US11850959B2
A vehicle charging system comprises at least one controller and at least one arm, each arm having a first end coupled an actuator and a second end comprising a charging interface. The actuator is configured to articulate the arm into a charging position. The charging interface comprises at least one charging contact coupled to a power source and configured to engage and deliver power to a vehicle charging interface to charge at least one battery of a vehicle. The charging system can include a plurality of arms, each configured to charge a different vehicle. A method of charging one or more vehicles using the charging system is also provided.
US11850956B2
An electric compact tractor powered by a plurality of lithium ion battery modules housed in a battery pack. A pair of electrical bus bars connect the plurality of lithium ion battery modules in the battery pack, and extend from the battery pack to electric motors for traction drive, implement drive and steering. A low voltage control circuit may be used for turning on the plurality of lithium ion battery modules in the battery pack.
US11850948B1
Drag Detection is provided. A system includes one or more processors of a vehicle, coupled with memory. The one or more processors can determine, for a vehicle, rolling drag based on energy input to one or more motors of the vehicle and a speed of the vehicle. The one or more processors can select, based on the rolling drag and a friction level associated with a surface on which the vehicle traverses, a slip target for the vehicle. The one or more processors can provide the slip target to a traction control system of the vehicle to control the one or more motors.
US11850947B2
A motor vehicle has a motor, an inverter, a first power storage device, with a large-capacity characteristic, a second power storage device, with a high-power characteristic, a power converter and a circuit. The power converter has a voltage step down function during power driving. In the circuit, the power converter is connected to the first power storage device and the second power storage device. Thus, the first power storage device and the second power storage device are parallel to each other. During the power driving of the motor, the power converter steps down an output voltage of the first power storage device to supply energy from the first power storage device and the second power storage device to the inverter.
US11850943B2
A hybrid powertrain apparatus for a vehicle includes an engine, a first input shaft mounted to receive power from the engine, a first motor directly connected to the first input shaft, a second input shaft disposed concentrically with the first input shaft, a second motor directly connected to the second input shaft, a planetary gear set including three rotation elements, two of which are respectively connected to the first input shaft and the second input shaft and the remaining one of which is mounted to be selectively stationary, and an output gear integrally formed with the second input shaft to draw power.
US11850930B2
Disclosed is a battery-equipped vehicle body including: a lower panel of a vehicle extending in a planar direction, and having a battery coupled to the upper portion or lower portion thereof; a door opening/closing device located on the side surface of the lower panel, and coupled so that a door of the vehicle is opened and closed; and a cross member extending in a direction parallel to the transverse direction of the vehicle, coupled to the upper portion or lower portion of the lower panel, and located to correspond to the door opening/closing device in the transverse direction.
US11850929B2
The invention relates to a vehicle axle, comprising: —a differential; —a powertrain, comprising a first electric motor (EM1) and a second electric motor (EM2); —a first transmission element between the first electric motor and said differential, this first transmission element comprising a variable transmission ratio; —a second transmission element between the second electric motor and said differential; wherein the second electric motor is controlled so as to provide its maximum power during gear changes of the first transmission element, so as to compensate at least partially for the power loss inherent in the gear change.
US11850924B2
A reinforcing structure of an automobile exterior panel improving performance in absorbing an impact load, the reinforcing structure of an automobile exterior panel including an outer panel of a sheet shape, a plurality of first and second reinforcing members of long shapes arranged at a vehicle inner side from the outer panel the second reinforcing members crossing the first reinforcing members, an inner panel of a sheet shape arranged at a vehicle inner side from the first and second reinforcing members, and support members provided at a vehicle outer side from the inner panel and supporting the first or the second reinforcing members from a vehicle inner side, the support members supporting first or the second reinforcing members at a plurality of crossing parts where the first and the second reinforcing members cross or between adjoining crossing parts.
US11850923B2
A vehicle sun visor has: a hollow plate-like visor body; and a card holder fitted to the visor body. The visor body has an opening that is formed in a first component of the visor body, and a pair of rails that extend from both ends of the opening on the backside of the first component. The card holder has, integrally, an annular bezel along the opening, and a holder body extending from one side of the bezel over the other side thereof. The holder body has both edges that are held on the rails, and a projection piece that is located on a side opposite to the bezel and is held on the visor body.
US11850920B2
A cage that can be rotated about a longitudinal axis and has a lattice tube shape is disposed in a tubular air channel of an air vent, serving as a carrier of an air guide device and an air volume control device.
US11850911B2
A mounting structure of a thermal management module for a vehicle, includes: a mounting carrier mounted at a front of a vehicle body and having a receiving space; and a thermal management module mounted in the receiving space; wherein the thermal management module includes: an air conditioner mounted in the receiving space and configured to adjust a temperature of a vehicle interior according to a cooling mode or a heating mode; and a cooling device mounted in the receiving space and configured to heat-exchange with a working fluid using an external air introduced from outside of the cooling device.
US11850908B2
A thermal management device having an indirect air conditioning circuit for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The device has a first refrigerant fluid loop (A) with a compressor, a two-fluid heat exchanger, a first expansion device, an evaporator, a second expansion device, an evaporator/condenser, and a first by-pass line including a first stop valve, a first and a second internal heat exchanger. A second by-pass line includes a third expansion device arranged upstream from a cooler, a shunt branch comprising a first external radiator. The device also has a second heat transfer fluid loop (B) in which a heat transfer fluid is intended to flow. The two-fluid heat exchanger is arranged jointly on the one hand on the first refrigerant fluid loop downstream of the compressor, between said compressor and the first expansion device, and on the second heat transfer fluid loop (B).
US11850902B2
The present invention is directed to providing a strut suspension system configured to improve a steering property by reducing steering frictional resistance when a steering wheel is rotationally manipulated and having a relatively simple mechanical structure to reduce the number of components and manufacturing costs and to secure a large space for installing main components such as an engine and the like. Disclosed is a strut suspension system configured to absorb impact and vibrations transferred to a vehicle body from a road surface through a wheel. The strut suspension system includes a strut provided between the vehicle body and the wheel and to which a knuckle arm connecting a steering system of a vehicle to the wheel is connected to be relatively rotatable when the steering system performs steering and a stabilizer link having one end connected to a stabilizer bar configured to increase roll rigidity of the vehicle body and the other end coupled to prevent the strut from rotating.
US11850901B2
There is disclosed a communication system for delivering power and control signals to control the activation of electrical components in a vehicle comprising: a power source for generating a power signal to supply power to the electrical components; a computer controller for generating control signals to control operation of the electrical components; a slave unit operatively connected to both the power source and the computer controller to receive the control signals and to convert the control signals into data signals for transmission to the electrical components; a power supply line for carrying the power signal, or the power signal and the data signals, from the slave unit to each electrical component; and a master unit located remote from said slave unit and configured to receive the data signals from the slave unit and to verify the data signals for further delivery to the required electrical component.
US11850896B2
A system for tire inflation including a drive mechanism defining a rotational axis, including an eccentric mass that offsets a center of mass of the drive mechanism from the rotational axis along a radial vector; a pump arranged radially distal the rotational axis of the drive mechanism, including a chamber defining a chamber lumen, and a reciprocating element arranged at least partially within the chamber lumen and translatable along a pump axis; a drive coupler coupled between the drive mechanism at a first position and the reciprocating element at a second position fixed to the reciprocating element; a torque regulation mechanism; and a controller, communicatively coupled to the torque regulation mechanism; wherein the system is operable between at least a first mode and a second mode by the torque regulation mechanism in cooperation with the controller.
US11850895B2
A method is provided for dynamically determining a tire longitudinal force. The method includes determining a tire acceleration variable by an acceleration sensor arranged in a tire bead, determining a first time interval between a tire contact patch entry point and an acceleration vertex by a processor unit, and determining a second time interval between the acceleration vertex and a tire contact patch exit point by the processor unit. The method also includes determining a magnitude or direction of a tire longitudinal force variable comprising a tire longitudinal force by the processor unit from a symmetry shift detected between the first and second time intervals.
US11850882B2
A decorative door wreath having an annular ring and at least a first decorative ornament detachably attached to the annular ring is disclosed. The annular ring includes a front annular planar body and a back annular support base. The front annular planar body includes a front surface disposed between a continuous inner edge opposite a continuous outer edge. The back annular support base has a smaller width than a width of the front annular planar body. The first retention member includes a first base plate and a first pair of resiliently flexible spring arms removably connected to the front surface of the front annular planar body. The first pair of resiliently flexible spring arms flex laterally to provide for passage of at least a first portion of the front annular planar body therebetween. The at least first decorative ornament is detachably coupled to and retained by the annular ring.
US11850881B2
Disclosed is a floor decoration tile manufacturing system for automatic storage and supply and automatic air duct type control of temperature, the floor decoration tile manufacturing system including: a raw material supply unit configured to store a raw material for forming a lower sheet and a middle sheet; a lower sheet supply unit configured to form and supply the lower sheet; a middle sheet supply unit configured to supply the middle sheet bonded onto the lower sheet; a main roller configured to bond the lower sheet and the middle sheet, which have been supplied; a first sheet supply unit configured to supply a print sheet having a color or a pattern to the main roller; a second sheet supply unit configured to supply a transparent sheet, which is bonded onto the print sheet, to the main roller; and a control unit configured to control a tile manufacturing process through pressing the main roller by controlling the driving speeds of the raw material supply unit, the lower sheet supply unit, and the middle sheet supply unit and rotation of the main roller such that the print sheet and the transparent sheet which have been supplied to the upper side, to which the lower sheet and the middle sheet are bonded, are sequentially pressed, wherein the control unit controls the heating temperatures for the raw material, the lower sheet, the middle sheet, and the tile manufacturing sections.
US11850877B2
A printed product is produced by providing a substrate, producing at least one interlayer on the substrate, printing a printed image onto the interlayer, and forming a barrier layer on the printed image. The barrier layer is provided on the printed image by applying a barrier composition to at least one carrier, at least partially drying the barrier layer and transferring it to the printed image. Preferred substrates have an acidic precoat layer as an interlayer. Such substrates can then be varnished with glossy varnishes, to achieve particularly high gloss values.
US11850865B2
The cartridge includes: a liquid containing portion, a liquid supply portion, an arrangement portion having the liquid supply portion arranged inside thereof and having a bottom wall facing a distal end of the liquid supply portion, in which the bottom wall has an opening portion through which the liquid introduction portion is inserted at a position facing the distal end, a first liquid absorbing member arranged inside the arrangement portion, of which a part of the first liquid absorbing member is exposed from the opening portion, and a second liquid absorbing member arranged inside the arrangement portion and coming into contact with the first liquid absorbing member.
US11850862B2
A determination signal indicates whether each of a plurality of nozzles of a liquid ejection head is an abnormal nozzle. A controller stores, in a memory, information on a nozzle determined to be the abnormal nozzle among the plurality of nozzles; in response to receiving a particular signal and determining that the memory does not store abnormality flag information and that the number of the abnormal nozzle stored in the memory is larger than a first threshold value, control a recovery device to perform a recovery operation; and in response to receiving the particular signal and determining that the memory stores the abnormality flag information and that the number of the abnormal nozzle is larger than a second threshold value, control the recovery device to perform the recovery operation. The second threshold value is smaller than the first threshold value.
US11850861B2
A method analyzes image data of a test pattern printed on an image receiving member by a printer to identify split inkjets in the printheads of the printer. The test pattern is formed by operating each inkjet of a printhead to form a dash and the areas of the dashes are compared to an average dash area to identify split inkjets. Firing signal parameters for the split inkjets are adjusted and subsequent firing signals are generated using the adjusted parameters. Image data of the pixels formed by the split inkjets are analyzed after the split inkjets have been operated using the adjusted firing signal parameters. If the pixel size for a split inkjets indicates that the split inkjet has been remediated, then the firing signal parameters are returned to their nominal values.
US11850860B2
A cleaning device includes a plurality of cleaning members that come into contact with an ejection surface of a droplet ejector that ejects droplets to clean the ejection surface, in which the plurality of cleaning members are in a wet state.
US11850858B2
There is provided liquid discharge head including: channel substrate which has first surface; and actuator substrate having second surface. A trap chamber configured such that the adhesive is trapped in the trap chamber in a case that the first and second surfaces are adhered to each other, an inflow channel configured such that the adhesive flows into the inflow channel, and an atmosphere communicating channel are formed in the channel substrate. The trap chamber has first and second ends in first direction and first and second ends in second direction. End of the inflow channel is located at the first end in the first direction and the second end in the second direction of the trap chamber. End of the atmosphere communicating channel is located at the second end in the first direction and the first end in the second direction of the trap chamber.
US11850851B2
A production process and a related device comprises a formation process comprising: contacting a first liquid material and a second liquid material with each other at a contact point in a gas atmosphere, wherein at the contact point at least one of the first liquid material and the second liquid material is provided as a liquid jet propagating in a direction, to provide at the contact point a third jet of a coalesced third material propagating in a third direction.
US11850850B2
A discharge control apparatus includes a storage control unit, and a correction value update unit. The storage control unit is configured to store, in a storage unit, a correction value for correcting a value related to discharge performed by a liquid discharge unit configured to discharge liquid to a discharge target, in association with a type of the discharge target. The correction value update unit is configured to update, via the storage control unit, the correction value stored in the storage unit, based on input received by an input receiving unit configured to receive the input from a user. The correction value update unit is configured to perform update with as identical correction value for a plurality of different types of discharge targets.
US11850847B2
An inkjet printing apparatus includes a head that ejects ink toward a recording medium transported by a transport unit, and an ejection controller that causes the head to eject ink. The ejection controller is configured to perform process including: process of calculating a transport speed of the recording medium; process of generating reference timing of ejection of ink by the head; process of determining a target delay amount by which timing of ejection of ink by the head is delayed from the reference timing on the basis of a transport speed coinciding with the reference timing; process of updating a target delay amount, on the occurrence of change in the transport speed before the recording medium is transported by a distance corresponding to the target delay amount, the target delay amount being updated in response to the transport speed as changed; and process of delaying timing of ejection of ink by the head on the basis of the target delay amount as updated.
US11850839B2
A fixing structure of a wiring member includes an adhesive member, a wire-like transmission member, and an adherent. The adhesive member includes a planar base body having conductivity, a first hot-melt adhesive agent provided on one main surface of the base body, and a second hot-melt adhesive agent provided on another main surface of the base body. The base body can generate heat by induction heating using an induction heating apparatus. The wire-like transmission member is bonded to the first hot-melt adhesive agent in the adhesive member on a side of the one main surface of the base body. The adherent is bonded to the second hot-melt adhesive agent in the adhesive member on a side of the another main surface of the base body.
US11850837B2
There is provided a functional layer including layered double hydroxide. The functional has an average porosity of 1 to 40% and an average pore diameter of 100 nm or less.
US11850831B2
A component is provided that includes a multi-layer body configured with a thermoplastic layer, a thermoset layer and a scrim at an interface between the thermoplastic layer and the thermoset layer. The thermoplastic layer includes a plurality of reinforcement particles within a thermoplastic matrix. The thermoset layer is configured from or otherwise includes a thermoset matrix.
US11850825B2
A facade element includes a coloring transparent or semi-transparent first pane and a mechanically supporting transparent second pane firmly connected to one another by an intermediate layer. The first pane has a front surface arranged on the light incidence side and an opposite back surface, at least one surface of the front and back surfaces has at least one structured region, and at least one optical interference layer is arranged on the at least one surface for reflecting light within a predetermined wavelength range. The structured region has the following features: perpendicular to the plane of the first pane, a height profile comprising peaks and valleys, wherein an average height difference between the peaks and valleys is at least 2 μm, at least 50% of the structured region is composed of segments which are inclined with respect to the plane of the first pane (2).
US11850824B2
In certain example embodiments, moisture sensors, defoggers, etc., and/or related methods, are provided, More particularly, certain example embodiments relate to moisture sensors and/or defoggers that may be used in various applications such as, for example, refrigerator/freezer merchandisers, vehicle windows, building windows, etc. When condensation or moisture is detected, an appropriate action may be taken (e.g., actuating windshield wipers, turning on a defroster, triggering the heating of a merchandiser door or window, etc.). Bayesian approaches optionally, may be implemented in certain example embodiments in an attempt to improve moisture detection accuracy. For instance, models of various types of disturbances may be developed and, based on live data and a priori information known about the model, a probability of the model being accurate is calculated. If a threshold value is met, the model may be considered a match and, optionally, a corresponding appropriate action may be taken.
US11850819B2
Disclosed is a control method for a transverse to longitudinal crease stiffness ratio, belonging to the packaging field. The transverse to longitudinal crease stiffness ratio represents the ratio of a transverse crease stiffness to a longitudinal crease stiffness, and the transverse to longitudinal crease stiffness ratio is controlled to be ≤1.25. The control method of the transverse to longitudinal crease stiffness ratio in the present invention enables to control the transverse to longitudinal crease stiffness ratio within a certain range by adjusting the height of a die-cutter or adjusting the width of a bottom die.
US11850810B2
Skin-bonded threaded inserts may be installed within a sandwich panel by curing the insert in place as the sandwich panel is cured. Skin-bonded threaded inserts may include a collar that is transitioned between a raised position and a compressed position during installation of the skin-bonded threaded insert in the sandwich panel, due to compression of the sandwich panel during curing. Skin-bonded threaded inserts may include one or more flanges that engage one or more skins of the sandwich panel. Such flanges may be positioned between two skins, or between the core and a skin of the sandwich panel to secure the sandwich panel in place within the sandwich panel. Skin-bonded threaded inserts may be positioned within a sandwich panel without the use of potting compound and may engage with the skins of the sandwich panel, rather than relying on adherence to the core for sufficient pull-out and shear strength.
US11850802B2
Novel support material formulations, characterized as providing a cured support material with improved dissolution rate, while maintaining sufficient mechanical strength, are disclosed. The formulations comprise a water-miscible non-curable polymer, a first water-miscible, curable material and a second, water-miscible material that is selected capable of interfering with intermolecular interactions between polymeric chains formed upon exposing the first water-miscible material to curing energy. Methods of fabricating a three-dimensional object, and a three-dimensional object fabricated thereby are also disclosed.
US11850797B2
A liquefier tube for an additive manufacturing system, the liquefier tube including a body provided with a feed channel including a feeding portion having a first diameter, an outlet portion having a second diameter, the first diameter being larger than the second diameter, a transitional portion interconnecting the feeding portion and the outlet portion. The transitional portion has a monotonically decreasing third diameter from the feeding portion to the outlet portion and the third diameter as function of a longitudinal position of the feed channel in the transitional portion between the feeding portion and the outlet portion and at a transition between the transitional portion and the outlet portion is differentiable. Methods of manufacturing the liquefier tube.
US11850796B2
The invention relates to a system for producing three-dimensional models. The system preferably includes a z-axis drive unit on a side of a build container that is coupled to a build platform for moving the build platform in a vertical direction.
US11850794B2
A system includes an enclosed laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) containment volume. A powder drain is included below the containment volume configured to receive powder dropping from the containment volume by force of gravity. A valve below the powder drain is configured to allow passage with the valve in an open state of unfused powder from the drain into a powder collection volume separated from the containment volume by the valve, and prevent passage of powder from the drain into the collection volume with the valve in a closed state. A source of wetting agent is in fluid communication with the powder collection volume for capturing powder in the collection volume by wetting the powder. A moisture trap is operatively connected to the drain above the valve and is configured to capture moisture to prevent moisture from the collection volume migrating into the containment volume.
US11850787B2
An improved method for molding a plastic container within a mold including an RFID tag to generate a container which leaves a mold having an RFID tag bonded between the container and a label. This method provides for an improved integrally, extrusion blow molded container, label and RFID tag combination.
US11850786B2
There is provided a die plate, a resin machine, and a method of heating nozzles of the die plate that can suppress temperature unevenness of the nozzles and increase the temperature rise performance of the nozzles. The die plate includes a nozzle group including a plurality of nozzles through which molten resin passes, and a heating medium guidance part that guides a heating medium for heating a nozzle wall of each nozzle. The heating medium guidance part includes an inlet that receives the heating medium, an outlet that discharges the heating medium from a heating medium channel, and a guidance wall that defines a heating channel that causes the inlet and the outlet to be in communication with each other together with an outer peripheral surface of the nozzle wall of each of the plurality of nozzles.
US11850783B2
In a manufacturing method, resin in a molten state which becomes a film raw material is caused to hang down from a discharge port of a discharger and the film-like film raw material is continuously discharged, a sheet is conveyed along a sheet pass line, a tip part of the film raw material is formed by cutting and removing an initially formed part of the initially formed film raw material, the tip part is overlapped on the sheet on the sheet pass line, the sheet and the film raw material in a mutually overlapping state are conveyed along the sheet pass line, and the sheet and the film raw material are introduced to a joining part from the sheet pass line.
US11850780B2
A resin member includes: a resin substrate; and a micro-embossed pattern and having a plurality of recesses and a plurality of protrusions. The plurality of protrusions includes: a plurality of first protrusions; and a plurality of second protrusions having a height of from ¼ to ¾ of the height of the first protrusions. A distance between peaks of two adjacent ones of the plurality of protrusions ranges from 100 μm to 500 μm. The number of the minute regions having an angle of inclination of from −10° to 10° with respect to the reference plane ranges from 78% to 95% of the number of all of the minute regions included in the micro-embossed pattern corresponding to the predetermined distance, and the number of the minute regions having an angle of inclination of from −1° to 1° ranges from 25% to 40% of the number of all of the minute regions.
US11850779B2
Molded article with selectively varied core layer geometry and hot runner nozzles for producing same
A molded article suitable for subsequent blow-molding into a final-shaped container. The article includes a neck portion; a gate portion; and a body portion extending between the neck portion and the gate portion, at least a majority of the body portion having an overall shape which is symmetric about a body axis extending longitudinally through a center of the body portion. The body portion includes an inner exterior layer and an outer exterior layer of a first polymeric material; and a core layer of a second polymeric material disposed between the inner exterior layer and the outer exterior layer. A radial thickness or a material of the core layer is selectively varied to govern non-uniform blow molding of the molded article into the final-shaped container.
US11850762B1
A food cutter apparatus with a blade portion and a handle portion. The blade portion is comprised of a single rigid material. The handle portion can be comprised of the same rigid material as the blade portion or a separate rigid material. The handle portion of the food cutter apparatus is located on top of the blade portion. A grater, slicer, or other kitchen tool elements are provided integral to the blade portion. A blade cover is provided to shield the user from the blade cutting edge while utilizing the kitchen tool elements. The handle portion and blade cover act as guides for the food product while utilizing the kitchen tool elements.
US11850745B2
Disclosed herein are multi-turn drive assemblies, systems and methods of use thereof. The multi-turn drive assemblies enable a robot link member to have a maximum rotation of at least 360 degrees about an axis. The multi-turn drive assemblies can be incorporated into a robot arm for enabling 360 degrees rotation of one or more link members about an axis. The robot arm may be located in a transfer chamber of an electronic device processing system. Also disclosed are methods of controlling the multi-turn drive assemblies and related robots.
US11850743B2
There is provided a transport apparatus including: an articulated arm including: a first arm in which a drive motor is installed; a second arm configured to be driven by the first arm; a transmission portion configured to convert a rotation of the drive motor into a rotation of the second arm via a joint; a first detector configured to detect a first sensor value corresponding to a rotation angle of an input shaft of the transmission portion; and a second detector configured to detect a second sensor value corresponding to a rotation angle of the second arm; and a controller configured to control the articulated arm, wherein the controller is further configured to control the second arm to a target rotation angle based on the first sensor value and the second sensor value.
US11850739B2
A deterioration degree of a robot body is precisely evaluated. A robot control device 300 includes: a drive control unit 309 controlling operation of a robot body 200; a detection unit 310 detecting a signal used for analysis of a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is operated; a determination unit 304 determining whether a data section of the signal includes a constant speed section equal to or greater than a given section; a normalization unit 305 normalizing a signal in a non-constant speed section when the data section of the signal does not include the constant speed section equal to or greater than the given section; an analysis unit 307 analyzing the feature amount; and an estimation unit 308 estimating a remaining life of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount.
US11850734B2
A gripper device includes a base and two gripping assemblies, each including a gripping member, a stand, and an elastic member. The gripping member includes a gripping portion and a supporting portion. The stand is movably disposed to the base and includes a connecter and a supporter. The supporting portion is pivotally connected to the supporter at a position between the gripping portion and the connecter so that the gripping member is pivotable relative to the stand. Two opposite ends of the elastic member are respectively connected to the supporting portion and the connecter. When one of the gripping portions touches an object, the gripping member pivots relative to the corresponding stand. Therefore, gripping a target may not be interrupted by interference objects around the target.
US11850730B2
Eye gaze measurements are used to give input to a surgical robotic system. Eye tracking input is enhanced using a pair of eye trackers positioned to track the gaze of a user observing an endoscopic image on a display. At least one of the eye trackers is moveable relative to the display in a horizontal and/or vertical direction relative to the image display.
US11850723B2
A balancer for tools includes a rotary drum for winding and unwinding a cable, which is adapted with a free end thereof to support a tool. The balancer also includes a spring, wound around the main rotation axis of the drum, which is adapted to develop an elastic reaction contrasting the unwinding of the cable.
US11850697B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a holding part for holding a substrate; a rotating part for rotating the holding part to rotate the substrate together with the holding part; a liquid supply part for supplying a cleaning liquid to a main surface of the substrate; a polishing head for polishing the main surface; a moving part for scanning the polishing head in a radial direction of the substrate while pressing the polishing head against the main surface; and a controller for controlling the rotating part, the liquid supply part, and the moving part. The controller sets a division line that divides the main surface into plural areas in the radial direction, and controls the liquid supply part to supply the cleaning liquid for each area and controls the moving part to scan the polishing head for each area while a subsequent supply of the cleaning liquid is stopped.
US11850672B2
A method of using a processing oven may include disposing at least one substrate in a chamber of the oven and activating a lamp assembly disposed above them to increase their temperature to a first temperature. A chemical vapor may be admitted into the chamber above the at least one substrate and an inert gas may be admitted into the chamber below the at least one substrate. The temperature of the at least one substrate may then be increased to a second temperature higher than the first temperature and then cooled down.
US11850670B2
Cutting tool systems including a cutting tool holder and cutting inserts are disclosed. The cutting inserts have eight cutting edges and eight wiper edges. The first and second faces each include at least two cutting edges or two wiper edges on alternating sides of the cutting insert. The cutting edges and wiper edges are structured and arranged to allow the cutting insert to be interchangeably used in both right handed and left handed cutting tool holders.
US11850663B2
A cemented carbide including an eta phase and a Ni—Al binder is provided. The Ni—Al binder includes intermetallic y′-Ni3Al -precipitates embedded in a substitutional solid solution matrix of Al and Ni. A weight ratio Al/Ni of between 0.03 to 0.10, wherein a total amount of Ni and Al is between 70 to 95 wt % of the total binder A method of making a cutting tool is also provided.
US11850651B2
A heat and humidity exchange plate for an air-to-air heat exchanger is made by continuously forming an expanded metal structure from a strip of metal foil by slitting the metal foil in a transverse direction, stretching the metal foil in a longitudinal direction, and then rolling over an entire width of the strip of metal foil. The expanded metal structure is subjected to an annealing heat treatment. A vapour-permeable polymeric membrane is provided on the annealed expanded metal structure. Corrugated and embossed-shaped elements are formed on the annealed expanded metal structure with the vapour-permeable polymeric membrane by means of omnidirectional deformation. A circumferential shape of the exchange plate is formed by removing excess edges from the annealed expanded metal structure with the vapour-permeable polymeric membrane.
US11850647B2
A punch and a pad sandwiching a top sheet portion, bending blades for bend-forming the vertical wall portions, and stoppers facing the bending blades are provided. The punch is supported by a first cushion component. The bending blades each have an upper die component and a lower die component disposed facing each other in the press direction with an interval equal to a set compression amount in the range of 2% or more and 6% or less of the heights of the vertical wall portions and a second cushion component interposed between the upper die component and the lower die component, maintaining the interval, and contractible in the press direction. The cushion pressure of the second cushion component is lower than the cushion pressure of the first cushion component and has such cushion pressure that the second cushion component does not contract during the bend-forming of the vertical wall portions.
US11850645B2
A method for preparing a multilayer metal composite pipe includes steps of: internally and externally grinding blank pipes; cleaning oil stains; assembling a multilayer metal pipe; drawing to reduce a diameter; performing high-speed friction welding at the pipe ends; performing heat treatment; performing four-roller cross-rolling; straightening; performing two-roller cold-rolling; performing cold-drawing to reduce the diameter; performing cold-expansion to reduce the diameter; performing precise cold-rolling; degreasing; brightening; performing surface grinding; cleaning dust; detecting multilayer metal interface bonding; detecting flaws; testing metal structure performance; and sizing and packaging. By cycling the cold-drawing, the cold-expansion, and the precision cold-rolling, key indicators such as product dimensional accuracy, surface quality, material properties, and crystal grain size can be collaboratively controlled, so as to achieve higher accuracy, better performance, and more outstanding extreme specifications. The present invention solves the problem of inconsistent extension due to differences in metal properties.
US11850642B2
The invention relates to methods of household waste management, in particular, to methods of disposing waste by plasma-chemical destruction method. The invention is directed to attaining a technical effect of broadening range of technical solutions by providing a method of destruction of household waste at low temperature of treatment that is comparable to environment temperature. This technical effect is attained by a destruction method, where household waste is fed into a reactor via an input opening, and entry of atmospheric air into the reactor is restricted. The reactor is a closed cavity, whose inner surface is made conductive entirely or partially and is grounded. An electrode protrudes into the reactor, and this electrode is isolated from the grounded surface. High-voltage pulses are supplied to the electrode. The pulses cause formation of corona discharge streamers in a gap between the electrode and the conductive surface of the reactor.
US11850638B2
The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for cleaning vessels. The vessel cleaning apparatus (10) has a suction lance (20) and a flushing lance (40). The flushing lance (40) is configured to receive fluid, such as cleaning liquid and/or compressed air, and to expel it against an inner wall of a vessel to be cleaned. The suction lance (20) is configured to suck off and lead off fluids present in the vessel as well as cleaning liquid supplied through the flushing lance (40) from the vessel, preferably against the direction of effect of gravity.
US11850621B2
An optical device coating assembly is provided. The optical device coating assembly includes a substrate support operable to retain an optical device substrate. The coating assembly further includes a first actuator connected to the substrate support. The first actuator is configured to rotate the substrate support. The coating assembly includes a holder configured to hold a coating applicator against an edge of the optical device substrate when the optical device substrate is rotated on the substrate support and a second actuator operable to apply a force on the holder in a direction towards the substrate support. The second actuator is a constant force actuator.
US11850620B1
A coater is provided for depositing a coating onto a sequence of samples to be analyzed in a microscope. The coater includes a process chamber to maintain a low-pressure vacuum or controlled gaseous environment at a deposition region inside the process chamber, a sample conveyor to support and convey samples through the deposition region, an evaporant supply to vaporize material from an evaporant source onto the samples at the deposition region, and a controller to control one or more operations of the coater.
US11850616B2
A coating device for applying a coating agent to the surface of a workpiece. The coating device includes a frame with a workpiece receptacle, a coating agent source and a rotary unit which is rotatable in relation to the frame. The rotary unit has a pump and a plurality of spray units, with the pump on the suction side being connected to the coating agent source by a fluid-conducting rotary joint connection. The rotary unit has a pneumatic valve device, and the spray units have in each case one compressed air controlled valve for controlling the delivery of coating agent. The inlet side of the valve is connected to the compressed air source by a fluid-conducting rotary feedthrough, which simplifies the overall construction of the coating device by providing a pneumatic connection between the compressed air source and the rotary unit that is independent of the rotation angle.
US11850615B2
A system for treating a surface of a structure includes a wheeled vehicle that is movable along a surface and includes at least one surface treatment device.
US11850612B2
A liquid dispensing system includes a liquid container and a one way user-actuated dispensing valve for dispensing contained liquid. The liquid container further includes a two way vent which allows for ventilation of the contained liquid/gas in response to changes in air pressure outside of the liquid container.
US11850607B2
A shower device is provided. The shower device comprises a top shower, a diverting valve core, a switching assembly, a handheld shower, and a pause valve core. The switching assembly is configured to control the diverting valve core to be switched between the normal diverting state and forced diverting state.
US11850606B2
A particles capturing system includes a venturi filter device, a cyclone filter device, a plurality of first nozzles and air to flow through the system. The venturi filter device has an air intake portion, a neck portion and an air outlet portion. The cyclone filter device, disposed in the air outlet portion, has an entrance and an exit. The plurality of first nozzles, disposed inside the venturi filter device, have a height greater than that of the the neck portion. When the air flows, the air enters the venturi filter device via an air inlet of the air intake portion, then orderly passes through the neck portion and the plurality of first nozzles, then enters the cyclone filter device via the entrance, and finally leaves the cyclone filter device via the exit, such that particles in the flowing air can be captured.
US11850599B2
A mounting ring installation system including a torque multiplier introduced to a grinder head to aid in the installation and removal of the mounting ring which holds the grinding plate system securely into the grinder head. The torque multiplying device can have multiple sources of input power including human power or a mechanical source and can be installed on a variety of grinder types and sizes.
US11850598B2
A machine for shredding portions of bituminous material in the solid-state into granules in the solid-state. The machine comprises a pressing member provided with a piston which is axially mobile inside a perforated tubular body along an axis and is provided on the head thereof with an internal concave portion having a shape substantially complementary to a projecting part present in an axial end of the perforated tubular body. On the head of the piston through-openings are made, which extend radially along a direction approximately transversal to the axis and are in communication with the internal space of the concave portion.
US11850597B2
Various embodiments of a hammermill system, hammer, and methods are disclosed. A hammermill hammer comprises a metal composite comprising a plurality of inserts and a body portion disposed between each of the plurality of inserts. The composition of the plurality of inserts is different than composition of the body portion. The material of the plurality of inserts has a greater abrasion resistance than the material of the body portion and the material of the body portion has a greater impact resistance than the material of the inserts. The hammers produced have improved wear resistance and longer useful life compared to conventional hammermill hammers.
US11850588B2
A microfluidic device for detection of an analyte in a fluid is described. The microfluidic device comprises a substrate having a first surface defining entrances to one or more chambers defined in the substrate, surfaces of the chambers defining a second surface of the substrate, the first surface being modified for selective targeting and capture of at least one analyte to operably effect a blocking of the entrance to at least one of the chambers, and wherein a response characteristic of the microfluidic device is operably varied by the blocking of the entrance to the at least one of the chambers, thereby providing an indication of the presence of the analyte within the fluid.
US11850584B2
A separation container for extracting a portion of a sample for use or testing and method for preparing samples for downstream use or testing are provided. The separation container may include a body defining an internal chamber. The body may define an opening, and the body may be configured to receive the sample within the internal chamber. The separation container may further include a seal disposed across the opening, such that the seal may be configured to seal the opening of the body, and a plunger movably disposed at least partially inside the internal chamber. The plunger may be configured to be actuated to open the seal and express the portion of the sample.
US11850562B1
A capped retail dispenser package encloses and retains a mixing container into which a product mixture is filled using an automated manufacturing system in an individualized manner, such that each individual product container may be charged with a customized or unique formulation different than a previous or subsequent container passing through the system. Mixing is not done prior to filling, but with a mixer received in a slidable bottom portion that functions as a piston. The rod terminates at its upper end with a mixing plate. Movement of the rod through the central opening provides mixing of the product through a reciprocating motion, and preferably with a simultaneous rotation. Movement of the upper mixing plate within the mixing container provides mixing of the container's contents by forcing fluid flow through one or more mixing apertures formed about a flange of the mixing plate.
US11850558B2
The present invention provides a composition containing the following components (A)-(C): (A) an alkali metal compound, (B) a polymer having an acidic dissociative group, and (C) a compound having an acidic dissociative group and an amino group, and having β of more than 0.0 and less than 1.0 as calculated by the formula (I): β={amount (mol) of alkali metal in component (A)−amount (mol) of acidic dissociative group in component (B)}/amount (mol) of acidic dissociative group in component (C).
US11850555B2
A dual-layer membrane and a method for preparing thereof. By adding a modifying monomer containing an active group and a characteristic group to a dope solution or spinning solution during the preparation of the dual-layer membrane, the grafting reaction occurs between the active group of the monomer and the polymer in the dope solution or spinning solution, and the intermolecular interaction with other polymers is enhanced by the characteristic group of the monomer, to improve the miscibility between the polymers. The method is suitable for preparing both a dual-layer flat sheet membrane and a dual-layer hollow fiber membrane, and can realize the preparation of a dual-layer membrane with an interpenetrated structure at the interface under mild preparation conditions.
US11850554B2
Wastewater is treated though primary treatment of the water by way of a micro-sieve to produce a primary effluent and primary sludge. There is secondary treatment of the primary effluent by way of a membrane bioreactor (MBR) or an integrated fixed film activated sludge (IFAS) reactor to produce a secondary effluent and a waste activated sludge. The micro-sieve may have openings of 250 microns or less, for example about 150 microns. In a process, a gas transfer membrane is immersed in water. Pressurized air flows into the gas transfer membrane. An exhaust gas is withdrawn from the gas transfer membrane and used to produce bubbles from an aerator immersed in the water.
US11850550B2
A method of operating and an arrangement for a steam boiler system including a furnace and along a following flue gas channel a number of superheaters, a number of economizers, and at least one air preheater located in the flue gas channel downstream of the economizers, a fabric filter baghouse located in the flue gas channel downstream of the air preheater, and downstream of the fabric filter baghouse is located a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system including an SCR reactor, a high pressure steam coil heater upstream of the SCR reactor and a gas-gas heat exchanger connected upstream and downstream of the SCR reactor to transfer heat from flue gas after the SCR reactor to the flue gas upstream of the high pressure steam coil heater.
US11850548B2
A gas separation element comprising a membrane sheet and a permeate spacer, wherein the membrane sheet comprises a porous support and a discriminating layer, CHARACTERISED IN THAT: (a) the porous support comprises less than 10 mg/m2 of monovalent metal ions; and (b) the discriminating layer has an average thickness of at least 0.7 μm.
US11850545B2
A system for pressure swing adsorption including: a plurality of beds each performing at least one of an adsorbing process, a pressure equalizing process, a vacuum process, or a pressurizing process; a supply valve provided in each of the beds and connected to a mixed gas supply unit to supply a mixed gas to the bed; a discharge valve provided in each of the beds and connected to a hydrogen gas discharge unit to discharge hydrogen generated in the bed; a vacuum valve provided in each of the beds and connected to a vacuum pump so as to be open to the vacuum pump during the vacuum process of the bed; and a control unit that controls the supply valve, the discharge valve, and the vacuum valve to allow each of the beds to perform the adsorbing process, the pressure equalizing process, the vacuum process, or the pressurizing process.
US11850542B2
A swirl air/liquid air purifier comprises: a liquid accommodating disk, having a liquid accommodating space formed in a recessed status for accommodating a liquid; an air discharging pipe, disposed at a top end of the liquid accommodating disk and upwardly extended so as to be formed as a hollow body, wherein a bottom end thereof has a bottom base which is sealed at the top end of the liquid accommodating disk, the bottom base is formed with a plurality of air inlet holes arranged adjacent to a periphery of the air discharging pipe, one side of the air inlet hole is downwardly extended and obliquely inclined thereby forming an inclined guiding plate/pipe allowing a swirl airflow to be generated; and an air suction fan, disposed in the air discharging pipe.
US11850541B2
An exhaust gas purification filter includes a plurality of cells extending in a filter axial direction, a porous partition separating and defining the plurality of cells, and a sealing section sealing the plurality of cells alternately at both filter ends. The partition has a void volume of a reduced dale, Vvv, and a material volume of a reduced peak, Vmp, as volume parameters determined in noncontact surface roughness measurement on a surface of the partition, with their total value being more than 1.3 μm3/μm2 and 1.7 μm3/μm2 or less. The partition has a mean pore size of 12 μm or more and 20 μm or less. The partition also has a porosity of 50% or more and 75% or less.
US11850531B2
A rollable toy car of the present disclosure relates to the technical field of toys. The rollable toy car includes a car body device, a rolling device arranged on the car body device, and a transformation actuating device arranged on the car body device, wherein a transformation actuator actuates a first car body to rotate by means of a first gear set; the transformation actuator actuates a third car body to rotate by means of a third gear set; and a first rolling frame is driven to rotate by the first car body, and a third rolling frame is driven to rotate by the third car body, so that the first rolling frame, a second rolling frame and the third rolling frame are jointly enclosed into a rollable shape.
US11850522B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to computer software and musical gameplay elements. More specifically, aspects of the disclosure provide a method of using multiple musical tracks of varying intensity based on well-timed user inputs and/or player advancement in a rhythm-based video game. Other aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques to improve player on beat inputs in a rhythm-based video game.
US11850517B2
Systems and methods for providing a gaming system with particular features are provided herein. In particular, a gaming system can provide nested object packages. In some embodiments, the gaming system can monitor user monitoring service calls in third party platforms and implement associated features. In some embodiments, the gaming system can receive developer modifications and schedule multiple updates of the gaming system. In some embodiments, the gaming system can determine inter squad dynamics based on character traits. In some embodiments, the gaming system can provide modified game data to a first set of users and unmodified game data to a second set of users. In some embodiments, the gaming system can generate actions for groups of characters based on user swipes. In some embodiments, the gaming system can implement a player proxy for a player. In some embodiments, the gaming system can use search nodes and agents to map territories.
US11850514B2
Systems and techniques for enhancing the physical games with augmented reality is described. A system identifies a characteristic of a physical object that is located on a physical surface. The system obtains, based on the characteristic, information indicative of a rule set for the game and a state of the game based on the characteristic. A game engine is initialized based on the rule set and game state. The game engine generates a subsequent state for the game. The system renders, based on the subsequent state, an augmented reality display that incorporates the physical surface and physical object.
US11850513B2
A computer implemented method of controlling a user interface of a computer device which is responsive to user engagement with displayed player objects on the interface. The method comprises steps implemented by computer executable code (executed by one or more hardware processors on the computer device) and encompassing, but not limited to, displaying a game area with a number of game objects in a static player graph as well as providing a player object which can be selected to target and shoot game objects in response to player behaviour or to contribute directly to a game objective. A boost action is triggered when game objective is fulfilled.
US11850511B2
Systems and methods for rendering of a virtual content object in an augmented reality environment based on a physical marker are discussed herein. Virtual content objects may be rendered by a display device in an augmented reality environment based on the field of view seen through the display device and a position of a marker (and one or more linkage points associated with the marker) in the real world. When rendered in the augmented reality environment, the virtual content objects may be visualized from any angle, from the exterior or interior of the object, and manipulated in response to user input. Virtual content objects and/or user visualizations of virtual content objects may be shared with other users (local and/or remote), enabling multiple users to potentially build, modify, and/or interact with a virtual content object simultaneously and/or cooperatively.
US11850509B2
The interactive theater system is executed on an interactive gaming computer (IG PC) configured to execute an interactive multi-player video game. The IG PC outputs a video stream to a display system, such as a projector and screen, which allows the players to view the multi-player video game. Each player sits in a multi-sensory seat for providing multi-sensory feedback to each player during execution of the interactive multi-player video game. The player provides input using an input device having an infrared camera and motion sensors. The infrared camera is used to image an infrared light arrangement positioned above-the multi-sensory seats. Infrared camera data and motion sensor data is used by the IG PC to accurately determine the real time position of each input device. Players in a first interactive theater system can compete with players in a second interactive theater system in real time.
US11850505B2
A system to deliver to a user artificial flavor sensations equivalent to a selected desired real flavor having a database in which is stored data of a number of real flavors broken down into components selected from taste, smell, feel and appearance, A head mounted display device is provided to deliver visual and audio cues of a flavor from the database and a bite sensation component is mounted in the mouth of a wearer of the head mounted display controlling the delivery of taste, feel, and smell components of the flavor to the user.
US11850497B2
A base exercise device includes at least one modular connection. The base exercise device is operable without any modular units connected to one of the modular connections. A modular unit may be physically connected to the base exercise device. The modular unit includes at least one exercise feature that is not included in the base exercise device.
US11850496B2
A safety signal is sent to a relay coupled to a plurality of power leads of a motor wherein a default state of the relay is to short the plurality of power leads together and wherein the safety signal maintains the relay in an open state. The safety signal to the relay is deasserted in response to a determination that an unsafe condition has occurred.
US11850495B2
Disclosed are compact, convenient carrier systems for weight plates. In some embodiments, a carrier system may include a strap, a carrying handle, and rigid loading bar. The loading bar may be a tubular member. The carrying handle may have an outer diameter that permits the carrying handle to be slidably disposed within the inner diameter of the loading bar. In some embodiments, the loading bar may have an outer diameter that permits the loading bar to fit within the central opening on a standard Olympic weightlifting weight plate. The carrier system may optionally provide a clip closure attached to the strap that allows easy opening and closing of the system.
US11850489B2
A training pad is provided including a flexible resilient shaft having a first end and a second end. A handle portion is provided adjacent the first end of the shaft and a padded member is mounted adjacent the second end of the shaft. A guard is provided having a first end connected to the first end of the shaft and a second end connected to the shaft on a side of the handle portion adjacent the padded member. The guard includes a flexible resilient member being curved between the first and second ends thereof such that the guard defines a convex outer surface supported in front of the handle portion.
US11850488B2
A sports training apparatus includes a flat mat having visible indicia adapted to indicate placement of at least one foot of a user of the apparatus, and a foot restraint adapted to hold a front foot of the user so that the front foot remains in contact with a top surface of the flat mat. The front foot is in an intended direction of a swing of a sports implement.
US11850486B2
A golf club has a first shaft coupled to a club head, a second shaft configured to slidably engage a portion of the first shaft, a grip coupled to the second shaft, and an adjustable length shaft assembly received by the second shaft and configured to allow a portion of the first shaft to slide in relation to the second shaft in a first configuration, and to restrict a portion of the first shaft from sliding in relation to the second shaft in a second configuration. The grip is restricted from rotation about the first shaft or the second shaft as the first shaft slides in relation to the second shaft.
US11850481B2
Described herein is a golf club head comprising a composite material, the golf club head further comprising: a front end having a bottom rail, a top rail, and a strikeface, the strikeface including a striking surface, a back surface, and a reinforcement element extending from the back surface of the strikeface; a rear end opposite the front end; a heel portion; a toe portion opposite the heel potion; a sole coupled to the front end along the bottom rail at a sole transition region, the sole extending toward the rear end of the golf club head and including a sole thickness, a first weight member and a second weight member, and a perimeter wall extending from the front end near the heel portion to the front end near the toe portion along the rear end of the golf club head, wherein the perimeter wall decreases in height from the front end toward the rear end of the golf club head.
US11850480B2
Embodiments of golf club heads comprising a face with a variable thickness to improve the durability in the club head, increase ball speed, and increase characteristic time (CT) are described herein. The face comprises thickened and thinned regions. The face includes a perimeter thickened region positioned near a perimeter of the face, a thinned region positioned inward of the perimeter thickened region toward a center of the face, and a central thickened region positioned over the center of the face. The combination of the thickened and thinned regions of the face increase ball speed and further increase or maximize CT without sacrificing durability.
US11850476B2
A mechanical jump rope device for forward rotation of the rope with backward rotation obstructed by a ratchet and pawl mechanism includes a semicircular rope having a pair of ends. Each of the ends is coupled to a respective one of each handle of a pair of handles. Each of the ends of the rope engages by a ratchet and pawl mechanism with each of the handles. A distal end of each of the handles engages by a push button locking mechanism to a bar. Each of the handles can be attached or removed from the bar. The user can use the mechanical jump rope device with or without the bar. The rope rotates forward and the user jumps over the rope. Backward rotation of the rope is hindered by the ratchet and pawl mechanism.
US11850475B1
A golf ball with a cover layer composed of at least one polymer and a micropowder material is disclosed herein. The micropowder material comprises polybutadiene rubber, isoprene rubber, zinc diacrylate, zinc oxide, zinc stearate, peroxide initiator, a peptizer, barium sulfate, tungsten, bismuth oxide and or bismuth oxychloride, and styrene butadiene rubber.
US11850465B2
An apparatus for providing suspension and resistance training is disclosed. In one embodiment, a main strap includes a fastener for engaging an anchor at an upper end and a connection point that accepts a load at a lower end. A retraction unit, which provides non-load redundancy to the main strap, includes a coupling member securing the retraction unit to the fastener. The main strap is threaded through the ring end fitting. In an extended configuration, the retractable cable is fully extended, and the length of the main strap is fully extended with the main strap having a non-load transferring relationship to the retraction unit in the extended configuration. In an unloaded retracted configuration, the retractable cable is at least partially retracted into the retraction unit and the length of the main strap is less than fully extended.
US11850460B2
Notifications for instructing user behavior can be determined and presented when appropriate. Historical fitness data and current fitness data are accessed. This data is used to determine whether a user fitness goal is likely to be achieved. If not, a notification may be determined and presented at a user device.
US11850459B2
Various aspects of the invention are directed to a triggering device for a quickly triggering extinguishing system for explosion suppression. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the triggering device may include a pawl body having a pawl flank, a catch, at least one electromagnet to transmit an electromagnetic field, and a sliding pin. The sliding pin triggers an extinguishing system for explosion suppression by movement from a blocking position into a release position. In the blocking position, the sliding pin is pushed against the pawl flank of the pawl body by means of the catch and is held in the blocking position by said pawl flank. The pawl body releases the engagement of the catch and the pawl flank, and thereby releases the sliding pin, in response to the at least one electromagnet exerting the electromagnetic field on the pawl body.
US11850458B2
A flow control device includes a flow shield defining a volume and a plurality of shield openings of the flow shield arranged such that gas entering the volume must pass through at least one of the plurality of shield openings. The flow control device also includes a flow restrictor to define an opening for the gas exiting the volume.
US11850456B2
A vehicle includes a chassis defining a longitudinal axis, a cab coupled to the chassis, a front axle coupled to the chassis, a rear axle coupled to the chassis, a body assembly coupled to the chassis, and a ladder assembly. The body assembly defines a recess that includes a plurality of angled portions. The plurality of angled portions extend laterally outward at a downward angle away from the longitudinal axis. The ladder assembly has a proximal end disposed within the recess. The plurality of angled portions at least partially facilitate the ladder assembly in traveling through at least one of a sweep angle range or a depression angle range.
US11850450B2
Radiation beam alignment for a LINAC including (1) for each beam alignment parameter value of a set: (a) with a beam alignment parameter of a LINAC set to the beam alignment parameter value, using a gantry to generate a radiation beam; (b) using an imaging device to acquire a radiation transmission image indicative of a radiation field of the radiation beam after passing by a radiation opaque marker; (c) determining a location of a beam axis of the radiation beam and a center of a shadow of the marker based on the radiation transmission image; and (d) determining a target-to-beam-axis distance between the location of the beam axis and the center of the shadow of the radiation opaque marker; and (2) determining an optimum beam alignment parameter value based on the beam alignment parameter values and the target-to-beam-axis distances determined with the LINAC set to the beam alignment parameter values.
US11850449B2
An irradiation method and system for irradiating a target volume, the method comprising: providing thermal neutron absorbing nuclides (such as in the form of a high neutron cross-section agent) at the target volume; and producing neutrons by irradiating nuclei in or adjacent to the target volume with a beam of particles consisting of any one or more of protons, deuterons, tritons and heavy ions, thereby prompting production of the neutrons through non-elastic collisions between the atoms in the path of the beam (including the target) and the particles. The neutron absorbing nuclides absorb neutrons produced in the non-elastic collisions, thereby producing capture products or fragments that irradiate the target volume.
US11850439B2
A medical device that includes a power source, a therapy delivery interface, therapy electrodes, electrocardiogram (ECG) sensing electrodes to sense ECG signal of a heart of a patient, a sensor interface to receive and digitize the ECG signal, and a processor. The processor is configured to analyze the ECG signal to determine a cardiac rhythm and a transform value representing a magnitude of a frequency component of the cardiac rhythm, analyze the cardiac rhythm and the transform value to detect a shockable cardiac arrhythmia by classifying the cardiac rhythm as a noise rhythm or a shockable cardiac arrhythmia rhythm based on the transform value, and causing the processor to detect the cardiac arrhythmia if classifying the cardiac rhythm as a shockable cardiac arrhythmia rhythm, initiate a treatment alarm sequence, adjust the shock delivery parameter for a defibrillation shock, and provide the defibrillation shock via the therapy electrodes.
US11850430B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and treating patients with heart failure are discussed. The system can store in a memory stimulation parameters, including stimulation timing parameters for a plurality of heart rate ranges. The system includes a plurality of timers with respective durations for the plurality of heart rate ranges. A stimulation control circuit can identify a target heart range in which a detected heart rate falls, and measure an atrioventricular (AV) conduction characteristic value in response to the timer for the target heart range being expired at the detected heart rate. The stimulation control circuit can update a stimulation parameter corresponding to the target heart rate range using the measured AV conduction characteristic. The updated stimulation parameter can be used in cardiac stimulation.
US11850427B2
Methods of improving addiction in a patient in need thereof are provided. Methods include exposing the patient to drug related cues and measuring the patient's craving levels or physiological levels during or after cue exposure to determine the patient's status or condition. Such a determination can indicate whether the patient is at risk of engaging in the addictive activity and can guide therapeutic intervention.
US11850426B2
Software for providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for use in a clinician programmer for programming an implantable pulse generator (IPG) or external trial stimulator (ETS) is disclosed. A user may define in the GUI multiple pole configurations (e.g., monopoles, bipoles, etc.) which may be used independently to provide stimulation to a patient via the IPG or ETS's electrode array. Selected of the pole configurations can be linked or associated as a group in the GUI and used to concurrently provide stimulation. The pole configuration group may be steered or moved in the electrode array using a single movement instruction which moves all pole configurations in the group simultaneously. This allows the relative positions of the pole configurations in the group to remain constant as the group is moved.
US11850417B2
A device, including a housing of a medical device configured to be implanted in a human recipient, the housing having at least one opening on one side of the housing, and a linear feedthrough assembly, wherein the linear feedthrough assembly closes the opening, the housing has a length, a width, and a height, wherein the height is the smallest dimension, and the opening is located in at least about the center of at least one of the length or the width, and the opening faces a direction normal to a plane established by the length and the width.
US11850415B2
Apparatus and methods are described including a blood pump that includes a catheter, a first impeller disposed on the catheter, and a second impeller disposed on the catheter, proximally to the first impeller. A motor drives the first and second impellers to pump blood of a subject, by driving the first and second impellers to rotate. The blood pumps is configured such that (a) the first and second impellers are shaped differently from each other when the first and second impellers are in non-radially-constrained configurations, (b) the first and second impellers are sized differently from each other when the first and second impellers are in non-radially-constrained configurations, and/or (c) the first and second impellers are driven by the motor to rotate under respective rotation conditions that are different from each other. Other applications are also described.
US11850409B2
A medical needle includes a needle portion (10) having a needle tip on a distal end, a case (30) configured to be capable of accommodating the needle portion that can be exposed from the distal end side, a movement mechanism (50) for moving the needle portion inside the case, and a movement restricting portion (37) that restricts the needle tip accommodated in the case from moving in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the needle portion. The movement restricting portion maintains the needle tip accommodated in the case such that the needle tip can come into contact with an inner face of the case to restrict the movement of the needle tip in the opposite direction.
US11850378B2
The disclosure provides a flexible, narrow medical device (such as a micro-catheter or a guidewire) that is controllably moved and steered through lumens of a body. The medical device may include an electrically-actuatable bendable portion at a distal end, which may be provided by a polymer electrolyte layer, electrodes distributed about the polymer electrolyte layer, and electrical conduits coupled to the electrodes, such that the polymer electrolyte layer deforms asymmetrically in response to an electrical signal through one or more conduits. The disclosure further includes a controller for moving the device into and out of bodily lumens and for applying the electrical signal for steering the device. The device further includes methods of preparing the polymer electrolyte layer in tubular shape.
US11850377B2
Needle devices having a component that provides the function of fixing a valve in a standard diameter sized catheter hub, the valve and/or the component provide or provides a proximally directed axial force for returning the valve opener from a distal position within the catheter hub to a proximal position within the catheter hub when a male Luer is disconnected from the catheter hub. Various components can be located inside a single hub body catheter hub that can restrict fluid flow, allow actuation to permit fluid flow, prevent needlestick injuries, and combinations thereof.
US11850376B2
An apparatus and method for the treatment of intravascular medical conditions is provided. The device comprising a handle assembly, an expandable portion defined by a plurality of struts oriented along a longitudinal axis and a tip member affixed to a distal end of the struts. The struts are moveable between a collapsed and an expanded position. A catheter tube extends from the handle assembly to the expandable portion. An elongate member is disposed within the catheter tube and is in communication with the handle assembly and the tip member.
US11850372B1
An apparatus for guiding the migration of cancer and other cells includes a reservoir device, a cover, a tube, a nanofiber structure, and a lock device. The reservoir device defines a reservoir having an open top. The cover is configured for removable installation over the open top of the reservoir. The tube has a proximal end portion reaching into the reservoir. The nanofiber structure communicates an inlet port in the tube with the reservoir. The lock device interlocks the tube with the reservoir device, and also interlocks the nanofiber structure with the reservoir device.
US11850368B2
A fidget device is disclosed that can be customized with one or more modular components and manipulated by a user to perform a series of tricks. The fidget device includes a center hub that has a pivotal attachment mechanism and a component grip configured to be pivotally attached to the center hub. The component grip comprises a component attachment mechanism configured to attach one or more modular components to the component grip.
US11850367B2
A treatment device configured noninvasively to treat neurological conditions and/or neuropsychiatric conditions, designed to modulate autonomic nervous system through biofeedback configured to change brain network. The treatment device comprising: physiological sensor, storage piling psychological data and operating controller to effectively provide at least one of biofeedback and tactile stimulation to the individual to curtail neurological and/or neuropsychiatric events.
US11850358B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and method of intelligent control is provided that is based on machine learning, to modulate end-tidal concentration levels through continuous adjustments in the volume and concentration of a flow of incoming respiratory gases. The system and the method are able to continually estimate and adjust new gas flows that are administered for a user to inhale in immediate future moments of inspiration, based on the concentration and pressure signals collected at the actual moment of breathing and at previous moments of breathing, without the need for reservoirs to store inspired or expired gases, or for aprioristic physiological models.
US11850348B2
A negative pressure wound therapy apparatus can include a wound dressing, a fluid collection container, a vacuum pump comprising a pump motor, and tubing. Additionally, the apparatus can include a pressure sensor that measures a pressure in the tubing. One or more tubes can channel a fluid between the wound dressing, the fluid collection canister, and the pump. In addition, first and second control circuits can be provided for controlling the pump motor without using a processor. The first control circuit can generate a difference signal between a desired pressure input and a pressure sensor input, and can further generate a motor control signal responsive to the difference signal. Moreover, a second control circuit can provide an override signal based at least in part on the difference signal and at least one reference signal. The override signal beneficially overrides the motor control signal to prevent the pump motor from stalling.
US11850346B2
Provided are beads for blood processing having porous beads and a polymer carried on the surface of the porous beads, wherein: the porous beads are configured from at least one resin selected from the group consisting of acrylic resins, styrene resins, and cellulose resins; and the polymer includes a specific monomer defined in the description as a monomer unit.
US11850335B2
A method for passivating a biomaterial surface includes modifying proteinaceous material disposed at the biomaterial surface. The passivation may be effectuated by exposing the biomaterial surface to therapeutic electrical energy in the presence of blood or plasma.
US11850326B2
A bone void filler preparation system that includes a processing vessel, a processing piston, a bone void filler preparation container and tubing. The processing vessel has a recess formed therein. The processing vessel is adapted to receive bone marrow aspirate. The processing piston includes an outer wall, a central wall member and a connection port. The outer wall has an upper edge and a lower edge. The central wall member extends inwardly from the outer wall intermediate the upper and lower edges of the processing piston. The central wall member has an aperture formed therein. The central wall member has a downwardly directed portion that defines an air-retaining region. The air-retaining region is closer to the outer wall upper edge than the aperture. The connection port is operably connected to the aperture. The processing piston is movable in the processing vessel recess. The bone void filler preparation container has an inlet portion and an outlet port. The bone void filler preparation container is adapted to receive a bone void filler matrix therein. The tubing fluidly connects the processing piston connection port and the bone void filler preparation container inlet port.
US11850323B2
A solidifying prepolymeric implant composition comprising a biocompatible prepolymer and an optional filler. One such implant composition is a polyurethane implant composition comprising an isocyanate, such as hydroxymethylenediisocyanate (HMDI) and an alcohol, such as polycaprolactonediol (PCL diol). The compositions of the invention are useful for improving bone structure in patients by applying the solidifying implant composition to bone, reinforcing bone structure, improving load bearing capacity and/or aiding healing of microfractures.
US11850313B2
A tissue oxygenation composition comprising (a) an oxygenated solution or a solution containing an oxygen carrier and (b) hydrogen sulfide (H2S). The disclosure also relates to methods of preserving, reperfusing and/or transfusing tissue with a tissue oxygenation composition according to the present disclosure.
US11850306B2
The present disclosure relates to method for drying hydrogel comprising nanofibrillar cellulose, the method comprising providing a hydrogel comprising nanofibrillar cellulose, providing polyethylene glycol, providing trehalose, mixing the hydrogel, the polyethylene glycol and the trehalose to obtain a mixture, and freeze drying the mixture to obtain a dried hydrogel comprising nanofibrillar cellulose. The present disclosure relates to a freeze-dryable hydrogel comprising nanofibrillar cellulose, to a freeze-dried hydrogel comprising nanofibrillar cellulose, and to a medical hydrogel comprising nanofibrillar cellulose and one or more therapeutic agent(s).
US11850301B2
The present invention provides an oral care composition which includes one or more nonpolar structuring agents, one or more emulsifiers, one or more mucoadhesive polymers, and one or more active ingredients effective for providing oral pain relief. The oral care composition can be a solid or semi-solid composition up to a temperature of at least 40° C. Methods of providing such an oral care composition are also provided herein.
US11850298B2
In some embodiments, an anti-aging composition includes hyaluronic acid, at least one anti-aging peptide, at least one skin penetration enhancer, and water. In some embodiments, an anti-aging composition includes hyaluronic acid, at least one anti-aging peptide, at least one tensing polymer, and water. An anti-aging product includes a skin mask patch and an anti-aging composition loaded into the skin mask patch. A method of forming an anti-aging product includes forming an anti-aging composition and loading the anti-aging composition into a skin mask patch.
US11850289B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides compositions and methods for the expression of CRISPR guide RNAs using the H1 promoter. In particular, compositions and methods are provided for the use of the H1 promoter to express CRISPR guide RNA (gRNA) with altered specificity of the 5′ nucleotide, as well as use of the H1 promoter sequence as a bidirectional promoter to express Cas9 nuclease and the gRNA simultaneously. Compositions and methods are also provided for the expression and regulation of gRNA expression in vivo through the use of RNA ribozymes and regulatable aptazymes.
US11850280B1
The inventive subject matter includes a viral-vectored composition made of a bacterial expression vehicle expressing one or more recombinant viral protein antigens and its method of use. In particular, this invention relates to a vaccine for oral administration. Preferably, the bacterial expression vehicle is Bacillus subtilis.
US11850269B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, e.g., formulations, used for gastric, gastrointestinal and/or colonic treatments or lavage, e.g., orthostatic lavage, e.g., for inducing the purgation (e.g., cleansing) of a gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including a colon; and methods for making and using them. Methods of the invention are used for the stabilization, amelioration, treatment and/or prevention of constipation, for the treatment of abdominal pain, particularly non-specific abdominal pain, and diarrhea, including diarrhea caused by a drug side effect, a psychological condition, a disease or a condition such as Crohn's Disease, a poison, a toxin or an infection, e.g., a toxin-mediated traveler's diarrhea, or C. difficile or the pseudo-membranous colitis associated with this infection.
US11850261B2
The present invention provides improved methods for producing retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells from human embryonic stem cells, human induced pluripotent stem (iPS), human adult stem cells, human hematopoietic stem cells, human fetal stem cells, human mesenchymal stem cells, human postpartum stem cells, human multipotent stem cells, or human embryonic germ cells. The RPE cells derived from embryonic stem cells are molecularly distinct from adult and fetal-derived RPE cells, and are also distinct from embryonic stem cells. The RPE cells described herein are useful for treating retinal degenerative conditions including retinal detachment and macular degeneration.
US11850254B2
Described herein are neurotrophic and nootropic compositions and methods for treating subjects with such compositions. In one aspect the composition comprises one or more tryptamines or in pure form or extracts from psilocybin containing mushrooms, or combinations thereof optionally combined with one or more phenethylamines or amphetamines in pure form or extracts from a plant or mushroom, or combinations thereof, optionally one or more erinacines or hericenones in pure form, extracts from Hericium mushroom species (e.g., H. erinaceus, H. coralloides, H. ramosum) or combinations thereof, optionally one or more cannabinoids in pure form or extracts from Cannabis sativa, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica, or Cannabis ruderalis, optionally, one or more adversive compounds, and optionally one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients.
US11850253B2
The present invention relates to a novel two-component system comprising acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and which is particularly useful in providing an aqueous solution of ASA for immediate peroral administration.
US11850251B2
The present disclosure relates to a vaginal system that prevents pregnancy comprised of segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol and is configured for thirteen 28-day product-use cycles.
US11850242B2
Compositions suitable for oral use (e.g., oral thin film) containing various excipients and a combination of melatonin, caryophyllene, GABA, L-theanine, and vitamin B6. Methods of using the composition, e.g., in the treatment of a sleeping disorder, as well as methods of manufacturing the composition are also included.
US11850241B1
Provided herein are low impurity compositions comprising a compound represented by Formula (I): which are useful in the treatment of disorders related to the activity of the c-KIT and PDGFRα kinases, and oncogenic forms thereof.
US11850240B1
Provided herein are low impurity compositions comprising a compound represented by Formula (I): which are useful in the treatment of disorders related to the activity of the c-KIT and PDGFRα kinases, and oncogenic forms thereof.
US11850239B2
Provided herein is a method of treating, preventing, or alleviating one or more symptoms of a disorder, disease, or condition mediated by an MDM2 with an MDM2 inhibitor, e.g., a compound of Formula (I), and a platinum compound. Also provided herein is a method of inhibiting the growth of a cell with an MDM2 inhibitor and a platinum compound.
US11850236B2
The present invention concerns the use of compounds and compositions for the treatment or prevention of Flavivirus infections, such as dengue virus infections and Zika virus infections. Aspects of the invention include methods for treating or preventing Flavivirus virus infection, such as dengue virus and Zika virus infection, by administering a compound or composition of the invention, to a subject in need thereof; methods for inhibiting Flavivirus infections, such as dengue virus and Zika virus infections, in a cell in vitro or in vivo; pharmaceutical compositions; packaged dosage formulations; and kits useful for treating or preventing Flavivirus infections, such as dengue virus and Zika virus infections.
US11850230B2
The present invention relates to: a 4-benzopyranone derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, racemate, or stereoisomer thereof; a composition for preventing, alleviating or treating TNF-related diseases, containing the same as an active ingredient; and a method for treating TNF-related diseases, a reagent composition for inhibiting TNF, and a method for inhibiting TNF, all of which use the same. The compositions can be orally administered so as not to cause injection side effects, do not cause immunological tolerance, and can effectively inhibit a TNF activity by being directly bound to TNF while facilitating co-administering with a conventional oral preparation and dosage control.
US11850229B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to the use of a melatonin agonist in the treatment of free running circadian rhythms in patients, including light perception impaired patients, e.g., blind patients, and to methods of measuring circadian rhythm.
US11850225B2
Baclofen formulations, including formulations that minimize variability between doses, that minimize variation in patient exposure baclofen metabolites, and are bioequivalent in regards to baclofen versus M1 metabolite ratios of baclofen tablets.
US11850216B2
The present invention, in some aspects, provides methods, reagents, compositions, and kits for the radiolabeling of proteins, for example, of proteins useful for positron emission tomography (PET) or single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (e.g., for diagnostic and therapeutic applications), using sortase-mediated transpeptidation reactions. Some aspects of this invention provide methods for the conjugation of an agent, for example, a radioactive agent or molecule to diagnostic or therapeutic peptides or proteins. Compositions comprising sortagged, radiolabeled proteins as well as reagents for generating radiolabeled proteins are also provided. Kits comprising reagents useful for the generation of radiolabeled proteins are provided, as are precursor proteins that comprise a sortase recognition motif.
US11850214B2
Described herein are antiviral compositions and apparatuses and methods of use thereof to inactivate a virus in contact with the composition or apparatus. The composition and/or apparatus include silicon nitride at a concentration of 1 wt. % to 15 wt. % and the silicon nitride inactivates at least 85% of the virus in contact with the composition and/or apparatus.
US11850211B2
Various implementations include a mixing vial for use in a cartridge syringe. The mixing vial includes a vessel, a stopper, and a dislodgeable plug. The stopper includes an open first end, a closed second end, and a stopper side wall. A hollow interior chamber is defined by the stopper side wall and the closed second end. The stopper is positioned in a sealing relationship with an inner surface of the vessel. An outer surface of the stopper side wall includes two ribs extending radially outwardly from the stopper side wall. Each of the two ribs is axially spaced apart from each other. An inner surface of the stopper side wall defines an annular groove located axially between the two ribs. The dislodgeable plug is disposed within the hollow interior chamber of the stopper such that an edge of the dislodgeable plug is disposed within the groove of the stopper.
US11850210B2
A tubular locking body of a tamper evident plastic closure for necked vials for holding a plug in a mouth of a vial includes a retaining member for retaining the plug, a central opening being formed in the retaining member for providing access to the inside of the vial via the plug. The cap includes a disc-shaped cover and a coupling portion, for coupling the cap with the tubular locking body by positive-fit engagement. The coupling portion includes at least one frangible portion each configured such that at least one indicator member remains as a tamper evidence at a rim of the central opening of the tubular locking body after removal of the cap from the distal end of the tubular locking body by irreversibly breaking the annular frangible portion for providing access to the inside of the vial via the plug.
US11850203B2
A method for enhancing speech control in a subject includes applying a first vibrotactile stimulation and applying a second vibrotactile stimulation to a thyroid area of the subject. The first vibrotactile stimulation has a first vibrating property and the second vibrotactile stimulation has a second vibrating property different than the first vibrating property. Example vibrating properties include vibrating frequency, vibrating frequency range, wave shape, continuousness, frequency phase, and direction of mechanical force. A collar may be configured to position the first vibrational transducer and the second vibrational transducer over a neck of a subject.
US11850202B1
Portable exercise incline board devices and methods for exercise and balance fitness that can be easily assembled, disassembled and transported. The incline board can be assembled from a generally rectangular top ice with raised upper surface, along with a pair of right triangle support pieces and a rear vertical piece wherein raised protrusions align into mateable grooves so that the pieces slide and lock together for assembly and slide apart for disassembly.
US11850183B2
The subject matter of the invention relates to therapy wraps for the application of compression and thermal therapy to a patient by fluid pumped through the wrap. The wraps are formed of at least two layers of material which are sealed together to form at least one cavity between them. At least two layers of the wrap are sealed together using a plurality of different seal patterns. The unique shape of the wrap and placement of the seals provides a wrap that may be folded to fit a patient's head and circulate fluid in a manner to compress the wrap against the wearer's head, particularly in areas where hair growth is desired while avoiding the application of therapy to other areas of the head, particularly the forehead and ears.
US11850176B2
Various orthotic joint devices, components, and methods are provided. These include orthotic joint alignment devices for adjusting a neutral or fixed angle of an orthotic joint device independently of other parameters, orthotic joint devices providing staged resistance through staged recruitment of separate springs or initiation of staged spring-rate behavior of a single spring retained in a joint body, adapters for converting non-staged resistance orthotic joint devices into orthotic joint devices, and low-noise orthotic joint devices with intermittent normal force-transmitting contact associated with resistive or assistive forces provided by the devices, and methods of using the devices and components.
US11850171B2
A prosthetic knee can include a variable-torque magnetorheological (MR) actuator assembly or braking system, a frame and an electronics assembly or system that also serves as a mount for the knee actuator and facilitates in monitoring and controlling the operation of the knee actuator. The prosthetic knee system advantageously provides resistive forces to substantially simulate the position and motion of a natural knee joint during ambulation and/or other locomotory activities performed by the amputee. The prosthetic knee can be enclosed in a waterproof compartment. An outer cover can be configured to fit around the waterproof cover of the prosthetic knee.
US11850164B2
An adjustable spinal fusion intervertebral implant including upper and lower body portions each having proximal and distal surfaces at proximal and distal ends thereof. The implant can include a proximal wedge member disposed at the proximal ends of the respective ones of the upper and lower body portions, and a distal wedge member disposed at the distal ends of the respective ones of the upper and lower body portions. First and second linkages can connect the upper and lower body portions. Rotation of an actuator shaft can cause the distal and proximal wedge members to be drawn together such that longitudinal movement of the distal wedge member against the distal surfaces and the longitudinal movement of the proximal wedge member against the proximal surfaces causes separation of the upper and lower body portions.
US11850152B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices for treating heart disease. In particular, the present disclosure relates to medical devices, systems, and methods for delivering artificial chordae tendineae in a patient. A system for delivering a chordae tendineae into a heart may include a delivery catheter. A clamp catheter may be configured to translate through the delivery catheter. A spreader may be disposed on the clamp catheter. A first clamp may be at least partially contained in the spreader in a closed configuration and may be attached to the chordae tendineae. An anchor catheter may be configured to translate through the delivery catheter and may have an anchor attached to the chordae tendineae. A sheath may be extended over the anchor catheter and anchor and may be configured to restrain an arm of the anchor.
US11850149B2
A prosthetic heart valve and delivery system adapted to facilitate transapical or transfemoral implantation of a prosthetic heart valve, the delivery system comprising an elongated sheath or shaft have one or more loop stabilization wires adapted to circumscribe and crimp a metallic stent, the loop stabilization wires releasable with retraction of an engagement pin to expand the metallic stent and anchor the same in native tissue within the circulatory system of a patient.
US11850148B2
An implantable prosthetic valve can comprise an annular frame comprising an inflow end and an outflow end and being radially collapsible and expandable between a radially collapsed configuration and a radially expanded configuration, the frame defining an axial direction extending from the inflow end to the outflow end, a leaflet structure positioned within the frame and secured thereto, and an outer sealing member positioned around an outer surface of the frame, wherein the outer sealing member comprises a plurality of sealing segments, wherein each sealing segment is coupled to the frame and/or another sealing segment by a tether that pulls a portion of the sealing segment in a circumferential direction when the frame is radially expanded to the expanded configuration.
US11850145B2
An intraocular lens fixing device for fixing in an eyeball an intraocular lens having a plurality of haptics is provided, the intraocular lens fixing device comprising: a linear member stretched in the eyeball; and a plurality of haptic retaining members, each being provided to correspond to and retain each of the plurality of haptics and supported in the space of the eyeball by the linear member, wherein the linear member is secured to each of the plurality of haptic retaining members and the haptic retaining member are made of a flexible material.
US11850143B2
A tissue repair device and a method for using the same are provided. The tissue repair device includes a body portion and at least one wire. The body portion includes an inner layer and an outer layer. The inner layer is close to a tissue, wherein the inner layer includes a hydrophilic structure, and the outer layer includes a hydrophobic structure. The wire is connected to the body portion to fix the body portion to the tissue.
US11850132B2
An absorbent article includes a first body portion, a second body portion and a crotch portion located between the first body portion and the second body portion. At least one of the first body portion or the second body portion includes at least one side panel having a multilayered portion. The multilayered portion includes at least a first layer and a second layer. The multilayered portion is obtained by folding the at least one side panel. The first and the second layer of the multilayered portion are connected to each other and the multilayered portion is provided with surface protrusions at one surface of the multilayered portion. The surface protrusions are integrally made of material of the multilayered portion. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to manufacturing such an absorbent article.
US11850121B2
Negative pressure wound therapy sponges that are custom-fabricated to fit a given wound to be treated, corresponding methods of creating said sponges in situ or external to a wound, and related systems for performing negative pressure wound therapy using said sponges. Exemplary sponge embodiments may have pressure-sensing capabilities.
US11850118B2
Techniques are disclosed for detecting a presence of a biological substance through an article such as a diaper. For example, a detection system causes a light source to transmit light through the article. The light includes a peak wavelength that corresponds to an excitation wavelength of a biological substance that may be present in the article. The detection system detects a measurement of light intensity within a range of emission wavelengths of the biological substance. By comparing the measurement of light intensity to a threshold, the detection system identifies a presence of the biological substance on the article.
US11850116B2
According to one example, a medical tray for a surgical procedure is disclosed. The medical tray can optionally comprise: a housing; and one or more tray inserts configured to be received within the housing and having a first major surface and one or more support. The one or more tray inserts are configured to receive a plurality of dental surgical instruments via a plurality of receptacles formed therein. The plurality of receptacles having corresponding openings in the first major surface. The one or more tray inserts configured to be at least one of: removable from the housing and configured with the one or more supports so as to be positionable exterior to and independent of the housing, or the plurality of receptacles are angled such that the dental surgical instruments when received therein are positioned at an acute angle relative to the first major surface.
US11850110B2
A method is provided for shaping a custom anterior dental restoration from a preform, wherein the preform comprises a preform body and a preform stem. A method is further disclosed for generating one or more nesting positions for the restoration design within the geometry of the preform body relative to the position of the preform stem. A method is further disclosed for generating machining instructions based on the selected nesting position to optimize machining for chair-side applications.
US11850107B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and medical device accessories. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a tool or accessory for cleaning a medical device. For example, the tool or accessory may clean a fluid delivery lumen of an endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) knife. The tool or accessory may include a housing with a first portion of an elongate member secured within a first portion of the housing and a second portion of the elongate member extending into a chamber of the housing.
US11850105B2
A tilting seat for operators in a controlled environment, particularly for surgeons and the like, comprising a saddle, a chest support, a forehead support and a leg support connected to a base standing on the ground, such that the saddle, the chest support, the forehead support and the leg support are integrally movable with rotation about a horizontal-axis joint placed below the saddle, keeping the space over the joint free from movable elements while in use, guaranteeing the substantial lack of contamination in such space.
US11850104B2
An automated surgical system includes a visualization system, an imaging display system, and a surgical hub. The visualization system includes an illumination source and an imaging device. The surgical hub includes a processor and a memory device configured to store instructions. The instructions direct the surgical hub processor to control the illumination source to illuminate a surgical site and to control the imaging device to receive the imaging data. The surgical processor processes the imaging data to create display data that is transmitted over a cloud-based network to the imaging display system for display.
US11850084B2
A subject information acquisition unit calculates a bone mineral density in the bone region and a muscle mass in the soft region for each pixel on the basis of a radiographic image. A statistical value calculation unit calculates a statistical value related to the subject on the basis of the bone mineral density and the muscle mass. An evaluation value calculation unit calculates the fracture risk evaluation value for evaluating the fracture risk of the subject on the basis of the statistical value.
US11850076B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for automatically determining which type of resuscitation treatment is most appropriate for a patient. Methods are provided that include the following. One or more time domain signal measurements are transformed into frequency domain data representative of a frequency content of the one or more time domain signal measurements. The frequency domain data is processed to identify peaks. For each of the peaks, for each of multiple points in time, multiple parameters of the peak are determined. Based on the multiple parameters of the peaks for each of the multiple points in time, a trajectory is determined. The determined trajectory is analyzed in determining a recommended type of resuscitation treatment. An output indication is provided of the recommended type of resuscitation treatment.
US11850070B2
An adhesive layer applicator for a body-mountable device is disclosed. The applicator includes a housing defining a first opening through which a chamber is accessible, and a plurality of adhesive layers and a plurality of adhesive liners alternately stacked on a floor that is movable within the chamber. The size and shape of the opening corresponds to the size and shape of the body-mountable device. The housing is configured to receive at least a portion of the body-mountable device through the opening. A second opening is formed in each adhesive layer in the plurality of adhesive layers and a gel is accommodated within the second openings.
US11850069B1
A smart ring includes a shell having an internal surface and sidewalls define an interior, a battery within a first sector of the interior, a PCB within a second sector of the interior having components including a fingerprint sensor, a temperature sensor, a memory and a processing unit coupled to the temperature sensor and the fingerprint sensor and configured to determine whether an incoming fingerprint data is authenticated, and a potting compound disposed within the interior and encapsulating the components, wherein the potting compound forms an inner portion of the smart ring characterized by a first curved portion, a first and second flat regions within the second sector and a third region within the second sector between the first and second flat regions, wherein the fingerprint sensor is disposed below the first flat region, and wherein the temperature sensor is associated with the second flat region.
US11850064B2
An automatic system for making clinical decisions, especially with relation to cannabis use, that incorporates data from multiple personal tracking devices such as fitness trackers, analyzes that data using machine learning techniques to determine which data points are relevant to account for changes over time, and offers predictions, insights, and/or suggestions to support clinical decision making.
US11850053B2
A method of computing a heart rate value compensates for noise derived from the subject, the sensor, the transmission, and/or other variables that can lead to false R-peak detection or missed R-peak detection. The method computes an updated heart rate based on a window of approximately ten seconds of digitized ECG readings broadcast from a sensor. A new value is calculated approximately every second such that the window of ECG readings overlaps considerably between consecutive calculations. The method compensates for noisy data by discarding heart rate samples that differ by more than a threshold amount from a previously calculated heart rate value. The threshold is adjusted based on a standard deviation of differences between heart rate samples. Prior to calculating a heart rate value, a forward-looking, pre-filter logic may be applied in situations where the raw data has an extremely low signal-to-noise ratio.
US11850051B2
A catheter is described with an end effector having densely arrayed electrodes on three loops which are arrayed in various planar configurations when the end effector is unconstrained. The end effector has first, second and third loop members, each loop member includes two spines and a connector that connects the two spines to define a loop extending away from a tubular member of the catheter such that the first, second and third loop members are configured so that each connector of each of the first, second and third loop members is in contact with only one connector of the adjacent loop member.
US11850049B2
Disclosed are an apparatus for automatically measuring urine volume and a system for automatically measuring urine volume. The apparatus for automatically measuring urine volume of the present disclosure includes a urine container to which a urine catheter is connected, wherein an insertion hole is formed in an upper portion of the urine container, a hollow tube inserted into the insertion hole in a gravity direction, a floating body inserted into the hollow tube so as to move up and down and having buoyancy to float on the urine, and a distance sensor provided at an upper portion of the hollow tube so as to measure a distance to the floating body, wherein the volume of urine in the urine container is measured by using a measurement of the distance sensor. According to the present disclosure, the apparatus for automatically measuring urine volume and the system for automatically measuring urine volume are configured to measure the correct volume of urine automatically and continuously, regardless of the tilt of a urine container, the weight of a Foley catheter, and the presence of a nurse who directly checks the urine volume, so as to accurately recognize a change in the volume of urine and anticipate a probable emergency situation based on the change in the volume of urine.
US11850048B2
The disclosure provides methods and systems for determining an emotional fitness metrics for users. A physiological parameter of the user is measured during a group activity using at least one biosensor to acquire a measured signal. The measured signal of the user is compared to a measured signal for the physiological parameter of one or more additional users as measured when the one or more additional users perform the group activity. An emotional connectivity may be calculated based on a synchronicity of the measured signal of the user with the measured signal of the one or more additional users, as well as a cognitive appraisal metric, a resilience metric and an emotional fitness metric. Connectivity values for user pairings for a group activity can be computed based a synchronicity in a time-series correlation for the physiological parameters for permutations of the user pairings for the group activity.
US11850046B2
A simplified electronics approach to allow cost, size, and power consumption to be reduced while maintaining state of the art accuracy and reliability, key features for wireless medical devices/systems. Extreme accuracy is achieved by innovative noise shaping and filtering introduced to the electrochemical sensor, before sampling by the analog to digital converter. Introduction of the noise to the electrochemical sensor provides very low power biasing which is necessary to achieve overall reliable and very accurate bias for the electrochemical reaction cell.
US11850033B2
A radio frequency (RF) transmit—receive coil for a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system includes an integrated vital signs detector for the detection of vital signs of a patient within the MR imaging system. The coil includes a contactless sensor system for monitoring vital signs, which makes it easier to measure vital signs of the patient.
US11850032B2
Method and system for monitoring an internal electrical impedance of a biological object including Internal Thoracic Impedance (ITI) comprising placing two arrays of electrodes on opposite sides of the biological object, wherein each of said two arrays comprise three equally spaced electrodes; imposing an alternating electrical current between pairs of the electrodes and obtaining voltage signals representative of a voltage drop thereon, calculating two values of internal electrical impedance of the biological object corresponding to the uttermost electrodes of said two arrays of electrodes placed on the opposite sides of the biological object.
US11850031B2
A sphygmomanometer includes a main body mounted with a pump, a belt, and a cuff structure. The cuff structure having a band shape is disposed facing an inner circumferential surface of the belt in a freely separable manner from the inner circumferential surface of the belt. One end of the cuff structure is attached to the main body. The cuff structure includes a bag-shaped pressure cuff that extends along a circumferential direction of a measurement target site, a bag-shaped sensing cuff that extends in the circumferential direction across an artery passing portion of the measurement target site, and a back plate that is inserted between the pressure cuff and the sensing cuff. A blood pressure is calculated based on a pressure of a pressure transmission fluid contained in the sensing cuff.
US11850028B2
An apparatus for monitoring biometric information blood of a user that contains a housing that includes an electropermanent magnet, a battery, a processor, and a radio transmitter. A cap is magnetically coupled to the housing when a current is passed through a coil of the electropermanent magnet thereby compressing a portion of tissue of the user between the housing and the cap. By varying the compressive force applied to the tissue, the apparatus monitors at least one of blood pressure and heart rate from the response.
US11850023B2
A magnetic resonance tomography unit and a method is provided in which a patient couch may be moved in relation to the longitudinal direction into the patient tunnel in the transversal direction into a left-hand side extreme position and an opposite-lying right-hand side extreme position. Using an image acquisition facility in the left-hand side extreme position a right-hand side part is acquired and in the right-hand side extreme position a left-hand side part of the outer contour of the predetermined object is acquired. Using the image acquisition facility, the outer contour of the object is subsequently created from the left-hand side part of the outer contour and also from the right-hand side part of the outer contour.
US11850019B2
An analyte monitoring system may include an analyte sensor, two or more devices including a display device and a second device, and a transceiver. The transceiver may be configured to (i) receive measurement information from the analyte sensor, (ii) establish a connection with the display device while being connected with no other device of the two or more devices, (iii) convey first information to the display device while connected with the display device, (iv) establish a connection with the second device while being connected with no other device of the two or more devices, and (v) convey or receive second information to or from the second device while connected with the second device. The display device may be configured to (i) receive the first information from the transceiver and (ii) display an analyte level based on at least the first information.
US11850015B2
A dexterous operation arm driven by modular joint time-sharing switching, the operation arm comprising a plurality of completely identical sub-sections, each sub-section comprising three parts: an external elbow assembly, an internal transmission assembly, and an elbow drive unit. The tail end of the operation arm can be connected to end effectors, such as claws, tweezers, scissors, and the like, to form a dexterous micro-device, which is mounted at the tail end of a minimally invasive surgical robotic system to assist in minimally invasive surgery. The operation arm modularizes operation arm joints, and separates the drive of each joint, which improves the flexibility of the operation arm, and can enable dexterously delivering an end effector to the vicinity of a lesion for surgery.
US11850014B2
There is provided a control system for controlling a surgical arm device of a multi-link structure in which a plurality of links is coupled together by a joint unit in a force control mode. In generalized inverse dynamics, the control system sets a motion purpose and a constraint condition in an operation space describing an inertia of force acting on a multi-link structural body and an acceleration of the multi-link structural body, and for implementing an operation space acceleration indicating the motion purpose, calculates a virtual force acting on the operation space on the basis of a motion equation relating to the operation space including a term of an operation space bias acceleration in consideration to gravity compensation according to inclination information of the surgical arm device, and calculates a torque command value for a joint unit on the basis of a real force converted from the virtual force.
US11850008B2
Navigation of an instrument within a luminal network can include image-based branch detection and mapping. Image-based branch detection can include identifying within an image one or more openings associated with one or more branches of a luminal network. Image-based branch mapping can include mapping the detected one or more openings to corresponding branches of the luminal network. Mapping may include comparing features of the openings to features of a set of expected openings. A position state estimate for the instrument can be determined from the mapped openings, which can facilitate navigation of the luminal network.
US11849998B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for pupil tracking and eye-markers extracting using an image acquisition device such as a visible-light camera shooting a non-static head. In an embodiment of the present invention eye-markers are extracted from one eye or from both eyes. The extraction from both eyes uses for averaging the results of the two eyes when abnormalities are detected in one of the eyes. In addition, the invention relates to a computerized application, which interacts with a user (for example trough a game or movie, usually in a context of biofeedback), and takes video shooting of the users face and eyes during said interaction.
US11849990B2
A vapor delivery system and method is provided that includes a number of features. In one embodiment, a method comprises inserting a vapor delivery needle into tissue of a patient, activating a flow of vapor from a vapor generator through vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle to cause condensed liquid to exit vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle, generating vapor in the vapor generator, delivering a dose of vapor through the vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle into the tissue, and after the dose of vapor is delivered, re-activating the flow of vapor from the vapor generator through the vapor delivery ports of the vapor delivery needle to prevent a vacuum from forming in the vapor delivery needle. Vapor therapy systems are also provided.
US11849984B2
A method and system for performing bone fusion and/or securing one or more bones, such as adjacent vertebra, are disclosed. The screws include a threaded tip connected to a main shaft and a threaded outer sleeve that rotates relative to the outer shaft until locked down. Independent rotation of the threaded outer sleeve relative to the threaded distal tip allows compression or distraction to modify the gap between the vertebral bodies. The screws are passed from the inferior to superior vertebra or superior to inferior, for example, through a trans-pedicular route to avoid neurological compromise. At the same time, the path of screw insertion is oriented to reach superior or inferior vertebra. An intervertebral cage of the system is configured for lateral expansion from a nearly straight configuration to form a large footprint in the disc space. The screws and cage may be combined for improved fixation with minimal invasiveness.
US11849978B2
A bone screw assembly includes an anchor portion and a head portion, such as a rod-receiving portion, movably mounted to the anchor portion to allow for controlled angulation between the anchor portion and the head portion. The anchor portion is pivotable in one or more selected directions about an axis relative to the head portion. A restriction member, which may be a rod seat, prevents the anchor portion from pivoting in one or more different directions about another axis relative to the head portion and/or a spinal fixation element received in the head portion. The restriction member may be inserted in the head portion to control direction that the anchor portion pivots relative to the head portion. The restriction member may also serve as a compression member and/or rod seat for seating a spinal rod coupled to the bone screw assembly.
US11849973B2
An implant removal device includes a body, a first arm, a second arm, an actuation interface, and an extraction member. The first arm is supported at the body and configured to move relative to the body between a retracted position and a skin gripping position. The second arm is supported at the body and configured to move relative to the body between the retracted position and the skin gripping position. The actuation interface is supported at the body. The actuation interface is configured to receive a first actuation input thereat to cause at least one of the first arm and the second arm to move from the skin gripping position to the retracted position. The extraction member is supported at the body and located between the first arm and the second arm.
US11849971B1
Uterine toner device (UTD) for reducing postpartum hemorrhage includes fundal, cervical, vaginal, and nipple portions with cylindrical and tubular shaped bodies. The fundal and cervical portions include fenestrations. The diameters for fenestrations in the fundal portion are larger than those in the cervical portion. An indication resides between the fundal and cervical portions for proper placement. When the nipple portion couples to a pressure pump's suction tube and negative pressure is applied, cervical tissue is drawn into the fenestrations in the cervical portion resulting in contraction and retraction of the uterus, stopping any bleeding. The pressure pump is automatically shut-off after a pre-set period of time to avoid prolonged ischemia. A balloon at the cervical portion assists in the release of the cervical tissue when inflated. During a C-section, an introducer may be used in combination with the UTD to assist in introducing the suction tube through a tight cervix.
US11849969B2
A surgical access device includes a cannula and a seal housing. The cannula has a cannula housing and a tubular member that extends from the cannula housing. The seal housing is coupled to the cannula housing. The seal housing has a base and a cover with an instrument seal located between the base and the cover. The cover has an upper cover portion and a lower cover portion with a port extending from the upper cover portion. The port is connectable to a source of vacuum. A chamber with projections and windows is defined in the upper cover portion and is configured to direct fluid towards the port.
US11849965B2
The present disclosure provides a surgical instrument comprising an instrument body with a distal end including a working portion, and a proximal end including a handle. The instrument body includes a first arm and a second arm that are pivotable relative to one another. Each of the first arm and the second arm having a handle portion of the handle and a portion of the working portion. And each of the handle portions of the first and second arms being configured to enable a user to control the instrument body and move the portions of the working portion of the first and second arms between opened and closed positions. The handle portion of the first arm having a thenar eminence contacting surface adapted to contact at least a portion of a thenar eminence of a hand of the user during use, and facilitate at least movement of the handle to move the working portion of the first and second arms from the open position to the closed position
US11849960B1
Joint balancing methods and apparatus for arthroplasty procedures are disclosed. An example method of preparing a knee to receive a knee implant includes: (a) positioning a knee comprising a distal femur and a proximal tibia at a mid-flexion angle; (b) performing soft tissue balancing of the knee at the mid-flexion angle; (c) determining a location of a posterior chamfer cut of the distal femur configured to engage the posterior chamfer angle of a femoral component of a knee implant based at least in part upon the soft tissue balancing of the knee at the mid-flexion angle; and, (d) resecting the distal femur to create the posterior chamfer cut.
US11849958B2
The present invention relates to a surgical kit for use in a craniectomy procedure, the surgical kit comprising: a medical device to be implanted in a cranial bone of a patient, the medical device (10) including several transducers for emitting ultrasound waves for treatment of brain tissue, a surgical accessory (20) intended to be positioned on the cranial bone of the patient, the surgical accessory (20) including a body whose outer perimeter defines the dimensions of an opening that is to be made in the cranial bone of the patient in order to receive the medical device, characterized in that the surgical accessory (20) comprises a plurality of holes (201) formed in the body, the position of each hole (201) on the body coinciding with the position of the axis of symmetry of a respective transducer, such that the accessory is able to be positioned optimally through the joint use of a neuronavigation system.
US11849952B2
A fastener cartridge can comprise a support portion, a tissue thickness compensator positioned relative to the support portion, and a plurality of fasteners positioned within the support portion and/or the tissue thickness compensator which can be utilized to fasten tissue. In use, the fastener cartridge can be positioned in a first jaw of a surgical fastening device, wherein a second jaw, or anvil, can be positioned opposite the first jaw. To deploy the fasteners, a staple-deploying member is advanced through the fastener cartridge to move the fasteners toward the anvil. As the fasteners are deployed, the fasteners can capture at least a portion of the tissue thickness compensator therein along with at least a portion of the tissue being fastened.
US11849950B2
Compressible adjuncts for use with a staple cartridge are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the compressible adjunct includes a non-fibrous adjunct material formed of at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer and configured to be releasably retained on a cartridge and delivered to tissue by deployment of staples in the cartridge. The adjunct material includes a lattice macrostructure having primary and secondary microreservoirs formed in the lattice macrostructure. The primary microreservoirs and secondary microreservoirs are different in size relative to each other and contain drug. The primary microreservoirs are configured to release drug therefrom upon activation and the secondary microreservoirs are configured to release drug therefrom upon degradation of at least one of the at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer so that the combination of the primary and secondary microreservoirs control the dosage of drug being released from the adjunct material when the adjunct material is in a tissue deployed state.
US11849949B2
A surgical stapling device includes a tool assembly and a drive assembly. The tool assembly includes an anvil assembly, and a cartridge assembly that includes a channel member and a staple cartridge. The staple cartridge includes a cartridge body, staples, pushers, and an actuation sled. The drive assembly has a working member that is movable through the tool assembly to advance the actuation sled through the staple cartridge and actuate the tool assembly. The anvil assembly supports a lockout member that interacts with the drive assembly when the actuation sled is not positioned in a proximal portion of the cartridge body to prevent advancement of the drive assembly and firing of the stapling device.
US11849947B2
A surgical instrument for use with a robotic system that has a control unit and a shaft portion that includes an electrically conductive elongated member that is attached to a portion of the robotic system. The elongated member is configured to transmit control motions from the robotic system to an end effector.
US11849946B2
A surgical stapler. The surgical stapler includes a drive system, an electric motor, a battery and a control system. The drive system includes an actuation member. The electric motor is mechanically coupled to the drive system. The battery is electrically couplable to the electric motor. The control system includes an H-bridge circuit electrically couplable to the electric motor. The control system is configured to control the electric motor based on a sensed parameter associated with the electric motor, a position of the actuation member and a velocity of the actuation member.
US11849943B2
An end effector for use with a surgical stapling instrument. The end effector comprises a first jaw and a second jaw. The first jaw comprises an anvil comprising a proximal camming member. At least one jaw is movable relative to the other to close the end effector. The second jaw comprises an elongated channel comprising a proximal channel aperture and a staple cartridge insertable into the elongated channel. The staple cartridge comprises a cartridge body and a cartridge pan. The cartridge pan comprises a proximal pan aperture configured to be positioned partially distal to the proximal channel aperture when the staple cartridge is assembled with the elongated channel in an unlocked configuration. The camming member is configured to proximally translate the cartridge pan relative to the cartridge body from the unlocked configuration to a locked configuration during a transition of the end effector to a closed configuration.
US11849939B2
A surgical instrument for treating the tissue of a patient is disclosed. The surgical instrument comprises a housing including a handle, a housing frame comprising a housing connector, and a drive system comprising at least one electric motor. The surgical instrument further comprises a shaft assembly releasably assembled to the housing including a shaft frame comprising a proximal connector and a distal connector, wherein the proximal connector is releasably coupled to the housing connector and a shaft drive system comprising at least one rotatable shaft operably coupled to the electric motor. The surgical instrument further comprises an end effector releasably assembled to the shaft assembly including an end effector frame comprising an end effector connector releasably coupled to the distal connector of the shaft assembly, a plurality of staple cartridges removably stored in the end effector, and a plurality of end effector drivers operably coupled to the rotatable shaft.
US11849934B2
Various methods and devices are provided for allowing multiple surgical instruments to be inserted into sealing elements of a single surgical access device. The sealing elements can be movable along predefined pathways within the device to allow surgical instruments inserted through the sealing elements to be moved laterally, rotationally, angularly, and vertically relative to a central longitudinal axis of the device for ease of manipulation within a patient's body while maintaining insufflation.
US11849925B1
A method for taking a cervical or vaginal sample includes providing a sampling probe having a housing with a flange at one end and an internal step ring including a protrude follower tab near the distal end; and a shaft inside the housing with a brush and a handle, the shaft having a solid proximal section, a spirally grooved distal section, a retracting compression spring inside the housing on the spirally grooved distal section, and with the housing protruding follower tab engaging a spiral groove in the spiral groove section of the shaft; inserting the sampling probe into a vaginal canal; pushing on the handle causing the brush to protrude the distal end of the housing, with the housing follower tab engaging the shaft spiral groove, causing the shaft and the brush to rotate and take a sample; and releasing the shaft handle to retract the brush into the housing.
US11849909B2
An automatic cleaning apparatus includes: a chassis; a front housing arranged at a front end of the chassis; and a sensing device capable sensing movement of the front housing and sending a signal to a control mainboard of the automatic cleaning apparatus when the front housing touches an obstacle and moves relative to the chassis. The sensing device includes a dust blocking member and a rocker arm that triggers the sensing device to send the signal. The rocker arm has a first end rotatably arranged inside the sensing device, and a second end passing through the dust blocking member and extending out of the sensing device. A front housing reset device is arranged on the chassis and capable of biasing the front housing toward an initial position of the front housing.
US11849907B2
A vacuum cleaner motor device comprises a motor assembly and an expansion assembly. The motor assembly further comprises a rotor, a stator, and a main shaft. The expansion assembly further comprises a first motor support, a second motor support, a fan blade member, a fan blade member support, a PCBA assembly, a first bearing, and a second bearing. The rotor is a neodymium iron boron magnet made of neodymium iron boron, which ensures that the motor has a strong output power such that the rotating speed of the motor reaches more than 100,000 rpm. The outer circumferential diameter of the fan blade member ranges from 35 to 40 mm. Compared with conventional vacuum cleaners, the fan blade member of the present disclosure has a larger size, which ensures a stronger vacuum suction force of the vacuum cleaner and achieves better cleaning effect.
US11849894B2
A cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning head, a supply tank, and an outlet in fluid communication with the supply tank. A diverter is provided in a distribution path between the supply tank and the outlet and is configured to divert cleaning fluid away from the outlet based on detected movement or acceleration of the apparatus.
US11849882B2
A cooker with a gasket may include a top plate on which a plurality of burners may be placed; a manifold panel provided in front of the top plate and including thereon a plurality of knobs to control output powers of the plurality of burners; and a gasket that extends along a front end of the top plate and is compressed between the top plate and the manifold panel to hermetically seal the top plate and the manifold panel.
US11849872B2
A collapsible food container supporting assembly includes a base having a top side and a bottom side. The base includes a first end, a second end, a first lateral edge and a second lateral edge. A bag engagement member is mounted on the base and releasably engages a bottom of an open bag. A vertical support is attached to the base and extends upwardly therefrom. The vertical support receives a side edge of the open bag to retain the side edge in a vertical orientation.
US11849862B2
A combination chair and foldable side table, wherein the combination includes the chair, wherein the chair comprises at least a first leg and a second leg, at least a first member coupled to the first leg and a second member coupled to the second leg, wherein the first member includes a slot and/or the mounting of the first member on the first leg forms a slot between the first member and the first leg and wherein the second member includes a slot and/or the mounting of the second member on the second leg forms a slot between the second member and the second leg; and the foldable side table includes a first arm and a second arm, a first hand depending from the first arm and removably insertable into the slot associated with the first member, and a second hand depending from the second arm and removably insertable into the slot associated with the second member; a first cross-member assembly coupled intermediate the first and second arms and a second cross-member assembly coupled intermediate the first and second arms; and a flexible covering coupled to the first and second arms. The present invention is also directed to the foldable side table itself, which can also include the members disclosed herein.
US11849860B2
A back adjustment system for a chair having a frame that includes a top end and bottom end. The back adjustment system may further, include a chair back having a first end and a second end. The first end of the chair back may be mounted solely to the top end of the frame of the chair and also includes an adjusting means, which may be mounted at the bottom end of the frame. The adjusting means may allow for engagement between the bottom end of the frame and the second end of the chair back. The adjusting means may be adapted to telescopically engage between the bottom end of the frame and the second end of the chair back thereby solely moving the second end of the chair back from a retracted position to an extended position.
US11849857B2
A cover material fixing device includes: a first fixing member that is formed in a plate shape so that the first fixing member is connected to a first cover material at a first connection portion of one end portion and has an insertion portion formed at the other end portion; and a second fixing member that is disposed on a groove portion of a fixed member, is provided along the first fixing member, and includes a holding portion holding the insertion portion. The insertion portion is inserted and engaged with the holding portion so that the first cover material is fixed to the fixed member and the insertion portion of the first fixing member includes a rotation restricting portion for the holding portion.
US11849855B2
A seat device that can easily and positively achieve the conversion of the state of a seat. A leg stand (11) fixed on a floor surface, a movable stand (20) supported by the leg stand (11) so as to be able to advance/retract in front and back directions, an underframe (30) of the seat supported by the movable stand (20) so as to be rotatable in forward and backward directions, and an interlocking mechanism (50) that interlocks advancement/retraction of the movable stand (20) with rotation of the underframe (30) are included. The interlocking mechanism (50) includes a plurality of cam grooves (51) that are provided to the leg stand (11), and regulates the trajectory of rotation or advancement/retraction of the underframe (30), a rotary member (52) that is provided to the underframe (30), and is engaged with the cam grooves (51) so as to be movable along the cam grooves (51), the engagement being always maintained to at least any portion of the cam grooves (51), and a switching portion (53) that is provided at a branch point in the cam grooves (51), and can switch the direction to which the rotary member (52) is guided at the branch point.
US11849854B2
The disclosed technology includes an pressure-controlled air mattress for enabling a user to set a desired firmness or pressure level of the air mattress. The pressure-controlled air mattress may automatically maintain the desired pressure by replacing leaked air with air from a pressurized air reservoir.
US11849853B2
A data processing system is configured to sense a pressure readings of an air-mattress. If the pressure readings are below a target pressure value representing a desired pressure for the air-mattress, the data processing system can transmit, to an air-pump, first instructions to increase the air pressure of the air mattress and determine a replacement value representing the amount of air pumped into the air mattress by the air-pump. The data processing system can compare the replacement value to a slow-leak threshold and to a catastrophic-leak threshold. The data processing system can, responsive to a determination that the replacement value is greater than the slow-leak value and less than the catastrophic-leak value, transmit, to the air-pump, second instructions to increase the air pressure of the air mattress to replace air in the air mattress lost to a slow leak so as to maintain the desired pressure for the air-mattress.
US11849848B2
An adjustable fully upholstered chaise recliner is provided. The chaise comprises a stationary outer frame coupled to a platform. The platform is configured to move between a first position and a second position while the outer frame remains stationary. A cushion is coupled to the platform and is fully upholstered to the platform such that a cover material encloses the cushion and the platform. Movement of the platform causes one or more bending portions of the cushion to bend. The chaise further comprises one or more cords, each extending through the cushion with a first end coupled to the cover material and a second end coupled to the platform. The cords are configured to pull on the cover material such that movement of the platform from the first position to the second position does not result in bunching of the cover material near the bending portions of the cushion.
US11849835B2
Cleaning devices are provided that have a surface with areas that provide different cleaning states. The areas of different cleaning states are connected to one another by a deflection member that provides tactile and/or audible feedback to the user when transitioning between the different cleaning states.
US11849824B1
A protective wrap system protects the handles of a purse or other bag and provides a gripping surface to resist tendency of the purse to slip when supported by the handles. The system includes a wrap configured to wrap around a purse handle and a grip that couples to the wrap and is positioned outside the wrap on the underside of the handle. The system provides protection to the handles from contact with a user's hand or other surface. The system further provides a gripping surface configured to grip a contoured surface without damaging or leaving residue on the surface.
US11849819B1
In an aspect, there is provided an elastic ring-based ornament making device for constructing an elastic ring-based ornament that includes at least one elastic ring and a plurality of ornamental members positioned thereon. The elastic ring-based ornament making device includes an elastic ring support including a plurality of extension arms which are movable between retracted and extended positions. When the arms are retracted, the elastic ring support supports the at least one elastic ring in a first state. When the arms are extended, the elastic ring support supports the at least one elastic ring in a second state. The at least one elastic ring is stretched more in the second state than in the first state. The arms when extended are spaced from one another sufficiently to permit mounting of the ornamental members on the at least one elastic ring between the arms.
US11849816B2
An electronic wearable device is disclosed. The electronic wearable device includes a pendant attached to a necklace; the pendant comprising a base and a plurality of interchangeable faceplates; wherein each of the plurality of interchangeable faceplates has a different design and is configured to attach to the base to hide the base.
US11849811B2
An article of footwear may include an upper configured to receive a foot of a wearer, the upper including one or more elastic portions and one or more substantially inelastic portions. The footwear may further include a plurality of lace receiving members fixedly attached to an outer surface of the upper on the inelastic portions of the upper. Also, the footwear may include a sole structure fixedly attached to the upper. In addition, the footwear may include a motorized tensioning system including a motorized tightening device and a tensile member extending through the plurality of lace receiving members, the tightening device being configured to apply tension in the tensile member to adjust the size of an internal void defined by the article of footwear by drawing two or more of the plurality of lace receiving members closer to one another.
US11849791B1
Embodiments provide methods of assembling apparel products. The methods include applying a composition to a portion of a major component of the apparel product or a portion of a minor component of the apparel product. The methods include coupling the portion of the minor component with the portion of the major component via the composition. The major component forms a base portion of the apparel product and is configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer. The minor component forms a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component via an adhesive. The methods include converting the composition to form the adhesive and the apparel product. The adhesive includes a material having an imine bond or an iminium bond.
US11849780B2
A garment includes a torso portion adapted to cover a wearer's torso; a first sleeve extending from the torso portion at a proximal end of the first sleeve; a second sleeve extending from the torso portion at a proximal end of the second sleeve; a first flap spanning between the torso portion and the first sleeve; and a second flap spanning between the torso portion and the second sleeve. One or more openings along a side of the first flap adjacent to the torso portion and one or more openings along a side of the second flap adjacent to the torso portion are adapted to allow a personal flotation device vest to be secured to the garment.
US11849770B2
A method for detecting the number of puffs of an electronic cigarette, includes sampling a real-time temperature of a heating unit, and determining a temperature difference; integrating the temperature difference in time to obtain an integral value I; calculating a first limit H according to the integral value I; and judging whether the real-time integral value I is beyond the first limit value H, if yes, determining that one puff of smoking happens. The method calculates a limit value that is a real-time value and varied with the change trend and change amplitude of the temperature difference. When the environment or the usage habit changes, the corresponding first limit can still be calculated according to the integral value of the current temperature difference to accurately determine the smoking behavior, thereby effectively improving the detection accuracy of the number of puffs of smoking.
US11849762B2
An electronic cigarette control device includes: a communicator configured to establish a communication connection with at least one device; and a processor configured to control an electronic cigarette according to a control message with respect to the electronic cigarette, the control message being received from the at least one device through the established communication connection.
US11849761B2
There is provided a cartridge assembly (10) for use in an aerosol-generating system, the cartridge assembly comprising: a cartridge (12) comprising at least a first compartment (18) extending along a longitudinal axis, the first compartment comprising an aerosol-generating compound and being sealed at a first end by a first frangible barrier (22) extending in respective planes transverse to the longitudinal axis; and at least a first piercing member (38) configured to rupture the first frangible barrier (22). The first piercing member (38) comprises: a first piercing body (40) having a cross-sectional surface area at least about 40 percent of a cross-sectional area of the at least one compartment (19); and a first channel (381, 382) extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cartridge through the first piercing body (40), the first channel (381, 382) having an inlet and an outlet. The first piercing member (38) is movable along the longitudinal axis from a first position to a second position, wherein, when the first piercing member (38) is in the first position, the first piercing body (40) is retracted from the plane of the first frangible barrier (22); and wherein, when the first piercing member (38) is in the second position, the first piercing body (40) extends into the at least one compartment (18) through the plane of the first frangible barrier (22), and the at least one compartment (18) is in fluid communication with the inlet and outlet of the first channel (281, 382). The at least one compartment (18) is sealed at an end opposite the first end by a second frangible barrier (26), the cartridge assembly (10) further comprising a second piercing member (44) configured to rupture the second frangible barrier (26).
US11849759B2
The inventive technology includes an improved system to secure a burnable substrate, such as a candle, and having an interchangeable body, such as a nicotine or cannabis-based cigarette or joint, wherein the interchangeable body is supported by a base element, and protected at its distal end by a thermal protection barrier.
US11849758B2
A cartridge includes an air flow passageway defining a first airflow direction, a heating element having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis perpendicular to the first airflow direction, and a jacket at least partially surrounding the heating element along the longitudinal axis of the heating element and defining a second airflow direction perpendicular to the first airflow direction.
US11849751B2
Apparatus and methods for bulk processing items on a conveyor belt using an angled axial fan that extends obliquely into a processing chamber and includes a curved back wall forming an air flow chamber. The angled axial fan enhances air flow around a product being processed on the conveyor belt. A heater employs shrouds and a series of baffle plates held together using a connecting pin to heat circulated air in a low-pressure area below the conveyor belt. Baffles in an upper chamber mix and direct heated, circulated air over the conveyed product.
US11849750B2
A rotary drum blancher/cooler includes skinsheet sections alternating with structural channels and clamps. The skinsheet sections and channels have sidewalls. Each clamp includes at least a portion of a clamp bar, a bolt, a slot and hole combination, and a nut. The clamp bar holds each skinsheet sidewall between the channel sidewall and the clamp bar. The bolt extends through a hole in the clamp bar. The bolt has a first partially threaded end and a second end with at least one groove. One end is within the channel, and the other outside. A slot and hole combination is located in at least one of a retaining plate, channel sidewall and clamp bar. The bolt can pass through the hole of the slot and hole combination, and the groove(s) in the bolt are disposed within the slot to prevent rotation of the bolt. The nut is on the first end, and may be tightened or loosened to tighten or loosen the skinsheet side wall to the channel sidewall.
US11849749B1
A process for treating rice bran utilizing a shear pump to circulate a solution comprising an enzyme, an acid and water with rice bran in a mixing tank, then after a first predetermined period transferring a portion of the solution to a feed tank, and then over a second predetermined period filtering the solution in the feed tank through multiple filtration units each having a pre-selected pore size to obtain pre-determined value-added by-products from the rice bran.
US11849744B2
Methods for manufacturing a powdered fermented paste, including the steps of: pretreating a fermented paste; freezing the pretreated fermented paste; freeze-drying the frozen fermented paste; grinding the freeze-dried fermented paste; and heat-drying the ground fermented paste.
US11849741B2
Provided are food products that have structures, textures, and other properties comparable to those of animal meat, and that may therefore serve as substitutes for animal meat. Also provided are processes for production of such ground meat-like food products.
US11849732B2
The invention relates to a winding machine (2) for dough, in particular for winding dough strips, and to a method for winding dough using such a machine (2), wherein the winding machine (2) comprises: a main body (4); a control unit; a roller (6) which is rotatably mounted on the main body (4) about a rotational axis, wherein dough strips can be wound onto the roller (6) when the winding machine (2) is in use; a motor (30) for rotationally driving the roller (6); and a pressing device (11) for pressing dough, which is rolled up on the roller (6), against the roller (6).
US11849731B2
Provided is a method of imparting antibacterial and deodorant functions by reacting iodic acid, and a material that is given antibacterial and deodorant functions. The method of imparting antibacterial and deodorant function is as follows. Reacting iodate to a material that includes elements capable of producing iodate insoluble in water and non-toxic to a living body to form iodic acid of such elements on the surface of the material, thereby the iodate is made to be supported so that antibacterial and deodorant is possible without elution of said iodate to the outside.
US11849714B2
An insect trapping system includes an enclosed container having an entrance hole formed in a vertical wall and an acoustic lure device located within the container. The enclosed container may be formed from a transparent material. The system may also include a support stand, formed from a dark-colored material, and used to support the container.
US11849711B2
Disclosed are a pet water dispensing device, a pet drinking and eating disc, a water dispenser, and a pet food supply method. The pet water dispensing device includes a base and a water supply valve, a drinking and eating disc accommodating cavity is formed on at least one side surface of the base, the water supply valve corresponding to the drinking and eating disc accommodating cavity is disposed on the base, the water outlet end of the water supply valve communicates with the drinking and eating disc accommodating cavity, when the extension end of the valve rod of the water supply valve is configured to be driven by the pet drinking and eating disc placed at the drinking and eating disc accommodating cavity, the water supply valve is switched from a closed state to an open state.
US11849705B2
Technologies for monitoring beehives in an apiary includes one or more sensors communicatively coupled to a remote data analysis computing device, which is communicatively coupled to a client computing device. The sensors are configured to monitor beehives and/or the environment of the apiary and transmit the sensed data to the remote data analysis computing device. The remote data analysis computing device is configured to analyze the received sensor data, determine whether to perform an action as a function of a result of the analysis, and perform the function, as applicable. The client computing device is configured to interface with the remote data analysis computing device such that a user of the client computing device can view results of the data analysis and actions, as well as provide input and adjust settings administered by the remote data analysis computing device. A model for assessing beehive strength from an infrared image is also disclosed. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11849702B2
Systems and methods for using a feeder system for animals are described. The modular system includes frame having a plurality of walls and a trolley system having a net system and shock system. The trolley system is movable relative to the plurality of walls in order to move the net system towards and away from a floor and a roof. More specifically, the trolley system allows the net system to be moved upwards towards the roof, after which food can be inserted into the frame. Once the food is appropriately located, the trolley system allows the net system to be moved downwardly until it is on top of the food to regulate the rate at which an animal consumes the food. The walls may have releasable fasteners that can be used to releasably secure the walls to one another, and the trolley system to one of the walls.
US11849695B2
A process for producing a reduced tobacco-specific nitrosamine (TSNA) tobacco plant comprising reducing and/or eliminating anatabine biosynthesis in wild-type tobacco plant. In addition, use of such plants for discovery of molecular markers that are closely linked with genes required for anatabine biosynthesis and for discovery of genes required for anatabine biosynthesis. In addition, a smoking composition, a smoking article and a smokeless tobacco oral delivery product contain the tobacco material.
US11849691B2
One embodiment relates to seed and plants of inbred watermelon line WTL0091. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of inbred watermelon line WTL0091, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another watermelon plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US11849679B2
An emitter forms a flow path that runs to a discharge part from a water collecting part for receiving an irrigation liquid in a tube. The flow path includes a flow rate control part which includes: an end surface including a concave inclined surface that faces a film for receiving the pressure of the liquid inside the tube; a hole that opens at the center of the flow volume control part and connects to the discharge part; and a groove crossing the inclined surface and running to the hole. When the film adheres to the inclined surface as a result of the pressure of the irrigation liquid inside the tube, the flow volume of the irrigation liquid inside the emitter is controlled so as to be a volume that can pass through the groove.
US11849675B2
A header for a crop harvester includes side drapers having a front edge adjacent the cutter bar and carrying crop to a discharge end roller at a center feed draper. A support arrangement carries the rear end of the discharge end roller to define an operating position in which an axis of the discharge end roller is at an angle to an axis of the outer end roller of the side draper with the rear end of the discharge end roller at a height below a height of the rear end of the outer end roller. This provides a main portion of the belt that lies in a common plane defined by an intermediate guide member and the outer end roller and a smaller portion of the draper belt between the guide member and the rear end of the discharge end roller which is twisted downwardly from the common plane.
US11849672B2
One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
US11849669B2
A flexible mower deck includes a center deck with a plurality of rotary cutting blades rotated by a belt engaging a driven pulley for each blade. A first wing deck and a second wing deck are pivotably attached to a first end and a second end of the center deck. Each of the wing decks are pivotable between a lowered mowing position and a raised transport position. A height of cut mechanism on each of the first and second wing decks raises and lowers the wing deck and includes a four bar caster wheel level mechanism holding a caster wheel sleeve in front of the wing deck in vertical alignment at any height of cut.
US11849659B2
A draft load control system for an agricultural implement includes a row unit, a down force system configured to apply a force within or to the row unit, a draft load sensor disposed on the row unit and configured to generate a sensor signal indicative of a draft load on the row unit, and a controller that includes a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to receive the sensor signal from the draft load sensor indicative of the draft load on the row unit, and in response to the draft load exceeding a threshold range, perform a control operation, a monitoring operation, or both.
US11856879B2
A selector device for a memory cell in a memory array may include a first electrode, and a separator that include a first region of a single-composition layer of a mixed ionic-electronic conduction material with a first concentration of defects; and a second region of a single-composition layer of a transitional metal oxide with a second concentration of defects that is different from the first concentration of defects. The selector device may also include a second electrode, where the separator is between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11856871B2
Systems and methods for fabricating a superconducting integrated circuit that includes wiring layers comprising low-noise material are described. A superconducting integrated circuit can be implemented in a computing system that includes a quantum processor. Such a superconducting integrated circuit includes a first set of one or more wiring layers that form a noise-susceptible superconducting device that can decrease processor when exposed to noise. The superconducting integrated circuit can further include a second set of one or more wiring layers that form a superconducting device that is less susceptible to noise. Fabricating a superconducting device that contains low-noise material can include depositing and patterning a wiring layer comprising a first material that is superconductive in a respective range of temperatures and depositing and patterning a different wiring layer comprising a second material that is superconductive in a respective range of temperatures. The second material can be considered a low-noise material.
US11856870B2
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), and a top electrode which contacts an end of the MTJ. The top electrode includes a top electrode upper portion and a top electrode lower portion. The width of the top electrode upper portion is larger than the width of the top electrode lower portion. A bottom electrode contacts another end of the MTJ. The top electrode, the MTJ and the bottom electrode form an MRAM.
US11856862B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method in which a first set of one or more voltage pulses is applied to a piezoelectric device over a first time period. During the first time period, the method determines whether a performance parameter of the piezoelectric device has a first value that deviates from a reference value by more than a predetermined value. Based on whether the first value deviates from the reference value by more than the predetermined value, the method selectively applies a second set of one or more voltage pulses to the piezoelectric device over a second time period. The second time period is after the first time period and the second set of one or more voltage pulses differs in magnitude and/or polarity from the first set of one or more voltage pulses.
US11856852B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting device comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode provided to face the first electrode; and a first organic material layer and a second organic material layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the first organic material layer includes a compound of Formula 1, and the second organic material layer includes a compound of Formula 2.
US11856831B2
The present disclosure provides a color filter substrate and a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device, and the color filter substrate includes a base substrate, a black matrix and a color filter layer located on the base substrate, a quantum dot layer located on a side of the color filter layer away from the base substrate, a barrier layer located on a side of the black matrix away from the base substrate, and a first inorganic layer, and the first inorganic layer at least includes: a first portion located between the color filter layer and the quantum dot layer; a second portion located on the base substrate and between the quantum dot layer and the barrier layer; and a third portion located on a side of the barrier layer away from the base substrate.
US11856810B2
The disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and discloses a display panel. The display panel includes: a substrate including a display area; a backplane film layer, on a side of the substrate and in the display area; a via hole, in the display area and running through the backplane film layer; and a protective barrier, in the via hole and covering the end side of the backplane film layer.
US11856802B2
A first photoelectric conversion element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure incudes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed to be opposed to the first electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and including a chromophore, fullerene or a fullerene derivative, and a hole-transporting material, in which the chromophore and the fullerene or the fullerene derivative are bonded to each other at least partially via a crosslinking group in the photoelectric conversion layer.
US11856801B2
Threshold voltage-modulated memory device using variable-capacitance and methods of forming the same
A memory device includes a field effect transistor and a variable-capacitance capacitor. A gate structure includes a gate dielectric and an intermediate electrode. The variable-capacitance capacitor includes a lower capacitor plate comprising the intermediate electrode, an upper capacitor plate comprising a control gate electrode, and a variable-capacitance node dielectric and including an electrical-field-programmable metal oxide material. The electrical-field-programmable metal oxide material provides a variable effective dielectric constant, and a data bit may be stored as a dielectric state of the variable-capacitance node dielectric in the memory device. The variable-capacitance node dielectric provides reversible electrical field-dependent resistivity modulation, or reversible electrical field-dependent movement of metal atoms therein.
US11856800B2
A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided wherein the semiconductor device includes a first system on chip device bonded to a first memory device, a second system on chip device bonded to the first memory device, a first encapsulant surrounding the first system on chip device and the second system on chip device, a second encapsulant surrounding the first system on chip device, the second system on chip device, and the first memory device, and a through via extending from a first side of the second encapsulant to a second side of the first encapsulant, the through via being located outside of the first encapsulant.
US11856796B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower silicon layer comprising a first area and a second area. The lower silicon layer in the first area includes a first silicon oxide layer, a first upper silicon layer disposed above the first silicon oxide layer, and a first metal gate disposed above the first upper silicon layer. The lower silicon layer in the second area includes a second silicon oxide layer, a plurality of first doped silicon gates disposed above the second silicon oxide layer, and a plurality of portions of a second doped silicon gate disposed above the second silicon oxide layer. The plurality of first doped silicon gates and the plurality of portions of the second doped silicon gate are alternatively arranged with each other. The lower silicon layer in the second area also includes a plurality of second metal gates disposed directly above the plurality of first doped silicon gates, respectively.
US11856788B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes depositing a bottom electrode layer over a substrate; depositing a ferroelectric layer over the bottom electrode layer; depositing a first top electrode layer over the ferroelectric layer, wherein the first top electrode layer comprises a first metal; depositing a second top electrode layer over the first top electrode layer, wherein the second top electrode layer comprises a second metal, and a standard reduction potential of the first metal is greater than a standard reduction potential of the second metal; and removing portions of the second top electrode layer, the first top electrode layer, the ferroelectric layer, and the bottom electrode layer to form a memory stack, the memory stack comprising remaining portions of the second top electrode layer, the first top electrode layer, the ferroelectric layer, and the bottom electrode layer.
US11856787B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are provided wherein a ferroelectric random access memory array is formed with bit line drivers and source line drivers formed below the ferroelectric random access memory array. A through via is formed using the same processes as the processes used to form individual memory cells within the ferroelectric random access memory array.
US11856785B2
A device includes a semiconductor substrate; a first word line over the semiconductor substrate, the first word line providing a first gate electrode for a first transistor; and a second word line over the first word line. The second word line is insulated from the first word line by a first dielectric material, and the second word line providing a second gate electrode for a second transistor over the first transistor. The device further including a source line intersecting the first word line and the second word line; a bit line intersecting the first word line and the second word line; a memory film between the first word line and the source line; and a first semiconductor material between the memory film and the source line.
US11856784B2
A semiconductor device includes a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET), wherein the FeFET includes a substrate; a source region in the substrate; a drain region in the substrate; and a gate structure over the substrate and between the source region and the drain region. The gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer over the substrate; a ferroelectric film over the gate dielectric layer; and a gate electrode over the ferroelectric film.
US11856783B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first conductive structure extending along a vertical direction and a second conductive structure extending along the vertical direction. The second conductive structure is spaced apart from the first conductive structure along a lateral direction. The semiconductor device further comprises a plurality of third conductive structures each extending along the lateral direction. The plurality of third conductive structures are disposed across the first and second conductive structures. The first and second conductive structures each have a varying width along the lateral direction. The plurality of third conductive structures have respective different thicknesses in accordance with the varying width of the first and second conductive structures.
US11856779B2
A memory array includes a plurality of memory cells stacked up along a first direction. Each of the memory cells include a memory stack, connecting lines, and insulating layers. The memory stack includes a first dielectric layer, a channel layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, a charge trapping layer disposed on the channel layer, a second dielectric layer disposed on the charge trapping layer, and a gate layer disposed in between the channel layer and the second dielectric layer. The connecting lines are extending along the first direction and covering side surfaces of the memory stack. The insulating layers are extending along the first direction, wherein the insulating layers are located aside the connecting lines and covering the side surfaces of the memory stack.
US11856772B2
A nonvolatile memory device and method of fabricating same, the nonvolatile memory device including a substrate; a first semiconductor layer on the substrate; an etching stop film including a metal oxide on the first semiconductor layer; a mold structure including second semiconductor layers and insulating layers alternately stacked on the etching stop film; a channel hole penetrating through at least one of the mold structure, the etching stop film, the second semiconductor layer and the substrate; and a channel structure extending along a side wall of the channel hole, including an anti-oxidant film, a first blocking insulation film, a second blocking insulation film, a charge storage film, a tunnel insulating film and a channel semiconductor sequentially formed along the side wall of the channel hole. The first semiconductor layer contacts the first blocking insulation film, the second blocking insulation film, the charge storage film, and the tunnel insulating film.
US11856763B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device including a first stack structure comprising alternating levels of insulative structures and other insulative structures, forming strings of memory cells through the first stack structure, forming a second stack structure over the first stack structure, based at least partially on observed amount of pillar bending within the first stack structure, forming a first tailored reticle specific to the observed amount of pillar bending, utilizing the first tailored reticle to form openings extending through the second stack structure and over some of the strings of memory cells, wherein centers of the openings over the strings of memory cells are at least substantially aligned with the centers of uppermost surfaces of the strings of memory cells in a direction of the observed pillar bending, and forming upper pillars extending through the second stack structure and over some of the strings of memory cells.
US11856760B2
A one-time programmable (OTP) bit cell includes a substrate including a front side and a back side, an active area on the front side, a first read transistor including a first gate and a first portion of the active area intersected by the first gate, a program transistor including a second gate and a second portion of the active area intersected by the second gate, a first electrical connection to the first gate, a second electrical connection to the second gate, and a third electrical connection to the active area. At least one of the first, second, or third electrical connections includes a metal line positioned on the back side.
US11856742B2
The present disclosure relates to a self-curling shielding tube for improving workability of connecting or shielding a cable, securing high electromagnetic wave shielding performance, and minimizing weight and costs.
US11856741B2
A display apparatus capable of improving heat-dissipation performance while not increasing a total thickness thereof include a heat-dissipation member accommodated in a cushion plate. Thus, the heat-dissipation performance may be improved without increasing a thickness of the display apparatus. Thus, a mounting space for components may be secured without increasing a bezel area. Further, the heat-dissipation member having a predetermined thickness and an air gap are disposed in the heat-dissipation member accommodating space of the cushion plate, thereby maximizing the heat-dissipation from a driving integrated circuit disposed under the cushion plate so as to overlap the heat-dissipation member accommodating space.
US11856735B2
An example air barrier system for a data center within a building is disclosed. The example air barrier system includes a pliable barrier material to partition an area above a top of row of computer cabinets in the data center and below an overhead surface of the building. The pliable barrier material is to reduce mixing of air between first and second aisles on opposites sides of the row of computer cabinets. The example air barrier system also includes a frame to support the pliable barrier material in position when in the area above the top of the row of computer cabinets. The frame is to be supported by the row of computer cabinets without support from the overhead surface.
US11856732B2
A new and improved intrinsically safe barrier (“ISB”) provides advantages in connection with installation of field equipment in hazardous areas including Division 2/Zone 2 areas. In one embodiment the new ISB provides a pluggable/unpluggable ISB for use with a receiving terminal base adapted for individual field mounting and alternatively for use with a circuit mount terminal base to permit direct mounting of ISB on circuit boards. A highly effective heat sink design and potting material allows for heat dissipation to allow the ISB to serve a wider range of applications.
US11856731B2
The present disclosure relates to a power supply system (1) including a main unit (10) including a protective main housing (11) and a distribution circuit (20) disposed in the protective main housing (11); a first module unit (30a) including a first protective module housing (31a) and a first electric module (40a) disposed in the first protective module housing (31a). The system also includes a passive cooling system (70) for cooling of the main unit (10) and the first module unit (30a). A first protective connection system (CS1) and a second protective connection system (CS2) is also a part of the system, wherein the first protective connection system (CS1) is configured to provide a releasable electrical and mechanical connection between the main unit (10) and the first module unit (30a). The passive cooling system (70) includes cooling fins (71) disposed on an outer surface of the first protective module housing (31a).
US11856730B2
The present invention provides a liquid-cooled integrated cabinet, which belongs to the technical field of servers, and comprises a main body. A power distribution module is provided at the upper end of the main body, and multiple computing power modules which constitute a computing power center are parallelly provided on one side of the lower end of the main body; cooling fans stacked on top and bottom in multiple layers are arranged on the other side thereof; the computing power module is cooled by a liquid-cooled module, and the liquid-cooled module is a front and rear drawing structure relative to the main body. The cooling fan bears 8%-12% of the heat dissipation capacity. A cold plate shell in the liquid-cooled module contacts and conducts heat with a chip in the computing power module. The front end of the main body is provided with a hose for cooling medium to circulate; a liquid-cooled module corresponds to a hose; cooling medium flows through the hose and the liquid-cooled module, and then cools down the computing power module. The liquid-cooled integrated cabinet of the present invention is high in heat dissipation efficiency and compact in structure.
US11856718B2
An arrangement includes a housing and a printed circuit board (PCB) arranged vertically above the housing. The housing includes: at least one protrusion attached to sidewalls and arranged on an outside of the housing at a lower end with at least one first through hole provided in the protrusion; holding devices each arranged inside a first through hole and/or between the PCB and the first through hole; and fastening elements configured to attach the housing to a heat sink or base plate. Each holding device is configured to clamp a corresponding fastening element such that the fastening elements are secured in defined positions, and to align each fastening element with a different first through hole. The PCB includes second through holes each arranged vertically above and aligned with a different fastening element. A diameter of each second through hole is less than the largest diameter of the respective fastening element.
US11856712B2
In a preparatory process of a method of manufacturing a multilayer substrate, an insulating substrate is prepared, with a conductor pattern formed only on one surface of the insulating substrate. At that time, the conductor pattern is constituted of the Cu element, a Ni layer is formed on the surface of the conductor pattern that is on the side of the insulating substrate. In a first forming process, a via hole having the conductor pattern as the bottom thereof is formed in the insulating substrate. At that time, the Ni layer that is in the area of the bottom is removed. In a filling process, a conductive paste is filled in the interior of the via hole. In a second forming process, a stacked body is formed by stacking a plurality of the insulating substrates. In a third forming process, the stacked body is heated while being subjected to pressure.
US11856706B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method to identify and track parts of a semiconductor processing chamber, as well as the status of the parts, and store status information in a centralized location as status changes over time.
US11856701B2
A printed circuit board includes: a first insulating layer including a first cavity and a second cavity; a first electronic component disposed in the first cavity and including a first pad disposed in a first surface direction of the first insulating layer; a second electronic component disposed in the second cavity and including a second pad disposed in a second surface direction, facing the first surface direction, of the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer disposed on each of first and second surfaces of the first insulating layer and in the first cavity to cover the first electronic component; and a third insulating layer disposed on the first surface of the first insulating layer and in the second cavity to cover the second electronic component.
US11856697B2
A device for fixing a camera module, includes a base part; and a fixing unit including a first fixing part for supporting one side of each of a plurality of boards, and a second fixing part for supporting the other side facing one side of each of the plurality of boards, wherein a plurality of first fixing parts extends in a first direction from the base part, and includes a plurality of protruding parts protruding in the direction perpendicular to the first direction in order to support one side of each of the plurality of boards, and a plurality of second fixing parts extends in the first direction from the base part, and includes a plurality of protruding parts for supporting the other side of each of the plurality of boards.
US11856694B2
The disclosure provides a circuit substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The circuit substrate includes a wiring and a substrate having a base region and a circuit region. The base region having a first pattern is constituted by a first thermoplastic material. The circuit region having a second pattern is constituted by a second thermoplastic material. The first pattern has a portion opposite to the second pattern. The wiring is formed on the circuit region along the second pattern. The first thermoplastic material is different from the second thermoplastic material, and the second thermoplastic material includes a catalyst particle.
US11856686B1
A submerged waterborne data center facility that employs a feedback-control system to control any one of a condensation function, depth function, and a wired or wireless data transfer function utilizing on-board and out-board sensors operatively coupled to an operational state change controller, controlling for a hygrostat-coupled heater, depth thruster, and, or a radio frequency modulation unit.
US11856674B1
Systems and methods for content-based light illuminations are disclosed. For example, a user interface may be utilized to receive and/or determine a configuration of a light array associated with a connected device. The configuration may be utilized to generate a visual representation of the light array, which may be overlaid on a display window that is configured to display content to be utilized for generating light illumination sequences. Color changes associated with each light representation of the visual representation may be determined based at least in part on the positioning and area of the display window associated with the light representations, and corresponding illumination data may be generated and sent to the connected device.
US11856673B2
A method comprises obtaining (101) media content information, e.g. media content, determining (103) a first color value based on a color value extracted from a current frame of the content, determining (105) one or more second color values based on one or more color values extracted from a plurality of previous sequential frames of the content and adjusting (109) a first weight for weighting the first color value in a calculation of an average color, one or more second weights for weighting the one or more second color values in the calculation of the average color, and/or the one or more second values upon detecting (107) a transition in the content. The method further comprises calculating (111) the average color from the first color value and the one or more second color values and determining (113) one or more light effects based on the average color.
US11856672B2
A lighting apparatus includes a LED module, a light source plate, a heat sink, an antenna, a driver and a light housing. The light source plate is used for holding the LED module. The heat sink has a bottom plate and a lateral wall. The light source plate is placed on the bottom plate. The antenna is disposed on the lateral wall. The driver is used for generating a driving current to the LED module. The driver has a wireless circuit. The wireless circuit is electrically connected to the antenna for transmitting a wireless signal. The light housing is used for holding the heat sink so that the LED module emits light toward a light opening of the light housing.
US11856666B2
Disclosed is an AC source direct driving LED lighting device. The device including: a light emitting unit which has a first electrolytic capacitor and receives a rectified alternating current (AC) voltage to adjust a first constant current and emits an LED array; a charging/discharging unit which receives the adjusted first constant current to be adjusted to second to fourth constant currents and charges/discharges second to fourth electrolytic capacitors embedded therein, respectively; a discharge LED path unit which forms a path through which a voltage charged in the charging/discharging unit is discharged to the light emitting unit; and a current driving unit which receives the adjusted first to fourth constant currents to form first to fourth channel using first to fourth reference voltages and controls current transfer.
US11856664B2
The present invention is to provide a prevention method and a prevention system for preventing dew condensation and light scattering due to the dew condensation. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a fine liquid droplet capable of causing dew condensation is detected by a detection means for detecting a fine liquid droplet, and then the fine liquid droplet is removed on the basis of the detection. The detection means comprises a first thin wire made of a first metal, and a second thin wire made of a second metal or a semiconductor, the second metal is different from the first metal, the first thin wire and the second thin wire are disposed in juxtaposition with each other on an insulating substrate, and a spacing between the first thin wire and the second thin wire is in a range of 20 nm or more and 10000 nm or less. Further, provided is a prevention system including a detection means for detecting a fine liquid droplet, a removing means for removing the fine liquid droplet, and a control means for controlling the removing means on the basis of information from the detection means.
US11856663B2
A PTC liquid heating device comprises a housing extending along a longitudinal axis and defining a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet. A PTC heating unit is inserted into the housing and extends along the longitudinal axis. The PTC heating unit includes a sleeve, a heat conductor and at least one PTC heating core. The heat conductor has a pair of metal profiles defining at least one chamber, the at least one chamber extending along the longitudinal axis to receive the at least one PTC heating core. The heat conductor is located in the sleeve and has a shape matching the sleeve. The PTC liquid heating device provides uniform and efficient heat transfer. In addition, the PTC liquid heating device has improved corrosion resistance and insulation properties, thereby prolonging the service life of the PTC liquid heating device.
US11856648B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for triggering a long range extension mode of operation for a wireless device in a cellular communications network. In one preferred embodiment, the wireless device is a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device. In one embodiment, a node in the cellular communications network determines that the wireless device is to operate in the long range extension mode if there is difficulty in establishing communication between the wireless device and the cellular communications network. If the wireless device is to operate in the long range extension mode, the node activates one or more long range extension mechanisms with respect to the wireless device such that the wireless device operates in the long range extension mode. In this manner, the long range extension mode is selectively triggered for the wireless device.
US11856643B2
An electronic equipment 100 includes a cellular communicator 111 configured to perform cellular communication with a base station, a GNSS receiver 120 configured to receive, from a satellite, a satellite signal of information related to disaster, and a controller 130 configured to control whether to perform processing of the satellite signal in response to whether the electronic equipment 100 is in an area of the cellular communication.
US11856635B2
A method for Radio Access Network (RAN) Notification Area (RNA) management for a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method receives a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message having a first Radio Access Network (RAN) Notification Area (RNA) configuration. The method then stores the first RNA configuration, when the UE is in one of an RRC Connected state, an RRC Inactive state, or transitioning between the RRC Inactive state and the RRC Connected state. The method applies an RNA update procedure based on the first RNA configuration when the UE is in the RRC Inactive state.
US11856631B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses can comprise a User Equipment (UE) receiving a system information including at least a first Non-terrestrial Network (NTN) configuration for a serving cell, starting or restarting a validity timer for the serving cell in response to receiving the system information, receiving a Radio Resource Control (RRC) reconfiguration message with ReconfigurationWithSync for a target cell, stopping, in response to receiving the RRC reconfiguration message, the validity timer that is running based on the first NTN configuration, and starting the validity timer based on a second NTN configuration for the target cell.
US11856622B2
Devices are dynamically paired at a new location based on historical context with respect to previous device pairing and a pairing environment. A request is received at a computer to pair a user device to a device at a new location. Historical context of the user device paired at a previous location to one or more devices at the previous location is analyzed. Pairing of the user device to the device at the new location is automatically initiated based on the analysis of the historical context, and the automatic initiation includes adjusting settings on the user device based on the historical context. Pairing the user device to the device at the new location automatically.
US11856611B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device used in communication node for wireless communication. A communication node receives a first signaling; generates a first data block in a first radio state; when a first condition set is satisfied, transmits a first signal; and when the first condition set is not satisfied, transmits a second signal; the first signaling is used to determine a first threshold, the first threshold being a positive integer; the first condition set comprises a size relation between a first data size and the first threshold; the first data block comprises more than one bit, and the first data size is equal to a number of bits comprised in the first data block; the first signal is used for a first-type Random Access (RA) procedure, and the second signal is used for a second-type RA procedure; the first signal carries a first sequence.
US11856607B2
Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for adjusting contention window size (CWS). An example method includes selecting a downlink (DL) burst transmitted by the gNB for use in determining the CWS and adjusting the CWS based on Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback received with respect to the selected DL burst.
US11856605B2
A first wireless device communicates using a frequency bandwidth with multiple wireless devices, and is configured to concurrently transmit trigger frame messages for each of the multiple wireless devices within respective trigger frame frequency bands of the frequency bandwidth to trigger the multiple wireless devices to concurrently transmit respective data units to the first wireless devices within respective frequency segments of the frequency bandwidth.
US11856604B2
An access point includes a first interface that wirelessly communicates using a first band; a second interface that wirelessly communicates using a second band; and a controller that selects one type of request to send (RTS)/clear to send (CTS) control from among three mutually different types using at least one of the first interface and the second interface, and carries out the selected one type of RTS/CTS control with a terminal.
US11856593B2
The user equipment (UE) is configured to receive at least one signal in a first bandwidth portion of a cell. The at least one signal having a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The PBCH includes a master information block (MIB), the MIB having an indication of time and frequency resources in relation to the at least one signal to acquire additional system information, the first bandwidth portion having a bandwidth less than a full bandwidth of the cell. The user equipment (UE) is further configured to receive, based on the indication of the time and frequency resources, additional system information, the additional system information indicating a second bandwidth portion of the cell, the acquired system information being acquired within the second bandwidth portion.
US11856580B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may communicate with a network device in an idle or disconnected state using preconfigured uplink resources (PURs). The UE may transmit uplink data, and may begin to monitor for a PUR response message corresponding to the uplink data after a configurable time offset. The Base station may indicate the configurable time offset in an RRC release message, another message, or the UE may select the configurable time offset from a set of configurable time offsets based on one or more system parameter values. Additionally, the UE may not monitor for PUR response messages after every PUR occasion during which it transmits uplink data.
US11856577B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for indicating sidelink processes for sidelink feedback. A second user equipment (UE) may request hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) responses from a first UE for a particular set of sidelink processes over a physical sidelink feedback channel. To indicate multiple sidelink processes, the second UE may indicate, in sidelink control information, a window of sidelink processes. The window may be a sliding window that starts with a starting sidelink process and extends through other sidelink processes. The second UE may transmit data for the sidelink processes in the sliding window and receive feedback for the indicated sidelink processes. In some aspects, the first UE may select, in coordination with the second UE, the sidelink processes for which feedback is to be provided.
US11856572B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a wireless communications system, a user equipment (UE) may be configured to use intra-message antenna selection diversity (ASD). The UE may transmit a first portion of a scheduled message within a time interval using a first antenna element of the UE based on an intra-message antenna diversity configuration. The intra-message antenna diversity configuration may indicate a set of antennas available for transmission of the scheduled message. In some cases, the UE may transmit, within the same time interval, at least a portion of the scheduled message using at least a second antenna element of the UE that is different from the first antenna element. In some cases, a receiving UE may decode the first portion and the second portion of the scheduled message based on the intra-message antenna diversity configuration.
US11856571B2
An information feedback method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a scheduling instruction from a base station that configures multiple unlicensed channel resources for a terminal, where the scheduling instruction carries information for the terminal to determine a first transmission position for feeding back a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), and the first transmission position is on a first unlicensed channel resource; obtaining the first transmission position according to the scheduling instruction, and detecting whether the first transmission position is in an available state; when detecting the first transmission position is in a non-available state, determining a second transmission position for feeding back the HARQ, where the second transmission position is on a second unlicensed channel resource; and when detecting the second transmission position is in the available state, sending information on HARQ feedback to the base station at the second transmission position.
US11856559B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to uplink communications with transmission on-off patterns and frequency-hopping in a shared radio frequency band are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a configuration indicating a plurality of uplink (UL) transmission on-off patterns that are offset from each other in time. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device in an unlicensed band, a first UL communication signal based on a first UL transmission on-off pattern of the plurality of UL transmission on-off patterns.
US11856553B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a non-transitory computer storage medium, for receiving user-defined routes, each user-defined route including a tripwire of multiple tripwires and a direction, where each user-defined route includes an action of multiple actions executed by a sub-system of a home monitoring system, detecting a first signal at a first tripwire including a first direction, determining a set of user-defined routes including the first tripwire and the first direction, detecting a second signal at a second tripwire including a second direction, determining a particular user-defined route of the set of user-defined routes including the first tripwire and the first direction and the second tripwire and the second direction, determining an action executed by a sub-system of the home monitoring system for the particular user-defined route traversed by a user, and triggering execution of the action based on the second signal at the second tripwire.
US11856542B2
Systems and methods of performing location tracking with ultra wideband (UWB) are provided. The system includes a network formed by base stations and tags. In operation, the system configures multiple Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) slots within a predetermined time frame. The TDMA slots include a clock calibration packet (CCP) slot, personal area network (PAN) identifier request and response slots, and TDMA tag slots. In the CCP slot, clock synchronization is performed among the base stations and the tags. In the PAN identifier request and response slots, the base stations receive reservation requests from the tags, and send correspond reservation responses. In each TDMA tag slot, the base stations listen to ranging requests from each tag, and send corresponding ranging responses with corresponding timestamps indicating the corresponding TDMA tag slot for each tag. Each tag only wakes up during the corresponding TDMA tag slot, thus achieving low power consumption.
US11856539B2
The present application discloses a method and device for transmitting downlink control information, which may implement an effective transmission of an SSB on an unlicensed spectrum. The method includes: determining, by a network device, a first control resource set capable of being used by the network device among M control resource sets, where the M control resource sets correspond to Y candidate SSB positions on an unlicensed carrier; and sending, by the network device, first downlink control information on a resource of the first control resource set, where the first downlink control information is used to determine an SSB position where at least one SSB in X SSBs is sent among the Y SSB positions, where M, Y and X are all positive integers, and 1≤X
US11856532B2
A data processing method, a terminal, and a base station to perform power headroom report (PHR) reporting for an sounding reference signal only component carrier (SRS-only CC). The method includes a terminal generating a power headroom report for a SRS-only CC when a preset condition is satisfied. The method further includes the terminal sending the PHR report to a base station.
US11856523B2
Methods and devices for offloading and/or aggregation of resources to coordinate uplink transmissions when interacting with different schedulers are disclosed herein. A method in a WTRU incudes functionality for coordinating with a different scheduler for each eNB associated with the WTRU's configuration. Disclosed methods include autonomous WTRU grand selection and power scaling, and dynamic prioritization of transmission and power scaling priority.
US11856518B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide techniques for signaling in power save mode. In particular, a UE may identify an association between a set of time durations for paging a downlink control indicator (DCI) transmission and a wake up signal (WUS) in a set of WUSs. Paging the DCI is transmitted in a beam sweeping manner and each beam used in each time duration in the set of time durations corresponds to a respective beam used for a WUS transmission in the set of WUSs. The UE monitors a radio link quality of WUSs in the set of WUSs and, based thereon, selects a first WUS in the set of WUSs. The UE identifies a first time duration for DCI page monitoring, the first time duration corresponding to the first WUS. The UE monitors the DCI page during the first time duration.
US11856517B2
The present disclosure provides signaling for multi-panel user equipment (MPUE) activation. The MPUE may have at least an active first panel and an inactive second panel. The MPUE may determine to activate the second panel. The MPUE may activate the second panel in response to the determination. The MPUE may transmit, from the active first panel to a base station, a status indicating that the second panel is active. The MPUE may transmit, after an activation time, an uplink transmission from the second panel to the base station.
US11856516B2
A user equipment (UE), a base station (BS), and a method for managing UE operation in C-DRX. The UE includes a transceiver configured to receive configurations for a drx-onDurationTimer, search space sets for reception of a PDCCH, a first set of CSI-RS resources, SS/PBCH blocks, and a PUCCH resources; and the PDCCH that provides a DCI format including a field indicating whether or not to start the drx-onDurationTimer. A processor is configured to determine an indication by the field to not start the drx-onDurationTimer, and determine reception occasions for the first set of CSI-RS resources during the ON duration. The transceiver is configured to receive the first set of CSI-RS resources or the SS/PBCH blocks during at least one of the reception occasions. The processor is also configured to determine a CSI report based on a reception occasion, which can be transmitted using the PUCCH resource during the ON duration.
US11856512B2
A method is provided for enabling a User Equipment to access services provided by a radio access network by configuring the User Equipment (UE) with configuration information which comprises rules for selecting one or more of a plurality of access procedures to be used by the UE for accessing services provided by the radio access network which may be a New Radio/5G network. Access procedures may include a grant-based procedure; a grant-free procedure and a fallback procedure to be used in cases of failure of an initial access attempt. The rules may be based on the type of service required by the UE such as; transmission and/or reception of data, transmission and/or reception of a voice call, a request for System Information.
US11856511B2
Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to techniques for dynamic management of the network used for data transfer between a connected vehicle and a remote computing system. For example, during navigation a connected vehicle may switch between connections to a number of different networks, and the pricing of these networks may be periodically recalculated based on current network load. The disclosed techniques can select from among available networks to dynamically optimize the cost of data transfer, even as a vehicle navigates through different networks and as network pricing is changed.
US11856510B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to prioritize a plurality of Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs) from an aggregate roaming priority public land mobile network (RPPLMN) list containing the plurality of PLMNs into a plurality of prioritized PLMNs and connect to a selected PLMN from the plurality of prioritized PLMNs based on a priority of the selected PLMN. The UE is further configured to determine if an application processor (AP) assisted location service is available, wherein the AP-assisted service is configured to identify a plurality of deployed PLMNs and a plurality of frequencies used by the plurality of deployed PLMNs at a current geographical location of the UE and when the AP) assisted location service is available, determining if a registered PLMN (RPLMN) is valid in a current mobile country code (MCC).
US11856504B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless authorization based on in-line assurance and tariffing information. In one example, a method may include obtaining, by a home network, a request to authorize access of a roaming subscriber for a visited network; determining whether the request includes visited network charging information and visited network metric information; based on determining that the request includes the visited network charging information and the visited network metric information, determining whether one or more visited network metrics satisfy one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber; and based on determining that the one or more visited network metrics satisfy the one or more threshold metrics for the roaming subscriber, authorizing access of the roaming subscriber for the visited network.
US11856498B2
A Bluetooth communication system, including first and second Bluetooth devices. The second device includes a second Bluetooth application and a second Bluetooth host. The first device sends advertising information that includes UUID information of a service supported by the first device; the second host receives the advertising information, the advertising information includes the UUID information of the service supported by the first device; the second host stores and parses the UUID information, and sends a pairing request to the first device; the first device pairs with the second device; the second device instructs the second host to report pairing to the second application, the pairing information including UUID information of the service supported by the first device; the second Bluetooth device sends a service connection request to the first device; and the first device is further configured to establish a service connection to the second device.
US11856494B2
A subscription service including a number of subscriptions possessed by a device is managed in a machine-to-machine (M2M) system. A method for operating a first device may include: transmitting, to a second device, a first message for requesting a new subscription that uses a first resource for managing subscription; receiving, from the second device, a second message for notifying an update of a second resource associated with the new subscription; and identifying a content of the second resource, wherein the first resource may include at least one of a first attribute indicating a number of subscriptions possessed by the first device, a second attribute indicating, among resources to which the first device is subscribing, a number of resources which are updated but not yet retrieved, or a third attribute indicating an access address of a subscribed resource.
US11856491B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for property communication and access control. In some implementations, a corresponding method includes receiving a data sequence input from a property related to an event at the property; comparing the data sequence input to one or more sequence templates to determine a matching sequence template; based on the matching sequence template, determining one or more relevant actions to be performed; performing the one or more relevant actions using the data sequence input; and providing feedback related to the event or the one or more relevant actions.
US11856488B2
A system and method for determining the presence of an individual at a particular spot within a location preferably based on the strength of signals received from beacons assigned to the particular spot by a software application (“App”) running on an electronic device of the individual. In one embodiment, certain presence calculations are performed by the App. In another embodiment, the App forwards information regarding the received beacon signals to an electronic identification and location tracking system and the presence calculations are performed by the system.
US11856485B2
A wireless communication system includes a first wireless communication device configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal in conformity with a designated communication standard, and at least one second wireless communication device configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal in conformity with the designated communication standard. The first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device perform a designated process more than once on a basis of transmission and reception of the wireless signal. Each of the designated processes includes any of transmission and reception of the wireless signal. Respective wireless signals used in the designated processes include different pieces of secure information used to determine transmission sources of the wireless signals.
US11856483B2
A method of determining a reference clock in a mesh network includes receiving multiple signals, correlating the multiple signals with a local signal generated by the first node to determine a coarse set of time differences, refining the coarse set of time differences using a phase of a carrier signal of the multiple signals to produce a refined set of time differences, and using the refined set of time differences to define a reference clock.
US11856475B2
A system and method for location centric activity leveraging convergence control of vectors having both a time and space domain. Additionally, the system executes the control of mobile and dynamic resources by controlling the dispatch of primary tasks with intermediate secondary tasks to enhance system efficiency and effectiveness. The location convergence of multiple mobile resources is vital to the realization of high-accuracy location determination and therefore high-accuracy inference and contextual relevance.
US11856473B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for efficient location tracking. Embodiments include receiving a device location from a mobile device. Embodiments include identifying a plurality of region definitions and selecting a set of region definitions from the plurality of region definitions based on a proximity of a location of each region definition of the plurality of region definitions to the device location. Embodiments include generating a provisional region definition based on a location of a region definition of the set of region definitions that is farthest from the device location and including the provisional region definition in the set of region definitions. Embodiments include providing the set of region definitions to the mobile device for provisioning and refraining from requesting device locations from the mobile device until receiving a notification from the mobile device that the mobile device has exited a provisional region defined by the provisional region definition.
US11856470B2
A base station of a first public land mobile network (PLMN) transmits, to a wireless device, an indication of a failure of a second PLMN comprising a PLMN identifier of the second PLMN. The base station receives, from the wireless device, a registration request indicating the failure of the second PLMN. The registration request comprises one or more of a subscriber concealed identifier (SUCI) or a permanent equipment identifier (PEI) of the wireless device. The registration request comprises the PLMN identifier of the second PLMN.
US11856455B2
A dynamic frequency allocation method for base stations, a shelf label system and a computer device are provided. The method includes: obtaining a current connectivity structure of base stations; obtaining a current weight degree of each base station based on a frequency interval weight between base stations in the current connectivity structure; performing priority classification on all current base stations to obtain a current priority type of each base station; and obtaining a current allocated frequency of each base station based on the current priority type of the base station, the current weight degree of the base station, the frequency interval weight and a current available frequency set.
US11856440B2
Methods and apparatus to report link quality measurements for downlink dual carrier operation are disclosed. Example methods and apparatus disclosed herein implement one or more example techniques for reporting link quality measurements involving, for example, modifying measurement reporting messages to increase the number and/or types of link quality measurements that can be reported, permitting mobile stations, when appropriate, to use different reporting messages capable of supporting more link quality measurements, and/or prioritizing certain link quality measurements to be reported when the reporting messages do not contain sufficient space to report all requested and/or specified link quality measurements.
US11856437B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive first measurement indication information indicating an activation of measurement reporting. The WTRU may determine a first set of resource elements (REs) based on the first measurement indication information. Further, the first set of REs may be associated with measurement-related time and frequency resources. Also, the WTRU may receive one or more measurement-related signals in the indicated first set of REs. Additionally, the WTRU may perform a measurement of each measurement-related signal. The WTRU may transmit, based on the first measurement indication information, a measurement report based on the measurement of each measurement-related signal. Further, the WTRU may receive second measurement indication information indicating a deactivation of measurement reporting. Also, the WTRU may receive indication information regarding a plurality of sets of REs via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, including at least the first set of REs and a second set of REs.
US11856433B2
The present specification provides a method for simultaneously transmitting/receiving an uplink signal and a downlink signal in a wireless communication system for supporting SDD. More particularly, a method performed by a terminal includes the steps of: measuring a beam on the basis of at least one wireless unit including resources and a plurality of antennas related to beam management; reporting a result of the beam measurement to a base station; and simultaneously transmitting/receiving an uplink signal and a downlink signal to/from the base station on the basis of first beam pair information, when the simultaneous transmission/reception of the uplink signal and the downlink signal on the same symbol to/from the base station is configured.
US11856429B2
Dynamic spectrum access mode based on station capabilities is provided by categorizing functionalities of Access Points (APs) and mobile stations (STA) in a wireless network; identifying interference induced by external signaling devices on channels in the wireless network; calculating an impact factor of the interference based on proximity of the external signaling devices to the wireless network, a pattern of the external signaling devices, and an extent of overlap with frequencies used by the external signaling devices and the wireless network; and in response to identifying a given STA that is paired with a given AP in the wireless network, wherein the given STA and the given AP are both categorized as being capable of both multilink communications and preamble puncturing, assigning network resources for the given STA to communicate with the given AP via one of multilink communications or preamble puncturing based on the impact factor of the interference.
US11856424B2
A method for creating a network simulation platform that has a first black box model, includes: obtaining a candidate network performance indicator and feature information related to the candidate network performance indicator, where the feature information related to the candidate network performance indicator refers to a part or all of feature information needed to obtain the candidate network performance indicator; and training a machine learning model to obtain the first black box model, where an output parameter of the first black box model is the candidate network performance indicator, input parameters of the first black box model are the feature information related to the candidate network performance indicator, and the first black box model is used to simulate the candidate network performance indicator. The solutions provided help reduce simulation complexity and are applicable to large-scale network simulation.
US11856418B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. For example, the described techniques provide for a base station of a wireless communications system to determine a configuration for a repeating device to forward signals to another device. In some examples, the configuration may be based on a number of repeating devices in the wireless communications system. The base station may also transmit a message for the repeating device to forward. In some examples, based on a buffering capability of the repeating device, the base station may transmit the message with a zero time offset relative to the control signaling. The repeating device may receive and process the control signaling and receive and buffer the message. In response to processing the control signaling, the repeating device may transmit the buffered message to another device. Implementing aspects of present disclosure may enable an increased efficiency of forwarding in wireless communications systems.
US11856416B2
Systems and methods are provided for dynamically modifying an antenna profile to increase network performance. Initially, at a first node communicating using a first wireless communication protocol, such as 4G, locations of a plurality of second nodes communicating using at least second wireless communication protocol, such as 5G, are determined. Performance criteria is analyzed of one of more of the plurality of second nodes. Based on the determined locations and the analyzed performance criteria, the antenna profile is dynamically adjusted to increase a width of a beam associated with the first node.
US11856410B2
The disclosed technology provides a system and method for provisioning network resource slices to wireless network operators where the network slices are supported by a single modular cell (e.g., a small cell) shared between, e.g., multiple different wireless network operators.
US11856408B2
Methods of pairing devices wirelessly that include matching received-signal-strength information regarding signal-strength patterns received by differing devices desired to be paired. In some embodiments, signal-strength patterns are based on a user moving an object so as to intentionally create multipath Fresnel-zone propagation disturbances. During pairing, the devices exchange their received-signal-strength information with one another and compare the received-signal-strength information that they receive from another device to the received-signal-strength information that they generated themselves based on the multipath Fresnel-zone propagation disturbances. When the two sets of receive-signal-strength information substantially match one another, the devices determine the presence of a trusted relationship. Methods for assisting with the wireless pairing are also disclosed. Disclosed methods can be encoded in software/firmware, and such software/firmware can be stored in devices desired to include disclosed wireless pairing functionality.
US11856405B2
An operator system of a wireless communication network operator sends, to a regulator system of a regulator, a record that includes information about administration of a subscription identifier associated with the wireless communication network operator. Responsive to sending the record to the regulator system, the operator system receives a response that indicates whether the regulator system approves of or rejects the record being added to a permissioned distributed database that is distributed at least in part between the regulator system and the operator system. The operator system adds or does not add the record to the permissioned distributed database depending on the response.
US11856403B2
Intelligent network access technology (NAT) control is described herein. An event associated with a mobile computing device can be detected. Responsive to the event being detected, a subscriber identity module (SIM) associated with the mobile computing device can access location information associated with a location of the mobile computing device. The SIM can access a configuration table storing NAT data provided by a network for controlling which NATs the mobile computing device is permitted to use to access the network. The SIM can determine, based at least in part on the NAT data and the location information, that a requested NAT of the mobile computing device is not a permissible NAT for the mobile computing device in the location and the SIM can cause the mobile computing device to connect to the network via an alternate NAT.
US11856401B2
Methods for applying hop-by-hop security in IAB networks. Integrity protection is applied at a layer below the IP layer for each link in a transmission route. Integrity is verified at the receiving node of each link of a route through an IAB network and if that verification fails the received traffic is discarded.
US11856385B2
A method and apparatus for audio signal processing in an audio chain to correct a non-linearity of the electroacoustic transducers in the audio chain by adding non-linearities in the audio chain in front of at least one electroacoustic transducer in the audio chain using an approximation of the quadratic function. The method accommodates the psychoacoustical characteristics of the human ear by adding non-linearities in the audio chain in front of at least one electroacoustic transducer in the audio chain approximating by a non-linear fifth degree polynomial function for a pressure change by the human ear up to p_Δ. The method and apparatus reduce non-linearities of the entire audio chain with the human ear, by adding non-linearities in the audio chain so that an audio chain characteristic reduces the non-linearity of the human ear polynomial approximation to the pressure change p_Δ=±1 Pa.
US11856367B2
A method of providing an alert for a user by a hearing device configured to be worn at an ear of the user includes providing user-related data including information about at least one of the user, an ambient environment of the user, or a property of the hearing device worn by the user; characterized by providing vehicle-related data associated with at least one vehicle in a vicinity of the user, the vehicle-related data including information about a property of the vehicle; determining, based on the user-related data and the vehicle-related data, a relevance measure indicative of a probability that the user is endangered by the vehicle; and controlling an operation of the hearing device depending on the relevance measure, the operation alerting the user about the vehicle.
US11856365B2
A transducer includes a base, beams, and a coupler. The beams each include a piezoelectric layer, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. The coupler is fitted in slits between adjacent beams to define a connection between the beams. The coupler extends from an upper portion of the base into each of the slits without a break. A Young's modulus of the material of the coupler is lower than a Young's modulus of the material of the piezoelectric layer. A maximum thickness of the coupler in the upper portion of the base in the direction of the central axis of the base is greater than a thickness of each of the beams.
US11856364B2
A microphone array system, comprises N microphones, including a first microphone . . . a Nth microphone, wherein N is a natural number greater than 2. Each of the N microphones is provided with: an acoustic transducer for picking up a sound signal and converting the sound signal into an electric signal; a voice activation detector, connected to a corresponding acoustic transducer, and configured to perform a voice activation detection on the electric signal and form an activation signal; a buffer memory, connected to the acoustic transducer, and configured to store a 1/N electric signal of a predetermined segment; a sound wire interface, connected to a corresponding acoustic transducer, the buffer memory, and the voice activation detector, wherein the sound wire interface is connected to an external master chip via a sound wire bus for outputting the activation signal to the external master chip.
US11856362B2
A loudspeaker apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a loudspeaker and a structure. The loudspeaker outputs sounds. The structure is configured with respect to an object that is disposed on a sound output side of the loudspeaker and forms, between the object and the loudspeaker, a gap space communicating with an external space, and includes a connecting portion and one or more plate-like members. The connecting portion is connected to the loudspeaker. The one or more plate-like members have a plate shape, are disposed in the gap space, extend toward an opening portion of the gap space, and guide sounds output from the loudspeaker toward the external space, the opening portion being located on a side communicating with the external space.
US11856357B2
A hearing device adapted for being located at or in an ear of a user, or for being fully or partially implanted in the head of a user comprises a) an input unit for providing at least one electric input signal representing sound in an environment of the user, said electric input signal comprising a target speech signal from a target sound source and additional signal components, termed noise signal components, from one or more other sound sources, b) a noise reduction system for providing an estimate of said target speech signal, wherein said noise signal components are at least partially attenuated, and c) an own voice detector for repeatedly estimating whether or not, or with what probability, said at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, comprises speech originating from the voice of the user. The noise signal components are identified during time segments wherein the own voice detector indicates that the at least one electric input signal, or a signal derived therefrom, originates from the voice of the user, or originates from the voice of the user with a probability above an own voice presence probability (OVPP) threshold value. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed.
US11856353B2
A transport and/or storage container with integrated charging function for rechargeable wireless earphones comprising a container housing, at least one receiving unit for at least partially receiving a rechargeable wireless earphone, and an electrical container charging contact for connecting the transport and/or storage container to an electrical energy source, wherein the receiving unit has an electrical coupling contact cooperating with an electrical earphone charging contact of a rechargeable wireless earphone when it is placed in the receiving unit for recharging and wherein the electrical container charging contact and the electrical coupling contact are in the form of mutually complementary electrical contacts.
US11856343B2
A device for high-voltage or medium-voltage technology includes at least one connection configured for connection to a high-voltage or medium-voltage conductor; a sensor system configured to determine a plurality of different physical and/or chemical measurement values relating to the device and/or the conductor and/or the surroundings; and a communication system, in particular a wireless system, configured to receive the measurement values from the sensor system and to transmit them to an entity in a network. A method for high-voltage or medium-voltage technology is also provided.
US11856342B2
The invention concerns an arrangement and a method for configuring equipment for personal performance monitoring comprising at least one carrier item having a mounting zone for receiving a communication module, one or more sensors and/or actuators and a first processing unit functionally connected to said mounting zone and said sensors and/or actuators. The first processing unit is configured to process sensor signals from the sensors and/or actuators and to communicate with a communication module that is mounted on the mounting zone of the carrier item and having a second processing unit configured to further process said sensor/actuator signals and to communicate processed signals to a remote device over a wireless communication protocol. A remote device is adapted to provide a predefined code to configure the equipment to process sensor or actuator signals according to a use of said carrier item as identified by said predefined code.
US11856338B2
A projection apparatus includes a screen, a reel, a projection display structure and a control assembly. The projection display structure is configured to project at least one image to be displayed. Each image to be displayed includes an optical image with content. The screen is configured to display at least one optical image with content in the at least one image to be displayed. The control assembly is connected to the reel and is configured to control the reel to rotate. The reel is further connected to the screen and is configured to drive the screen to move when rotating. The control assembly is further connected to the projection display structure, and the control assembly is further configured to control the projection display structure to project the optical image with content in the image to be displayed onto an unfolded portion of the screen.
US11856328B2
A method for virtual 3D video conference environment generation, the method may include (a) determining a first optical axis of a first virtual camera, the first optical axis represents a line of sight of the participant while a participant of the 3D video conference environment looks at a current displayed version of a virtual 3D video conference environment (V3DVCE); the current displayed version of the V3DVCE is displayed on a display; (b) determining a second optical axis of a second virtual camera that virtually captures the V3DVCE to provide the current displayed version of the V3DVCE; and (c) generating a next displayed version of the V3DVCE based on at least one of the first optical axis and the second optical axis.
US11856327B2
A computer-implemented method, including: receiving, by the computing device, connecting device data from a connecting device associated with a participant of the video conference, wherein the connecting device data includes an audio quality data and a device connectivity data; determining, by the computing device, a conferencing readiness score based on the connecting device data; determining, by the computing device, the conferencing readiness score does not meet a threshold score; determining, by the computing device, an ameliorative action configured to raise the conferencing readiness score to meet the threshold score; and providing, by the computing device, the ameliorative action to the connecting device.
US11856325B2
A computer-implemented visitation system includes tablet computer devices accessible to respective ones of authorized incarcerated inmates inside a correctional facility, and a visitation services computer system. The tablet devices and visitation services system are configured to: accept login credentials to uniquely identify one pre-registered authorized incarcerated inmates; establish an interconnection between a visitor computer device and the tablet computer devices to commence video visitation sessions without requiring endpoint control to schedule or initiate the visitation session by administrative personnel of the correctional facility; and apply a video visitation session charge.
US11856320B2
The present disclosure provides an image encoder. The image encoder is configured to encode an original image and reduce compression loss. The image encoder comprises an image signal processor and a compressor. The image signal processor is configured to receive a first frame image and a second frame image and generates a compressed image of the second frame image using a boundary pixel image of the first frame image. The image signal processor may include memory configured to store first reference pixel data which is the first frame image. The compressor is configured to receive the first reference pixel data from the memory and generate a bitstream obtained by encoding the second frame image based on a difference value between the first reference pixel data and the second frame image. The image signal processor generates a compressed image of the second frame image using the bitstream generated by the compressor.
US11856317B2
A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket coupleable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. The linkage assembly moves to another configuration to move the object. The object can be held in a lowered position. A biasing mechanism can facilitate convenient movement of the object.
US11856315B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a media editing application with an anchored timeline for editing captions and subtitles. In an embodiment, a method comprises: causing to display on a display device, by one or more hardware processors executing a media editing application, a graphical user interface (GUI) including a timeline; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a first lane including a media object; causing to display on the timeline, by the one or more hardware processors, a second lane including a caption or subtitle object; and anchoring, by the one or more hardware processors, the media object to the caption or subtitle object in the timeline.
US11856310B2
An event based pixel sensor system employing delay equalization between differently illuminated pixels.
US11856307B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a power supply circuit includes: a first transistor device comprising a first gate associated with a first transconductance and a second gate associated with a transconductance greater than the first transconductance; and a second transistor device including a third gate associated with a second transconductance and a fourth gate associated with a transconductance greater than the second transconductance. The second transistor device is configured to supply power to at least one load, the first and the third gates are controlled by a closed regulation loop, and the second and the fourth gates are controlled by a sampled reference voltage.
US11856304B2
A measurement apparatus mountable on a movable apparatus includes a first imaging device to capture an image in a first image capture direction, the first image capture direction having a first angle with respect to a direction of travel of the movable apparatus, and a second imaging device disposed next to the first imaging device to capture an image in a second image capture direction, the second image capture direction having a second angle with respect to the direction of travel of the movable apparatus. The first and second imaging devices are disposed to overlap at least partially a first imaging range of the first imaging device and a second imaging range of the second imaging device. At least one of the first image capture direction of the first imaging device and the second image capture direction of the second imaging device is set at a given angle with respect to a width dimension of the movable apparatus.
US11856303B2
A stereo imaging system includes an optical assembly and a computational pixel imager (CPI) having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a light sensor and counters that convert a photocurrent from the light sensor to a digital signal. The optical assembly, which directs light from a light field to the CPI, includes an optical field combiner and first and second primary lens assemblies, which are configured to receive first and second portions of the light from the light field, respectively, and to direct the first and second portions of the light to the optical field combiner. The optical field combiner includes a modulator configured to modulate the first and second portions of the light and to direct modulated first and second portions of the light onto the CPI. The counters are configured to perform digital signal processing on the digital signal.
US11856296B2
In a shake correction unit, a first circuit board has a first portion extending from a first side to a second side in a direction, a second portion extending from the second side to the first side in the direction, and a bent portion in which an end portion on the second side of the second portion is bent with respect to an end portion on the second side of the first portion. A second circuit board has a first portion extending from the second side to the first side in the direction, a second portion extending from the first side to the second side in the direction, and a bent portion in which an end portion on the first side of the second portion is bent with respect to an end portion on the first side of the first portion.
US11856294B2
The embodiments of the present application disclose an electronic device and a focusing method, the electronic device comprises at least two cameras, wherein each of the at least two cameras is provided with a PD point pair set, an angle value between directions of straight lines in which the PD point pair sets on every two cameras in the at least two cameras are located is within a first preset angle range.
US11856284B2
A method (100) of controlling a portable device comprising a first camera and a second camera facing in the same direction. The method comprises: selecting (110) one of the first camera and the second camera as a visualization camera; initializing (120) a localization algorithm having as an input image data representing images captured by one of the first camera and the second camera; determining (130) a respective focus score for at least one of the first camera and the second camera, said focus score indicating a focus quality of features identified from images captured by one of the respective camera; selecting (140,) one of the first camera and the second camera as an enabled camera based on the at least one focus score; and generating a control signal configured to cause the selected camera to be enabled such that the image data representing images captured by the enabled camera are provided as the input to the localization algorithm.
US11856272B2
Within an advertising buying platform, advertising buyers are able to direct advertising content to TV/OTT/VOD inventory that matches targeted market segments. The advertising buyers select from a list of available market segments, and the system pairs the market segments to an anonymous dataset of media consumers (using a database of hashed online IDs). The dataset of hashed online IDs is then mapped to external OEM IDs (such as from a Smart TV) via the functions of a hashed identity mapping method. This permits the advertiser to target advertising content to a population of TV viewers. Also described herein are methods of bidding on programmatic TV content.
US11856265B2
A method of reducing computer resource requirements for display of additional content on a client device configured for playback of media content can include determining, by an application installed on a client device, that display of additional content has been triggered from a first context of the application, identifying, by the application, a context identifier corresponding to the first context, determining, by a content manager installed on the client device, that an item of additional content associated with the context identifier is stored in a cache of the client device, identifying, by the content manager, an elapsed display time associated with the item of content, and initiating, by the application, display of the item of additional content based on the elapsed display time.
US11856264B2
A method of reducing computer resource requirements for display of additional content on a client device configured for playback of media content can include determining, by an application installed on a client device, that display of additional content has been triggered from a first context of the application, identifying, by the application, a context identifier corresponding to the first context, determining, by a content manager installed on the client device, that an item of additional content associated with the context identifier is stored in a cache of the client device, identifying, by the content manager, an elapsed display time associated with the item of content, and initiating, by the application, display of the item of additional content based on the elapsed display time.
US11856258B2
Systems and methods for organizing and controlling the display of content, then measuring the effectiveness of that content in modifying behavior, within a particular temporal and spatial dimension, so as to minimize or eliminate confounding effects.
US11856251B1
Systems and methods for apprising a user of a proximately located aspect-of-interest are disclosed. One method may include: receiving an indication of a geographic location associated with the user; identifying an aspect associated with a multimedia content interest of the user; determining whether the geographic location associated is within a predetermined distance to a known location the aspect associated with the multimedia content interest; transmitting, responsive to determining that the geographic location is within the predetermined distance to the known location, instructions to a user device associated with the user to provide a notification to the user; receiving, at the server, another indication that the user has provided interaction input to the notification; and transmitting additional instructions to another device to perform an action that is based on the interaction input.
US11856247B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for porting locally processed media data with low latency to a remote client device via various wireless links are provided. In one example embodiment, a transceiver module may include a local network interface and a controller that may receive a client control signal from a client device over a wireless local area network via the local network interface, transmit a media control signal based on the client control signal to a media device, receive media data based on the media control signal from the media device, and transmit to the client device over the wireless local area network via the local network interface client data based on the media data and a low-latency compression technique. The receipt of the media data and transmission of the client data may be accomplished with substantially no detectable latency. Additional embodiments are also provided.
US11856244B2
A post-processing of video content in order to provide a capability to insert ad content, having a method to produce a modified video content from an original video content. The method comprising: analyzing the original video content to detect at least one marker, said marker comprising a marker surface delimited by a marker identification; loading profile data of a target user; determining, based at least on the profile data a replacement content; adjusting the replacement content into the marker surface; and replacing into the original video content the marker surface by the adjusted replacement content to produce the modified video content.
US11856240B1
Coding schemes for coding a spatially sampled information signal using sub-division and coding schemes for coding a sub-division or a multitree structure are described, wherein representative embodiments relate to a picture and/or video coding applications.
US11856239B2
A method and apparatus for sample adaptive offset without sign coding. The method includes selecting an edge offset type for at least a portion of an image, classifying at least one pixel of at least the portion of the image into edge shape category, calculating an offset of the pixel, determining the offset is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold, changing a sign of the offset based on the threshold determination; and performing entropy coding accounting for the sign of the offset and the value of the offset.
US11856237B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that constraints on values of one or more first syntax elements in an adaptation parameter set are defined based on semantics of second syntax elements in a picture header and/or a slice header if a picture or a slice referring to the adaptation parameter set.
US11856234B2
A method includes making a determination, according to a rule, about whether a height of a subpicture of a video picture of a video is less than a height of a tile row of the video picture; and performing, using the determination, a conversion between the video and a bitstream of the video.
US11856222B2
This method comprises: —orthogonally projecting at least one point of a point cloud along projection lines; and —for at least two points of a same projection line, signaling in a bitstream whether a position of said projection line between a nearer and a farther points of said projection line is occupied or not.
US11856212B2
Methods, systems and devices for implementing constraints used in video encoding and video decoding are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video comprising one or more pictures comprising one or more slices and a bitstream of the video. The conversion conforms to a rule, and the bitstream is organized into one or more access units. The rule specifies a constraint on a number of decoded pictures stored in a decoded picture buffer (DPB). Each decoded picture of the decoded pictures is (i) marked as used for reference, (ii) has a flag indicative of the decoded picture being output, and (iii) has an output time later than a decoding time of a current picture.
US11856209B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document is characterized by comprising the steps of: acquiring a flag indicating whether a picture header (PH) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit including a PH for the current picture is present; acquiring a video coding layer (VCL) NAL unit including a slice header and slice data for the current slice of the current picture; acquiring the PH on the basis of the flag; and decoding the current picture on the basis of the PH, the slice header, and the slice data.
US11856198B2
This invention suppresses degradation of subjective image quality while improving the coding efficiency of residual coefficients of two chroma components. To this, an image coding device that codes image data constituted by one luma component and two chroma components according to the invention, comprises quantizing unit that performs an orthogonal transform on each of components of a block obtained by dividing an image to be coded, and quantizes transform coefficients of each of the components obtained from the orthogonal transform; and coding unit that codes residual coefficients obtained by the quantizing unit, wherein when coding the transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform of the two chroma components in an integrated manner, the coding unit quantizes transform coefficients of the orthogonal transform obtained from the integration using a predetermined quantization matrix, and codes residual coefficients obtained from the quantizing.
US11856191B2
A post processing system, method and computer program product content-adaptively transforms MPEG on-demand media streams, including a video optimizer software development kit (SDK); an application layer controlling the SDK interfacing with a mobile device operating and file system. Raw pixel frame buffers are parsed and structured. The buffers are normalizes for processing. Source content is analyzed in an uncompressed format for video patterns and characteristics and parameters are selected in a video codec output format. Estimated are parameters for portions and/or segments of the content. The content is recompressed and optimized in a content-adaptive manner to generate optimized content written into persistent storage of the mobile device, and segments of which are combined with an audio stream and/or a metadata stream information to generate a playable media stream in an ISO base media file format and/or a media file application specific format.
US11856186B2
A method of encoding information about a motion information predictor, comprising: selecting one of a plurality of motion information predictor candidates; and encoding information for identifying the selected motion information predictor candidate using CABAC coding, wherein the CABAC coding comprises, for at least one bit of said information, using the same context variable used for another inter prediction mode when one or both of a Triangle Merge mode or a Merge with Motion Vector Difference (MMVD) Merge mode is used.
US11856175B2
A display system for a welding mask that includes a darkening filter layer, a light field camera system to capture a light field, and an optical image stabilization subsystem. Captured light fields are displayed via a light field display within the welding helmet without risk of overexposure of ultraviolet radiation to the operator. In some examples, dual light field displays are used to display different images to each eye of the operator.
US11856173B2
An information processing method to be performed by an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment may include: causing an authentication processor to perform a login authentication based on an operation performed on an operation section; and causing an exclusive control executor that gives a usage right to use a function to the operation section after the operation section is authenticated by the login authentication and releases the usage right given to the operation section in a case where no response is received from the operation section for a predetermined time after the usage right is given to determine, based on a detection result by a status detector that detects a status of the information processing apparatus, whether or not to release the usage right given to the operation section after the predetermined time passes.
US11856153B2
An intra prediction method and device and a computer-readable storage medium, the method comprising: configuring actual angle modes indicated by relative angle numbers, wherein the relative angle numbers are successively represented within a prediction direction range corresponding to a preset width and height relationship; starting from a starting angle, using a corresponding actual angle mode after sampling preset angle sample points, said starting angle being determined according to the width and height relationship of processing blocks and the prediction direction range corresponding to the preset width and height relationship, and actual angles having a one-to-one correspondence with the actual angle modes.
US11856151B2
An image reading device includes a scanner housing, a pair of hinge mechanisms, and a document conveyance device. The scanner housing includes an engaged portion for positioning provided at a portion of a top surface of the scanner housing located outside of an original glass plate mounted in the top surface of the scanner housing. The document conveyance device includes an engaging portion for positioning engageable with the engaged portion when in the closed position, and is positioned in a plane along a top surface of the original glass plate by engagement of the engaging portion with the engaged portion. In positioning the document conveyance device, the document conveyance device is fixed to the pair of hinge mechanisms to allow the document conveyance device to be adjusted in position in the plane.
US11856150B2
In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
US11856148B2
Methods and apparatus assist listeners in distinguishing between electronically generated binaural sound and physical environment sound while the listener wears a wearable electronic device that provides the binaural sound to the listener. The wearable electronic device generates a visual alert or audio alert when the electronically generated binaural sound occurs.
US11856146B2
In accordance with some embodiments, systems, apparatus, interfaces, methods, and articles of manufacture are provided for providing information incorporating additional data feeds, creating common arrangements, and improving performance in a virtual meeting.
US11856143B2
Systems and methods forecast inbound telecommunications, and more particularly, analyze real-time and historical call center data, and apply a forecasting model to the data in order to predict inbound call volume. These systems and methods employ tools that manipulate call center data and generate visual representations of metrics pertaining to forecasting call center data via a dashboard.
US11856135B1
Systems and methods for managing non-associative communications between devices is provided. A first call chain that indicates a routing between phone numbers is stored. A first phone call or a first SMS text is received from a first session initiation protocol (SIP) provider. Based on information provided by the first SIP provider, (i) a sender identity of the first phone call or the first SMS text; (ii) a receiver identity of the first phone call or the first SMS text; and (iii) an access mode of the call chain are determined. If the receiver identity corresponds to a first phone number in the first call chain, a second phone call or a second SMS text is initiated via a second SIP provider, from a second phone number in the first call chain, based on the sender identity and the access mode.
US11856134B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving input information concerning a conversation between a caller and a recipient; processing the input information to assess a fraud-threat-level; defining a targeted response based, at least in part, upon the fraud-threat-level assessed, wherein the targeted response is intended to refine the assessed fraud-threat-level; and effectuating the targeted response.
US11856132B2
Verifying caller identification information is described. A query to verify a first communications connection associated with an observed caller ID is received. Using a second communications channel, a message to a device associated with the observed caller ID is transmitted. A response to the message is received. The message is evaluated to perform a security determination. The security determination is provided as output.
US11856131B2
A method for testing the functional capability of an emergency call device of a transportation vehicle. In an emergency mode, at least one specific audio signal is generated for a vehicle passenger by the emergency call device and emitted to the interior of the transportation vehicle. For testing, the emergency call device is put into a testing mode in which the at least one audio signal intended for the emergency is generated and wherein, in the testing mode, the generated audio signal passes, within the vehicle-internal emergency call device, through a signal path which is modified compared with the emergency mode.
US11856129B2
Systems and methods for managing models for call data are disclosed. For example, the system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving, from a user device, an input indicating a segment of a first recorded call and an attribute associated with the segment. The operations may include determining a parameter of a model, wherein the model is associated with the attribute. The operations may include changing the parameter based on the input. The operations may include generating an updated model based on the changed parameter, wherein the updated model may be configured to analyze recorded calls having one or more segments with the same attribute.
US11856110B2
A system and method for sharing a digital key for a vehicle. The system includes a first digital key device having a digital key stored thereon, a second digital key device, and a vehicle server. The first digital key device sends a request to the vehicle server for a key sharing session. The vehicle server commences a key sharing session in response to the request. The first digital key device shares the digital key to a second digital key device. The vehicle server ends the key sharing session.
US11856104B2
Embodiments can provide methods for securely provisioning sensitive credential data, such as a limited use key (LUK) onto a user device. In some embodiments, the credential data can be encrypted using a separate storage protection key and decrypted only at the time of a transaction to generate a cryptogram for the transaction. Thus, end-to-end protection can be provided during the transit and storage of the credential data, limiting the exposure of the credential data only when the credential data is required, thereby reducing the risk of compromise of the credential data.
US11856066B2
Systems and methods described herein provide life cycle management for physical network function (PNFs) via an orchestrator using PNF proxies. A network device in a service provider network receives a software package for a virtual network function (VNF) serving as PNF proxy for a type of PNF. The software package includes a proxy descriptor and external virtual links (VLs) for the type of PNF. The network device associates, an instance of the PNF proxy with an installed PNF, creates the instance of the PNF proxy as a VNF in a cloud platform, and provides a record of the created instance of the PNF proxy to an active inventory system.
US11856055B2
The present disclosure relates to managing services by a managed service provider (MSP) in a cloud based infrastructure. A control plane of the MSP is established in a first tenancy, and a first access plane of the MSP is established in a second tenancy of a cloud environment. The control plane is configured to manage a plurality of services offered by the MSP to a first host machine included in the second tenancy. A first request is transmitted from the control plane to the first access plane, where the first request is forwarded by the first access plane to the first host machine, and corresponds to a service utilized by the first host machine and managed by the control plane of the MSP. In response to the first request being validated, a first state of the first host machine is modified in the second tenancy based on the first request.
US11856053B2
Systems and methods for hybrid burst optimized regulated workload orchestration for infrastructure as a service are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for providing hybrid burst optimized regulated workload orchestration for infrastructure as a service may include: (1) receiving a job request for a job comprising at least one job requirement from a job requester; (2) calculating a cost of job for the job based on the at least one job requirement; (3) identifying an IaaS provider from a plurality of IaaS providers that meets the job requirements and the cost of job, wherein the plurality of IaaS providers comprises at least one on-premises IaaS provider and the at least one off-premises IaaS provider; (4) executing an IaaS request for the identified IaaS provider; and (5) monitoring execution of the job by the identified IaaS provider.
US11856045B2
Computing and communication systems and methods include one or more servers communicatively coupled with a computing device through a telecommunications network. In implementations one or more data stores are communicatively coupled with the server(s). One or more user interfaces displayed on the computing device display a website provided by the server(s) and accessed using a browser. A file selector is displayed on the website. The file selector corresponds with a file that may already reside on the computing device and/or on a file share accessible by the computing device. The file selector is configured to initiate opening of the file locally on the computing device without necessarily downloading a copy of the file through the browser. The systems and methods may automatically initiate calls and/or texts on non-cell phones (e.g., desk phones, turret type phones and/or VOIP phones) in response to selection of a phone number displayed on a website.
US11856040B1
The present disclosure describes a system and method for providing dynamic remediation of a pluggable streaming device issue, such as a customer premises equipment (CPE) device. Sometimes, various features of the CPE device to begin to fail. For example, synchronization of the audio and video streams may drift, media rental purchases may time out, or playback may throttle to low quality. Such failures can be caused by device or network issues. The present disclosure describes a CPE remediation system that operates to identify a failure associated with playing media streamed by the CPE device. The CPE remediation system may further determine a solution to remediate an observed CPE device-related failure. In some examples, the CPE remediation process may further provide or perform one or more actions included in the determined solution. In some examples, the solution may include a warm or a cold reboot.
US11856027B2
A secure communication system enabling secure transport of information is disclosed. The system comprises a secure network with one or more packet processing units connected by links through an internal communication system. The secure network transports packets of information between credentialed and authenticated agents. Each packet is associated with a visa issued by a visa service. The visa specifies the procedures governing the processing of the packet by the packet processing units as it is transported along a compliant flow, between agents thorough the network, according to a set of policies specified in a network configuration. Packet processing units include docks and forwarders. Adaptors serving the agents communicate with the network through tie-ins to docks. The system also includes and admin service, accessible to one more admins, that facilitates configuration and management of the network.
US11856025B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for simulating a phishing attack involving an email thread. An email thread of a plurality of email threads of an entity for use in a simulated phishing attack is identified. A simulation system generates a converted reply simulated phishing email to an email of the email thread. The converted reply simulated phishing email is generated to be from a user that is one of a recipient or a sender of one or more emails of the email thread and is communicated to a target user's email account, the converted reply simulated phishing email.
US11856022B2
The technology disclosed intercepts a webpage rendered by a server in response to a user action executed on a client. The technology disclosed analyzes one or more images of the webpage and determines that a particular hosted service is represented by the images. It analyzes one or more fields of the webpage and determines that the fields elicit confidential information. The technology disclosed intercepts a request generated by the client in response to another user action providing the confidential information via the fields. The technology disclosed analyses the request and determines that the confidential information is being exfiltrated to an unsanctioned resource. This determination is made by comparing a resource address in the request with one or more sanctioned resource addresses used by the particular hosted service. The technology disclosed determines that the webpage is effectuating a phishing attack and blocks transmission of the confidential information to the unsanctioned resource.
US11856016B2
The technology disclosed includes a system to reduce clutter during graph presentation for security incident analysis. The system includes logic to score nodes potentially collapsed by equivalence, of indicated interest for security incident analysis, to prevent aggregation. The system includes logic to aggregate and hide equivalent nodes that have matching degrees, that are connected to matching nodes by matching edge types, and that have scores below a first selected threshold. The system does not collapse nodes that are interesting for security analysis and keeps them visible. The technology disclosed identifies chains of at least three nodes having degrees of 1 or 2, without branching from any node in the chain. The identified chains are collapsed into chain-collapsed single nodes. Two different cases of chains including whisker chains ending in a leaf node and chains connected at both ends to two other nodes are presented.
US11856012B2
A method for cyber security monitor includes monitoring a network interface that is input-only configured to surreptitiously and covertly receive bit-level, physical layer communication between networked control and sensor field devices. During a training mode, a baseline distinct native attribute (DNA) fingerprint is generated for each networked field device. During a protection mode, a current DNA fingerprint is generated for each networked field device. The current DNA fingerprint is compared to the baseline DNA fingerprint for each networked field device. In response to detect at least one of RAA and PAA based on a change in the current DNA fingerprint to the baseline DNA fingerprint of one or more networked field devices, an alert is transmitted, via an external security engine interface to an external security engine.
US11856011B1
A computerized method for analyzing an object is disclosed. The computerized method includes obtaining, by a cybersecurity system, an object and context information generated during a first malware analysis of the object conducted prior to obtaining the object. Thereafter, the cybersecurity system performs a second malware analysis of the object to determine a verdict indicating maliciousness of the object. The scrutiny of the second malware analysis is adjusted based, at least in part, the context information, which may include (i) activating additional or different monitors, (ii) adjusting thresholds for determining maliciousness, or (iii) applying a modified rule set during the second malware analysis based on the context information.
US11856004B2
Systems and methods for identifying malicious cryptographic wallet addresses are disclosed. The systems and methods can receive a first plurality of tokens and an indication of a potentially malicious cryptographic wallet address from a requesting user. The system can identify a plurality of associated wallet addresses, and compare the associated wallet addresses to a stored list of malicious cryptographic wallet addresses. The system can determine a subset of the identified associated cryptographic wallet addresses that are malicious and assign a maliciousness rating to the potentially malicious cryptographic wallet address. The system can provide the maliciousness rating to the requesting user.
US11856003B2
Techniques for providing innocent until proven guilty (IUPG) solutions for building and using adversary resistant and false positive resistant deep learning models are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product includes storing a set comprising one or more innocent until proven guilty (IUPG) models for static analysis of a sample; performing a static analysis of content associated with the sample, wherein performing the static analysis includes using at least one stored IUPG model; and determining that the sample is malicious based at least in part on the static analysis of the content associated with the sample, and in response to determining that the sample is malicious, performing an action based on a security policy.
US11855993B2
Techniques to facilitate protection of data resources from unauthorized access are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, a data shield server instructs a user to replace an address and a port associated with a data resource with an updated address associated with the data shield server and a unique port that is uniquely assigned to the user. A request from the user to access the data resource is received at the updated address associated with the data shield server and on the unique port that is uniquely assigned to the user. In response to the request, the user is authenticated using multi-factor authentication to verify that an identity of the user that submitted the request matches the user assigned to the unique port on which the request was received. Upon successful authentication, the data shield server operates as a proxy to connect the user through to the data resource.
US11855963B2
An information processing apparatus connected with one or more apparatuses through a network, comprises: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first address information for indicating one of addresses in the network among addresses of the apparatuses and first apparatus specific information for identifying the apparatuses; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire second apparatus specific information for identifying an apparatus indicated by the first address information acquired by the first acquiring unit; a determining unit configured to determine whether the first apparatus specific information acquired by the first acquiring unit is the same as the second apparatus specific information acquired by the second acquiring unit or not; and a process requesting unit configured to request the apparatus indicated by the first address information to perform a certain process upon the determining unit determining the first apparatus specific information to be the same as the second apparatus specific information.
US11855960B2
Techniques herein facilitate a device address rotation management protocol that may be implemented for a wireless local area network (WLAN), which can be used to influence when wireless client devices or stations may rotate their Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, how to perform such rotations, and/or the like. In one example, a method may include providing, by an access point (AP), a first communication indicating that the AP supports a MAC address rotation management protocol; obtaining, by the AP, a second communication from a wireless station (STA) indicating that the STA intends to perform a MAC address rotation; and transmitting, by the AP, a third communication to influence the MAC address rotation of the STA, the third communication comprising a rotation status indicator and timing information.
US11855955B2
Systems and techniques are provided for obscured routing. A computing device may send stacks of identifiers to neighbor computing devices in a network. Each stack of identifiers may include a unique identifier for the neighbor computing device to which it is sent. The computing device may send a notification identifying a destination computing device to the neighbor computing devices. The computing device may receive stacks of identifiers from the neighbor computing devices. The received stacks of identifiers may include completed routes to the destination computing device. Each completed route may be specified by unique identifiers added to the stack of identifiers by computing devices in the network. A unique identifier in each stack of identifiers may not be resolvable to an address by the computing device. The computing device may send a message a neighbor computing device based on a unique identifier in a chosen stack of identifiers.
US11855953B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication system that is configured to more efficiently manage resource sharing requests. In particular, in some embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to enable admin users to use an external service, such as an external approval provisioning service, that is separate and distinct from the group-based communication system to manage group-based communication resource sharing requests. In other embodiments, the group-based communication system is configured to allow communication with external users and to trigger new user onboarding protocols through the ingestion of external user directories associated with a sponsor user.
US11855944B2
A method for presenting personalized content to a user includes receiving user data corresponding to a user having a user profile, the user data including at least one or more messages in a user mailbox and a user web browser history within a network, extracting one or more data tags from the received user data, associated at least one data tag with a message, finding information in the network that corresponds to the associated data tag, generating a notification for the user, the notification including the found information in the network, and outputting the generated notification to a user interface of a device of the user.
US11855942B2
An activation system for at least one receiving device that is redundantly activatable via a first communication network and via at least one second communication network that is independent of the first communication network. The activation system includes at least two transmitting modules, each of which is designed to generate messages for the receiving device and to transmit them to the receiving device via at least one of the communication networks. At least one transmitting module is connectable to both communication networks, and the transmitting modules are coordinated with one another and/or with the receiving device in such a way that messages from one transmitting module are to be transmitted via a communication network and/or processed by the receiving device with priority over messages from another transmitting module.
US11855941B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for automatically deleting messages from a recipient's inbox. The disclosed systems and methods provide the ability for automatic actions to be taken on delivered messages based on a passage of time. This enables a sender of messages, email service provider and/or email platform to exert control over sent messages to limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on such messages. For example, operations such as saving, forwarding, printing, copying, or otherwise duplicating the message and/or message data can be prohibited and all together rendered impossible. The disclosed systems and methods enables the purging of messages and associated message data from a recipient's inbox at a certain specified time, after the passage of a pre-determined amount of time, or upon the detection of a specified event.
US11855939B2
A computer system analyzes an input in a chat window of a first device, wherein the chat window corresponds to a first chat session with a user of a second device and a second chat session with a user of a third device. The computer system determines, based on the analyzing the input, whether the input corresponds to an information associated with the first chat session and an information associated with the second chat session. Based on determining that the input corresponds to the information associated with the first chat session and the information associated with the second chat session, the computer system transmits the input to the second device and the third device.
US11855937B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for receiving a first communication request, from a web browser of a user. A first responder requests information and a response to the request for information is received as part of a conversation. A conversation identifier is used to store the conversation. Based on the conversation, the conversation is determined to stop and a second responder is identified. The conversation is then transferred to the second responder.
US11855934B2
A method and system for generating and correcting chatbot responses based on reinforcement learning (RL) are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving user data associated with a user in a chatbot conversation. The method includes providing a first recommendation to the user. The method includes detecting user feedback to the first recommendation in the chatbot conversation. The method then includes determining whether to assign a positive reward or a negative reward to the user feedback based on sentiment analysis performed on the user feedback. If the negative reward is assigned to the user feedback, the method further includes calculating a negative reward score for the first recommendation; retraining the one or more of RL models using one or more of the negative reward score, the user data, the first recommendation, and the user feedback; and determining a second recommendation using the one or more retrained RL models.
US11855927B2
An operation method of a central control apparatus in a communication system may include: configuring a unit cluster using a first transceiver and a second transceiver; performing first scheduling so that at least one port among N ports of the first transceiver and M ports of the second transceiver provides communication services to a service coverage of the unit cluster for each scheduling period in a beam sweeping scheme by using a first sub-frequency band; generating first scheduling information including information on identifiers of transceivers and indexes of ports proving the communication services for each scheduling period according to the first scheduling, and transmitting the first scheduling information to the terminal; and controlling the first transceiver and the second transceiver to communicate with the terminal according to the first scheduling information.
US11855921B2
There is provided mechanisms for transmission of reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The terminal device comprises at least two physical antenna ports. The method comprises obtaining channel information. The method comprises determining, for at least one given precoder in a codebook, an uplink reference signal to physical antenna port mapping based on the channel information. The method comprises transmitting uplink reference signals in the physical antenna ports according to the determined mapping.
US11855913B2
An example hierarchical switching device may include sub-switches that form a fully interconnected all-to-all network, wherein the sub-switches comprise external output ports, internal input ports and internal output ports to exchange packets with other sub-switches within the fully interconnected all-to-all network. The switching device may further include a deadlockable storage, a storage partition and a switch controller. The deadlockable storage space is exclusively assigned to an internal input port of the internal input ports of the sub-switch including the deadlockable storage. The storage partition is exclusively assigned to an external output port of the external output ports and exclusively assigned to the internal input port. The switch controller is to route a packet destined for an external output port of a sub-switch through the internal input port of the sub-switch to the deadlockable storage or if the packet corresponds to the external output port, to the storage partition.
US11855911B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intent-based orchestration using network parsimony trees. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a request for network services that comprises desired characteristics and performance parameters for the requested network services without information regarding specific hardware, hardware type, location, or network, a computing system might generate a request-based parsimony tree based on the desired characteristics and performance parameters. The computing system might access, from a datastore, a plurality of network-based parsimony trees that are each generated based on measured network metrics, might compare the request-based parsimony tree with each of one or more network-based parsimony trees to determine a fitness score for each network-based parsimony tree, and might identify a best-fit network-based parsimony tree based on the fitness scores. The computing system might identify and might allocate network resources based on the identified best-fit network-based parsimony tree, for providing the requested network services.
US11855908B2
Computing systems, devices, and associated methods of allocating computing resources in a distributed computing system to user requests are disclosed herein. In one example, a method includes when none of unallocated computing resources satisfy a constraint on a physical attribute in a received request for the computing resource, identifying one of the allocated resources in the distributed computing system that satisfies the constraint on the physical attribute and recursively determining whether one of the other allocated or unallocated resources in the distributed computing system that satisfies a constraint of a prior request. In response to determining that none of the allocated or unallocated resources satisfies the constraint of the prior request, assignment of the identified one of the allocated resources to the prior request is maintained.
US11855907B2
A robot control system includes a first control device including a first communication unit and one or more second control devices connected to the first control device through a network. Each of the second control devices includes a second communication unit that exchanges data with the first communication unit of the first control device using a communication resource of a network allocated thereto, and a command value generation unit that sequentially generates a command value for driving the robot, in accordance with a command from the first control device. The robot control system includes a communication resource setting unit that allocates the communication resource to each second control device.
US11855904B2
A migration manager (MM) identifies a source group of compute instances (at a first partition of a provider network) to be migrated to an isolated virtual network (IVN) implemented in a second partition. The MM triggers the establishment within the IVN of an equivalence group of instances corresponding to the source group instances. Connectivity between the equivalence group and a first load balancer which was being used for the source group in the first partition is maintained by modifying one or more configuration settings. After a replacement load balancer is established within the IVN, the first load balancer is decommissioned.
US11855888B2
This application provides a packet verification method, and the method includes: A first network device receives a BIER packet, where packet header information of the BIER packet includes a first keyed-hash message authentication code HMAC, and the first HMAC is used to verify whether the BIER packet is a valid BIER packet; determines a second HMAC based on a first key and first information in the packet header information, where the first information is used to indicate forwarding information of the BIER packet; determines whether the first HMAC is the same as the second HMAC; and when determining that the first HMAC is different from the second HMAC, determines that the BIER packet is an invalid BIER packet.
US11855883B2
Methods of computing a flooding topology (FT) for a network are presented. The methods include a process for computing a FT that includes all nodes in the network and a process for ensuring that all nodes in the FT have at least two links in the FT. Some of the methods minimize a number of links of the nodes in the FT. Some of the methods also constrain some of the nodes in the FT to a maximum number of links. Some of the methods compute a first FT for nodes whose maximum number of links in the FT equal their number of links in the network, then compute a second FT for remaining nodes in the network, then combines the two FTs to compute a complete FT for the network.
US11855881B2
One embodiment provides a network interface controller (NIC). The NIC can include a storage device, a network interface, a hardware list-processing engine (LPE), and a message state table (MST) logic block. The storage device can store an MST. The network interface can couple the NIC to a network. The LPE can perform message matching on a first packet of a message received via the network interface. The MST logic block can store results of the message matching in the MST and receive a request to read the results of the message matching from the MST if the NIC receives a second packet associated with the message.
US11855878B2
An information processing method, an interconnection device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The interconnection device includes a request processing module configured for: receiving a data access request from at least one processor, wherein the data access request comprises a merge bit, a multicast group identifier (MGID), and a multicast transaction identifier (MTID); determining whether the data access request is a multicast request; determining whether the interconnection device receives other multicast requests if it is determined that the data access request is a multicast request based on the MGID, the MTID, and a static routing policy of a multicast group; and obtaining the other multicast requests if it is determined that the interconnection device receives the other multicast requests, merging the multicast request with the other multicast requests into a merged request, and forwarding the merged request to a next-hop device of the interconnection device.
US11855875B2
This application discloses a network topology discovery method and a node device. In this application, a root node device sends a link discovery message to a child node device through a first port; receives a link discovery acknowledge message sent by the child node device through a second port of the child node device, where the link discovery acknowledge message includes an identifier of the child node device and an identifier of the second port; and determines a first link based on the link discovery acknowledge message, where the first link is a link between the first port and the second port. According to the solutions of this application, when detecting that a link of a port is connected, the node device discovers an existing topology relationship through message interaction, so as to implement network topology discovery.
US11855873B2
Various arrangements for performing cellular network testing are presented herein. A test environment can be created for a production cellular network. A test can be defined for the cellular network within the testing environment then performed. An issue can be logged using a ticket logging system that indicates that a performance metric of the cellular network within the test environment was not met. The issue and the test environment are analyzed to identify a component responsible for the performance metric not being met. Access to a record defining the issue is provided to an external entity that is mapped to the component. The cellular network as implemented in the test environment can then be modified.
US11855871B1
Systems, methods, and storage media for analyzing authentication and authorization requirements in an identity infrastructure are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: intercept, at a server, a first request to access an application in the identity infrastructure; transmit, from the server, one or more of the first request and a modified version of the first request to the application; intercept, at the server, a response from the application, based at least in part on the transmission; and display, via at least one interface, an analysis of one or more of the first request, the modified version of the first request, and the response, wherein the analysis comprising determining requirements for application authentication and authorization requirements, identity protocol(s) and/or techniques utilized by the application, whether user-defined security requirements have been implemented, and/or whether application meets predetermined compliance standards.
US11855855B2
Provided are a network operation method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The network operation method includes that a management node receives virtualized network function information carrying at least one dynamic network change flag, where the at least one dynamic network change flag is used for indicating whether a dynamic network change is supported; and that the management node operates on a first-type network according to the virtualized network function information.
US11855853B1
An information technology (IT) network includes configuration items (CIs) that may constantly change, where the CIs describe hardware components or software components that are configured to operate on the IT network. Machine learning techniques can be employed determine whether a CI has been changed (e.g., added, updated, or removed) in the IT network. For example, a software code or a log message associated with a CI can be analyzed to determine whether the CI is a newly added or updated within the IT network.
US11855852B1
A network architecture visualizer and design tool is disclosed. In one example, a computer system may generate a graphical user interface of a network design application. The graphical user interface can include a drag and drop canvas. The computer system can receive user input at the graphical user interface for spatially positioning one or more template objects that correspond to network infrastructure components. The arrangement of the template objects can form a computer network infrastructure. The computer system can determine one or more parameters of the template objects that correspond to the infrastructure components and then automatically generate a build sheet that includes instructions usable to implement the network architecture.
US11855849B1
At a rule processing unit of an evolving, self-organized machine learning-based resource management service, a rule of a first rule set is applied to a value of a first collected metric, resulting in the initiation of a first corrective action. A set of metadata indicating the metric value and the corrective action is transmitted to a repository, and is used as part of an input data set for a machine learning model trained to generate rule modification recommendations. In response to determining that the corrective actions did not meet a success criterion, an escalation message is transmitted to another rule processing unit.
US11855848B2
An example computing device is configured to receive an instance of a customer service model representative of a plurality of customer services. Each of the plurality of customer services associated with a corresponding at least one requirement and a corresponding at least one constraint. The computing device is configured to receive an instance of a resource model representative of a plurality of resources and map the instance of the customer service model and the instance of the resource model to an internal placement model. The computing device is configured to allocate the plurality of resources to the plurality of customer services such that the at least one requirement and the at least one constraint for each of the plurality of customer services are satisfied and inverse map data indicating how the plurality of resources are allocated to a format consumable by the customer device and output the inverse mapped data.
US11855831B1
The system receives an indication of an issue associated with a wireless telecommunication network and an indication of an operator capable of resolving the issue. The system sends a notification to an AR/VR device associated with the operator. The notification indicates the issue and prompts the operator to join a virtual collaboration room. The system receives a request to join the virtual collaboration room from the operator based on a gesture or a voice command detected by the AR/VR device. The system creates the virtual collaboration room, via a 5G wireless telecommunication network, including a screen shared among multiple operators. The system records operations performed in the virtual collaboration room until a resolution to the issue has been determined.
US11855823B2
A repeater generates repetition signals by repeating uplink signals over a plurality of subframes; controller sets a timing for transmitting the repetition signals, based on information indicating a transmission candidate subframe for a sounding reference signal used for measuring an uplink reception quality; and a transmitter transmits the repetition signals at the set timing.
US11855816B2
A signal transmission system includes an equalization filter configured to filter an input signal based at least in part on a feedback signal, a slicer configured to generate data based on the filtered input signal at a plurality of different phases, a synchronizer configured to compute a phase delay between the input signal at each of the different phases and the data, and a pattern generator configured to generate the feedback signal at a phase adjusted by the phase delay.
US11855811B1
A method and apparatus comprises acquiring set of input streams associated with a spatial layer configured for a terminal device, and estimating a channel vector h representing a radio channel response associated with the spatial layer. An interference covariance matrix R representing power of interference is computed from at least one other spatial layer in the set of input streams and correlation of the interference within the set of input streams of the spatial layer. A per-layer interference rejection is performed, combining equalization on the set of input streams, comprising: a) estimating x=R−1h as a combination of a set of linear equations, wherein the number of linear equations is defined by an input parameter to be equal to or smaller than dimensions of the interference covariance matrix; and b) computing an estimate of a transmitted symbol on the basis of the channel vector and the estimated x.
US11855808B2
A system includes a customer network and a telephony server. The customer network is associated with an independent carrier (IC), a native carrier, or both. The customer network includes a call manager, a telephone gateway, an internet gateway, a first device associated with the IC, and a second device associated with the native carrier. The first device communicates with the telephone gateway via the call manager. The second device communicates with the internet gateway. The telephony server is associated with the native carrier. The telephony server supports traffic from the first device and the second device. The telephony server includes a PBX and a session border controller (SBC). The SBC communicates with the telephone gateway via a session initiation protocol (SIP) trunk.
US11855806B2
A network node for a Data Communication Network (DCN) and a network device for providing traffic to the DCN are provided. The network node is configured to receive a plurality of packets carrying DCN messages; determine, from the received packets, a first set of packets addressed to other network nodes of the DCN. The network node is then configured to forward the first set of packets over a Time-Division-Multiplexing (TDM) connection, in particular over an Optical Data Unit-k (ODUk) connection, to a determined network node of the DCN. According to the application, a high bandwidth efficiency is maintained, and the number of interfaces to be managed on a controller is reduced.
US11855804B2
A network device serving as a local VXLAN) Tunnel Endpoint (VTEP) includes a communication interface, a first processor and a packet processor. The communication interface communicates between the local VTEP and remote VTEPs, each VTEP has a respective VXLAN Identifier (VNI). The first processor imports a Downstream-VNI (D-VNI) to be used in forwarding packets from the local VTEP to a remote VTEP, creates a unique egress Routing Interface (RIF) that is translatable into the imported D-VNI, and associates the unique egress RIF with one or more route entries in the local VTEP. The packet processor receives a packet destined to the remote VTEP, looks up the packet in the route entries in the local VTEP to retrieve the unique egress RIF, translates the unique egress RIF into the imported D-VNI, encapsulates the packet with the imported D-VNI, and forwards the encapsulated packet in accordance with the unique egress RIF.
US11855803B2
An apparatus for detecting a loop in a domain comprising a plurality of overlay tunnel fabrics is provided. The apparatus can include an indicator logic block that can insert a predetermined value, which can be unique for the apparatus in the domain, into an egress tunnel header of a packet of a data flow. The header's destination address can correspond to a remote apparatus of an overlay tunnel fabric that includes the apparatus. Tunnel encapsulation can be initiated and terminated within the corresponding overlay tunnel fabric. The indicator logic block can determine, for a respective packet of the data flow from a remote overlay tunnel fabric of the domain, whether the predetermined value is present in an ingress tunnel header. Upon identifying the predetermining value in the ingress tunnel header, a loop logic block of the apparatus can determine that a loop is present in the domain.
US11855795B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to communication bridging among disparate platforms in a remote communications environment involving first and second chat rooms. According to a specific example, a communications system is configured to provide remote communications services including a communication bridging service and another type of data communications services, in the remote communications environment. In certain embodiments the system may provide or generate connectivity data, such as a uniform resource locator (URL), to facilitate formation of the communication bridge, and may identify chat room protocols associated with the first and second chat rooms. The system is further configured to translate chat messages using the specifications for the first and second chat room protocols, and transmit chat messages between the first chat room and the second chat room.
US11855791B2
A first communication device generates an Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) frame that includes i) OAM message content and ii) an OAM frame header outside of the OAM message content, wherein generating the OAM frame comprises generating the OAM frame header to include information that signals one of i) a low power sleep (LPS) request, and ii) a wake-up request (WUR). The first communication device transmits the OAM frame to a second communication device via a communication medium to signal to the second communication device the one of i) the LPS request, and ii) the WUR.
US11855790B2
A method that may be used for power-over-Ethernet includes generating and sending a first pulse of a voltage signal during a classification phase, receiving a current that is responsive to the first pulse, and determining a nominal power of a powered device (PD) from the current. The method also includes generating and sending a quantity of pulses of the voltage signal subsequent to the first pulse during the classification phase, the quantity of pulses including a command to operate the PD at less than the nominal power level during an operational phase subsequent to the classification phase.
US11855784B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to devices and methods for managing carrier aggregation. Downlink control information (DCI), transmitted via a primary cell (PCell), may include one or more secondary cell (SCell) dormancy indication (SDI) value(s) for one or more secondary cells (SCells). That DCI may also schedule a physical downlink shared channel. A scheduled entity may transmit acknowledgment information indicating whether the scheduled entity successfully received the DCI. Where the SDI indicates a switch in behavior relative to one or more SCell(s) and the acknowledgment information indicates that the scheduled entity successfully received that DCI, the one or more SCell(s) transition from dormant to active or vice-versa. Accordingly, the scheduled entity conforms its behavior to provide the appropriate dormancy and non-dormancy behavior when utilizing, in addition to the PCell, one or more SCell(s) for wireless communication in carrier aggregation.
US11855777B1
In embodiments of the present disclosure, there is provided an approach for selecting a channel puncturing scheme based on channel qualities. A method comprises detecting channel interference between neighbor access points (APs), and determining whether a preamble puncturing needs to be enabled based on some puncturing conditions. After determining that a preamble puncturing needs to be enabled, scores for candidate puncturing patterns are calculated based on channel qualities of the sub-channels in the channel, and a proper puncturing pattern can be selected based on the respective scores. Embodiments of the present disclosure can help AP to achieve an effective and better puncturing scheme in real deployment.
US11855776B2
Methods, systems, and devices for encoding and decoding are described. To encode a vector, an encoder allocates information bits of the vector to channel instances of a channel that are separated into groups. The groups may vary in size and allocation of the information bits is based on a base sequence of a given length. During decoding, a decoder assigns different bit types to channels instances by dividing a codeword into a plurality of groups and assigning bit types to channel instances of the plurality of groups using the base sequence.
US11855771B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a wireless communication method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining a target MCS if a current MCS exceeds a predetermined threshold, where the target MCS is an MCS less than or equal to the predetermined threshold; mapping a PTRS to one or more symbols based on the target MCS; and sending, to a terminal device, the symbol to which the PTRS is mapped. through implementation of the embodiments of this application, when the current MCS exceeds the predetermined threshold, the target MCS that is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold may be determined, so that a density of a PTRS on a time-frequency resource can be flexibly determined based on the target MCS and an association relationship between an MCS threshold and a time domain density of a PTRS, thereby helping reduce resource overheads of the PTRS.
US11855770B2
A system, process, and computer-readable medium for updating an application cache using a stream listening service is described. A stream listening service may monitor one or more data streams for content relating to a user. The stream listening service may forward the content along with time-to-live values to an application cache. A user may use an application to obtain information regarding the user's account, where the application obtains information from a data store and/or cached information from the application cache. The stream listening service, by forwarding current account information, obtained from listening to one or more streams, to the application cache, reduces traffic at the data store by providing current information from the data stream to the application cache.
US11855767B2
A method for distributing encrypted cryptographic data includes receiving, by a key service, from a first client device, a request for a first public key. The method includes transmitting, by the key service, to the first client device, the first public key. The method includes receiving, by the key service, from an access control management system, an encryption key encrypted with the first public key and a request from a second client device for access to the encryption key. The method includes decrypting, by the key service, the encrypted encryption key, with a private key corresponding to the first public key. The method includes encrypting, by the key service, the decrypted encryption key, with a second public key received from the second computing device. The method includes transmitting, by the key service, to the second client device, the encryption key encrypted with the second public key.
US11855764B2
A port mode adaptation method includes a network device determining a status of a port on the network device. The method includes the network device setting a mode of the port to an Ethernet interface mode if the status of the port satisfies a first condition. In this way, when the network device identifies the mode of the port on the network device as the FlexE interface mode, and there is no link at the FlexE shim of the port, the network device may determine that a mode used by a port interconnected with the port is not a FlexE interface mode. In this case, the network device may adaptively set the mode of the port to the Ethernet interface mode, to ensure that the port on the network device can use a same mode as another port interconnected with the port.
US11855757B1
Systems and methods are provided for highly accurate synchronization of machine instances in a distributed, hosted computing environment to a reference timekeeper. In addition to a general communication network accessible to machine instances, the distributed environment includes a second network dedicated to carrying time information, such as a pulse-per-second (PPS) signal to isolated timing hardware within host computing devices. The isolated timing hardware can use the PPS signal, along with a reference time, to set a hardware clock. The isolated timing hardware can further provide an interface to machine instances that enables the instances to read the time of the hardware clock. This configuration enables many instances can share access to a single reference timekeeper, thus synchronizing those instances to a much higher accuracy than in traditional network-based time protocols.
US11855751B2
Methods and systems for calibrating the return and forward links of a satellite communication system are provided according to embodiments of the invention. The phase and/or amplitude variations caused by the return and forward links are calculated and/or estimated to aid in beamforming, such as ground-based beamforming. Calibration earth stations, distributed within one or more beam patterns, may be used to transmit calibration codes to the gateway to calibrate the return link. Return links variations may be estimated using a weighted minimum mean square algorithm at the gateway. Forward links may be calibrated with calibration codes transmitted from the gateway through a hybrid matrix to at least one calibration station. Forward calibration links may also calibrate for temperature-dependent signal variations such as diplexer variations at the satellite.
US11855740B2
In the method, a terminal device may send first indication information on a first uplink resource based on information about a spatial relation parameter, to indicate that a link failure occurs in a ith cell in N second cells. The information about the spatial relation parameter is information about a spatial relation parameter used to send a channel and/or a signal of a first cell, and the first uplink resource is an uplink resource of the first cell. Therefore, the network device does not need to configure a plurality of uplink resources that are associated with a plurality of reference signal resources of a second cell and that are used to indicate that a link failure occurs in the second cell, thereby reducing resource overheads.
US11855738B2
Aspects relate to beam management reports that enable selection of best antenna panel and beam combinations for uplink transmissions from a user equipment (UE) when one or more antenna panels of the UE are subject to a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) limit. The UE receives a reference signal at a plurality of antenna panels, wherein the reference signal is received in different beams on each of the plurality of antenna panels. The UE determines N beams providing highest measured strengths of the reference signal on at least one of the plurality of antenna panels, wherein the MPE limit is to be applied to the at least one of the plurality of antenna panels for uplink transmissions. The UE transmits a beam management report including reduced highest measured strengths of the reference signal in the N beams to account for the MPE limit.
US11855716B2
Disclosed herein are a method for transmitting a broadcast signal for signaling information about a combination of Layered-Division Multiplexing (LDM) technology and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) technology and an apparatus using the method. The method includes generating first signaling information indicating whether MIMO technology is applied to an enhanced layer by LDM technology, generating second signaling information indicating an MIMO application method when the MIMO technology is applied to the enhanced layer, and generating a broadcast signal using the first signaling information and the second signaling information.
US11855701B2
An optical transmission and reception system includes an optical transmitter including an optical modulator that optically modulates a transmission signal containing a known signal inserted at predetermined intervals and transmits it to an optical transmission line, and an optical receiver including an optical RC circuit that converts an optical modulation signal received from the optical transmission line into a complex time series signal, a photoelectric conversion element that converts the complex time series signal into an electrical intensity signal, and a digital signal processing unit that performs learning using the known signal as a teaching signal and performs demodulation, based on learning results, using the electrical intensity signal received from the photoelectric conversion element.
US11855700B2
High bandwidth (e.g., >100 GHz) modulators and methods of fabricating such are provided. An optical modulator comprises transmission lines configured to provide a respective radio frequency signal to a respective plurality of segmented capacitive loading electrodes; pluralities of segmented capacitive loading electrodes in electrical communication with a respective one of the transmission lines and in electrical communication with an interface layer of a semiconductor waveguide structure; and the semiconductor waveguide structure. The semiconductor waveguide structure is configured to modulate an optical signal propagating therethrough based at least in part on the respective radio frequency signal. The semiconductor waveguide structure comprises the interface layer, which (a) comprises a semiconductor material and (b) is configured such that an interface resistance of the modulator is ≤4 Ohms. The interface resistance is a serial resistance between the interface layer and respective electrodes of the pluralities of segmented capacitive loading electrodes.
US11855699B2
An optical transmitter generates symbols for transmission by applying a predetermined coding method to each of m-valued transmission symbols generated from transmission data, generates signal light by performing optical modulation on the basis of the symbols for transmission, and transmits the signal light. An optical receiver generates a series of digital signals from the received signal light, detects coded symbols by applying predetermined digital signal processing to the series of digital signals, decodes the m-valued transmission symbols from the detected coded symbols, and restores the transmission data from the decoded m-valued transmission symbols. An operation based on the predetermined coding method performs nonlinear coding that generates the coded symbols by generating m-valued intermediate symbols from the m-valued transmission symbols, the nonlinear coding restricting transitions between series of the coded symbols in time series by assigning bit information to a state transition between coded symbols adjacent in time series and making a number of states that each of the coded symbols can take on greater than a number of states of the m-valued transmission symbols.
US11855690B2
A system for using free-space optics to interconnect a plurality of computing nodes can include a plurality of optical transceivers that facilitate free-space optical communications among the plurality of computing nodes. The system may ensure a line of sight between the plurality of computing nodes and the optical transceivers to facilitate the free-space optical communications. The line of sight may be preserved by the position or placement of the computing nodes in the system. The position or placement of the computing nodes may be achieved by using different shaped enclosures for holding the computing nodes.
US11855684B2
A user device, UE, and a base station, BS, for a wireless communication system is described. Each is using a transmission scheme on a radio resource, and is to determine one or more parameters of a radio channel associated with the radio resource, and to adapt the transmission scheme by selecting an additional radio resource on the basis of the determined one or more parameters. Further a wireless communication system, comprising two or more of the above devices, corresponding methods and a computer program product are described.
US11855682B2
A system and method of resolving a time ambiguity in a receiver based on a received radio signal. The radio signal includes a first signal component and a second signal component. The first and second signal components include code symbols having durations of time The system and method include acquiring each of the signal components, and performing code symbol synchronization and/or code synchronization for each of the codes. The system and method further include estimating a code phase offset between the synchronized codes, or a code-symbol phase offset between the synchronized code symbols. Finally, the system and method include resolving the time ambiguity of the receiver within a time period based on the time-dependent code phase offset or the time-dependent code-symbol phase offset.
US11855674B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a front plate disposed on a display, a back plate disposed on a back surface of the electronic device, a side member placed between the front plate and the back plate and forming an outer appearance of the electronic device together with the front plate and the back plate, and first, second, and third antenna modules including a plurality of conductive plates configured to transmit/receive a signal in a specified first frequency band and disposed between the front plate and the back plate so as to be adjacent to the side member. At least a portion of the side member is able to be used as an antenna of a signal in a specified second frequency band different from the specified first frequency band.
US11855661B2
A multiplier is configured to implement multiplication of a first value of M bits and a second value of N bits, and includes P groups of encoders and W layers of inversion compressors. Each group include N encoders and are configured to encode a part of bits in the second value, and a group selection signal and a symbol control input signal corresponding to the each group. The group selection signal and the symbol control input signal are generated based on a part of bits in the first value, and the P groups of encoders perform encoding to obtain P partial products. The W layers of inversion compressors are configured to compress the P partial products.
US11855656B2
The invention relates to a detection circuit, a detection method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The detection circuit includes: an error correction coding module configured to obtain data to be checked, and perform, based on an error correction coding logic, error correction coding on the data to be checked, to output target coded data; a data mask interface configured to receive comparison coded data, where the comparison coded data is associated with ideally coded data of the data to be checked; a comparison checking module configured to perform a checking comparison on the target coded data and the comparison coded data to output a checking comparison result; and a logic verification module configured to determine a coding verification result of the error correction coding module based on the checking comparison result. The comparison checking data verifies correctness of the error correction coding logic.
US11855650B2
Disclosed is a frequency multiplication apparatus including a first frequency multiplier receiving a first signal having a first frequency and outputting a second signal having a second frequency by multiplying the first frequency by ‘n’ (‘n’ being a positive integer), a second frequency multiplier receiving the second signal and outputting a third signal having a third frequency by multiplying the second frequency by ‘m’ (‘m’ being a positive integer), and a coupler connected between an output of the first frequency multiplier and an input of the second frequency multiplier and outputting a part of the second signal.
US11855648B2
A clock and data recovery (CDR) system includes a correlator configured to receive data, determine a first value of the received data, and output a second value corresponding to the received data, an accumulator configured to generate an accumulation value by accumulating the second value output from the correlator and output the accumulation value, and a state machine configured to determine whether a repeating pattern is present in the CDR system based on the accumulation value.
US11855642B1
A programmable delay structure includes at least one delay stage, each including an inverter connected between input and output nodes, a threshold voltage (VT)-programmable transistor, and a capacitor connectable to the output node through the transistor. During program mode operations, the transistor is programmed to have a low or high VT. During delay mode operation, the gate voltage is set between the low and high VTs. If the transistor has the low VT, the capacitor is connected to the output node and signal delay is increased. If the transistor has the high VT, the capacitor is not connected to the output node and signal delay is not increased. Illustrated embodiments include additional components for facilitating program mode and delay mode operations. Illustrated embodiments also include multiple delay stages where the output node of one stage is connected to the input node of the next. Also disclosed are associated operating methods.
US11855636B2
Embodiments of the present application provide an oscillator and a clock generation circuit. The oscillator includes: a first ring topology, including a plurality of first inverters connected end to end, and configured to transmit an oscillation signal at a first transmission speed; and a second ring topology, including a plurality of second inverters connected end to end, and configured to transmit the oscillation signal at a second transmission speed, wherein the present application, the first ring topology is electrically connected to the second ring topology, and the second transmission speed is less than the first transmission speed.
US11855633B2
An integrated circuit includes a programmable logic array. The programmable logic array incudes a plurality of logic elements arranged in rows and columns. Each logic element includes a direct output and a synchronized output. The direct output of each logic element is coupled to all other logic elements of higher rank, but is not coupled to logic elements of lower rank.
US11855632B2
A logic cell structure includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion. The first portion, arranged to be a first layout of a first semiconductor element, is placed in a first cell row of a substrate area extending in a first direction. The second portion, arranged to be a second layout of a second semiconductor element, is placed in a second cell row of the substrate area. The third portion is arranged to be a third layout of an interconnecting path used for coupling the first semiconductor element and the second semiconductor element. The first, second and third portions are bounded by a bounding box with a height in a second direction and a width in the first direction. Respective centers of the first portion and the second portion are arranged in a third direction different from each of the first direction and the second direction.
US11855630B2
Techniques are described herein to enhance capability of floating level translators. For example, increased headroom is accomplished by adaptively bypassing the protection elements of the voltage level translator. In an example, a floating level translator can translate an input signal from a low-voltage domain to a high-voltage domain. A bypass circuit is coupled across the protection elements. The bypass circuit selectively engages during low-voltage operation (e.g., thereby providing a lower loss path relative to loss caused by the high-voltage protection elements and thus increasing the headroom swing), and disengages responsive to the high-voltage reference rail of the high-voltage domain exceeding a threshold or otherwise being high enough (e.g., greater than the potential of the low-voltage domain power rail). The bypass circuit can be implemented in a relatively low-complexity manner (e.g., back-to-back high-voltage FETs) without additional signals to control low-voltage capability.
US11855625B2
A semiconductor apparatus may include: a command generation circuit configured to generate a first internal command signal and a second internal command signal, which are sequentially activated on the basis of a data command signal for a data driving operation; an impedance setting circuit enabled on the basis of the first internal command signal, and configured to set impedance into which a reference resistance is reflected; and a data driving circuit enabled on the basis of the second internal command signal, and configured to perform the data driving operation on the basis of the set impedance.
US11855622B2
A touch sensing device includes: a force sensing unit including a sensing coil; and a metal portion. At least a portion of the metal portion is in contact with the force sensing unit, and the touch sensing device is configured such that a region of the metal portion overlapping with the sensing coil changes in response to a touch being applied to the touch sensing device.
US11855618B2
A gate drive device drives a gate of a semiconductor switching element and controls a transient voltage corresponding to a voltage of a main terminal of the semiconductor switching element to a target value of the transient voltage at a time of switching the semiconductor switching element. The gate drive device includes a calculation circuit, a drive circuit, a detection circuit, and a learning circuit. The calculation circuit executes a predetermined calculation mode to calculate an operation amount for operating gate drive speed of the semiconductor switching element. The drive circuit drives the gate of the semiconductor switching element according to the operation amount. The detection circuit detects the transient voltage. The learning circuit executes learning processing to change the predetermined calculation mode based on the operation amount calculated by the calculation circuit and the transient voltage detected by the detection circuit.
US11855615B2
An improved circuit or method generates first and second initial pulses that do not overlap. First and second drive pulses are generated based on the first and second initial pulses, respectively. A first transistor is turned on with the first drive pulses. A second transistor is turned on with the second drive pulses. A current flows in response to an on-time state of the first transistor overlapping with an on-time state of the second transistor. A delay of the second drive pulses is decreased based on a time of the current flow overlapping with one of the first initial pulses; and the delay of the second drive pulses is increased based on the time of the current flow overlapping with one of the second initial pulses.
US11855605B2
An acoustic wave filter device includes a first longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator including an odd number of first IDT electrodes arranged along an acoustic wave propagation direction and a second longitudinally coupled acoustic wave resonator including an odd number of second IDT electrodes arranged in the acoustic wave propagation direction. Among the first IDT electrodes, the odd-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to a node and the even-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to a node. Among the second IDT electrodes, the odd-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to the node and the even-numbered IDT electrodes are connected to the node. The number of first IDT electrodes connected to the node and the number of second IDT electrodes connected to the node are the same.
US11855604B2
A microelectromechanical resonator device has: a main body, with a first surface and a second surface, opposite to one another along a vertical axis, and made of a first layer and a second layer, arranged on the first layer; a cap, having a respective first surface and a respective second surface, opposite to one another along the vertical axis, and coupled to the main body by bonding elements; and a piezoelectric resonator structure formed by: a mobile element, constituted by a resonator portion of the first layer, suspended in cantilever fashion with respect to an internal cavity provided in the second layer and moreover, on the opposite side, with respect to a housing cavity provided in the cap; a region of piezoelectric material, arranged on the mobile element on the first surface of the main body; and a top electrode, arranged on the region of piezoelectric material, the mobile element constituting a bottom electrode of the piezoelectric resonator structure.
US11855598B2
A variable gain amplifier includes input terminals configured to receive a differential input of the variable gain amplifier, output terminals configured to generate a differential output of the variable gain amplifier, the differential output having a gain applied by the variable gain amplifier to the differential input, and an impedance ladder circuit coupled to the input terminals, the impedance ladder circuit comprising a plurality of semiconductor switches configured to receive respective control signals based on a control voltage. The plurality of semiconductors switches are responsive to the respective control signals to adjust the gain of the variable gain amplifier and configured with a predetermined exponential scale such that the impedance ladder circuit causes a slope of the gain of the variable gain amplifier relative to the control voltage to be generally linear.
US11855596B2
An amplifier circuit includes a first input unit, a second input unit, a first current supply unit, and a second current supply unit. The first input unit changes a voltage level of a first output node based on a first input signal. The second input unit changes a voltage level of a second output node based on a second input signal. The first current supply unit supplies a first current to the first output node based on a voltage level of the first output node and boosts the voltage level of the first output node for a predetermined time when the voltage level of the first output node is changed. The second current supply unit supplies a second current to the second output node based on the voltage level of the first output node.
US11855591B2
The present disclosure relates to a new combiner/attenuator circuit that provides improved performance, specifically the combiner/attenuator circuit disclosed is capable of operating at a temperature of 4K and provides an improved frequency response and filtering.
US11855581B2
A solar panel support apparatus comprising: a support frame for holding the solar panel; a support post pivotally connected to the support frame at a post pivot connection and anchored to an adjacent supporting surface, the support post for positioning the support frame above the supporting surface; and a linear actuator coupled at a proximal end to the support post by a support pivot connection and at a distal end by a frame pivot connection with the support frame, the post pivot connection and the frame pivot connection spaced apart from one another on the support frame; wherein a change in a length of the linear actuator results in pivoting of the support frame about the post pivot connection.
US11855580B2
A roofing system with interlocking structural panels that have an outer, exterior side surface adapted to be exposed to weather, and an inner side that faces the interior of a structure when installed. The roofing system generally can include a first plurality of structural panels and a second plurality of structural panels, with at least one of the pluralities of structural panels including roofing panels, and the other plurality of structural panels including photovoltaic modules or solar panels that can be mounted in series with the roofing panels to form the roof structure. The structural panels of the roofing system are configured to act as structural components for construction of a roof structure, and are further adapted and/or constructed to be easily handled and installed by individual installers.
US11855576B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a power generating assembly in the event of a fault, wherein the power generating assembly comprises a PMG comprising at least first and second sets of stator windings, wherein each set of stator windings is connected to a power converter via a controllable circuit breaker, the method comprising the steps of detecting a fault associated with the first set of stator windings, and lowering, such as interrupting, the current in the second set of stator windings, and, after a predetermined delay, lowering, such as interrupting, the current in the first set of stator windings. The present invention also relates to a power generating assembly being capable of handling such faults, and a wind turbine generator comprising such a power generating assembly.
US11855568B2
A motor driving device for driving a motor having multiple windings corresponding to multiple phases, respectively, may include: a first inverter including multiple first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the multiple windings; a second inverter including multiple second switching elements and connected a second end of each of the multiple windings; a third switching element configured to connect/disconnect points, at which the number of turns of each of the multiple windings is partitioned based on a predetermined ratio, to/from each other; and a controller configured to control, based on the required output of the motor, an on/off state of the first switching elements to the third switching element.
US11855565B2
A wall-mountable load control device may include an illuminated rotary knob for providing a nightlight feature. The load control device may be configured to control an intensity of a lighting load. The load control device may include a yoke adapted to be mounted to an electrical wall box, an enclosure attached to the yoke, a faceplate attached to the yoke and having an opening, a mounting member attached to the yoke, and/or a potentiometer located within the enclosure and having a shaft extending through an opening in the yoke and the opening of the faceplate. The load control device may include a collar attached to the boss of the mounting member and surrounding the shaft of the potentiometer. The mounting member may be configured to conduct light from at least one light source housed within the enclosure to illuminate the faceplate.
US11855554B2
A method of driving an electrical load includes coupling a power supply source to a power supply pin of a driver circuit, and coupling an electrical load to at least one output pin of the driver circuit. A driver sub-circuit of the driver circuit produces at least one driving signal for driving the electrical load. The at least one driving signal is provided to the electrical load via the at least one output pin. The at least one driving signal is modulated to supply the electrical load with a load current and to subsequently interrupt the load current. A compensation current pulse is sunk from the power supply pin, at a compensation circuit of the driver circuit, in response to the load current being interrupted.
US11855548B2
A power conversion device in an embodiment includes a first power converter; a plurality of direct current-direct current (DCDC) converter devices; and a second power converter. The first power converter includes a plurality of first positive-side arms; a plurality of first negative-side arms; a first positive-side star connection line configured to connect the plurality of first positive-side arms in a star shape; a first negative-side star connection line configured to connect the plurality of first negative-side arms in a star shape; and a first terminal configured to connect the first positive-side star connection line and the first negative-side star connection line to each phase of a power supply side alternating current (AC) system and the plurality of first positive-side arms and the plurality of first negative-side arms mutually convert a first AC power and a first DC power of the power supply side AC system. A plurality of DCDC converter devices mutually convert the first DC power and the second DC power. The second power converter includes a plurality of second positive-side arms; a plurality of second negative-side arms; a second positive-side star connection line configured to connect the plurality of second positive-side arms in a star shape; a second negative-side star connection line configured to connect the plurality of second negative-side arms in a star shape; and a second terminal configured to connect the second positive-side star connection line and the second negative-side star connection line to each phase of a load-side AC system, and the plurality of second positive-side arms and the plurality of second negative-side arms mutually convert the second DC power and the second AC power.
US11855539B2
A power converter module includes a ground terminal, an input voltage terminal configured to receive a raw input voltage, and an interconnection terminal configured to provide a regulated output voltage to a load such as a SOC or SIP system to be powered. A voltage regulator is connected to the ground terminal and the input voltage terminal. An inductor has an inductor output connected to the interconnection terminal.
US11855537B2
A switching converter with adaptive constant on-time control has a power switch and a control circuit. The switching converter converts an input voltage into an output voltage. When the switching converter is in a light-load state, the on-time of the power switch is controlled to be smaller than the on-time of the power switch in a normal-load state, wherein the normal-load state includes a continuous current mode (CCM) or a discontinuous current mode (DCM).
US11855518B2
An electric motor assembly includes a housing, an impeller disposed inside the housing, a stator disposed at one side of the impeller in an axial direction of the impeller, the stator comprising a plurality of coil parts, a rotor that includes a rotation shaft connected to the impeller and that is configured to rotate relative to the stator, a bracket that is coupled to the housing and supports the rotation shaft, and a connection ring that electrically connects together end portions of the plurality of coil parts.
US11855514B2
A stator of an electrical machine, more particularly an electric motor of a motor vehicle, comprising: a laminated stator core, which has a number of stator teeth and is provided with a rotating field winding, which is arranged on the stator teeth and comprises a plurality of phases, the phases of the rotating field winding being formed from a continuously wound winding wire; and a connecting device having a number of U-shaped sockets corresponding to the number of phases, said sockets being provided for each holding one insulation displacement contact as a point of connection of the winding wire to phase terminals on a stator end face, each socket having two vertical U legs and a contact slot arranged therebetween for receiving the winding wire, one of the two vertical U legs of the socket being longer in an axial direction than the other vertical U leg in each case.
US11855498B2
An electric motor comprises: a rotor having poles equaling a first number; and a stator having slots equaling a second number, the stator having stator windings formed by conductors wound in a wave pattern around the stator, wherein a third number of the conductors are located in each of the slots, wherein the conductors form three balanced parallel paths through the slots, each of the conductors in the three balanced parallel paths undergoing a same number of pitch turns, each of the pitch turns being either a standard pitch turn or a nonstandard pitch turn, the standard pitch turn involving wrapping around slots equaling the second number divided by the first number, the nonstandard pitch turn involving wrapping around more or fewer slots than the standard pitch turn, wherein each of the three balanced parallel paths forms a repeating pattern throughout the slots.
US11855496B2
A motor drive system includes a motor that drives a vehicle so as to travel, a motor control device that includes an inverter and a control device that controls the inverter, and which controls the motor, and a communication electronic control unit connected to the control device, wherein the communication electronic control unit transmits information regarding a drive system of the motor transmitted from the control device to an exterior of the vehicle.
US11855491B2
The present invention may provide a motor including a rotor and a stator disposed to correspond to the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core and a magnet disposed on the rotor core, a tooth of the stator includes a first surface facing the magnet, the magnet includes a second surface in contact with the rotor core and a third surface which is spaced apart from the second surface and faces the first surface, the third surface includes a flat surface, and a first length which is a shortest distance of the flat surface is in the range of 46% to 50% of a second length of a shortest distance of the first surface.
US11855486B2
A stator core includes a core back having an annular shape around a central axis, teeth extending outward from the core back in a radial direction, and an inner peripheral surface located inside the core back in the radial direction and extending from an upper end to a lower end of the core back around the central axis. The core back includes a plastically deformable portion having an annular shape around the central axis and disposed below the core back in the axial direction. At least a portion of the plastically deformable portion has a different distance from the central axis than another portion of the core back.
US11855485B2
A laminated core includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets which are stacked on each other and of each of which both surfaces are coated with an insulation coating; and an adhesion part which is provided between the electrical steel sheets adjacent in the stacking direction and adheres the electrical steel sheets to each other, wherein an adhesive for forming the adhesion part includes a first phase and a second phase, wherein the adhesion part has a sea-island structure of the first phase which is a sea structure portion and the second phase which is an island structure portion, wherein the first phase contains an epoxy resin, an acrylic resin, and a curing agent, wherein the first phase has an SP value of 8.5 to 10.7 (cal/cm3)1/2, wherein the second phase contains an elastomer, and wherein the second phase has an SP value of 7.5 to 8.4 (cal/cm3)1/2.
US11855483B2
An uninterruptible power supply device provided between a commercial power system and an essential load and supplying AC power to the essential load includes: a power supply part that has an energy storage device and is connected to a power line for supplying power from the commercial power system to the essential load; an open switch for opening/closing the power supply line, the open switch being provided on the power line on the commercial-power-system side of the power supply part; a system abnormality detection part for detecting a system abnormality occurring on the commercial-power-system side of the open switch; and a control part that, when the detected system abnormality is equal to or greater than the tolerance of the essential load or the power supply part against system abnormalities, opens the open switch and supplies AC power from the power supply part to the essential load.
US11855474B2
A method of charging a battery having a first voltage and a second voltage. In a first phase, applying a constant current to the battery; in a second phase, applying current pulses to the battery; repeating iteratively sampling the first voltage during a current pulse to obtain a measurement of the first voltage; sampling the first voltage during a current pause to obtain a measurement of the second voltage; generating a dynamic reference voltage based on the fixed reference voltage and on a difference between the measurement of the first voltage and the second voltage. There is a comparing the measurement of the first voltage with the dynamic reference voltage. There is a stopping of the current pulses when the measurement of the first voltage is equal to the dynamic reference voltage and the measurement of the second voltage is equal to the fixed reference voltage.
US11855471B2
A power management system for use in a device comprising a battery and one or more components configured to draw electrical energy from the battery may include a first power converter configured to electrically couple between charging circuity configured to provide electrical energy for charging the battery and the one or more downstream components and a bidirectional power converter configured to electrically couple between the charging circuitry and the battery, wherein the bidirectional power converter is configured to transfer charge from the battery or transfer charge from the battery based on a power requirement of the one or more components and a power available from the first power converter.
US11855462B2
A method for controlling an induction coil on an induction hob involves a power generation for a primary power on the induction coil for power transmission to an electrical consumer put onto a cover above the induction coil, which consumer has a receiver coil and an electrical load connected thereto, being adjusted. The induction coil forms a primary-side resonant circuit with a capacitance connected in series, and the induction coil and the receiver coil are coupled in the style of a transformer such that a current in the induction coil induces a voltage in the receiver coil with a flow of current and generation of the secondary power in the load of the electrical consumer. The control means can attempt to adjust the desired secondary power to a steady state using maximum modulation of the voltage effectively applied to the primary-side resonant circuit, as second manipulated variable. The primary power is decreased in a first step by virtue of the voltage effectively applied to the primary-side resonant circuit, as second manipulated variable, being decreased before the operating frequency as first manipulated variable is increased in a second, subsequent step.
