the use of personal protective equipment are disclosed.
US11845910B2
The disclosure relates to hard surface cleaning compositions, methods of making the hard surface cleaning compositions, and methods of using the hard surface cleaning compositions. In particular, the hard surface cleaning compositions have reduced surface tension for cleaning surfaces with low surface free energy. Preferably, the hard surface cleaning compositions have low contact angles on a variety of surfaces.
US11845908B2
The disclosure discloses a method for preparing functional grease through segmented solid-state fermentation of mixed fungi, and belongs to the field of edible oil processing. According to the disclosure, soybeans are used as a main fermentation substrate, for the requirements for different functional nutrition, the soybeans are matched with other oil seeds, fungus segmented solid-state fermentation is used and combined with a supercritical extraction fractionation technology, so that the purposes of improving the aftertaste of soybean oils and generating different flavors are achieved, and the nutritional value of the grease is improved. The fungus segmented solid-state fermentation of the disclosure can improve the oil yield, improve the fatty acid composition of the grease, and increase the content of main flavor substances such as pyrazines, alcohols and phenols, and the sensory functions such as flavor and color of the grease more meet the requirements of consumers for innovative products. Fermented dregs can be further processed to produce byproducts like functional polypeptides, so that sustainable green development is realized.
US11845906B2
A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by the following formula (1). C6H6-n—[O—R1—O—CH2—R2—CH2—R3]n (1) (in the formula (1), n is an integer of 2 or 3, R1 is any one of —CH2CH2—, —CH2CH2CH2— and —CH2CH(OH)CH2—, R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain, R3 is —OCH2CH(OH)CH2O(CH2)mOH (m in the formula is an integer of 2 to 4)).
US11845893B2
The present invention relates a method for treating oil well using an emulsion composition. More particularly, the method comprises a step of introducing an emulsion composition in an amount of 0.01% to 100% to pore volume of oil reservoir into the oil well, such that interfacial tension between the oil well and the reservoir reduces to 10−4 mM/m or below thereby enable removal of oil therefrom.
US11845892B2
Use of complex polyester amines and polyester quaternary ammonium compounds as corrosion inhibitors for metal surfaces, and a method for protecting a metal surface from corrosion by contacting the metal surface with said corrosion inhibitor.
US11845891B2
A method for preparing a hybrid inorganic-organic nanostructured inhibitive pigment, includes premixing a first stock solution containing one or more cations and a second stock solution containing one or more oxoanions to form a premixture under pH control in the presence of polymers as surface modifiers. The premixture is then reacted to form a slurry. The slurry is then quenched to separate nanoparticles from the slurry, followed by surface functionalization in organic inhibitors.
US11845885B2
Provided are methods and associated compositions directed to a structural bonding adhesive. The structural bonding adhesive is made by mixing a curable composition comprising a mixture of a first curable resin and a second curable resin to provide an uncured adhesive. The uncured adhesive is irradiated by a first actinic light source to polymerize the first curable resin without polymerizing the second curable resin to provide a partially cured adhesive. The partially cured adhesive is a pressure-sensitive adhesive that displays cold flow creep recovery under ambient conditions and is capable of being fully cured by irradiating the partially cured adhesive using a second actinic light source that is different from the first actinic light source to polymerize the second curable resin.
US11845866B2
The present technology provide a rubber composition including: 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber, from 30 to 100 parts by mass of carbon black and/or a white filler, from 1 to 20 parts by mass of silicone-based microparticles that have an average particle size from 5 to 500 μm and that are three-dimensionally crosslinked, from 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a nonionic surfactant, and from 1 to 20 parts by mass of thermally expanding microcapsules.
US11845864B2
The present application discloses interlayers comprising novel polyesteramides comprising diols with tunable properties based on the monomers and monomer ratios used to prepare the polyesteramides and varying the reaction conditions. The interlayers have improved properties and can be used in many different applications.
US11845858B2
A friction reducer comprising a copolymer of acrylamide, an anionic monomer, a zwitterionic monomer or a cationic monomer, a physical ligand or a chemical ligand, wherein the acrylamide amounts to at least 50% (w/w) of the total monomer content. The friction reducer is useful in hydraulic fracturing operations and is obtained by controlled radical polymerization at a temperature between 30° C. and 70° C. using iodine as polymerization control agent.
US11845855B2
A bimodal linear polyethylene composition, products made therefrom, methods of making and using same, and articles containing same.
US11845853B2
The present disclosure discloses methods for preparing a composite film based on reduced graphene oxide, cellulose nanocrystals, and cellulose nanofibers. The method mainly includes: 1. preparing a suspension mixed with graphite oxide and cellulose; 2. centrifuging the suspension obtained in the step (1) and washing the sediment after centrifuging with deionized water to obtain a solution, homogenizing the solution in a high-pressure homogenizer to obtain a suspension mixed with graphene oxide, cellulose nanocrystals, and cellulose nanofibers; and 3. drying the suspension mixed with graphene oxide, cellulose nanocrystals, and cellulose nanofibers in a petri dish, and soaking a dried film in a hydroiodic acid solution; and washing the soaked film with deionized water to obtain the composite film of reduced graphene oxide, cellulose nanocrystals, and cellulose nanofibers. The composite film obtained has a higher specific capacitance and a better cycle stability than pure reduced graphene oxide obtained under a same preparation condition.
