US11854397B2
A rear lateral blind-spot warning system for a vehicle includes a sensor configured to sense position information and movement information on an external obstacle, a determiner configured to determine the type of the external obstacle located in a rear blind spot or a lateral blind spot of the vehicle based on the position information and the movement information sensed by the sensor, a setter configured to set a rear lateral blind-spot warning range or a rear lateral blind-spot warning time based on the type of the external obstacle determined by the determiner, and a controller configured to control rear lateral blind-spot warning operation based on the rear lateral blind-spot warning range or the rear lateral blind-spot warning time set by the setter.
US11854393B2
Apparatus, systems, and/or methods may involve reporting a road hazard. Road hazard data may be collected for an object on a road, which may include automatically generated data from a device associated with the object causing a hazard. The road hazard data may be provided to a service, an application, a device, a client, and so on. For example, the road hazard data may be merged with a map and provided to a map services client, a navigation client, and so on. An alert may be generated based on the road hazard data to warn of the hazard caused by the object. The alert may include a visual and/or audio representation of the hazard data. The alert may be used to automatically and/or manually avoid the hazard.
US11854386B2
A vehicle right-of-way management method and apparatus, and a terminal. The method includes: determining a used right-of-way level of a first vehicle according to function information of the first vehicle, where the used right-of-way level of the first vehicle includes a right-of-way level that the management device allows the first vehicle to use; and scheduling a road resource for the first vehicle according to the used right-of-way level of the first vehicle. In technical solutions provided in embodiments of this application, the management device can allocate different used right-of-way levels to vehicles with different functions according to function information of the vehicles, and schedule and allocate road resources by means of overall planning for the vehicles in a transportation system according to the used right-of-way levels of the vehicles.
US11854380B2
An assembly for correcting an attitude of at least a selected portion of a structure, where the assembly includes a controller affixed to a structure operatively coupled with one or more jacks operable to change the attitude of the structure; and a remote device configured to communicate wirelessly with the controller to change the attitude of a selected portion of the structure. Also disclosed is a method for adjusting an attitude of a movable structure.
US11854378B1
An event indicating light assembly and method for communicating a software application with a pair of lights includes a software application being programmed on an electronic device including a mobile device and a personal computer. The software application is connected with a variety of software calendars to track a plurality of events of a user. A pair of light fixtures is in wireless communication with the electronic device. Each of the light fixtures has a plurality of light emitting diodes being a variety of colors. A microprocessor is positioned within each of the light fixtures and is connected with the plurality of light emitting diodes of each light fixture. A battery is positioned within each of the light fixtures and is in electric communication with the microprocessor and with a charging port. A mounting pad of each of the light fixtures retains the light fixture to a wall.
US11854370B1
A method may include receiving an alert and a recorded data set from a first monitoring system and receiving a first set of permissions from the first monitoring system. The method may also include determining a permission associated with sharing of the recorded data set based at least in part on the first set of permissions. The method may also include determining that sharing of at least a portion of the recorded data from the first monitoring system is permitted based at least in part on the permission and sharing the at least a portion of the recorded data set.
US11854365B2
A system performs compliance control. This may include a compliance-control device displaying a map, receiving a selection of a location from the map, determining an entity associated with the selection, generating a geo-fence boundary around the selection using a library of geo-fence shapes, and determining a compliance condition with the geo-fence boundary by communicating with a compliance-monitoring device. In various examples, the compliance-monitoring device may determine and transmit a compliance condition on a first time interval. In response to a breach event, the compliance-monitoring device may determine and transmit a set of subsequent compliance conditions on a second time interval that is shorter than the first time interval. The compliance-control device may display a graphical output that corresponds to the compliance condition and one or more of the subsequent compliance conditions.
US11854363B2
An amblyopia patch device including an eye patch, a light sensor attached to the eye patch, an alarm in communication with the light sensor, and an electronics system for triggering the alarm when the light sensor senses a light value above a pre-set threshold. A method of using the amblyopia patch device is also disclosed.
US11854359B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wildfire detection using power infrastructure are described. One or more aspects of the techniques described include determining (e.g., quantifying) the impact of wildfires on power structures and transmission line sensors. Determination of measurable changes in transmission line temperature and transmission line sag, that result from early onset fires, are used to detect heat events. Therefore, real-time monitoring of transmission line temperature and transmission line sag (e.g., using sensors that are already deployed in some power grid infrastructures) may efficiently detect the early onset of wildfires according to techniques described herein.
US11854356B1
Some embodiments provide a method for separating the motion detection zone(s) of an A/V recording and communication device from the motion alert zone(s) of the A/V recording and communication device. For example, an A/V recording and communication device may be configured to generate motion alerts, and to record audio and video footage, when an event is detected within a selected motion alert zone (e.g., within a defined radius around the A/V recording and communication device). However, the A/V recording and communication device may not generate a motion alert for an event detected outside of the selected motion alert zone, even though the device may still record audio and video footage for the detected event (e.g., when the event is within a selected motion detection zone).
US11854351B2
A gaming system and method which is configured to, among other things, display a user created entry relating to a wager on an e-sports contest in a wager feed through the user interface of other users, and enable any of the other users to enter into the wager by selecting the entry.
US11854348B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a lottery gaming system and method that determine that a selected user is associated with a lottery game entry in a lottery game having a winning lottery amount, receive an input of the selected user from a secondary game different from the lottery game, and, in response to receiving the input, determine an outcome modifier that adjusts a user share of the winning lottery amount. The present disclosure further relates to a gaming device that interacts with the lottery gaming system.
US11854347B2
The disclosed technology relates to a method, system, and device for gaming including the display of a plurality of game symbols, each game symbol associated with one of at least two possible game actions. The game symbols associated with a first game action are displayed including a numerical prize value. Gameplay includes the selection of game symbols. In the event that a game symbol associated with a first game action is selected, its corresponding numerical prize value is award, for example added to a cumulative bonus prize, and the game symbol is then associated with the second game action. Typically, the visual representation of the game symbol is also changed, for example, the numerical prize value is removed.
US11854345B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a display device and a game controller configured to initiate a feature game that uses a plurality of mechanical reels and the display device, identify a number of feature game symbols initially available for use during the feature game, display a plurality of symbol columns, each symbol column of the plurality of symbol columns is associated with a reel, perform a spin of the reels, in response to the player initiating the play, distribute the number of feature game symbols into the plurality of symbol columns based on an output of a random number generator, each feature game symbol being displayed in a determined symbol column of the plurality of symbol columns, evaluate an outcome of the feature game based on attributing the feature game symbols to associated reels, and award credit to the player based on the evaluating.
US11854337B2
A gaming terminal includes an input device, an image sensor, and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry detects user input received at the input device and that is associated with a restricted action, receives, via the image sensor, image data that corresponds to the user input, applies at least one neural network model to the image data to classify pixels of the image data as representing human characteristics including at least one face and at least one pose model, compares, based at least partially on pixel coordinates of (i) the human characteristics within the received image data and (ii) a user input zone within the image data, each of the pose models to the user input zone and the faces, and permits, in response to one of the pose models matching (i) a face of the at least one face and (ii) the user input zone, the restricted action.
US11854334B2
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US11854332B2
A coin distribution mechanism for distributing coins into their denominations during conveyance is provided, which makes it possible to distribute two desired denominations of coins using a single gate member. A first gate member movable around a first axis is provided below a coin conveyance path. The first gate member is moved by a first position switching device among a default position where a gate is closed, a first switched position that allows a coin to drop through the gate to move in a first direction, or a second switched position that allows a coin to drop through the gate to move in a second direction. When a coin has a first (or second) denomination, the first gate member is moved to the first (or second) switched position. When a coin does not have the first and second denominations, the first gate member is located at the default position.
US11854331B2
A banknote management system includes a first banknote processing apparatus including a first serial number reading apparatus configured to read a serial number of a banknote, and a first disinfection apparatus configured to disinfect the banknote; a recording apparatus; and processing circuitry configured to receive the serial number of the banknote read by the first serial number reading apparatus and first disinfection information, and record the serial number and the first disinfection information in association with each other in the recording apparatus, the first disinfection information being information relating to a state of disinfection of the banknote disinfected by the first disinfection apparatus.
US11854330B2
Provided is a coin handling apparatus including: a storage unit; a drawer attachment unit to which a drawer is attached; a cassette attachment unit to which a coin transport cassette including an opening to be opened when the coin transport cassette is attached to a specific apparatus and giving or receiving a coin to or from the specific apparatus via the opening is attached; a first route forming portion forming a first route that guides the coin fed out of the storage unit to the drawer attached to the drawer attachment unit; a second route forming portion forming a second route that guides the coin fed out of the storage unit to the coin transport cassette attached to the cassette attachment unit; and a switching unit that switches a guide destination of the coin fed out of the storage unit to the first route or the second route.
US11854327B1
The secure baggage claim system uses radio frequency identification (RFID) tags or the like to associate a particular item of baggage with the owner of that item of baggage. The secure baggage claim system includes a housing having a baggage entry opening, a baggage retrieval opening, and a vertically arranged carousel disposed within the housing for carrying and rotating a plurality of baggage carrying trays. A primary RFID tag reader reads a primary RFID tag secured to the item of baggage to associate the item of baggage with identification information corresponding to an individual. The item of baggage is further associated with one of the baggage carrying trays selected to carry the item of baggage. A door releasably covers and seals the baggage retrieval opening and is releasably locked by a locking mechanism. Authenticating input associated with the individual unlocks the door for retrieval of the item of baggage.
US11854325B2
An electronic key fob includes a housing defining a recess, a communication system disposed in the housing and having a transceiver and power source that provides power to the transceiver, at least one button disposed in the housing, a tool disposed in the recess of the housing and moveable between a retracted position and an extended position, and a tool lock mechanism. The button is electrically connected to the transceiver. The tool lock mechanism is configured to move between a lock position in which the tool is locked in the retracted position and an unlock position in which the tool can move between the retracted extended position.
US11854324B2
A method for operating an access control comprises creating a plurality of wake-up schedules for a wireless transceiver. Each of the plurality of wake-up schedules may be configured to control how frequently the wireless transceiver wakes up to transmit or receive information. Each of the plurality of wake-up schedules for the wireless transceiver may be different from another one or the plurality of wake-up schedules for the wireless transceiver. The method may further comprise automatically switching between the plurality of wake-up schedules for the wireless transceiver such that a duration of time between wake-ups for the wireless transceiver radio is shorter during some predefined times and longer during other predefined times. The duration of time between wake-ups for the wireless transceiver may be configurable by an administrative user via an interface.
US11854320B2
An object is to provide a technique capable of appropriately storing data. An information collection device includes a similarity degree determination unit configured to obtain a degree of similarity between acquired-data and saved-data and generate a link that associates the acquired-data and the saved-data based on the degree of similarity, a request estimation unit configured to generate a link that associates the saved-data when the saved-data is read, and estimate a future request for the saved-data, and a data life determination unit configured to determine a storage time limit of the saved-data on a link-by-link basis.
US11854318B1
Techniques for presenting a user interface on a display for monitoring and/or controlling a vehicle. The user interface may include a digital representation of an environment in which the vehicle is operation. Additionally, the user interface may include system interface that is configured to display one or more notifications associated with systems or components of the vehicle. The system interface may additionally, or alternatively, comprise one or more control inputs for controlling systems or components of the vehicle. The user interface may also include a mission interface that includes a map interface and a mission selection interface for selecting routes the vehicle is to navigate. The user interface may additionally cause presentation of visual indicators that indicate the presence of an object that is not shown on the user interface, but that is moving in a direction such that the object will soon be visibly displayed on the user interface.
US11854311B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to comparison of biometric identifiers in memory are described. An example apparatus includes an array of memory cells, a plurality of logic blocks in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) under the array, and a controller coupled to the array of memory cells. The controller is configured to control a first portion of the plurality of logic blocks to receive a first subset of a set of biometric identifiers from the array and to perform a first comparison operation thereon and control a second portion of the logic blocks to receive a second subset of the set of biometric identifiers from the array and to perform a second comparison operation thereon. The first and second subsets of the biometric identifiers are different biometric identifiers and the first and second comparison operations are performed to determine a match of the first and second subsets respectively to a stored template.
US11854298B2
A sensing device includes a substrate, a first circuit, a second circuit, a first photodetector, and a second photodetector. The first circuit is disposed on the substrate, and configured to sense a fingerprint. The second circuit is disposed on the substrate, and configured to detect a data of a living body. The first photodetector is electrically connected to the first circuit. The second photodetector is electrically connected to the second circuit. The area of the second photodetector is larger than the area of the first photodetector.
US11854297B2
Sensing pixels each store a sensing voltage level. A method for driving the plurality of sensing pixels includes providing a plurality of readout scan signals to the plurality of sensing pixels, and providing a plurality of reset scan signals to the plurality of sensing pixels. One of the plurality of readout scan signals enables one of the plurality of sensing pixels to output the sensing voltage level stored in the one of the plurality of sensing pixels. One of plurality of reset scan signals resets the sensing voltage level stored in one of the plurality of sensing pixels. An nth reset scan signal of the plurality of reset scan signals is started behind an nth readout scan signal of the plurality of readout scan signals in time domain.
US11854296B2
A fingerprint sensing system comprising a plurality of conductive selection lines; a plurality of conductive read-out lines crossing the selection lines; selection circuitry controllable to provide a selection signal on at least one selected selection line in the plurality of selection lines; a plurality of pixel elements formed at intersections between the selection lines and the read-out lines; read-circuitry coupled to each read-out line in the plurality of read-out lines, the read-out circuitry being configured to acquire a read-out signal via a read-out line connected to a selected pixel element, and calibration circuitry having an input for receiving a calibration input signal and an output for providing a calibration output signal, the calibration output signal being formed through interaction between the calibration input signal and the calibration circuitry.
US11854293B2
A display apparatus and an fingerprint sensing method thereof are provided. A display panel of the display apparatus has a pixel circuit array, an in-display touch sensor array, and an in-display fingerprint sensor array. A driving circuit drives the in-display fingerprint sensor array to read a fingerprint image. A current display frame period is divided into a plurality of unit periods, each of the unit periods includes at least one fingerprint sensing period and one or both of a display driving period and a touch sensing period. The driving circuit resets a current fingerprint sensor in the in-display fingerprint sensor array during a first fingerprint sensing period among these fingerprint sensing periods of the first display frame period. The driving circuit reads a sensing result of the current fingerprint sensor during a second fingerprint sensing period succeeding to the first fingerprint sensing period.
US11854290B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device, and belongs to the field of display technology. The display substrate of the present disclosure includes: a base substrate having a display region; a plurality of fingerprint identification circuits in the display region of the base substrate, wherein each fingerprint identification circuit includes a control sub-circuit and a detection electrode; wherein in a fingerprint identification phase, the control sub-circuit is configured to read a capacitance between the detection electrode and a valley and a ridge of a fingerprint in response to a fingerprint scanning signal, so as to perform fingerprint identification.
US11854288B2
To determine the state of a subject person with a simple structure, an image determining device includes: an imaging unit that captures an image from a first direction, the image including the subject person; a first detector that detects size information from the image, the size information being about the subject person in the first direction; a second detector that detects position-related information, the position-related information being different from the information detected by the first detector; and a determining unit that determines the state of the subject person, based on a result of the detection performed by the first detector and a result of the detection performed by the second detector.
US11854277B1
An apparatus includes a camera and a processing circuit. The camera may be configured to capture images of an environment around a vehicle. The processing circuit may be configured to (i) perform automated number-plate recognition using the images, (ii) store a history of detected license plates, and (iii) search the history of detected license plates in response to receiving a request from a communication device of a vehicle user for information matching the request.
US11854275B2
Systems and methods for detecting symptoms of occupant illness is disclosed herein. In embodiments, a storage is configured to maintain a visualization application and data from one or more sources, such as an audio source, an image source, and/or a radar source. A processor is in communication with the storage and a user interface. The processor is programmed to receive data from the one or more sources, execute human-detection models based on the received data, execute activity-recognition models to recognize symptoms of illness based on the data from the one or more sources, determine a location of the recognized symptoms, and execute a visualization application to display information in the user interface. The visualization application can show a background image with an overlaid image that includes an indicator for each location of recognized symptom of illness. Additionally, data from the audio source, image source, and/or radar source can be fused.
US11854269B2
A method includes receiving, from a sensing system of an autonomous vehicle (AV), image data including first image data and second image data. The method further includes determining, for a frame, whether an amount of image data matching between the first image data and the second image data satisfies a first threshold condition, in response to determining that the amount of image data matching satisfies a first threshold condition, identifying the frame as invalid, determining whether a number of consecutive frames determined to be invalid satisfies a second threshold condition, and in response to determining that the number of consecutive frames determined to be invalid satisfies the second threshold condition, generating a notification that the sensing system is outputting invalid data.
US11854265B2
A system for detecting a scan irregularity in scanning process during check-out at a retail store, includes an image receiving module for receiving a video stream of a scanning zone, an image processing module for detecting visual scan intervals in image frames of the video stream, and a decision module. The decision module is configured to process each detected visual scan interval, wherein a processed visual scan interval includes a valid scan action, wherein the valid scan action is a user action performed for scanning an item. The decision module is further configured to detect a scan irregularity in the check-out process, wherein the scan irregularity occurs when an item identified for scanning in a processed visual scan interval is absent in a list of scanned items generated by the scanner during corresponding interval, and provide an alert regarding the scan irregularity at a user computing device.
US11854264B2
A computer that identifies the video. The computer annotates the video using a deep learning tool. The computer analyzes the annotated video to highlight a dangerous condition. The computer identifies a video from a repository with the dangerous condition. The computer analyzes the video and the video from the repository using a similarity analysis. The computer determines a score based on the annotated video and based on comparing the video to the video from the repository and based on determining the score is above a threshold value, the computer generates an action.
US11854263B2
Aspects of the disclosure can provide a method, a corresponding target video processing package may be automatically obtained through matching according to scene description information, so that an operation of manually making a selection by a user in the related art is omitted. Therefore, matching efficiency of video processing manners may be improved. In addition, a plurality of video processing manners may be obtained through matching at a time, so that the matching efficiency is further improved. In addition, because the target video processing package is dynamically and correspondingly obtained through matching based on the scene description information, the target video processing package obtained through matching can be caused to accord with actual video content as much as possible. Further, accuracy of video processing may be improved, to satisfy an actual requirement of a user as much as possible.
US11854256B1
A hyperspectral stereoscopic CubeSat with computer vision and artificial intelligence capabilities consists of a device and a data processing methodology. The device comprises a number of VIS-NIR-TIR hyperspectral sensors, a central processor with memory, a supervisor system running independently of the imager system, radios, a solar panel and battery system, and an active attitude control system. The device is launched into low earth orbit to capture, process, and transmit stereoscopic hyperspectral imagery in the visible and infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The processing methodology therein comprises computer vision and convolutional neural network algorithms to perform spectral feature identification and data transformations.
US11854251B2
A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores instructions to be executed by a processor. The instructions cause the processor to receive a first trained machine learning model that generates a transcription based on a document. The instructions cause the processor to execute the first trained machine learning model and a second trained machine learning model to generate a refined transcription based on the transcription. The instructions cause the processor to execute a quality assurance program to generate a transcription score based on the document and the transcription. The instructions cause the processor to execute the quality assurance program to generate a refined transcription score based on the refined transcription and at least one of the document or the transcription. The at least one refined transcription score indicates an automation performance better than an automation performance for the at least one transcription score.
US11854243B2
Gaze is corrected by adjusting multi-view images of a head. Image patches containing the left and right eyes of the head are identified and a feature vector is derived from plural local image descriptors of the image patch in at least one image of the multi-view images. A displacement vector field representing a transformation of an image patch is derived, using the derived feature vector to look up reference data comprising reference displacement vector fields associated with possible values of the feature vector produced by machine learning. The multi-view images are adjusted by transforming the image patches containing the left and right eyes of the head in accordance with the derived displacement vector field.
US11854237B2
A human body identification method, an electronic device and a storage medium, related to the technical field of artificial intelligence such as computer vision and deep learning, are provided. The method includes: inputting an image to be identified into a human body detection model, to obtain a plurality of preselected detection boxes; identifying a plurality of key points from each of the preselected detection boxes respectively according to a human body key point detection model, and obtaining a key point score of each of the key points; determining a target detection box from each of the preselected detection boxes, according to a number of the key points whose key point scores meet a key point threshold; and inputting the target detection box into a human body key point classification model, to obtain a human body identification result for the image to be identified.
US11854225B2
A method for determining a localization pose of an at least partially automated mobile platform, the mobile platform being equipped to generate ground images of an area surrounding the mobile platform, and being equipped to receive aerial images of the area surrounding the mobile platform from an aerial-image system. The method includes: providing a digital ground image of the area surrounding the mobile platform; receiving an aerial image of the area surrounding the mobile platform; generating the localization pose of the mobile platform with the aid of a trained convolutional neural network, which has a first trained encoder convolutional-neural-network part and a second trained encoder convolutional-neural-network part.
US11854204B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing device include: one or more processors. The processors input data based on input data including first input data belonging to a first domain and second input data belonging to a second domain different from the first domain, to a first model, and acquire first output data indicating an execution result of a first task with the first model. The processors input data based on the input data to a second model, and acquire second output data indicating an execution result of a second task with the second model. The processors convert the first output data into first conversion data expressed in a form of an execution result of the second task. The processors generate supervised data of the second model for the first input data, based on the first conversion data and the second output data.
US11854200B2
A process for assessing image quality metrics includes the steps of receiving image data from an image capture device, wherein the image data includes a skin portion; extracting, via a machine learning system, a first set of information from the image data; extracting, via the machine learning system, a second set of information from the image data; scoring the first and second sets of information of the image data to reflect image quality metrics; identifying a threshold score reflecting acceptable image quality metrics; when the score is greater than the threshold score, submit the image data; and when the score is less than the threshold score, prompt the user to retake the image data.
US11854198B2
Methods of the disclosure may include obtaining a first set of medical images at a first time point and a second set of medical images at a second time point, each set including at least two medical images. First and second algorithms may be used to calculate, respectively, first and third brain volume (BV) values at the first time point based on two or more images from the first set of medical images and second and fourth BV values at the second time point based on two or more images from the second set of medical images. A mathematical weight may be applied to at least one of the first, second, third, or fourth BV values. The first and third BV values may be averaged, and the second and fourth BV values may be averaged to determine overall BV values at the first and second time points, respectively.
US11854192B2
A method and system perform single phase and multi-phase contour refinement of lesions. The method includes receiving a three dimensional input mask; receiving input slices from the medical images including a lesion; cropping the input slices with the input mask; performing lesion contour refinement for the cropped input slices and the input mask to obtain a predicted mask; and storing the predicted mask that includes 3D lesion contour refinement. A multiphase method includes deforming the 3D input mask from the reference phase to a target phase or warping the input slices from the target phase to the reference phase before contour refinement. The warped images generate an output mask in the reference phase coordinate system that is then deformed to the target phase coordinate system for display.
US11854190B2
A region division unit divides a target region of a first medical image into a plurality of regions. A finding classification unit classifies each pixel of the first medical image into at least one finding. A feature amount calculation unit calculates a first feature amount for each finding. A region similarity derivation unit derives a region similarity between the first medical image and a second medical image for each of the divided regions. A similarity derivation unit performs a weighting operation for a plurality of region similarities with a weighting coefficient corresponding to at least one of a size of each of the divided regions or a size of a specific finding included in each of the divided regions to derive a similarity between the first medical image and the second medical image.
US11854185B2
An individual identification apparatus that identifies an individual product having a pattern of irregularities randomly formed on a surface thereof includes an imaging unit and an extracting unit. The imaging unit is configured to acquire an image obtained by capturing a date mark formed on the product. The extracting unit is configured to extract a feature value related to the pattern of the irregularities from the image as data identifying the individual product.
US11854184B2
There are provided systems and methods of obtaining a segmented image of a semiconductor specimen, the image comprising first structural elements, obtaining a reference image of the semiconductor specimen, the reference image being based on design data and comprising second structural elements, determining, for at least one pair of elements including a first structural element and a corresponding second structural element, data Dspat informative of a spatial transformation required in order to match the elements of the pair in accordance with a matching criterion, and determining at least one of data informative of a defect in the first structural element and data informative of edge roughness of the first structural element using at least Dspat.
US11854181B2
A remotely-controlled (RC) and/or autonomously operated inspection device, such as a ground vehicle or drone, may capture one or more sets of imaging data indicative of at least a portion of an automotive vehicle, such as all or a portion of the undercarriage. The one or more sets of imaging data may be analyzed based upon data indicative of at least one of vehicle damage or a vehicle defect being shown in the one or more sets of imaging data. Based upon the analyzing of the one or more sets of imaging data, damage to the vehicle or a defect of the vehicle may be identified. The identified damage or defect may be compared to a claimed damage or defect to determine whether the claimed damage or defect occurred.
US11854177B2
Provided is an image splicing method, including the following. A to-be-predicted image is divided into first and second cropped images. An overlap region exists between the first and second cropped images. The overlap region is divided into first and second sub-overlap regions. A first image region that does not include the second sub-overlap region is found in the first cropped image, and a second image region that does not include the first sub-overlap region is found in the second cropped image. First and second prediction result images respectively corresponding to the first and second cropped images are generated. A first prediction image region corresponding to the first image region is found in the first prediction result image, and a second prediction image region corresponding to the second image region is found in the second prediction result image. The first and second prediction image regions are spliced into a spliced image.
US11854174B2
A method of performing convolution in a neural network with variable dilation rate is provided. The method includes receiving a size of a first kernel and a dilation rate, determining at least one of size of one or more disintegrated kernels based on the size of the first kernel, a baseline architecture of a memory and the dilation rate, determining an address of one or more blocks of an input image based on the dilation rate, and one or more parameters associated with a size of the input image and the memory. Thereafter, the one or more blocks of the input image and the one or more disintegrated kernels are fetched from the memory, and an output image is obtained based on convolution of each of the one or more disintegrated kernels and the one or more blocks of the input image.
US11854170B2
An image distortion processing method, including: determining a first relationship between a position of a human eye and a viewing position of the human eye on the VR screen; displaying an initially distorted image on the VR screen; determining a first feature point located at a first initial position in the initially distorted image; determining a first human eye position of the human eye in a case of viewing the first feature point located at a first target position; determining the first target position according to the first relationship and the first human eye position; determining a first target distortion parameter corresponding to the first feature point located at the first target position according to a relationship between a position of the feature point on the VR screen and a distortion parameter; and performing distortion on an image displayed on the VR screen according to the first target distortion parameter.
US11854167B2
A method for image capture includes determining an exposure range and setting at least one camera parameter to capture an underexposed image outside the exposure range. The underexposed image is processed using a neural network to recover image details. Image defects due to camera or object motion blur can be reduced.
US11854164B2
Processing a spherical video using denoising is described. Video content comprising the spherical video is received. Whether a camera geometry or a map projection, or both, used to generate the spherical video is available is then determined. The spherical video is denoised using a first technique responsive to a determination that the camera geometry, the map projection, or both is available. Otherwise, the spherical video is denoised using a second technique. At least some steps of the second technique can be different from steps of the first technique. The denoised spherical video can be encoded for transmission or storage using less data than encoding the spherical video without denoising.
US11854159B2
An image processing method includes extracting a first region in a first image by inputting the first image to a pretrained neural network, upscaling a resolution of the first region by performing neural network-based super resolution processing on the first region, and upscaling a resolution of a second region in the first image from which the first region is excluded by performing interpolation on the second region.
US11854157B2
An apparatus for edge aware upscaling is described herein. The apparatus comprises a potential edge detector, a thin-edge detector, a one-directional edge detector, a correlation detector, and a corrector. The potential edge detector identifies potential edge pixels in an input image, and the thin-edge detector detects thin edges in the potential edge pixels of the input image. The one-directional edge detector detects one-directional edges in the potential edge pixels of the input image, and the correlation detector detects strongly correlated edges in the potential edge pixels of the input image. The corrector derives a target output value based on an edge type and classification of a corresponding input pixel as identified by a source map point.
US11854156B2
In one aspect, a computerized method for implementing a multi-pass iterative closest point (ICP) registration in an automated facial reconstruction process includes the step of providing an automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of detecting that a face tracking application programming interface (API) misalignment has occurred during the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of implementing a multi-pass ICP process on the face tracking API misalignment by the following steps. One step includes obtaining a first point cloud (PC1) of the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of obtaining a second point cloud (PC2) of the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of obtaining a first face mask (mask1) of the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of obtaining a second face mask (mask2) of the automated facial reconstruction process. The method includes the step of performing a first point cloud (PC1)-to-mask ICP operation by inputting and utilizing PC1 and mask1. A transformation output of the first PC-to-mask ICP operation is provided to a third PC-to-PC ICP and a fourth PC-to-PC ICP. The method includes the step of performing a second PC-to-mask ICP on PC2 and mask2. A transformation output of the second PC-to-mask ICP step is provided to a second PC-to-PC ICP and to the third PC-to-PC ICP. The method includes the step of performing a first PC-to-PC ICP on the PC1 and the PC2. The first PC-to-PC ICP outputs a first transformation of the first PC-to-PC ICP and a first error value of the first PC-to-PC ICP. The method includes the step of performing a second PC-to-PC ICP on the transformation output by the second PC-to-mask ICP and the PC1. The second PC-to-PC ICP outputs a second transformation of the second PC-to-PC ICP and a second error value of the second PC-to-PC ICP. The method includes the step of performing a third PC-to-PC ICP on the transformation output of the first PC-to-mask ICP and the transformation output of the second PC-to-mask ICP. The third PC-to-PC ICP outputs a third transformation of the third PC-to-PC ICP and a third error value of the third PC-to-PC ICP. The method includes the step of performing a fourth PC-to-PC ICP on the transformation output of the first PC-to-mask ICP and the PC2. The fourth PC-to-PC ICP outputs a fourth transformation of the fourth PC-to-PC ICP and a fourth error value of the fourth PC-to-PC ICP.
US11854150B2
One embodiment is directed to a user display device comprising a housing frame mountable on the head of the user, a lens mountable on the housing frame and a projection sub system coupled to the housing frame to determine a location of appearance of a display object in a field of view of the user based at least in part on at least one of a detection of a head movement of the user and a prediction of a head movement of the user, and to project the display object to the user based on the determined location of appearance of the display object.
US11854147B2
Augmented reality guidance for guiding a user through an environment using an eyewear device. The eyewear device includes a display system and a position detection system. A user is guided though an environment by monitoring a current position of the eyewear device within the environment, identifying marker positions within a threshold of the current position, the marker positions defined with respect to the environment and associated with guidance markers, registering the marker positions, generating overlay image including the guidance markers, and presenting the overlay image on a display of the eyewear device.
US11854134B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for using electronic diffusers to implement message indicators are described. A segment of a diffuser attached to an electronic device is configured to indicate an informational message in response to signals that result in a change to an optical property. A set of information to be displayed using the segment is determined, and a signal is transmitted to the segment to display the information.
US11854133B2
A mobile device comprises one or more processors, a display, and a camera configured to capture an image of a live scene. The one or more processors are configured to determine a location of the mobile device and display an augmented image based on the captured image. The augmented image includes at least a portion of the image of the live scene and a map including an indication of the determined location of the mobile device. The one or more processors are also configured to display the at least a portion of the image of the live scene in a first portion of the display and displaying the map in a second portion of the display. The augmented image is updated as the mobile device is moved, and the map is docked to the second portion of the display as the augmented image is updated.
US11854127B2
A computing device receives a target value for a design quality metric. The target value indicates a desired quality of a design of an experiment and is related to an input parameter by a response curve. The computing device also validates the target value as being in a feasibility range for the design quality metric, and if so, determines a candidate value for the input parameter that yields a calculated value for the design quality metric. To determine the calculated value, the computing device iteratively adjusts the candidate value until the calculated value is within a predetermined tolerance of the target value. The computing device then updates an interactive graph visually representing the calculated value for the design quality metric as a function of the candidate value for the input parameter and outputs a graph visually representing the relationship that exists between the candidate value and the calculated value.
US11854126B2
Systems and methods for reconstructing medical images are disclosed. Measurement data from positron emission tomography (PET) data, and measurement data from an anatomy modality, such as magnetic resonance (MR) data or computed tomography (CT) data, is received from an image scanning system. A PET image is generated based on the PET measurement data, and an anatomy image is generated based on the anatomy measurement data. A trained neural network is applied to the PET image and the anatomy image to generate an attenuation map. The neural network may be trained based on anatomy and PET images. In some examples, the trained neural network generates an initial attenuation map based on the anatomy image, registers the initial attenuation map to the PET image, and generates an enhanced attenuation map based on the registration. Further, a corrected image is reconstructed based on the generated attenuation map and the PET image.
US11854119B2
Embodiments are disclosed for automatic object re-colorization in images. In some embodiments, a method of automatic object re-colorization includes receiving a request to recolor an object in an image, the request including an object identifier and a color identifier, identifying an object in the image associated with the object identifier, generating a mask corresponding to the object in the image, providing the image, the mask, and the color identifier to a color transformer network, the color transformer network trained to recolor objects in input images, and generating, by the color transformer network, a recolored image, wherein the object in the recolored image has been recolored to a color corresponding to the color identifier.
US11854117B1
Disclosed is an approach for generating interactive visualizations for multi-nodal transfers that may involve terminal nodes and multiple transitional nodes by using various protocols to acquire data from computing systems or devices associated with each node. A first visualization layer comprising a set of geographic or physical indicators in a multi-nodal transfer route (which comprises a set of three or more nodes) may be generated. API protocols (and/or non-API protocols) corresponding to each node in the transfer route may be identified. The protocols may be executed to obtain, from computing systems and devices associated with the nodes, data packets used to generate a second visualization layer, which may comprise graphics that visually depict details of a transfer along the transfer route. An overlay of visualization layers may be displayed such that the graphics are displayed in association with multiple nodes.
US11854112B1
A system compresses and decompresses attribute information for visual volumetric content, such as a mesh representation. Attribute values are included in the visual volumetric representation, wherein at least some of the attribute values include unitary vectors, such as surface normal vectors or surface tangent vectors having a magnitude of one unit. In order to compress the attribute information the three-dimensional unit vectors are mapped into two dimensional parametric coordinates for a planar representation of a unit sphere. To reduce negative effects on compression due to distortion or discontinuities in the planar representation, mappings for compressing respective unit vectors are adaptively selected.
US11854111B2
Systems and methods of providing enhanced product visualization on a graphical display include generating a visual frame having a first set of frame dimensions and comprising an inner border and an outer border; receiving a selection of a graphical object to be displayed at least within the outer border of the visual frame on the graphical display; identifying a set of object dimensions of the graphical object; determining an appropriate proportion between the set of frame dimensions and the set of object dimensions such that the graphical object is displayable at least within the outer border of the visual frame on the graphical display; manipulating the set of frame dimensions and/or the set of object dimensions such that the graphical object is displayable within the outer border of the visual frame; and displaying the graphical object at least within the outer border of the visual frame.
US11854104B1
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for managing school attendance of a smart city based on the Internet of Things, which is implemented by a school attendance management platform. The method for managing school attendance includes: obtaining student registration information based on a student user platform; obtaining student evaluation scores based on a plurality of school user sub-platforms; aggregating the student registration information and the student evaluation scores through a school attendance service platform to obtain aggregated data; and determining school place allocation based on the aggregated data.
US11854098B1
A system includes a first renewable energy source (RES) configured to provide electrical energy, a first circuit including a first energy storage system (ESS) and a point of interconnection (POI) coupled to a power grid, a second circuit including a second ESS and a source-sensitive destination, and a first switch configured to selectively connect one of the first circuit or the second circuit to the first RES.
US11854096B2
An automated control method for meeting rapidly fluctuating power demands with stable power production is disclosed. The method includes determining a market value of a unit of electricity sold on the grid, a fuel cost required to produce the unit of electricity, and a market value of a processing task requiring the unit of electricity. The method also includes calculating which of the electricity, processing, or fuel is most valuable; shutting off a running process when the value of the electricity is highest or the value of the fuel is highest; and starting a pending process when the net market value of the processing task is highest. The method may also include reducing electricity generation at a power plant when the value of electricity is negative, or exercising a futures contract to supply electricity.
US11854092B1
Systems and methods for simultaneously presenting to a user with a plurality of available options for resolving delinquent debts to local, state and national tax authorities and providing the user with appropriate documentation to resolve his/her delinquency status based on a selected option. The system uses all available information from the tax agency website and personal information of the taxpayer, such as expenses and income, to compute the most favorable resolution solution for the taxpayer. The system further uses deep learning to ranks the generated options based on previously accepted solutions by the tax agency.
US11854089B2
A driving accident simulation, having a head-wearable user interface (e.g., a head-worn virtual-reality display), may be used to inform a driver of the driver's potential liability under different insurance options. The simulation may determine damages caused by the simulated accident, and identify multiple insurance options and the resulting user liability under each option. The simulation may also be used to assess an insurance adjuster's ability to estimate damages from an accident, by receiving the adjuster's estimate and comparing it to the simulation's own estimate of damages. In some embodiments, the simulation may present a driver with a simulated view from a point of view of another party to the simulated accident.
US11854088B1
The embodiments recite systems and methods that improve the traditional underwriting process within a financial institution. These embodiments produce an underwriting model that emulates the resolution patterns of top performing underwriters. The underwriting model once is built and tested is incorporated into decision tools that provide underwriters with insightful advices when underwriting a client. The embodiments use statistical learning techniques such as support vector machine and logistic regression. These techniques can assume a linear or nonlinear relationship between factors and risk classes. Furthermore, the underwriting model also uses artificial intelligence tools such as expert systems and fuzzy logic. A company's underwriting standards and best underwriting practices may be updated periodically so that underwriting model based on decision heuristic keep improving the quality of its output over time.
US11854075B1
Embodiments of the systems and methods of using the same are configured to provide a financial solution product for customers seeking financing and advice for debt consolidation, home improvement, financing for school loans, finding the right credit card, and financing collateral. The systems and methods provide a means to dynamically calculate multiple financial solution products and present them to a user.
US11854068B2
Images capture an object that a person in a frictionless store is looking at. A user interface is automatically initiated on a device identified as the object. If the person is holding an item, the user interface is automatically placed in a state that displays the item details and pricing within the user interface and provides a link to all item descriptions in possession of the user within the frictionless store along with a running price total of all the items. If the person is not holding any item, the user interface is automatically placed in a state that displays item details and pricing within the user interface to all item descriptions in possession of the user within the frictionless store along with a running price of all items.
US11854061B2
In response to an order for a service from a customer, information pertaining to a service state change from a current service state to a new service state of the order is determined, where the current service state relates to a current service provided to the customer. In response to the information pertaining to the service state change, a network element of an infrastructure of network elements to provision is identified.
US11854040B1
This disclosure describes systems and techniques receiving a request for information from a user and, in response, outputting the requested information along with unsolicited, interesting content that is related to, yet nonresponsive to, the requested information. In some instances, if the requested information is unknown, the techniques may output an indication that the information is unknown, followed by the additional, unsolicited, interesting content.
US11854033B2
An agricultural method includes providing a positive air pressure chamber to prevent outside contaminants from entering the chamber; growing crops in a plurality of cells in the chamber, each cell having multi-grow benches or levels, each cell further having connectors to vertical hoists for vertical movements in the chamber; maintaining pre-set temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide, watering and lighting levels to achieve predetermined plant growth; using motorized transport rails to deliver benches for operations including seeding, harvesting, grow media recovery, and bench wash; dispensing seeds in the cell with a mechanical seeder coupled to the transport rails; growing the crops with computer controlled nutrients, light and air level; and harvesting the crops and delivering the harvested crop at a selected outlet of the chamber.
US11854020B2
Application and associated methods relate to facilitating verification of authenticity of a product instance. Such verification of authenticity is facilitated by a verification transceiver configured to be affixed to a product instance. The verification transceiver includes an engagement fixture configured to affix the verification transceiver to a product instance. The verification transceiver includes a receiver configured to receive a query signal from a proximate mobile device. The verification transceiver includes a transmitter configured to transmit a current encoded signal indicative of the product instance in response to receiving the query signal. The verification transceiver also includes a verification-code sequencer configured to advance the current encoded signal to a next encoded signal in a sequence of encoded signals, each of the sequence indicative of the product instance, current encoded signal advanced to be transmitted in response to a next received query signal.
US11854018B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for labeling optimization is provided. The present invention may include receiving a plurality of labeled historical transaction timeline image clusters based on a plurality of historical transaction timeline images clustered using unsupervised machine learning. The present invention may further include training an image recognition model using supervised machine learning based on the received plurality of labeled historical transaction timeline image clusters. The present invention may also include receiving, by the trained image recognition model, a current transaction timeline image. The present invention may further include assigning a corresponding label to the received current transaction timeline image based on matching the received current transaction timeline image to one of the received plurality of labeled historical transaction timeline image clusters.
US11854017B2
A computer implemented method, comprising: selecting a plurality of dynamic models for evaluating a scoring request, wherein the dynamic models are stored on a scoring database; deploying each of the dynamic models to one of a plurality of evaluators; synchronizing the dynamic models, the synchronizing including at least determining a same version of the dynamic models is deployed and available to all evaluators; receiving, at a scoring node, a scoring request for a score of a lead from at least one requester; separating the scoring request into a plurality of scoring requests, wherein each of the scoring requests is assigned to one of the selected dynamic models wherein the request is separated by model and aggregate model results and sent to an evaluator queue; combining results from each of the dynamic models; evaluating the combined results wherein each of the evaluators sends a model evaluation response to the response queue; and providing a response to the scoring request based on the evaluation of the combined results.
US11854015B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a check deposit and a withdrawal request associated with an account of a customer where the account is associated with a first amount and where the withdrawal request comprises a second amount greater than the first amount, forwarding an inquiry message regarding the check deposit to a paying computing system where the inquiry message includes an identifier of the paying computing system that maintains an account of a payor in a paying database, determining real time account status information of the account of the payor where the real time account status information is based on accessing an organized data structure, and authorizing the withdrawal request for the second amount in real time relative to when the real time account status information is accessed where the authorization occurs prior to settlement of the check deposit.
US11854010B2
A method of processing a transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving from a mobile device of the customer or from another device of the customer an indication of consent to perform a cardless payment transaction with the merchant, receiving from the mobile device an indication that the customer is within a predetermined distance of the merchant, after receiving both the indication of consent and the indication that the customer is within the predetermined distance, sending to a computer system of the merchant an indication of the presence of the customer and personal identifying information for the customer, receiving data indicating a transaction between the customer and the merchant, and submitting the transaction to a financial service for authorization.
US11854008B2
Disclosed embodiments may include a system that may receive, from a user device associated with a user, authentication rule(s), each authentication rule associated with respective merchant(s) and comprising respective required authentication factor(s) for completing a transaction with the respective merchant(s). The system may identify a user has navigated to a merchant webpage and may determine at least one rule of the authentication rule(s) associated with the merchant. The system may identify first required authentication factor(s) corresponding to the at least one rule, and may cause the user device to display, via a GUI, the first required authentication factor(s). The system may receive, via the user device, authentication information associated with the user. The system may determine whether the authentication information satisfies the first required authentication factor(s). Responsive to making that determination, the system may enable the user to complete a transaction via the merchant webpage.
US11853997B2
Mechanisms are provided to implement a recurring payment collection system for extending current quick response (QR) code payment methods to collect recurring payments from a customer. The recurring payment collection system sends a notification to the customer that a recurring payment is due in response to a recurring payment event occurring. The recurring payment collection system obtains a QR code for the recurring payment in response to the customer acknowledging the notification. The recurring payment collection system utilizes the QR code to request the recurring payment from a payment system. The recurring payment collection system acknowledges that the recurring payment has been made in responsive to the recurring payment being processed by the payment system.
US11853991B2
According to an embodiment, an accounting apparatus includes a change machine, a detection device, and a controller. The controller determines whether or not the change machine is capable of paying change in cash on the basis of a result of a detection by the detection device. The controller accepts, when determining that the change machine fails to pay the change in cash, a payment method selected by a customer from a plurality of change payment methods other than paying in cash.
US11853988B2
A method for purchasing an item using a mobile device is provided. The method includes but is not limited to inputting identification information into the mobile device which identifies the item for purchase and generating an order for the item identified by the identification information. The method also includes but is not limited to displaying on a display of the mobile device an optical machine-readable representation of the order.
US11853980B2
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to financial transaction ecosystems. A transaction processing ecosystem comprises: a plurality of data sources; a capture interface; and a financial transaction processing system comprising a message bus and a plurality of processors interfacing with the message bus and configured to perform: receiving, via the capture interface, raw data for a payment transaction, wherein the raw data comprises client instructions; normalizing, via the capture interface, the raw data into a normalized transaction format based on a standard data model; publishing, via the capture interface, the normalized transaction format to a message bus; processing, via a first processor of the plurality of processors, the normalized transaction format; and completing the transaction.
US11853965B2
A solution for automated food selection includes: an order processing component operable to receive an order identifying an item; a selection component comprising: a first hyperspectral sensor operable to sense a reflection from the item and produce a sensor output based at least on the reflection; and a picking mechanism; a control component operable to: based at least on identification of the item, select a hyperspectral profile from a set of hyperspectral profiles; compare the sensor output with the selected hyperspectral profile; and based at least on the comparison, determine whether to select the item for fulfillment of the order, wherein the picking mechanism is operable to divert the item to a selection output based at least on a determination to select the item for fulfillment of the order; and a transport component operable to transport the item to an order storage zone.
US11853964B1
A smart inventory service provider system is provided. The system comprises a network interface configured to communicate data over a network and a processing circuit. The processing circuit comprises one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory. The processing circuit is configured to receive inventory item data associated with an inventory item from a user mobile device and to associate the inventory item data with a user account in a user inventory database. The processing circuit is further configured to monitor a frequency of usage of the inventory item and to transmit a message to an external computing system soliciting a transaction offer related to the inventory item based on the frequency of usage of the inventory item. The processing circuit is further configured to, upon receiving the transaction offer from the external computing system, transmit the transaction offer to the user mobile device.
US11853955B2
The present disclosure provides a computerized method for package management, including: storing, in a data structure, information of a seller in association with a plurality of items sold by the seller; receiving an indication of a transaction, the transaction indication including an address of a customer and at least one item identifier corresponding to an item sold by the seller; converting the transaction indication into a shipment request by formatting the transaction indication according to a standardized format required by a shipper; generating a message containing the formatted shipment request; transmitting the message to the shipper in real time to initialize shipment of the item; and providing real time confirmation to the seller and the customer that shipment has been initialized.
US11853941B2
A platform may receive a first set of address-occupant pairs from a plurality of source devices, wherein the first set of address-occupant pairs comprises identifications of physical addresses and identifications of occupants. The platform may detect an identification of a physical address that is associated with identifications of a plurality of the occupants. The platform may select, for the physical address, one of the identifications of the plurality of occupants to maintain association with the identification of the physical address. The platform may aggregate infrastructure information with the second set of address-occupant pairs, wherein the infrastructure information indicates one or more services available to be provided at one or more of the physical addresses. The platform may perform one or more actions based on identifying the one or more services available to be provided at one or more of the physical addresses.
US11853938B1
A system and method for allocation planning comprise a server comprising a processor and memory and configured to calculate a reward for a historical allocation of a product to one or more stores associated with a retailer. Embodiments include simulating what-if scenarios for the historical allocation to identify an allocation having a greater reward than the historical allocation and allocating a quantity of a product for a current allocation to the one or more stores based, at least in part, on a distance calculation of one or more independent variables for the historical allocation and the current allocation and the identified allocation having the greater reward then the historical allocation.
US11853937B1
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for providing resource adequacy intelligence information. A user may configure organizational data relating to various levels within an organizational hierarchy. Various assumption data, including quantifiable target developments of an organization, at any level of the hierarchy, may be configured. A monitoring engine monitors actual values of metrics provided by integrating systems, and/or predicted values predicted based on the actual values, relative to target values calculated according to assumption data. Alert conditions relating to metrics, and for any level of the hierarchy may be generated in response to the monitoring and provided via a user interface. Intelligence information relating to workforce needs, location optimization, and real estate needs is also provided.
US11853936B2
In an approach to improve multi-data center environments by minimizing the environmental impact of workloads in multi-data center environments embodiments migrate at least a portion of one or more workloads between one or more data centers automatically to maximize a usage of renewable energy based on a predetermined threshold score of input power and a combination of renewal energy sources. Further, embodiments dictate, by a policy engine, where at least a portion of the one or more workloads can be hosted. Additionally, embodiments control, by a scheduling engine, how, when, and where at least a portion of the one or more workloads will migrate, and perform data replication to migrate data between a plurality of data center locations.
US11853934B2
A computing device retrieves first data corresponding to a project plan for a clinical trial. The project plan includes a first task having a plurality of task components. Each of the task components identifies one or more documents to be collected for completion of a respective task component. The device retrieves, from a document repository, second data corresponding to documents for the clinical trial. The device displays, in a graphical user interface, an interactive task completion control element corresponding to the first task. The device receives a user interaction with the task completion control element, associated with a first document for upload to the document repository. In response to the user interaction, the device transmits the first document to the document repository and updates the task completion control element to reflect updated numbers of task components that are completed and uncompleted.
US11853932B2
Techniques for improving communication and expectation setting between various parties/communities of a crowdsourced platform are disclosed. The platform is used for reporting issues in a target system, program or product. A customer/subscriber entity enters a target brief in the platform. In response, a researcher enters a submission in the system. If the submission is valid, it is presented to the customer and a response-time or service level agreement (SLA) timer is started. If the customer agrees with the submission, it is marked as complete and the researcher is paid. If the customer disputes the submission, a third-party intervenes and the timer is paused until dispute resolution. If the submission requires more information the researcher is requested accordingly and the timer is reset. If at any point, the timer expires, the parties are notified and the submission is closed.
US11853926B1
A system and method for guiding a user after an accident and gathering relevant data for an insurance claim and/or a coverage determination. The system includes a mobile device having a memory element, processing element, communication element and user interface. The mobile device may also include a sensor and/or global positioning system. The user interface and/or sensor of the mobile device (e.g., microphone. UPS, camera, etc.) may receive information relevant to an insurance claim, including by directing a user to capture images of relevant objects and/or querying the user for verbal description(s) of facts regarding the accident. The information gathered may be saved on the memory element of the mobile device. The information may also be transmitted to a server via a network in the form of a structured incident data report.
US11853919B1
A mobile wallet system to users is described. The mobile wallet system allows users to provide payments to merchants via the mobile wallet system. Users' mobile wallets are linked to payment forms associated with the users (e.g., bank accounts, credit cards, gift cards, etc.). Additionally, the mobile wallet system allows a first user to request funding from or provide funding to a second user for certain transactions. To pay for a good or service provided by a merchant, a user selects a form of payment, which may be another user, and provides a code to the merchant, which is used by a merchant computing system to initiate payment from the user to the merchant via the financial institution computing system.
US11853917B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving information for each of a plurality of products; for each of the plurality of products: predicting a demand for the product; calculating a sustainability score, wherein the sustainability score is based upon a material composition of the product; and computing a similarity score, wherein the computing comprises comparing pairs of products within the plurality of products; generating a plurality of assortment choices from the plurality of products, wherein each of the plurality of assortment choices has a corresponding assortment demand value, assortment sustainability score, and assortment similarity score, wherein the generating comprises utilizing a multi-objective formulation based upon the predicted demand, the calculated sustainability score, and the computed similarity score; and providing the plurality of assortment choices to a user for selection.
US11853911B1
A data structuring system that provides a user interface to enable data wrangling and modeling, and methods for making and using the same.
US11853908B2
Noisy labeled and unlabeled datapoint detection and rectification in a training dataset for machine-learning is facilitated by a processor(s) obtaining a training dataset for use in training a machine-learning model. The processor(s) applies ensemble machine-learning and a generative model to the training dataset to detect noisy labeled datapoints in the training dataset, and create a clean dataset with preliminary labels added for any unlabeled datapoints in the training dataset. Data-driven active learning and the clean dataset are used by the processor(s) to facilitate generating an active-learned dataset with true labels added for one or more selected datapoints of a datapoint pool including the detected noisy labeled datapoints and the unlabeled datapoints of the training dataset. The machine-learning model is trained by the processor(s) using, at least in part, the clean dataset and the active-learned dataset.
US11853907B1
An integrated computing system configuration system includes a computing system that executes an engine to receive component specifications for each of one or more components supplied by a plurality of suppliers, and receive user input for selecting a subset of the components to be implemented in a customized integrated computing system by generating a base integrated computing system configuration that comprises the component specifications of the subset of the components. The engine may then apply one or more rules to at least one of the component specifications to verify the subset of components, the rule specifying an architectural standard level to be provided by the at least one component, and display the results of the verification on a display.
US11853906B1
A layered machine learning system for processing data. The machine learning system comprises decision trees with different depths. An iterative training process is performed on the layered machine learning system to determine the structures of the decision trees based on prior predictions. The fitted decision trees are further configured to update leaf values with a gradient boosting method. By cumulating the predictions of decisions trees in prior iterations, interaction effects are modeled among different depths within the layered machine learning system.
US11853902B2
Techniques and a framework are described herein for constructing and/or updating, e.g., on top of a general-purpose knowledge graph, an “event-specific provisional knowledge graph.” In various implementations, live data stream(s) may be analyzed to identify entity(s) associated with a developing event. The entity(s) may form part of a general-purpose knowledge graph that includes entity nodes and edges between the entity nodes. Based on the identified one or more entities, an event-specific provisional knowledge graph may be constructed or updated in association with the developing event. In some implementations, the event-specific provisional knowledge graph may be queried for new information about the developing event. Computing devices may be caused to render, as output, the new information.
US11853894B2
Methods and systems for meta-learning are described for automating learning of child tasks with a single neural network. The order in which tasks are learned by the neural network can affect performance of the network, and the meta-learning approach can use a task-level curriculum for multi-task training. The task-level curriculum can be learned by monitoring a trajectory of loss functions during training. The meta-learning approach can learn to adapt task loss balancing weights in the course of training to get improved performance on multiple tasks on real world datasets. Advantageously, learning to dynamically balance weights among different task losses can lead to superior performance over the use of static weights determined by expensive random searches or heuristics. Embodiments of the meta-learning approach can be used for computer vision tasks or natural language processing tasks, and the trained neural networks can be used by augmented or virtual reality devices.
US11853892B2
Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods that enable weakly-supervised learning of instance segmentation by applying a cut-and-paste technique to training of a generator model included in a generative adversarial network. In particular, the present disclosure provides a weakly-supervised approach to object instance segmentation. In some implementations, starting with known or predicted object bounding boxes, a generator model can learn to generate object masks by playing a game of cut-and-paste in an adversarial learning setup.
US11853879B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating document vector representations. One of the methods includes obtaining a new document; and determining a vector representation for the new document using a trained neural network system, wherein the trained neural network system has been trained to receive an input document and a sequence of words from the input document and to generate a respective word score for each word in a set of words, wherein each of the respective word scores represents a predicted likelihood that the corresponding word follows a last word in the sequence in the input document, and wherein determining the vector representation for the new document using the trained neural network system comprises iteratively providing each of the plurality of sequences of words to the trained neural network system to determine the vector representation for the new document using gradient descent.
US11853875B2
A processor-implemented neural network method includes acquiring connection weight of an analog neural network (ANN) node of a pre-trained ANN; and determining, a firing rate of a spiking neural network (SNN) node of an SNN, corresponding to the ANN node, based on an activation of the ANN node which is determined based on the connection weight. and the firing rate is also determined based on information indicating a timing at which the SNN node initially fires.
US11853871B2
A system includes a first unit configured to generate a plurality of modulator control signals, and a processor unit. The processor unit includes: a light source or port configured to provide a plurality of light outputs, and a first set of optical modulators coupled to the light source or port and the first unit. The optical modulators in the first set are configured to generate an optical input vector by modulating the plurality of light outputs provided by the light source or port based on digital input values corresponding to a first set of modulator control signals in the plurality of modulator control signals, the optical input vector comprising a plurality of optical signals. The processor unit also includes a matrix multiplication unit that includes a second set of optical modulators. The matrix multiplication unit is coupled to the first unit, and is configured to transform the optical input vector into an analog output vector based on a plurality of digital weight values corresponding to a second set of modulator control signals in the plurality of modulator control signals applied to the second set of optical modulators. At least one optical modulator of at least one of the first set of optical modulators or the second set of optical modulators is configured to modulate an optical signal based on a first modulator control signal among the plurality of modulator control signals, and the first unit is configured to shape the first modulator control signal to include bandwidth-enhancement associated with a change in amplitude associated with a corresponding change in successive digital values corresponding to the first modulator control signal.
US11853868B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a neural engine of a neural processor circuit having multiple multiply-add circuits and an accumulator circuit coupled to the multiply-add circuits. The multiply-add circuits perform multiply-add operations of a three dimensional convolution on a work unit of input data using a kernel to generate at least a portion of output data in a processing cycle. The accumulator circuit includes multiple batches of accumulators. Each batch of accumulators receives and stores, after the processing cycle, the portion of the output data for each output depth plane of multiple output depth planes. A corresponding batch of accumulators stores, after the processing cycle, the portion of the output data for a subset of the output channels and for each output depth plane.
US11853867B2
Techniques in advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency. An array of processing elements performs flow-based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element has a compute element and a routing element. Each router enables communication via wavelets with at least nearest neighbors in a 2D mesh. Routing is controlled by virtual channel specifiers in each wavelet and routing configuration information in each router. Execution of an activate instruction or completion of a fabric vector operation activates one of the virtual channels. A virtual channel is selected from a pool comprising previously activated virtual channels and virtual channels associated with previously received wavelets. A task corresponding to the selected virtual channel is activated by executing instructions corresponding to the selected virtual channel.
US11853866B2
A multicore hardware implementation of a deep neural network includes a plurality of layers arranged in plurality of layer groups. The input data to the network comprises a multidimensional tensor including one or more traversed dimensions, being dimensions that are traversed by strides in at least one layer of a first layer group. The hardware implementation is configured to split the input data for the first layer group into at least a first tile and a second tile, along at least one of the traversed dimensions, each tile comprising a plurality of data elements in each of the one or more traversed dimensions. A first core is configured to evaluate multiple layer groups, depth-first, based on the first tile. A second core is configured to evaluate multiple layer groups, depth-first, based on the second tile.
US11853854B2
An automated method of predictive model development first cleans up raw supervised and unsupervised training data with a step that uses an algorithm to make every field of every record consistent, cohesive, and productive. Then the resulting flat data is given texture in a next step by a data enrichment algorithm that culls fields that do not contribute to predictive model building and that adds new fields computed from data combinations that are tested to add value to later steps that build different types of predictive models. Another late step for building smart-agents and their entity profiles uses another algorithm that benefits greatly from the cleaned and highly enriched training data. The predictive models and smart-agents and their entity profiles are then rendered as deliverable predictive model markup language documents in a final step executed by a specialized algorithm.
US11853853B1
An anomaly detection system is disclosed capable of reporting anomalous processes or hosts in a computer network using machine learning models trained using unsupervised training techniques. In embodiments, the system assigns observed processes to a set of process categories based on the file system path of the program executed by the process. The system extracts a feature vector for each process or host from the observation records and applies the machine learning models to the feature vectors to determine an outlier metric each process or host. The processes or hosts with the highest outlier metrics are reported as detected anomalies to be further examined by security analysts. In embodiments, the machine learnings models may be periodically retrained based on new observation records using unsupervised machine learning techniques. Accordingly, the system allows the models to learn from newly observed data without requiring the new data to be manually labeled by humans.
US11853849B2
The disclosure describes various aspects of a vibrationally isolated cryogenic shield for local high-quality vacuum. More specifically, the disclosure describes a cryogenic vacuum system replicated in a small volume in a mostly room temperature ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system by capping the volume with a suspended cryogenic cold finger coated with a high surface area sorption material to produce a localized extreme high vacuum (XHV) or near-XHV region. The system is designed to ensure that all paths from outgassing materials to the control volume, including multiple bounce paths off other warm surfaces, require at least one bounce off of the high surface area sorption material on the cold finger. The outgassing materials can therefore be pumped before reaching the control volume. To minimize vibrations, the cold finger is only loosely, mechanically connected to the rest of the chamber, and the isolated along with the cryogenic system via soft vacuum bellows.
US11853845B2
An apparatus for controlling a depth of field for a reader in a vision system includes a dual aperture assembly having an inner region and an outer region. A first light source can be used to generate a light beam associated with the inner region and a second light source can be used to generate a light beam associated with the outer region. The depth of field of the reader can be controlled by selecting one of the first light source and second light source to illuminate an object to acquire an image of the object. The selection of the first light source or the second light source can be based on at least one parameter of the vision system.
US11853842B2
A barcode reader configured to capture interleaved frame types optimized for vision capture and barcode capture are disclosed herein. An example barcode reader is configured to operate in a pre-determined repetitive pattern of capturing a first frame and capturing a second frame over a reading cycle having a fixed duration after a triggering event, wherein the first frame is captured over a first exposure period having a first duration, and the second frame is captured over a second exposure period having a second duration, and wherein the first frame is associated with a first brightness parameter, and the second frame is associated with a second brightness parameter.
US11853840B2
A barcode reader assembly for capturing at least one object appearing in a field of view (FOV) is provided that includes a reader enclosure, a circuit board to capture and decode the image, an imaging system, a sound generator housing, and a sound generator. The reader enclosure has an internal cavity in which the circuit board is disposed. The sound generator housing is operably coupled with the circuit board and includes at least one wall having at least one sound port and extending upwardly from the circuit board to form a sound chamber. The sound generator is operably coupled with the circuit board and is at least partially disposed within the sound chamber to generate a sound at a resonant frequency. The sound generator housing is dimensioned to amplify the resonant frequency of the sound generator and port the generated sound to the internal cavity of the reader enclosure.
US11853829B2
Cards made in accordance with the invention include a decorative layer attached to a core layer, where the decorative layer is designed to provide selected color(s) and/or selected texture(s) to a surface of the metal cards. At least one of the decorative layers is a layer derived from plant matter (e.g., wood). The cards may be dual interface smart cards that can be read in a contactless manner and/or via contacts.
US11853824B2
A card core includes a body defining a cutout and a discontinuity. The cutout includes an opening in the body defined by an edge and the discontinuity includes a channel defined by the body extending from an outer surface of the body to the cutout. The cutout is sized and configured to define a gap between an element positioned in the cutout and the edge to electromagnetically isolate the element from the body.
US11853823B2
An image forming system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry generates print image data for printing a first image in a print area on a conveyance medium. The processing circuitry controls printing on the conveyance medium based on the print image data. The processing circuitry determines a position at which a second image is printed in a cut area, based on a position of a cutting mark, to generate the print image data including the second image, the second image including identification information to identify each page of the conveyance medium, the cut area being an area to be cut in the print area.
US11853822B2
A printing device comprises a head including nozzles configured to eject ink and is configured to print, with use of the ink, an image having a plurality of pixels on a printing medium, an input device configured to receive information designating a pixel in the image, and a controller. The controller performs judging a priority of a designated color of a designated pixel designated by the information designating the pixel, determining one of conditions including a number, sizes, and the number and sizes of the designated patches of the designated color, based on the priority judged by the judging, and printing a patch chart containing the designated patch according to the one of the conditions on the printing medium.
US11853821B2
The disclosure is directed to systems and techniques for executing a documentation application displaying a graphical user interface having a content-creation field configured to receive textual input. A link-creation window may be generated, which facilitates browsing third-party content without leaving a current application. Using the disclosed interface, a user can generate a selectable graphical object that links to third-party content from within the context of the content-creation field interface.
US11853815B1
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for event-based task processing are disclosed. The system includes a processor and a memory operatively connected to the processor via a communication interface. The processor defines a stateful distributed stream queue as a streaming queue which holds stateful computational requests generated at a stream of events, wherein each request contains a context and a collection of queue tasks processed by workers dedicated to the queue; runs the stateful distributed stream queue on a cloud infrastructure; implements the stateful computational requests, by utilizing the stateful distributed stream queue, at the stream of events; and clusters the queue tasks into affinity sub-queues by implementing configurable classification criteria to indicate that their computation is sped up on particular workers, while workers process tasks specific to their affinity; and implements abstractions for submitting and automatically re-computing the queue tasks while maintaining queue state between streaming events.
US11853814B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for automatically generating events. In some embodiments, a server receives a request to subscribe to an event type for an application. The server identifies an entity in a data model corresponding to the event type. The entity is associated with application data of the application. Furthermore, the server subscribes to receive alerts associated with any change to the entity in the data model. The server receives an alert indicating a change to the entity in the data model. The alert includes the change to the entity. Moreover, the server generates an event corresponding to the event type based on the change to the entity and transmits the event to an event infrastructure.
US11853813B2
In some aspects, a computing device of the disconnected network may generate an application programming interface (API) configured to present a set of filter types. A selection of one or more filters types from the set of filter types may be received via an API. A sequential order for the selected filter types may be received via an API. A data pipeline with the selection of filters in the sequential order may be generated. A message received at a one-way transfer device may be analyzed by passing the message through the selected filters in the sequential order. A log of events occurring in the data pipeline may be received via a logging network. The log of events may be presented via the application programing interface. The data pipeline may be terminated upon receiving a termination command via the application programming interface.
US11853811B2
Methods of arbitrating between requestors and a shared resource are described. The method comprises generating a vector with one bit per requestor, each initially set to one. Based on a plurality of select signals (one per decision node in a first layer of a binary decision tree, where each select signal is configured to be used by the corresponding decision node to select one of two child nodes), bits in the vector corresponding to non-selected requestors are set to zero. The method is repeated for each subsequent layer in the binary decision tree, based on the select signals for the decision nodes in those layers. The resulting vector is a priority vector in which only a single bit has a value of one. Access to the shared resource is granted, for a current processing cycle, to the requestor corresponding to the bit having a value of one.
US11853805B2
A process and device for assigning a digital-assistant task to a mobile computing device in response to an incident. A mobile computing device determines digital-assistant tasks to be executed in response to the incident. Further the mobile computing device transmits a request for digital-assistant capability information to other mobile computing devices implementing respective digital assistants. Based on the digital-assistant capability received from one or more of the other mobile computing devices, the mobile computing device maps at least one of the digital-assistant tasks to the one or more of the other mobile computing devices. The mobile computing device assigns the at least one of the digital-assistant tasks to the mapped one or more of the other mobile computing devices and further transmits an instruction to execute the assigned digital-assistant tasks to the mapped one or more of the other mobile computing devices.
US11853802B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for centralized and dynamically generated service configurations for data center and other region builds. A computing environment may be configured to receive requests to deploy a new computing stack or service from different geographical regions at a central service. For the individual ones of the requests, the computing environment may identify computing resources of the computing environment required to deploy the new computing stack or service, determine an order of creation of the computing resources, and create at least one virtual process that automatically allocates the computing resources for the new computing stack based on a predetermined order of creation.
US11853800B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing resources are provided that include receiving power statuses of resources of a system capable of providing the resources; quantifying the power statuses of the resources; calculating an available soft capacity of the system based on the quantified power statuses and a total capacity of the system; and providing an assigning amount of the resources beyond the calculated available soft capacity to one or more users.
US11853799B2
An initialization data memory space allocation system includes a memory system having a memory space that includes an initialization data bucket that reserves a contiguous subset of the memory space for initialization data. Each initialization engine that is coupled to the memory system is configured during initialization operations to allocate, for that initialization engine, a portion of the contiguous subset of the memory space reserved by the initialization data bucket, and then store initialization data in that portion of the contiguous subset of the memory space reserved by the initialization data bucket. A runtime engine that is coupled to the memory system is configured, during runtime operations, to claim the contiguous subset of the memory space reserved for initialization data by the initialization data bucket for runtime data, and store runtime data in at least a portion of the contiguous subset of the memory space.
US11853779B2
A host device and methods for efficient distributed security forensics. The method includes creating, at a host device configured to run a virtualization entity, an event index for the virtualization entity; encoding a plurality of events related to the virtualization entity, wherein each event includes a process having a process path; and updating the event index based on the encoded plurality of events.
US11853778B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for using selectable elements to invoke an automated assistant at a computing device. While operating the computing device, a user may not be aware that the automated assistant can be invoked according to certain invocation phrases. In order to inform the user of the functionality of the automated assistant, the user can be presented with selectable elements that can initialize the automated assistant when selected. Furthermore, a selectable element can provide an invocation phrase in textual form so that the user is aware of their ability to invoke the automated assistant by speaking the invocation phrase. The selectable element can be presented at different devices associated with the user, and the automated assistant can be initialized at a device that is separate from the device where the selectable element is presented.
US11853775B1
Disclosed herein are systems and method for providing nested frontend applications in a user interface of a management application. An exemplary method may include: generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for the management application, wherein the GUI includes a first extension point that includes a plurality of extensions, wherein each extension of the plurality of extensions is a standalone frontend application; injecting, during runtime of the management application, a first extension into the first extension point based on a personal configuration file, wherein the first extension is included in the plurality of extensions after injection; in response to receiving, via the GUI, a selection of the first extension, generating, on the GUI, a second extension point corresponding to the first extension, wherein the second extension point includes an additional plurality of extensions; and injecting, during the runtime, a second extension into the second extension point.
US11853771B1
A branded fleet server system includes a pre-assembled third-party computer system integrated into a chassis of the branded fleet server system. The pre-assembled third-party computer system is configured to execute proprietary software that is only licensed for use on branded hardware. A virtualization offloading component is included in the server chassis of the branded fleet server along with the pre-assembled third-party computer system. The virtualization offloading component acts as a bridge between the pre-assembled third-party computer system and a virtualized computing service. As such, the virtualization offloading component manages communications, security, metadata, etc. to allow the pre-assembled computer system to function as one of a fleet of virtualization hosts of the virtualized computing service.
US11853768B2
A method of activating a head-worn device is disclosed. The method includes activating the head-worn device and performing a partial bootup. When an instruction to perform a function is received, it is determined whether or not the instruction is permitted for partial bootup execution. The instruction is executed based on the instruction being permitted for partial bootup execution, and a bootup of the head-work device is completed based on the instruction not being permitted for partial bootup execution. The method may further comprise determining if the instruction requires user authentication in order to be executed, and based on the instruction being partial bootup compatible and not requiring user authentication, executing the instruction.
US11853762B1
Systems, apparatuses and methods are disclosed for efficient management of registers in a graph stream processing (GSP) system. The GSP system includes a thread scheduler module operative to initiate a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) thread, the SIMD thread including a dispatch mask with an initial value. A thread arbiter module operative to select an instruction from the instructions and provide the instruction to each of one or more compute resources, and an instruction iterator module, associated with the each of one or more compute resources operative to determine a data type of the instruction. The instruction iterator module iteratively executes the instruction based on the data type and the dispatch mask.
US11853759B2
Disclosed are a neural network accelerator and an operating method thereof, which include an instruction analyzer that analyzes a first instruction instructing an operation with respect to a first layer of a neural network algorithm from an external device, a polymorphic operator array including a plurality of operators that performs the operation with respect to the first layer under a control of the instruction analyzer, an interface that communicates with the external device and an external memory under the control of the instruction analyzer, an internal memory, a type converter, a type conversion data mover that stores data received from the external memory through the interface in the internal memory under the control of the instruction analyzer, and an internal type converter that performs a conversion of data stored in the internal memory or data generated by the polymorphic operator array under the control of the instruction analyzer.
US11853756B2
A method includes receiving a request to modify a first value of a first field of a first item in a self-describing data system, and obtaining a domain comprising items in the self-describing data system. The first item and a second item are included in items, and the second item comprises a second field having a second value. The method includes calculating, based on a rule of the second field, a dependency of the second value on the first value. The rule specifies how the second value is to be calculated using the first value. The method includes modifying, based on the request, the first value. The method includes receiving an event triggered by the modification to the first value. The method includes, responsive to the event, calculating the second value based on the rule, and storing the second value in the second field.
US11853751B2
Indirect function call target identification in software is provided. A set of explicit data flows that pass a function address between software modules of a program is determined using an explicit data dependency analysis. A set of indirect function call targets is generated from results of the explicit data dependency analysis and a dynamic execution analysis of the program. The set of indirect function call targets is expanded by identifying similar target functions based on feature embeddings generated by a graph neural network.
US11853750B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a portion of code, inputting the received portion of code to a probabilistic data structure to determine whether the portion of code is similar to one or more other portions of code, and based on determining that the one or more other portions are similar to the received portion of code, identifying a number of similar portions of code. The method also includes storing relationship data that associates the similar portions of code with the received portion of code, determining one or more subject matter experts (SMEs) associated with the similar portions of code and the received portion of code and determining correlations between SME data and the relationship data, and storing the SME data and the correlations, the SME data including an indication of the determined SMEs, the relationship data correlating the one or more SMEs to the received portion of code.
US11853746B2
Some embodiments automatically assess source code merge conflict resolution candidates and then display a recommendation explaining strengths and weaknesses of each candidate. Thus informed, a developer can avoid adopting changes which produce merged code that does not build or does not pass tests, and avoid merged code that departs from a pattern followed in previous changes to a code base. Candidate conflict resolution assessments depend on objective criteria such as merged code buildability, operational accuracy, edit pattern consistency, or conflict resolution generator confidence. Candidates may be automatically ranked, prioritized, or rejected outright by an embodiment. Work item descriptions and candidate provenance may be displayed to aid developer selection of an optimal merge candidate.
US11853745B2
Methods and systems for automated scoring of open-source libraries on their state of reuse in software projects are provided. A system is configured to extract information about the software project, determine whether the extracted information includes information regarding any forked projects, calculate a useful fork reuse score for a forked project, calculate a reuse score in the forked project based on source code attributes including a source code class, create a tree structure for the source code class, identify functions from the tree structure of the source code class, identify similar code sections from the two source code files, calculate a code attributes reuse score based on the similar code sections, calculate a dependent consumption reuse score which indicates how much a function is reused by a dependent class, and calculate a unified reuse score based on the reuse score of the forked project and the dependent consumption reuse score.
US11853736B2
Ensuring that a control program of a programmable electronic component included in an optical module updatable as well while a control program of a microprocessor included in the optical module is in operation. A module that functions by causing an electronic component to operate, a microprocessor located in the module and coupled to a host device via communicating device uses data in the S-record format downloaded from the host device using the communicating device to update a control program of the electronic component.
US11853732B1
Inferring source code structure based on indentation. A portion of source code comprising a plurality of lines is identified, and a corresponding indentation level for each line is determined. A plurality of nodes, each representing a different line in the plurality of lines are generated. The nodes are arranged into an ordered tree based on the corresponding indentation level for each line. Based on an identified line in the plurality of lines, a subset of the plurality of lines are identified from the ordered tree, based on identifying a subtree that comprises a node representing the identified line. A source code action is initiated based on the subset of the plurality of lines.
US11853725B2
Techniques for recommending microservices to perform the different functions of a legacy architecture are disclosed. In one example, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a plurality of recommendations comprising a plurality of program components as candidates for assignment to a plurality of microservices, and determining roles of respective ones of the plurality of program components. A user interface is provided which is configured to allow a user to modify one or more of the plurality of recommendations based at least in part on the roles. Modifications to the one or more of the plurality of recommendations are analyzed, and one or more metrics are computed based at least in part on the analysis.
US11853721B2
An interrupt-driven system verification method based on interrupt sequence diagrams includes the steps of: establishing an interrupt-driven system model based on an interrupt sequence diagram, dividing interaction fragments in the obtained interrupt sequence diagram into basic interaction fragments and composite interaction fragments and sequentially converting the basic interaction fragments and the composite interaction fragments into the corresponding automaton models, combining the automaton models into one automaton model, adding the constraints in the interrupt sequence diagram to the converted automaton model, adding the verification attribute information as a constraint to the converted automaton model, describing an automaton as an input format acceptable to the automaton verification tool, and verifying the model with the automaton verification tool.
US11853716B2
Methods and systems for determining whether an infinitely precise result of a reciprocal square root operation performed on an input floating point number is greater than a particular number in a first floating point precision. The method includes calculating the square of the particular number in a second lower floating point precision; calculating an error in the calculated square due to the second floating point precision; calculating a first delta value in the first floating point precision by calculating the square multiplied by the input floating point number less one; calculating a second delta value by calculating the error multiplied by the input floating point number plus the first delta value; and outputting an indication of whether the infinitely precise result of the reciprocal square root operation is greater than the particular number based on the second delta term.
US11853714B2
In order to provide smaller, faster and less error-prone circuits for sorting possibly metastable inputs, a novel sorting circuit is provided. According to the invention, the circuit is metastability-containing.
US11853709B2
This application relates to a machine translation method performed at a computer device. The method includes: obtaining an original source text and a reconstructed source text; performing semantic encoding on the original source text, to obtain a source vector sequence; sequentially decoding the source vector sequence to obtain target vectors by performing decoding on the source vector sequence at a current time according to a word vector of a candidate target word determined at a previous time, determining a candidate target word at the current time according to a target vector at the current time, and forming a target vector sequence accordingly; performing reconstruction assessment on the source vector sequence and the target vector sequence using the reconstructed source text, to obtain reconstruction scores corresponding to the candidate target words; and generating a target text according to the reconstruction scores and the candidate target words.
US11853708B1
This invention is a method for detecting AI-written material which evaluates authorship more directly than purely machine-based methods of AI detection. This method automatically selects relatively-rare key words and/or phrases used in a submitted body of text which is asserted to have been written by a specific person and creates a test to measure understanding of those key words and/or phrases which is administered to that person.
US11853704B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a classification model training method, a classification method, a device, and a medium. An initial classification model is first trained by using a first sample set including a large quantity of first samples, to obtain a pre-trained model, each first sample including a social text and an emoticon label corresponding to the social text; and the pre-trained model is then trained by using a second sample set including a small quantity of second samples, to obtain a social text sentiment classification model that uses a social text as an input and use a sentiment class probability distribution corresponding to the social text as an output. In this method, the model is trained by combining a large quantity of weakly supervised samples with a small quantity of supervised samples, to ensure that the model obtained through training has better model performance without increasing manually labeled samples.
US11853702B2
Generate, for each of the words of a common vocabulary of first and second text corpora, a first word embedding vector in the first text corpus and a second word embedding vector in the second text corpus. Generate, for each word in a random sample of non-landmark words, an artificially shifted word embedding vector by modifying the first word embedding vector for that word. Train a machine learning classifier to predict whether an artificial shift has been injected for a given word, based on the artificially shifted word embedding vector and the second word embedding vector for the given word. Predict semantic shifts for at least a plurality of the words of the common vocabulary by providing the first word embedding vectors and the second word embedding vectors for at least the plurality of the words of the common vocabulary as input to the trained machine learning classifier.
US11853700B1
There is a need for more accurate and more efficient natural language solutions with greater semantic intelligence. This need can be addressed, for example, by natural language processing techniques that utilize predictive entity scoring. In one example, a method includes determining an overall prevalence score for the input entity data object with respect to a scored document corpus and a target section; determining a qualified prevalence score for the input entity data object with respect to a high-scoring subset of the scored document corpus; processing the input entity data object using an entity scoring machine learning model to generate the predicted entity score, wherein the entity scoring machine learning model may characterized by a plurality of multiplicative hyper-parameters and one or more additive hyper-parameters; and performing one or more prediction-based actions based at least in part on the predicted entity score.
US11853683B2
Systems and methods related to learning-based analyzers (both supervised and unsupervised) for mitigating latch-up in integrated circuits are provided. An example method includes obtaining latch-up data concerning at least one integrated circuit configured to operate under a range of temperature conditions, where the at least one integrated circuit comprises a core portion including at least a plurality of devices each having one or more structural features formed using a lithographic process, and an input/output portion. The method further includes training the learning-based system based on training data derived from the latch-up data and a first layout rule concerning a first spacing between the core portion and the input/output portion. The method further includes using the learning-based system generating a second layout rule concerning the first spacing between the core portion and the input/output portion, where the second layout rule is different from the first layout rule.
US11853682B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods for eliminating geometrical design rule violations, maintaining mask layout electrical connectivity, reliability verification, and design for manufacturing structural correctness of a mask layout block are provided. Exemplary systems and methods include comparing a feature dimension in a mask layout data file with a design rule in a reference rule file and identifying a design rule violation of a mask layout block if the feature dimension does not match the design rule. Methods may further include automatically correcting the design rule violation by modifying the feature dimension so the feature dimension matches the design rule. A design rule auto-correction tool may be provided and be configured to compare a feature dimension in a mask layout data file with a design rule in a reference rule file and correct the design rule violation. Disclosed embodiments advantageously correct all design rules including dependency rules.
US11853681B2
A method includes: identifying a first design rule check (DRC) violation in a cluster box on an integrated circuit layout; locating a first target cell at a first original location in the cluster box, the first target cell being connected to the first DRC violation; detecting a first plurality of candidate locations for the first target cell in the cluster box; calculating resource costs associated with the first plurality of candidate locations; determining a first relocation location, among the first plurality of candidate locations, associated with a minimum resource cost for the first target cell; and relocating the first target cell from the first original location to the first relocation location.
US11853677B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a computer chip placement. One of the methods includes obtaining netlist data for a computer chip; and generating a computer chip placement, comprising placing a respective macro node at each time step in a sequence comprising a plurality of time steps, the placing comprising, for each time step: generating an input representation for the time step; processing the input representation using a node placement neural network having a plurality of network parameters, wherein the node placement neural network is configured to process the input representation in accordance with current values of the network parameters to generate a score distribution over a plurality of positions on the surface of the computer chip; and assigning the macro node to be placed at the time step to a position from the plurality of positions using the score distribution.
US11853676B2
A method performed by at least one processor includes the following steps: generating a layout of an integrated circuit (IC), the layout comprising a cell and a layout context in a vicinity of the cell; receiving from a library a set of context groups and a set of timing tables, wherein each of the context groups is associated with one of the set of timing tables; determining a representative context group for the cell through comparing the layout context of the cell with the set of context groups; and performing a timing analysis on the layout according to a representative timing table associated with the representative context group for the cell.
US11853675B2
A method is provided and includes several operations: arranging multiple channels extending in a first direction; arranging, in accordance with multiple weights of multiple macros, a first portion of the macro closer to a centroid of a core region of an integrated circuit than a second portion of the macros; and arranging the macros on opposite sides of the channels. The macros have multiple pins coupled to the channels interposed between the macros.
US11853671B1
Vacant areas of a layer of an integrated circuit design are filled with shapes connected to the appropriate nets.
US11853668B1
A system and a method are disclosed for emulating a design of an electronic circuit. One or more field programmable gate array (FPGA) overlays are programmed to implement a first set of logic elements of the design of the electronic circuit. A second set of logic elements of the design of the electronic circuit is implemented in one or more FPGAs. The FPGA overlays implementing the first set of logic elements and the FPGAs implementing the second set of logic elements are interconnected to each other. The design of the electronic circuit is then tested using the interconnected FPGA overlays and the FPGAs.
US11853664B2
A method for compensation network design in a power converter design system is provided that includes computing optimal values for compensation components in a compensation network based on a plurality of loop specifications comprising crossover frequency (Fco), phase margin (PM), Gain Margin (GM), and low frequency gain (LFG), and applying changes to a power converter design comprising the compensation network based on the optimal values.
US11853657B2
Methods and systems for data modelling. One method includes receiving a plurality of data points representing training data, and generating a plurality of models based on the training data, each of the plurality of models using at least one a different modelling methodology or a different portion of the training data. The method also includes receiving an input representing a requested prediction, generating an output based on the input using each of the plurality of models, providing the output generated by each of the plurality of models and the training data to a machine learning algorithm, generating, with the machine learning algorithm, the requested prediction using the output generated by each of the plurality of models and the training data, and outputting the requested prediction for display to a user.
US11853647B2
Systems and processes for proactive assistance based on dialog communication between devices are provided. In one example process, while voice communication between an electronic device and a second electronic device is established, a stream of audio data associated with the second electronic device can be received. In response to detecting a user input, a text representation of speech contained in a portion of the stream of audio data can be generated. The process can determine whether the text representation contains information corresponding to one of a plurality of types of information In response to determining that the text representation contains information corresponding to one of a plurality of types of information, one or more tasks based on the information can be performed.
US11853644B2
An example embodiment may involve determining that a client device (such as a smartphone, tablet, or in-automobile audio device) is in an automobile and that the client device has access to a playlist of audio content. Possibly based on the client device being in the automobile and having access to the playlist of audio content, the client device may request a stream of the audio content. As a consequence of making the request, the client device may receive the stream of the audio content and begin audible playout of the audio content.
US11853642B2
A method performed by an audio source device. The method obtains an input audio signal and determines a sound output level of a headset based on the input audio signal, a user volume setting, and a sound output sensitivity of the headset. The method determines whether the sound output level is above a threshold. In response to determining that the sound output level is above the threshold, a scalar gain is applied upon the input audio signal to produce an output audio signal for output by the headset.
US11853641B2
A system and method for audio combination and playback which replicates the sounds made by a crowd gathered together in one place.
US11853639B2
A computing device and method are provided for transmitting a relevant subset of map data, called a neighborhood, to enable mutual spatial understanding by multiple display devices around a target virtual location to display a shared hologram in the same exact location in the physical environment at the same moment in time. The computing device may comprise a processor, a memory operatively coupled to the processor, and an anchor transfer program stored in the memory and executed by the processor.
US11853631B2
A communication apparatus that communicates with an information processing apparatus includes a first control unit configured to execute first control to acquire connection information for the communication apparatus to connect to an access point from the information processing apparatus via communication with the information processing apparatus using a first protocol, and a third control unit configured to execute third control to, in a case where the connection between the communication apparatus and the access point is not established using the connection information acquired by the first control unit, continue the second state where the communication apparatus can communicate with the information processing apparatus using the second protocol, without disabling the second state.
US11853627B2
A first server system according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a control unit configured to instruct a client terminal to display a screen for inputting authentication information to a third server system as the transmission destination of image data registered in a second server system, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a printing apparatus capable of printing the image data registered in the second server system, from the third server system that has performed authentication based on the authentication information input via the screen, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the acquired information about the printing apparatus to the second server system.
US11853623B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a printing processing program that causes a controller of a terminal device to execute a process for printing. The terminal device is connectable to a printing apparatus and including the controller and an operation unit. The printing apparatus is configured to print on a long printing medium to produce a printed matter. The process includes receiving a selection of a background image, determining whether the selected background image is a pattern image or a non-pattern image, in a case where the background image is the pattern image, not changing scale of the image pattern regardless of a width of the long printing medium and outputting printing data including background image data to the printing apparatus.
US11853622B2
A cloud printing method and a cloud printing system includes: sending a print request to a first server when a file is clicked at first application of a client to execute printing; determining whether a target printer supports printing the file; transmitting the file to the target printer to execute printout of the file based on that the target printer supports printing the file; transmitting the file to a printer manufacturer server or to a second application based on that the target printer does not support printing the file; converting a data format of the file into a data format supported by the target printer to generate a print job; sending the print request to the target printer, and transmitting the print job to the target printer to execute printout of the print job.
US11853621B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a cloud printing system is connected to an information processing apparatus via a network, and the cloud printing system comprises: one or more memories storing a set of instructions; and one or more processors that execute the set of instructions to: receive a print job from the information processing apparatus; and if there is a plurality of users permitted to execute the received print job, transmit the received print job to another cloud printing system using authentication information of each of the plurality of users.
US11853619B2
An estimation system provides consumable use estimations, such as for ink or toner, in printing operations. The estimation system uses a classification-based consumable use process to estimate the consumable use. A print job is assigned a classification category according to an arbitrary job category selected for the print job and a job property defined for the print job using job settings. An estimate is provided using the classification category and the distribution of the consumable use for print jobs in the category. The estimate is adjusted by a consumable use adjustment factor that reflects the amount of ink or toner disposed of during container replacement or wasted during printing operations. Estimation system also uses a size-agnostic consumable use estimation process based on the average consumable use for a specified imageable unit area.
US11853606B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for buffer reset commands for write buffers. An example apparatus includes a memory and a controller coupled to the memory. The memory can include an array of resistance variable memory cells configured to store data corresponding to a managed unit across multiple partitions each having a respective write buffer corresponding thereto. The controller can be configured to update the managed unit by providing, to the memory, a write buffer reset command followed by a write command. The memory can be configured to execute the write buffer reset command to place the write buffers in a reset state. The memory can be further configured to execute the write command to modify the content of the write buffers based on data corresponding to the write command and write the modified content of the write buffers to an updated location in the array.
US11853604B2
According to one embodiment, a computational storage device comprises a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to control a data process including a first process and a second process. The first process writes data, designated by a first command received from an external device, to the nonvolatile memory. The second process reads data, designated by a second command received from the external device, from the nonvolatile memory and transmits read data to the external device. The controller comprises a processor configured to determine whether to perform the data process in accordance with information included in the first or second command.
US11853601B2
A nonvolatile memory device comprising: a first block comprising multiple single level cells (SLCs), a second block comprising multiple multi-level cells (MLCs), and an operation controller is suitable to perform, in response to a read command applied from an outside: a read operation using an SLC method on first data stored in the first block or a read operation using an MLC method on second data stored in the second block in a normal mode, and a read operation using the MLC method on the first data or a read operation using the SLC method on the second data in a protection mode.
US11853587B2
A fault-tolerant data storage system associates durability requirements of service level agreements (SLAs) for volumes stored in the fault-tolerant data storage system with volume partitions stored in the fault-tolerant data storage system. For a given volume partition, volume data is stored in two or more replicas on two or more different system components and/or erasure encoded across multiple other system components. The fault-tolerant data storage system uses the respective durability requirements of the SLAs and failure statistics of the system components to allocate bandwidth for replacing lost instances of redundantly stored volume data such that the lost data is replaced within a target time calculated to guarantee the durability requirements of the SLAs are satisfied.
US11853586B2
Techniques are disclosed herein for improved copy data management functionality in storage systems. For example, a method receives copy usage data for one or more data copies associated with a storage array, wherein the copy usage data is indicative of a usage associated with each of the one or more data copies, and updates the one or more data copies with one or more usage tags based on the received copy usage data. Further, the method may then scan the one or more usage tags associated with each of the one or more data copies, select one or more storage tiers for at least a portion of the one or more data copies based on the scanning of the one or more usage tags, and cause at least a portion of the one or more data copies to be stored in the selected one or more storage tiers.
US11853584B1
A method including, responsive to receiving a request identifying a volume and indicating a command to take a snapshot of the volume, mapping a second logical grouping of data to reference the first logical grouping of data, and remapping the first volume to map to the second logical grouping of data instead of the first logical grouping of data such that the first volume remains addressable with similar access permissions before and after creating the snapshot. The method also includes, in response to receiving a write request targeting the second logical grouping, splitting the second logical grouping into a plurality of ranges including a first range and a second range; wherein the first range of the second logical grouping maps to the first logical grouping, and the write request is performed on the second range of the second logical grouping.
US11853583B2
A method of managing data storage using a management device that includes determining respective status information for a plurality of storage devices, and calculating, based on the status information, a respective cost for each of the plurality of storage devices using a cost function that includes one or more parameters including at least one of: a program/erase (P/E) parameter, a block error state parameter, a block error level parameter, and a workload parameter. The method further includes selecting a destination storage device of the plurality of storage devices based on at least some of the calculated costs, and writing data to the destination storage device.
US11853576B2
Examples described herein relate to deletion of data entities in a deduplication system. Examples may maintain entries in a housekeeping queue, each entry including a priority value and a total unshared chunk size of a data entity to be deleted from the deduplication system. Examples may delete the data entities corresponding to the entries including a low priority value from the deduplication system. Examples may determine whether an available storage capacity of the deduplication system is sufficient after deleting the data entities corresponding to the entries including the low priority value. Examples may delete a data entity corresponding to an entry including a high priority value and a largest total unshared chunk size if the available storage capacity is insufficient.
US11853573B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a storage device sharing system and operation method thereof. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the storage device sharing system may include i) a plurality of storage devices, each storage device including a first memory buffer including a plurality of first type memory blocks and a second memory buffer including a plurality of second type memory blocks, and ii) a host device configured to determine, based on sharing state set for a first storage device among the plurality of storage devices, whether to set the first memory buffer of the first storage device as an area for storing data to be written to a second storage device among the plurality of storage devices.
US11853555B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) dual port controller occupying less real estate on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). Rather than utilizing separate NVMe modules in the controller, with each module dedicated to a single port, the dual ports can share the same module. The host device believes that there are dedicated module resources because the module has two NVMe registers to provide the host device with the feeling that there are dedicated modules. Additionally, an interconnect between the ports and the registers contributes to providing the host device the feeling that there are dedicated modules. Furthermore, the rather than losing the capabilities of a second module when operating in single port mode, all of the capabilities of the only module are available when operating in either single port mode or dual port mode.
US11853546B2
At least one processor included in an electronic device can acquire first motion data about the motion of the electronic device through at least one motion sensor, acquire second motion data about a motion of an external device through a connector included in the electronic device, determine, on the basis of the first motion data and the second motion data, the folding angle between the electronic device and the external device connected to the electronic device, and determine, on the basis of the determined folding angle, an input mode that sets whether to display a user interface on a display or whether to block an input signal received through the connector. Various other embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
US11853537B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that provide a graphical user interface for intuitively generating digital action sequences across one or more digital platforms. For example, the disclosed systems generate graphical user interfaces with tools to construct digital action sequences of platform actions performed based on event triggers. To facilitate building such digital action sequences, in some cases, the disclosed systems provide data for digital-action-sequence templates for easy selection of pre-matched event triggers and platform actions or tools to mix-and-match combinations of specific event triggers and platform actions. By providing such intuitive tools in a centralized graphical user interface, the disclosed systems can connect events across multiple platforms or across disconnected components of a single platform. Indeed, in certain implementations, the disclosed systems provide a low-code/no-code graphical user interface for selection of a multitude of different digital action sequences and in myriad different configurations.
US11853533B1
A device that includes an extended reality application is employed by a user to access an extended reality environment. A selection of a first user interface object included in a plurality of user interface objects displayed in the extended reality environment is received via an input device associated with the extended reality environment. Each user interface object included in the plurality of user interface objects is associated with a different set of dashboard panels. At least a first portion of a first set of dashboard panels associated with the first user interface object is displayed in a foreground area of a workspace of the XR environment. The foreground area has a first depth relative to a user viewpoint within the XR environment. The workspace further comprises a background area having a second depth relative to the user viewpoint within the XR environment.
US11853530B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide apparatuses, systems, and computer program products for group-based communication channel organization. In this regard, embodiments described herein are configured to enable group-based communication interfaces rendered with group-based communication channels organized into specific organized channel sets. A plurality of organized channel sets may be reorganized, and/or the associated channel set for each organized channel set may be reorganized. In one example embodiment, an apparatus is configured to receive an interface rendering request associated with an authenticated user account and a group-based communication interface, identify at least one organized channel set associated with the authenticated user account, and cause rendering of the group-based communication interface comprising an organized channel set interface element set, each organized channel set interface element in the organized channel set interface element set associated with one of the at least one organized channel set.
US11853529B2
A computer system displays a user interface that includes a flow pane, a tool pane, a profile pane, and a data pane. The flow pane displays a node/link flow diagram that identifies data sources, operations, and output datasets. The tool pane includes a data source selector that enables users to add data sources to the flow diagram, and includes an operation palette that enables users to insert nodes into the flow diagram for performing specific transformation operations. The profile pane displays schemas corresponding to selected nodes in the flow diagram, including information about data fields and statistical information about data values for the data fields and enables users to modify the flow diagram by interacting with individual data elements. The data pane displays rows of data corresponding to selected nodes in the flow diagram, and enables users to modify the flow diagram by interacting with individual data values.
US11853526B2
This application provides a window display method, a window switching method, an electronic device, and a system. The method is applied to multi-screen collaboration between a mobile phone and a PC, and a plurality of application interfaces of the mobile phone are displayed in a form of tabs in a multi-screen collaboration window. In the multi-screen collaboration process, a background of the mobile phone may obtain user operations, distinguish between operation objects according to the user operations, and then determine a running status of an application and a window display status, so as to obtain an operation result that better meets user's expectation. The method may further implement file sharing between the mobile phone and the PC and between different applications of the mobile phone.
US11853516B2
A protective assembly includes a cover plate, a buffer layer, and a flexible substrate. The buffer layer is disposed on the cover plate and made of transparent polymer. The buffer layer has a light transmittance greater than about 85%, a thickness ranging from about 3 μm to about 15 μm, and a Poisson's ratio greater than about 0.4. The flexible substrate is disposed on the buffer layer and doped with an inorganic compound. The flexible substrate has a thickness ranging from about 3 μm to about 10 μm and a Young's coefficient ranging from about 1 GPa to about 10 GPa.
US11853515B2
Touch screens with ultra-thin stack-ups can provide for a lower profile device, can improve the optical image on the display by reducing the display to cover glass distance, and can reduce the weight of the device. In some examples, the thickness of the touch screen stack-up can be reduced and/or the border region reduced, by removing the flex circuit connection from the stack-up. A flexible substrate can be used to enable routing of touch electrodes to touch circuitry. In some examples including a shield layer, the thickness of the touch screen stack-up can be reduced by routing the shield layer to a shield electrode on the touch sensor panel. The shield layer can then be routed to touch sensing circuitry via the flexible substrate. In some examples, the touch sensor panel or a portion of thereof can be integrated with the polarizer.
US11853512B2
Touch sensing performance can be improved using display noise correction. In some examples, a touch sensor panel in proximity to a display can capture first touch data at a first time interval and second touch data at a second time interval, different from the first-time interval. In some examples, third touch data can be generated by removing noise from the first touch data using at least a portion of the first touch data and at least a portion of the second touch data.
US11853497B1
An input device for a computer system includes a force sensor, disposed in a dedicated sensing region, a touch sensor, disposed in the dedicated sensing region, and a processing system. The processing system detects a presence of a force applied in the dedicated sensing region, using the force sensor, and based on the detection of the presence of the force, changes a state of the input device from an idle state to an active state. When in the idle state, touch sensing by the input device is inactive. When in the active state, the touch sensing by the input device is active.
US11853496B2
A processing system includes sensor circuitry and processing circuitry. The sensor circuitry is configured to, using the sensor electrodes, obtain capacitive measurements of a sensing region, and obtain a resistance measurement of the sensing region. The processing circuitry is coupled to the sensor circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a location of an input object using the capacitive measurements of the sensing region and determine a force value based on the resistance measurement and the location of the input object. Determining the force value mitigates a temperature variation of the sensing region affecting the resistance measurement. The processing circuitry is further configured to report the force value.
US11853495B2
A touch display device can include a touch screen panel including an active area and a non-active area adjacent to the active area, a dam structure in the non-active area and configured to surround at least a portion of the active area, at least one encapsulation layer to correspond to the active area and the non-active area, a plurality of touch electrodes on the at least one encapsulation layer in the active area and configured to receive and process touches, a first touch line being a touch electrode connection line to connect the plurality of touch electrodes in the active area, a second touch line being an extension of one of the plurality of touch electrodes and disposed on the first touch line in the non-active area, and a touch buffer layer between the dam structure and the first touch line in the non-active area.
US11853492B2
A rotary control input device for a capacitive touch screen is disclosed. The control device comprises a mounting element for retaining the device in place on the capacitive touch screen, a circuit frame rotatably mounted on the mounting element, the circuit frame including a rotation electrode, the rotation electrode being disposed to be adjacent and spaced apart from the capacitive touch screen when the device is retained in place. The device further includes a conductive body portion that is electrically connected to the rotation electrode, the circuit frame being rotatable about the mounting element, with respect to the capacitive touch screen, by a user via the conductive body portion.
US11853487B2
An electronic pen includes a circuit board disposed such that an axial direction of a casing is aligned with a longitudinal direction of the circuit board, an electronic circuit on the circuit board, and a battery having a columnar shape disposed on a side of the circuit board opposite to a pen tip side of the circuit board inside a hollow portion of the casing such that positive and negative electrode conductors protruding from an end surface of the battery extend toward the circuit board. The battery is disposed such that a separation space is formed between the end surface and an end portion of the circuit board and such that tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are in contact with the circuit board. The circuit board and the tip portions of the positive and negative electrode conductors are electrically connected to each other by soldered portions.
US11853485B2
A pen-shaped position indicator is configured to capacitively couple with a sensor surface of a position detection apparatus. The indicator includes a pen-shaped body; a coil; a driving power production circuit configured to produce a DC voltage from an induced signal in the coil by a wireless interaction with a charging device; a signal production circuit connected to the driving power production circuit and configured to generate a signal based on the DC voltage to form a capacitive relationship between the pen-shaped body and the position detection apparatus; a first electrode; and a second electrode. The first and second electrodes are configured to form first and second capacitive relationships with the sensor surface, respectively, to generate detection signals in the sensor surface from which a first detection signal and a second detection signal distinguishable from each other are extracted and used to obtain angle information of the pen-shaped position indicator.
US11853483B2
An image processing method and apparatus for a smart pen, and an electronic device where the method comprises: monitoring a working state of a second pressure switch provided at a pen tip of a smart pen after a first pressure switch of the smart pen is in a closed state; controlling an infrared transceiver circuit on the smart pen to send an infrared signal to an area where the smart pen writes; acquiring a lightweight network model preset in the smart pen, so as to perform feature extraction processing on an original image; performing classification processing on a feature matrix by using a fully connected layer in the lightweight network model, to obtain a trajectory classification result; and displaying a writing trajectory of the smart pen on a target object in real time.
US11853482B2
Systems and methods of use are presented for selecting and displaying media content on a display where the media content is determined by user manual manipulation of the content pages of a book positioned on a book reader. The display includes a video display screen and a media player. The media player has a storage drive configured to accept and store media content, and a processor configured to access the storage drive to transmit selected media content to the video display screen when signaled by the book reader to do so. The book reader includes a plurality of sensors divided into a plurality of right side sensors and a plurality of left side sensors that are configured to detect and determine which content page of the book is currently open and displayed on the book reader. When a content page is displayed and detected, a controller signals the processor.
US11853476B2
Example techniques are disclosed for increasing the sensitivity of an augmented or virtual reality display system to collecting eye-tracking data for detecting physiological conditions, such as neural processes. An example method includes accessing eye-tracking information associated with a control population and an experimental population, the eye-tracking information reflecting, for each user of the control population and the experimental population, eye-tracking metrics associated with the user; scaling the eye-tracking information based on the eye-tracking information associated with the control population; and determining a sensitivity measure reflecting a distance measure between the control population and experimental population. The sensitivity measure may be utilized to modify physical or operational parameters for the display system and/or the protocol for performing a test.
US11853474B2
A method including determining historical user data associated with an event occurring on a wearable device, determining a probability of interacting with an object on a display of the wearable device based on the historical user data, scaling a hitbox associated with the object to form a scaled hitbox, detecting a user input based on an eye tracking being within the scaled hitbox, and in response to detecting the user input, initiating an action corresponding to the object.
US11853473B2
An apparatus, system, and method for detecting glints includes a pair of light sources positioned on a head-mounted frame and driven to illuminate a corneal surface of an eye with differential light signals. An image sensor is positioned on the head-mounted frame to receive reflections of the differential light signals from the corneal surface. An orientation of a cornea (e.g., corneal sphere) of the eye may be determined at least partially based on the reflections of the differential light signals.
US11853472B2
An example non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprises instructions that, when executed by a processing resource of a computing device, cause the processing resource to, responsive to identifying a spatial area of attention of a gaze of a user, enhance audio associated with the spatial area of attention. The instructions further cause the processing resource to modify the enhancing based at least in part on a physiological observation of the user while hearing the audio.
US11853467B2
A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a recording button on the touch screen of the user's mobile device, recording the video or photo and displaying it in the message box of the user and the contact, displaying on the mobile devices a blur button that is associated with the video or photo, applying on the video or photo a blur mode for blurring the video or photo, displaying on the mobile devices an unblur button that is associated with the blurred video or photo, applying an unblur mode on the blurred video or photo by using the unblur button on the user's mobile device when the blur mode was applied by the user's or by using the unblur button on the contact's mobile device when the blur mode was applied by the contact's mobile device.
US11853446B2
A system comprising one or more computers implements a hardware feature access service. The hardware feature access service stores private keys that correspond to digital certificates embedded in chipsets of devices enrolled in the hardware feature access service. The hardware feature access service is configured to issue access or access revocation messages to the chipsets to “lock” or “unlock” associated hardware components. The hardware feature access service also implements a service interface that allows clients to request changes to enabled feature sets for devices enrolled in the hardware feature access service. In response to such requests, the hardware feature service automatically and wirelessly enables or disables feature sets by locking or unlocking relevant hardware components of a device relevant to enabling or disabling the requested feature sets.
US11853439B2
The present specification describes computer-implemented methods and systems for secure storage and transmission of data in a distributed network environment. In embodiments, each piece of data is transformed in to multiple pieces of metadata. Each piece of metadata is transmitted and stored on a different server, which is selected from separate pools of servers.
US11853438B2
A system includes a memory device and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory device, to perform operations including receiving a request to provide a post-secrets-provisioning service with respect to a device, in response to receiving the request, determining whether to authorize the request, in response to authorizing the request, obtaining a set of secrets data corresponding to the device, and providing the post-secrets-provisioning service by performing a cryptographic function utilizing the set of secrets data.
US11853430B2
A system and method for security risk identification in a secure software lifecycle. A knowledge database has a plurality of security elements which are identified for a particular software application depending on software environment and prioritized in a task list. Code vulnerabilities are identified using code scanners, with security requirements updated based on identified vulnerabilities, lack of vulnerabilities for weaknesses covered by a code scanner, potential weaknesses not adequately covered by code scanners, and software environment changes.
US11853423B2
Methods and apparatus for interfering with malware using displaced display elements are disclosed. In an example, a processor is configured to change a location of a displayed pointer by a first offset vector from a hidden true pointer. The processor is also configured to change a location of at least one application display element, such as a website “Submit” button, by a second offset vector from a hidden true application element. The first offset vector may have a similar magnitude as the second offset vector but an opposite direction Changing a location of a pointer and the application element by the offsets enables a user to interact with the application normally. However, the offsets prevent malware or a malicious application from interacting with the application.
US11853411B2
There are provided systems and methods for user specific error detection for accepting authentication credential errors. A service provider, such as an authentication server and/or transaction processor, may require credentials for a user to utilize a specific service, such as an account and account services. The user may establish an authentication credential, such as a password or other secret, that allows the user to use the account. The user may then attempt to utilize the credentials with the service provider but may perform a typo in entering the authentication credential. The service provider may reject an authentication of the user but may allow the user to reenter the authentication credential. If the user correctly enters the authentication credential at this stage, the service provider may perform analysis of the incorrect and correct authentication credential to determine whether to allow the incorrect authentication credential for future authentications.
US11853409B2
Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for associating a first account with a second account, the first account being hosted by a first server, the second account being hosted by a second server, including but not limited to, authenticating, by the first server, first login credentials associated with the first account, wherein the first login credentials are received from a user device, receiving, by the first server from the user device, second login credentials associated with the second account, sending, by the first server, the second login credentials to the second server for authentication, in response to determining that the second login credentials are authenticated by the second server, associating, by the first server, the first account with the second account, and connecting, by the first server to the second server, to allow the user device to access services commensurate with the second account without prompting the user device for the second login credentials.
US11853403B2
A method for preventing digital content misuse can include detecting, by a client-side computing device, that the client-side computing device is paired to a viewing device such that, after being paired, the client-side computing device can cause digital content received from a remote server to be presented on a display of the viewing device; after detecting that the client-side computing device is paired to the viewing device, detecting, by the client-side computing device, that the client-side computing device has been unpaired from the viewing device; and in response to detecting that the client-side computing device has been unpaired from the viewing device, executing a remedial action.
US11853401B1
Techniques for machine learning (ML) model training and deployment using model building blocks via graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are described. Users can use a GUI provided by an electronic device to select and configure ML aspects for one or more ML models to be trained using identified training data. The electronic device can send a request to cause a model construction service to train one or more ML models based on the user configuration, return results of the training to the user within the GUI, and deploy one or more of the ML models.
US11853400B2
A novel distributed method for machine learning is described, where the algorithm operates on a plurality of data silos, such that the privacy of the data in each silo is maintained. In some embodiments, the attributes of the data and the features themselves are kept private within the data silos. The method includes a distributed learning algorithm whereby a plurality of data spaces are co-populated with artificial, evenly distributed data, and then the data spaces are carved into smaller portions whereupon the number of real and artificial data points are compared. Through an iterative process, clusters having less than evenly distributed real data are discarded. A plurality of final quality control measurements are used to merge clusters that are too similar to be meaningful. These distributed quality control measures are then combined from each of the data silos to derive an overall quality control metric.
US11853398B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for determining an abnormity of a detection device of natural gas. The method comprises: obtaining a first detection data set collected by the detection device of the natural gas, determining whether the detection device is abnormal based on the first detection data set and a first historical detection data set, and sending a determination result to a terminal. The first detection data set and the first historical detection data set include a composition of natural gas, a temperature of natural gas, and a pressure of natural gas.
US11853383B2
A computer may receive a request to generate a snapshot view of a virtual infrastructure. The virtual infrastructure may comprise a plurality of virtual server management applications, each managing a respective set of virtual machines. The computer may implement a multi-threaded process to contemporaneously query one or more databases and retrieve status and other information of the virtual machines from different virtual server management applications. The computer may aggregate the retrieved information to determine the summary counters and statistic information for the virtual machines. The computer may generate a snapshot view file based on the retrieved information. The snapshot view file may be in hypertext markup language (HTML) format. The computer may transmit a selectable link to the snapshot view file to multiple user devices. A user may select the link and the respective user device may display the snapshot view in an application such as a web browser.
US11853380B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating contextual hubs for organizing and presenting web-accessible content from third-party sources. In particular, the systems described herein can organize and manage within a contextual hub. For instance, the disclosed systems may perform actions on tabs based on analyzing usage signals associated with the tabs. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can organize contextually related content within contextual hubs. The disclosed systems may also facilitate collaboration between users within a contextual hub by synchronizing interactions with content within a contextual hub.
US11853376B1
A system and method for creating mobile device or vehicle profiles (mobile object) using location, time, event, and unrelated data. The method includes generating profiles through the collection and aggregation of raw mobile object data, its enrichment through data fusion via FPGA, GPU, TPU, and similar chips, matching them with unique geometric shapes, groups of unique and similar geometric shapes, with unrelated layers of time and location-based data sources, scanning the enriched data through cloud clustered parallel processing workflows, generating profile and group based statistics, behavior and metadata, deploying spatial algorithms, storing the enriched data in a datastore accessible through internal and external platforms, running deep learning, evolutionary algorithms and artificial life models to create look-alikes and patterns, sharing them across external platforms for historical analysis, real time analysis or predictive forecasts, building, mirroring and regenerating a digital twin universe of the physical dimension, simulating and iterating parallel digital universes.
US11853369B2
A document management system can include an artificial intelligence-based document manager that can perform one or more predictive operations based on characteristics of a user, a document, a user account, or historical document activity. For instance, the document management system can apply a machine-learning model to determine how long an expiring agreement document is likely to take to renegotiate and can prompt a user to begin the renegotiation process in advance. The document management system can detect a change to language in a particular clause type and can prompt a user to update other documents that include the clause type to include the change. The document management system can determine a type of a document being worked on and can identify one or more actions that a corresponding user may want to take using a machine-learning model trained on similar documents and similar users.
US11853368B2
A method is disclosed. The method may include: acquiring an image including at least a part of an object; identifying the object based on the image; searching a document database for a document corresponding to the object; and displaying the object and information related to the document. A system is disclosed. The system may include: one or more memories configured to store a document database; one or more electronic devices configured to acquire an image including at least a part of an object; and one or more computing devices configured to identify the object based on the image, and search the document database for a document corresponding to the object, wherein the one or more electronic devices are further configured to display the object and information related to the document.
US11853365B2
Disclosed herein are enterprise applications and platforms that manage databases containing documents and may employ search systems that allow users to retrieve documents based on queries. The search systems may be configured to retrieve data from several different data sources and may be associated with many of the applications. Furthermore, the search systems may include a faceted interface based on database or document attributes for further search refinement. The faceted interface may be template-based and modular, allowing reconfiguration of the interfaces without substantial rewriting of the application code base.
US11853360B1
This disclosure discloses systems, devices, and methods for parallelized data structure processing in context of machine learning and reverse proxy servers.
US11853357B2
The present invention discloses a new method for analyzing, modifying, and distributing digital images and video in a quick, efficient, practical and/or cost-effective way. The method of processing video can take a different region or object and replace the pixels in the frames of the scenes that comprise the features and characteristics of the identified region or object with a different set of pixels. The replacement or other customizations of the frames and scenes lead to a naturally integrated video or image which is indistinguishable by the human eye or other visual system. In one embodiment, this invention can be used to provide different advertising elements into an image or set of images for different viewers, or to enable a viewer to control elements within a video and add their own preference or other elements.
US11853352B2
A method of establishing an image set for image recognition includes obtaining a single-label image set comprising an image annotated with a single label, and a multi-label image set comprising an image annotated with a plurality of labels; converting content of each label into a corresponding word identifier according to a semantic network, to obtain a word identifier set, a converted single-label image set, and a converted multi-label image set; and constructing a hierarchical semantic structure according to the word identifier set and the semantic network. The method also includes performing label supplementation on the image in the converted single-label image set to obtain a supplemented single-label image set; performing label supplementation on the supplemented single-label image set to obtain a final supplemented image set; and establishing a target multi-label image set to train an image recognition model by using the target multi-label image set.
US11853346B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving, from a user, a request that includes an entity identifier associated with an entity that is referenced by one or more query terms of a search query, determining that the entity is identified in a media consumption database as a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user or that the entity is associated with a media item that is identified in the media consumption database as a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user, and based on the determination, providing a response to the request, the response including data indicating that the entity is a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user or that the entity is associated with a media item that has been indicated as consumed by the user.
US11853345B2
Automated content generation and delivery may include processing a request for story synthesis using specified content items. The request may, for example, be captured using a microphone of an electronic device and transmitted to a server device. The specified content items may be mapped to a story template. Based on the story template, other content items related to the specified content items may be retrieved from one or more content sources. The content sources may, for example, refer to websites, social media platforms, search engine results, or other data stores. A story may then be synthesized using the specified content items and the other content items, for example, by combining the specified content items and the other content items according to the story template. The synthesized story may then be output, for example, at the electronic device.
US11853326B2
A technology for retrieving data from a database. The technology includes receiving a search query specifying a target attribute and a target attribute value, accessing an index to determine one or more target files in which the target attribute value appears, the index including a plurality of attribute values, and for each of the attribute values, one or more files in which the attribute value appears, and retrieving data from the one or more target files.
US11853323B2
A method, apparatus, and system for join operations of a plurality of relations that are distributed over a plurality of storage locations over a network of computing components.
US11853320B2
Systems and methods for folder synchronization and offline synchronization via a mobile platform in a web-based collaboration environment are disclosed. One embodiment includes synchronizing user selected folders and/or sub-folders via the mobile platform, using portable devices including smart phones and tablets using any mobile operating system to allow offline access. Child or sub-folders of the selected folders and/or sub-folders are automatically detected and synchronized for offline access. Any change or new content detected on the client side or on the server side is also synchronized such that the selected folders and/or sub-folders on the client and server sides are up to date.
US11853315B2
A source computational instance may be configured to operate a software application and store a first set of content related to the software application. A target computational instance may be configured to operate the software application and store a second set of content related to the software application. The software application operated by the target computational instance may apply transformation rules to received content before storing the received content in the second set of content. The source computational instance may be further configured to receive selected content chosen from the first set of content and an indication of the target computational instance, and transmit the selected content to the target computational instance. The target computational instance may be further configured to receive the selected content, apply the transformation rules to the selected content, and store the selected content within the second set of content.
US11853310B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for processing queries against a process model. An analytics computing system may access query data describing a query to an analytics computing system. The analytics computing system may access process model code that comprises first function code for evaluating a function having a first input and a second input. The first function code may indicate that the first input is at a first time context corresponding to a first discrete time. And that the second input is at a second time context corresponding to a second discrete time period adjacent the first discrete time period. The analytics computing system may execute the process model code using a value for a first input at the first discrete time period and a value for a second input at the second discrete time period.
US11853309B2
A method for ranking documents in search results includes defining a first training data set, the first training data set including, for each of a plurality of user queries, information respective of a document selected by a user from results responsive to the query and information respective of one or more documents within an observation window after the selected document in the results, and defining a second training data set, the second training data set including, for each of the plurality of user queries, information respective of the selected document. The method further includes training a first machine learning model with the first training data set, training a second machine learning model with the second training data set, and ranking documents of a further search result set according to the output of the first machine learning model and the output of the second machine learning model.
US11853306B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for providing software application recommendations to a user of a computing device. The technique can include: (1) receiving, from the computing device, a request for at least one software application recommendation, (2) identifying, among a plurality of user profiles, a user profile associated with the user, (3) accessing a plurality of software application profiles (SAPs), wherein each SAP of the plurality of SAPs is associated with a respective software application managed by the server computing device, (4) analyzing the user profile against a subset of the plurality of SAPs to identify, among the respective software applications associated with the subset of the plurality of SAPs, at least one software application to recommend, (5) associating the at least one software application recommendation with the at least one software application, and (6) causing the computing device to display the at least one software application recommendation.
US11853301B1
Compiled portions of code generated to perform a query plan at a query engine may be shared with other query engines. A data store, separate from the query engines, may store compiled portions of query code generated for different queries. If a query engine does not have a locally stored compiled portion of query code, then the separate data store may be accessed in order to obtain a compiled portion of query code, allowing reuse of compiled query code across different queries engines for queries directed to different databases.
US11853297B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to a system and method for providing an automated assistant that retrieves information from a knowledge base in response to a user's natural language question. A user's natural language question voice is transformed into an intermediate representation. From the intermediate representation, a cypher query is generated which may be used to query the database. The query results are provided in response to the user. The transformation into the intermediate representation is database independent while the cypher query is dependent upon the database queried.
US11853292B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for evaluating driving data included in a data log, accessing, based on the request, an evaluation configuration file that includes a metric-calculation configuration specifying one or more metric calculators configured to generate one or more output metrics from the driving data and a validation configuration configured to validate the one or more output metrics, instantiating the one or more metric calculators specified by the metric-calculation configuration included in the evaluation configuration file, determining particular driving data from the driving data included in the data log based on the one or more instantiated metric calculators, and generating the one or more output metrics for the particular driving data by using the instantiated one or more metric calculators.
US11853283B2
The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques used in systems, methods, and in computer program products for dynamic aggregate generation and updating for high performance querying of large datasets. Certain embodiments are directed to technological solutions for determining at least one aggregate of selected virtual cube attributes (e.g., measures, dimensions, etc.) describing a virtual multidimensional data model of a subject database, and generating an aggregate table and a set of aggregate metadata for the aggregate. In some embodiments, an aggregate database statement configured to operate on the subject database can be issued to generate the aggregate table and/or aggregate metadata. Further, the aggregate can be dynamically determined responsive to receiving a database statement configured to operate on the virtual multidimensional data model representing the subject database. Also, the aggregate table can comprise one or more partitions in an aggregate view to facilitate aggregate management and/or quality.
US11853280B2
A network apparatus determines a route from an origin traversable map element (TME) to a target TME based on map data of a network version of a digital map. The route includes a list of route TMEs to be traveled from the origin TME to the target TME. The network apparatus accesses map version agnostic information identifying each TME of the list of route TMEs from the network version of the digital map; generates a map version agnostic identifier for each route TME of the list of route TMEs based on the accessed information; evaluates coding functions based at least on the map version agnostic identifier for each route TME to generate a coded identifier for each route TME; generates an encoding data structure based on the coded identifiers for the route TMEs; and provides the encoding data structure.
US11853279B2
The systems and methods described here can reduce the storage space required (memory and/or disk) to store certain types of data, provide efficient (fast) creation, modification and retrieval of such data, and support such data within the framework of a multi-version database. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can store each field of a set of records as a vector of values, e.g., a data vector. A set of records can be represented using a vector hash vector, or “vhash” vector, wherein each element of the vhash vector contains a unique identifier of a data vector, based on a cryptographic hash of the data vector. A header table can store associations between labels and “vhash” vectors that pertain to those labels. Identical data vectors can be re-used between different record sets or vhash vectors needing that vector, thus saving space.
US11853278B2
A method for combining an embedding of a graph having a plurality of nodes and edge connections and classifications of distributed ledger-based activities may include: receiving information for historical distributed ledger-based activities comprising identifications of the plurality of nodes in the graph as involved in illicit activities, licit activities, or unknown; applying sampling to sample labels and associated features; training a first classifier based on the plurality of historical distributed ledger-based activities, the node information, and the sample labels; receiving a current distributed ledger-based activity from the distributed ledger network; predicting a classification for the current distributed ledger-based activity using the first classifier; extracting features from the current distributed ledger-based activity; enriching the extracted features based on one or more neighbors of the nodes involved in the current distributed ledger-based activity; reclassifying the current distributed ledger-based activity using a second classifier; and outputting an alert based on the prediction.
US11853272B2
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for data validation in a microservice environment is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include receiving a request based on an application configuration validation. Embodiments of the present invention may include determining a schema is not defined based on the request. Embodiments of the present invention may include generating the schema using machine learning. Embodiments of the present invention may include using the generated schema for a plurality of validations.
US11853267B2
Embodiments are described for performing an uninterrupted backup in a storage system responsive to an abort event. A backup agent receives a plurality of file objects to be backed up on a target device during a first backup session. The backup agent initiates a parent interrupt service routine (ISR), which generates a plurality of child ISRs. Each of the plurality of child ISRs monitors a backup state of a corresponding file object. The parent ISR generates a virtual file object queue (VFOQ) to store a current backup state of each of the plurality of file objects. When an abort occurs, the current backup state of each of the plurality of file objects is saved in a respective child ISR of that file object. During a subsequent backup session, backup of the plurality of file objects commences based on the current backup state of each of the plurality of file objects.
US11853266B2
A system for cloud-based file services, comprising: a plurality of single-tenant file system nodes configured to provide file system access to an object store via a plurality of multitenant storage nodes; the plurality of multitenant storage nodes sharing access to the object store; and one or more management nodes configured to provision resources for the plurality of single-tenant file system nodes and the plurality of multitenant storage nodes, including modifying resources within the system.
US11853261B2
The present disclosure relates to a serving wireless communication node adapted to predict data files (A, B, C) to be requested by at least two served user terminals (2, 3) and to form predicted sub-data files (A1, A2; B1, B2; C1, C2). In a placement phase, the serving node is adapted to transmit predicted sub-data files (A1, B1; A2, B2) to cache nodes (APC1, APC2), each cache node (APC1, APC2) having a unique set of predicted different sub-data files of different predicted data files, and to receive requests (RA, RB) for data files from the served user terminals (2, 3). In a delivery phase, the serving node is adapted to transmit an initial complementary predicted sub-data file (Formula I) to the cache nodes (APC1, APC2), comprising a reversible combination of the remaining predicted sub-data files (A2, B1) for the files requested. If a cache node (APC1, APC2) requests re-transmission (RA2; RB1) of a predicted sub-data file (A2, B1), the serving node (AP) is adapted to transmit a further complementary predicted sub-datafile (Formula II) to the cache nodes (APC1, APC2), the file comprising a reversible combination of at least one re-transmitted predicted sub-data file (A2, B1) and at least one new predicted sub-data file (C1).
US11853260B2
A data search system includes an agent server that includes a storage and stores data in the storage, and a host server that manages tag management information in which a tag as a term for searching the data and a storage as a storage location of the data are associated with the data, receives a query including a search designation tag, and acquires data associated with the search designation tag from the storage location of the data by referring to the tag management information and responds to the query. The host server continuously updates the tag management information according to content and the storage location of the data.
US11853257B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for using a synthetic content model verification. A system may receive, at a front end service, inputs of a content campaign. The system may determine, based on the inputs, validation criterion. The system may determine, by the front end service, that a first input satisfies first validation criteria, and may send the inputs to a back end service. The system may receive, by the front end service from the back end service, a first indication that a second input fails to satisfy second validation criteria. The system may receive, at the front end service, a third input replacing the second input. The system may send, by the front end service to the back end service, the third input, and may receive, by the front end service from the back end service, a second indication that the third input satisfies the second validation criteria.
US11853256B2
An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for parallelization of a computer program on a plurality of computing cores includes receiving a computer program comprising a plurality of commands, decomposing the plurality of commands into a plurality of node networks, each node network corresponding to a command in the plurality of commands and including one or more nodes corresponding to execution dependencies of the command, mapping the plurality of node networks to a plurality of systolic arrays, each systolic array comprising a plurality of cells and each non-data node in each node network being mapped to a cell in the plurality of cells, and mapping each cell in each systolic array to a computing core in the plurality of computing cores.
US11853250B2
An interconnect interface is applied between sockets or between dies. The interconnect interface includes a first transmitter (TX), a first receiver (RX), and an electrical physical layer (EPHY) coupled between the first TX and the first RX. The data provided by a first device is transmitted from the first TX to the EPHY and then received by the first RX to be retrieved by a second device. The first TX includes an arbiter for arbitrating between a plurality of channels of the first device to obtain data from the first device. The first TX includes a packet generator, which packs the data obtained from the first device into a packet to be transmitted through the EPHY. The first TX further includes a first buffer that backs up the data obtained from the first device for retransmission.
US11853242B2
Provided are a synchronization control method, a chip, an electronic device and a storage medium. A master device sets a reference time for a plurality of slave devices wirelessly connected to the master device; and determines a target count value K of a connection event and an offset time of a respective slave device for each of the plurality of slave devices. The master device transmits the target count value of the connection event and the offset time to the respective slave device, so that each of the plurality of slave devices performs control based on the target count value of the connection event and the offset time of the respective slave device, so as to perform a task at the reference time.
US11853227B2
There is provided a data processing apparatus and method of data processing. The data processing apparatus comprises storage circuitry to store a hierarchy of page tables comprising an intermediate level page table. Each entry of the intermediate level page table comprises base address information of a next level page table and control information indicating whether an addressing function has been applied to reorder physical storage locations of entries of the next level page table. Address translation circuitry is provided to perform address translations in response to receipt of a virtual address by performing a lookup in a next level page table dependent on the base address information and a page table index from the virtual address. When the control information indicates that the addressing function has been applied, the lookup is performed at a modified storage location generated by applying the addressing function to the page table index.
US11853222B2
A recording medium stores a division program for causing a computer to execute processing including: acquiring, for each application of a plurality of applications capable of sharing a cache memory, memory access information that enables specification of memory addresses accessed when each of the applications is operated in time series; calculating, for each of the applications, a frequency distribution of access intervals to the same memory address based on the acquired memory access information; specifying, for each of the applications, a correspondence relationship between a cache capacity and the number of cache hits to be allocated to each of the applications based on the calculated frequency distribution of the access intervals; and distributing, on based on the correspondence relationship specified for each of the applications, the cache memory to the plurality of applications such that a total number of cache hits of each of the applications is maximized.
US11853219B2
A storage controller includes a prefetch buffer configured to buffer data prefetched from a non-volatile memory during a prefetch operation, a determiner circuit configured to output one of the prefetched data and normal data read from the non-volatile memory, as read data, and a prefetch control circuit configured to enable the prefetch operation during a first time when a sequential read operation is performed on the non-volatile memory, disable the prefetch operation at a second point after the first time, and enable the prefetch operation or maintain the disable of the prefetch operation according to performance of the read data in a prefetch suspend period after the second time in which the prefetch operation is disabled.
US11853218B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a command, wherein the command comprises a plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs), determine that one or more LBAs of the plurality of LBAs are not aligned to a transfer layer packet (TLP) boundary, determine whether the one or more LBAs that are not aligned to a TLP boundary has a head that is unaligned that matches a previously stored tail that is unaligned, and merge and transfer the head that is unaligned with a previously stored tail that is unaligned when the head that is unaligned matches the previously stored tail that is unaligned.
US11853216B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that provide increased bandwidth caches to process requests more efficiently for more than a single address at a time. This increased bandwidth allows for multiple cache operations to be performed in parallel. In some examples, to achieve this bandwidth increase, multiple copies of the hit logic are used in conjunction with dividing the cache into two or more segments with each segment storing values from different addresses. In some examples, the hit logic may detect hits for each segment. That is, the hit logic does not correspond to a particular cache segment. Each address value may be serviced by any of the plurality of hit logic units.
US11853215B2
A device includes: a first interface circuit configured to communicate with a host processor; a second interface circuit configured to communicate with a memory comprising a plurality of storage regions; a cache memory including a plurality of cache lines configured to temporarily store data; and a controller configured to receive an integrated command from the host processor, the integrated command comprising memory operation information and cache management information, configured to control the memory based on a first command that is instructed according to the memory operation information, and configured to control at least one of the plurality of cache lines based on the cache management information.
US11853212B2
Embodiments are for preemptive tracking of remote requests for decentralized hot cache line fairness tracking. Authority is requested for a cache line in conjunction with querying for outstanding requests for the cache line. One or more responses are received regarding the outstanding requests for the cache line. In response to receiving the one or more responses regarding the outstanding requests and in advance of receiving the authority for the cache line, the outstanding requests are preemptively tracked in a requested structure associated with the cache line.
US11853210B2
Provided are systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a storage resource. The method can include: operating a first controller coupled to a network interface in accordance with a cache coherent protocol; performing at least one operation on data associated with a cache using a second controller coupled to the first controller and coupled to a first memory; and storing the data on a second memory coupled to one of the first controller or the second controller.
US11853209B2
Shared memory workloads using existing network fabrics, including: presenting, by a Memory Mapped Input/Output (MMIO) translator, memory of the MMIO translator as a portion of a memory space of a host; receiving, by the MMIO translator, a first interrupt from an input/output (I/O) adapter; and storing, by the MMIO translator, without sending the first interrupt to an operating system, data associated with the first interrupt from the I/O adapter into the memory of the MMIO translator.
US11853202B2
An electronic device includes a memory system having improved performance. The memory system includes a memory device including memory blocks allocated to zones, a memory controller configured to send, to a host, a request for information on whether to perform a garbage collection operation on a target zone according to a trigger signal for performing a first internal operation, the target zone corresponding to a target memory block on which the first internal operation is to be performed, the target zone being included in the zones, and the host configured to provide the information on whether to perform the garbage collection operation to the memory controller based on information related to the zones, in response to the request. The memory controller determines whether to perform the first internal operation on the target memory block, based on the information on whether to perform the garbage collection operation.
US11853201B2
A method includes selectively configuring a first subset of non-volatile memory blocks to operate in a single-level mode, configuring the first subset of non-volatile memory blocks to collectively operate as a pseudo single-level cache, writing data associated with performance of a memory operation to the first subset of non-volatile memory blocks, and migrating the data from the first subset of non-volatile memory blocks to a second subset of non-volatile memory blocks.
US11853189B2
Provided is a device for providing error information using a graphical user interface (GUI) includes: a communication circuit configured to communicate with a server that provides a web application; a display; a memory; and a processor. The processor is configured to: receive user information, request information, and response information of each user; to display user objects, respectively on the display so that a user related to an error of the web application is distinguished based on the user information and the response information; to display action objects on the display so that an action related to the error is distinguished based on the request information and the response information, if one of the user objects is selected; and to output error information related to the selected action object to the display based on the request information and the response information if one of the action objects is selected.
US11853187B1
Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. To manage operation of the data processing systems, telemetry data for the data processing systems may be collected and used to estimate the health of the data processing systems. The rates and types of telemetry data this is collected may be dynamically adjusted based on the confidence in estimates for the health of the data processing systems. The collection rate and/or number of monitored quantities may be increased as the confidence in the estimated health of the data processing systems decreases.
US11853184B2
Certain embodiments provide methods and systems for managing a sound profile. An example playback device includes a network interface and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions executable by the processor. When executed by the processor, the instructions are to configure the playback device to receive, via the network interface over a local area network (LAN) from a controller device, an instruction. The example playback device is to obtain, based on the instruction, via the network interface from a location outside of the LAN, data comprising a sound profile. The example playback device is to update one or more parameters at the playback device based on the sound profile. The example playback device is to play back an audio signal according to the sound profile.
US11853183B2
A device for transmitting commands with a circuit of a circuit board to test a connection interface, a system and a method thereof are disclosed. In the system, an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) of the circuit board under test is used to transmit an control command to a test device, which is connected to the inter-integrated circuit via a memory connection interface of the circuit board under test, the test device converts the control command to test the memory connection interface connected thereto, so as to achieve the technical effect of improving test efficiency in testing the memory connection interface of the circuit board under test without using an external connection line.
US11853176B1
In an example embodiment, a solution is provided to build a generic service failover framework that can be packaged as a library and implemented by many different microservices, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Each application can implement/add/hook this service to obtain the benefits of handling failover gracefully, as well as coming with some customizable options to provide a complete failover framework.
US11853161B2
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for predicting a likelihood of a future computer memory failure. In one aspect training data inputs are obtained, where each training data input includes correctable memory error data that describes correctable errors that occurred in a computer memory and data indicating whether the correctable errors produced a failure of the computer memory. For each training data input, image representations of the correctable memory error data included in the training data input are generated. The image representations are processed using a machine learning model to output an estimated likelihood of a future failure of the computer memory. A difference between the estimated likelihood of the future failure of the computer memory and the data indicating whether the correctable errors produced a failure of the computer memory is computed. Values of model parameters are updated using the computed difference.
US11853159B1
A fault tolerant quantum error correction protocol is implemented for a surface code comprising Gottesman Kitaev Preskill (GKP) qubits. Analog information is determined when measuring position or momentum shifts, wherein the analog information indicates a closeness of the shift to a decision boundary. The analog information is further used to determine confidence values for error corrected measurements from the GKP qubits of the surface code. These confidence values are used to dynamically determine edge weights in a matching graph used to decode syndrome measurements of the surface code, wherein the confidence values are obtained using a maximum-likelihood decoding protocol for two-qubit gates. Space-time correlated edges and other edges are included in the matching graph and weighted based at least in part on confidence values for qubits forming the respective edges.
US11853156B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a computation unit implementing a systolic array and configured for detecting errors while processing data on the systolic array. Checksum circuit in communication with a systolic array is configured to compute checksums and perform error detection while the systolic array processes input data. Instead of pre-generating checksums in input matrices, input matrices can be directly fed into the systolic array through the checksum circuit. On the output side, the checksum circuit can generate and compare checksums with checksums in an output matrix generated by the systolic array. Error checking the operations to generate the output matrix can be performed without delaying the operations of the systolic array, and without preprocessing the input matrices.
US11853146B2
A vehicle includes a memory configured to store predetermined points in time at which each of a plurality of tasks is to be performed, the plurality of tasks including a first task and a second task, and a detector configured to determine a malfunction of at least one processor of a plurality of processors performing the plurality of tasks, wherein the detector is configured to control the at least one processor to output trigger signals for the first task and the second task based on whether one of the first and second tasks is completed at its respective predetermined point in time.
US11853141B2
A computer implemented method is provided for monitoring and managing system electrical power usage. The method includes sensing component electrical usage, comparing the component usage against a corresponding lookup table, and adjusting the component usage so system power usage remains below an established threshold.
US11853132B2
A display apparatus includes a display unit having a display area and a non-display area, a first driver in the non-display area, a second driver in the non-display area and space apart from the first driver, a bending portion connected to the display unit, and a connector connected to the bending portion, wherein a first wire part connected to the first driver and a second wire part connected to the second driver are disposed in the non-display area, and the first wire part and the second wire part are connected to each other via a connection wire part.
US11853124B2
An expansion card bracket mount panel including an expansion card bracket frame having an interior side, exterior side, and bracket mount component disposed on the interior side, latch component having at least one retaining latch, and retaining pressure component having an elastic pressure contact component is provided. The latch component is rotatably assembled to the exterior side of the expansion card bracket frame having an upward ready position and latched position and the retaining pressure component is rotatably assembled to the latch component having a standby position and retaining position. When the latch component is in the latched position, the latch component is latched to the expansion card bracket frame and a side of the elastic pressure contact component presses flush with the bracket mount component forming a contact force. A reaction force is formed when the elastic pressure contact component deforms when pressed flush with the bracket mount component.
US11853123B2
A system includes a monitor mount and first and second monitors. The monitor mount includes a first coupling, a second coupling, and a first power bus. The first monitor includes a first electronic visual display and has a size and shape configured to be detachably secured to the monitor mount by the first coupling. The first monitor can optionally be powered by the first power bus when secured to the monitor mount. The second monitor includes a second electronic visual display and a third coupling. The second monitor has a size and shape configured to: (i) be detachably secured to the monitor mount by the second coupling, (ii) detachably secure the first monitor by the third coupling, and (iii) surround at least a portion of the first electronic visual display when the first monitor is secured to the second monitor.
US11853122B2
Accessory devices for portable electronic devices are described. An exemplary accessory device can include a first segment coupled to a second segment via a first hinge assembly. The accessory can include a third segment coupled to the second segment via a second hinge assembly such that the second segment is positioned between the first and third segments. The accessory device can be arranged between a closed configuration and a configuration of a stand that supports the portable electronic device at a viewing angle. At the support configuration, the second segment can be at an acute angle relative to the first segment to shift the center of gravity of the system towards the middle. The third segment can be suspended above the first segment and be inclined outwards. The hinge assemblies of the system can be sufficiently stiff to withstand the weight of the electronic device.
US11853108B2
The disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence (AI) system using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning and the like, and an application thereof. In particular, there is provided a control method for an electronic apparatus for searching for an image, the method comprising displaying an image comprising at least one object, detecting a user input for selecting an object, recognizing an object displayed at a point at which the user input is detected and acquiring information regarding the recognized object by using a recognition model trained to acquire information regarding an object, displaying a list including the information regarding the object, and based on one piece of information being selected from the information regarding the object included in the list, providing a related image by searching for the related image based on the selected information.
US11853107B2
Techniques are described for dynamic phase generation and load reduction for a query. A query, for instance, is based on user input of a query in a natural language (NL) form, e.g., an NL query. Generally, an NL query may include multiple terms and/or phrases that make up a complex query, such as a sentence in a human-readable language. Accordingly, to enable a query result to be generated, the NL query is parsed into multiple logical sections and query contexts are determined for the logical sections. A set of search phases is generated based on the logical sections and the query contexts. The search phases can then be executed in a specific execution order to generate a query result for the NL query.
US11853106B2
A method for providing access to multi-file related tasks with version control is provided, including: receiving, through a task interface application executed by a client device, a command to open a task for processing by a local tool application on the client device, the command to open the task further identifying a specific version of the task; responsive to the command to open the task, transmitting, from the client device over a network to a server, a request for a plurality of files associated to the specific version of the task; receiving, by the client device over the network from the server, the plurality of files associated to the specific version of the task; initiating, by the task interface application, opening of the received plurality of files by the local tool application for editing on the client device.
US11853103B2
A vehicular device includes a control unit, a non-volatile first storage unit, a second storage unit, a notification unit, and a backup unit. Multiple operating systems operate in the control unit. The backup unit is provided in each operating system and is configured to back up, on the first storage unit, data temporarily stored in the second storage unit. The backup unit is configured to back up the data on the first storage unit upon being notified of the change in the power supply state by the notification unit. The backup unit running on one operating system is configured to pass, to the backup unit provided in another operating system, target data or information identifying the target data. When a failure occurred in the one operating system, the backup unit provided in the other operating system backs up the target data or the information identifying the target data.
US11853101B2
An adapting device according to an embodiment includes: a first storage unit configured to store correspondence information representing a correspondence relation between processing requested by a higher-level system and a method for implementing the processing in a lower-level system; a conversion unit configured to convert a processing request from the higher-level system to the lower-level system into a processing procedure capable of being implemented in the lower-level system and supply the processing procedure to the lower-level system; and an additional information processing unit configured to generate additional information to be supplied to the lower-level system together with the processing procedure. The conversion unit described above converts the processing request into the processing procedure based on the correspondence information, and the additional information processing unit described above includes, in the additional information, relation information representing a relationship between the higher-level system that is a request source and the lower-level system that is a request destination.
US11853099B2
While a connection between a copy pair comprising a primary volume in a first storage system associated with a primary host and a secondary volume in a second storage system associated with a secondary host is disconnected, systems and methods described herein can involve changing a state of the copy pair for each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a temporary suspended state; detecting whether a network connection has recovered; for the detecting indicative of the network connection having recovered, changing the state of the copy pair for the each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a copy pair state; and for the detecting indicative of the network connection not being recovered after a threshold period of time has elapsed, changing the state of the copy pair for the each of the primary volume and the secondary volume to a suspended state.
US11853097B2
An accelerator pedal system includes a pedal lever, a lock mechanism, an actuator, and an ECU. The pedal lever operates according to a step-on operation. The lock mechanism can restrict an operation of the pedal lever. The actuator switches between a locked state in which the operation of the pedal lever is restricted by the lock mechanism and an unlocked state in which the operation of the pedal lever is not restricted. The ECU includes an actuator control unit and a vehicle drive force control unit. The actuator control unit controls a drive of the actuator. When, during a travel of a vehicle in the locked state, (i) a disturbance is detected and (ii) the locked state is released, the vehicle drive control unit suppresses a vehicle drive force according to an opening degree of the pedal lever than a no disturbance situation.
US11853095B2
A method for reducing and/or managing energy-related stress in an electrical system includes processing electrical measurement data from or derived from energy-related signals captured by at least one intelligent electronic device (IED) in the electrical system to identify and track at least one energy-related transient in the electrical system. An impact of the at least one energy-related transient on equipment in the electrical system is quantified, and one or more transient-related alarms are generated in response to the impact of the at least one energy-related transient being near, within or above a predetermined range of the stress tolerance of the equipment. The transient-related alarms are prioritized based in part on at least one of the stress tolerance of the equipment, the stress associated with one or more transient events, and accumulated energy-related stress on the equipment. One or more actions are taken in the electrical system in response to the transient-related alarms to reduce energy-related stress on the equipment in the electrical system.
US11853094B2
A mobile device that is configured for wireless communication may be configured to operate as a remote control device in a lighting control system, controlling one or more lighting control devices of the lighting control system. The remote control device may control the light intensity in a space, for instance at a location of the remote control device, in response to an ambient light intensity measured at the remote control device. The remote control device may define a user interface for receiving an input that indicates a desired light intensity at the location. The remote control device may measure the ambient light intensity at the location via a light detector, compare the measured ambient light intensity to the desired light intensity, and cause the one or more lighting control devices to adjust the ambient light intensity at the remote control device until it agrees with the desired light intensity.
US11853092B2
A device is provided. The device includes an operational amplifier, an output circuit, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The operational amplifier is configured to generate an output according to a feedback signal. The output circuit is configured to generate a first current signal in response to a supply voltage and the output of the operational amplifier. The first current signal includes a first ripple signal. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are coupled in parallel between the operational amplifier and the output circuit. The first capacitor is configured to receive the first current signal and feedback to the operational amplifier the first ripple signal.
US11853086B1
A system for controlling water delivery throughout a household water delivery network that includes bathroom and kitchen sinks, as well as other equipment for dispensing water, said system including a controller disposed at a site, the temperature of the water of which is to be controlled; said controller including a temperature probe for detecting the water temperature at the site; a pump for circulating water from a water heater to the site; and a wireless communication network that interconnects the controller with the pump in order to control hot water delivered from the water heater based on sensed temperature at the temperature probe. Also a process for controlling the water temperature of a water delivery system that includes a pump, either via a wifi hub or a system APP. Also disclosed is a novel adjustment ring associated with the valve.
US11853082B1
A method and system for controlling movement of a vehicle. Movement, orientation, and position data of the vehicle is collected. A model of kinematics of the vehicle and its environment is created and a Theory of World model is produced and updated. The model includes geometric algebra multivectors. Errors and noise are stored as geometrically meaningful first-class objects within the multivectors. Geometric algebra operations are used to manipulate the model during operation. Error and noise data are propagated and manipulated using geometric algebra operations to reflect measurement and processing errors or noise. The models are used in generation of control data with a primary intent of ensuring stability. Operations such as intersections are used to compare position, orientation, and movement of the vehicle against position, orientation, and movement of objects in its environment. System tasks include, but are not limited to, kinematics, inverse kinematics, collision avoidance, and dynamics.
US11853081B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method for determining angle-of-attack for an unpowered vehicle is disclosed. The method includes: determining a monotonic portion of a look-up curve of an angle-of-attack operating plot; during flight, determining, by an accelerometer disposed on the unpowered vehicle, first and second accelerometer outputs, where the first and second accelerometer outputs correspond to first and second body-fixed load factor measurements, respectively; determining an operating point on the monotonic portion by applying a quotient of the first and second accelerometer outputs to the angle-of-attack operating plot; and determining an angle-of-attack parameter corresponding to the determined operating point.
US11853079B2
Provided is a self-position estimation apparatus capable of appropriately estimating a self-position of a mobile object regardless of an environment around the mobile object. The self-position estimation apparatus is for estimating a self-position of a mobile object, and includes: N types of sensors (where N is a natural number equal to or greater than two) that detect information with different contents from each other regarding a moving status of the mobile object; an environment determiner that determines an environment around the mobile object; a selector that selects information detected by one or more but less than the N types of sensors based on a determination result of the environment determiner; and an estimator that estimates the self-position of the mobile object based on the information selected by the selector.
US11853077B1
A system uses an obstacle map to determine an avoidance map that indicates one or more constraint regions that are present in a physical space. The obstacle map is processed using a smoothing function and the smoothed map processed with a medial axis transform function to generate a MAT skeleton. The skeleton is pruned to remove spurs and then segmented based on MAT values that are representative of distances in the physical space between the skeleton and an obstacle. The avoidance map is determined by associating constraint regions with the segments. Constraint regions may indicate areas in the physical space that are open for the autonomous mobile device (AMD) to stop, narrow areas for which stopping should be avoided, and closed areas within which the AMD is not to stop during ordinary operation.
US11853069B2
The technology relates to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode in accordance with behavior predictions for other road users in the vehicle's vicinity. In particular, the vehicle's onboard computing system may predict whether another road user will perform a “continuing” lane driving operation, such as going straight in a turn-only lane. Sensor data from detected/observed objects in the vehicle's nearby environment may be evaluated in view of one or more possible behaviors for different types of objects. In addition, roadway features, in particular whether lane segments are connected in a roadgraph, are also evaluated to determine probabilities of whether other road users may make an improper continuing lane driving operation. This is used to generate more accurate behavior predictions, which the vehicle can use to take alternative (e.g., corrective) driving actions.
US11853066B2
A control device acquires position information of an unmanned machine subject to control, and position information of an unmanned machine not subject to control; attempts to detect a target object, using a sensor signal from a sensor mounted in at least one of the unmanned machines; calculates a presence probability distribution of the target object based on information on a position and a time at which detection of the target object is successful; determines a formation of the unmanned machines based on the presence probability distribution of the target object; calculates an operation amount of the unmanned machine subject to control, based on the formation; and performs operation setting on the unmanned machine subject to control, according to the calculated operation amount.
US11853061B2
An autonomous vehicle is described herein. The autonomous vehicle includes a lidar sensor system. The autonomous vehicle additionally includes a computing system that executes a lidar segmentation system, wherein the lidar segmentation system is configured to identify objects that are in proximity to the autonomous vehicle based upon output of the lidar sensor system. The computing system further includes a deep neural network (DNN), where the lidar segmentation system identifies the objects in proximity to the autonomous vehicle based upon output of the DNN.
US11853058B1
A system may include one or more sensors configured to acquire data associated with a driver of a vehicle and a processor. The processor may receive the data and determine whether the data is within a baseline data associated with expected behavior of the driver. The processor may then control one or more operations of the vehicle in response to the data being outside the baseline data.
US11853055B2
A vehicle includes at least one output device; an input device configured to receive at least one in-vehicle input from a user; a communication device configured to receive an operation authentication message including an operation request message, an encryption key, and priority setting information from an external server; and a controller configured to generate a new operation request signal corresponding to the operation request message when the encryption key is identical to an encryption key of the vehicle stored in advance, determine priority between the new operation request signal and at least one existing operation request signal corresponding to the at least one in-vehicle input based on the priority setting information, and control an output device corresponding to a target operation to perform the target operation based on the priority.
US11853052B2
Device and method for analyzing time series data monitored on a machine, wherein the device segments the time series data into multiple time segments, determines a cluster of time segments estimated to have the same dynamics of the time series data, then classifies the cluster based on label information associated with at least one of the time segments, presents at least a part of the time series data of the cluster to a user if none of the time segments of the cluster has associated label information, classifies the cluster and generates label information associated with the time segments of the cluster based on a user input received in response to presentation of the time series data, where the generated label information indicates a result of classifying the cluster.
US11853039B2
The present invention relates to a checking tool and a method for checking whether a laser cutting machine is provided with a correct workpiece from a set of workpieces, comprising the method steps of: Detecting actual workpiece properties of a workpiece which is provided or is prepared to be provided to the laser cutting machine for cutting; Providing a set of cutting plans, wherein one cutting plan of the set of cutting plans is forwarded to a control unit of the laser cutting machine, wherein each cutting plan is associated to target workpiece properties; Comparing the detected actual workpiece properties with the target workpiece properties, and providing a comparison result, indicating whether the correct workpiece is provided according to the cutting plan; Depending on the comparison result: Issuing a stop signal to stop the cutting process or issuing an adaption signal to change the sequence in the set of cutting plans.
US11853031B2
Cutting a workpiece using a cutting tool associated with a system, whereby the system includes a guide having a first glyph and second glyph. The first and second glyphs are both visible on a single side of the guide. The guide is associated with a specific three-dimensional model of a plurality of three-dimensional models. The system further includes an input mechanism, configured to receive a location of the first glyph and of the second glyph, relative to the cutting tool. The system further includes a control system, functionally associated with the input mechanism and with the cutting tool. The control system is configured to direct the cutting tool to cut a version of the specific three-dimensional model into the workpiece at a location, such as at least partially between the locations of the first glyph and the second glyph, which locations were received by said input mechanism.
US11853027B2
A machine tool includes three mutually independent data transmission mechanisms. The data transmission mechanisms include respective transmission units which assign codes for detecting errors to data acquired from the output of sensors, and which transmit the data. A machine controller includes an operation judgment unit which judges whether operation of a feed axis motor is continued. The operation judgment unit judges that operation is continued when there are two pieces of data for which a relationship between the data and the code matches a rule, and the two pieces of data are within a predetermined judgment range. The operation judgment unit judges that the feed axis motor is stopped when at least one of the pieces of data for which the relationship matches the rule deviates from the judgment range.
US11853025B2
A partial circuit selector selects a partial circuit comprising a plurality of contacts in a ladder diagram program. A replacement circuit generator generates a replacement circuit comprising a smaller number of contacts than in the selected partial circuit. An auxiliary circuit generator generates an auxiliary circuit that causes the replacement circuit to perform the same action as the partial circuit. A program editor performs, on the ladder diagram program, a replacement process for replacing a partial circuit appearing in the ladder diagram program with the replacement circuit, and performs an auxiliary circuit insertion process for inserting the auxiliary circuit into the ladder diagram program.
US11853017B2
Techniques that facilitate machine learning optimization are provided. In one example, a system includes a computational resource component, a batch interval component, and a machine learning component. The computational resource component collects computational resource data associated with a group of computing devices that performs a machine learning process. The batch interval component determines, based on the computational resource data, batch interval data indicative of a time interval to collect data for the machine learning process. The machine learning component provides the batch interval data to the group of computing devices to facilitate execution of the machine learning process based on the batch interval data.
US11853016B2
An electronic device such as a wristwatch device may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display module having conductive display structures. The conductive display structures may be separated from the sidewalls by a slot element for a first antenna that runs around the display module. A feed element for the first antenna may be coupled between the display structures and the sidewalls. An antenna resonating element for a second antenna may be disposed within the slot element. A printed circuit may include additional antenna elements for the second antenna. The antenna resonating element may extend away from the feed element for the first antenna to provide improved isolation between the two antennas. The first antenna may be operable to provide coverage for frequencies that are lower than frequencies for which the second antenna may be operable to provide coverage.
US11853014B2
Systems and methods to create a customized watch face and retrieve the watch face to be displayed are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may effectuate presentation of a selection interface; receive a mint request to mint the watch face in accordance with a watch face design; effectuate a transfer of consideration from a user wallet to an administrative wallet; mint the watch face; transfer a non-fungible token to the user wallet; receive a display request to display the watch face on a watch screen; determine whether the user wallet holds a non-fungible token associated with the watch face; responsive to the user wallet holding the non-fungible token, facilitate display of the watch face on the watch screen; responsive to the user wallet not holding the non-fungible token, take no action to facilitate display of the watch face on the watch screen; and/or perform other operations.
US11853010B2
Disclosed is a device for securing and adjusting a bearing in an orifice in a bridge or a plate of a timepiece. It includes a first bearing screw defining a crimping opening of such a bearing and including an external thread, a second screw, so-called locking screw, defining an internal bore and including an external thread and a socket defining a tubular housing extending following a longitudinal axis, the tubular housing including a first tapped section, adapted to screw the first screw, and a second tapped section, adapted to screw the second screw. Advantageously, the external threads of the first and second screws and the corresponding sections of the socket have respective screwing pitches in opposite directions. Also disclosed is a method for securing and adjusting a bearing in an orifice provided for that purpose in a bridge or a plate of a timepiece thanks to such a device.
US11853009B2
A watch interaction simulation apparatus for carrying out interaction with a watch interaction member for a watch includes a sensor device adapted to be coupled with the watch interaction member. The sensor device is operable to sense an interaction with the watch interaction member. The apparatus includes an actuator device being coupled to the watch interaction member, an actuator control device for controlling the actuator device, and a sensor information computing device being operatively coupled to the sensor device.
US11853008B2
A timepiece display mechanism with an instantaneous jump function, including a Maltese cross mechanism with an annular ring controlling, in part of its travel, the pivoting of a planet wheel set and driven by a timepiece movement via a cam wheel set arranged to move the annular ring from an activated position to a deactivated position in an instantaneous displacement in order to pivot a planet wheel set, and vice versa in a controlled return slower than the instantaneous displacement, the cam wheel set includes a coaxial cam and plate including a slot for driving an eccentric finger of the cam which controls the pivoting of a driver driving the annular ring between two extreme activation and deactivation positions, the slot allowing a clear jump of the driver in the deactivation position, and a longer reactivation time.
US11852991B2
A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating portion accommodating developer, and a developer discharging portion in fluid communication with the developer accommodating portion. The developer accommodating portion is rotatable about a rotational axis and relative to the developer discharging portion, with the developer discharging portion being provided with a developer discharge opening at a bottommost side of the developer discharging portion and configured to permit discharging the developer to outside of the developer supply container. A lifter is linearly liftable relative to the developer discharging portion in a direction perpendicular to a horizontal plane that includes the rotational axis when the developer supply container is oriented with the developer discharge opening positioned at a bottom side of the developer discharging portion.
US11852989B2
A developing device includes first and second chambers, a partition wall, first and second feeding screws, a developing roller, a supplying roller, a first magnet including a first magnetic pole, a second magnet including second to fourth magnetic poles, and a guiding portion. With respect to a supplying roller rotational direction, in a position downstream of the third magnetic pole, a magnetic flux density of the fourth magnetic pole in a normal direction is 20% of a maximum value thereof is a first position positioned downstream of a second position where a line connecting a lowermost end of the guiding portion and a supplying roller center crosses an outer peripheral surface of the supplying roller, and upstream of a third position where a line connecting an uppermost end of the first feeding screw and the supplying roller center crosses the outer peripheral surface of the supplying roller.
US11852988B2
An image forming apparatus to form an image on a recording material includes a photosensitive member, an exposure device to form a latent image on the photosensitive member, a tubular body defining a space in which at least a part of the exposure device is contained, and a support portion that supports the exposure device and is provided along a rotation axis direction of the photosensitive member in the space of the tubular body. The image forming apparatus further includes, in the rotation axis direction, a first side plate fixed to one end portion of the tubular body, and a second side plate fixed to another end portion of the tubular body. One support portion end portion in the rotation axis direction is fixed to the first side plate, and another support portion end portion in the rotation axis direction is fixed to the second side plate.
US11852987B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photosensitive member, a charging member, an exposing unit to form an electrostatic latent image by exposing the surface of the photosensitive member charged by the charging member to light and, a developing member to develop the electrostatic latent image with toner. A controller controls so that a predetermined charging voltage is charged and the light is emitted by a low light quantity to a first non-print area, which is a non-print area provided in a region including the print area and the first non-print area with respect to a main scanning direction, and controls so that a charging voltage lower than the predetermined voltage is charged and exposure is not performed on a second non-print area, which is provided in a region including only the non-print area with respect to the main scanning direction.
US11852984B2
A target debris collection device for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source apparatus, includes a baffle body extending within an EUV vessel between a collector and an outlet port of the EUV vessel to allow EUV light reflected from the collector to pass through an internal transmissive region thereof, a discharge plate provided in a first end portion of the baffle body adjacent to the collector to collect the target material debris on an inner surface of the baffle body, a guide structure to guide the target material debris collected in the discharge plate to a collection tank, and a first heating member provided in the guide structure to prevent the target material debris from being solidified.
US11852979B2
An edge exposure tool may include a lens adjustment device that is capable of automatically adjusting various parameters of an edge exposure lens to account for changes in operating parameters of the edge exposure tool. In some implementations, the edge exposure tool may also include a controller that is capable of determining edge adjustment parameters for the edge exposure lens and exposure control parameters for the edge exposure tool using techniques such as big data mining, machine learning, and neural network processing. The lens adjustment device and the controller are capable of reducing and/or preventing the performance of the edge exposure tool from drifting out of tolerance, which may maintain the operation performance of the edge exposure tool and reduce the likelihood of wafer scratching, and may reduce the down-time of the edge exposure tool that would otherwise be caused by cleaning and calibration of the edge exposure lens.
US11852977B2
A method of coating an optical substrate with a transparent, electrically conductive coating includes depositing a semiconductor coating over a surface of an optical substrate, wherein the semiconductor coating has broadband optical transmittance. A doped semiconductor is applied in a pattern over the semiconductor coating. The doped semiconductor in the pattern is activated for electrical conductivity in the doped semiconductor.
US11852975B2
An electron beam lithography (Ebeam) method for a wafer having alignment and device layers with a design alignment. The Ebeam method includes executing an Ebeam scan of predefined length and resolution based on the design alignment over a pattern edge of the device layer, generating a signal from reflections of the Ebeam scan off the pattern edge, determining an offset of the device layer relative to the alignment layer from a comparison of the signal and the design alignment and applying the offset to the design alignment to obtain an actual measurement of Ebeam alignment.
US11852974B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive polymer composition which has good filterability and good film formability of a flat film on an electron beam resist and can be suitably used for an antistatic film for electron beam resist writing, showing excellent antistatic property in the electron beam writing process due to the property of low volume resistivity (Ω·cm), and, reducing an effect on lithography by making an effect of an acid diffused from the film minimum, and further having excellent peelability by H2O or an alkaline developer after writing. A conductive polymer composition which comprises (A) a polyaniline-based conductive polymer having at least one kind or more of a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (1), and (B) a carboxylic acid salt represented by the following general formula (2):
US11852973B2
The present invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition having high sensitivity, high bending resistance for the cured film, and high long-term reliability for an organic EL display device in which the cured film is used. The present invention is a photosensitive resin composition containing an alkali-soluble resin (a), a phenolic resin (b) having a halogen atom, and a photosensitive compound (c).
US11852970B2
A material for lithography containing a tellurium-containing compound or a tellurium-containing resin, a production method therefor, a composition for lithography, a pattern formation method, a compound, a resin, and a method for purifying the compound or the resin are provided. The compounds and materials can provide for high solubility in a safe solvent.
US11852964B2
A method of manufacturing a reflective mask blank includes: forming a multilayer reflective film, which is configured to reflect EUV light, on a substrate to form a substrate with a multilayer reflective film; subjecting the substrate with a multilayer reflective film to defect inspection; forming an absorber film, which is configured to absorb the EUV light, on the multilayer reflective film of the substrate with a multilayer reflective film; forming a reflective mask blank, in which an alignment region is formed in an outer peripheral edge region of a pattern formation region by removing the absorber film so that the multilayer reflective film of an area including an element serving as a reference of defect information on the multilayer reflective film is exposed in the alignment region; and performing defect management of the reflective mask blank through use of the alignment region.
US11852958B2
A gimbal control method includes obtaining a working parameter of a gimbal, where the gimbal includes an axial arm and a motor configured to drive the axial arm to rotate to drive a photographing device mounted on the gimbal to move in one or more directions. The method further includes obtaining a working parameter of the gimbal when the gimbal is controlled by a remote controller; and in response to the measured working parameter being greater than the working parameter of the gimbal when the gimbal is controlled by the remote controller, controlling the motor to drive the axial arm to rotate to a target attitude.
US11852957B2
This document describes a thermal-control system that is integrated into a security camera. The thermal-control system includes a combination of heatsinks and thermal interface materials with high thermal conductivities. The thermal-control system may transfer and spread energy from a high thermal-loading condition effectuated upon the security camera to concurrently maintain temperatures of multiple thermal zones on or within the security camera at or below prescribed temperature thresholds.
US11852945B2
An electrochromic article includes a first substrate having a first surface and an opposite second surface and a second substrate having a third surface and an opposite fourth surface separated from the first substrate. The second surface of the first substrate faces the third surface of the second substrate and a first electrode is positioned over at least a portion of the second surface of the first substrate. A second electrode is positioned over at least a portion of the third surface of the second substrate. A sealant material is positioned between the first electrode and second electrode. An electrochromic composition is positioned in direct contact with at least a portion of the first electrode and at least a portion of the second electrode. The sealant material is formed from an organic polymer material having an oxygen transmission rate (OTR) of less than or equal to 2 cc/m2·day·atm.
US11852944B2
An electrochromic module includes two opposite positioned first substrates and at least one electrochromic unit disposed between the first substrates. Each of the electrochromic unit includes a first conductive layer, a filter layer, and a second conductive layer stacked in turn. One end of the first conductive layer protrudes from an edge of the filter layer to form a first electrode area. One end of the second conductive layer protrudes from another edge of the filter layer to form a second electrode area. Vertical projections of the first electrode area and the second electrode area on the first substrates are spaced apart from each other. Each of the first electrode area and the second electrode area is configured to connect to a power supply. The electrochromic module can make it easy to connect the electrochromic unit to the power supply.
US11852936B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter substrate, an array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The array substrate includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of data line black matrix less (DBS) electrodes disposed above the data lines. The DBS electrodes include at least one slit-shaped opening disposed at intervals. It may solve the problem that the data line and the DBS electrode always keep overlapping in the pixel structure of the prior art, resulting in a high parasitic capacitance of the data line, which is beneficial to the application of the DBS electrode in high-frequency and large-sized display panels.
US11852930B2
A display device is provided. A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of connecting signal wires which supply different control voltages; a flexible printed circuit board attached to a side surface of the display panel and including a base film and a plurality of lead wires which are disposed on the base film; an anisotropic conductive film disposed between the plurality of connecting signal wires and the plurality of lead wires, and at least one bump wire disposed between adjacent connecting signal wires, the at least one bump wire being not supplied with the different control voltages controlling the display panel.
US11852927B2
A display device includes: a gate line having an extension direction; a switch unit electrically connecting to the gate line; a pixel electrode electrically connecting to the switch unit; and a slit in the pixel electrode, wherein a virtual line parallel to the extension direction passes through an end point of the slit which is closest to the gate line, the pixel electrode is divided into a first portion and a second portion by the virtual line, and the first portion is closer to the gate line than the second portion, and wherein -the slit has a first width in the extension direction and a second width in the extension direction, the second width is closer to the first portion than the first width, and the first width is less than the second width.
US11852925B2
A display panel includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of spacers located between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The plurality of spacers include at least one first spacer, at least one second spacer and at least one third spacer. The at least one first spacer is on the array substrate, the at least one second spacer and the at least one third spacer are on the color filter substrate and respectively overlap the at least one first spacer in a direction perpendicular to the display panel. The at least one first spacer, the at least one second spacer and the at least one third spacer have a first height, a second height and a third height respectively along the direction perpendicular to the display panel, and the second height is different from the third height.
US11852923B2
A reliability of seal portion of a liquid crystal display device can be improved by the following structure. A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate which includes a display region and a terminal part, and has an inorganic insulating film formed on an organic passivation film and an alignment film formed over the inorganic insulating film; a counter substrate, the TFT substrate and the counter substrate bonded together by a sealing material formed at a seal part surrounding the display region; and a liquid crystal sealed inside. At the seal part, a transparent conductive oxide film is formed between the inorganic insulating film and the alignment film. The transparent conductive oxide film exists inside an edge of the TFT substrate and hence, the edge of the TFT substrate is free of the transparent conductive oxide film.
US11852920B2
A light guide plate including a substrate; a first refractive index layer; a second refractive index layer stacked on the first refractive index layer, and a reflective layer disposed on a surface of the substrate opposite to the first refractive index layer, wherein the first refractive index layer is a structure of a plurality of prisms distributed on an emergence surface of the substrate, forming prism-structured netted dots. Through disposing the prism-structured netted dots, the reflective layer, and the second refractive index layer on the light guide plate substrate, and using refraction and reflection of each layer to realize adjustment of emergence angle, a function of an independent diffuser, prism, and reflector is realized. The light guide plate is used as CF or TFT substrate to manufacture a liquid crystal display, and a backlight module is integrated into a liquid crystal panel, decreasing a thickness of a liquid crystal module.
US11852917B2
The present invention relates to a backlight module and a preparation method therefor, and a display panel. According to the present invention, solid white ink is attached to a second base plate, and then the solid white ink corresponding to positions of bonding pad units is removed by means of laser engraving, so as to prevent the screen-printing white ink from damaging the second base plate. Aligned assembling is performed on a first assembly and a second assembly using a vacuum pairing device. The vacuum pairing device may be reused in other preparation processes of the display panel. Therefore, the device investment can be reduced, and the production costs can be lowered.
US11852916B2
A display device and method of manufacturing the same, in which the display device includes: a first substrate; a transflective layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate; a wavelength conversion layer disposed on the transflective layer; a capping layer disposed on the wavelength conversion layer; a first polarizing layer disposed on the capping layer; and a second polarizing layer disposed on the other surface of the first substrate. The first polarizing layer and the second polarizing layer have different polarization directions.
US11852911B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display device capable of switching between a transparent state and a scattering state, reducing or preventing a decrease in transmittance in the transparent state, and reducing or preventing a decrease in luminance in the panel central portion in the scattering state. The liquid crystal display device includes, sequentially from its viewing surface side toward its back surface side: a first liquid crystal panel; a light source; and a second liquid crystal panel, the first liquid crystal panel including a polymer dispersed liquid crystal containing a polymer network and liquid crystal components, the light source being configured to irradiate a back surface side main surface of the first liquid crystal panel with light from an oblique direction.
US11852907B2
An aging pallet used in an aging process of a display panel is provided. The aging pallet can include a plurality of trays stacked on a driving unit. Each of the plurality of trays can include a seating portion on which the display panel is mounted, and at least one press bar disposed on the seating portion. The press bar can include protrusions protruding toward the seating portion or holes disposed at a surface of the press body toward the seating portion. Thus, the aging pallet can prevent the damage to the display panel due to particles in the aging process.
US11852904B2
A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a person that includes a refraction area having a refractive power based on a prescription for the eye of the person, and a plurality of at least three non-contiguous optical elements, at least one optical element having a non-spherical optical function.
US11852902B2
A cleaner for cleaning grippers for the transport of ophthalmic lenses comprises: an exhaust air box comprising at least one inlet opening for allowing ambient air as well as lenses, lens parts, debris and fluid adhered to the grippers to be sucked into an interior of the exhaust air box, an outlet opening in fluid communication with the interior of the exhaust air box and a cleaner head arranged on the exhaust air box and comprising a plurality of receiver sleeves for receiving the grippers to be cleaned, a plurality of shutters, wherein each individual shutter of the plurality of shutters is arranged to open or close the fluid communication of at least one receiver sleeve (5) of the plurality of receiver sleeves (5) and the interior of the exhaust air box (1).
US11852898B2
A pair of full frame glasses is revealed. A through hole and a mounting fixing hole are penetrating an upper frame portion and a lower frame portion of a frame respectively while an upper mounting wall is formed behind the through hole and a lower mounting wall is formed behind the mounting fixing hole. A fixing member includes an elastic positioning piece and an elastic mounting portion capable of being inserted through the through hole and the mounting fixing hole. An upper mounting projection corresponding to a lower edge of the upper mounting wall and a lower mounting projection corresponding to a lower edge of the lower mounting wall are projecting from the elastic positioning piece. Thereby the upper and lower frame portions are connected securely by the fixing member. During assembly and disassembly processes, no tool is required so that the glasses are more convenient to use.
US11852895B2
An image capturing module receives a predetermined number of a first set of frames by calibration of the image capturing device. An image processing module calculates focal values of each of the predetermined number of the first set of frames using a focal value calculation technique, identifies a predefined threshold of the focal value among each of the focal values calculated, determines a reference frame among each of the predetermined number of the first set of frames. An image comparison module compares focal value of one or more live frames with the focal value of reference frame, selects an optimal live frame from the one or more live frames when the focal value of the one or more live frames is greater than predefined percentage of the focal value of the reference frame. A notification module notifies an achievement of an optimal focal value range corresponding to the optimal live frame to an operator through one or more notification means.
US11852894B2
A laser processing apparatus includes a laser light output section, a laser light scanning section, a distance measurement light emitting section which emits distance measurement light, a pair of light receiving elements which receives the distance measurement light emitted from the distance measurement light emitting section and reflected by the workpiece, optical axes of the pair of light receiving elements being arranged inside the housing so as to sandwich an optical axis of the distance measurement light emitting section, a distance measuring section which measures a distance to the surface of the workpiece, and a light receiving lens which is arranged such that each of the optical axes of the pair of light receiving elements passes through the light receiving lens, and condenses the distance measurement light that has been reflected by the workpiece on respective light receiving surfaces of the pair of light receiving elements.
US11852892B2
A lens assembly module includes a base, a cover, a lens unit, an elastic element, at least two conductive elements, at least one AF coil element and at least two first magnetic elements. The cover is coupled to the base. The lens unit is movably disposed in the cover. The elastic element is coupled to the lens unit. The conductive elements are coupled to the lens unit. The AF coil element is disposed on the lens unit, and two ends of the AF coil element are electrically connected to the conductive elements, respectively. The first magnetic elements are disposed in the cover. A part of each of the inner portions is overlapped along a direction parallel to an optical axis and electrically connected to each conductive element. The AF coil element and the conductive elements are electrically connected by a welding method.
US11852890B2
A near-eye display system comprising an image source, a modulation stack, and an imaging assembly. The modulation stack, in one embodiment, comprises one or more digital light path length modulators.
US11852887B2
A camera module includes a metal yoke, a holding base, a plastic barrel, a plurality of plastic lens elements, a leaf spring pair and a coil element. The holding base is connected to the metal yoke and defines an inner space. The holding base has a through hole which is corresponding to an opening of the metal yoke. The plastic barrel is movably disposed in the inner space. The plastic lens elements are disposed in the plastic barrel. The leaf spring pair includes two leaf springs which are located on a same plane and connected to the plastic barrel. The coil element surrounds an outer surface of the plastic barrel and electrically connected to the leaf spring pair, wherein two ends of the coil element is connected to the leaf springs by a thermal pressing method.
US11852882B2
A packaging assembly for telecommunications modules comprises a plurality of telecommunications modules provided in a stacked arrangement in a first container, a plurality of telecommunications modules provided in a stacked arrangement in an adjacent second container, and a removable radius limiter mounted between the first and second containers for guiding all of the fiber optic cabling extending from the telecommunications modules with minimum bend radius protection.
US11852877B2
Provided is a connector plug includes: an optical device module having an optical engine that generates an optical signal or receives an optical signal; an optical fiber alignment guide member having an optical fiber insertion channel formed on one surface of the optical device module so that optical fibers are seated; and an optical component that is seated in an optical component alignment guide groove formed adjacent to the optical fiber alignment guide member on one surface of the optical device module, wherein the optical engine includes an optical device which is formed adjacent to the optical component on one surface of the optical device module, and which radiates an optical signal or receives an optical signal in the horizontal direction, and an optical integrated circuit (IC) installed in the optical device module and controlling the optical device.
US11852873B2
An interface provides protection and support for transitioning a jacketed fiber optic cable. The interface has a crimp body, a transition portion and a front end to receive an adapter. The interface preferably has a main body with two pieces that are identical. The two pieces have tabs and recesses corresponding to the tabs for alignment and structure. The main body also may have an opening for an adapter latch. A crimp band fits over the crimp body to secure the jacketed fiber optic cable to the interface.
US11852869B2
A method of fabricating a waveguide structure to form a solid-core waveguide from a waveguiding layer may include etching a fluid channel into the waveguiding layer, etching a first air-gap and a second air gap into the waveguiding layer, wherein etching the first and the second air-gaps creates a solid-core waveguide in the waveguiding layer between the first air-gap and the second air-gap. A method for fabricating a waveguide structure to form a solid-core waveguide may include forming a first trench, a second trench, and a third trench in a substrate layer, and depositing a waveguiding layer on the machined substrate layer, wherein depositing the waveguiding layer creates a hollow core of a fluid channel in a location corresponding to the first trench, and a solid-core waveguide portion in the waveguiding layer in a location corresponding to an area between the second trench and the third trench.
US11852868B2
A device includes a first package connected to an interconnect substrate, wherein the interconnect substrate includes conductive routing; and a second package connected to the interconnect substrate, wherein the second package includes a photonic layer on a substrate, the photonic layer including a silicon waveguide coupled to a grating coupler and to a photodetector; a via extending through the substrate; an interconnect structure over the photonic layer, wherein the interconnect structure is connected to the photodetector and to the via; and an electronic die bonded to the interconnect structure, wherein the electronic die is connected to the interconnect structure.
US11852852B2
A method for optical sensing includes providing a mirror comprising a central reflective region surrounded by a peripheral glare-suppressing region. A beam of light from a laser light source is directed to reflect from the central region so as to pass through an output optic along an axis toward a target scene. The light returned from the target scene through the output optic is focused onto an optical sensor, via collection optics having a collection aperture surrounding the mirror.
US11852850B2
The present disclosure describes lighting assemblies (e.g., taillight assemblies) for vehicles that diffuse and block light transmission from a centralized light source, which inhibits (if not entirely prevents) the creation and perception of hotspots from one or more points-of-view (e.g., from the sides and/or the rear of the vehicle) while producing a more homogenous overall appearance. In one embodiment of the disclosure, the lighting assembly includes: a light source; a diffuser that is spaced axially from the light source; a lens that is spaced axially from the diffuser; and a shield that is located axially between the diffuser and the lens. The diffuser includes first and second lateral ends and is configured to receive and disperse light from the light source through the lighting assembly. The shield is configured to interfere with light transmission from the light source through the at least one lens and thereby inhibit hotspot perception.
US11852846B1
A three-dimensional (3D) display device includes a display panel which operates in a first mode for displaying a first image or a second mode for displaying a second image and a liquid crystal lens panel disposed on the display panel, where the liquid crystal lens panel refracts the first image in a way such that the first image has a first viewing angle and refracts the second image in a way such that the second image has a second viewing angle greater than the first viewing angle. The liquid crystal lens panel includes an upper substrate, a first lens layer including a plurality of first lenses, a lower substrate, a second lens layer including a plurality of second lenses, and a liquid crystal layer. A first pitch of each of the plurality of first lenses is less than a second pitch of each of the plurality of second lenses.
US11852841B2
A dynamically actuable diffractive optical element (DOE) includes a substrate and a diffraction grating disposed on a first region of a surface of the substrate. The DOE further includes a quantity of a fluid disposed on a second region of the surface of the substrate, a fluid displacer disposed adjacent the second region of the surface of the substrate, and a drive signal source configured to send an electric signal to the fluid displacer. The fluid displacer is configured to, upon receiving the electric signal in a first state, causing a portion of the quantity of the fluid to be displaced from the second region of the surface into grooves of the diffraction grating, and upon receiving the electric signal in a second state, causing the portion of the quantity of the fluid to retract from the grooves of the diffraction grating to the second region of the surface.
US11852831B1
A pair of multifunctional smart eyeglasses with adjustable flexible ear-hooks includes: a lens bracket, lens legs, nose pads, a left lens, a right lens and a connecting bridge, the left lens and the right lens are installed in the lens bracket that is connected by the connecting bridge to the nose pads; the lens leg includes a flexible ear-hook connecting part; flexible ear-hooks include memory steel wires and rubber sleeves therein, rubber sleeve temples and rubber sleeve extensions are located at lens leg ends and outer sides of lens leg frames, and deep memory steel wire recesses accommodate the memory steel wires; the nose pad includes the connecting bridge in an integral structure, and an annular groove is formed at an end of the connecting bridge near the nose pad. The smart eyeglasses can be adjusted to most comfortable tightness according to each person's head shape.
US11852829B2
Systems include three optical elements arranged along an optical axis each having a different cylinder axis and a variable cylinder refractive power. Collectively, the three elements form a compound optical element having an overall spherical refractive power (SPH), cylinder refractive power (CYL), and cylinder axis (Axis) that can be varied according to a prescription (Rx).
US11852826B2
There is provided an optical device, including a light-transmitting substrate having at least two major surfaces and edges, a display source based on a time-sequential color imaging, characterized by a frame time, three different primary colors, and coupled-in brightness, an optical element for coupling light waves from the display source into the substrate to effect total internal reflection, at least one flat reflecting surface located between the two major surfaces of the light-transmitting substrate for coupling light waves out of the substrate, and a dynamic partially reflecting element for re-directing the coupled-out light waves into a viewer's eye, wherein the transmittance and the reflectance of the dynamic partially reflecting element is dynamically controllable to yield high reflection in each one of the three primary colors, while simultaneously having high transmittance of two other colors of the three primary colors.
US11852824B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to using an array of hot mirrors in an eye-imaging system. One example provides a head-mounted display system, comprising a frame, an eye-imaging camera supported on the frame, a switchable hot mirror array comprising a plurality of switchable hot mirrors configured to direct light reflecting from an eye toward the eye-imaging camera, and a controller configured to control switching of a reflectivity of each of the plurality of switchable hot mirrors.
US11852821B2
A glasses-type electronic device is provided. The glasses-type electronic device includes a lens frame, a camera and a display, a first wearing member extending from one end of the lens frame and including a first printed circuit board (PCB) disposed therein, a second wearing member extending from the other end of the lens frame and including a second PCB disposed therein, and a flexible PCB (FPCB) extending from the first PCB through the lens frame unit and electrically connected to the second PCB. A first wiring line of the FPCB is located in at least a portion of an uppermost layer or a lowermost layer of the FPCB, and a second wiring line of the FPCB is located in at least a portion of an inner layer of the FPCB.
US11852820B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a first camera configured to capture a frontal external environment of the electronic device, a second camera oriented opposite to the first camera and configured to capture gaze directions of a user's left eye and right eye, a first display panel corresponding to the left eye, a second display panel corresponding to the right eye, a memory, and a processor that implements the method, including: identifying, using the second camera, a dominant eye and a non-dominant eye among the left eye and right eye, identifying a dominant display panel from among the first and second display panels corresponding to the dominant eye, and a non-dominant display panel from among the first and second display panels corresponding to the non-dominant eye, and changing settings of the dominant display panel to be different from settings of the non-dominant display panel.
US11852807B2
A system for downhole optical analysis includes a housing forming at least part of a pressure barrier. The system also includes a window, formed at an end of the housing, the window being at least semi-transparent to permit light to travel through the window. The system further includes at least one light source, arranged within the housing, wherein the at least one light source is configured to emit a beam of light at a wavelength to enable non-contact, optical cleaning of the window, the wavelength being selected to reduce interaction with the window while heating a fluid film formed on the window outside the housing.
US11852794B2
A high-throughput optical sectioning imaging method and imaging system. The method includes: modulating a light beam into a modulated light beam capable of being focused on a focal plane of an objective lens and being defocused on a defocusing plane of the objective lens, the modulated light beam having incompletely identical modulated intensities on the focal plane of the objective lens; imaging, in different rows of pixels, a sample under illumination of the modulated light beam to obtain sample images in the different rows of pixels; obtaining focal plane images of sample images in the different rows of pixels by demodulation of the sample images according to a demodulation algorithm. The system includes a light beam modulation module, an imaging module and a demodulation module.
US11852790B2
A zoom camera comprising an optical path folding element (OPFE) for folding the light from a first optical path to a second optical path, a first lens having a first optical axis and a first effective focal length EFLL1, the first optical axis being along the second optical path, a collimating lens having a second optical axis, and an image sensor located on the second optical path, wherein the collimating lens is movable between at least a first state and a second state, wherein in the first state the collimating lens is positioned in the second optical path between the OPFE and the first lens such that light entering the first lens arrives only from the image side of the collimating lens, and wherein in the second state the collimating lens is positioned outside the first optical path such that light entering the first lens does not arrive from the image side of the collimating lens.
US11852789B2
An optical imaging system includes five lenses in which a first lens includes a positive refractive power and a concave object-side surface, and a second lens includes a positive refractive power and a concave image-side surface. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side.
US11852779B1
A method and system for monitoring an extraordinary rainstorm based on multi-source data is provided. The method includes: acquiring a current moment of a target region; dividing a target time period into n rain events by means of a time window; inverting precipitable water vapor within each rain event; acquiring an accumulated rainfall per m hours within each rain event; computing, according to precipitable water vapor and the accumulated rainfall per m hours within each rain event, a mutual conversion speed V between the precipitable water vapor and the accumulated rainfall; indicating, if the conversion speed is greater than or equal to 1, that a rainfall is excessive and the extraordinary rainstorm is going to occur after the current moment; and indicating, if the conversion speed is less than 1, the rainfall is insufficient and the extraordinary rainstorm is about to end.
US11852777B2
A device and method for projecting a light pattern is provided. The device includes a processor system and a housing. The housing is rotatable about a first axis. A measurement device is operably coupled to the housing that measures a distance to a surface in an environment. A light projector is operably coupled to the housing, the light projector having a light source and a pair of movable mirrors, the light source positioned to emit light onto the pair of movable mirrors. Wherein the processor system is responsive to computer instructions for: determining 3D coordinates of points on the surface with the 3D measurement device; selecting a pattern; adjusting the pattern based at least in part on the 3D coordinates; and causing the light projector to emit a beam of light and moving the pair of mirrors to generate the adjusted pattern on the surface.
US11852775B2
The present specification discloses a high speed scanning system for scanning cargo carried by rail. The system uses of a two-dimensional X-ray sensor array with, in one embodiment, a cone-beam X-ray geometry. The pulse rate of X-ray source is modulated based on the speed of the moving cargo to allow a distance travelled by the cargo between X-ray pulses to be equal to the width of the detector, for a single energy source, and to half the width of the detector for a dual energy source. This ensures precise timing between the X-ray exposure and the speed of the passing object, and thus accurate scanning of cargo even at high speeds.
US11852774B2
A method is provided for processing sensor data associated with a formation. The sensor data is obtained and divided into a plurality of voxels in a three-dimensional environment. Each voxel corresponds to a location in the formation surrounding a wellbore. A selection of a first point in the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a first position along the wellbore is received. A selection of a first two-dimensional shape intersecting the first point is received. A selection of a second point corresponding to a second position different from the first position along the wellbore is received. A three-dimensional volume containing a subset of the plurality of voxels of sensor data is generated. The three-dimensional volume is bound at least by the first point and the first two-dimensional shape at a first end and by the second point at a second end. The generated three-dimensional volume is rendered for output on a display.
US11852770B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to marine geophysical surveys. Various output characteristics of a vibratory source may be modified based on whether a source is targeting an identified portion of a survey area. The portion of the survey area may be detected during the survey or may be pre-identified. In some embodiments, a survey system drives a vibratory source using digital codes having different lengths based on whether the source is targeting an identified portion of a survey area. The disclosed techniques may improve imaging of geology under certain types of formations or may reduce environmental impact, in various embodiments.
US11852768B2
Computer-implemented stratigraphic play quality generation is disclosed. Stratigraphic data can be processed from each of a plurality of respective data sources to generate conditioned stratigraphic data. From at least some of the conditioned stratigraphic data, attributes of at least one seismic sequence can be extracted, and at least one seismic surface and at least one structural element associated with at least some of the conditioned stratigraphic data can be determined. At least some of the conditioned stratigraphic data representing sedimentary layers can be correlated with seismic reflection data to ascertain a subsurface of the geologic area at a respective depth. Reservoir properties associated with the geologic area are linked to elastic properties, and a 2D model built. Moreover, 3D map can be generated that is usable for a prospective drilling plan.
US11852763B2
An air gun for generating seismic waves in a marine environment includes a cylindrical body configured to hold compressed air and having plural air ports for releasing the compressed air from inside the cylindrical body, the cylindrical body extending along a longitudinal axis X, and an extension member attached externally to the body and extending along a radial axis R, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis X. The extension member promotes ambient water flowing inside an air bubble generated when the compressed air is released outside the body.
US11852756B2
A flexible digital radiographic detector assembly includes a flexible sleeve enclosing a photosensor array supported by a flexible substrate. Integrated circuit readout electronics are coupled to the photosensor array and to a circuit board having conductive contacts. The contacts engage a hand carried read out electronics box to initiate a read out of image data captured in the photosensor array and to display the image data on a screen in the read out electronics box.
US11852754B2
System and method of ultrasound imaging methodology are provided. The system and method can include directing an array to transmit sets of cascaded titled ultrasound waves towards a tissue sample, decoding reflected signals through summing, subtracting, and delay operations. The reflected signals can be reconstructed to provide a final decoded output.
US11852750B2
One-dimensional data obtained by performing a Fourier transform on a digitally converted frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar signal at every pulse repetition interval is input to a recurrent neural network (RNN) to find the probability of the existence of a target in each range index. The range indices, i.e., bit frequencies are selected based on the probability. In order to reduce the size of the RNN, windowing may be applied. In addition, a speed-index-specific coefficient value may be calculated by accumulating and performing a Fourier transform on the selected bit frequencies in which the target exists over a plurality of pulse repetition intervals. Thus, it is possible to calculate the speed of the target.
US11852747B2
A novel and useful system and method for eliminating settling time delays in a radar system. In one embodiment, a plurality of oscillators is provided with a single transmitter. In an alternative embodiment, a plurality of transmitters is provided, each with its own oscillator. In either case, more than a single oscillator is used, whereby startup or turn on transients associated with one oscillator are allowed to settle out while another oscillator is being used. The two or more oscillators switch off and/or alternate or rotate such that oscillator settling time between chirp transmissions from the radar is substantially or completely eliminated. In a radar system having two transmitters, when the chirp propagation time window for the first transmitter is complete, the first transmitter is disconnected from the receive channel and the second transmitter is connected to the antenna and receive channel without having to wait for the second transmitter to settle since it was allowed to settle beforehand.
US11852745B2
A system may include a display and a processor. The processor may be configured to: break down two-dimensional weather radar reflectivity data into cells, each cell of the cells having a maximum rainfall rate location and a geometric area; prioritize the cells based at least on each cell's proximity to the aircraft, each cell's intensity, each cell's growth rate, each cell's storm top altitude relative to the aircraft altitude, and/or a threat convective level of the cell to select a highest priority cell; and output, to the display, a highest priority azimuth slice vertical radar image of the two-dimensional weather radar reflectivity data as graphical data, the highest priority azimuth slice vertical radar image corresponding to an azimuth slice of the two-dimensional weather radar reflectivity data for the highest priority cell. The display may be configured to display the highest priority azimuth slice vertical radar image.
US11852739B2
There is provided a method for providing Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) measurements from a wireless device to a location server. The method includes sending, from the wireless node to the location server, a capability to support OTDOA location measurements using multipath RSTD, receiving, at the wireless node, a request for OTDOA location measurements using multipath RSTD, from the location server. The method includes receiving, at the wireless node, assistance data providing details of required OTDOA location measurements using multipath RSTD from the location server, receiving, at the wireless node, a signal from an RSTD reference cell and a neighbor cell. The method includes observing, at the wireless node, a time difference between the received signals thereby obtaining the required OTDOA location measurements using multipath RSTD and sending the required OTDOA location measurements using multipath RSTD from the wireless node to the location server.
US11852728B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided for the improved and automatic prediction of an elevation of an architectural feature of a structure at a particular geographic location. Some example implementations employ predictive, machine-learning modeling to facilitate the use of LiDAR-derived ground-elevation data, additional location context data, and elevation data from comparator locations to extrapolate and otherwise predict the elevation or other position of a given architectural feature of structure.
US11852727B2
Optical sensing apparatus (20) includes an array (28) of emitters (50), which emit pulses of optical radiation at different, respective times in response to a control input applied to the array. A receiver (26) includes a plurality of detectors (40), which output signals indicative of times of arrival of photons at the detectors. Optics (30, 32) project the optical radiation from the emitters onto respective locations in a scene and image the respective locations onto corresponding pixels of the receiver. A controller (44) controls the emitters to emit the output pulses in a predefined spatio-temporal sequence, and collects and processes the signals output by corresponding pixels in synchronization with the spatio-temporal sequence so as to measure respective times of flight of the pulses to and from the respective locations in the scene.
US11852725B2
A method for determining an elevation of a laser detector assembly includes calculating an estimated elevation of a laser detector assembly based on data from an inertial measurement unit and a detected laser strike. The estimated elevation is then output. A detected elevation of the laser detector assembly is calculated based on the detected laser strike and the detected elevation is output in response to the detected laser strike. The estimated elevation is calculated and output between outputs of detected elevations.
US11852723B2
Provided is a system for controlling a detecting distance of an ultrasonic sensor based on ground recognition. The system includes: an ultrasonic sensor provided in a vehicle and configured to, when driven, recognize an object in front of or behind the vehicle; an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a detection area of the ultrasonic sensor; a ground type recognizer configured to recognize a ground type corresponding to the detecting area of the ultrasonic sensor using the image acquired through the image capturing unit; and a sensing threshold changer configured to, when a travelling speed of the vehicle satisfies a preset condition, change a sensing threshold of the ultrasonic sensor according to the recognized ground type.
US11852720B2
A vehicular radar sensing system includes a radar sensor disposed at a vehicle so as to sense exterior of the vehicle and having at least one transmitter that transmits radio signals and at least one receiver that receives radio signals. The radar sensor includes a transmitting wave guide antenna and a receiving wave guide antenna, a PCB, and a processor operable to process radio signals transmitted by the at least one transmitter and received by the at least one receiver. Each of the wave guide elements includes a respective wave guide slot disposed at the inboard side of the PCB, and another respective wave guide slot that guides the radio signals to or from the environment, and a respective air wave guide that guides the radio signals between the respective wave guide slots.
US11852719B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. User equipment (UE), such as vehicles, may implement radar transmissions to detect and avoid potential collisions with a target such as other UE or pedestrians. A first UE may receive an indication of a location of a second UE and an indication of one or more parameters associated with radar transmission from the second UE. The first UE may also receive a radio frequency waveform that includes a first component associated with the radar transmissions from the second UE and a second component that is associated with reflected radar transmission from the first UE. The first UE may compensate for an interference from the first component based on the location of the second UE and the one or more parameters. The first UE may generate a radar image from the received radio frequency waveform based on compensating for the interference.
US11852715B2
An object detector includes: a transmission and reception unit that transmits a transmission wave and receives a reflection wave from an object; an acquisition unit that detects the reflection wave having a signal level above a threshold to acquire distance information indicating a distance from the transmission and reception unit to the object; a sort processing unit that sets a priority of the distance information to be higher as a difference between a signal level corresponding to the distance information and the threshold is larger when a plurality of pieces of the distance information are acquired in a predetermined period; and an output control unit that outputs the plurality of pieces of the distance information in descending order of the priority.
US11852707B2
The present disclosure provides a system for SMS MRI. During each of a plurality of frames, the system may cause an MRI scanner to apply a plurality of PE steps to each of a plurality of slice locations of a subject to acquire echo signals. A phase modulation magnetic field gradient may be applied during each of at least some of the PE steps in the frame. For each frame, the system may reconstruct an aliasing image representative of the slice locations in the frame based on the corresponding echo signals. The system may also generate a plurality of reference slice images based on the aliasing images. The system may further reconstruct at least one slice image based on the aliasing images and the reference slice images. Each of the slice image may be representative of one of the slice locations in one of the frames.
US11852706B2
The present invention includes a method and apparatus for improved magnetic resonance imaging with simultaneous fat and fluid suppression of a subject comprising: acquiring four images, in-phase (IP) and out-of-phase (OP) at a short and a long echo time (TE) using a single-shot turbo spin echo from one or more magnetic resonance imager excitations: processing at least a pair of IP and OP images at a short and a long TE using single-shot turbo spin echo using a Dixon reconstruction; processing the pair of IP and OP images; subtracting the long TE water-only image from the shared-field-map Dixon reconstruction from the short TE water-only image to provide a fluid attenuation; processing water-only and fat-only images at the short and long TE to generate quantitative fat-fraction map; and reconstructing one or more 3D magnetic resonance images.
US11852705B2
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object (10). It is an object of the invention to enable MR imaging using a 3D radial or spiral acquisition scheme providing an enhanced image quality in the presence of motion. The method comprises the steps of: —generating MR signals by subjecting the object (10) to an imaging sequence comprising RF pulses and switched magnetic field gradients; —acquiring the MR signals using a 3D radial or spiral acquisition scheme with oversampling of a central portion (26) of k-space; —detecting motion-induced displacements (d) and/or deformations of the object (10) during the acquisition of the MR signals and assigning each of the acquired MR signals to a motion state; —reconstructing an MR image from the MR signals weighted in the central portion (26) of k-space, wherein a stronger weighting (W, 30) is applied to MR signals acquired in more frequent motion states, while a weaker weighting (W, 31, 32) is applied to MR signals acquired in less frequent motion states. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a computer program for a MR device (1).
US11852699B2
In one aspect, a linear sensor includes at least one magnetoresistance element that includes a first spin valve and a second spin valve positioned on the first spin valve. The first spin valve includes a first set of reference layers having a magnetization direction in a first direction and a first set of free layers having a magnetization direction in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The second spin valve includes a second set of reference layers having a magnetization direction in the first direction and a second set of free layers having a magnetization direction in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and antiparallel to the second direction. The first direction is neither parallel nor antiparallel to a direction of an expected magnetic field.
US11852698B2
A magnetic sensor packaging structure with a hysteresis coil comprising a substrate, a sensor chip, a spiral hysteresis coil on the substrate, and wire bonding pads. The sensor bridge arms are composed of magnetoresistive sensing elements. The sensor bridge arms are deposited on the sensor chip, and the sensor bridge arms are electrically interconnected to form a magnetoresistive sensor bridge that is located on the hysteresis coil. The magnetic field generated by the spiral hysteresis coil is collinear with a sensitive axis of the sensor bridge. The magnetoresistive sensor bridge is located on the substrate and encapsulated. By placing the spiral hysteresis coil on the substrate, it is capable of supporting larger currents with smaller resistance value. This allows the sensor hysteresis to be effectively eliminated. In addition, the packaging structure manufacturing process is simple and cost effective.
US11852689B2
Aspects relate to a connector for charging an electric vehicle and a method for its use. An exemplary connector includes at least a direct current conductor configured to conduct a direct current, at least an alternating current conductor, configured to conduct an alternating current, at least a computing device wherein the computer is configured to receive a measurement datum of a battery module from a communicatively connected sensor, determine an operating condition of the charging circuit; identify an error element as a function of the operating condition, and transmit the identification of the error element to a data storage system.
US11852678B2
Placing a first side of an active thermal interposer device of a thermal management head against a device under test (DUT). Disposing a cold plate against a second side of the active thermal interposer. The DUT includes a plurality of modules and the active thermal interposer device includes a plurality of zones, each zone of the plurality of zones corresponding to a respective module of the plurality of modules and operable to be selectively heated. Receiving a respective set of inputs corresponding to each zone of the plurality of zones. Performing thermal management of the plurality of modules of the DUT by separately controlling temperature of each zone of the plurality of zones by controlling a supply of coolant to the cold plate, and individually controlling heating of each zone of the plurality of zones.
US11852677B2
A test system that is compatible with multiple specifications while maintaining a footprint is provided. The test system includes a plurality of test chambers, each test chamber of the plurality of test chambers including a test head used when a substrate on a stage is tested, and a heating medium supply configured to supply a heating medium to the stage. The heating medium supply is disposed in an area lower than a test area in which the plurality of test chambers are disposed.
US11852675B2
An integrated circuit includes a first circuit, formed based on one or more Group III-V compound materials, that is configured to operate with a first voltage range. The integrated circuit includes a second circuit, also formed based on the one or more Group III-V compound materials, that is operatively coupled to the first circuit and configured to operate with a second voltage range, wherein the second voltage range is substantially higher than the first voltage range. The integrated circuit includes a set of first test terminals connected to the first circuit. The integrated circuit includes a set of second test terminals connected to the second circuit. Test signals applied to the set of first test terminals and to the set of second test terminals, respectively, are independent from each other.
US11852671B2
A photovoltaic energy system and a method for detecting a ground insulation impedance, improve accuracy of detecting a ground insulation impedance after one or more conversion circuits are connected in parallel. The photovoltaic energy system includes one or more conversion circuits and a detection circuit. The detection circuit includes an alternating current signal source and a sampling resistor that are connected in series, a first sampling circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the alternating current signal source to output harmonic signals of a first frequency and a second frequency. The first sampling circuit is configured to: when the alternating current signal source outputs the harmonic signal of the first frequency, collect a voltage at both terminals of the sampling resistor to obtain a first voltage.
US11852661B2
A method for extracting a characteristic signal from a power frequency signal includes steps of: S1, detecting a voltage half-wave zero-crossing area in a single voltage cycle in the power frequency signal by a signal; superimposing a voltage modulation signal on the voltage half-wave zero-crossing area, and superimposing an instantaneous pulse on a current cycle in the power frequency signal corresponding to the voltage half-wave zero-crossing area; generating the characteristic signal with current cycles and voltage cycles; S2, demodulating whether there is the voltage modulation signal in the power frequency signal, if so, executing step S3; and S3, demodulating the characteristic signal to obtain the current modulation signal and the voltage modulation signal respectively; and determining whether data corresponding to the current modulation signal and date corresponding to the voltage modulation signal are predetermined data, wherein if so, the characteristic signal exists. The method has strong anti-interference ability.
US11852656B2
Proposed is a probe head having a probe card for performing a circuit inspection of a wafer. More particularly, proposed are a probe head and a probe card having the probe head, the probe head having a guide plate. The guide plate has a guide hole and a shield portion composed of a metal material positioned at the periphery of the guide hole, thereby blocking signal interference that may be occurred between adjacent probes.
US11852652B2
An angular velocity sensor includes a substrate, a detector including a movable detection electrode and a fixed detection electrode opposed to the movable detection electrode, and a driver adapted to drive the detector. The movable detection electrode is supported by a first spring that is elongated parallel to a Y axis from a first turned-back part, and a second spring that is elongated parallel to the Y axis from a second turned-back part. The first and second springs are fixed at first and second anchors. The first turned-back part is closer to the second spring than the first anchor. The detector includes a first surface opposed to the first spring, and a second surface disposed closer to the first spring than the first surface.
US11852647B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for predicting a rubber reinforcing effect of an organic-inorganic composite for rubber reinforcement. According to the present disclosure, a method for reliably predicting a rubber reinforcing effect of an organic-inorganic composite for rubber reinforcement by thermogravimetric analysis without mixing with a rubber composition is provided.
US11852645B2
A wash system for use in an in vitro diagnostic immunoanalyzer utilizes a bridge having a linear track to move cuvettes from one incubation ring portion to another incubation ring portion. Washing stations along the linear track provide a magnetic field and fluid washing of cuvette contents independent of the size and motion of one or more incubation rings.
US11852637B2
The present subject matter provides biosensors for bicarbonate and calcium as well as compositions, devices, and methods comprising such biosensors.
US11852627B2
The present invention relates to oligonucleotides that are capable of inducing expression of ubiquitin-protein ligase E3A (UBE3A) from the paternal allele in animal or human neurons. The oligonucleotides target the suppressor of the UBE3A paternal allele by hybridization to SNHG14 long non-coding RNA downstream of SNORD109B. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of Angelman syndrome.
US11852620B2
A system for evaluating a bond includes a first electrode and a second electrode that are spaced apart from one another. The system also includes a sacrificial material layer positioned proximate to a surface of a bonded structure that includes the bond. The system also includes a power source configured to cause the first and second electrodes to generate an electrical arc that at least partially ablates the sacrificial material layer as part of a non-destructive inspection of the bond.
US11852604B2
In one embodiment, a system for detecting an analyte in a bodily fluid sample includes an electrochemical biosensor, the electrochemical biosensor configured to receive the bodily fluid sample, test for the analyte, and produce an analyte level for the analyte. The system further includes a mediator, the mediator configured to provide for the testing of the analyte by facilitating electron exchange between the analyte and the biosensor. The system further includes an oxygen tension reducing agent, the oxygen tension reducing agent reducing interference of oxygen with the operation of the mediator.
US11852596B2
A system for passive microwave remote sensing using at least one microwave radiometer includes a fixed body portion, the fixed body portion being configured to attach to a mobile platform, and a mobile body portion, the mobile body portion being configured for rotatably coupling with the fixed body portion for rotation about a rotation axis. The mobile body portion is configured for supporting the at least one microwave radiometer therein such that the at least one microwave radiometer rotates about the rotation axis when the mobile body portion is rotated about the rotation axis such that a polarization axis of the at least one radiometer is aligned with an earth axis. The fixed body portion includes a motor mechanism for effecting rotation of the mobile body portion such that the at least one microwave radiometer provides a vertical scanning below and above the mobile platform.
US11852587B2
A microfluidic device observation apparatus 1 configured to observe a microfluidic device 100 where, in at least a partial region of the microfluidic device, a plurality of flow paths having same width are arranged in parallel, includes: an image acquiring unit 4 configured to acquire an image of the microfluidic device 100; an extracted pixel selection unit 21 configured to select an extracted pixel from a plurality of pixels forming the acquired image based on luminance values of the pixels, using a predetermined criterion; a feature pixel group detection unit 22 configured to detect a plurality of feature pixel groups among a plurality of extracted pixel groups each including a predetermined number of the extracted pixels that are continuously arranged in a line shape, where the plurality of feature pixel groups are parallel to each other with a predetermined degree or higher; a flow path boundary pixel group selection unit 23 configured to select flow path boundary pixel groups among the plurality of feature pixel groups, where a distance between the flow path boundary pixel groups corresponds to a width of the flow paths 103a to 103e; and a flow path image extraction unit 24 configured to identify a position of boundary of one or the plurality of flow paths 103a to 103e based on a position of the flow path boundary pixel group in the image and extract an image of each of the flow paths 103a to 103e.
US11852579B2
An apparatus can comprise a basin that is configured to hold water. A heating source can be configured to heat the water in the basin to a temperature within a select range. A water-permeable substrate can extend across an upper surface of the basin, the water-permeable substrate simulating a subfloor (or other material upon which a covering material is positioned). Samples can be placed on the water-permeable substrate for a select duration to determine effects of moisture exposure from underneath, e.g., the subfloor.
US11852577B2
The present technology relates to systems and associated methods for measuring properties of particles in a solution. In one or more embodiments, a particle measurement system is configured to generate a reference signal, communicate the reference signal across a plurality of resistors and overlapping pairs of electrodes that define detection regions for particulates traveling through a microchannel, and measure various properties of the particles based on detecting changes in the communicated reference signal.
US11852565B2
A composition ratio calculating unit configured to calculate a first composition ratio that is a ratio of substance quantities of rust collected from a broken surface of internal steel of an updated old concrete structure and a second composition ratio that is a ratio of substance quantities of rust collected from a surface different from the broken surface, a composition ratio calculating unit configured to calculate a first corrosion time corresponding to the first composition ratio and a second corrosion time corresponding to the second composition ratio from characteristics representing a relation between a first corrosion time and the first composition ratio and a relation between a second corrosion time and the second composition ratio, respectively, and a breaking time calculating unit configured to calculate a time for the internal steel to break by subtracting the first corrosion time from the second corrosion time are included.
US11852563B2
Data characterizing a fuel storage facility can be received from one or more of a plurality of sensors disposed in the fuel storage facility. A fuel leak prediction for the fuel storage facility can be determined by a server, based on the received data, and further based on at least one predictive model that predicts whether a fuel leak exists in the fuel storage facility. The fuel leak prediction can be provided by the server. Related apparatus, systems, methods, techniques, and articles are also described.
US11852554B1
Methods, systems, and devices for calibrating a barometer of a client device. A server computer accesses historical data including location data, and atmospheric pressure data collected from a plurality of client devices over a period of time. An equation system defined by the historical data is solved. The equation system has a plurality of unknown parameters, the plurality of unknown parameters comprising a barometer bias of a first client device among the plurality of client devices. The first client device is calibrated using the barometer bias.
US11852545B2
The invention relates to a measuring device for determining force and/or torque on a torque-transmitting shaft which is supported by a bearing device, in particular a machine, the output and/or input shaft of which is formed by the torque-transmitting shaft. The measuring device has at least two, preferably three or four, piezoelectric elements and a fixing device, wherein the fixing device supports the piezoelements and is designed in such a way that a force, in particular shear force, can be measured between the bearing device and a supporting device for supporting the bearing device by means of the piezoelements.
US11852539B1
A camera assembly includes a housing inside of which components are maintained at a cryogenic temperature. The components maintained at cryogenic temperature include a detector that is mounted on an integrated circuit, which in turn is mounted on a platform, such as a ceramic platform, which includes electrical connections for the integrated circuit. The camera assembly also includes one or more subplatforms, maintained above the cryogenic temperature, such as ambient temperature, that receive electrical inputs from outside the housing, and make electrical connections to the platform. The connections may be made from the one or more subplatforms, through openings in the platform and/or outside one or more outer edges of the platform. The assembly may include covers of exposed parts of the one or more subplatforms, to facilitate thermal isolation between the interior of the assembly (at cryogenic temperature) and the one or more subplatforms (above cryogenic temperature).
US11852538B2
A temperature estimation device (100) is provided with: an acquiring section (131) that acquires a photographed image photographed by a photographing section (110) including an infrared light sensor and a housing; a generating section (132) that corrects the photographed image with use of a correction parameter and a temporarily set temperature of the housing to generate a corrected image of the photographed image, the correction parameter that is calculated by prior temperature calibration with respect to the photographing section (110); and an estimating section (135) that estimates a temperature of the housing on the basis of non-uniformity of luminance values of pixels included in the corrected image.
US11852528B2
The present disclosure relates to a device and method for measuring a flicker frequency of a light source configured to implement at least one phase lock loop.
US11852511B2
An absolute encoder includes a circuit board disposed away from a rotation shaft of a motor. The circuit board includes first fixing portions and a second fixing portion. At each of the first fixing portions, an adjustment portion is disposed between the circuit board and a top end portion of a given pillar is provided, the adjustment portion being set to adjust a distance between the circuit board and the top end portion of the given pillar, so that a height of the circuit board at each first fixing portion is set to be the same as a height of the circuit board at the second fixing portion. Each adjustment portion is a resist layer formed between a surface of the circuit board and a top end surface of a given first pillar.
US11852508B2
Provided is a sensing unit including first sensing electrodes arranged along a first direction in a sensing area, and second sensing electrodes arranged along a second direction intersecting the first direction. Each of the first sensing electrodes includes a plurality of first mesh lines, and each of the second sensing electrodes includes a plurality of second mesh lines. A line width of the first mesh lines is different from a line width of the second mesh lines.
US11852505B2
A critical environment monitoring system including a sensor array structured to provide sensor data indicative of temperature, pressure, and humidity in an interior space, and one or more processing circuits comprising one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors that provides a graphical user interface displaying a compliance standard temperature received from a standard setting body and a temperature value, a compliance standard pressure received from the standard setting body and a pressure value, and a compliance standard humidity received from the standard setting body and a humidity value. The processing circuit also generates an alert in response to one of the temperature value being outside the compliance standard temperature, the pressure value being outside the compliance standard pressure, or the humidity value being outside the compliance standard humidity, records criticality information, and receives a log of actions taken.
US11852502B2
A method for forming a localization layer for a digital localization map for automated driving. The method includes: providing the localization layer for a defined region; providing a planning layer for the region; and extracting alignment features from the localization layer that is provided for an alignment with the planning layer, the alignment features being extracted in such a way from the localization layer that an inadmissible deformation of the localization layer may be recognized during the alignment of the planning layer with the localization layer.
US11852501B2
A system for generating a costmap for use in planning a path through an environment, the system including one or more suitably programmed processing devices configured to obtain a map of the environment, acquire traversal data indicative of an ability to traverse parts of the environment, for each part of the environment, calculate a traversal indicator indicative of the ability to traverse the part, the traversal indicator being calculated in a colour space, and colourise the map using the traversal indicators to thereby generate a colourised costmap indicative of an ability to traverse the environment, the colourised costmap allowing path planning to be performed.
US11852496B2
A method of operating a traffic management system comprises receiving data from a vehicle indicating a traffic state, estimating a future time at which the vehicle will receive driving instructions transmitted by the traffic management system, predicting a future traffic state at the estimated future time, determining the driving instructions for the vehicle based on the predicted future traffic state, and transmitting the driving instructions to the vehicle.
US11852494B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium and apparatus for restoring navigational performance for a navigational system. The apparatus including a receiver for receiving by a first navigational system and a second navigational system a collection of data points to establish a real-time navigational route for the aircraft, and a computer for comparing navigational performance values or drift ranges. The computer capable of establishing a new navigational route based on the collection of data points.
US11852482B2
A controller applies a predetermined voltage to a fixed part detection excitation electrode to vibrate a movable part in a second direction and simultaneously applies a predetermined voltage to a fixed part drive electrode to vibrate the movable part in a first direction. The controller acquires, of the movable part, a first resonance frequency along the first direction and a second resonance frequency along the second direction. The controller controls a drive spring adjustment part to adjust a spring constant of the drive spring, such that the first resonance frequency is maintained constant, and controls a detection spring adjustment part to adjust a spring constant of the detection spring such that the second resonance frequency is maintained constant. The controller detects the angular velocity based on a result of synchronously detecting signal from the fixed part detection electrode with the first resonance frequency.
US11852477B2
A device and methods of placing the device for indicating tidal water depth is described. The device having a body in a vertical orientation, with a top, bottom, and at least one viewing surface, with a measurement scale of numerals and marks displayed on the at least one viewing surface, where the numerals increase in value in a direction from the bottom towards the top of the body.
US11852472B2
An eddy current sensor assembly includes an eddy current sensor and an output signal processing circuit that processes an output signal from the eddy current sensor. The output signal processing circuit includes a mixer circuit that accepts the output signal and a signal of the predetermined frequency as input, multiplies the two signals received as input, and outputs an output signal obtained by the multiplication, and a low-pass filter that accepts the output signal output by the mixer circuit as input, cuts a high-frequency signal included in the output signal received as input, and outputs at least a direct-current (DC) signal.
US11852464B2
A chromatic confocal sensor configured for calibrating an orientation of an equipment about the optical axis of the chromatic confocal sensor, wherein the equipment is disposed at a first orientation about the optical axis of the chromatic confocal sensor, the chromatic confocal sensor including a light source, a collimator, a lens and a reticle, wherein the light source, the collimator and the lens are coaxially disposed along the optical axis, the reticle is configured to be interposable between the collimator and the lens along the optical axis, an image is configured to be cast by the light source through the collimator, the reticle and the lens on the equipment, the image is disposed at a second orientation about the optical axis and the equipment is calibratable by aligning the equipment with the image such that the first orientation approaches the second orientation.
US11852461B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments related generally to computer vision, graphics, image scanning, and image processing as well as associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to form at least three-dimensional models or images of objects and environments.
US11852459B2
A method for measuring a position of a fluorophore includes configuring a set of compact light distributions, the set having at least one member, each light distribution characterized by a center, so that there is substantially zero intensity at the center of the set of compact light distributions. The method additionally includes moving the set of compact light distributions in relation to a set of hypothesized positions of the fluorophore, detecting, in a plurality of locations corresponding to the hypothesized set of positions, a set of images; and estimating the position of the fluorophore, by determining from the set of images a set of parameters describing the position of the fluorophore using an inverse problem method.
US11852458B2
An oxide layer thickness measurement device according to the present invention stores, for each of layer thickness measurement sub-ranges constituting a layer thickness measurement range, layer thickness conversion information representing a correlation between a layer thickness and an emissivity where a ratio of a change in the emissivity to a change in the layer thickness in the layer thickness measurement sub-range falls within a set extent. Emitting light luminances of a surface of a steel sheet are measured at respective measurement wavelengths different from each other, and a temperature of the surface of the steel sheet is measured to thereby calculate the emissivity at each of the measurement wavelengths. Calculated in connection with the emissivity calculated at each of the measurement wavelength are the layer thickness corresponding to the emissivity at the measurement wavelength, and a ratio at the layer thickness by using the layer thickness conversion information corresponding to the measurement wavelength. The calculated thickness is extracted as a candidate value for an actual layer thickness when the calculated ratio is within the preset extent assigned for the layer thickness conversion information.
US11852453B2
A new dart has an integrally formed flight part that is made of thin plastic with a uniform thickness. The flight part has a set of flexible blades that are radially offset, with the width of each blades being coplanar, and extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a stem on which a barrel and dart tip are connected. Edges on a central portion of the flight part engage cooperating surfaces on a retainer, locking the retainer and the flight part against rotation with respect to each other. A self-lubricating bearing fits over the a stem and is used to connect to the flight part and the retainer for rotation with respect to a barrel and dart tip. A channel extends along the length of each blade. A bubble is positioned outwardly of the channel.
US11852451B2
Disclosed are a protection equipment, system and method for the destruction of explosives. The protection equipment for the destruction of explosives includes four modules: an inner fence, an outer fence, an anti-leakage fence and a top cover. The modular equipment takes an overall nonmetal flexible composite structure, and the individual modules are light in weight and convenient to operate. It can be operated by two persons or a single person. A protective effect can be achieved during destruction of explosives by using the protection equipment, and even if the explosives explode during destruction, it will not cause injury to surrounding personnel. A protection system for explosive destruction based on the protection equipment can be used to destroy unexploded bomb or explosives under protective conditions, thereby achieving rapid emergency disposal without making contact with the explosives.
US11852450B2
A detonator assembly method wherein a base charge is placed into a tube to abut a closed end of the tube, an electronic module is positioned inside the tube, a displacement member with a stop formation is used to move the module, against a frictional restraining force, to a location at which the stop formation abuts a rim of the tube and wherein the module is held in position by deforming the tube into engagement with the module.
US11852436B2
A magnetic tracker mount comprising a tracker interface configured to adapt a weapon to a tracker that facilitates communications between the weapon and a virtual reality computing device. The tracker interface comprising a base plate including a groove comprising a female socket configured to receive a catch plate of the tracker, wherein the groove includes a magnet that attracts to the catch plate. The tracker interface further comprising a pin pad including pins configured to establish signal connections with the tracker, the pins transmitting signals from the weapon to the tracker.
US11852428B2
Systems for universally locking a trigger of a firearm are provided that require authentication to transition the firearm to an unlocked state. In general, examples of the systems for universally locking a trigger of a firearm described herein are located in an interchangeable grip portion of the firearm or mounted to an accessory rail of the firearm. Embodiments of the system generally include trigger interference or blocking members to prevent actuation of the trigger until the authentication system has authorized the user to fire the firearm. Once the system is authenticated, embodiments of the system remain in an unlocked state while the user is grasping the firearm. When the user removes their hand from the firearm, embodiments of the trigger locking system automatically returns to a locked state, reducing or eliminating unauthorized use of the firearm.
US11852410B2
A back-blowing unblocking device for the dustproof screen of the dryer, a dustproof equipment, and a dryer are provided. The back-blowing unblocking device for the dustproof screen of the dryer utilizes a closed compartment space of the dryer. The back-blowing unblocking device for the dustproof screen of the dryer includes a high-pressure air main pipe, a high-pressure air horizontal pipe, high-pressure air branch pipes, a shunt connecting pipe, and back-blowing fan-shaped nozzles. A length of each high-pressure air branch pipe is equal to a length of an A-shaped dustproof screen. Both ends of the each high-pressure air branch pipe are closed and an upper center opening is welded to the shunt connecting pipe. Both sides of the each high-pressure air branch pipe are densely arranged with the back-blowing fan-shaped nozzles.
US11852405B2
A refrigerator system capable of reducing decrease in the accuracy of detecting change in a storage state and reducing a communication load for transmitting images of the inside of a storeroom, which are taken at a plurality of viewpoints to the outside of a refrigerator is provided. To achieve this, the refrigerator system includes: a camera configured to take the images of the inside of the storeroom; a camera moving device configured to move the camera at least in the vertical direction; a communication device configured to transmit the images taken by the camera to the outside of a main body; and a change detecting device configured to detect change in a food-item storage state of each shelf based on the images taken by the camera. The camera takes images of each shelf at a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint. The change detecting device detects change in the food-item storage state of the shelf based on the image taken at the first viewpoint. The communication device transmits, for the shelf, change in the food-item storage state of which is detected, both images taken at the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint to the outside of the main body.
US11852404B2
A refrigeration appliance system including a camera captures images of objects entering and exiting the interior space of a refrigeration appliance and processes the images to identify the objects in the image, for example, using a trained machine learning model. The system may also process the images to determine a volume or quantity within the object. Using this determined information, the system may then create, update, or alter a log of objects within the refrigeration appliance and/or the determined volumes or quantities. The system may also provide the log and/or recommendations of items to purchase to a user.
US11852392B2
There is disclosed a refrigeration system comprising a refrigeration circuit that includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve and an evaporator. A condenser fan of the refrigeration system is configured to operate, under the control of a controller, at a condenser fan speed that is set based on a current refrigeration demand on the system.
US11852389B2
A CO2 refrigeration system, includes a receiving tank, a condenser, a low temperature system, and a medium temperature system. The low temperature system is fluidly coupled to the receiving tank and the condenser. The low temperature system includes a plurality of low temperature evaporators, a plurality of low temperature expansion valves, a plurality of low temperature compressors, and a plurality of flexible low temperature conduits fluidly coupling the low temperature compressors to a low temperature discharge header and a low temperature suction header. The medium temperature system is fluidly coupled to the receiving tank and the low temperature system. The medium temperature system includes a plurality of medium temperature evaporators, a plurality of medium temperature expansion valves, a plurality of medium temperature compressors, and a plurality of flexible medium temperature conduits fluidly coupling the medium temperature compressors to a medium temperature discharge header and a medium temperature suction header.
US11852380B2
A multi-functional retrofit cover plate assembly and method for an electric water heater to provide interconnection with an alternative energy system to heat water in a water holding tank of the electric water heater. The cover plate is adapted for replacement connection over a bottom access opening formed in an outer casing of the electric water heater which permits access to a bottom resistive heating element and electrical connections. The retrofit cover plate is shaped to define an internal dedicated compartment. A dual resistive heating element is provided for replacement of the bottom resistive heating element. An electronic switch unit is further provided and it has a power cut-off switch for connection to an alternative supply voltage. A temperature sensor is provided for mounting against an outer surface of the tank of the water heater to feed actual temperature signals of water temperature within the tank, in a lower region thereof, to the electronic switch unit which operates the power cut-off switch upon a predetermined temperature having been attained in the tank of the water heater. The retrofit cover plate and the assembly also make it possible to covert the water heater to a high temperature water heater or to adapt the electric water heater to a thermal fluid heat source.
US11852376B2
Devices, systems, facilities, and processes for direct air capture combined with carbon capture for reducing the overall emissions are disclosed herein. An exemplary system may include a first air blower configured to move a CO2 containing gas through a carbon capture unit; the carbon capture unit configured to separate and capture CO2 from the CO2 containing gas to generate a first CO2 rich stream; a second air blower configured to move an air from an air-cooled heat exchanger to a direct air capture unit; the direct air capture unit configured to capture CO2 from the air from the air-cooled heat exchanger to generate a second CO2 rich stream; and a sequestration compression unit configured to compress the first and second CO2 rich streams.
US11852370B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for allowing access for maintenance and servicing of environmental control systems of prefabricated equipment enclosures. In one embodiment, an enclosure includes a first wall, a first environmental control unit, and a first door. The first door is mechanically coupled with the first environmental control unit and the first wall. The first door is configured to have a first closed position allowing in-service operation of the first environmental control unit for an internal space of the enclosure.
US11852365B1
Described herein are technologies pertaining to a computer-implemented system that is configured to present information to a technician who is servicing an air conditioning unit. The technologies described herein facilitate computation of a value that is indicative of operating efficiency of an air conditioning unit in its current environment and with current operating conditions.
US11852356B2
The present technology relates to a tub for a humidifier comprising a container made of a first material, a heating element, and a lining made of a second, preferably biocompatible, material different from the first material, wherein the container comprises a base and a side wall defining a reservoir for a supply of liquid to be evaporated, the heating element is provided on the base of the container, and the lining covers the heating element and a substantial portion of the inner surface of the side wall of the container.
US11852353B2
A cooking appliance and method utilize a rotary burner control with a rotary control actuator, a position sensor, and an electronic burner control user interface to control an electromechanical valve unit that regulates gas flow to a gas burner.
US11852349B2
A convection oven includes a heating element made of a single coil formed into a pair of concentric loops. The concentric loops are disposed in parallel planes to improve the thermal efficiency and power requirements of the convection oven.
US11852343B2
A combustor component of a combustor for combusting fuel to produce a combustion gas includes a combustion cylinder forming a passage for the combustion gas, a first acoustic device which internally includes a first cavity communicating with the passage via a first through hole formed in the combustion cylinder, a second acoustic device which is located on a radially outer side of the first acoustic device so as to cover the first acoustic device, and internally includes a second cavity communicating with the passage via a second through hole formed in the combustion cylinder, and a first communication passage causing the first cavity and an outer space of the combustion cylinder to communicate with each other without via the first through hole and the second cavity.
US11852335B2
The present disclosure includes air spinners for use in duct burners, and duct burners and duct burner kits including a plurality of air spinners. Air spinners may include a plurality of blades extending radially outward from a fuel path and configured to impart rotation to air flowing between the blades, where the air spinner is configured to be coupled to a fuel runner of a duct burner such that the air spinner encircles a fuel outlet of the fuel runner with the axis of the fuel path extending at a non-parallel angle from an axis of the fuel runner. Duct burners can comprise a plurality of air spinners coupled to a plurality of fuel runners. Duct burner kits can comprise a plurality of air spinners configured to be coupled (e.g., without welding) to a plurality of fuel runners.
US11852328B2
A light structure including a first housing having a light engine including at least one lighting scheme comprised of LEDs; and a second housing for containing driver electronics. The driver electronics including at least a mixing integrated circuit (IC) for controlling current to the at least one lighting scheme, and a near field communication (NFC) circuit having a near field communication (NFC) receiver and memory for storing instructions for sending pulse width modulation (PWM) signals from the NFC circuit to the mixing integrated circuit. The NFC receiver can receive an external command signal that the instructions stored in the memory of the NFC circuit employ to provide for an NFC control signal including at least one of the PWM signals to the mixing integrated circuit (IC). The mixing integrated circuit (IC) receiving the control signal sets current to control light characteristics for light being emitted by the light engine.
US11852324B2
A mounting bracket for flush mounting a lighting device is provided. The mounting bracket comprises: a first planar member and a second planar member, at least one of the first and second planar members having a center, and one or two transverse members disposed at opposite ends of at least one of the first and second planar members, wherein at least one of the first and second planar members includes two adjacent openings and a receiving member offset from the center of the at least one of the first and second planar members, the receiving member being positioned intermediate the two openings.
US11852316B2
A construction component forms at least a part of a structure that faces a target space. The construction component has a first function, a second function, and a third function. The first function is a function of emitting illumination light toward the target space. The second function is a function of allowing incident light to enter the construction component. The incident light is emitted from a light source disposed out of a projection area, viewed from the target space, of the construction component and is incident on the construction component via a light transmission member. The third function is a function of converting the incident light into the illumination light.
US11852314B1
The vehicle lamp having a dipped and main beam headlight switching structure includes a heat-dissipating device, an LED light source, an electromagnet, a light-reflecting assembly, a lens assembly, a light-shaping plate and a driving rod. The LED light source and the electromagnet are disposed on the heat-dissipating device. The light-shaping plate is rotatably disposed above the electromagnet. The driving rod is disposed between the electromagnet and the light-shaping plate. The electromagnet is configured to drive the driving rod to move the light-shaping plate to the first position or the second position, so as to change the reflected light to form near light or far light. An empty space is formed between the lens assembly and the heat-dissipating device for accommodating components.
US11852310B2
A lighting apparatus includes a light passing cover, a light strip, a heat dissipation plate, a manual switch, a driver and a bottom cover. The light passing cover defines first elongated cavity. The light strip is mounted with multiple LED modules. The heat dissipation plate is used for mounting the light strip on a first side of the heat dissipation plate. The manual switch is disposed for selecting a switch setting. The manual switch is placed on the first side of the heat dissipation plate. The driver converts an external power source to a driving current supplied to the multiple LED modules. The driver is electrically connected to the manual switch for controlling the driving current supplied to the multiple LED modules to adjust an output light of the multiple LED modules according to the selected switch setting. The bottom cover defines a second elongated cavity.
US11852302B2
A light-emitting unit, having a substrate; a first light-emitting body formed on the substrate, and having a first longer side and a first shorter side; a second light-emitting body formed on the substrate, and having a second longer side and a second shorter side which is parallel to the first longer side; a third light-emitting body formed on the substrate, having a third longer side and a third shorter side which is parallel to the first longer side, and electrically connected to the first light-emitting body and the second light-emitting body; a first electrode covering the first light-emitting body and the second light-emitting body, and electrically connecting to the first light-emitting body; a second electrode separated from the first electrode, and covering the second light-emitting body without covering the first light-emitting body; and a transparent element enclosing the first light-emitting body, the second light-emitting body, and the third light-emitting body.
US11852285B2
A stand for a laser projection device is provided. The stand includes a mounting structure that couples to the laser projection device. In one embodiment the stand includes three legs that are coupled together at a junction, and a central column extends downward from the junction and the mounting structure is coupled to the mounting structure, thereby permitting the laser projection device to emit light towards a ground.
US11852273B1
A stud isolator with integrated nail protection, providing both isolation, and nail protection in a single device, with installation of a single product. Such an isolator includes an insertion body sized and configured for insertion into the stud bore hole. The insertion body includes a faceplate attached to the front end of the insertion body, so as to serve as a stop and attachment point to the stud, when the insertion body is inserted into the stud bore hole. The insertion body includes a hollow channel for receipt of a plumbing pipe extending through the stud bore hole. In addition, either a separate metal boring liner is provided inserted into the bore hole, with the insertion body inserted therein, or a metal nail protection collar is provided received in the insertion body of the isolator. In either case, nail protection is provided to the pipe received within the isolator.
US11852272B2
A check valve assembly for a supply pipe. The check valve assembly includes a hinge pin, a first flapper, and a second flapper. The first flapper is pivotally coupled to the second flapper with the hinge pin. The check valve assembly also includes a stopper located between the first flapper and the second flapper. The stopper is configured to limit movement of the first flapper and the second flapper. The check valve assembly further includes a plate assembly located downstream of the stopper. The plate assembly is configured to break vortices formed in a fluid flow across the first flapper and the second flapper.
US11852256B2
A flush-mount valve and vent assemblies including the same are described. A flush-mount valve may include a valve mount and a valve barrier which are coupled to the underside of a structure forming part of a liquid-impermeable container. The flush-mount valve is arranged to control the flow of fluid(s) across a fluid passage in the structure and is mounted to the structure so as to remain fully within the interior of the container.
US11852247B2
A dispenser includes a housing, an inverted container disposed in the housing, a outlet nozzle, a pump, a first check valve, and a second check valve. The pump is disposed between the container and the outlet nozzle. The pump includes a pump inlet a pump outlet, and a pump chamber. The pump chamber is movable between an expanded position and a compressed position. The first check valve is disposed between the pump and the outlet nozzle, and the first check valve has a first cracking pressure. The second check valve is disposed between the first check valve and the outlet nozzle, and the second check valve has a second cracking pressure. The second cracking pressure of the second check valve is greater than the first cracking pressure of the first check valve.
US11852235B2
A selector assembly includes a housing having a spherical cavity and a detent cavity. A positioning sensor is positioned within a sensor cavity and is in communication with the spherical cavity. A selector operates about a center point of the spherical cavity and includes a spheroid member that slidably engages a guide surface of the housing. The spheroid member includes a magnet in electromagnetic communication with the positioning sensor. A first pivot and a second pivot include respective first and second rotational axes that each extend through the center point. A detent pin is biased toward and slidably engages a detent surface of the detent cavity to define a plurality of selector positions of the selector. Operation of the selector within the spherical cavity and along the detent surface defines the plurality of selector positions that are communicated to a controller via the magnet and the positioning sensor.
US11852231B2
A vehicle drive apparatus includes: a rotary electric machine disposed on a first axis; a differential gear mechanism disposed on a second axis; an output member disposed on the second axis; an inverter device; and a case. The case is a single-piece case internally including: a first housing chamber housing the rotary electric machine; and a second housing chamber housing the inverter device and divided from the first housing chamber with a partition. At least a specified portion of the output member is housed in the first housing chamber. A location of the specified portion in an axial direction overlaps with the rotary electric machine. The partition is provided between the specified portion and the inverter device.
US11852226B2
An oil passage structure, includes a first tubular member configured to externally fit on a support wall portion and a second tubular member configured to internally fit in the support wall portion and supports an outer periphery of the shaft. An oil passage along a rotation axis direction of the shaft is provided at at least one of a location between the support wall portion and the first tubular member and a location between the support wall portion and the second tubular member.
US11852224B2
A gear unit for a motor vehicle electric drive system, has a housing with a middle portion and a first and second axial end portions. The middle portion receives an electric machine. A differential gear is arranged in the second end portion of the housing. The differential gear is connected on the drive side to a first planetary gearset and on the driven side to a first output shaft and second output shaft arranged coaxial to one another. The second output shaft is a hollow shaft, and the first output shaft extends into the second output shaft. A first bearing for rotatable support of the second output shaft is arranged radially between the second output shaft and a structural component of the gear unit, and a second bearing for the rotatable support of the two output shafts is arranged between the first output shaft and second output shaft.
US11852220B2
An aspect of the present invention provides a speed reducer including a supporting block, an input gear rotatably supported on the supporting block, an intermediate gear meshing with the input gear, an output gear meshing with the intermediate gear, and a gear position changing mechanism configured to change a position of the intermediate gear relative to the input and output gears.
US11852216B2
A transmission system of a decelerating mechanism includes a planetary gear unit including a sun gear being adjacent to the first surface and a planetary gear set and a holder including a carrier and several planetary shaft units rotatably disposed on the carrier. The carrier has a first surface and a second surface that face opposite directions. The planetary gear set has several first gears being adjacent to the first surface, respectively fitting around the planetary shaft units, and meshing with the sun gear, several second gears being adjacent to the second surface and being coaxially disposed with the first gears, and an internal gear ring meshing with the second gears. By respectively arranging the first gears and the second gears on two opposite sides of the carrier, mutual interference therebetween while turning could be avoided, and an overall volume of the transmission system could be reduced.
US11852215B2
A device for securing logs from harvested timber to a transport vehicle, or logging truck, using log wrappers. The log wrapper securement device can be located in the inspection cavity of a forestry grapple. The forestry grapple is attached to a log loader. The log wrapper securement device includes a base plate sized and shaped to replace the inspection plate covering the inspection cavity. The base plate includes a slot sized and shaped to receive a portion of a chain end link or other chain links of the log wrapper, which can be inserted manually. The loader operator can remotely control the actuator to secure the chain link and release it, once the log wrapper is positioned over the other side of the logging truck. The log wrapper securement device can potentially reduce injuries and save lives.
US11852214B2
An attachment device includes a first hook and a second hook, the first and second hook, the first and second hook biased towards each other and interconnected with each other, such the first and second hook have a first position, where a first curved end of the first hook does not touch a second curved end of the second hook and a second position, where the first curved end of the first hook does touch the second curved end of the second hook.
US11852212B2
An adjustable magnetic counterbalance assembly wherein a counterbalance force of the adjustable magnetic counterbalance is adjustable. The adjustable magnetic counterbalance assembly includes at least one ferromagnetic tube; a magnet disposed in the at least one ferromagnetic tube and configured to be axially movable and wherein the magnet is configured to be rotationally movable relative to the respective at least one ferromagnetic tube; wherein the counterbalance force is configured to be adjustable by adjusting the rotational position between the magnet and a respective ferromagnetic tube to change the polar alignment of the magnet. Alternatively, the adjustable magnetic counterbalance assembly changes the counterbalance force based on the relative alignment of the poles of one magnet to an adjacent one.
US11852200B2
A power take-off includes bell housing disposed about an axis and configured for coupling to a housing of an engine or other driving device at a first axial end and to a housing of a driven device at a second axial end. The bell housing defines an air inlet port and an air outlet port between the first and second axial ends. A clutch is disposed within the bell housing and configured to transfer torque from an input member coupled to the engine to an output member coupled to the driven device. A fan is configured for rotation with the input member to draw air into the bell housing through the air inlet port, move air through the bell housing from the air inlet port to the air outlet port in a substantially radial direction across the clutch and exhaust air from the bell housing through the air outlet port.
US11852195B2
A bearing cage is used for accommodating the rolling elements of a rolling bearing; wherein, the bearing cage comprises an annular cage base; when the bearing cage is inserted and installed in the rolling bearing, there is a first circumferential radial clearance between an outer circumferential surface of the cage base and an inner circumferential surface of an outer ring shoulder of an outer ring, and a second circumferential radial clearance between an inner circumferential surface of the cage base and an outer circumferential surface of an inner ring shoulder of an inner ring; the first circumferential radial clearance is smaller or larger than the second circumferential radial clearance. A rolling bearing comprises the bearing cage as described above.
US11852191B2
Provided is an air foil thrust bearing including a bump foil plate in which a plurality of bump foils are formed and an arrest ring protrudes in a thickness direction; and a top foil plate in which a plurality of top foils are formed, a through-hole penetrating through both sides of a second plate is formed in a position corresponding to the arrest ring, the top foil plate being stacked on the bump foil plate, wherein the arrest ring is inserted into and penetrates through the through-hole, the arrest ring is bent toward the top foil plate so that the second plate is caught in the arrest ring, and a time for a thrust runner to rise from the top foil at an early stage of starting a rotor as the arrest ring is spaced apart from the second plate.
US11852188B1
A mobile robot (for example, a robot used for package deliveries, among other purposes) may include a mast with a visual indicator for providing visibility to drivers and pedestrians in the environment proximate to the mobile robot. The mast may produce a large moment arm, which may result in the mast being more likely to break off from the robot. To mitigate or prevent damage to any components of the mast and/or the mobile robot when such a breakage occurs, described herein is an omni directional breakage joint that is used to connect the mast to the mobile robot. The omni directional breakage joint comprises multiple ball and socket joints that provide structural support between the mast and the mobile robot, while simultaneously allowing for a certain movement freedom of the mast and allowing for the mast to easily be engaged and disengaged from the mobile robot without causing damage to any components.
US11852185B2
A joint assembly joins first and second components about a common axis. The first component has a first end portion having a radially outwardly facing surface shaped to fit radially inside a second surface of a hollow second end portion of the second component to form an interface between the opposing first and second surfaces. The first and second surfaces have a concavity extending laterally with respect to the axis such that when the first and second surfaces are opposingly arranged the opposing concavities define a cavity at the interface. A retaining member is insertable into the cavity at the interface to prevent axial separation of the first and second components. One of the first and second end portions has a free end protrusion axially spaced from the concavity and the other of the first and second end portions has an axially extending recess arranged to receive the free end.
US11852181B1
An axially separable fastener for securing a structure is provided to detach upon command of an electric signal. The fastener includes a metal bolt, an external nut, a frangible ampoule containing a liquid metal eutectic and an internal plug. The bolt has a metal shank with proximal and distal ends. The shank includes a first head at the proximal end, and a first helical external thread and an axial bore with a first helical internal thread at the distal end. The fastener secures a structure in compression between the first head and the external nut. The external nut screws onto the first external thread. The ampoule contains a liquid metal eutectic. The ampoule is insertable into the bore. The internal plug includes a second head, an actuator mechanism, and an auger opposite thereto. The internal plug has a second helical external thread between the second head and the auger for screwing into the bore along the first internal thread. Upon receipt of the signal, the internal plug axially drives the auger towards the proximal end into the ampoule to release the eutectic, thereby fracturing the bolt.
US11852175B2
An appliance includes an outer wrapper, an inner liner, a trim breaker having a channel that receives at least one of a wrapper edge of the outer wrapper and a liner edge of the inner liner, and a composite encapsulation system that hermetically seals an insulating cavity defined between the outer wrapper and the inner liner. The composite encapsulation system includes a base adhesive and an outer adhesive, wherein the base adhesive defines a structural adhesive component and the outer adhesive defines a sealing adhesive component.
US11852173B1
A screw-pump type electro-hydraulic actuator preferably includes an electric motor device, a hydraulic tube, a pump piston, a spline rod, an actuator rod and a hydraulic control circuit. The electric motor device preferably includes an electric motor and a gearbox. One end of the spline rod is engaged with an output of the gearbox. The pump piston preferably includes a piston base, three sets of screw pump rollers, a spline drive gear, a first piston end plate and a second piston end plate. The hydraulic flow circuit includes a first relief valve, a first check valve, a second relief valve, a second check valve and an accumulator. The screw pump rollers are rotatably retained in the piston base between the first and second piston end plates. The spline gear drives the pump driven gears of the three drive screw pump rollers through the spline drive gear to pump hydraulic oil.
US11852170B2
An energy storage system is provided. The system comprises an energy storage device comprising: a pressure vessel configured to store pressurised fluid; and one or more resilient elements, wherein the resilient elements comprise a plurality of filaments of resilient material braided to form the resilient elements, wherein the resilient elements are arranged within or about the pressure vessel, and wherein the energy storage device is configured such that storing pressurised fluid within the pressure vessel acts to tension or compress the resilient elements.
US11852169B2
Pistons and related methods may be configured to separate fluids and to at least partially prohibit one fluid from traveling to one side of the piston from another side of the piston. Pressure exchange devices and systems may include such pistons.
US11852164B2
A blower housing comprises first and second blower housing pieces for surrounding a blower fan. The first blower housing piece comprises a blower discharge section comprising an inner tubular portion, an outer tubular portion, and a drain hole. The inner tubular portion defines a blower discharge passage. The inner and outer tubular portions define an exhaust pipe cavity adapted to receive an end margin of an exhaust pipe. The tubular portions are adapted to enable condensate water that forms on the inner surface of the exhaust pipe to flow into the exhaust pipe cavity. The drain hole extends through the outer tubular portion. The drain hole is configured to enable condensate water flowing into the exhaust pipe cavity to drain from the blower housing. The first blower housing piece is a molded one-piece member.
US11852158B1
A fan including a frame and an impeller is disclosed. The frame has an air inlet and an air outlet. The impeller is disposed in the frame and includes a hub and multiple blades. Each blade has a negative pressure surface facing the air inlet, a positive pressure surface facing the air outlet, a blade root, and a blade tip opposite to the blade root. In a first region extending from the blade root to the blade tip by a first length, the negative pressure surface and the positive pressure surface are respectively a convex arc surface and a plane. In a second region extending from the blade tip to the blade root by a second length smaller than the first length, the negative pressure surface and the positive pressure surface are respectively a convex arc surface and a concave arc surface or both are convex arc surfaces.
US11852157B2
The present invention provides a blower with reduced noise. The blower comprises a blower main body incorporating a centrifugal fan. The blower main body is configured to suck air from both sides of the blower main body by rotation of the centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan includes a support plate having a rotation center and a plurality of blades provided on each of a first surface and a second surface of the support plate. A position of at least part of the plurality of blades on the first surface and a position of at least part of the plurality of blades on the second surface are misaligned in a circumferential direction, and/or a number of the plurality of blades on the first surface differs from a number of the plurality of blades on the second surface.
US11852144B2
The present disclosure relates to a scroll compressor and its lubricating oil supply system. The lubricating oil supply system includes: an oil passage P1 formed by a core hole extending longitudinally through the crankshaft; an oil pump, whose oil suction port is immersed in the lubricating oil in the oil pool, and the oil outlet is connected to the oil circuit P1; an oil passage P3 located in the gap between the upper end surface of the crankshaft and the lower surface of the orbiting scroll; an oil passage P4 formed by a longitudinal hole in the crankshaft, the longitudinal hole extending downwards from the upper end surface of the crankshaft; an oil passage P5 formed by a transverse hole in the crankshaft and a gap between the lower edge of the hub of the orbiting scroll and the upper surface of the upper counterweight, the transverse hole extending transversely from the outer peripheral surface of the upper end of the crankshaft to communicate with the longitudinal hole, the opening of the transverse hole on the outer peripheral surface of the upper end of the crankshaft is aligned with the gap between the lower edge of the hub and the upper surface of the upper counterweight; an oil passage P6 formed by the gap between the outer peripheral surface of the hub and the upright wall of the upper counterweight, and the gap between the outer peripheral surface of the hub and the inner peripheral surface of the center hole of the housing; and an oil passage P2 formed by an oil return pipe so that the lubricating oil circulates.
US11852143B2
A vacuum pump system includes an air-cooled, O-ring sealed vacuum pump and an oil management system with an LED illuminated clear tank for observation of the oil condition as well as a large oil inlet and outlet for rapid and safe oil changes while the pump is operating. The oil management system is also configured to prevent oil from the sump from being drawn into an evacuated AC/R system when the pump is stopped and the intake ports are not sealed from the high vacuum AC/R system. The oil management system includes a preferential vacuum relief system that allows air instead of the oil from the sump to be drawn back into the evacuated lines.
US11852137B2
A variable mechanical lubricant pump provides a pressurized lubricant for an internal combustion engine. The lubricant pump includes a delivery port which is fluidically connected to the engine, a control ring which shifts between a maximum and a minimum eccentricity position, a pump rotor having slidable vanes which rotate in the control ring, a control ring preload spring which pushes the control ring into the maximum eccentricity position, a hydraulic control chamber which pushes the control ring into the minimum eccentricity position, a pressure galley pump port fluidically connected to the engine, and an overpressure valve fluidically associated with the delivery port. The pressure gallery pump port charges the hydraulic control chamber with a gallery pressure to control a remote gallery pressure of the engine via a control chamber pressure in the hydraulic control chamber. The overpressure valve opens if an applied lubricant pressure exceeds a predefined maximum pressure limit.
US11852125B2
The invention provides an energy recovery system comprising a plurality of Shape-Memory Alloy (SMAs) or Negative Thermal Expansion (NTE) elements arranged to define a core and housed in an immersion chamber. A first fluid is introduced into the chamber and provides a first temperature change to activate the core from a first state to a second state and a second fluid is introduced at a second temperature to activate the core from the second state to the first state. A gas is inserted into the chamber between the first fluid and the second fluid. The advantage of the invention is that increased efficiency and power production from the SMA/NTE engine is achieved.
US11852114B2
A system for discharging or charging a capacitor of a hybrid vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a target state of charge (SOC) module and a capacitor charge/discharge module. The target SOC module determines a target state of charge of the capacitor based on a speed of the vehicle. The capacitor charge/discharge module determines whether a state of charge of a capacitor is greater than a target state of charge. The capacitor charge/discharge module dissipates power from the capacitor to at least one of a battery of the vehicle and an electrical load of the vehicle when the state of charge of the capacitor is greater than the target state of charge.
US11852101B1
A method of making a multi-grained fuel grain for a rocket is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of using at least one nozzle to extrude a first propellant in an additive manufacturing process, the first propellant comprising a multi-grained fuel grain, the multi-grained fuel grain forming the at least one void, the at least one void facilitating variation in internal ballistics, forming sensors, said sensors permitting continuous monitoring and continuous modification such that a user controls the ballistics profile of a rocket motor, forming an electrically-controlled second propellant in contact with and operatively coupled to the sensors; and wherein the additive manufacturing process uses at least at least one nozzle to extrude raw materials.
US11852087B2
A method for starting an internal combustion engine (ICE) having a crankshaft and an electric turning machine (ETM) operatively connected to the crankshaft comprises energizing an absolute position sensor adapted for providing an indication of an angular position of a rotor of the ETM and applying a current to the ETM to generate a sufficient torque to rotate the crankshaft.
US11852086B2
An engine includes water injection valves that inject water to intake ports connected to a cylinder. A controller for the engine is configured to selectively execute, for each of the intake ports, a synchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water only during a valve opening period of the intake valve and an asynchronous injection that causes the water injection valve to inject water during a valve closing period of the intake valve. The controller is configured to perform, when executing a synchronous/asynchronous concurrent injection in which the intake ports includes an intake port in which the synchronous injection is executed and an intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed, a switching process of switching the intake port in which the asynchronous injection is executed.
US11852085B2
Systems and methods for operating an engine that includes an exhaust system with a differential pressure sensor are described. In one example, output of the differential pressure sensor is compared to output of a barometric pressure sensor to determine whether or not the barometric pressure sensor is degraded. The output of the differential pressure sensor may be monitored while the engine is rotated without being fueled.
US11852078B2
A process for coating a component includes applying a bond coat on a substrate of a component; applying a thermal barrier material to the bond coat; and applying a conforming reflective layer to the thermal barrier material, the conforming reflective layer conforming to porous microstructure of the ceramic coating.
US11852073B2
An orifice pack is provided for delivering pressurized air to a compressor bleed valve of a gas turbine engine. The orifice pack has a diffusion chamber in serial flow communication with a tapering passage and a first outlet passage for venting a first portion of the pressurized air from the diffusion chamber. A second outlet passage branches off from the diffusion chamber at an axial location between the inlet and the tapering passage. The second outlet passage is fluidly connected to the compressor bleed valve for directing a second portion of the pressurized air from the diffusion chamber to the compressor bleed valve.
US11852071B2
A crankshaft (1) for a crankcase scavenged two stroke piston engine (2) is disclosed. The crankshaft (1) is configured to rotate around a rotation axis (ax) during operation. The crankshaft (1) comprises a crankpin (3) configured to move in a crank plane (cp) during operation, and a first and a second counterweight (5, 7) arranged on either side (S1, S2) of the crank plane (cp). The first counterweight (5) has a first outer radius (r1) measured from the rotation axis (ax) and the second counterweight (7) has a second outer radius (r2) measured from the rotation axis (ax). The first outer radius (r1) is smaller than the second outer radius (r2). The present disclosure further relates to a power unit (10), a crankcase scavenged two stroke piston engine (2), and a hand-held power tool (20).
US11852067B2
Systems and methods for using a diesel particulate filter (DPF) heater as a load bank to maintain a minimum exhaust temperature for a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) paired with a prime mover are provided. The system includes a prime mover coupled with a generator, a compressor powered by the prime mover, a DOC disposed downstream from the prime mover, and a controller. The prime mover is separate from another prime mover used for operating a vehicle. The controller is configured to determine a load of the generator, to determine a load of the compressor, to determine a load of the prime mover based on the determined load of the generator and the determined load the compressor, and to control the load of the prime mover to maintain a minimum exhaust temperature for the DOC.
US11852065B2
The invention relates to an attachment device (1) for a module for dispensing an aqueous solution contained in a tank on board a motor vehicle. According to the invention, such an attachment device (1) comprises a pump stator (31), a heating means and a heat diffuser (14) which comprises a base (15) and a first plurality of walls (16) that are substantially vertical with respect to said base (15) and define at least one first internal volume (3, 17), said base (15) and/or at least one wall that is substantially vertical with respect to the base (15) comprising at least one means (18) for positioning the pump stator and/or a first means (19) for attaching the pump stator and/or at least one second means (20) for attaching the heating means, the pump stator (31) and heat diffuser (14) assembly being overmolded with a plastic material, the attachment device (1) comprising at least one first through-hole (21), preferably in the region of the base of the attachment device (1), suitable for discharging the aqueous solution pumped by the pump, and a second through-hole (22) suitable for supplying the pump with aqueous solution.
US11852061B1
A vehicle exhaust gas reduction system positioned in an exhaust system of an engine includes: an electrically heated catalyst (EHC) of heating exhaust gas of the engine by electrically generating heat; a sub-gasoline particulate filter (Sub GPF) heated by operation of the EHC to combust a particulate number (PN) included in the exhaust gas; a main gasoline particulate filter (Main GPF) of purifying the exhaust gas discharged from the engine; and a controller configured for performing PN reduction control by operating the EHC to be On in a low-temperature condition, and increasing a temperature of the Sub GPF to a reference temperature at which soot combustion is possible, combusting the PN passing through the Sub GPF and soot collected in the Sub GPF.
US11852054B2
A variable camshaft timing (VCT) system includes an independent camshaft phaser, receiving input from a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, having an output coupled to one of an inner concentric camshaft or an outer concentric camshaft; and a dependent camshaft phaser, coupled to the other of the inner concentric camshaft or the outer concentric camshaft, comprising a half-Oldham link configured to permit radial movement of the inner concentric camshaft relative to the outer concentric camshaft in one radial direction and at least one pivotable arm configured to permit radial movement of the inner concentric camshaft relative to the outer concentric camshaft in another, different radial direction.
US11852045B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling an internal combustion engine arrangement (100). The internal combustion engine arrangement (100) comprises a combustion cylinder (102) and an inlet valve (106) arranged to be positioned in a closed position at a distance before a piston (104) reaches a bottom dead center during normal operation. The inlet valve is further controllable to be arranged in the open position until the piston reaches the bottom dead center if a required volumetric efficiency of the combustion cylinder is higher than a volumetric efficiency during normal operation.
US11852043B2
The present disclosure provides pumped thermal energy storage systems that can be used to store and extract electrical energy. A pumped thermal energy storage system of the present disclosure can store energy by operating as a heat pump or refrigerator, whereby net work input can be used to transfer heat from the cold side to the hot side. A working fluid of the system is capable of efficient heat exchange with heat storage fluids on a hot side of the system and on a cold side of the system. The system can extract energy by operating as a heat engine transferring heat from the hot side to the cold side, which can result in net work output.
US11852040B2
A method of automatic load regulation, operation and protection for steam turbine and motor combined drive and power generation in converter saturated steam utilization, which relates to the technical field of low-pressure saturated steam utilization, to solve the problems of steam instability, low energy utilization efficiency, and unstable system operation in existing technique. Technical points: S1. setting engagement speed; S2. speed control mode; S3. switching to a valve control mode after successfully engagement; S4. valve position automatic mode activation; S5. entering automatic mode; S6. reducing the valve position adjustment rate; S7. reading, by the DCS of the drive steam turbine system, the comprehensive thermal storage index value and the preset valve position corresponding to the thermal storage value; adjusting the valve position to the valve position corresponding to the read heat storage value.
US11852033B2
The invention relates to a rotor blade (10) for a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, comprising an airfoil (12) comprising a pressure face (15) and a suction face (17) extending from a leading edge (14) to a trailing edge (16), the airfoil (12) comprising an axis of elongation extending substantially along the leading (14) and trailing (16) edges, the airfoil (12) comprising a radially firmer end for connection to a rotor and a free radially outer end. According to the invention, the airfoil (10) further comprises at least one series of fins (24) situated on said free end, each of these fins (24) comprising a pressure face (26) situated on the suction face (17) side of the airfoil (12), and a suction face (28) situated on the pressure face (15) side of the airfoil (12).
US11852020B2
The present application provides an adjustable inlet guide vane angle monitoring device for monitoring an angular position of an inlet guide vane mounted about a compressor of a gas turbine engine. The adjustable inlet guide vane angle monitoring device may include a position sensor attached to the inlet guide vane, a sensor plate attached to the position sensor, and a limit switch positioned about the sensor plate. The position sensor determines the angular position of the inlet guide vane and the limit switch prevents movement of the inlet guide vane upon detection of the sensor plate.
