US11883437B2
The present application is directed to the field of implants comprising soft tissue for use in implantation in humans. The soft tissue implants of the present application are preferably obtained from xenograft sources. The present application provides a chemical process that sterilizes, removes antigens from and/or strengthens xenograft implants. The present techniques yield soft tissue implants having superior structural, mechanical, and/or biochemical integrity. The present application is also directed to processes for treating xenograft implants comprising soft tissues such as dermis, and to implants produced by such processes.
US11883424B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising complexes that are formed by polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid with a polyalkyleneimine, such as polyethyleneimine, that present uniform structural and functional features, as well as to methods for preparing the compositions that comply with regulatory requirements. The present invention additionally relates to use of said compositions as medicaments (in particular for treating cancer), alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents and/or in specific medical methods. Moreover, the administration of these compositions is associated to changes in the expression of specific genes, in cell responses, and/or in composition of immune cell populations that can be used as specific biomarkers and/or as additional target for medical treatment.
US11883423B2
Disclosed herein are derivatives of nucleobase analogues. The disclosed compounds have a nucleobase moiety and an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid moiety, including pharmaceutically acceptable salt or prodrug thereof. Methods of using these compounds for the treatment of cancers such as pancreatic cancer are also disclosed.
US11883418B2
A compound TSYI-ZAC (Zhankuic acid C) used in a method for treating dengue virus infection, in which a pharmaceutical composition can further comprise a 4,7-dimethoxy-5-methyl-1,3-benzodioxole compound capable of inhibiting dengue virus infection by down-regulating an expression of IL-6 and IL-8, and increasing a secretion of IFN-α.
US11883409B2
Therapeutic uses P2X7 inhibition and inhibition of IRAK1 and/or IRAK4, methods protecting a cell, and screening methods for identifying inhibitors are described herein.
US11883408B2
Described herein are methods of treating narcolepsy with cataplexy, comprising administering reboxetine to a human being in need thereof. Reboxetine may also be used in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of narcolepsy with cataplexy. Also disclosed herein are kits comprising a pharmaceutical composition comprising reboxetine and instructions to use the pharmaceutical composition to treat narcolepsy with cataplexy in a human being.
US11883406B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing an alginic acid-folic acid conjugate, an alginic acid-folic acid conjugate produced thereby, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same. According to the method of producing an alginic acid-folic acid conjugate using a carboxy-protecting group and a leaving group, the hydroxyl group of alginic acid forms an ester group with the carboxyl group of folic acid. Thus, the alginic acid-folic acid conjugate may clearly distinguish cancer cells from normal tissue by more effectively targeting cancer cells than a conventional alginic acid-conjugated folic acid in which the amine group of folic acid is covalently bonded to the carboxyl group of alginic acid. Accordingly, the alginic acid-folic acid conjugate may be effectively used for precise diagnosis and efficient surgical resection of cancer lesions.
US11883402B2
This patent document relates to the crystalline forms of a quinazoline compound and the hydrochloride salts thereof. More particularly, this patent document relates to a preparation method of the crystalline forms of 1-(4-(4-(3,4-dichloro-2-fluorophenylamino)-7-methoxyquinazolin-6-yloxy)piperidin-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one and its hydrochloride salts.
US11883401B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for the treatment of pathogen-induced and/or chemical-induced lung injury, for regenerating lung epithelial cells following lung injury, for treating cancer, and for sensitizing a subject suffering from cancer to a chemotherapeutic agent.
US11883392B2
According to the invention, there is provided a solid pharmaceutical composition formulation for nasal delivery of an opioid antagonist, comprising a pharmacologically-effective amount of an opioid antagonist and a pharmaceutically-acceptable carrier. The compositions are preferably in the form of a powder produced by spray-drying, which are subsequently loaded into single use nasal applicators. Preferred pharmaceutically-acceptable carriers in this regard include disaccharides (e.g. lactose or trehalose) and dextrins (e.g. cyclodextrins or maltodextrins), preferably spray-dried together in combination. Compositions may further comprise an alkyl saccharide, preferably a sucrose ester, such as sucrose monolaurate. The compositions and applicators may be employed in the treatment of opioid overdose in subjects.
US11883389B2
Provided herein are lyophilized formulations of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-N-((2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1-oxoisoindolin-5-yl)methyl)-2,2-difluoroacetamide or a stereoisomer or mixture of stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer, prodrug, solvate, hydrate, co-crystal, clathrate, or polymorph thereof. Methods of using the formulations and dosage forms for treating, managing, and/or preventing cancer are also provided herein.
US11883386B2
The present disclosure relates to HIF-1α prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors, compositions which comprise the HIF-1α prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors described herein and to methods for controlling, inter alia, Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD), Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), heart failure, ischemia, and anemia.
US11883383B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutically acceptable salts of [3-(4-{2-butyl-1-[4-(4-chloro-phenoxy)-phenyl]-1H-imidazol-4-yl}-phenoxy)-propyl]-diethylamine (“COMPOUND I”) useful in the treatment of RAGE mediated diseases.
US11883369B2
The present invention includes a low dose and sustained release formulation of a mitochondrial uncoupling agent The compositions of the invention are useful for preventing or treating a disease or disorder, such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, insulin resistance and/or diabetes, in a subject in need thereof.
US11883367B2
The present invention relates novel 6-6 bicyclic aromatic ring substituted nucleoside analogues of Formula (I) wherein the variables have the meaning defined in the claims. The compounds according to the present invention are useful as PRMT5 inhibitors. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds as an active ingredient as well as the use of said compounds as a medicament.
US11883364B2
A sealing element is received between a connector and an attachment member. The sealing element includes a foot section received by a recess of the connector, a shoulder engaging an inner surface of the attachment member, and a flange engaging a support surface of the connector. The sealing element also includes a cylindrical body extending from the shoulder to the flange along an insertion direction and, where the cylindrical body deforms to create a flow path through the sealing element, and a sealing head defines an opening that transitions from a closed state to an open state when the cylindrical body deforms.
US11883356B2
This invention comprises a mounted unit that combines the healing power of touch with functional, multi-faceted human engineering body manipulation and stress relief by incorporating the most basic principles of massage, acupressure, reflexology, rubbing/scratching, Shiatsu, and other health improvement techniques to provide the user with an easy-to-use, self-administrable stimulation experience. The unit contains a plurality of generally domed protrusions from each of which extends a nail-like rib running through the center of the domed surface, which perform the massaging experience when a user rubs his or her back against it at a pressure desirable to the user. The mounted unit can comprise a removable handheld unit that increases the body areas which can be massaged by the invention and a hinged door, behind which can be stored specialized attachments that are removably fastenable onto the protrusions for more focused massage.
US11883350B2
Multipurpose tactile warning panels for use in pedestrian walkways, and in particular tactile warning panels that are designed and built with multifunction/multipurpose capabilities that serve the visually impaired and enable the deployment of smart city technology by integrating tactile warning systems and subsurface enclosures that can withstand pressures of five (5) tons up to and exceeding sixty (60) tons and incorporate small cells, beacons, sensors, Fog Computing, electric energy generation, rechargeable power supplies, wireless M2M communication and a plethora of other smart city technologies.
US11883333B2
A patient transport apparatus for transporting a patient over a surface. The patient transport apparatus has support wheels coupled to a base and swivelable about swivel axes. An auxiliary wheel assembly is coupled to the base and includes an auxiliary wheel configured to move between a plurality of wheel positions, and an actuator operably coupled to the auxiliary wheel to move the auxiliary wheel between the plurality of wheel positions. A sensing system with a sensor is provided to detect a motion condition of the patient transport apparatus. A controller is coupled to the sensing system and to the actuator, and is configured to drive the actuator to move the auxiliary wheel between the plurality of wheel positions based on the motion condition of the patient transport apparatus.
US11883329B2
A laser eye surgery system includes a laser to generate a laser beam. A topography measurement system measures corneal topography. A processor is coupled to the laser and the topography measurement system, the processor embodying instructions to measure a first corneal topography of the eye, A first curvature of the cornea is determined. A target curvature of the cornea that treats the eye is determined. A first set of incisions and a set of partial incisions in the cornea smaller than the first set of incisions are determined. The set of partial incisions is incised on the cornea by the laser beam. A second corneal topography is measured. A second curvature of the cornea is determined. The second curvature is determined to differ from the target curvature and a second set of incisions are determined. The second set of incisions is incised on the cornea.
US11883328B2
A surgical system corrects a surgical parameter based on a nomogram specific for a refractive laser surgery system to provide a nomogram-based corrected surgical parameter; stores the surgical parameter and the nomogram-based corrected surgical parameter as data for a patient or for one or both eyes of the patient; and compares the surgical parameter and nomogram-based corrected surgical parameter to generate a graphical representation of the surgical parameter, a target outcome parameter associated with the surgical parameter, or both, and the nomogram-based corrected surgical parameter, to generate a warning based on a comparison of the nomogram-based corrected surgical parameter to the surgical parameter or an absolute value, or both.
US11883319B2
Provided is a mandibular advancement device including: a driving unit including an intraoral device; a main body configured to generate a driving force for driving the driving unit; and a connection unit configured to connect the driving unit and the main body to transmit the driving force generated by the main body to the driving unit, wherein the driving unit includes a driving case having an empty space therein, a coupling unit having fixed thereto the intraoral device and coupled to a front of the driving case, and a rear cover coupled to a rear of the driving case and accommodating a piston therein, the intraoral device includes a first frame and a second frame located to overlap each other, a first seating portion covering a portion of the first frame located in an oral cavity of a user, a second seating portion covering a portion of the second frame located in the oral cavity of the user, and a fixing unit coupled to the first frame and the second frame, the first frame is coupled to the fixing unit to be relative movable with respect to the second frame, the second frame is fixed to the fixing unit, and the fixing unit is fixed to the coupling unit.
US11883315B2
A conformable and reconfigurable orthosis is provided. The conformable and reconfigurable orthosis comprises a central core metallic wire resistive heating element, an electrically insulating layer such as glass fiber or nylon fiber, and a structural layer of carbon fiber composites. The conformable and reconfigurable orthosis further comprises a thermal insulation and/or a skin compatible cushioning layer.
US11883314B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described for providing a fluid control for an inflation system. The control directs fluid flow from an inlet to one or more outlets of the control. The outlets are independently connected in fluid communication with the inlet by through the control. The control allows a user to create a fluid path between the inlet and a selected outlet by positioning the control in an orientation corresponding to the desired outlet. Each outlet is independently connected in fluid communication with the inlet in various orientations of the control.
US11883310B2
An illustrative endoluminal implant having an elongated tubular member. The elongated tubular member having a stent and a retrieval suture interwoven with the stent. The retrieval suture including a first suture loop extending about a circumference of the stent and adjacent to a suture retrieval loop and a second suture loop extending about a circumference of the stent and longitudinally spaced from the first suture loop. The first and second suture loops coupled via one or more interconnecting segments. At least one of the first or second suture loops has an arc length of less than 270° of the circumference of the stent.
US11883307B2
A mechanical interface connecting a biological body segment, such as a limb, portion of a limb or other body segment, to a wearable device such as a prosthetic, orthotic or exoskeletal device, is fabricated by quantitatively mapping a characterized representation of the body segment to form a digital representation of the mechanical interface shape and mechanical interface impedance. The mechanical interface includes a continuous socket defining a contoured inside surface and a contoured outside surface, and includes a material having an intrinsic impedance that varies through the material, so that the intrinsic impedance varies along the contoured inside surface.
US11883306B2
A prosthetic liner has a ventilated structure communicating with an interior volume to an exterior of the prosthetic liner, thereby permitting a transfer of air and moisture therebetween. The prosthetic liner includes a facing layer defining a periphery of at least part of the interior volume of the liner, and forming a plurality of apertures extending therethrough. A cushion layer is juxtaposed to the facing layer and forms a lattice structure including a plurality of interstices in communication with the apertures of the facing layer.
US11883304B2
The present disclosure provides for a device and method of control for an artificial prosthetic knee. A prosthetic knee according to the present disclosure relies on strictly passive means of providing support during weight bearing and supplements a resistive swing-phase mechanism with a small powered actuator. This actuator adds power to the knee, exclusively during swing phase, to improve swing-phase behavior. In particular, the knee still relies on the resistive swing-phase mechanism to provide nominal swing-phase knee motion, but supplements that motion as needed with the small powered actuator.
US11883301B2
An example expandable interbody device can include a structural body having an upper endplate and a lower endplate, where the endplates are shaped to nest tightly in a closed position. The device can include at least one wedge block and at least one linkage block arranged between the upper and lower endplates of the structural body. The device can include a drive screw threaded through the at least one wedge block and the at least one linkage block. The drive screw can be configured to rotate and drive the at least one wedge block to expand the upper and lower endplates of the structural body from the closed position to an intermediate position. Additionally, the drive screw can be further configured to rotate and drive the at least one linkage block to expand the upper and lower endplates of the structural body from the intermediate position to an open position.
US11883295B2
A dynamic, adjustable annuloplasty ring sizer can include an adjustable ring replica, which can be adjusted through a range of sizes corresponding to available prosthetic annuloplasty repair ring sizes. Actuation of an adjustment trigger on a handle portion of the ring sizer can displace tension wires that extend through a malleable shaft and through a plurality of articulating segments that form the ring replica. Displacement of the tension wires causes flexion of the joints between adjacent articulating segments, thereby reducing the overall size of the ring replica. Releasing the tension wires can allow an elastic extension wire to act on the ring replica, enlarging the ring replica to its maximum, at-rest size. In this manner, the appropriate size of annuloplasty ring prosthesis can be determined with a single device, without requiring a plurality of static ring sizers that require individual insertion and placement for the conventional trial-and-error sizing methods.
US11883293B2
A method for grouping prosthetic valve leaflets of an aggregate of prosthetic valve leaflets is provided. Using a computer processor, for each leaflet of the aggregate, a leaflet-flexibility value is derived. A group size value is provided to the processor. Using the processor, at least some of the leaflets of the aggregate are designated into leaflet groups, based on similarity between the respective leaflet-flexibility value of each leaflet of the aggregate. Each of the leaflet groups includes a number of leaflets equal to the group size value. Using the processor, an indication of the designated leaflet groups is outputted. Other embodiments are also described.
US11883288B2
The expandable sheath and methods of use disclosed herein are used to deliver a prosthetic device through a patient's vasculature. The sheath is constructed to be expandable in the circumferential direction, while maintaining sufficient stiffness in the longitudinal direction to withstand pushing and resist kinking. The sheath includes a plurality of curved arms extending outwardly from a longitudinally extending spine. The curved arms move away from the longitudinal axis of the sheath when pushed radially outwardly by a passing prosthetic device, and move back toward the longitudinal axis once the prosthetic device has passed.
US11883286B2
A replacement heart valve prosthesis is loaded onto a balloon mounted onto a balloon shaft of a catheter system. The balloon shaft is rotatably engaged with an actuator on the handle of the catheter system. Rotation of the actuator by a first amount in a first direction permits rotation of the heart valve prosthesis by a known amount during the procedure so that alignment of the commissures of the replacement valve with the commissures of the existing valve can be predictably achieved.
US11883284B2
A transcatheter heart valve includes a paravalvular seal that is configured for transfemoral delivery. The valve includes a frame and the seal is formed from a plurality of outwardly extending fibers.
US11883278B2
Various systems and techniques for inserting an intraocular lens are disclosed. In particular implementations, a system and a technique for inserting an intraocular lens may include the ability to move, in response to a force being applied in a first direction along a longitudinal axis, a first plunger tip along the longitudinal axis and into a delivery cartridge to fold an intraocular lens and move in a second direction along the longitudinal axis in response to the applied force being reduced. The system and the technique may also include the ability to engage a second plunger tip and move, in response to a force being applied in the first direction along the longitudinal axis, the second plunger tip along the longitudinal axis and into the delivery cartridge to insert the intraocular lens.
US11883270B2
A method for measuring airflow through a channel comprised in an absorbent article core, said method comprising the steps of: providing an absorbent core adapted to be sandwiched between a liquid permeable topsheet and a liquid impermeable backsheet of an absorbent article, wherein the absorbent core comprises at least one channel; providing a thermal imaging camera; loading the absorbent core with a warm liquid, wherein said warm liquid has a temperature of greater than 30° C.; simultaneously visually recording said absorbent core with said thermal imaging camera, and spraying said channel(s) with a cold fluid, wherein the cold fluid has a temperature of less than 10° C.
US11883269B2
In one embodiment, an array of packages may comprise two or more different sizes of disposable absorbent articles. The Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of a second absorbent article may be equal to or greater than a Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of a first absorbent article. And, an Array Average Product Hip-to-Side Silhouette of first and second packages of the array may be from about 2.2 to about 6.0.
US11883260B2
An apparatus, a system and methods are disclosed in relation to the configuration and compatibility of a removable delivery section of the apparatus, and delivering a substance via the apparatus to an animal. In an aspect, a hand held apparatus for delivering a substance to an animal includes a removable delivery section including a delivery arrangement adapted to deliver the substance to the animal; and a drive section including a drive arrangement adapted to actuate the delivery arrangement in a coupled condition in which the removable delivery section is coupled to the drive section. The delivery section includes an electronic device adapted to communicate with a control system associated with at least the drive section in the coupled condition, the electronic device being configurable so to be readable by the control system such that the control system is able to identify and operate the removable delivery section.
US11883259B2
System for scanning a subject's teeth. Described herein are intraoral scanning apparatuses for generating a three-dimensional model of a subject's intraoral region (e.g., teeth). These apparatuses may be used for identifying and evaluating lesions, caries and cracks in the teeth.
US11883257B2
A self-ligating bracket includes a bracket body and a spring clip. The bracket body includes a mesial channel, a distal channel, a center channel, and an arch wire slot. The spring clip includes a distal arm, mesial arm, and a center arm which are moveably within the mesial channel, distal channel, and center channel between an open position and a closed position to occlude the arch wire slot.
US11883254B2
A method of automatically producing or reproducing a customized AGP (Anterior Guidance Package) equipped splint for a patient with or without a severe malocclusion is provided. The method of automatically producing or reproducing an AGP equipped splint according to current invention comprises of combining Virtual Articulation, CAD (Computer Aided Design)-CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) method with AGP and special retentive piece technology. The method of the current invention enables a patient with or without a severe malocclusion to receive his/her customized AGP equipped splint or a replacement thereof automatically without visiting the dentist again and again.
US11883252B2
A system (10) and method for selecting a mouthpiece (25) for a user. The method includes receiving a signal with a personal care system (10) to initiate oral arch measurements using a personal care device (12). Data is collected from a position sensor (16) related to a location of a probe (14) of the personal care device as the probe is moved about an oral arch of the user. A controller (18) of the personal care system determines a dimension of the oral arch from the data. The controller selects a mouthpiece for the user based on the dimension of the oral arch. Information identifying the mouthpiece is transmitted to the user or other intended recipient.
US11883240B2
A method including receiving from multiple transducers respective signals comprising reflections of a transmitted signal from a target; processing the received signals to derive a beamformed signal, based, at least in part, on: (i) computing a specified value associated with each of the received signals, (ii) performing a convolution on all of the specified values, (iii) calculating a weighted sum of the results of the convolution, to derive the beamformed signal; and reconstructing an image of the target, based on the beamformed signal.
US11883238B1
A system for detecting/quantifying the conductance of a right-to-left cardiac shunt includes a mouthpiece assembly, a solenoid-driven vacuum/pressurization assembly; a controller for operating the solenoid-driven vacuum/pressurization assembly; and a monitor for displaying the instructions from the controller. A microbubble counting cell and digital image sensor are combined with software-based image analysis to determine a number of microbubbles contained in a microbubble counting zone. A monitor enables operator specification of total volume of contrast agent to be injected into the patient. One or more first Doppler ultrasound transducer arrays are positioned adjacent to targeted intracranial arteries at one side of the skull or a pair of first Doppler ultrasound transducer arrays positioned adjacent to targeted intracranial arteries at both sides of the skull. A second Doppler ultrasound transducer is positioned on the precordium of the patient to detect the arrival of microbubble-containing contrast agent in the right atrium of the patient.
US11883234B2
A probe cable support (146) includes a leg (202) with a top side (208) and a bottom side (210). The leg further includes a plurality of supports (2161, 2162, . . . , 216N) protruding from the bottom side and intermittently arranged with non-zero gaps there between. The leg further includes an arm (226) protruding from the top side. A system (101) includes an ultrasound imaging system (100) configured with at least one probe (102) and a console (104), a cable (116) configured to electrically connect the probe and the console, a cart (106) configured to support the ultrasound imaging system, and a probe cable support (146) configured to support the cable.
US11883228B2
An electronic stethoscope system comprising a device to capture an acoustic heart signal from a patient and a neural network to classify the data into heart sound categories to provide time series sound category data comprising, for each of a succession of time intervals, category probability data representing a probability of the acoustic signal falling into each of the categories. The stethoscope also includes one or more heart state models each having a sequence of heart cardiac cycle states, a system to fit the time series sound category data to the models and determine timing data for the sequence of heart states and a confidence value for the model fit, and an output to output one or both of a model fit indication dependent upon the confidence value and an indication of the timing data.
US11883219B2
The inventive subject matter is directed to a computing platform configured to execute one or more automated artificial intelligence models, wherein the one or more automated artificial intelligence models includes a neural network model, wherein the one or more automated artificial intelligence models are trained on a plurality of radiographic images from a data layer to detect a plurality of anatomical structures or a plurality of hardware, wherein at least one anatomical structure is a pelvic teardrop and a symphysis pubis joint; detecting at a plurality of anatomical structures in a radiographic image of a subject, wherein the plurality of anatomical structures are detected by the computing platform by the step of classifying the radiographic image with reference to a subject good side radiographic image; and constructing a graphical representation of data, wherein the graphical representation is a subject specific functional pelvis grid; the subject specific functional pelvis grid generated based upon the anatomical structures detected by the computing platform in the radiographic image. Various types of functional grids can be generated based on the situation detected.
US11883207B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for estimating a position of a heart pump system in a patient. The system receives first data indicative of a time-varying motor current during a first time period. The motor current corresponds to an amount of current delivered to a motor, while the heart pump system is operating in the patient. The system receives second data indicative of a time-varying differential pressure during the first time period. The differential pressure is indicative of a position of the heart pump system relative to patient's heart. The system receives third data indicative of time-varying motor current during a second time period, and determines an estimate of differential pressure during the second period of time from the third data and a relationship between the first data and the second data. The estimate is usable to predict the position of the heart pump system in the patient.
US11883206B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for personalized breast imaging. In aspects, a first set of patient attributes may be collected. The first set of patient attributes may relate to, or be used to determine, for example, breast size, breast thickness, and/or three-dimensional (3D) breast shape. The first set of patient attributes may be used to customize image acquisition parameters for the patient. A second set of patient attributes may also be collected. The second set of patient attributes may relate to, or be used to determine, for example, breast elasticity and breast density. The second set of patient attributes may be used to customize breast compression parameters for the patient. The customized image acquisition parameters and breast compression parameters may then be used to perform one or more procedures (e.g., an imaging procedure, a biopsy procedure, etc.) on the patient's breast.
US11883204B2
An analytical toilet is disclosed having at least one health and wellness sensor and a base supporting a bowl. A removable access panel is removably attached to the base. A space is provided between the base and the toilet, which is adapted to contain the at least one health and wellness sensor.
US11883203B2
A skull-mounted drug and pressure sensor (SOS), a smart pump (ISP) electrically coupled to the SOS and a drug delivery and communications catheter communicating the SOS with the ISP are combined for a first embodiment. A skull-mounted (SOS), a metronomic biofeedback pump (MBP) electrically coupled to the SOS and a drug delivery and communications catheter having a sending and receiving optical fiber communicating the SOS with the MBP are combined for a second embodiment. A third embodiment combines a (SOS), an implantable power and communication unit (PCU) electrically coupled to the SOS, and a drug delivery and communications catheter for communicating the SOS with the PCU and for communicating the exterior source of the drug to the SOS. A fourth embodiment combines a ventricular catheter with a CSF accessible chamber and drug delivery port; and an implantable stand-alone skull-mounted drug and pressure sensor (SPS).
US11883199B1
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device with interdigitated miniaturized electrodes. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: a band configured to extend at least partially around a body part of a user, the body part including a dermal layer; a user interface coupled to the band; a processing device coupled to the band; a miniaturized impedance sensor integrated into the band and positioned in the band to be pressed against the dermal layer, the miniaturized impedance sensor comprising a row of interdigitated miniaturized electrodes alternating between a miniaturized electrode of a first set of miniaturized electrodes and another miniaturized electrode of a second set of miniaturized electrodes; and an electrical circuit embedded in the band interconnecting the user interface, the processing device, or the miniaturized impedance sensor.
US11883198B2
A two layer compression garment measuring system that displays a pressure indicia when the garment is stretched, wherein the pressure indicia is displayed by moving from a position under an opaque layer of material (at low or no pressure) to a position under a window or transparent or translucent layer of material (at higher pressure). When the indicia can be seen by an observer through the window or transparent or translucent layer, then the higher pressure has been reached. The viewed indicia optionally displays the pressure level. In various optional designs, the location of attachment between the two spaced-apart locations is adjustable, or the length of the upper layer is adjustable such that the attachment location can be aligned with the indicia. A design having a free ended upper layer is also included.
US11883196B2
An active implantable stimulating device (10) includes: (a) a tissue coupling unit (40) for being implanted directly onto a vagus nerve (Vn) of a patient, (b) an EEG-unit (70) for measuring an electroencephalogram of the patient, (c) an encapsulation unit (50) configured for being subcutaneously implanted, (d) an energy transfer lead (30) for transferring pulses of electrical and/or optical energy, (e) a signal transfer lead (60) for transferring signals between the EEG unit and the encapsulation unit. EEG electrodes (70a-70d) monitor the electric activity of the brain of a patient. The EEG signal is conveyed to the electronic circuit (53) in the form of EEG conditioned data. The electronic circuit analyses the EEG conditioned data to yield analysis results. The electronic circuit takes a decision to trigger energy pulses to stimulate the vagus nerve (VN).
US11883194B2
A system, method and apparatus is disclosed, comprising a biomathetical model for optimizing cognitive performance in the face of sleep deprivation that integrates novel and nonobvious biomathematical models for quantifying performance impairment for both chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation; the dose-dependent effects of caffeine on human vigilance; and the pheonotypical response of a particular user to caffeine dosing, chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation in user-friendly software application which itself may be part of a networked system.
US11883192B2
A method for capturing patient feedback for a medical treatment includes: receiving user instructions indicating a symptom being treated, a symptom score for the symptom being treated, and an indication of a beginning of a treatment session; receiving patient feedback comprising an updated symptom score for the symptom being treated and/or absence or presence of one or more of a plurality of attributes; storing the received patient feedback and a time in the treatment session at which the respective patient feedback was received; repeating the receiving of patient feedback and storage of data during the treatment session; and receiving a user instruction indicating an ending of the treatment session, wherein an alerting module alerts a user of the computing device for input of patient feedback after a predetermined period of time has elapsed following receipt of patient feedback without a subsequent receipt of patient feedback.
US11883188B1
A method comprising receiving data from a sleep sensor integrated in a mattress system, the sleep sensor coupled via a cord to a data collection unit, analyzing the data at the data collection unit, and providing results of the analyzed data to a user mobile device via a wireless connection, for display to the user.
US11883179B2
An implantable medical device comprises a sensing module configured to obtain electrical signals from one or more electrodes and a control module configured to process the electrical signals from the sensing module in accordance with a tachyarrhythmia detection algorithm to monitor for a tachyarrhythmia. The control module detects initiation of a pacing train delivered by a second implantable medical device, determines a type of the detected pacing train, and modifies the tachyarrhythmia detection algorithm based on the type of the detected pacing train.
US11883175B2
Generator systems and methods are provided for generating a neuromuscular-to-motion decoder from a healthy limb. The generator system is configured to receive neuromuscular signals from neuromuscular sensors associated to predefined muscle/nerve locations of at least one pair of agonist and antagonist muscles/nerves of the healthy limb, obtained during performance by the person of a predefined exercise (defined by predefined exercise data) with the healthy limb; to receive motion signals from motion sensors associated to predefined positions of the healthy limb, during performance by the person of the predefined exercise with the healthy limb; and to generate the neuromuscular-to-motion decoder by mapping the neuromuscular signals to the motion signals over time using a mapping method. Rehabilitation systems are also provided for rehabilitating a paretic limb by using a neuromuscular-to-motion decoder produced by a generator system.
US11883173B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for detecting or indicating a state of impairment of a test subject or user due to drugs or alcohol, and more particularly to a method, system and application or software program configured to creating a virtual-reality (“VR”) environment that implements drug and alcohol impairment tests, and which utilizes eye tracking technology to detect or indicate impairment.
US11883161B2
According to an aspect, there is provided switch circuitry (1) for controlling power supplied to a fluid monitoring unit (4). The switch circuitry (1) comprises: a sensor (2) configured to detect fluid derived from the skin of a user and to generate a detection signal in response to detection of fluid; and a controller (3) configured to receive the detection signal, to generate a wake-up signal in accordance with the detection signal, and to supply the wake-up signal to a switch (6) controlling the power supply to the fluid monitoring unit (4) so as to activate the switch (6) and wake the fluid monitoring unit (4), wherein, optionally, the fluid is sweat. According to another aspect, there is provided method of controlling power to a fluid monitoring unit.
US11883150B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying and locating a plurality of reflector markers implanted within a target tissue region within a patient's body. A probe is provided that is activated to transmit electromagnetic signals into the patient's body, receive reflected signals from the patient's body, and in synchronization with transmitting the electromagnetic signals, deliver light pulses into the patient's body. The markers reflector tags modulate reflected signals from the respective markers based on orthogonal code sequences opening and closing respective switches of the markers to modulate the reflective properties of the markers. The probe processes the return signals to separate the reflected signals based at least in part on the code sequences to identify and locate each of the plurality of reflector tags substantially simultaneously.
US11883142B2
As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the health monitoring system 100 of one embodiment includes an electromagnetic transmitter 110 configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal towards a target body region on a user; an electromagnetic receiver 120 configured to receive reflected energy from a target body region on a user; a calibration sensor 130 that measures reference cardiovascular-related parameters of a user (such as vessel pressure, stiffness, or motion); and an activity sensor 140 configured to detect the activity state of a user. The system also includes an attachment mechanism 150 for fixing the electromagnetic transmitter, electromagnetic receiver, calibration sensor and activity sensor to the user; and a stand-off mechanism 160 for fixing the electromagnetic transmitter and electromagnetic receiver at a known standoff distance from a target body region on the user.
US11883139B2
The present invention can provide a sensor module and a blood pressure measurement device that improves the protection strength of and prevents damage to a surface that comes into contact with a living body. A sensor module 63 of a blood pressure measurement device 1 includes: a sensor base 72; a pressure sensor portion 71 fixed to the sensor base 72; a sensor head cover 73 fixed to the sensor base 72, the sensor head cover 73 forming a gap portion 79 between an inner surface 73g and the sensor base 72 and the pressure sensor portion 71 and including a rubber portion 75 that forms, on an outer surface, at least a region that comes into contact with a living body and that allows pressure from a wrist 100 to transfer to the pressure sensor portion 71 side; and a soft portion 74 disposed in the gap portion 79 at least between the rubber portion 75 and the pressure sensor portion 71, the soft portion 74 having a lower hardness than the rubber portion 75 and allowing pressure from the rubber portion 75 to transfer to the pressure sensor portion 71.
US11883138B2
A method of determining one or more diagnostic metrics to assess a blood vessel using intravascular data includes: sampling a sensor of an intravascular data collection probe disposed in the blood vessel during a pullback of the intravascular data collection probe through the blood vessel to obtain sampled distal pressure (Pd) values; receiving, at an intravascular data processing system, the sampled distal pressure (Pd) values and proximal pressure (Pa) values; determining sets of Pd/Pa ratios, each set including Pd/Pa ratios that are determined through an entirety of one heart cycle; determining minimum Pd/Pa ratios, each of which is a minimum within one of the sets of Pd/Pa ratios over the entirety of the corresponding heart cycle; and controlling a display system to generate a plot of a moving average of the minimum Pd/Pa ratios over time during the pullback.
US11883137B2
Provided is a sensor module, a method for manufacturing a sensor module, and a blood pressure measurement device with a highly smooth surface and high sensor accuracy. A sensor module 63 includes: a pressure sensor portion 71; a sensor base 72 including a support wall portion 72a with flow holes 72d to 72g formed extending through the support wall portion 72a from one main surface side to the other main surface side, the pressure sensor portion 71 being disposed on the one main surface side of the sensor base 72; a sensor head cover 73 including an opening 73a at a position opposite a sensor 71a and disposed on the one main surface side of the support wall portion 72a of the sensor base 72 with a gap 79 that communicates with the flow holes 72d to 72g and the opening 73a formed therebetween; and a soft portion 74 disposed in the opening 73a that covers the pressure sensor portion 71.
US11883136B2
The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for measuring time-varying radar cross section (RCS) of an artery of a patient, which may be used to determine blood pressure of a patient. In some embodiments, an apparatus is provided which comprises a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver for generating RF waves, and at least one sensor configured for positioning on or adjacent the skin of a patient, and at least one of transmitting the RF waves into tissue of the patient and receiving RF wave reflections from at least one artery located within the tissue. The apparatus may further comprise a processor having computer instructions operating thereon configured to cause the processor to determine an RF arterial pulse waveform based on the received RF wave reflections. The time-varying radar cross section (RCS) comprises the RF arterial pulse waveform. This may be in turn correlated to blood pressure of the patient.
US11883135B2
The present invention provides a personalized, three-dimensional printed, human auricle-specific multiple auricular points' bio-signal acquisition, health status monitoring, and bio-stimulation device, including an artificial ear model made of at least one bio-compatible, flexible polymer, a plurality of sensing and stimulating electrodes with at least one sensing end and a signal acquisition/processing end penetrating through a body of the ear mold conformably with a human auricle so that a surface of the ear mold where sensing end of the electrodes is disposed creates an electrode-human skin interface for bio-signal detection and bio-stimulation responsive thereto. Methods of fabricating the device based on 3-D printing, 3D scanning and modelling techniques and using thereof for bio-signal acquisition, analysis, health status monitoring and bio-stimulation are also provided.
US11883129B2
An optical physiological finger sensor system including an ergonomic interface shaped into a natural curve of a user's hand and finger.
US11883126B2
Systems and methods are provided to calibrate an analyte concentration sensor within a biological system, generally using only a signal from the analyte concentration sensor. For example, at a steady state, the analyte concentration value within the biological system is known, and the same may provide a source for calibration. Similar techniques may be employed with slow-moving averages. Variations are disclosed.
US11883125B2
Provided is a microscope drape capable of further facilitating an attachment operation thereof to a surgical microscope. A microscope drape comprises: a lens cap attached to and detached from a housing of an objective lens of a surgical microscope; a protective lens protecting the objective lens; and a drape main body covering the surgical microscope. The lens cap is formed such that a portion in a circumferential direction of a cylinder is opened, and has an arc-shaped cross section perpendicular to an optical axis of the objective lens. The microscope drape includes: a protective lens holder that is a cylinder whose outside diameter is larger in size than an inside diameter of the lens cap in a natural state and holds the protective lens; and a joint that pivotably supports the protective lens holder with respect to the lens cap around a pivot axis perpendicular to the optical axis.
US11883122B2
Methods and devices are provided for robotic surgery, and in particular for controlling various motions of a tool based on visual indicators. In general, a surgical tool can include an elongate shaft and an end effector coupled to a distal end of the elongate shaft and including first and second jaws. The tool can have at least one visual indicator disposed thereon and configured to indicate a size, position, or speed of movement of the tool or components of the tool.
US11883117B2
A surgical system includes a camera tracking system that determines a first pose transform between a first object coordinate system and the first tracking camera coordinate system based on first object tracking information from the first tracking camera which indicates pose of the first object. The camera tracking system determines a second pose transform between the first object coordinate system and the second tracking camera coordinate system based on first object tracking information from the second tracking camera indicating pose of the first object, and determines a third pose transform between a second object coordinate system and the second tracking camera coordinate system based on second object tracking information from the second tracking camera indicating pose of the second object. The camera tracking system determines a fourth pose transform between the second object coordinate system and the first tracking camera coordinate system.
US11883112B2
A rollable digitizer device for collecting a plurality of points on a bone that includes a wheel having multiple probes emanating circumferentially therefrom. One or more contact sensors adapted to detect if at least one of probes is in contact with the bone. The contact sensors located in the wheel, on the wheel, proximal to said one or more contact sensors, or a combination thereof. A handle connected to the wheel and adapted to permit a user to roll the probes along the bone, so each of the probes make sequential and detectable contact with the bone to facilitate the collection of multiple points on the bone. A method for collecting a multiple registration points on a bone with the rollable digitizer device includes wielding the rollable digitizer by the handle. The probes are rolled along the surface of the bone to collect the plurality of registration points.
US11883106B2
A method for determining a predicted lesion size formed in a tissue by receiving or calculating a measure of contact force between the electrode and the tissue, determining a tissue characterization, and calculating the predicted lesion size using both the measure of contact force and the tissue characterization. A system comprising an electronic control unit configured to receive or determine a measure of contact force between the electrode and the tissue, characterize the tissue based on both the measure of impedance and the measure of contact force, and cause the tissue characterization to be either (a) presented to a user, or (b) applied to calculate a metric and cause the metric to be presented to the user.
US11883103B2
Systems, devices, methods, and kits for monitoring one or more physiologic and/or physical signals from a subject are disclosed. A system including a head mounted display to monitor one or more physiologic signals from the face or head of the subject is disclosed. A method for analyzing an ocular parameter of the subject to determine a sympathetic and a parasympathetic outflow thereto is disclosed.
US11883099B2
Methods and systems for identifying CNV membranes and vasculature in images obtained using noninvasive imaging techniques are described. An example method includes generating, by a first model based on at least one image of a retina of a subject, a membrane mask indicating a location of a CNV membrane in the retina. The method further includes generating, by a second model based on the membrane mask and the at least one image, a vasculature mask of the retina of the subject, the vasculature mask indicating CNV vascularization in the retina.
US11883090B2
Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, systems, and methods for guiding a rotatable actuator along a helical path with a varied pitch to motivate an attached implement. In an illustrative embodiment, an apparatus includes an elongated implement movable along an axis and a rotatable actuator operably coupled with a proximal end of the implement to motivate the implement to move along the axis in response to rotation of the rotatable actuator. A guide is operably coupled with rotatable actuator, where the guide defines a generally helical channel around the axis to direct movement of a rotatable actuator, and wherein a pitch of the helical channel is varied to reduce a distance of travel of the actuator along the axis per unit of rotation of the actuator.
US11883080B1
Implants, systems, and methods of reverse dynamization. The implants, such as expandable spinal implants, bone plates, and intramedullary nails, are securable to bone. The implant may have a moveable component creating a semi-rigid configuration to allow for micro-motion of the bone for a period of time. The moveable component is changeable, for example, based on material properties, change of state, or mechanical or electrical operation, to a static condition creating a rigid configuration to prevent subsequent movement of the bone. The reverse dynamization implants may be used to accelerate bone healing and obtain superior bone fracture healing.
US11883079B2
A device configured to provide a faster and more accurate measurement of depths of holes for placement of bone screws and fastener for bone implant fixation procedures. The device includes a combination of a bone probe for physical examination of a hole drilled in a bone and a depth gauge member for determining a depth of the hole and providing digital measurement of the depth.
US11883067B2
A dilator that includes a hollow shaft including a tapered section having a diameter increasing from a distal end toward a proximal end, and a spirally-arranged protruding portion provided on an outer peripheral surface of the hollow shaft and including spirally-arranged protruding sections and gaps between adjacent spirally-arranged protruding sections along an axial direction of the hollow shaft. The spirally-arranged protruding portion includes an apex section having the greatest height from the outer peripheral surface in a transverse cross-section thereof, and a side surface section facing outward and extending from the apex section toward the outer peripheral surface. The side surface section includes an inclined surface inclined substantially linearly toward at least one of the distal and proximal end direction between the outer peripheral surface and the apex section in the transverse cross-section of the spirally-arranged protruding portion.
US11883064B2
An access device for accessing an intervertebral disc having an outer shield comprising an access shield with a larger diameter (˜16-30 mm) that reaches from the skin down to the facet line, with an inner shield having a second smaller diameter (˜5-12 mm) extending past the access shield and reaches down to the disc level. This combines the benefits of the direct visual microsurgical/mini open approaches and the percutaneous, “ultra-MIS” techniques.
US11883061B2
A cutting balloon catheter including a balloon mounted on a distal portion of a catheter shaft. The balloon includes a cutting member mounted on an exterior surface of the balloon which includes one or more features for providing the cutting member with enhanced flexibility for navigating tortuous anatomy and more closely conforms to the expansion characteristics of the balloon to which the cutting member is mounted.
US11883060B2
Provided are methods and systems for transplanting follicles and other cells from one location on a patient to another location on the same or different patient without the need to shave or cut hair extending from the follicles or cells.
US11883058B2
A jaw member, end effector assembly including the jaw member and an ultrasonic blade, and an ultrasonic surgical instrument including the end effector assembly are provided. The jaw member includes a structural body and a jaw liner. The structural body includes a pair of proximal flanges and an elongated distal portion extending distally from the proximal flanges. The elongated distal portion includes spaced-apart side rails defining an elongated opening therebetween and interconnected at distal ends thereof via a distal cap. The jaw liner is engaged within the elongated opening and includes a base and first and second arms extending from the base. Each arm defines an inwardly-angled tissue contacting surface. The jaw liner defines a jaw liner compliance feature extending longitudinally therealong between the inwardly-angled tissue-contacting surfaces of the first and second arms to facilitate outward deflection of the first and second arms relative to one another.
US11883057B2
A surgical instrument for use during a surgical procedure includes an instrument body, an ultrasonic transducer assembly extending along a longitudinal axis, a power cord, and a transducer slip joint. The ultrasonic transducer assembly is rotatably mounted within the instrument body about the longitudinal axis and defines a first outer profile. The power cord projects from the instrument body to provide electrical power to the ultrasonic transducer assembly for operating an acoustic waveguide. The transducer slip joint is positioned between the power cord and the ultrasonic transducer assembly and electrically and mechanically connects the power cord to the ultrasonic transducer assembly. The ultrasonic transducer assembly selectively rotates relative to the power cord for inhibiting the power cord from winding upon rotation of the ultrasonic transducer assembly. The transducer slip joint also defines a second outer profile that fits within the first outer profile of the ultrasonic transducer assembly.
US11883044B2
The present disclosure relates to a basket for a catheter designed to be deployed in complex vasculature to optimally treat vascular and arterial disease conditions such as blood clots, blood emboli, and deep vein thrombosis. The basket may comprise a shaft with a plurality of cuts along a portion of its length to form a plurality of tines that provide support for a plurality of porous tubes to form the limbs of the basket. The limbs of the basket expand radially away from the longitudinal axis of the basket when the longitudinal length of the basket is reduced. The limbs may also be connected to a drug delivery system, and in this manner, baskets of the present disclosure allow for the use of both mechanical and pharmaceutical means of thrombolysis.
US11883038B2
Implants, devices, instruments, kits and methods for correcting bone deformities in the foot are disclosed. Specifically, implants, devices, instruments, kits and methods used for lower extremity osteotomy procedures are disclosed.
US11883033B2
A left atrial appendage (LAA) occluder, and a method of application are provided. The LAA occluder includes a plugging portion, a connecting portion, and a covering portion that are connected sequentially along an axial direction, where the plugging portion includes a first support mesh that can be transformed to have a reduced radial profile, and a first gathering member; a plurality of anchoring members for grasping LAA tissues are arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the first support mesh; the first gathering member is detachably connected to the connecting portion, such that the plugging portion can be provided individually at an LAA; the covering portion includes a second support mesh that can be transformed to have a reduced radial profile, and a second gathering member; and the second gathering member is provided at an end of the second support mesh away from the connecting portion.
US11883032B2
An apparatus for treating an aneurysm in a blood vessel includes a wire to be advanced within a tube and an occlusion element disposed on the wire. The occlusion element includes a cover and an inner anchoring member. The occlusion element is configured to fit within the tube and slide out of an opening at distal end of the tube in response to movement of the wire. The cover is configured to expand to an expanded configuration when advanced into the aneurysm, wherein the cover comprises a diameter that is greater than the diameter of a neck portion of the aneurysm and is configured such that a first portion of the cover contacts an interior surface of the aneurysm and a second portion covers the neck portion of the aneurysm. The inner anchoring member extends from the cover portion and is configured to contact the interior surface of the aneurysm.
US11883023B2
A tissue fastening device includes a body including a plurality of sidewalls defining a channel, an anvil having a proximal end and a distal end and pivotally coupled to the body and the anvil moves between an open position and a closed position, and a locking mechanism to lock the anvil in the closed position.
US11883020B2
A surgical instrument. The surgical instrument comprises a plurality of sensors, and a status module releasably connected to the surgical instrument. The status module comprises a plurality of contacts, a circuit, and a plurality of indicators. Each individual contact is in electrical communication with a different sensor. The circuit is in electrical communication with at least one of the contacts. At least one of the indicators is in electrical communication with the circuit.
US11883009B2
Irrigation and/or aspiration devices and methods may be configured to aspirate and irrigate alone, sequentially, or concurrently. The devices and methods may provide a base with a removable head, and adapted for partial or complete separation of the irrigation and aspiration functions. The devices and methods can be configured to aspirate and/or irrigate the nasal and sinus cavities. The devices and methods may be manually and/or automatically controlled. The devices and methods may include removable, and/or replaceable, and/or refillable, and easily cleanable reservoirs for aspirant and irrigant. The device head and/or aspirant reservoir may comprise a diagnostic device, i.e., test device and/or container after use of the devices and methods.
US11883002B2
A system includes an endoscope connector and an endoscope adapter. The endoscope connector includes a first portion. The first portion includes a first magnetic coupling element and a first planar portion that is perpendicular to an axial direction of the endoscope connector. The endoscope adapter includes a second planar portion. The second planar portion includes a second magnetic coupling element and a substantially planar surface that is perpendicular to an axial direction of the endoscope adapter. The endoscope connector is non-mechanically attachable to the endoscope adapter using the first magnetic coupling element and the second magnetic coupling element. The first planar portion is alignable with the second planar portion such that: electroconductive contacts of the endoscope connector are axially aligned with electroconductive pins of the endoscope adapter and a port of the endoscope connector is axially aligned with a corresponding insertion port of the endoscope adapter.
US11882998B2
An endoscope is provided in which an attachment/detachment operation of the proximal end of a wire can be easily performed to/from an erecting operation mechanism and the wire can be prevented from meandering in a wire channel. An endoscope has an operation section 22 provided with an erecting operation lever, and a movable member 96 that moves in association with an operation of the erecting operation lever. The movable member 96 is arranged to be exposed to outside of the operation section 22. A wire 60 has a distal end side coupled to an erecting base, and a proximal end side coupled to an attachment member 98 that is attachable to and detachable from the movable member 96 by a one-touch operation. The wire 60 is configured of a wire body 60A and a gap filling member 60B.
US11882997B2
A distal tip of an endoscopic device and a cylindrical cap is disclosed. The distal tip comprises a pattern of alternating grooves and lands on its outer surface. The cylindrical cap is configured to fit tightly over the lands, thereby changing the grooves into closed channels through which liquid or gas can flow.
US11882996B2
A computer implemented method comprises receiving a model of a tissue region, steering a distal end of a catheter within a body to a first area of a tissue region, and obtaining a first image from the distal end of the catheter of the first area of the tissue region. The method further comprises mapping the first image of the first area of the tissue region to the model of the tissue region and displaying the first image of the first area of the tissue region on the model of the tissue region.
US11882985B2
A vacuuming device. The device includes a sensor connected to at least a suction head, and is configured to sense a parameter of foreign object debris (FOD) in the suction head. The device also includes a positioning sensor connected to the suction head and configured to ascertain a position of the suction head within an area in which the device is located. The device also includes a computer in communication with the sensor and the positioning sensor. The computer is programmed to classify the FOD using the parameter, and use the position of the suction head to determine a pick-up location of the FOD.
US11882979B2
An appliance includes a tub defining a wash chamber, and a centrifugal pump in fluid communication with the wash chamber. The centrifugal pump includes a motor housing, a motor disposed in the motor housing, and a fluid impeller coupled to the motor. A diffuser housing assembly includes a first diffuser housing portion and a second diffuser housing portion. The first diffuser housing portion includes a groove and the second diffuser housing portion includes an extrusion. A diffuser vane is positioned on the motor housing. The diffuser vane engages in the groove of the first diffuser housing portion. The extrusion of the second diffuser housing portion encloses the diffuser vane into the diffuser housing assembly.
US11882976B2
A liquid distributor for a liquid-transfer system of a conveyor dishwasher has first, second and third connections. The liquid sprayed in at least one final-rinse zone of the conveyor dishwasher can be fed to the liquid distributor via the first connection, wherein some of the liquid fed to the liquid distributor can be discharged, via the second connection, to a line system which can be connected to the second connection, and wherein the rest of the liquid fed to the liquid distributor can be discharged, via the third connection, to at least one line system which can be connected to the third connection. The liquid distributor has an interchangeable aperture component, which defines the fraction of liquid which is fed to the liquid distributor via its first connection and is to be discharged, via the second connection, to the line system which can be connected to the second connection.
US11882970B2
The present disclosure relates to a cleaning device and a sweeping assembly thereof. The sweeping assembly includes: a brush holder; a brush body arranged in the brush holder, and including a cleaning part and a connecting part connected to each other, the connecting part being further connected to the driver to rotate the brush body, the cleaning part including a brush member protruding outward therefrom; and an anti-winding structure arranged at the connecting part, and configured to fill up a gap between the brush holder and the connecting part.
US11882968B2
The present disclosure relates to a dispenser system comprising a dispenser and a replaceable liquid container, and a dispensing mechanism causing fluid to be discharged from the liquid container upon actuation and comprising a pump unit for discharging said liquid; said dispenser also comprising a detection unit for detecting displacement of said pump unit; and wherein information related to said displacement can be transmitted to an external computer unit. The pump unit is configured with a displaceable element which, upon actuation, has a linear motion during discharging of liquid, that the displaceable element interacts with a rotating gear element, and that the gear element is associated with a sensor of the magnetometer type.
US11882963B2
A grill cover is configured to be utilized with a grill having a metallic component, the grill cover includes a cover body, a magnetic fastener, and a secondary fastener. The cover body presents an outer edge disposed along a bottom side and a cover void therein configured to receive the grill therein. The magnetic fastener and the secondary fastener are each secured to the cover body. The magnetic fastener is configured to provide a magnetic force to keep the magnetic fastener selectively secured to the metallic component of the grill so as to keep the cover body in place around the grill therein. The secondary fastener is configured to reduce a cross-sectional area of the cover void so as to prevent the grill cover from being removed from the grill while the secondary fastener is emplaced.
US11882960B2
An article of cookware has an interior cooking surface that with raised linear or curvilinear bands with an outer layer of a first material that is one of ceramic or metallic in nature to provide cut and abrasion resistance. Valleys or grooves between the raised bands have an outer layer of a second material with low surface energy to facilitate food release and cleaning of debris. The bands are arranged to protect the second material from cutting and abrasion that would damage the second material. The bands aid in enhancing distribution of cooking oil to enhance searing and browning of foods.
US11882958B2
The invention provides a mixing apparatus. The mixing apparatus includes a first container, wherein the first container comprises: a first port; and a mixing chamber. The mixing apparatus further includes a second container, wherein the second container is adapted to receive the first container, and a seal disposed between the first container and the second container. In addition, the mixing apparatus includes a channel between the first port and the mixing chamber, wherein the channel is defined by the seal and the first container. In some examples, the seal includes: a first seal portion; and a transition seal portion, the transition portion comprising: a seal split; and an air intake channel.
US11882957B2
Provided is a coffee tamper. The coffee tamper of the disclosure includes a tamper body including a connecting hole communicated in a vertical direction, a guide portion provided in the tamper body and including an inner through-hole communicated to the connecting hole, a central connecting portion of which one side is stopped by the guide portion and of which another side penetrates the inner through-hole and extends downward, a tamping portion provided below the tamper body and configured to couple with the central connecting portion, and a compressing portion provided between the guide portion and the tamping portion and configured to downwardly compress the tamping portion.
US11882949B2
A frame apparatus for displaying a flat article and a combined frame apparatus and flat article. In one aspect, the frame apparatus includes a display frame defining a rabbet, a stack positioned in the rabbet, and a spacer apparatus. The rabbet is defined by a floor and a wall. The wall includes an engagement feature which may be a channel. The spacer apparatus is positioned in the rabbet and engagement features thereof extend into the channel in the wall od the rabbet to couple the spacer apparatus to the display frame. The spacer assembly may also be in contact with the stack to hold the stack in the rabbet.
US11882947B2
Methods and apparatuses for displays are disclosed. The display includes a header and a stand, where the stand may be configured to house a plurality of consumer products. The header is movable between a shipping configuration and a display configuration, wherein it is shorter in the shipping configuration and requires little assembly to move to the display configuration.
US11882937B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a plurality of floor to ceiling units are provided, with each unit supporting a portion of an article/object to be supported, such as a television or shelving. Each floor to ceiling unit may include a lower leg assembly and an upper leg assembly that are telescopically connected to one another. In use, they extend from a floor to a ceiling, and are provided with mounting assemblies for engaging the floor and ceiling. Arm assemblies provide the direct support for the article to be supported.
US11882930B2
A table includes a tabletop and a frame supporting the tabletop. The frame includes a mounting assembly, first and second leg assemblies coupled with the mounting assembly, and first and second supporting assemblies to control rotation of the first and second leg assemblies. The frame also includes one or more couplers disposed at a mounting member of the mounting assembly to connect the mounting assembly with the first and second supporting assemblies or to connect the mounting assembly with the tabletop.
US11882925B2
A hair brush system includes a brush housing having a handle neck portion and a fluid reservoir for holding a viscous fluid therein. The fluid reservoir is disposed within the brush housing. The hair brush system includes a plunger plate for engaging in the fluid reservoir of a gel or other viscous fluid product. The plunger plate is disposed within the brush housing. Valve devices are dispersed in a brush head, wherein the valves are fluidly coupled to the reservoir upon movement of the plunger plate from a first position to a second position upon engagement of a user.
US11882924B2
A holding device for cameras or other portable equipment includes a housing in which a roller element and a return element are arranged. The roller element is rotatably mounted in relation to the housing. A tie for fastening equipment items is completely rolled up on the roller element in an initial state, with only one end thereof protruding from the housing. The return element exerts a tensile force on the roller element so that the tie can be rolled up on the roller element. The tie is unrolled and pulled out of the housing when an external tensile force larger than the tensile force of the return element is exerted on the tie. The tie is rolled up to the initial state into the housing when an external tensile force smaller than the tensile force of the return element is exerted on the tie.
US11882923B2
Various embodiments are directed to a hand strap apparatus for securing a mobile device relative to user's hand and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, the hand strap apparatus comprises a backhand strap plate configured for positioning against a backhand portion the user's hand based on an engagement of a strap mechanism with the user's hand; a backhand mount component configured to receive a mobile device to secure the mobile device in a mounted position relative to the backhand strap plate; a finger mount component configured to receive a detachable ring mount attachment in an attached position relative to the hand strap apparatus; wherein the backhand mount component is in electronic communication with the finger mount component such that, when the ring mount attachment is in the attached position, operation of the mobile device is controlled by a trigger button of the ring mount attachment.
US11882916B2
A refillable cosmetic dispenser with a cartridge for a stick cosmetic that can be locked in a retracted position except when engaged with a corresponding dispenser base. Locking formations retained by an elongate body and an elevator cup have a locked condition to lock the elevator cup against movement relative to the elongate body. The dispenser base receives the elongate body, and a release member of the dispenser base actuates the locking formations from the locked condition to the unlocked condition. The locking formations retained by the elongate body can be plural resiliently deflectable fingers disposed along a circular shape, and the release member can be a central column that is operative to deflect the resiliently deflectable fingers out of engagement with the locking formation of the elevator cup. The elevator cup can thus be locked in a retracted position to be freed by a corresponding dispenser base.
US11882896B2
Provided is a shoe that includes a sole that: (i) has a bottom surface that is adjacent to the ground in normal use, and (ii) is comprised of both a base material forming a main structure and individual leather particles attached to the base material on the bottom surface of the sole. The individual leather particles may have a median size within a range of 0.3 to 4.0 millimeters (mm). In addition, or instead, individual second particles made of a material other than leather also are attached to the base material on the bottom surface of the sole.
US11882894B2
Described is an upper garment worn by welders while welding overhead, which is made of a breathable fabric and leather. The garment has a hood comprising leather attached to the neckline of the garment body, at least one leather sleeve, and leather on one shoulder and an upper front portion and an upper back portion of the garment that is contiguous with the at least one leather sleeve. The hood may be partially or completely made of leather, and the other sleeve may be leather. The strategic placement of leather on the garment improves the garment's durability, minimizes burns on the wearer from sparks and spatter, and protects the garment from the environment.
US11882893B2
An impact attenuating helmet including an outer liner having an inner mating surface, an inner liner positioned under the outer liner and having an outer mating surface configured to be received by the inner mating surface of the outer liner, the inner liner and the outer liner being configured to move relative to each other along a slip plane between outer mating surface of the inner liner and the inner mating surface of the outer liner, and one or more securing attachments, each securing attachment being coupled to the outer liner and being configured to secure the outer liner to the inner liner, each securing attachment comprising a slack element configured to permit a range of movement between the outer liner and the inner liner.
US11882891B1
Belts have an elongated portion having opposed first and second ends configured for connection to each other, the first end including a planar body defining a first aperture and a second aperture spaced apart from the first aperture, and the second end including a buckle having a body with a first protrusion configured to be received in the first aperture and a second protrusion configured to be received in the second aperture. The first end may have a first free end. The second aperture may be closer to the first free end than is the first aperture. The second end may have a second free end. The first protrusion may be closer to the second free end than is the second protrusion. The first aperture may have a first limit surface away from the second aperture. The second aperture may have a second limit surface away from the first aperture.
US11882869B2
A cigarette according to an embodiment may include a cigarette rod including an aerosol-generating material; a filter rod located at one end of the cigarette rod and including a first segment and a second segment; a front end plug located at the other end of the cigarette rod; and an outer wrapper wrapping the cigarette rod, the filter rod and the front end plug, wherein the outer wrapper has a basis weight of 57 g/m2 to 63 g/m2 and a thickness of 64 μm to 70 μm to increase the strength of the cigarette.
US11882868B2
An apparatus for making a sheet of material including vegetable and/or alkaloid substances including a roller rolling mill system including a plurality of rollers rotatable around respective rotation axes defining a rolling mill path provided with pressure lines adapted to substantially press the material so as to provide the latter with a sheet-like shape, and a scraping system configured to engage by contact the working surface of a transfer roller along a contact line so as to detach the material. Specifically, the scraping system including a closed-loop endless scraping band movable at the contact line parallel to the rotation axis of the transfer roller via an actuating assembly.
US11882862B2
The coating can have a low-sweetness perception. During manufacturing and processing, the coating maintains a flowability to allow a glaze state of the coating to be applied to a food. Upon cooling, the glaze state of the coating forms a glass state that provides a low-sweetness impact which facilitates application of savory taste perceptions.
US11882861B2
Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.
US11882852B2
New process of producing alpha-hydroxy compounds from sustainable resources useful as platform chemicals, such as hydroxy analogues of amino acids or polymer precursors.
US11882848B1
There is provided a calorie-reduced chocolate product comprising insoluble dietary fiber and at least 5% water. Also provided are methods for making the same.
US11882840B1
Chlorella vulgaris aqueous extracts are used for enhancing C. longa plant growth and rhizome yield. In C. longa, Chlorella vulgaris foliar spraying stimulates plant growth and yield, as well as changing the compositions of bioactive compounds. Plant growth, yield, photosynthetic pigment concentration, and nitrogen content all improved when the Chlorella vulgaris aqueous extract was added to the foliar spray. The CURS-1, -2, -3, and DCS genes were revealed to be differently upregulated by the Chlorella vudgaris aqueous extract treatments. The curcuminoid content (hisdenethoxycurcumin, dimethoxycurcumin, and curcumin) also increased when the plant was sprayed with the Chlorella vulgaris aqueous extract, which corresponded with the curcuminoid gene's expression level.
US11882835B2
Provided are a benzimidazole compound represented by the general formula (1) {wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a cyano group, R2 represents a (C1-C6) alkyl group, a (C1-C6) alkoxy (C1-C6) alkyl group, or a halo (C1-C6) alkyl group, R represents a (C1-C3) alkylene group or a halo (C1-C3) alkylene group, and m represents 0, 1, or 2}, or a salt thereof, an agricultural and horticultural insecticide comprising the compound or the salt as an active ingredient; an animal ectoparasite or endoparasite control agent comprising the compound or the salt as an active ingredient; and a method for using the insecticide or the agent.
US11882834B2
Compounds of the formula (I), (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as pesticides, and especially fungicides.
US11882833B2
A synergistic aqueous wood preservative composition comprising a copper compound and penflufen. The copper compounds of the compositions of the invention may be soluble, partially solubilized or micronized particles. The penflufen of the compositions of the invention may be solubilized, emulsified or particulate. The wood preservative compositions of the present invention are surprisingly provided as stable dispersions and confer surprising and unexpected resistance to treated wood and wood products.
US11882830B2
The present invention relates to pesticidal mixtures comprising as active components at least one active compound selected from compounds of formula I, formula Ia, and mixtures thereof and at least one biopesticide II. Furthermore, the present invention relates to seed treatment compositions comprising said mixtures, to methods and uses comprising the application of these mixtures and to seeds comprising the mixtures of the invention or a seed treatment composition thereof.
US11882825B2
The disclosure describes a concentrate and a ready to use herbicide safener including 1-10 mg/L of glutamic acid, 10-100 mg/L of proline, and 50-200 mg/L of γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA). The disclosure also concerns a method for protecting plants from herbicides. The method includes a step of applying a ready to use herbicide safener disclosed in the disclosure to a plant.
US11882824B2
A vial sleeve for a cryogenic vial includes a cover portion including a side wall defining a cavity for receiving at least a portion of the vial, and a locking feature configured to operatively engage at least a portion of the vial for resisting movement of the vial relative to the vial sleeve. The vial sleeve may include a first label adhered to an exterior surface of the side wall and including a first set of indicia. The first set of indicia may be different from a second set of indicia included on a second label adhered to an exterior surface of the vial.
US11882818B2
Adaptable fishing lure kits, systems, and devices are provided. An adaptable fishing lure system may include a fishing lure body, a replaceably attachable lure body member to the fishing lure body, via a slot formed within an outer periphery surface of the lure body, and a channel chamber longitudinally extending through and within at least a portion of a length of the fishing lure body. The slot providing access to the channel, at least one cartridge providing an attractant into the chamber formed within the fishing lure body. Alternative use of an adhesive and means for securing a fin member and attractant are provided.
US11882816B2
The present invention relates to genetically engineered non-human mammal and cells, organs and tissues; to use thereof in medicinal and disease research; to a method for producing non-human animals and cells, organs and tissues; and to a method for researching in medicine and disease by virtue of the non-human mammals or cells, organs or tissues.
US11882814B2
A horizontal feed storage system may comprise an elongated feed container having a length and a width, wherein the length is at least ten times greater than the width. The elongated feed container may have a fill opening through which the feed is deposited into the elongated feed container and a feed removal opening through which feed is removed from the elongated feed container. The elongated feed container may be movable. The elongated feed container may include multiple conveyance mechanisms disposed within the elongated feed container. The multiple conveyance mechanisms may include a first conveyance mechanism and a second conveyance mechanism, wherein the first conveyance mechanism may displace feed by moving the feed in a first direction away from the fill opening, and/or the second conveyance mechanism may displace feed by moving the feed in a second direction toward the feed removal opening.
US11882813B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for tracking wildlife such as game animals. The tracking system includes a drone that has a camera and a dart dispenser that dispenses a dart with a location transmitter. The drone sends images from the camera to a remote controller, where a user pilots the drone and observes animals for disease or other behaviors, and sends instructions to dispense the dart. The real-time location of the dart is then provided to a mobile application for use in tracking or hunting the animal.
US11882805B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011226. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011226, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011226 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011226.
US11882803B2
A compact conditioning system for controlling a volume, comprises: (a) at least one light source, said light source being coupled with a replaceable focusing lens; (b) at least one fan; (c) at least one temperature sensor; (d) control circuitry adapted to receive inputs from said sensor(s) and/or from a user, and to operate said light source(s) and/or said fan(s) as a result thereof; and (e) a housing suitable to house said light source, fan and control circuitry and adapted to be positioned at the top of a structural element defining a closed space.
US11882801B2
A tank housing a vertical farm, having inside a plurality of structures at different heights that are supported on the tank wall such that they create ring-shaped projections on which to place the trays for the crops and the remaining installations and channels, wherein, since the structures are arranged as rings, a hollow space is created in the central shaft of the tank that is used to install a liftable platform so that an operator or robot may access the different trays holding the vegetables, and wherein on the lower portion of the tank are located closed and sealed compartments intended for the hydraulic, electric and electronic systems for controlling the parameters necessary for crop optimisation.
US11882797B2
An automatic detection and recovery device for residual agricultural mulch film, and a method of using the device, comprising a quadcopter, a wheeled robot (9), and a host computer (8); the quadcopter is provided with a controller (1), a near infrared water content analyzer, and a WiFi module that are used to measure water content in soil and communicate with the host computer; the wheeled robot (9) comprises a water sprinkling device (2), a soil grabbing device (3), a sifting device (4), a delivery device (5), a recognition device (6), and a sorting device (7).
US11882793B2
System and method for estimating or predicting the life state of components in an agricultural baler
Systems and methods for estimating remaining life in an agricultural baler comprise a reciprocating plunger for compressing gathered agricultural material into bales. A first sensor generates signals corresponding to force applied to the reciprocating plunger and any baling components configured to at least partially carry forces applied to the plunger. Based on input signals from at least the first sensor, forces associated with a load are recorded and a life state is estimated for the reciprocating plunger and/or at least one associated baler component. An output signal is then generated corresponding to the one or more estimated life states. In an embodiment, an input signal from a second sensor indicates completion of a bale, wherein an amount of life consumed from the plunger and/or baling components is determined in association with the bale, based at least in part on operating conditions of the baled material.
US11882785B2
In one aspect, a system for controlling the operation of a residue removal device of a seed-planting implement may include a residue removal device configured to remove residue from a path of the seed-planting implement. The system may also include a sensor configured to capture data indicative of a residue characteristic associated with a portion of the field within a detection zone positioned forward of the residue removal device relative to a direction of travel of the seed-planting implement. Furthermore, the system may include a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. As such, the controller may be configured to monitor the residue characteristic associated with the portion of the field within the detection zone based on data received from the sensor. Additionally, the controller may be further configured to control the operation of the residue removal device based on the monitored residue characteristic.
US11889763B2
An actuator may be integrated into an optical element such as a liquid lens and configured to create spherical curvature as well as a variable cylinder radius and axis in a surface of the optical element. An example actuator may include a stack of electromechanical layers, and electrodes configured to apply an electric field independently across each of the electromechanical layers. Within the stack, an orientation of neighboring electromechanical layers may differ, e.g., stepwise, by at least approximately 10°.
US11889756B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting device having improved luminescent efficiency and a compound.
US11889754B2
The present disclosure provides an organic compound of the following formula and an organic light emitting diode and an OLED device including the same.
US11889743B2
The present disclosure discloses an evaporation method, an evaporation mask assembly, a display panel and a display device, which can reduce the complexity of the manufacturing process of the display panel and improve the yield of the display panel. The evaporation method may comprise: performing a first evaporation on a base substrate by using a first mask to form a first evaporation sub-pattern on the base substrate, wherein the first mask has a first opening area; and performing a second evaporation on the base substrate by using a second mask to form a second evaporation sub-pattern on the base substrate, wherein the second mask has a second opening area; wherein the combination of the first and second evaporation sub-patterns forms an evaporation pattern.
US11889740B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) deposition system includes two deposition chambers, a transfer chamber between the two deposition chambers, a metrology system having one or more sensors to perform measurements of the workpiece within the transfer chamber, and a control system to cause the system to form an organic light-emitting diode layer stack on the workpiece. Vacuum is maintained around the workpiece while the workpiece is transferred between the two deposition chambers and while retaining the workpiece within the transfer chamber. The control system is configured to cause the two deposition chambers to deposit two layers of organic material onto the workpiece, and to receive a first plurality of measurements of the workpiece in the transfer chamber from the metrology system.
US11889739B2
The present invention provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device and a manufacturing of the OLED device. The OLED device includes a light-emitting layer, an insulating layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer. The insulating layer is arranged on one side of the light-emitting layer, and a through hole is in the insulating layer. The through hole is arranged corresponding to a middle portion of the light-emitting layer. The electron transport layer is in a lower portion of the through hole and attached to a surface of the light-emitting layer. The electron injection layer is in an upper portion of the through hole and attached to one side of the electron transport layer away from the light-emitting layer.
US11889738B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a pixel area and a transmitting area adjacent to the pixel area. The organic light-emitting display device includes an organic light-emitting diode, a driving power wiring, and a heating pattern adjacent to the driving power wiring. The organic light-emitting diode includes a first electrode disposed in the pixel area, an organic light-emitting layer disposed on the first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the organic light-emitting layer. The driving power wiring is electrically connected to the second electrode. A portion of the organic light-emitting layer is disposed in the transmitting area. The organic light-emitting layer includes an opening area overlapping the heating pattern and at least a portion of the driving power wiring. The second electrode electrically contacts the driving power wiring through the opening area.
US11889732B2
A display device includes a plurality of first pixels each including a first light emitting diode element and a second light emitting diode element having different colors, and a plurality of second pixels each including a third light emitting diode element and a fourth light emitting diode element having different colors. The first pixel and the second pixel have different combinations of colors of light emitting diode elements, the first light emitting diode element is a green light emitting diode element, and the third light emitting diode element is a green light emitting diode element, a yellow light emitting diode element, or a white light emitting diode element. The first pixels and the second pixels are alternately arranged in a first direction and alternately arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction.
US11889725B2
A flexible display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a flexible display apparatus are disclosed. The flexible display panel includes: a flexible substrate, the flexible substrate including a display area, a peripheral area, a welding area and a bending area, and the bending area including a first edge; and the flexible display panel further includes: a barrier and an organic insulation layer, wherein the peripheral area includes a peripheral transition area between the bending area and the display area, the organic insulation layer in the peripheral transition area is provided with a first groove, the first groove is on one side of the barrier and extends along a direction substantially parallel to a bending axis, and the first groove is on one side of the first edge proximal to the display area.
US11889720B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate including a transmission area having a first through hole, a display area surrounding the transmission area, and a middle area disposed between the transmission area and the display area, a pixel circuit disposed on the display area, the pixel circuit including a first thin film transistor including a first semiconductor layer having polycrystalline silicon, and a second thin film transistor including a second semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor, a display element including a pixel electrode electrically connected to the pixel circuit, an opposite electrode disposed on the pixel electrode, and an intermediate layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode and including an emission layer, and a groove disposed in the middle area while surrounding the first through hole.
US11889719B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes at least two first pixels, at least two second pixels, and at least two third pixels. An area of the first pixel, an area of the second pixel, and an area of the third pixel are inversely proportional to a luminous efficiency of a luminescent material of the first pixel, a luminous efficiency of a luminescent material of the second pixel, and a luminous efficiency of a luminescent material of the third pixel, respectively. The disclosure can avoid the drawback of color shift of the display panel.
US11889716B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate on which a central area having a display area and a peripheral area disposed around the central area are defined. The display apparatus includes a display area inorganic layer on the display area and extending to a portion of the peripheral area; and an encapsulation inorganic layer covering the display area, on the display area inorganic layer, and having an edge that is in parallel with or extending over an edge of the display area inorganic layer.
US11889714B2
The present disclosure discloses a display apparatus, including a substrate including a pixel area including a disconnected area which encloses a hole area, an organic light emitting diode formed in the pixel area and the disconnected area, a plurality of inorganic insulating layers disposed below the organic light emitting diode, a disconnection structure which is disposed in the disconnected area and encloses the hole area, and an internal dam which is disposed in the disconnected area and encloses the disconnection structure, and in which the disconnection structure includes an eave portion which is simultaneously formed with the internal dam and a trench which is formed by etching the plurality of inorganic insulating layers disposed below the eave portion, and the disconnection structure is configured to have a predetermined overhang and a predetermined depth by the eave portion and the trench structure.
US11889703B2
A magnetic junction memory device is provided. The magnetic junction memory device including a sensing circuit including a sensing node, the sensing node being connected to a first end of a transistor and configured to change a voltage of the sensing node in accordance with a resistance of a magnetic junction memory cell, a gating voltage generator circuit configured to generate a gating voltage of the transistor using a reference resistor and a reference voltage, and a read circuit configured to read data from the magnetic junction memory cell using the reference voltage and the voltage of the sensing node.
US11889698B2
A semiconductor storage device includes first wiring layers stacked along a first direction, a first pillar including a first semiconductor layer and extending along the first direction through the first wiring layers, a second wiring layer disposed above the first pillar in the first direction and extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a semiconductor-containing layer including a first portion disposed on an upper end of the first pillar in the first direction, a second portion contacting the first portion and formed along the second wiring layer, and a third portion contacting an upper end of the second portion and extending along a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and crossing the second direction, and a first insulating layer between each of the first and second portions of the semiconductor-containing layer and the second wiring layer. An upper surface of the third portion contains a metal.
US11889688B2
A semiconductor device include; a substrate including a cell array region and a key region, a stack structure on the cell array region including vertically stacked electrodes, a dummy structure on the key region, a vertical channel structure penetrating the stack structure to connect the substrate, a dummy pillar penetrating the first dummy structure, an interlayer dielectric layer on the stack structure and the dummy structure, wherein an upper portion of the interlayer dielectric layer on the dummy structure includes a key pattern that vertically overlaps the dummy pillar, and a capping layer on the key region and covering the key pattern.
US11889687B2
Integrated circuit structures might include a semiconductor material, a first active area in the semiconductor material, a second active area in the semiconductor material, and an isolation structure comprising a dielectric material deposited in a trench formed in the semiconductor material between the first active area and the second active area. The isolation structure might further include a first edge portion extending below a surface of the semiconductor material to a first depth, a second edge portion extending below the surface of the semiconductor material to the first depth, and an interior portion between the first edge portion and the second edge portion, and extending below the surface of the semiconductor material to a second depth, less than the first depth.
US11889685B2
A semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes first stack structures enclosing first channel structures and spaced apart from each other. The first channel structures are spaced apart from each other at a first distance in each of the first stack structures and the first stack structures are spaced apart from each other at a second distance.
US11889681B2
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate having an active region and a word line trench therein. The word line trench includes a lower portion having a first width, and an upper portion, which extends between the lower portion and a surface of the substrate and has a second width that is greater than the first width. A word line is provided, which extends in and adjacent a bottom of the word line trench. A gate insulation layer is provided, which extends between the word line and sidewalls of the lower portion of the word line trench. An electrically insulating gate capping layer is provided in the upper portion of the word line trench. An insulation liner is provided, which extends between the gate capping layer and sidewalls of the upper portion of the word line trench. The gate insulation layer extends between the insulation liner and a portion of the gate capping layer, which extends within the upper portion of the word line trench.
US11889678B2
A method of manufacturing a buried word line structure includes: providing a semiconductor substrate; injecting target ions into the semiconductor substrate to form an injected region in the semiconductor substrate; annealing the semiconductor substrate including the injected region to convert the injected region into an insulation region; forming a word line trench in the insulation region; and filling the word line trench with a word line metal to form a buried word line structure.
US11889675B2
The present disclosure is directed to a circuit layout of a dual port static random-access-memory (SRAM) cell. The memory cell includes active regions in a substrate, with polysilicon gate electrodes on the active regions to define transistors of the memory cell. The eight transistor (8T) memory cell layout includes a reduced aspect ratio and non-polysilicon bit line discharge path routing by positioning an active region for the first port opposite an active region for the second port and consolidating power line nodes at a central portion of the memory cell.
US11889661B2
An integrated circuit thermal management system includes an enclosure, a heat exchanger, an integrated circuit, a slide having a moveable slide body, an electromagnetic coil, a magneto caloric material and controller circuitry. The heat exchanger is positioned on a first side of the enclosure, and the integrated circuit is positioned on a second side of the enclosure with a temperature sensor configured to generate a temperature signal indicative of a temperature of the integrated circuit. The slide is disposed in the enclosure extending between the heat exchanger and the integrated circuit. The electromagnetic coil and the magnetocaloric material are included on the slide body. The controller is configured to control energization of the magnetic coil and movement of the magnetocaloric material on the slide body between the heat exchanger and the integrated circuit based on the temperature signal.
US11889658B2
Immersion cooling system for electronics. The electronics are immersed in immersion tank filled with immersion liquid. A universal supply utilizes a supply panel to fill cooled liquid into the tank. Localized supply utilizes a manifold to deliver cooled liquid to specific devices within the tank. Cooled liquid is delivered via connection of the manifold and the flexible hoses to cooling plates mounted onto the devices. Each of the cooling plates has a cavity for passing cooled liquid, a supply inlet connected to one of the flexible hoses, and an outlet hole releasing the liquid into the tank. The cooled liquid is supplied to the universal supply from a main cooler. The cooled liquid is supplied to the manifold from the main cooler or from a secondary cooler. The immersion tank has a single recirculation outlet to return liquid mixed from both the universal supply and the localized supply.
US11889653B2
A power converter includes a cabinet and an electric device accommodated in the cabinet. The cabinet includes a housing, a door, a support member, and a rotation mechanism. The door is rotatably supported around a first axis with respect to the housing. The support member is interposed between the housing and the door to support the door in the housing. The rotation mechanism rotates the door with respect to the housing around a second axis along a direction orthogonal to a plane direction of an opening of the housing.
US11889651B2
A rack mountable bracket is described. The bracket is mountable to a rack configured for mounting equipment. The rack is also configured according to a rack standard (e.g., EIA-310) that specifies how rails of the rack are disposed, one rail to another, and how a strip of holes disposed along a length of each rail is spaced, one hole to another. In one or more implementations, the bracket includes a pair of mounting edges for mounting the bracket to a mounting pair of the rails using hole strips of the mounting pair of rails. The bracket also includes an equipment mounting rail having a hole strip disposed along a length of the rail with holes spaced according to the rack standard. The equipment mounting rail is disposed between the mounting edges, such that when the bracket is mounted to the mounting pair of rails the bracket is horizontally oriented.
US11889646B2
A display device includes a head including a display panel, a stand supporting the head, and a moving assembly coupled to the head and to the stand, the moving assembly including a rotational assembly for rotating the head and a tilt assembly for allowing the head to be inclined, the rotational assembly includes a base and a rotating plate rotatably disposed at the base, the tilt assembly includes a holder fixed to the stand, a rotating body coupled to the base and rotatably coupled to the holder, the rotating body having a rotational axis intersecting a rotational axis of the rotating plate, and an elastic member disposed between the holder and the rotating body, wherein a first end of the elastic member is coupled to the holder, and wherein the rotating body is supported by the elastic member at a position adjacent to a second end of the elastic member.
US11889641B2
A display device includes a screen, a screen stand and a fixing module. The screen stand is pivotally connected to the screen. The fixing module is connected to the screen stand and configured to clamp a first surface and a second surface of a board and includes a connecting element, a first abutting element and a second abutting element. The first abutting element is fixed to the connecting element and configured to abut against the first surface of the board. The second abutting element is pivotally connected to the connecting element and includes an abutting end configured to abut against the second surface of the board.
US11889634B2
A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board includes providing an insulating layer, forming a plating seed layer on the insulating layer, forming a first circuit pattern on the plating seed layer and a second circuit pattern on the first circuit pattern, and forming a top metal layer on the second circuit pattern. The second circuit pattern can be thinner than the first circuit pattern, and the top metal layer can be wider than the second circuit pattern.
US11889618B2
A dielectric substrate has a first surface including a first terminal joint and a second terminal joint arranged along a first side surface. A first lead terminal is bonded to the first terminal joint with a bond. A second lead terminal is bonded to the second terminal joint with a bond. The first lead terminal includes a first base bonded to the first terminal joint and a first lead extending from the first base. The second lead terminal includes a second base bonded to the second terminal joint and a second lead extending from the second base. The first lead terminal includes the first base having a larger thickness than the first lead.
US11889604B2
A load control system includes a load control device and a remote control for configuring and controlling operation of the load control device. The load control device and remote control may be mounted to an electrical wallbox. The system may be configured by associating the remote control with the load control device, and actuating a button on the remote control to configure the load control device. A second remote control device may be directly or indirectly associated with the load control device. The load control device and remote control may communicate via inductive coils that are magnetically coupled together. The remote control may be operable to charge a battery from energy derived from the magnetic coupling between the inductive coils. The load control device and remote control may include near-field communication modules that are operable to communicate wirelessly via near-field radiation.
US11889602B2
A wall-mounted keypad may include a light detector circuit located inside the keypad that is configured to measure an ambient light level in a space. The light detector circuit may receive ambient light through an aperture that is hidden from view by the keypad. The keypad may include a reflector for directing ambient light onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include an enclosure that houses the light detector circuit. The enclosure may define a recess that exposes at least a portion of the light detector circuit. The enclosure may include a reflector that may focus ambient light received through the aperture onto the light detector circuit. The keypad may include a control circuit that may be configured to illuminate the indicia of respective buttons of the control device in response to actuations of the one or more buttons, in accordance with the measured ambient light level.
US11889601B2
A spectrum control device includes a control unit that obtains spectrum information. The control unit controls at least one of a spectrum of light emitted by a light emitting device or a spectrum of image light that forms an image, on the basis of the spectrum information.
US11889594B2
A system includes lighting devices coupled to output supply pins, a microcontroller circuit, and a driver circuit, which receives data therefrom, and switches coupled in series to the lighting devices. The driver circuit includes output supply pins and selectively propagates a supply voltage to the output supply pins to provide respective pulse-width modulated supply signals at the output supply pins. The driver circuit computes duty-cycle values of the pulse-width modulated supply signals as a function of the data received from the microcontroller circuit. The lighting devices include at least one subset coupled to the same output supply pin. The microcontroller individually controls the switches via respective control signals to individually adjust a brightness of the lighting devices in the at least one subset of lighting devices.
US11889592B2
A system and method for reducing latency in a wireless-to-wired backhaul environment, such as a LTE-Backhaul environment. In the LTE-Backhaul embodiment, the system and method rely on a modification to the eNodeB (eNB). This modification causes the eNB to generate a bandwidth report (BWR) upon receipt of a buffer status report (BSR) associated with an RRC encapsulated NSA signaling. The BWR provides a notification to the backhaul system that SCTP signaling, which is associated with the RRC encapsulated NSA signaling, is forthcoming. In addition, the present system and method provides for a periodic transmission of a grant (e.g., a MAP in a DOCSIS embodiment) in the backhaul portion. The backhaul grant provides for the modem to immediately forward the BWR to the modem termination system (MTS) upon receipt of the BWR such that the MTS may prepare a grant for the forth coming SCTP signaling.
US11889591B2
A system is presented for providing cellular backhaul for a home security system. In one embodiment the system includes a home security system including a microcontroller; and a 2G femto base station in communication with the home security system; wherein the home security system uses the 2G femto base station for communications external to the home security system.
US11889587B2
A method for supporting time-sensitive communication and a communications device are provided. A method for supporting time-sensitive communication applied to a first communications device includes: transmitting first capability information and/or delay related information of a terminal UE, where the first capability information includes at least one of the following: information related to a delay between the UE and a first adapter, bridge identification information of the first adapter, information about a bandwidth supported by the first adapter, transmission propagation delay related information of the first adapter, bridge identification information of the UE and the first adapter as a whole, information about a bandwidth supported by the UE and the first adapter as a whole, or transmission propagation delay related information of the UE and the first adapter as a whole.
US11889586B2
A method, performed by a terminal, of negotiating an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) version in a wireless communication system includes: establishing a hypertext transfer protocol over secure socket layer (HTTPS) connection with a server transmitting eUICC information including information about the eUICC version to the server through the HTTPS connection; and receiving server information corresponding to the eUICC information from the server, wherein the information about the eUICC version includes a minimum eUICC version and a maximum eUICC version that are available when the terminal accesses the server.
US11889585B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for forming a virtual user equipment (UE) group and enhancing communication using joint reception and transmission mechanisms. For example, a UE may establish sidelink channels for communications with one or more other UEs. The UE and the one or more other UEs may form a virtual UE group (also interchangeably referred to as a virtual UE) using the sidelink channels. The UE may exchange information with other UEs in the virtual UE group to enhance communications between the one or more UEs of the virtual UE group and a network entity. The information exchanged depends on at least one of a joint reception mechanism or a joint transmission mechanism used by the virtual UE group. The UE communicates with the network entity based, at least in part, on the exchanged information.
US11889584B2
A user equipment (UE) may perform a UE parameter update (UPU) procedure or a steering of roaming (SoR) procedure based on information received from a home public land mobile network (HPLMN). The UE receives, from a network component, an update container comprising updated parameters for the UE and a counter value associated with the update container, compares the counter value with a stored value and performs an action related to the update container based on at least the comparison of the counter value with the stored value.
US11889575B2
Method for unified networking for a device in heterogeneous mobile environments includes maintaining and monitoring active network interfaces, managing the location of the device, managing network access security, enabling disruption tolerance support for applications, enabling service sharing and session mobility, managing system parameters for one or more active application sessions, managing storage functionality in one or more memory devices, and maintaining a mapping for one or more flows corresponding to the one or more active application sessions, maintaining one or more policies, and performing flow control decisions based upon the policies using a policy engine. The method can also include monitoring for network events, evaluating whether to perform a handover based upon policies, and providing seamless secure handovers in a heterogeneous mobile environment. A device, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and a system for unified networking are also provided.
US11889573B2
A group pairing method of a wireless intercommunication system according to an embodiment may comprise the steps of: acquiring information about slave wireless intercommunication devices and generating a pairing list from the acquired information, and sorting the generated list according to a chain connection order; transmitting information about the sorted pairing list and chain connection order to a master wireless intercommunication device; the master wireless intercommunication device receiving the information about the sorted pairing list and chain connection order from the master mobile device and updating the pairing list thereof from the received pairing list, and transmitting information about the updated pairing list and chain connection order to the slave wireless intercommunication devices; and each of the slave wireless intercommunication devices receiving the information about the updated pairing list and chain connection order from the master wireless intercommunication device and updating the pairing list thereof from the received pairing list, and sorting the updated pairing list according to the chain connection order.
US11889569B2
Pairing of multiple devices is initiated using a computer in an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem. A command is received at a computer to perform a user activity at a location which includes pairing a user device to a selectable device at the location. The context of the command is analyzed including a historical corpus regarding previous pairings and connection preferences. A device at the location is selected based on the analysis and the determining of the user activity. Pairing is automatically initiated for the user device to the selected device at the location based on the analysis of the context of the command. The automatic initiation includes adjusting settings on the user device based on the analysis of the context of the command. The user device is automatically paired to the selected device at the location to perform the user activity.
US11889568B2
A device may include a processor configured to detect that an Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) tunnel from a user equipment (UE) device connected via a WiFi connection has become idle, based on the IPsec tunnel meeting an idleness criterion, and instruct the UE device to tear down the IPsec tunnel, in response to detecting that the IPsec tunnel from the UE device connected via the WiFi connection meets the idleness criterion. The device may be further configured to receive a mobile terminating call for the UE device; establish a new IPsec tunnel to the UE device via the WiFi connection, in response to receiving the mobile terminating call for the UE device; and forward the received mobile terminating call to the UE device via the established new IPsec tunnel.
US11889567B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating, by a user equipment (UE), over multiple slices. A method that may be performed by the UE includes receiving, by a modem, from an operating system (OS), a request for route identifier, the request for route identifier comprising a traffic descriptor corresponding to a first application from which the request for route identifier originated. The method further includes transmitting a route identifier to the OS, the route identifier generated by the modem based on a routing policy that provides mapping between the traffic descriptor and a network route. The method further includes receiving, by the modem, a start network request comprising the route identifier. The method further includes establishing, in response to the start network request, a network connection via the network route.
US11889564B2
A terminal is disclosed including a receiving section that receives information indicating a first number of preamble transmission, the information being a condition for switching from a 2-step random access procedure to a 4-step random access procedure, and information indicating a second number which is a maximum number of preamble transmission; and a control section that when a number of preamble transmission is the first number, controls to switch from a 2-step random access procedure to a 4-step random access procedure, and when the number of preamble transmission is the second number, determines a failure of the 4-step random access procedure. In other aspects a radio communication method and a system are also disclosed.
US11889562B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: performing a random access procedure; monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for an ON duration on the basis of a configured discontinuous reception (DRX) operation after performing the random access procedure; and operating an inactivity timer on the basis of the successfully received PDCCH for the ON duration. During the random access procedure, a random access preamble is transmitted in one or two physical random access channel (PRACH) slots. The one or two PRACH slots are determined from among N slots corresponding to a reference slot. A subcarrier spacing (SCS) setting value for the reference slot may be 2 on the basis of the SCS setting value applied to the N slots being 5 or 6.
US11889558B2
Systems and methods of providing RAT co-existence and congestion control in V2V communications are generally described. A vUE detects specific non-LTE RAT transmissions in a listening period of a PSSCH or PSSCH, determines whether a metric has been met and reselects to a non-overloaded channel to communicate with other vUEs or the eNB. The manner of reselection is dependent on the RAT specific or V2X service priorities of the channels, as well as whether the channels are V2V service dependent.
US11889552B2
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for receiving a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention provides a method and an apparatus allowing a terminal to vary, according to base station settings or instructions, a reception time or reception timing, for a downlink control channel, transmitted from a base station.
US11889548B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide for configuring channel access mechanisms in a mmWave shared spectrum mobile communication network. The channel access mechanisms are to be used by a user equipment (UE) and a serving node in the UE's serving cell. The configuring may use a single, cell-specific higher layer parameter or a combination of two cell-specific higher layer parameters. The parameters may configure the UE and the node to perform channel sensing before transmitting to initiate a channel occupancy. Alternatively, the UE and the node may be configured to transmit directly without channel sensing. The parameters may configure a receiver (the UE or the node) to perform channel sensing before transmitting a channel idle indication to the transmitter as part of a channel access procedure to initiate a channel occupancy. Alternatively, the parameters may configure the UE and the node to receive without channel sensing.
US11889541B2
Aspects relate to mechanisms for a wireless communication device to generate a superposition transmission of a sidelink signal to be transmitted to at least one receiving wireless communication device and an uplink signal to be transmitted to a base station. The wireless communication device may transmit the superposition transmission on resources allocated by the base station on a common carrier utilized for both sidelink and uplink transmissions. The superposition transmission includes a base layer corresponding to the uplink signal and an enhanced layer corresponding to the sidelink signal. The wireless communication device may further generate and transmit interference assistance information to the receiving wireless communication device for use by the receiving wireless communication device in canceling the base layer from the superposition transmission.
US11889538B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may adjust a basic safety message generation periodicity based at least in part on a semi-persistent scheduling periodicity for transmitting basic safety messages. The UE may generate one or more basic safety messages based at least in part on the adjusted basic safety message generation periodicity. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11889532B2
Methods and systems may include processes by which the reliability and robustness of a wireless network may be improved. In some implementations, a method may include selecting at least two resource units to be used for communications to a single client device; and transmitting data in duplicate via each of the at least two resource units to the client device such that the client device is able to combine the data from each of the at least two resource units into a single instance of the data. In some implementations, a method may include obtaining notification of one or more ranges of frequencies corresponding to a set of resource units to be avoided in a spectrum of available frequencies, and allocating resource units to a set of client devices that covers the available frequencies while excluding the set of resource units to be avoided.
US11889531B2
The invention relates to a method for sending control data in a hybrid wireless/broadcast network system, said network system comprising a broadcast network dedicated to transmission of broadcast services through at least a broadcast cell and a wireless network dedicated to transmission of at least a service through a plurality of cells, a cover area of the broadcast cell covering, at least partially, a cover area of a first cell and a cover area of a second cell among the plurality of cells, said method comprising: when control data related to a service of the first cell is identical to control data related to a service of a second cell, sending the control data through the broadcast cell.
US11889517B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support configured reception with sidelink control information (SCI) repetition over a sidelink. In aspects, a receiving user equipment (UE) may be configured to conduct combined reception/decoding of SCI repetitions (received from a transmitting UE over a sidelink) over multiple time-frequency slots at pre-defined occasions (e.g., occasions configured by a base station) to decode a sidelink transmission. In aspects, a receiving UE may receive from a transmitting UE over a sidelink, a sidelink transmission during a reception occasion that includes a plurality of reception opportunities for the receiving UE. Each reception opportunity of the plurality of reception opportunities includes a repetition of an SCI. The receiving UE decodes the SCI by combining the repetitions of the SCI received in one or more reception opportunities, and decodes a data transmission (e.g., a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission) using the decoded SCI.
US11889515B2
A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NR (gNB), or other network component) as a service provider/consumer can process or generate sidelink communications based on a downlink control information (DCI) for one or more sidelink configured grants that enables resource allocation for the sidelink communication. The device can determine whether to activate, release/deactivate, or request a retransmission for the one or more sidelink configured grants based on one or more fields of a DCI format 3_0 configuration of the DCI.
US11889513B2
This application provides an example communication method and an example apparatus. The method includes a first network device generates first indication information to indicate a first downlink resource. Second indication information indicates a second downlink resource. Because the first indication information may indicate whether the second indication information exists, if a terminal device detects the first indication information in the first time unit, and the first indication information indicates that the second indication information does not exist in the first time unit, the terminal device may stop a blind detection process on the second indication information in advance.
US11889512B2
The present disclosure relates to a user equipment (UE) which monitors, during a first time period, a downlink channel of an unlicensed radio cell for a channel occupancy signal transmitted by a base station via the unlicensed radio cell. The channel occupancy signal indicates that the base station occupies the downlink channel. The UE receives the channel occupancy signal during the first time period from the base station and determines that the base station occupies the downlink channel based on the received channel occupancy signal. After determining that the base station occupies the downlink channel, the UE monitors, during a second time period, the downlink channel for downlink control information regarding a downlink transmission to be received by the user equipment. The UE receives the downlink control information during the second time period and receives subsequently the downlink transmission from the base station based on the received downlink control information.
US11889511B2
A method and apparatus communicate a transport block in an unlicensed uplink transmission on a wireless network. Downlink Control Information (DCI) can be sent on a control channel. The DCI can schedule an unlicensed uplink (UL) transmission for a UE. The DCI can include a field that indicates whether the UE should apply a scaling factor when determining a Transport Block Size (TBS). A transport block can be received in the unlicensed UL transmission based on the sent DCI.
US11889509B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for transmitting MTC DCI, base stations, and user equipment. The method includes: determining a DCI transmission region configured for an MTC device, generating and sending control resource configuration information to the MTC device; determining an information detection capability of the MTC device in the DCI transmission region, where the information detection capability indicates whether the MTC device supports searching for DCI from a target resource region; mapping a target physical resource in the DCI transmission region according to the information detection capability and a preset resource mapping mode, where the target physical resource carries the DCI of the MTC device; and transmitting the DCI to the MTC device through the target physical resource mapped in the DCI transmission region. With the methods of transmitting MTC DCI provided by the present disclosure, transmission resources can be effectively utilized.
US11889501B2
Methods and apparatus are described for methods and apparatus for carrying out wireless communication using Long Term Evolution (LTE) in a frequency band with low peak-to-average-power. The approach includes precoding, in the frequency domain, a plurality of physical channel signals, followed by multiplexing, where the procoding is performed according to predetermined codes with a code length selected based on a length of an entire signal of the multiplexed precoded plurality of physical channel signals. In addition, the approach includes being configured to map the multiplexed precoded plurality of physical channel signals to subcarriers in the frequency band, as well to generate a time domain waveform based on the mapped signals.
US11889495B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device (such as a first user equipment (UE)) may communicate control signaling indicating a resource allocation for a sidelink channel. The first UE may receive, from a second UE, a first resource map. The first resource map may indicate a first sidelink transmission scheduled within a first time and frequency resource of the resource allocation, a first priority level of the first resource map, and a parameter threshold used to generate the first resource map. In some cases, the first UE may communicate a second sidelink transmission within the resource allocation for the sidelink channel based on the first resource map.
US11889488B1
A first communication device determines that a trigger frame and another frame are to be transmitted to at least a second communication device. The first communication device determines whether the second communication device announced support of aggregation of buffer status report (BSRP) trigger frames with additional frames. In response to the first communication device determining that the second communication device announced support of aggregation of BSRP trigger frames with additional frames, the first communication device generates an aggregate media access control protocol data unit (A-MPDU) to include the BSRP trigger frame and the other frame, and transmits the A-MPDU within a packet. In response to the first communication device determining that the second communication device did not announce support of aggregation of BSRP trigger frames with additional frames, the first communication device transmits a packet having only the BSRP trigger frame.
US11889482B2
A method of a UE in a wireless communication system supporting a shared spectrum channel access is provided. The UE comprises: receiving, from a BS over a first downlink channel, a SS/PBCH block; determining a transmission window in which the received SS/PBCH block is located; determining whether a CORESET for Type0-PDCCH CSS is present based on the received SS/PBCH block; determining a parameter for a QCL assumption of candidate SS/PBCH blocks within the transmission window; determining a group of QCLed candidate SS/PBCH blocks within the transmission window based on the determined parameter for the QCL assumption; determining a group of slots including the Type0-PDCCH CSS, wherein each slot of the group of slots corresponds to a candidate SS/PBCH block within the group of QCLed candidate SS/PBCH blocks; and receiving, over a second downlink channel, at least one Type0-PDCCH based on the determined groups of slots including the Type0-PDCCH CSS.
US11889478B2
Proposed is a method for performing a sidelink operation in a wireless communication system, the method being performed by a terminal. The method comprises: selecting a preferred resource pool from among a plurality of resource pools, wherein the preferred resource pool is one of a first resource pool including a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource and a second resource pool without the PSFCH resource; and, on the basis of a re-selection condition, performing the sidelink operation on the first resource pool or the second resource pool.
US11889477B2
An operating method of a first device (100) in a wireless communication system is presented. The method may comprise the steps of: selecting X number of candidate resources on the basis of sensing within a selection window, the X number of candidate resources being included in the active time of an SL DRX configuration related to a second device (200); and selecting a transmission resource for the transmission of a MAC PDU on the basis of the X number of candidate resources.
US11889465B2
A multiple universal subscriber identity module (multi-USIM) wireless device sends, to a mobility management function, a registration request message comprising an indication for a paging cause value in a paging message. The wireless device receives a first paging message comprising the paging cause value. The wireless device sends, based on the first paging message, a radio resource control (RRC) message requesting a connection setup.
US11889460B2
Systems and apparatuses include an endpoint structured to be coupled to an outdoor power equipment and including an operation sensor structured to provide operational information indicative of an operational status of the outdoor power equipment, and a transmitter structured to wirelessly transmit the operational information; and a gateway including a receiver structured to receive the operational information from the endpoint, and one or more processing circuits comprising one or more memory devices coupled to one or more processors, the one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: associate the operational information with a timestamp, record a history of operational information and associated timestamps, and transmit the history to an external device.
US11889452B2
An access and mobility management function (AMF) receives, from a wireless device, a first registration request message comprising a first zone identity of the wireless device, wherein the first zone identity is based on a first geographical location of the wireless device, and a registration area update type indicating a geographical zone-based tracking type. The AMF sends a paging message for the wireless device based on the geographical zone-based tracking type.
US11889450B2
Techniques for compensating timing advance for full duplex communications are disclosed. In an example, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a timing advance value and a compensation factor. The UE may also determine a timing compensation amount indicating an amount of time to adjust an uplink (UL) transmission based on the timing advance value and the compensation factor. The UE may also transmit, to the base station, the UL transmission according to the timing compensation amount. Other features are also described.
US11889444B2
A synchronization signal transmission method and a terminal device are disclosed, so that the terminal device can accurately determine a symbol location of a primary synchronization signal. The techniques may be used in an internet of vehicles. The method in this application includes: generating, by a first terminal device, a synchronization signal block, where the synchronization signal block includes M primary synchronization signals and N secondary synchronization signals, each of the M primary synchronization signals corresponds to one symbol interval set, one symbol interval set in M symbol interval sets includes N symbol intervals between one primary synchronization signal in the M primary synchronization signals and the N secondary synchronization signals, any two of the M symbol interval sets do not include a same symbol interval, and M and N are positive integers greater than or equal to 2; and sending, by the first terminal device, the synchronization signal block.
US11889442B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for receiving a sidelink synchronization signal (SLSS) by a terminal in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: receiving a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH); determining which of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) or an eNB is to be a synchronization source according to priority information included in the PSBCH; and receiving an SLSS associated with the determined synchronization source, wherein the terminal determines that the priority information is valid only when a public land mobile network (PLMN) associated with the priority information matches a PLMN to which the terminal belongs.
US11889426B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit a first sensing signal of a radio frequency (RF) sensing procedure at a first transmit power. The UE may receive, from a base station at least in part in response to the first sensing signal, a power control message for sensing signals of the RF sensing procedure. The power control message may indicate a power control strategy for transmitting sensing signals of the RF sensing procedure. The UE may then transmit, at a second transmit power based on the received power control message, a second sensing signal of the RF sensing procedure.
US11889424B2
Provided are a PDCCH monitoring method and device of a DRX-configured terminal in a wireless communication system. In the method, if a monitoring occasion is present in a monitoring window for monitoring DCI (WUS) comprising a wake-up indication, the WUS is monitored in the monitoring occasion and, if the WUS is detected, the relevant operation is performed in a DRX ON duration on the basis of same. The WUS can indicate whether or not to wake up from a plurality of DRX cycles. Also, the WUS can indicate various configurations in accordance with the length of the DRX cycles. If the monitoring occasion is not present in the monitoring window, the terminal wakes up from a DRX cycle linked to the monitoring occasion and performs PDCCH monitoring for a general DCI detection not comprising a wake-up indication.
US11889409B2
A dedicated Network Gateway Service (NGS) (22, 23) in a Service Based Architecture (SBA) domain (21), deployed in a core network of a telecommunications system (20), arranged for operational message handling with communication entities (2, 3, 4) of the telecommunications system external of the SBA domain (21) in accordance with communication interface protocols (N1, N2, N4) of the telecommunications system (20). The NGS (22, 23) is further arranged for service message handling in the SBA domain (21) with at least one of an Access and Mobility Function (AMF) (24) and a Session Management Function (SMF) (25) of the SBA domain (21).
US11889408B2
Systems/methods are disclosed wherein a transmitter is used to convey information to a destination device by wirelessly transmitting using first frequencies; and, responsive to a size of data that is to be transmitted, wirelessly transmitting using second frequencies; wherein at least some of the second frequencies differ from the first frequencies. In some embodiments, the transmitter comprises first and second transmitters that convey information to the destination device by wirelessly transmitting by the first transmitter first data using first frequencies and, responsive to the size of data to be transmitted, wirelessly transmitting by the second transmitter second data using second frequencies. According to some embodiments, the first and second data are transmitted simultaneously in time. According to further embodiments, a smartphone comprises the transmitter or the first and second transmitters. According to additional embodiments, a base station comprises the transmitter or the first and second transmitters.
US11889406B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems to support QoS for unicast and groupcast casting types using sidelink radio bearers over the NR PC5 interface. Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems to configure and activate sidelink radio bearers using AS-level signaling between the Tx UE and Rx UEs over the NR PC5 interface. Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems to perform resource allocation and resource reservation in a platoon for sidelink transmissions.
US11889404B2
An architecture to avoid handover ping-pong for aerial user equipment (UE) operational in terrestrial fourth generation (4G) and/or fifth generation (5G) long term evolution (LTE) networks. A method can comprise receiving a request to connect to the network equipment from aerial user equipment; based on the request to connect, retrieving subscription data; based on the subscription data, determining that the aerial user equipment is aerial equipment; determining that the aerial user equipment is engaged in a ping-pong handover event with terrestrial based network equipment situated within a defined geographic area; and transmitting instructions to the aerial user equipment to confirm the ping-pong handover event, wherein the instruction comprises a delay value representing a back off time value for the aerial user equipment to refrain from gathering measurement data within the defined geographic area.
US11889403B2
A base station for a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of logical radio access networks, wherein the base station is configured to communicate with a plurality of users to be served by the base station for accessing one or more of the logical radio access networks, and the base station is configured to selectively control the physical resources of the wireless communication network assigned to the logical radio access networks and/or to control access of the users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks, wherein, during a first operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to allow access of users or user groups of one or more of the logical radio access networks (e.g., eMBB, URLLC, eMTC), and wherein, during a second operation mode of the wireless communication network, the base station is configured to adaptively limit access of users or user groups to one or more of the logical radio access networks, and/or adaptively reduce a number of enabled logical radio access networks.
US11889400B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for selecting a relay in D2D communication. The method includes: determining, by a relay selection device, link quality of a first link of each candidate relay UE in a candidate relay UE list, where the candidate relay UE list includes at least one candidate relay UE, and the first link of each candidate relay UE is a radio link between each candidate relay UE and a base station; and determining target relay UE from the candidate relay UE list according to the link quality of the first link of each candidate relay UE in the candidate relay UE list, where the target relay UE is used for relaying data transmitted between first UE and the base station.
US11889397B2
A device, including a main element and a set of at least two auxiliary elements, said main element including a master SWP interface, each auxiliary element including a slave SWP interface connected to said master SWP interface of said NFC element through a controllably switchable SWP link and management means configured to control said SWP link switching for selectively activating at once only one slave SWP interface on said SWP link.
US11889393B2
Methods and systems are provided for detecting anomalies and forecasting optimizations to improve urban living management using networks of autonomous vehicles. An autonomous vehicle may receive initial information relating to infrastructure utilized by a plurality of autonomous vehicles, and may obtain, during operation in the infrastructure, real-time information relating to the infrastructure, to other ones of the plurality of autonomous vehicles, and/or to various conditions or operations pertinent to urban living and management thereof in an area corresponding to and/or associated with the infrastructure. The real-time information may be processed, and based on the processing of the real-time information and the initial information, anomalies and/or problems affecting the infrastructure and/or operation of the plurality of autonomous vehicles in the infrastructure may be detected, and one or more adjustments to improve management of urban living within the area may be determined.
US11889392B2
Mapping of an avionic network is obfuscated by interposing a network module between an external-access node and a bus of an avionics network. First and second network maps are generated and loaded on the network module. The network map accessible to the external-access node is changed from the first network map to the second network map, to disrupt any reconnaissance of the avionics network.
US11889391B2
An approach is described for a method for a fifth generation (5G) wireless communication or a new radio (NR) system that includes the following steps. The method includes receiving, by a source device from a UE, a registration request message indicating the UE is capable of a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. The method further includes determining, by the source device, the UE is authorized for a V2X service, wherein the V2X service comprises the V2X communication. The method further includes transmitting, by the source device to the UE, a registration accept message based on determining the UE is authorized for the V2X service.
US11889390B2
The present invention relates to the management of shared work spaces. A goal is to accurately reflect the actual status of a booking as close to real time as possible. Embodiments of the invention allow for low-power, battery operated, motion sensor devices to report the actual status of shared work spaces to a centralised server using existing wireless communications means in the environment where the shared work spaces are to be managed.
US11889386B2
A device searching method includes a first device that obtains a relative location between a second device and the first device is based on location information of the first device and the location information of the second device; if it is determined, based on the relative location, that the second device is not within a shooting range of the first device, the first device indicates to move the first device toward the second device until the second device is within the shooting range of the first device; and the first device highlights the area in which the second device is located in the shooting range of the first device.
US11889379B2
A method for providing incentives based on geolocation of mobile devices. The method includes storing, by a server, data including merchant information of merchants and points of interest, and associated incentive information. The method includes determining, based on communication with user's device of a user, a first location of the mobile device. The method includes determining, based on the first location, a first subset of merchants and associated first subset of incentives. The method includes communicating merchant data, including information on the first subsets of merchants and incentives, to the mobile device. The method includes communicating to the mobile device, in response to a determination that the mobile device is inside a geofence associated with at least one of the first subset of merchants, additional information on the at least one of the first subset of merchants, the additional information comprising one or more related incentives.
US11889373B2
A wireless device and a method for re-establishing a connection in a wireless communications network comprising a first RAT and a different second RAT. The wireless device operates in a first cell of the first RAT. When a connection failure with the first cell is detected, the device performs a cell selection and selects a second cell of the second RAT. Further, the device determines a first set of parameters associated with the first cell and comprising at least one parameter identifying the wireless device or the first cell. Furthermore, the device receives a second set of parameters associated with the second cell and comprising at least one parameter identifying the wireless device or the second cell. The device determines a security token based on the first and second sets, and transmits a re-establishment request message comprising the security token to the second cell.
US11889371B2
A method for performing seamless relocation of a mobile terminal in a wireless network includes selecting a first serving gateway (SGW) among a plurality of SGWs and a first packet data network gateway (PGW) among a plurality of PGWs, wherein the first SGW connects to the first PGW to setup the first S5 session, establishing a first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW and assigning an internet protocol (IP) address to the terminal, selecting a second SGW among the plurality of SGWs when the terminal is about to move out of an area being served by the first SGW, connecting the second SGW to the second PGW to setup a new S5 session when a second PGW among the plurality of PGWs is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW or connecting the second SGW to the first PGW to modify the first S5 session when no PGW is closer to the second SGW than the first PGW, establishing a second communication channel between the terminal and the second SGW using the IP address allocated to the terminal, reconfiguring routing for terminal IP destination, and terminating the first communication channel between the terminal and the first PGW.
US11889370B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may receive resource status information. The base station may use the resource status information for initiating a handover procedure using resource status information.
US11889361B2
A method of operating a session management function SMF entity of a wireless communication network may be provided. An Ethernet context for a wireless terminal may be received from a first user plane function UPF entity, wherein the Ethernet context is provided for an Ethernet Protocol Data Unit PDU Session for the wireless terminal using the first UPF entity, and wherein the Ethernet context includes a Medium Access Control MAC address for the wireless terminal. The Ethernet context including the MAC address for the wireless terminal may be transmitted to a second UPF entity. Related methods of operating user plane function UPF entities of a wireless communication network may also be provided.
US11889360B2
Example implementations relate to devices, methods, and computer program products of communication networks in relation to, e.g., involved in initial access from an idle status, connection reestablishment, handover, or synchronization. A terminal apparatus may include: a control module configured to detect receipt of a group information indicative of a group of at least two network apparatuses, the group information being descriptive for a certain configuration of communication parameters enabling the terminal apparatus to communicate with anyone of the network apparatuses of the respective group, and request connecting to at least one of the network apparatuses of the group by use of the certain configuration.
US11889347B2
A pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system, such as long term evolution (LTE). A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The UE includes a transceiver, and at least one processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to generate a lone truncated buffer status report (BSR) based on a number of padding bits, and transmit the long truncated BSR informing of data volume for at least one logical channel group among logical channel groups having data for transmission, wherein the data volume for the at least one logical channel group is reported following an order that is determined based on a highest priority logical channel in each of the at least one logical channel group.
US11889339B1
Technologies for mesh path selection are described. One method of operating a first wireless mesh device includes determining, using first client information about a first link, a first metric representing airtime usage on the link, and a second metric representing a first amount of data on a second link, the second link using the first frequency band. The method determines a third metric on a third link, the third link using a second frequency band. The method determines, using the metrics, a first throughput associated with a first path with the second link and a second throughput associated with a second path. The method determines that the third link results in better throughput and sends or receives first data on the third link.
US11889337B2
Provided is a data transmission method and a data transmission apparatus. The method includes: obtaining measurement results of channel transmission qualities of multiple channels, where a data duplication transmission function is configured on the multiple channels and is used for indicating an establishment of multiple connections with a terminal on the multiple channels, and the multiple connections are used for simultaneous transmissions of duplicated data on the multiple channels; determining, according to the obtained measurement results, whether to activate the data duplication transmission function; and performing a data transmission with the terminal on the multiple channels according to a determination result. A problem, in relevant technology, that the transmission resource consumption is large when the data transmission is performed in the manner of duplication transmission is solved, and the effects of improving link transmission quality and reducing transmission resource consumption are achieved.
US11889334B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for measurement information. The method, which may be implemented at a terminal device, comprises obtaining measurement information based at least in part on configurations of a master network node and a secondary network node. The terminal device is connected to the master network node and the secondary network node. The method further comprises transmitting a report including the measurement information that comprises frequency information to the master network node, in response to a failure related to the secondary network node.
US11889333B2
The present disclosure relates to a distributed antenna monitoring apparatus for monitoring antennas of a distributed antenna system (DAS) installed in a building in a public safety radio network, and a method therefor. The distributed antenna monitoring apparatus disclosed herein includes: a radio coupler configured to couple a monitoring radio signal to be transmitted and received to and from distributed service antennas; a master unit configured to transmit the monitoring radio signal having a diagnostic packet included therein to the distributed service antennas through the radio coupler, and receive a monitoring radio signal having a response packet included therein from each of the distributed service antennas to measure a received signal strength indication for uplink (RSSI_U), analyze the measured received signal strength indication for uplink (RSSI_U) and a received signal strength indication for downlink (RSSI_D) to monitor a state of each of the distributed service antennas; and a plurality of remote units respectively connected to the distributed service antennas through radio links, and each configured to receive the monitoring radio signal having the diagnostic packet included therein transmitted from the master unit to measure the received signal strength indication for downlink (RSSI_D), assemble the response packet having the measured received signal strength indication for downlink (RSSI_D) and transmit the monitoring radio signal having the assembled response packet to the master unit.
US11889330B2
Provided are methods and related devices for implementing disaster recovery. According to a method, in a case where a main Session Management Function (SMF) fails, a backup SMF sends a first request to a User Plane Function (UPF), wherein the first request carries a node identifier (Node ID) of the main SMF, a Node ID of the backup SMF, and a Common Session endpoint Identifier List (CSIDLIST) corresponding to the backup SMF; and the first request is used for notifying the UPF that the main SMF fails and a session or sessions in the CSIDLIST corresponding to the backup SMF is/are to be taken over by the backup SMF, so that the UPF subsequently interacts with the backup SMF for the session or sessions in the CSIDLIST corresponding to the backup SMF.
US11889327B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some wireless communications systems, a base station may transmit sets of network coding encoded packets user equipments (UEs), and each set of network coding encoded packets may be associated with a redundancy overhead. The base station may dynamically identify the redundancy overhead for transmitting sets of network coding encoded packets to each UE based on a failure rate associated with a previous transmission of network coding encoded packets to that UE. For example, the base station may determine a failure rate associated with a transmission of a first set of network coding encoded packets and may identify a redundancy overhead associated with one or more second sets of network coding encoded packets based on the determined failure rate. In some cases, the base station may identify different redundancy overheads for transmissions of network coding encoded packets to different UEs.
US11889325B2
Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR, over the Rayleigh fading channel. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity.
US11889322B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for user-equipment coordination set (UECS) beam sweeping. In aspects, a user equipment (UE) receives an indication to coordinate beam sweeping with a UECS. The UE directs each UE in the UECS to perform a beam-training procedure by receiving a set of downlink beam transmissions, and forwards beam report information to a base station. In implementations, the UE receives an indication of one or more beam identities and one or more assigned time slots, and directs at least two UEs in the UECS to use specific beams indicated by the beam identities at specific time slots indicated by the assigned time slots, such as by transmitting a respective beam identity and a respective time slot to each UE of the at least two UEs.
US11889319B2
An access point (AP) device for controlling spectrum usage of a hierarchical communication system, in which a spectrum reserved for an Incumbent is usable by at least one user equipment (UE) for transmission when the spectrum is not required by the Incumbent, is disclosed. The AP device includes a processor configured to receive a message from the Incumbent requesting vacating of a spectrum; generate a group of users affected by the message from the Incumbent requesting vacating of the spectrum; and perform a spectrum management operation on the group of users.
US11889313B2
In a wireless access network, a false base station (FBS) may imitate a legitimate base station by repeating the transmissions of the legitimate base station at a higher power level such that one or more user equipment (UEs) synchronize with the FBS instead of the legitimate base station. The present disclosure provides a UE that detects an FBS. The UE may estimate a time of arrival of different multipath components of a downlink signal corresponding to a physical cell identity. The UE may determine an existence of FBS based on a difference between the times of arrival of two of the different multipath components exceeding a threshold amount of time. The UE may perform a mitigation operation in response to determining the existence of the FBS.
US11889308B2
Disclosed are embodiments for authentication and authorization in a 5G network between an edge enabler client (EEC) of a UE and an edge configuration server (ECS). The embodiment include performing primary authentication with the 5G network to obtain a KAUSF; generating a Kedge and a Kedge ID using the KAUSF and a subscription permanent identifier (SUPI); providing the Kedge and the Kedge ID to the EEC to cause it to compute a MACEEC using the Kedge and an EEC ID; and sending to the ECS an application registration request, the application registration request including the EEC ID, MACEEC, and Kedge ID.
US11889306B2
Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes deriving a network specific identifier (NSI) in a network access identifier (NAI) format, the NSI including a network identifier (NID) stored at the UE, generating a subscription concealed identifier (SUCI) based on the NSI for authentication of the UE with a non-public network (NPN), and sending the SUCI to a network entity for the authentication of the UE with the NPN.
US11889292B2
The disclosure relates to an audio processing apparatus, comprising: a plurality of audio sensors, each audio sensor configured to receive a respective plurality of audio frames of an audio signal from an audio source, wherein the respective plurality of audio frames defines an audio channel of the audio signal; and a processing circuitry configured to: determine a respective feature set having at least one feature for each audio frame of each of the plurality of audio frames, wherein the plurality of features define a three-dimensional feature array; process the three-dimensional feature array using a neural network, wherein the neural network comprises a self-attention layer configured to process a plurality of two-dimensional sub-arrays of the three-dimensional feature array; and generate an output signal on the basis of the plurality of processed two-dimensional sub-arrays. Moreover, the disclosure relates to a corresponding audio processing method.
US11889282B2
Provided is a MEMS device. The MEMS device includes: substrate having back cavity passing therethrough; diaphragm connected to the substrate and covers the back cavity, the diaphragm comprises first and second membranes, and accommodating space is formed between the first and second membranes; supports arranged in the accommodating space, and opposite ends of the support are connected to the first and second membranes; counter electrode arranged in the accommodating space, the first and second membranes each include conductive and second regions, the second region is formed by semiconductor material without doping conductive ions. Through design of the first and second membranes as the first region and the second region, respectively, the second region is formed by semiconductor material without doping conductive ions, and the first region is formed by doping conductive ions in the semiconductor material, so that the compliance performance is improved and not at risk of delamination.
US11889279B2
A frequency dependent dynamic range control method is employed in a signal emitting system characterized by lower impedance in the high frequency region. An efficient technique is implemented to dynamically estimate current spectrum and conditioning parameters to lower the current in the high frequency region. The method advantageously avoids current overloading without using a series resistor as a current limiter.
US11889278B1
Example embodiments relate to vehicle sensor modules with external audio receivers. An example sensor module may include sensors and can be coupled to a vehicle's roof with a first microphone positioned proximate to the front of the sensor module. The sensor module can also include a second microphone extending into a first side of the sensor module such that the second microphone is configured to detect audio originating from an environment located relative to a first side of the vehicle and a third microphone extending into a second side of the sensor module such that the third microphone is configured to detect audio originating from the environment located relative to a second side of the vehicle, wherein the second side is opposite of the first side.
US11889267B2
A noise cancellation enabled audio system for tonal tinnitus treatment using ambient noise comprises an audio processor (PROC) and at least one filter having an adjustable filter function. An ear mountable playback device (HP) further comprises a speaker (SP) and at least one feedforward microphone (FF_MIC). The audio processor (PROC) is configured to receive an input signal (Z(s)) from the feedforward microphone (FF_MIC) indicative of ambient noise and determine a filter transfer function (HF(s)) to realize a predetermined target transfer function (HT(s)), wherein the target transfer function (HT(s)) is configured to attenuate and/or amplify the input signal (Z(s)) in a predetermined frequency range. The filter function is adjusted depending on the filter transfer function (HF(s). The filter is configured to provide a system output signal (Y(s)) by filtering the input signal (Z(s)) depending on the filter function.
US11889265B2
A hearing aid device is disclosed. The hearing aid device comprises means to improve, augment and/or protect the hearing capability of a user by receiving acoustic signals from the surroundings of the user, generating corresponding audio signals, possibly modifying the audio signals and providing the possibly modified audio signals as audible signals to at least one of the user's ears. The hearing aid device comprises a sensor member for detecting the movement and/or acceleration and/or orientation (or spatial position) of the hearing aid device. The hearing aid device comprises at least two hearing aid microphones and a control unit for determining the position or a deviation from an intended position of the hearing aid device or hearing aid microphones. The hearing aid device is configured to compensate for a possible dislocation of the hearing aid microphones.
US11889264B2
A fiber optic MEMS microphone featuring an electrically deflectable MEMS membrane via a conversion of an optical energy propagating in an optical fiber cable to an electrical energy with a photodiode chip. The fiber optic MEMS microphone includes a MEMS device, the photodiode chip, a voltage, a power adjustable laser beam and a light.
US11889263B2
A loudspeaker described herein have a radiation pattern which is constant over a wide frequency range without requiring any attenuation. The system includes plurality of drivers not uniformly arranged so that the relative velocity of the speaker follows the Legendre shading function. By making the driver density proportional to the Legendre function SSCBT allows each driver to play at max volume. The purpose behind Space Shaded Constant Beamwidth Transducer (SSCBT) is to replace attenuation with incremental spacing between the drivers. Alternatively, the angles each driver is placed by doubling the distance each driver is placed to accomplish the region which is 3 db lower. When the distance is doubled, the angle between each driver increases the further from 0 it is and is consistent with the Legendre function on its surface.
US11889262B2
Techniques are described for an in-ear audio system that delivers high quality sound into an ear canal of the user using two or more waveguides. Each of the waveguides may deliver sound output by individual drivers to a consolidation zone. The sound may be mixed at the consolidation zone and delivered to the ear canal of the user.
US11889256B2
A device for securing an external transmitter of a cochlear implant to the head of the wearer. A pouch containing the external transmitter is secured using a plurality of straps coupled to a decorative shell worn on a person's head. The pouch and the decorative shell are designed to allow sound to pass unhindered from the environment to the inner ear. The plurality of straps is adjustable to allow precise placement of the external transmitter over the internal receiver. The external transmitter is also secured using a pouch coupled to a decorative shell. The external transmitter is further secured using a sealer coupled to the transmitter and further coupled to the head using an adhesive barrier. The sealer is made of a semi-transparent material. The device ensures that an external transmitter remains in place.
US11889255B2
A communication method between earphones and a charging box is disclosed. The method comprises: acquiring a data packet to be sent from a sending queue; sending a data request message containing the data packet to be sent to the earphones; and when having received a reply message from the earphones, continuing to execute the step of acquiring a data packet to be sent from the sending queue until the sending queue is empty. In the communication method between earphones and a charging box of the present disclosure, when data is transmitted between the charging box and the earphones, the data transmission between the charging box and the earphones can be realized without switching the master-slave relationship between the charging box and the earphones, which is simple to realize and reduces the additional communication burden.
US11889253B2
Various implementations include earphone cushions and related headsets. In particular aspects, an earphone cushion includes: a body including a front surface configured to engage or surround an ear of a user, an outer side surface, an inner side surface opposing the outer side surface, and a rear surface opposing the front surface; a cover over a portion of the body, the cover including an outside radiating surface for contacting at least a portion of the user's head, wherein the cover includes a set of ports along at least one of (i) the inner side surface, (ii) the rear surface, or (iii) a junction between the inner side surface and the rear surface; and an acoustic mesh covering at least one port in the set of ports.
US11889249B2
An electronic device can include a housing, an audio component, and a gasket. The housing can define a first internal volume and the audio component can define a second internal volume. The audio component can include membrane and a venting element having a fluid impermeable layer. The venting element can define a fluid path placing the first internal volume and the second internal volume in fluid communication. At least a portion of the fluid path can extend parallel to the fluid impermeable layer. The gasket can define a seal between the first internal volume and an ambient environment adjacent the housing.
US11889248B2
The present invention provides a MEMS microphone, including: a base with a back cavity; and an electric capacitance system arranged on the base. The electric capacitance system includes a back plate, a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm opposite to the back plate and arranged on an upper and lower sides of the back plate. The MEMS microphone further includes an insulation layer isolating the base, the back plate, the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm, and a sealing space formed between the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm. The pressure in the sealing space is equal to an external pressure.
US11889244B2
A secure tiered, robust, and deterministic converged communications architecture with the capacity to support a plurality of power distribution automation devices/components with fiber-enabled fail-over protection is described.
US11889236B2
A digital PSF for use in a dual modulation display. The invention allows the use of less than optimal point spread (PSF) functions in the optics between the pre-modulator and primary modulator of a dual modulation projection system. This technique uses multiple halftones per frame in the pre-modulator synchronized with a modified bit sequence in the primary modulator to produce a compensation image that reduces the errors produced by the sub-optimal PSF. The invention includes the application to dual modulation and dual modulated 3D viewing systems.
US11889232B2
One variation of a method for monitoring occupancy in a work area includes, at a sensor block: transitioning from an inactive state into an active state when an output of a motion sensor indicates motion in a work area; during a scan cycle in the active state, recording an image through an optical sensor at a time, detecting a set of humans in the image, detecting a second set of human effects in the image, predicting a second set of humans occupying but absent the work area based on the second set of human effects, and estimating a total occupancy in the work area at the time based on the set of humans and the second set of humans; and transmitting the total occupancy to a remote computer system for update of a scheduler for the work area.
US11889225B2
Various embodiments of apparatus, systems and/or methods are described for independently controlling an audio stream relative to a video stream in audio trick mode. In one example, an audio stream and a video stream is received, where the audio stream comprises frames that correspond to corresponding frames of the video stream. The audio and video streams are played from a first time to a second time at a first speed. An input to time shift the audio stream independent of the video stream is received, and after receiving such, the audio stream is time shifted to the first time. Then, the audio stream may be re-played from the first time to the second time at a second speed different from the first speed.
US11889224B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus, method, and system for acquiring at least one image inside a cooking device including a housing having a front surface, back surface, and an interior; at least one attachment element removably coupled to the back surface of the housing, the attachment element configured to secure the housing to an external surface of the cooking device; a camera positioned at least partially within the interior of the housing, the camera configured to acquire the at least one image; and a controller configured to manage i) acquisition of the at least one image acquired by the camera and ii) transmission of the at least one image to a remote electronic device.
US11889223B2
A cooled infrared camera includes a window housing comprising a plate having an opening, a window positioned in the opening of the plate, a first sidewall having a first end connected to the plate, a first flange connected to a second end of the first sidewall such that the first sidewall is between the plate and the first flange, a first explosively welded joint between the plate and the first sidewall, and a second explosively welded joint between the first sidewall and the first flange. A header is connected to the first flange of the window housing, and a warm end is connected to the header. The cooled infrared camera further includes a hermetically sealed chamber within the window housing and the header.
US11889221B2
Techniques for selective video conference segmentation are described and are implementable in a video conference setting. The described implementations enable control over segments of video content that are viewable by a given participant in a video conference. For instance, segments of video content are generated that represent spatial portions of video content captured by a host device. The segments can be configured in a variety of ways for inclusion in one or more video streams. The video streams can be communicated to different participants within the video conference, for instance based on a status of a given participant, thus providing different fields of view to different participants.
US11889219B2
A circuit includes a comparator configured to generate a first conversion gain output signal by comparing a first pixel signal corresponding to a first conversion gain with a first ramp signal, and generate a second conversion gain output signal by comparing a second pixel signal corresponding to a second conversion gain with a second ramp signal, and a counter configured to count pulses of the first conversion gain output signal, output a counting result as a first digital signal, and determine whether an output of a second digital signal corresponding to the second conversion gain is required, based on the first digital signal. The first conversion gain is higher than the second conversion gain, and based on determining that the output of the second digital signal is not required, the counter is further configured to control the comparator such that the second conversion gain output signal is not generated.
US11889217B2
An image sensor includes; a pixel array including pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction, wherein the pixels includes a first normal pixel and a first auto focus (AF) pixel adjacent in the first direction, and a second AF pixel and a second normal pixel adjacent in the first direction. Each of the first AF pixel and the second AF pixel includes at least two photodiodes, each of the first normal pixel and the second normal pixel has a quadrangular shape, a first length of the first AF pixel in the first direction is greater than a first length of the first normal pixel in the first direction, and a first length of the second AF pixel in the first direction is greater than a first length of the second normal pixel in the first direction.
US11889210B2
An electronic device includes a first array of image pixels having inputs coupled to first selection tracks and outputs coupled to first output tracks, a second array of test pixels having inputs coupled to second selection tracks and outputs coupled to the first output tracks, and a third array of test pixels having inputs coupled to the first selection tracks and outputs coupled to second output tracks. A processor is coupled to receive output signals on the first and second output tracks. The output signals from the test pixels of the second and third arrays are fixed at one or the other of only two values in the absence of a defect. The output signals received by the processor over the first and second output tracks are processed to determine presence or absence of a defect.
US11889205B2
An imaging apparatus includes a lens on which light from one subject is incident, a spectral prism including a first surface reflecting, at a first reflectance, first light having a first wavelength, and a second surface reflecting, at a second reflectance, having a second wavelength, a first imaging unit capturing a first image of the subject at a first depth of field based on the first light reflected by the first surface, a second imaging unit capturing a second image of the subject at a second depth of field based on the second light reflected by the second surface, a third imaging unit capturing a third image of the subject at a third depth of field based on third light transmitted through the first surface or the second surface, and a signal processing unit synthesizing the first image, the second image, and the third image, and outputting the synthesized image.
US11889203B2
A camera module includes an image sensor configured to output a plurality of image frames, a lens assembly disposed on the image sensor, the lens assembly including at least one lens unit disposed on an optical path and a variable filter unit configured to adjust the optical path of light incident on the image sensor from outside, a controller configured to generate a control signal to control the variable filter unit, and an image synthesizer configured to synthesize the plurality of image frames to generate a composite image, wherein the composite image has a higher resolution than the image frames, and wherein the plurality of image frames includes image frames generated along respectively different optical paths changed by the variable filter unit.
US11889199B2
The present technology relates to an imaging device, a signal processing device, a signal processing method, a program, and an imaging apparatus that are designed to reduce flicker in the imaging apparatus that does not use any imaging lens. The imaging device includes: a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels including a pixel that receives incident light and outputs one detection signal indicating an output pixel value modulated depending on the incident angle of the incident light is arranged in a row direction and a column direction, and is sequentially exposed row by row, the incident light entering from an object via neither an imaging lens nor a pinhole; and a plurality of detection regions that are disposed in different rows in the pixel region, and are used for flicker detection. The present technology can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
US11889197B1
A method includes obtaining multiple image frames captured during a multi-frame capture operation. The method also includes determining that two or more of the multiple image frames are available for selection as a reference frame, where the two or more image frames are associated with at least two different exposure levels. The method further includes determining whether a moving saturated region is present in the two or more image frames. The method also includes, in response to determining that the moving saturated region is present, selecting an image frame from among the two or more image frames having a first exposure level. In addition, the method includes, in response to determining that the moving saturated region is not present, selecting an image frame from among the two or more image frames having a second exposure level, where the second exposure level is longer than the first exposure level.
US11889196B2
An extended reality (XR) system receives capture information from a first camera with a first image sensor that faces a first direction, for instance facing an environment. The capture information is associated with capture of first image data by the first image sensor, for instance including the first image data and/or first image capture settings used to capture the first image data. The XR system determines an image capture setting, such as an exposure setting, for a second image sensor based on the capture information. The second image sensor faces second direction, for instance facing a user of the XR system. In some examples, the XR system determines the image capture setting also based on information from a display buffer for a display that faces the second direction. The XR system causes a second image sensor to capture second image data according to the image capture setting.
US11889195B2
Disclosed is an image sensing system including an image sensor suitable for generating first actual brightness values corresponding to a captured image; and an image processor suitable for compensating for the first actual brightness values for each brightness period in a single frame period based on compensation information corresponding to a linearity error.
US11889191B2
A blur correction device includes: a sensor; a mechanical blur correction device; an electronic blur correction circuit that corrects the blurring by performing image processing on an image obtained through imaging of the imaging apparatus; and a supplementary blur correction circuit that, in a case where the mechanical blur correction device and the electronic blur correction circuit are shared and operated at a predetermined ratio during the exposure, corrects the blurring by applying, to the image, a filter that removes noise which appears in the image.
US11889185B2
A monitoring system includes a camera module configured to photograph a subject, a laser distance sensor configured to sense a distance to the subject, the laser distance sensor being arranged in a line with the camera module, and a processor configured to acquire a first angle and a first sensing value of the laser distance sensor in response to an event, calculate a first distance between the camera module and the subject by using the first angle and the first sensing value, calculate a second angle by using the first distance, a laser angle of view of the laser distance sensor, and a laser angle of view length of the laser distance sensor, rotate the laser distance sensor up to the second angle when a difference between the first angle and the second angle exceeds a predetermined range, and acquire a second sensing value of the laser distance sensor.
US11889177B2
The present invention suppresses an increase in processing time and power consumption that is associated with function implementation. An electronic device according to an embodiment comprises: an imaging unit (11) that generates image data; a processing unit (14) that executes neural network calculation model-based processing with respect to image data-based data that is read out from the imaging unit; a function execution unit (12) that performs a predetermined function on the basis of the results of the processing; and a detection unit (32) that detects displacement, wherein the processing unit executes the processing when the detection unit detects displacement.
US11889169B2
A camera module includes a housing, a reflective member positioned in the housing and changing a direction of light to a direction of an optical axis, a carrier carrying the reflective member and rotatable about a first axis with respect to the housing, and a first ball group disposed between the housing and the carrier, wherein the first ball group includes a main ball member providing the first axis of the carrier, and an auxiliary ball member disposed away from the first axis, and one or both of the housing and the carrier partially accommodates the auxiliary ball member, and includes an auxiliary guide groove extended in a circumferential direction of the first axis.
US11889166B2
The present disclosure describes specific technical approaches to implementing an arrangement in which two or more individual stories share a common feature or “knot” so as to combine to form a larger overall story, and where the individual stories are presented in different orders to different audiences, with the order of presentation affecting the audience perception of the larger overall story.
US11889163B2
A receiving device, a receiving method, a transmitting device, and a transmitting method. The receiving device acquires a digital broadcast signal that includes audio-video (AV) content and location information, the location information indicating a source from which application control information for controlling an operation of an application executed in conjunction with a progressing timing of the AV content is obtainable, acquires the application control information from the source indicated by the location information, the application control information including an application ID and a uniform resource locator (URL), obtains, from the URL included in the acquired application control information, control information during a polling period that is defined in accordance with an attribute specified in the acquired application control information, and controls the operation of the application based on the acquired application control information and the obtained control information.
US11889161B2
The present technology relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, a signal processing device, and a signal processing method that enable presentation of emergency alert information more appropriately. Provided is a receiving device including: a receiving part that receives a broadcast signal; and a processing part that processes the broadcast signal that has been received, in which the receiving part instructs the processing part in a standby state to start on the basis of emergency alert start information included in the broadcast signal that has been received, and in a case of being instructed by the receiving part to start, the processing part controls presentation of emergency alert information on the basis of signaling including the emergency alert information acquired from the broadcast signal that has been received, and receiving setting information related to a receiving setting of the emergency alert information set by a user. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver.
US11889160B2
Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for providing a management interface for controlling multiple households. The management interface may be provided as an application on a mobile device or as an Internet webpage. An example implementation involves a device displaying representations of: a plurality of households; an indication of a selected household; one or more zones within the selected household; and a representation of media being played by a selected zone of the one or more zones. While displaying the representations, the device receives, from a server, data indicating updated information associated with the plurality of households; and, in response, updates the graphical display to display at least an updated representation of media being played by the selected zone.
US11889158B2
A video distribution system in one embodiment includes a storage that stores a first post message posted by a first user belonging to a first user group and a second post message posted by a second user belonging to a second user group, and one or more computer processors. In the embodiment, the one or more processors execute computer readable instructions to distribute a video that includes a first display area in which the first post message is displayed and a second display area in which the second post message is displayed but the first post message is undisplayed.
US11889154B2
Systems and methods for generating a content item based on a difference between a user confidence score and a confidence score are disclosed. For example, a system generates for output a first content item. While the first content item is being outputted, the system receives user data via sensors of a device. The system determines a user confidence score based on the user data and metadata of the first content item. The user confidence score indicates a user's perceived probability of an event occurring in the future. The system calculates a prediction score which estimates the likelihood of the event occurring in the future. In response to determining that the difference between the user confidence score and the prediction score exceeds a threshold, the system selects a second content item related to the event and generates for output a recommendation comprising an identifier of the second content item.
US11889132B2
Method and apparatus for implementing multi-person video live-streaming service, and computer device
The present application discloses techniques of implementing a multi-person video live streaming service. The techniques comprise obtaining a first video and a second video of a live streamer, and obtaining a third video of any other live streaming member than the live streamer in a live streaming group; stitching the first video, the second video, and the third video of the any other live streaming member, for obtaining a multi-person live video stream; and sending the multi-person live video stream to respective live streaming clients associated with members in the live streaming group for the members to watch. The present application can increase the modes of interaction of live streaming members, thereby improving the user experience.
US11889129B2
A method for signalling, to a terminal, substitution of an item of content, broadcast via a broadcast network to which the terminal is connected, with a substitute item of content. Such a method includes: obtaining a substitute information packet including time information indicating a time of execution, by the terminal, of an action for substituting the broadcast item of content with the substitute item of content, wherein the time information corresponds to a date of rendering of an image of the broadcast item of content with reference to a reference clock embedded in the broadcast item of content; generating an event notification message including the time information; and inserting the event notification message into a data flow conveying the item of content broadcast within the broadcast network.
US11889125B2
An omnidirectional media playback method, a terminal device and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining viewpoint looping information associated to a current viewpoint from omnidirectional media data (S202); and looping the current viewpoint according to the viewpoint looping information (S204). A mechanism for allowing viewpoint looping is provided and information about the viewpoint looping is defined.
US11889113B2
Disclosed herein is a method for receiving point cloud data, including receiving a bitstream containing the point cloud data, and decoding the point cloud data. Disclosed herein is a method for transmitting point cloud data, including encoding the point cloud data, and transmitting a bitstream containing the point cloud data.
US11889100B2
A method and system of coding video data using affine motion compensation is described. A method may include receiving a current block of video data that is to be decoded using affine motion compensation, and constructing an affine motion vector predictor (MVP) list for one or more control points of the current block of video data, including adding a motion vector from a neighboring block of video data to the affine MVP list in the case that the motion vector has an associated reference picture that is the same as a target reference picture for the current block of video data. A video coder may determine motion vectors for the one or more control points using the affine MVP list, and code the current block of video data with the determined motion vectors for the one or more control points of the current block of video data.
US11889097B2
Aspects include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium of decoding video or blocks of an image, including receiving a bitstream of the image, deriving, for a block of the image in the bitstream, multiple intra-prediction modes (IPMs) to use in decoding the block, determining, based on the multiple IPMs, a final predictor to use in decoding the block, and decoding the block using the final predictor. Other aspects include method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for similarly encoding video or blocks of an image.
US11889092B2
A mechanism is provided that implements video coding and decoding such that only a specific partial image region on a screen can be independently decoded. A video decoding apparatus (31) according to an aspect of the present invention configures, in intra prediction, inter prediction, loop filter processing, or the like, a partial image region in a picture, handles a region outside the partial image region in a similar manner to a region outside the picture, and does not apply such restriction to a non-partial image region other than the partial image region in the picture.
US11889088B2
A method for intra-prediction estimation is provided that includes determining a best intra-prediction mode for a block of samples, wherein at least some of the neighboring samples used for intra-prediction estimation include approximate reconstructed samples, applying approximate reconstruction to the block of samples using the best intra-prediction mode to generate a block of approximate reconstructed samples, and storing the block of approximate reconstructed samples for use in intra-prediction estimation of other blocks of samples.
US11889085B2
Methods to decode a picture from a bitstream are discussed. A partitioning structure of the picture is determined, wherein the partitioning structure defines at least first and second partitions of the picture. At least one dependency syntax element is decoded from the bitstream, and whether the second partition is dependent on or independent of the first partition is determined based on the at least one dependency syntax element. The picture is decoded from the bitstream based on determining whether the second partition of the picture is dependent on or independent of the first partition of the picture. Related methods of encoding and related devices are also discussed.
US11889082B2
According to disclosure of the present document, an LMCS procedure can be used for blocks having various block tree structures, and memories used in the LMCS procedure can be reduced (limited).
US11889080B2
Techniques and systems for reconstructing a video signal, which include: obtaining a transform coefficient block by performing an entropy decoding and a dequantization for a current block; deriving a secondary transform corresponding to a specific area in the transform coefficient block, wherein the specific area represents an area including a top-left block of the transform coefficient block; performing an inverse secondary transform for each of subblocks within the specific area using the secondary transform; performing an inverse primary transform for a block which the inverse secondary transform is applied to; and reconstructing the current block using a block which the primary inverse transform is applied to.
US11889074B2
A method of coding of video data is disclosed. According to the method, a predicted luma quantization parameter is derived and a luma quantization parameter is generated. The predicted luma quantization parameter is derived by using a tree type specifying whether a single tree or a dual tree is used to partition a coding tree. The luma quantization parameter is generated by using the predicted luma quantization parameter. The predicted luma quantization parameter is set equal to a luma quantization parameter of a coding unit containing a luma coding block covering a neighbouring location by using a current quantization group and a neighbouring block availability.
US11889072B2
The present disclosure provides a video encoding and decoding method and a video encoding and decoding device. The method includes: partitioning the current block into a first triangular sub-block and a second triangular sub-block when a current block satisfies specific conditions for enabling a geometric partitioning mode with triangular partition and the geometric partitioning mode with triangular partition is determined to be enabled; obtaining first target motion information of the first triangle sub-block and second target motion information of the second triangle sub-block, wherein the first target motion information is different from the second target motion information; and performing an encoding processing or a decoding processing on the current block based on the first target motion information and the second target motion information.
US11889062B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, scaling list data transmitted from an adaptation parameter set (APS) can be signaled through a hierarchical structure. In addition, by setting a limit on the scaling list data transmitted from the APS, it is possible to reduce the amount of data which has to be signaled for video/image coding, and facilitate implementation.
US11889061B2
This disclosure discloses a method for obtaining a candidate motion vector list, an apparatus, an encoder, and a decoder. The method for obtaining a candidate motion vector list comprises: when a first candidate picture block is encoded/decoded and an inter prediction mode is used, determining whether a reference picture of the first candidate picture block is the same as a reference picture of a current block; and constructing a candidate motion vector list of the current block based on a determining result; when the reference picture of the first candidate picture block is different from the reference picture of the current block, the MV of the first candidate picture block is not used to construct the list. Implementing this disclosure can reduce complexity of a motion information derivation process, and improve coding efficiency.
US11889060B2
Methods and apparatus for processing of video are described. The processing may include video encoding, decoding, or transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures including one or more subpictures and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule that specifies that a subpicture cannot be a random access type of subpicture in response to the subpicture not being a leading subpicture of an intra random access point subpicture. The leading subpicture precedes the intra random access point subpicture in output order.
US11889049B2
A method includes obtaining multiple input images of a scene based on image data captured using multiple imaging sensors. The method also includes generating a gain map identifying relative gains of the imaging sensors. The gain map is generated using the input images and translational and rotational offsets between one or more pairs of the input images. Generating the gain map may include using, for each pair of the input images, a rotation matrix based on a rotation angle between the pair of the input images. The method may further include using the gain map to process additional image data captured using the imaging sensors.
US11889046B2
A compact, low cost vcsel projector for high performance stereodepth camera is disclosed. An example apparatus includes an array of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs); an array of micro-lenses coupled to the array of VCSELs, centerlines of ones of the micro-lenses offset relative to centerlines of respective ones of the VCSELs; and a projection lens coupled to the array of micro-lenses.
US11889045B2
A direct retinal projector system that provides dynamic focusing for virtual reality (VR) and/or augmented reality (AR) is described. A direct retinal projector system scans images, pixel by pixel, directly onto the subject's retinas. This allows individual pixels to be optically affected dynamically as the images are scanned to the subject's retinas. Dynamic focusing components and techniques are described that may be used in a direct retinal projector system to dynamically and correctly focus each pixel in VR images as the images are being scanned to a subject's eyes. This allows objects, surfaces, etc. that are intended to appear at different distances in a scene to be projected to the subject's eyes at the correct depths.
US11889043B2
An image reading apparatus includes: a conveyance portion configured to convey a first medium; a first imaging portion; a first reading processing portion configured to cause the first imaging portion to read a first image of a first reading surface of the first medium conveyed by the conveyance portion; a second imaging portion; a second reading processing portion configured to cause the second imaging portion to read a second image of the second reading surface of the second medium by scanning while the second imaging portion is being moved along a second reading surface of a second medium placed on a medium placement surface; a reading control portion configured to control the first reading processing portion and the second reading processing portion to operate in parallel with each other; and a synthesis processing portion configured to generate a synthesized image by synthesizing the first image and the second image.
US11889042B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first image receiver configured to receive a first image captured by an imaging apparatus in which a user of an electronic device and the electronic device are captured; a first user identifier configured to identify a first user from the first image; a usage information receiver configured to receive, from the electronic device, usage information based on an operation of the first user identified by the first user identifier; a second image receiver configured to receive a second image captured by the imaging apparatus in which a settlement apparatus and a second user capable of using the settlement apparatus are captured; a second user identifier configured to identify the second user from the second image; and a usage information transmitter configured to transmit the usage information to the settlement apparatus, based on the identified first user and the identified second user.
US11889039B2
An image reading apparatus includes a for-still-document contact glass serving as a reading face for a placed document, a for-moving-document contact glass serving as a reading face for a document conveyed by an automatic document feeder, and an optical scanner unit to move in a scanning range of the for-still-document contact glass back and forth in a sub-scanning direction to scan the document. The optical scanner unit moves to a scanning range of the for-moving-document contact glass and scans the document in a static manner when the document is conveyed in an automatic manner, and the optical scanner unit includes a contact image sensor, a carriage that holds the contact image sensor in a movable manner in the sub-scanning direction, and a pair of end sliders arranged on both ends of a plane facing the reading face in a longer-side direction of the optical scanner unit.
US11889033B2
A method includes capturing, by a camera disposed behind a display panel of the electronic device, a plurality of images at a plurality of exposures, respectively. One or more captured images include one or more flare artifacts. The method further includes generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image by fusing the captured images. The method further includes accessing a HDR point spread function (PSF) from a memory of the electronic device. The HDR PSF may be generated, at an initial camera calibration stage, by fusing a plurality of PSFs captured at the plurality of exposures, respectively. The method further includes generating, using an image deconvolution technique, a reconstructed image with flare artifacts mitigated based on the HDR image and the HDR PSF.
US11889024B2
Embodiments described herein provide for passive caller verification and/or passive fraud risk assessments for calls to customer call centers. Systems and methods may be used in real time as a call is coming into a call center. An analytics server of an analytics service looks at the purported Caller ID of the call, as well as the unaltered carrier metadata, which the analytics server then uses to generate or retrieve one or more probability scores using one or more lookup tables and/or a machine-learning model. A probability score indicates the likelihood that information derived using the Caller ID information has occurred or should occur given the carrier metadata received with the inbound call. The one or more probability scores be used to generate a risk score for the current call that indicates the probability of the call being valid (e.g., originated from a verified caller or calling device, non-fraudulent).
US11889022B2
A contact center server receives an utterance from a customer device as part of a conversation. The contact center server identifies utterance parameters of the utterance, generates a first response to the utterance based on the utterance parameters, and outputs the utterance parameters and the first response to an agent device. The contact center server receives agent-identified-information corresponding to the utterance or agent-modified-information corresponding to the utterance parameters from the agent device. Subsequently, the contact center server generates a second response to the utterance based on the agent-identified-information or the agent-modified-information and outputs the second response to the agent device.
US11889021B1
One example method of operation may include collecting call metric data over a predefined period of time for identified calls, querying the call metric data to identify whether one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes, determining one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes based on a deviation from one or more expected call metric data values included in the call metric data, modifying one or more of the call filtering criteria parameters, and updating an active call scam model stored on a call processing server based on the one or more call filtering parameters.
US11889018B2
Systems and methods for providing called devices with sets of context data associated with communication sessions are disclosed. In one implementation, a method for generating context data associated with a communications session may include receiving, from a calling device at a first subsystem, a request to establish a communications session. The request may include a first identifier associated with the calling device. The method may further include receiving, at a second subsystem, activities data associated with the calling device that transmitted the request to establish the communications session. The activities data may include a second identifier associated with the calling device and may be indicative of device activities of the calling device. In addition, the method includes determining, using the first identifier and the second identifier, that the received activities data is associated with the calling device that transmitted the request to establish the communications session, generating context data associated with the communications session based on the received activities data, generating visual content based on the generated context data, and establishing the communications session in response to receiving, from a user of the called device, an input command to accept the request.
US11889014B2
A method for processing contact information includes displaying a list of contacts on a display of a wireless terminal, determining a first contact from the list of contacts in response to a selection of a user, obtaining a web log address and an online shop address of the first contact, obtaining, from a network service, a first content corresponding to the web log address and the online shop address of the first contact, and displaying the first content on a first area of the display, where the first content is dynamically updated.
US11889005B2
The present invention relates to a protective case for foldable mobile devices. The folding case according to the present invention comprises a first case and a second case, wherein the folding case further comprises a side cover which rotates by an elastic part as the foldable mobile device is folded or unfolded, and provides a full protection for the entire foldable mobile device including each corner of its hinge part. The folding case according to the present invention covers the hinge part smoothly without any unfavorable space or gap, and it provides the satisfaction with the use and the beauty of the overall appearance as the users would conceive that the two separated case parts and the hinge part operates as if those parts form one united case.
US11888998B2
Techniques for configuring a device with a security context using a security context distribution service are provided. One embodiment receives, from a first device operating on a first network, a request for a security context for the first device, where the request includes a public certificate for the first device. The request is decrypted, and the public certificate is validated. A set of device requirements are determined based on a unique identifier for the first device and device claim information associated with the first device. Embodiments generate a response message that contains at least one Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate associated with the first network, based on the set of device requirements, where the response message is encrypted using a public key associated with the first device. The response is message is transmitted to the first device.
US11888989B2
Methods and systems for key generation and device management are disclosed. A root key can be stored on a component which can be integrated with a device, and the component can store a product class identifier. The product class identifier can define a class of products, devices, features, hardware components, or other entities. One or more keys can be generated and stored on the devices based on the product class identifier and the root key. A network operator or service provider can then provide services to a class of devices that includes the device, or perform and manage other functions. The services can be authorized or otherwise implemented based on the one or more new keys stored at the devices within the class of devices.
US11888988B2
Technology for setting a first password based on a password precursor or setting a second password (in a multi-factor authentication system). The password precursor (for example, a number or alphanumeric string) can be converted to the first password by a set of operation(s). Similarly, the first password can be converted into a second password by a set of operations. The set of operations may include mathematical operations and/or alphanumeric string operations.
US11888986B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to information masking. A computing platform may receive, from a user computing device, a request to access information that includes personal identifiable information (PII). The computing platform may retrieve source data comprising the PII and mask, within the source data and based on a data management policy, the PII. The computing platform may send the masked information in response to the request to access the information. The computing platform may receive a request to unmask the masked information and unmask the PII. The computing platform may log the request to unmask the masked information in an unmasking event log and send the unmasked PII in response to the request to unmask the masked information. The computing platform may apply a machine learning model to the unmasking event log to identify malicious events and trigger remediation actions based on identification of the malicious events.
US11888984B2
A microprocessor device comprising an implementation of a cryptographic operation constructed to process parameters and generate an output, wherein at least some of the parameters are obfuscated such that the cryptographic operation processes the obfuscated parameters, wherein the parameters which are obfuscated are obfuscated in that they are encrypted according to an additive homomorphic cryptographic system.
US11888978B1
A measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) network includes a plurality of user nodes connected to untrusted relay node that performs Bell-state measurements on qubits transmitted by the user nodes. The relay node contains a calibration laser that serves as a wavelength reference for the user nodes. The output of the calibration laser is split into two wavelength-calibration signals, which are transmitted to a pair of user nodes via optical fiber. At each user node, a laser diode used to generate weak coherent pulses is injection-locked with the wavelength calibration-signal, thereby ensuring that the user nodes generate photonic qubits with the same wavelength. The embodiments may be implemented with any encoding scheme compatible with MDI-QKD, such as polarization encoding and time-bin phase-encoding. No auxiliary connections between the user nodes are needed, allowing the MDI-QKD network to be scaled up to many users.
US11888973B2
A secure joining system is a secure joining system including a plurality of secure computing apparatuses. The plurality of secure computing apparatuses include a first vector joining unit, a first permutation calculation unit, a first vector generation unit, a second vector joining unit, a first permutation application unit, a second vector generation unit, a first inverse permutation application unit, a first vector extraction unit, a second permutation application unit, a third vector generation unit, a second inverse permutation application unit, a second vector extraction unit, a modified second table generation unit, a third permutation application unit, a fourth vector generation unit, a shifting unit, a third inverse permutation application unit, a bit inversion unit, a third vector extraction unit, a modified first table generation unit, a first table joining unit, and a first table formatting unit.
US11888969B2
A method including determining, by a device, an assigned key pair including an assigned public key and an assigned private key; determining, by the device for a folder including encrypted content, a folder access key pair including a folder access public key and a folder access private key; encrypting, by the device, the folder access private key by utilizing the assigned public key; and accessing, by the device, the encrypted content based at least in part on decrypting the folder access private key. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11888967B2
Technologies for dynamic accelerator selection include a compute sled. The compute sled includes a network interface controller to communicate with a remote accelerator of an accelerator sled over a network, where the network interface controller includes a local accelerator and a compute engine. The compute engine is to obtain network telemetry data indicative of a level of bandwidth saturation of the network. The compute engine is also to determine whether to accelerate a function managed by the compute sled. The compute engine is further to determine, in response to a determination to accelerate the function, whether to offload the function to the remote accelerator of the accelerator sled based on the telemetry data. Also the compute engine is to assign, in response a determination not to offload the function to the remote accelerator, the function to the local accelerator of the network interface controller.
US11888965B2
A method for protection of data transfers for internet of things (IoT) devices using a blockchain includes: receiving, by a node in a blockchain network, a data message from an IoT device formatted according to an IoT messaging protocol and including a device identifier associated with the IoT device and encrypted data; generating a new block including one or more data values including the received data message; transmitting the generated new block to one or more additional nodes in the blockchain network; receiving a data request from an external device including an external identifier associated with the external device; verifying permission of the external device to access the encrypted data based on the external identifier and device identifier; and transmitting the encrypted data to the external device.
US11888955B1
A client application can be configured to render user interface cards, based on card data provided by a remote card engine. An API Response as Card (ARC) engine can intercept a communication between the client application and the card engine, and determine that the communication is associated with another backend system. The ARC engine can request that the backend system perform an account action associated with a user account. The ARC engine can provide information derived from a response from the backend system, reflecting a result of the account action, to the card engine. The card action can generate card data associated with the result of the account action performed by the backend system, and the client application can use the card data to render and display a corresponding card, even if neither the client application nor the card engine are natively configured to interface with the backend system.
US11888942B2
Methods, devices, and systems for migration or sharing of existing M2M service layer sessions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a Session Migration and Sharing Function (SMSF) performs the migration or sharing of a M2M service layer session. Various forms of service layer session context may be used to enable the migration and sharing of M2M service layer sessions.
US11888940B2
The invention relates to central controller (3) for remote communication with a plurality of network controllers, NC, (20) the plurality of NCs (20) being provided in communication nodes (2a, 2b, 2c, 2d) and being configured for near field communication with each other, the central controller (3) being configured to be in communicative connection with each NC of the plurality of NCs. The central controller (3) comprises a data processing device (32) configured to receive ID and position information and a list of communicable neighboring NCs from each NC (20), based on the received ID information, position information and lists of communicable neighboring NCs identify at least one NC of the plurality of NCs as providing accurate position information and use the thus identified NC as an anchor point NC (20a), and identify missing and/or position drifting NCs by analyzing the received ID and position information and lists of communicable neighboring NCs. The invention further relates to a lighting control system (1) comprising such a central controller (3).
US11888931B1
Efficient scaling of in-network compute operations to large numbers of compute nodes is disclosed. Each compute node is connected to a same plurality of network compute nodes, such as compute-enabled network switches. Compute processes at the compute nodes generate local gradients or other vectors by, for instance, performing a forward pass on a neural network. Each vector comprises values for a same set of vector elements. Each network compute node is assigned to, based on the local vectors, reduce vector data for a different a subset of the vector elements. Each network compute node returns a result chunk for the elements it processed back to each of the compute nodes, whereby each compute node receives the full result vector. This configuration may, in some embodiments, reduce buffering, processing, and/or other resource requirements for the network compute node or network at large.
US11888930B1
Methods and systems for managing workloads are disclosed. The workloads may be supported by operation of workload components that are hosted by infrastructure. The hosted locations of the workload components by the infrastructure may impact the performance of the workloads. To manage performance of the workloads, an optimization process may be performed to identify a migration plan for migrating some of the workload components to other infrastructure such as shared edge infrastructure and cloud infrastructure temporarily or permanently. Migration of the workload components may reduce the computing resource cost for performing various workloads and/or reduce workload performance disruptions.
US11888923B2
The nodes of a squad of nodes include a coordinating node and a set of worker nodes for sharing computational resources to perform resource intensive tasks. A requesting worker node may send work requests to the coordinating node of a squad of nodes. In response to a work request, the requesting worker node receives from the coordinating node a list of worker nodes to assign one or more tasks associated with the work request. The list of worker nodes is selected based on a report of resources and current utilization of each node within the squad. Upon receiving the list of workers, the requesting worker node divides the tasks associated with the work request into multiple buckets, assigns each bucket to a worker node form the list of worker nodes, and sends a request to process tasks from each of the buckets to the corresponding worker node.
US11888922B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US11888920B2
Disclosed are a process and apparatus for classifying video streams of an online streaming media service in real-time. The process includes processing data packets representing one or more video streams between a service provider and a user access network, generating flow activity data from the packets representing quantitative metrics of network transport activity, and applying a trained classifier to the flow activity data to classify each of the video streams as either a live video stream or a video-on-demand (VoD) stream.
US11888918B2
A method for expanding functions of a conference system includes providing a first circuit board and a second circuit board disposed in the receiver, receiving a first wireless packet transmitted from the first transmitter merely through a second communication module of the second circuit board, controlling the second communication module for performing an unpacking process of the first wireless packet by a second processor of the second circuit board to generate first compressed media data, generating a first command signal by the second processor of the second circuit board for controlling a first processor of the first circuit board to receive the first compressed media data through a data channel, and decompressing the first compressed media data by the first processor for acquiring first media contents of the first transmitter.
US11888903B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate end-user defined policy management. An example apparatus includes an edge node interface to detect addition of a networked user device to a service gateway, and to extract publish information from the networked user device. The example apparatus also includes a device context manager to identify tag parameters based on the publish information from the networked user device, and a tag manager to prohibit unauthorized disclosure of the networked user device by setting values of the tag parameters based on a user profile associated with a type of the networked user device.
US11888884B2
A cyber threat intelligence infrastructure allows processing of network data to enrich captured data with data from different sources to identify possible and/or actual cyber threats.
US11888883B2
An enhanced threat disposition analysis technique is provided. In response to receipt of a security threat, a threat disposition score (TDS) is retrieved. The threat disposition score is generated from a machine learning scoring model that is built from information about historical security threats, including historical disposition of one or more alerts associated with the historical security threats. The system augments an alert to include the threat disposition score, optionally together with a confidence level, to generate an enriched alert. The enriched alert is then presented to the security analyst for handling directly. Depending on the TDS (and its confidence level), the analyst may be able to respond to the threat immediately, i.e., without further detailed investigation. Preferably, the machine learning model is updated continuously as the system handles security threats, thereby increasing the predictive benefit of the TDS scoring.
US11888880B1
A keyboard detection system, that includes a processor that operates to detect at least one anomaly in input data and determine a correlation between the at least one anomaly and a characteristic of an inconsistent keyboard type. The processor may operate to determine the correlation between the at least one anomaly and the characteristic of the inconsistent keyboard type based on a lookup table or algorithm.
US11888873B2
Systems and methods are provided to generate an attack surface for a protected entity. The method an include receiving identifying information associated with the protected entity; scanning one or more third parties to identify a host associated with the protected entity; determining that the host resolves to a webpage; resolving the webpage; extracting a uniform resource locator (URL) from the resolved webpage; determining, based on at least one rule, that the URL is associated with the protected entity; and generating the attack surface for the protected entity, the attack surface comprising the URL.
US11888857B2
A risk-aware access control system and related methods are provided. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, there is a provided a method of risk-aware access control, comprising: detecting a request to perform an action with respect to two factors, the factors being of a factor type selecting people, devices, documents, and location, wherein the factors are of a different factor type; determining a coupling associated with the requested action based on the factors of the requested action; determining a risk level associated with the coupling; denying the requested action in response to a determination that the risk level does not match a security policy; and allowing the requested action in response to a determination that the risk level matches the security policy.
US11888856B2
Methods of secure resource authorization for external identities using remote principal objects are performed by systems and devices. An external entity creates a user group and defines entitlements to an owning entity's secure resource as a set of permissions for the group. An immutable access template with the permissions and an access policy for the secure resource are provided to the owning entity for approval. On approval, a remote principal object is created in the owner directory according to the permissions and access policy. A remote principal that is a group member requests access via an interface to the owner domain using external domain credentials. The identity of the remote principal is verified against the remote principal object by a token service. Verification causes generation and issuance of a token, with the enumerated entitlements, to the remote principal interface affecting a redirect for access to the secure resource.
US11888854B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving an authentication request to authenticate a first entity with a first service; in response to receiving the authentication request: identifying an access-restricted first data record associated with the first entity; generating a message associated with a first transfer of resources between the first data record and a designated second data record, the message identifying one of the first and second data records as a recipient data record for the first transfer and defining a first quantity of resources to transfer; and transmitting the message to a first server associated with the first entity, the first server requiring user authentication to access the message; determining a completion status of the first transfer; and generating a response to the authentication request based on the completion status of the first transfer.
US11888852B2
According to one embodiment of the present application, provided is an access management method of an access control device, comprising the steps of: receiving, from a user terminal, a first advertising packet including open authentication information; generating a key on the basis of at least a first random key; confirming the open authentication information on the basis of the generated key; and determining the opening of a door on the basis of the open authentication information.
US11888850B2
A communal computing device, such as an interactive digital whiteboard, can become unlocked if a user is near the device. The communal computing device may use a sensor such as a camera to capture images of a person and obtain an identifier from a personal device such as a smartphone. A cloud-based provider that is trusted by both the communal computing device and the personal device may associate both the image and the identifier of the personal device with the same user identity. Obtaining the user identity from multiple, different sources provides a secure technique for the communal computing device to recognize a user without the user directly interacting with the communal computing device. If the sensor no longer detects the user or the personal device is no longer detected, then the communal computing device may log off the user. The personal device may be used to confirm log off.
US11888842B1
A communication management system provides a cognition test electronically to control access to an account. A test implementer includes a graphical user interface. One or more processors are configured to administer the cognition test by: displaying a plurality of image components on the graphical user interface such that each image component of the plurality of image components moves along a respective movement path within the graphical user interface; receiving an input via the graphical user interface; comparing the input to a solution value for the cognition test, wherein the solution value is based on the plurality of image components; blocking access to a protected account based on the input not correlating to the solution value; and allowing access to the protected account based on the input correlating to the solution value.
US11888833B2
Disclosed are techniques for securing electronic control units (ECUs) in a vehicle. A security platform for a vehicle includes a key distribution center (KDC) for the vehicle. The KDC is configured to verify that a digital certificate associated with a first electronic control unit (ECU) on the vehicle is a valid certificate, where the digital certificate indicates a first security level of the first ECU. The KDC is configured to generate, based on the first security level of the first ECU, one or more security keys for secure communication between the first ECU and a set of ECUs on the vehicle, and provision the one or more security keys to the first ECU and the set of ECUs. In some embodiments, the KDC uses the provisioned keys to authenticate each ECU when the vehicle is powered up.
US11888830B2
The techniques herein are directed generally to a “zero-knowledge” data management network. Users are able to share verifiable proof of data and/or identity information, and businesses are able to request, consume, and act on the data—all without a data storage server or those businesses ever seeing or having access to the raw sensitive information (where server-stored data is viewable only by the intended recipients, which may even be selected after storage). In one embodiment, source data is encrypted with a source encryption key (e.g., source public key), with a rekeying key being an encrypting combination of a source decryption key (e.g., source private key) and a recipient's public key. Without being able to decrypt the data, the storage server can use the rekeying key to re-encrypt the source data with the recipient's public key, to then be decrypted only by the corresponding recipient using its private key, accordingly.
US11888829B2
A device is configured to receive a data request that includes an encrypted data element. The device is further configured to identify a data source device associated with the data request, to identify a first encryption key associated with the data source device, and to decrypt the encrypted data element using the first encryption key. The device is further configured to identify a first data processor device associated with receiving the data request, to identify a second encryption key associated with the first data processor device, wherein the second encryption key is different from the first encryption key, and to re-encrypt the decrypted data element. The device is further configured to identify routing instructions associated with the first data processor device and to send the re-encrypted data element to the first data processor device in accordance with the routing instructions.
US11888825B1
This document describes techniques for expanding user groups while preserving user privacy and data security. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a content platform and from a client device of a user, a request for a digital component that also includes a user identifier. A determination is made that the user identifier is included in a user list that includes multiple user identifiers respectively corresponding to multiple users in a user action group. In response to determining that the unique identifier is included in the user list, a digital component of the entity for which the user list is generated is selected and provided to the client device of the user for display to the user of the client device.
US11888824B2
An end-to-end group messaging method or apparatus organizes a plurality of local groups of members into local-group (LG) trees and a public-group (PG) tree. Each tree has a plurality of nodes including a root node connecting to a plurality of leaf nodes. Each LG tree corresponds to a local group. Each member of a local group is associated with a leaf node of the corresponding LG tree. Each LG tree is associated with a leaf node of the PG tree. Members of a same local group may establish communication therebetween by using a group key associated with the root node of the LG tree of the local group. Members of all local groups may establish communication therebetween by using a group key associated with the root node of the PG tree.
US11888816B2
Techniques for providing localization at scale for a cloud-based security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/method/computer program product for providing localization at scale for a cloud-based security service includes receiving a connection request at a network gateway of a cloud-based security service; performing a source Network Address Translation (NAT) from a registered set of public IP addresses associated with a tenant; and providing secure access to a Software as a Service (SaaS) using the cloud-based security service.
US11888803B2
Systems and methods are provided for exchanging messages between gateways. The systems and methods include operations for: storing, in a first gateway located in a first geographical region of a plurality of geographical regions, data that associates a plurality of users with the plurality of geographical regions; receiving, by the first gateway, a message directed to a given user of the plurality of users; determining, based on the data, that a second geographical region of the plurality of geographical regions is associated with the given user; and transmitting, by the first gateway, the message to a second gateway located in the second geographical region.
US11888801B2
Message filtering and management systems in a chat forward task facilitation communication system are described. One implementation involves receiving one or more pre-filtering inputs from a member, where the inputs include task associations to identify message types to hide or display from a real-time chat interface based on the task associations. A set of messages are processed in real-time using a filtering algorithm to associate one or more tasks with messages of the set of messages, where the one or more tasks correspond to a set of tasks performable by the representative on behalf of the member. A first message is displayed based on the one or more pre-filtering inputs and a first task association with the first message, and a second message is hidden or not displayed based on the one or more pre-filtering inputs and a second task association with the second message.
US11888794B2
A system and a method for processing a message on a processing platform, such as a Kafka processing platform, are provided. The method includes: acquiring a plurality of partitions from the messaging platform; designating a first partition from among the plurality of partitions as a sticky partition; generating a plurality of routing keys that are configured to route messages to the sticky partition; using a first routing key from among the plurality of routing keys to identify a first service subscription; subscribing to a second service using the first routing key; and receiving a message transmitted by the second service.
US11888790B2
Dynamic skill handling mechanism for bot participation in secure multi-user collaboration workspaces
A system and method for creating a context-aware, conversational chat bot or agent in multi-party conversations where participants have different levels of security access to information and the bot operates in one or more modes depending on the business context of the multi-user collaboration virtual workspace. The methods include adding a bot, as a participant, to a virtual workspace that is a multi-user collaboration workspace, obtaining, at a bot application server, context of the virtual workspace, setting, by the bot application server, a skill set for the bot from among a plurality of skill sets. The skill set varies based on the context of the virtual workspace. The methods further include configuring, by the bot application server, the bot to perform at least one task in the virtual workspace based on the skill set.
US11888789B2
The present invention relates to a system that includes a transmission/reception point and a user equipment having different configurations in inter-band and performs a TDD (Time Division Duplex) method.
US11888786B2
Aspects are provided which allow a base station to configure flexible BWPs that include a dedicated slot format or may be applied in both DL and UL symbols, and which allow a UE to switch between flexible BWPs in frequency and/or time. The base station configures a first BWP and a second BWP. The first BWP is associated with a first bandwidth and a first slot format dedicated for the first BWP. The base station transmits, to a UE, a configuration to switch the first BWP to the second BWP. The UE receives the configuration from the base station and switches the first BWP to the second BWP. In particular, the UE may switch the first bandwidth to a second bandwidth, the first slot format to a second slot format, or both the first bandwidth and first slot format to the second bandwidth and second slot format, respectively.
US11888775B2
In NR, a slot structure of a UE may be dynamic due the number of symbols of PDCCH and whether the slot has UL data, among other considerations. Additionally, to support multi-TRP/multi-panel/multi-BWP operation, a UE may be configured with multiple TRSs, and when a UE needs to receive multiple TRSs in the same slot, efficient signaling of the TRSs is important because of the high overhead involved. During a transmission, a UE may need to do beam switching when there is a beam failure, but existing systems do not have mechanisms for the UE to synchronize time and frequency with a new beam. Further, when a UE switches to a new beam, the effect on scheduled TRS transmission for old beams is unclear. Fine frequency and time tracking may also be required during an initial access procedure. Existing NR systems do not address how a UE may perform time and frequency tracking during an initial access procedure. Additionally, URLLC data may need to be transmitted to a UE immediately in an NR system. Existing NR systems do not address sending a TRS to a UE with URLLC data. Embodiments described herein address these and other issues.
US11888770B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for wireless communication. An example apparatus selects a first resource unit (RU) of a plurality of RUs for transmitting a physical (PHY) layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) over a wireless medium. The first RU may include a set of contiguous tones occupying a first frequency bandwidth. The plurality of RUs may collectively span a second frequency bandwidth greater than the first frequency bandwidth. The apparatus maps the set of contiguous tones of the first RU to a set of non-contiguous tones distributed across the second frequency bandwidth using a tone mapping vector and a tone mapping offset associated with the first RU. The apparatus transmits the PPDU over the set of non-contiguous tones distributed across the second frequency bandwidth.
US11888768B2
A base station and a method for use by the base station are disclosed. The method includes transmitting, over an interface, to a controlling node a request for wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) information, and receiving, over the interface, the WTRU information including WTRU capabilities information in response to the request, wherein the WTRU capabilities information indicates time intervals associated with numerations for shared channel allocation usage by the WTRU. A control node is also disclosed where the control note includes a processor and interface for receiving, over the interface, from a base station a request for WTRU information, and transmitting, over the interface, the WTRU information including WTRU capabilities information in response to the request, wherein the WTRU capabilities information indicates time intervals associated with numerations for shared channel allocation usage by the WTRU.
US11888755B2
A multidrop network system includes N network devices. The N network devices includes M transmission-permissible devices including a master device and at least one slave device, wherein M is not greater than N. Each transmission-permissible device has at least one identification code as its identification in the multidrop network system, and the M transmission-permissible devices have at least N identification codes. The M transmission-permissible devices obtain transmission opportunities in turn according to their respective identification codes in each round of data transmission. A Kth device among the M transmission-permissible devices has multiple identification codes, and thus obtains multiple transmission opportunities in one round of data transmission. Each of the M transmission-permissible devices performs a count operation and generates a current count value; and when the current count value is the same as the identification code of a device of the M transmission-permissible devices, this device earns one transmission opportunity.
US11888752B2
Techniques for using application network requirements and/or telemetry information from a first networking technology to enhance operation of a second networking technology and optimize wide area network traffic are described herein. The techniques may include establishing a communication network for use by applications of a scalable application service platform, the communication network including a first networking technology and a second networking technology. In this way, a request to establish a connection for use by an application may be received by the first networking technology. The request may include an indication of a threshold service level of the connection. In response to the request, the first networking technology may determine whether the second networking technology is capable of hosting the connection. If the second networking technology is capable of hosting the connection, the connection may be established such that application traffic is sent or received using the second networking technology.
US11888751B2
A system for facilitating enhanced virtual channel switching in a node of a distributed computing environment is provided. During operation, the system can allocate flow control credits for a first virtual channel to an upstream node in the distributed computing environment. The system can receive, via a message path comprising the upstream node, a message on the first virtual channel based on the allocated flow control credits. The system can then store the message in a queue associated with an input port and determine whether the message is a candidate for changing the first virtual channel at the node based on a mapping rule associated with the input port. If the message is a candidate, the system can associate the message with a second virtual channel indicated in the mapping rule in the queue. Subsequently, the system can send the message from the queue on the second virtual channel.
US11888749B2
Systems and methods are provided for measuring available bandwidth available in a black box network by determining a probing rate of packet transmissions between a sender and receiver. The optimal probing rate and bandwidth estimate may be determined. Additional actions may be performed, like automatically rerouting packets and/or load balancing network traffic after the probing rate is determined.
US11888742B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive a configuration for including extended routing information in backhaul adaptation protocol (BAP) headers. The wireless node may transmit a packet that includes extended routing information in a BAP header based at least in part on the configuration. In some aspects, a wireless node may receive a packet that includes extended routing information in a BAP header. The wireless node may process the packet based at least in part on the extended routing information in the BAP header. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11888741B2
Disclosed is a method for managing a MAC address table by a network node, the method including: defining a first running time and a second running time for a timer; and the method further including: receiving a frame; applying the first running time in the timer defined for a source of the received frame in response to a detection that an address of a destination missing in the MAC address table; and applying a second running time in the timer for MAC address of the source of the received frame and in the timer for the MAC address of the destination in response to a detection that the address of the destination is present in the MAC address table. Also disclosed is a network node, a computer program product and a communication system.
US11888738B2
This disclosure describes techniques that include collecting underlay flow data within a network and associating underlay flow data with a source and a destination virtual network to enable insights into network operation and performance. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes identifying, for each underlay data flow, a source overlay network and a destination overlay network associated with the underlay data flow, wherein identifying includes retrieving, from one or more Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) databases, information identifying the source and destination overlay networks.
US11888736B2
Techniques are described herein for service chaining in fabric networks such that hardware resources can be preserved without service nodes needing additional capabilities. The techniques may include storing a first configuration associated with a first VRF instance of a service forwarding node that is connected to a first service of a service chain sequence. The first configuration may indicate an identifier and a type associated with a second service of the service chain sequence where traffic is to be sent after the first service. Additionally, the techniques may also include storing a second configuration associated with a second VRF instance of the service forwarding node that is connected to the second service. The second configuration may indicate that the second service is a last service of the service chain sequence. When traffic is received at the service forwarding node, the service forwarding node can determine whether the traffic is pre-service traffic or post-service traffic.
US11888732B2
This application discloses a transmission path fault processing method and apparatus, and a system, to resolve a problem that a packet fails to be forwarded because a previous-hop node of a faulty node cannot process a stitching label. The method includes: receiving, by a first network device, a stitching label and a stitching label stack list corresponding to the stitching label that are sent by a stitching network device; determining, in a process of sending a packet through a primary path, that the stitching network device is faulty, where the packet includes a label stack list, and the stitching network device is a next-hop network device of the first network device; and replacing, by the first network device, the stitching label in the label stack list with the stitching label stack list, and switching, based on the updated label stack list, the packet to a backup path for sending.
US11888730B1
Dynamically optimizing routing within a decentralized network is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a node operator accesses historical state data associated with a decentralized network layered on top of a blockchain network. Using machine learning, the node operator trains one or more models based on the historical state data. For example, the node operator trains the one or more models to optimize routing within the decentralized network. In near-real time and using the one or more models, the node operator monitors state data (e.g., current state data) associated with the decentralized network. Based at least in part on the monitoring, the node operator performs one or more actions to optimize the routing within the decentralized network.
US11888723B1
A network management system can be configured to identify routes for satisfying a set of demands on a communications network using a network graph that represents the communication network. The network graph edges can have edge scores that indicate a priority of the edge. The edge score for a network edge corresponding to a communication link in the communication network can depend on the topology of the communication network or the characteristics of the communication link. The network management system can iteratively identify candidate path(s) on the network graph that correspond to each of the demands and determine a score for each candidate path using the edge scores. In each iteration, the network management system can select the lowest score candidate path, update the network graph to reflect the selection of this candidate path, update the edge scores based on the updating of the network graph, and update the candidate paths for the remaining demands as needed.
US11888722B2
A route advertisement method is applied to a network in which a cross-domain end-to-end tunnel carries a service. The cross-domain end-to-end tunnel crosses at least two Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) network domains, and the at least two IGP network domains include a first network device, a second network device, and a third network device. The route advertisement method includes receiving, by the first network device, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) service routing information from the second network device, where the BGP service routing information includes a destination address and a next-hop address to the destination address, skipping, by the first network device, performing route recursion on the next-hop address, and advertising, by the first network device, the BGP service routing information to the third network device.
US11888718B2
An anomalous behavior detector has been designed to detect novel behavioral changes of devices based on network traffic data that likely correlate to anomalous behaviors. The anomalous behavior detector uses the local outlier factor (LOF) algorithm with novelty detection. After initial semi-supervised training with a single class training dataset representing stable device behaviors, the obtained model continues learning frontiers that delimit subspaces of inlier observations with live network traffic data. Instead of traffic variables being used as features, the features that form feature vectors are similarities of network traffic variable values across time intervals. A feature vector for the anomalous behavior detector represents stability or similarity of network traffic variables that have been chosen as device identifiers and behavioral indicators.
US11888714B2
This disclosure describes techniques for monitoring, scheduling, and performance management for virtualization infrastructures within networks. In one example, a computing system includes a plurality of different cloud-based compute clusters (e.g., different cloud projects), each comprising a set of compute nodes. Policy agents execute on the compute nodes to monitor performance and usage metrics relating to resources of the compute nodes. Policy controllers within each cluster deploy policies to the policy agents and evaluate performance and usage metrics from the policy agents by application of one or more rulesets for infrastructure elements of the compute cluster. Each of the policy controllers outputs data to a multi-cluster dashboard software system indicative of a current health status for the infrastructure elements based on the evaluation of the performance and usage metrics for the cluster. The multi-cluster dashboard software system data outputs, as single user interface screen, the current health status for each of the cloud-based compute clusters.
US11888709B2
A user interface system has at least a first engine configured to receive message data from managed infrastructure that includes managed infrastructure physical hardware which supports the flow and processing of information. The at least first engine determines common characteristics of events and produces clusters of events relating to the failure of errors in the managed infrastructure. Membership in a cluster indicates a common factor of the events that is a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware managed infrastructure directed to supporting the flow and processing of information. One or more situations are created that is a collection of one or more events or alerts representative of the actionable problem in the managed infrastructure. A display computer system generates a dashboard display that includes situations from clustered messages received from managed infrastructure. The display computer system is coupled to or included in a situation room coupled to the at least first engines.
US11888707B2
Techniques for detecting anomalies in communication networks are provided. Bayesian networks (first and second) are trained for each feature in first and second lists of features. Third and fourth lists of features are generated and then the first and second Bayesian networks are used to classify each value of the third list of features and of the fourth list of features, respectively, as normal or anomalous. In some examples, a Support Vector Machine can be used for the classification.
US11888705B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for processing data. The method includes: loading, at a switch and in response to receipt of a model loading request from a terminal device, a data processing model specified in the model loading request. The method further includes: acquiring model parameters of the data processing model from the terminal device. The method further includes: processing, in response to receipt of to-be-processed data from the terminal device, the data using the data processing model based on the model parameters. Through the method, data may be processed at a switch, which improves the efficiency of data processing and the utilization rate of computing resources, and reduces the delay of data processing.
US11888703B1
The present disclosure generally relates to apparatus, software and methods for predicting future network traffic. The disclosed apparatus, software and methods alleviate congestion and/or increase overall traffic flow by providing methods for reallocating future idle capacity.
US11888694B2
Provided is a method for configuring a gateway. The method may include a gateway monitoring current version data stored on at least one first server. The current version data may be associated with a current version of a configuration file. The first server may be remote from the gateway. The current version data may be modified at the first server. In response to the gateway determining that the current version data stored on the first server has been modified, a configuration service may be invoked to retrieve the current version of the configuration file from at least one repository based on the current version data. The repository may include at least one second server remote from the gateway and the first server. The gateway may store a copy of the current version of the configuration file retrieved by the configuration service. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11888684B1
Various embodiments described herein offer improved functionality for configuring software applications so as to provide customers with a great deal of configuration flexibility, while reducing data redundancy and facilitating maintenance. Multiple configuration layers are provided, including system layer(s) and tenant-specific layer(s). System layer(s) specify configuration parameters for a group of tenants, and tenant-specific layer(s) can be used to override particular parameters as needed for individual tenants. In this manner, the system layer(s) act as a template upon which tenant-specific configuration layer(s) can be added.
US11888681B1
A network infrastructure management console configures one or more network switch stacks each comprising a plurality of switches. A monitoring component monitors a current conductor switch of the stack. A user interface (UI) backend component comprises a cache memory and receives a user request to configure the stack. The UI backend component receives from the monitoring component notification of the current conductor and stores in a cache memory segment associated with the current conductor the requested configuration changes. If the current conductor switch of the stack has changed due to a failover event, the configuration changes stored in the cache memory segment associated with the previous current conductor are written to a cache memory segment associated with the new current conductor. A configuration push component receives the configuration changes and transmits the configuration changes to the network switch stack.
US11888678B2
This application provides a configuration error information transmission method and a device. When generating a plurality of pieces of configuration error information after configuring a batch of configuration parameter groups, a user plane network element may report the configuration error information to a control plane network element based on reporting priorities of the configuration error information. According to embodiments, reporting can be performed based on the reporting priorities of the configuration error information. In this way, a user or the control plane network element can configure, by configuring the reporting priorities, an order of precedence of the configuration error information to be reported by the user plane network element.
US11888675B2
Systems, devices, and methods for internet of things integrated automation and control architectures
In some embodiments, systems, devices, and methods described herein provide digitized ecosystem architectures connecting systems and processes within and among various entities using Internet-of-Things (IoT) to integrate physical assets of the entities. In some embodiments, one or more blockchain applications and/or smart contracts and further define and manage system integration.
US11888667B2
A reference signal sequence to modulate the demodulation reference signal for the Physical Broadcast Channel in New Radio standard is disclosed. Formulas are proposed for calculating the initialization value for the RS sequence generator so as to accord with the characteristics of New Radio.
US11888666B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that support sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in low latency wireless transmissions. A set of shortened transmission time intervals (sTTIs) for uplink transmissions of a first wireless service may be identified; the set of sTTIs located within subframe time boundaries of a subframe of a second wireless service with a longer TTI than the sTTIs. Two or more sTTIs within the set of sTTIs may be used for SRS transmissions within the subframe time boundaries.
US11888664B2
According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus comprising for performing the following. The apparatus receives a stream of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbols and associated cyclic prefixes produced by at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulator of a radio transmitter or transceiver. The apparatus divides said stream into a plurality of overlapping processing blocks of a first length. At least one of the plurality of overlapping processing blocks comprises a non-overlapping section having values corresponding to a segment of said stream. The dividing comprises adjusting a length of the non-overlapping section at least based on whether a cyclic prefix is comprised in said segment and, if this is true, on a length of said cyclic prefix. The apparatus filters the plurality of overlapping processing blocks using fast convolution processing and concatenates filtered processing blocks to form an output signal for transmission using the radio transmitter or transceiver.
US11888659B2
There is described an RFID IC, comprising: i) an RFID interface configured to receive a digitally modulated signal, wherein the digitally modulated signal comprises: a first slot with a first pulse, and a second slot with a second pulse; and ii) a processing unit configured to a) determine a first position of the first pulse in the first slot, b) filter a region that follows the determined first position of the first pulse, c) determine a second position of the second pulse in the second slot, and, if the second position of the second pulse cannot be determined in the second slot, assume that the second position of the second pulse in the second slot is at the filtered region.
US11888656B2
Provided is an equalizer including: an input amplifier configured to amplify and output an input signal; a first equalization circuit including a first sampling circuit, a first arithmetic circuit, and a second arithmetic circuit, the first sampling circuit being configured to generate and output 1-1 to 1-N feedback signals, wherein N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2; and a second equalization circuit including a second sampling circuit, a third arithmetic circuit, and a fourth arithmetic circuit, the second sampling circuit being configured to generate and output 2-1 to 2-M feedback signals, wherein M is a natural number greater than or equal to 2.
US11888653B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed that enable information about devices connected behind a gateway, such as a home gateway, to be made available to and used by other entities, such as servers and routers, on a communications network.
US11888631B2
Techniques for providing a dynamic and modifiable sidebar of a user interface of a communication platform are discussed herein. The sidebar includes affordances of virtual spaces that are associated with a particular user account, such that a virtual space is accessible via a respective affordance. In examples, a section of the sidebar can be modifiable by the user, such as to enable the user to personalize the sidebar. The virtual spaces can include collaborative documents that are created and managed by the communication platform. In examples, the communication platform receives interaction data associated with an interaction of a first user with a collaborative document and identifies a second user associated with the collaborative document. Based in part on the interaction data, the communication platform causes a notification to be presented in a sidebar of user interface associated with the second user, to inform the second user of the update.
US11888624B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment (10) in a radio access network, the method comprising transmitting acknowledgement signaling according to a HARQ codebook, the HARQ codebook being based on a received HARQ reception indication indicating reception of a previous scheduled transmission of acknowledgement signaling. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11888620B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for communicating elements between multi-link devices are disclosed. Apparatuses of a first station (STA) affiliated with a multi-link device (MLD) are disclosed, where the apparatuses comprise processing circuitry configured to determine a sequence number as a next sequence number of a sequence number space where the sequence number space is indexed by a MLD media access control (MAC) address of a second MLD, and wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to encode a media access control (MAC) management protocol data unit (MMPDU) in a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), the MMDPU including the sequence number, a frame body, and an address 1 field, the address 1 field indicating an address of a second station (STA) affiliated with the second MLD, and configure the first STA to transmit the PPDU to the second station.
US11888617B2
A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by performing LDPC encoding, an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword, and a modulator configured to modulate the interleaved LDPC codeword according to a modulation method to generate a modulation symbol. The interleaver performs interleaving by dividing the LDPC codeword into a plurality of groups, rearranging an order of the plurality of groups in group units, and dividing the plurality of rearranged groups based on a modulation order according to the modulation method.
US11888608B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a data transmission method, apparatus, and system in backscatter communication, to improve spectrum usage efficiency of data. An embodiment of this application provides a data transmission method in backscatter communication, including: generating a first frame, where the first frame carries first data and second data, the first data and the second data in the first frame use different modulation schemes, the first data is sent to a first tag, and the second data is sent to a second tag; and sending the first frame to the first tag and the second tag.
US11888604B2
A server system stores a list of trusted users that are authorized to access a first electronic device's shared listening sessions. While the first electronic device is hosting a shared listening session playing back media on a second electronic device, the server system receives, from a third electronic device, a request that includes an identifier of the second electronic device. In response to the first request and in accordance with a determination that the third electronic device is associated with a user that is on the list of trusted users, the server system automatically transmits, to the third electronic device, a session identifier for the first shared listening session. The server system receives, from the third electronic device, a request to join the shared listening session, in response to the second request, provides, to the third electronic device, access to control media playback of the first listening session.
US11888595B2
An information technology (IT) component associated with a first alert having an alert type is identified. A first list of recommended actions associated with the IT component is output. The first list includes a recommended action. A first user input of a user-selected action is received. An alert-to-component likelihood between the IT component and the alert type is decreased based on a determination that the first list does not include the user-selected action. The IT component is identified as being associated with a second alert based on the alert-to-component likelihood exceeding an alert-to-component likelihood threshold. A second list of recommended actions associated with the IT component is output. The second list does not include the recommended action and includes the user-selected action. A second user input of the user-selected action is received. A request to execute the user-selected action is transmitted.
US11888591B2
A communications system and methods for covert communications are provided. A first transmitter that transmits an information carrying signal to a target receiver, a second transmitter and a third transmitter transmit jamming signals to the target receiver, such that the information carrying signals and the jamming signals are interleaved when received by the target receiver The information carrying signals and the jamming signals can be at least partially overlapping by an eavesdropper.
US11888586B2
A low-latency network device and method for treating serial data comprising an oscillator generating a device-wide clock; a receiving physical medium attachment (PMA) having an internal data width, a symbol timing synchronization module configured to receive the parallelized sample stream; and detect therefrom synchronized bit values corresponding to bit values of the received serial data; and a physical convergence sublayer (PCS). The PMA is configured to receive the serial data, deserialize the serial data based on the device-wide clock and internal data width, whereby the received serial data is oversampled, the oversampling of the received serial data being asynchronous relative to a timing of the received serial data, and output a parallelized sample stream. The PCS is configured to receive the synchronized bit values; and delineate packets therefrom to provide packet-delineated parallelized data. The PMA, the symbol timing synchronization module and the PCS are all driven by the device-wide clock.
US11888583B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods. and structures directed to an integrated 3-way branching unit switch module suitable for undersea application.
US11888582B2
Embodiments for adaptive inline modulation tuning for optical interfaces is described. The inline modulation tuning is provided by optical nodes, where the optical nodes exchange optical modulation information and node ability information between optical devices in a node pair. An optimal modulation scheme for the node pair is selected based on modulation abilities of each node and associated transceiver, as well as a link quality and performance observed for the optical link.
US11888580B2
The present invention relates to a communication system for receiving electromagnetic radiation (EMR) signals from a plurality of sources or directions. A communication system comprises a transmission section surrounding an antenna section. The transmission section can be made of concentric layers of lens elements, mirror elements, or refraction medium. The layers allow incoming EMR to be directed to the antenna section through reflection or refraction. The antenna section can be made of a plurality of antenna elements such that each antenna element detects incoming EMR signals from different angles of origin even when the signals are received simultaneously.
US11888578B2
An example of a channelizer includes a plurality of receiver circuits, an individual receiver circuit including a frequency demultiplexer that is configured to demultiplex a plurality of subchannels and a time-division demultiplexer coupled to the frequency demultiplexer, the time-division demultiplexer configured to time-division demultiplex the plurality of subchannels to provide a plurality of time-division outputs, an individual time-division output including portions of data from each of the plurality of subchannels; and a plurality of switch circuits, each configured to receive a different time-division output of the plurality of time-division outputs from the individual receiver.
US11888577B1
A communication system includes an earth station configured to receive a downlink transmission from a satellite and transmit an uplink transmission to the satellite. The communication system further includes a server in operable communication with the earth station, a beacon detector in operable communication with the server, an access point configured to operate within a proximity of the earth station, and a beacon transmitter disposed within close proximity to the access point. The beacon transmitter is configured to transmit a beacon signal to one or more of the server and the beacon detector. The beacon signal uniquely identifies the access point. The server is configured to implement a measurement-based protection scheme with respect to at least one of the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission.
US11888576B2
A method for suppressing interference signals generated between satellite access stations of a multi-spot communication system is implemented by a distributed on-board and ground subsystem which comprises, on board a multi-spot communication payload, one or more opposition matrices, switches of an input switch assembly connected to the output of the reception sources of the reception antenna, and switches of an output selection ring connected upstream of the transmission sources of the transmission antenna, and, on the ground, a satellite access station GWt having a communication spectrum monitoring system CSM and a computer. The suppression method comprises a set of steps for testing the satellite accesses of the different stations GW, enabling each opposition matrix to be set selectively. The multi-spot space communication system incorporating the subsystem for suppressing the interference signals is described.
US11888572B2
An access node (120) of a wireless network (100), comprising a wireless transceiver (313) coupled to an antenna arrangement (314) for communication of radio signals in a plurality of beams; logic (310) configured to control the wireless transceiver to: transmit (505) a plurality of synchronization signals in a period (P) of a beam sweep, in which each of said synchronization signals identifies a beam-specific resource to be used when responding to the beam sweep; and monitor (560) omni-directionally dedicated resources allocated for reception of a low latency message (55) from a wireless terminal (10). The dedicated resources may be are allocated throughout said period, allowing for unscheduled transmission of the message to the access node.
US11888563B2
This application provides a channel state information reporting method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives M pieces of downlink control information, where first downlink control information in the M pieces of downlink control information indicates a first channel state information configuration, the first channel state information configuration is associated with a first channel state information interference measurement CSI-IM resource group, and the first CSI-IM resource group includes N1 CSI-IM resources, where M and N1 are positive integers, and N1 is greater than 1; and the terminal device measures a target CSI-IM resource, and reports channel state information, where the target CSI-IM resource is determined by the terminal device from the N1 CSI-IM resources based on M, and a quantity of target CSI-IM resources is less than N1.
US11888558B2
A method for transmitting an uplink signal based on a codebook by a UE in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a base station, downlink control information (DCI) for determining a precoding matrix applied to transmission of the uplink signal; determining the precoding matrix applied to the transmission of the uplink signal from a codebook subset related to the transmission of the uplink signal based on the DCI; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink signal based on the determined precoding matrix, I which based on that a difference between phase values applied to antenna ports for the transmission of the uplink signal is maintained in some antenna ports among all antenna port pairs, the codebook subset includes at least one specific precoding matrix applying different phase values to antenna ports included in all or some of the some antenna ports.
US11888553B2
Inter-alia, an apparatus is disclosed comprising: at least one power amplifier coupled to at least one radio frequency power storage device, wherein the at least one power amplifier is configured to supply power to the at least one radio frequency power storage device, wherein the at least one power amplifier provides power to be used to amplify one or more radio frequency signals; wherein the at least one radio frequency power storage device is configured to store the power of the at least one power amplifier for a certain time period; and one or more antenna elements coupled to the at least one radio frequency power storage device, wherein the at least one radio frequency power storage device is configured to output stored power to at least one of the one or more antenna elements, wherein the power is output variably dependent upon a power demand of a required radio frequency power and/or amplitude needed to transmit the one or more radio frequency signals, wherein the power demand represents a power demand of the at least one antenna element to which the power is to be output. It is further disclosed an according method, and system.
US11888548B2
Described are power line communication (PLC) systems, devices and techniques which are reliable and suitable for use in control applications which can operate with relatively low data rates while complying with governing regulatory rules. Such systems, devices and techniques enable demand-side management of electrical loads in a building or facility or other environment.
US11888545B1
Facilitating echo cancellation within communication networks is contemplated, such as but not necessarily limited to facilitating echo cancellation within full-duplex (FDX) communication networks. The echo cancellation may optionally be performed with an echo canceller included as part of or otherwise associated with an FDX node used to facilitate interfacing signaling between a digital domain and an analog domain of a FDX or other communication network.
US11888542B2
Devices, systems and processes for identifying and detecting an interfering signal are described. A process may include conducting a scan of one or more frequency bands to obtain at least one scan result and determining therefrom if a response condition has been detected. If so detected, a first frequency band corresponding to the detected response condition may be identified and a response condition action to be performed determined. If no response condition action is to be performed, scanning continues. If a response condition is to be performed two or more available sensors are identified and a first sensor is selected. A scan plan is developed and then initiated by the first sensor. Data from the first sensor is received and analyzed to identify a second frequency band indicative of an interfering signal. Based on at least the scan data, a location for a signal interference source (SIS) may be estimated.
US11888540B2
An apparatus includes a radio-frequency (RF) receiver, which includes an automatic gain-control (AGC) circuit to use a gain signal to set a gain of front-end circuitry of the RF receiver. The RF receiver further includes an interference-detection circuit to use a value of the gain signal to detect an interference signal.
US11888539B1
The present technology provides solutions that enable accurate measuring of frequency response on a network (e.g., cable network, fiber optic network) through frequency sweep testing. In various embodiments, the present technology provides a remote transmitter test unit that can be physically deployed at various points in a network. The present technology provides for on demand sweep testing. A remote transmitter test unit or headend test unit can periodically transmit a query message and, based on a response to the query message, can initiate a sweep test. The present technology provides for automatic generation of a sweep profile for a sweep test. Based on an analysis of a frequency spectrum on a network, the sweep profile provides parameters for conducting a sweep test. The present technology provides for Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) table generation and OFDM sweep testing.
US11888538B2
A receiving apparatus includes: M receivers configured to receive signals based on sound waves propagating in water; M FIR filters configured to perform waveform operation on the signals received by the receivers; a combiner configured to combine output signals of the M FIR filters; and a filter coefficient calculation portion configured to calculate a tap coefficient of the M FIR filters so as to reduce an error of the output signals combined by the combiner. The M FIR filters have a tap length that is shorter than a delay spread that is a possible range between a time of arrival of a direct wave and a time of arrival of a delayed wave of the sound waves.
US11888537B2
A fiber link system, method and device for masking signals on a fiber link system. The system includes sending a desired sequence of information in the form of a true signal that is typically intended to be transferred between legitimate users at both ends of a link. Sending chaff signals, or subterfuge signals, alongside the true signal to mask such legitimate signals in the fiber cable from intruders tapping into the fiber cable.
US11888533B1
System, method, and instrumentalities are described herein for transmitting information optically. The optical source may be configured to generate a beam. The beam may include a series of light pulses. The beam of light may be modulated. A modulator may be configured to modulate the series of light pulses in response to a data transmission signal, thereby encoding transmission data into the series of light pulses. The modulated beam of light may be received and both amplified and filtered. The filtered beam of light may be transmitted from to a detector having a photoreceiver. The photoreceiver may be configured to extract the transmission data from the filtered beam of light.
US11888521B2
A master station device includes a processor that outputs a subcarrier modulation signal, and a transmitter that maps an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature-phase (Q) component of the subcarrier modulation signal to an optical signal to be transmitted to a fronthaul.
US11888518B2
A communication system includes: a plurality of cameras that generate image data by capturing images; a server that stores the image data generated by each of the plurality of cameras; and a plurality of transmission devices in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of cameras. Each of the plurality of transmission devices transmits light, including, as a visible light communication signal, information related to communication for accessing a storage location at which the image data generated by a corresponding one of the plurality of cameras is stored in the server.
US11888512B2
A method for piloting from bypass in a network with open wireless channels is disclosed. The method includes: 1) selecting a terminal station as a reference in open wireless channels, and sending a pilot signal, in which all or some frequency bands of open wireless channels occupied by the pilot signal are pilot frequency bands, and the proportion of power of the pilot signal to the total power of the pilot frequency bands is 0.1‰-5%; 2) spreading the pilot signal with a spread spectrum code when it is transmitted, and then superimposing on a communication signal in the pilot frequency bands in a low power spectrum signal mode similar with noise; and 3) providing pilot, carrier wave and clock synchronization, standard timing and indication information for network construction and mutual communication of multiple types of terminal stations in channels by the pilot signal.
US11888510B2
The present disclosure discloses example transmission/reception separation circuits and transceiver. One example transmission/reception separation circuit includes a transmission amplification circuit, an impedance adjustment circuit, and a reception amplification circuit. An output end of the transmission amplification circuit is connected to the impedance adjustment circuit. The impedance adjustment circuit is further connected to an input end of the reception amplification circuit. The second end of the impedance adjustment circuit and the input end of the reception amplification circuit are further configured to be connected to an antenna. The transmission amplification circuit amplifies a first signal to be transmitted. The reception amplification circuit amplifies a second signal received. When the antenna transmits the amplified first signal, a first impedance is in a high impedance state. The impedance adjustment circuit adjusts a second impedance to a high impedance state when the antenna receives the second signal.
US11888501B2
A determination is made, for a base station that transmits on an operating frequency, whether a radiation pattern of each of one or more neighboring frequencies is correlated with a radiation pattern of the operating frequency. In response to a determination that the radiation pattern of each of the one or more neighboring frequencies is correlated with that of the operating frequency, a computation is made of a total radiated power estimate of each of the one or more neighboring frequencies by performing a beam-based directions procedure for the base station. The total radiated power estimates of each of the one or more neighboring frequencies are output.
US11888499B2
A transition-state output device includes: a ring oscillator circuit; a state machine changing in state according to a change in state of the ring oscillator circuit; a transition-state acquisition section acquiring and holding state information including a signal output from the ring oscillator circuit and a signal output from the state machine, synchronously with a reference signal; and an internal-state calculation section calculating an internal state corresponding to a number of changes in state of the ring oscillator circuit, based on the state information held by the transition-state acquisition section. A time until the internal state, after transitioning from a first internal state to a second internal state, transitions to the first internal state again is longer than a time interval of updating the state information held by the transition-state acquisition section.
US11888497B2
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a switched capacitor circuit, a comparator, and a control circuit. The switched capacitor circuit has a switch control input and an output, and includes switches coupled to the switch control input and coupled to capacitors. The comparator has an input coupled to the output of the switched capacitor circuit and has an output. The control circuit has a switch control output coupled to the switch control input, has an input coupled to the output of the comparator, and provides switch control signals at the switch control output. Responsive to the switch control signals, the switched capacitor circuit provides an output signal to the comparator that is based on a sample of an analog input signal acquired in a sample acquisition cycle and based on a digital sample value output by the ADC prior to the sample acquisition cycle.
US11888490B2
The disclosure provides a delay estimation device and a delay estimation method. The delay estimation device includes a pulse generator, a digitally controlled delay line (DCDL), a time-to-digital converter (TDC), and a control circuit. The pulse generator receives a reference clock signal, outputs a first clock signal in response to a first rising edge of the reference clock signal, and outputs a second clock signal in response to a second rising edge of the reference clock signal. The DCDL receives the first clock signal from the pulse generator and converts the first clock signal into phase signals based on a combination of delay line codes. The TDC samples the phase signals to generate a timing code based on the second clock signal. The control circuit estimates a specific delay between the first clock signal and the second clock signal based on the timing code.
US11888481B2
An apparatus is disclosed that includes a duty cycle controller. The duty cycle controller includes a tuning circuit comprising a first field-effect transistor. The first field-effect transistor is configured to implement a capacitor. The duty cycle controller further includes an edge delay circuit. The edge delay circuit includes a second field-effect transistor that, when activated by an input clock signal of the duty cycle controller, is configured to connect a voltage source to an output clock signal of the duty cycle controller. The edge delay circuit further includes a third field-effect transistor that, when activated, is configured to connect the first field-effect transistor of the tuning circuit to the output clock signal.
US11888477B2
An example apparatus includes: an output terminal, pull-down circuitry coupled to the output terminal, the pull-down circuitry including: a resistor with a first resistor terminal and a second resistor terminal, the first resistor terminal coupled to the output terminal, a capacitor with a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal, the first capacitor terminal coupled to the output terminal, a first transistor coupled to the second resistor terminal, a second transistor coupled to the first transistor and the second resistor terminal, and a third transistor coupled to the second transistor.
US11888476B2
An apparatus, a memory device, and a method for storing parameter codes with respect to asymmetric on-die-termination (ODT) are provided. The apparatus is connected to an external device via a signal line, and includes: an on-die termination (ODT) circuit set in a first ODT state; a plurality of signal pins, each of which is connected to the signal line; and an ODT control circuit configured to: identify whether a second ODT state of the external device corresponds to the first ODT state, and based on the apparatus being an asymmetric ODT in which the first ODT state and the second ODT state are different, provide an asymmetric ODT parameter code to the external device, and disable the ODT circuit when a signal is not transmitted through the signal line.
US11888458B2
A filter includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a ground terminal, a first capacitor and a second capacitor that are connected in series between the input terminal and the output terminal, a capacitive element that is connected in parallel to the first capacitor and the second capacitor between the input terminal and the output terminal, and has a Q factor that is smaller than a Q factor of the first capacitor and is smaller than a Q factor of the second capacitor, and an inductor that has a first end and a second end, the first end being coupled to a node that is provided between the first capacitor and the second capacitor and that is coupled to the capacitive element through the first capacitor and the second capacitor, the second end being coupled to the ground terminal.
US11888454B2
A blocking signal cancellation low noise amplifier system includes a first low noise amplifier, a second low noise amplifier, a blocking signal extraction and bias generation circuit, a bias switching circuit, and a bias switching signal generating circuit. The first low noise amplifier is used for dynamic input matching, and the first low noise amplifier receives an input signal and outputs it after amplifying. The blocking signal extraction and bias generation circuit is used to extract a blocking signal from the output signal of the first low noise amplifier, and output a DC voltage signal. The bias switching circuit is used to switch the first low noise amplifier between a blocking mode and a small signal mode. The bias switching signal generating circuit is used to compare the DC bias voltage signal VB2 with a preset reference voltage signal Vref.
US11888441B2
A method for calculating a real-time effective temperature of a solar photovoltaic module at any operating time during power generation period between a daily wake-up time and sleep time of said solar photovoltaic module is provided. The method is based on, in part, measuring the solar photovoltaic module open-circuit voltage at said daily wake-up time and measuring the solar photovoltaic module open-circuit voltage at said operating time.
US11888435B2
A system and method for array level terrain based backtracking includes a tracker configured to collect solar irradiance and attached to a rotational mechanism for changing a plane of the tracker and a controller in communication with a rotational mechanism. The controller is programmed to determine a position of the sun at a first specific point in time, retrieve height information, execute a shadow model based on the retrieved height information and the position of the sun, determine a first angle for the tracker; collect an angle for each tracker in a plurality of trackers in an array; adjust the first angle based on executing the shadow model with the first angle and the plurality of angles associated with the plurality of trackers; transmit instructions to the rotational mechanism to change the plane of the tracker to the adjusted first angle.
US11888432B1
A method implemented in a power grid including a DFIG wind turbine is provided. The method includes: assuming the DFIG wind turbine to be operated in a MPPT mode; generating a simplified transient model of the DFIG wind turbine, the simplified transient model including an equivalent circuit model, and an equivalent rotor motion model in a nonlinear form; linearizing the equivalent rotor motion model in the nonlinear form to be an equivalent rotor motion model in a linear form with respect to a steady-state operating point of the DFIG wind turbine; and determining a first contribution and a second contribution of the DFIG wind turbines to a post-disturbance frequency of the power grid, in a center of inertia (COI) frequency frame and in a frequency spatial variation frame, respectively, by incorporating the simplified transient model of the DFIG wind turbine into a frequency dynamics analysis.
US11888419B2
A unified open-circuit fault-tolerant control method for a vector control (VC) drive system and a direct torque control (DTC) drive system of a five-phase permanent magnet fault-tolerant motor are provided. The control method adopts a unified open-circuit fault-tolerant control strategy. The unified open-circuit fault-tolerant control strategy includes: obtaining a predetermined torque, obtaining predetermined direct-axis and quadrature-axis voltages, analyzing a fault-tolerant mechanism to obtain fault-tolerant currents, obtaining winding phase voltages in a fault mode based on the fault-tolerant mechanism, and obtaining fault-tolerant voltages based on a back-electromagnetic force (EMF). The unified open-circuit fault-tolerant control strategy suitable for the VC drive system and the DTC drive system is proposed based on chaotic pulse width modulation (CPWM). The control method essentially reveals the fault-tolerant mechanism, and solves the problem of variable and complicated fault-tolerant control schemes corresponding to various basic control algorithms.
US11888408B2
A negative-side bus bar 41 includes a capacitor connection portion and first and second negative terminal portions 271 exposed from a resin portion 44 and connected to a DC negative-side terminals 103 of first and second power semiconductor modules 30. A partition portion 252b of a case 252 is provided with a protruding portion 281 that protrudes toward a mold bus bar 40 further than an upper surface 257 of the first and second power semiconductor modules 30 and is thermally coupled to the mold bus bar 40. The projecting portion 281 is disposed between a root portion 275 of an exposed portion where the first negative electrode terminal portion 271 is exposed from the resin portion 44 and a second root portion 275 of an exposed portion where the second negative electrode terminal portion 271 is exposed from the resin portion 44. In this manner, a spatial distance and a creepage distance between the exposed portion from the resin portion of the mold bus bar and the power semiconductor module are made large and the temperature rise of a capacitor is suppressed.
US11888402B2
A control system for use in a power converter having a plurality of outputs comprising a primary switching control block, a secondary control block, and a multi-output control block. The primary switching control block is coupled to control switching of a primary switch. The secondary control block is coupled to control switching of a synchronous rectifier switch. The multi-output control block is coupled to control switching of at least one pulse transfer switch coupled to one of the plurality of outputs. A request for an energy pulse is transferred to the primary switching control block to turn ON the primary switch to transfer the energy pulse to one of the plurality of outputs. The multi-output control block comprises an interface to send the request for the energy pulse and to receive an acknowledge signal to and from the secondary control block.
US11888397B2
A DC-DC switching converter includes power switches selectively coupling an output terminal with a first voltage or with a second voltage. A driver stage is coupled with the power switches for driving the power switches. A driver control stage is coupled with the driver stage for controlling the operation of the driver stage. An output current sensing circuit is coupled with the output terminal and with the driver control stage, and is configured to sense a sign of an output current delivered by the DC-DC switching converter at the output terminal and to generate control signals for the driver control stage. The driver control stage controls the operation of the driver stage according to states of the control signals received from the output current sensing circuit, for selectively delaying the activation of the power switches depending on the sensed sign of the output current.
US11888388B2
To provide a high-voltage apparatus control device capable of judging the connection state of a connector and discharging residual charge in a short time. A control device 1 controls an electric compressor and is provided with an interlock loop 4 annexed to a connector 9 for connecting the electric compressor to an HV battery 17. The control device 1 detects connection/disconnection of the connector 9 on the basis of the state of the interlock loop 4 and forcibly discharges residual charge in an internal smoothing capacitor 14 when disconnection of the connector 9 is detected.
US11888386B2
A power conversion device includes a power conversion controller that generates gate signals for controlling operation of a three-phase three-level inverter and of three single-phase inverters, based on sinusoidal phase voltage commands. In the power conversion controller, the sinusoidal phase voltage commands are divided into three-phase instantaneous voltage commands to be indicated to the three-phase three-level inverter, and mean voltage commands to be indicated to the respective three single-phase inverters. When the sum of the three-phase instantaneous voltage commands is a positive value, a common voltage component is superimposed on each of the three mean voltage commands to make the sum of the three mean voltage commands a non-positive value, and when the sum of the three-phase instantaneous voltage commands is a negative value, the common voltage component is superimposed on each of the three mean voltage commands, making the sum of the three mean voltage commands non-negative.
US11888381B2
An electric machine comprising a rotor, a stator, and a fluid-based brake arrangement for said rotor, said fluid-based brake arrangement having a fluid circuit for transporting a brake fluid, said fluid circuit comprising a fluid channel arrangement having at least one radial fluid channel segment extending radially through a part of said rotor so as to allow for directing brake fluid from an inner radial rotor side to an outer radial rotor side, whereby, during rotation of said rotor about an axial centre axis, acceleration of brake fluid in said at least one radial fluid channel segment causes a reaction force exerting a braking torque on the rotor.
US11888378B1
An electrical connector for a reduction drive assembly includes a connector body and a plurality of pins disposed within the connector body. The plurality of pins include one or more motor pins to conduct power to an electric motor, one or more brake pins to conduct power to an electric brake coil, and one or more sensor pins electrically connected to a sensor board for control of the electric motor.
US11888376B2
A rotary electric machine unit including a rotary electric machine, and an electric power conversion device having a plurality of power modules. The rotary electric machine includes a stator, a rotor, and a housing. The housing includes a housing flow path through which a refrigerant flows. The power modules of the electric power conversion device and the rotary electric machine are configured to be cooled by the refrigerant.
US11888366B2
The disclosure relates to an electric induction machine in which a chamfer region is provided between each respective rotor groove and rotor bar at a position corresponding to a radially outer internal corner region of the rotor groove. Suitably, the chamfer region has a relative magnetic permeability less than that of the rotor frame, and an electrical resistivity higher than that of the rotor bar. Moreover, a minimum diameter of the chamfer region is suitably larger than a manufacturing-tolerances derived maximum clearance between the respective rotor groove and robot bar, if any.
US11888365B2
The conductor bar for a squirrel-cage rotor comprises at least one end which is partially slit such that a section of the end forms two symmetrical branches relative to the slit. The centre of gravity of each branch is arranged such that the branches flare towards the outside of the bar under the effect of centrifugal force when the rotor is rotated.
US11888338B2
Exemplary embodiments may include a device with an input power component, a system supply component, an inductive charger component operatively coupled to the input component and the system component, and a direct charger component operatively coupled to the inductive charger and the system component. Exemplary embodiments may further include an input node of the inductive charger component and an input node of the direct charger component operatively coupled to an output node of the input power component at a first device node. Exemplary embodiments may also include a method of receiving an input power signal, obtaining a charging condition, entering a first charging state, in accordance with the obtained charging condition satisfying a first charging condition, and entering a second charging state, in accordance with the obtained charging condition satisfying a second charging condition.
US11888326B2
A contactless power supply device that supplies electric power to a vehicle in a contactless manner, includes: a power transmission resonance circuit; a power source circuit supplying direct-current power; and a power transmission circuit converting the direct-current power of the power source circuit into alternating-current power and supplying alternating-current power to the power transmission resonance circuit. The power transmission circuit includes: an inverter circuit converting the direct-current power of the power source circuit into alternating-current power; and a power transmission-side immittance conversion circuit adjusting the alternating-current power of the inverter circuit and supplies the adjusted alternating-current power to the power transmission resonance circuit. The ratio of a characteristic impedance of the power transmission-side immittance conversion circuit to an impedance backward on the power transmission resonance circuit side from the power transmission-side immittance conversion circuit is adjusted such that harmonic components in the alternating-current power of the inverter circuit becomes lessened.
US11888323B1
A method for primary frequency regulation (PFR)reserve procurement of a renewable energy power system is provided. The renewable energy power system includes synchronous power sources and renewable energy sources, and the renewable energy sources participate in frequency regulation using virtual synchronous machine (VSM) control. The method includes: aggregating generators in the synchronous power sources and renewable energy sources into an equivalent unit having an equivalent governor; based on the equivalent unit, determining system frequency dynamics of the renewable energy power system in a s-domain; transforming the s-domain to a time-domain equation for the system frequency dynamics in both over-damped and under-damped states; according to a first-order optimality condition of the time-domain equation, determining a time domain expression of frequency extremum; stabilizing system frequency of the renewable energy power system by adding a hyperplane based frequency stability constraint; and determining the PFR reserve procurement of the renewable energy power system.
US11888321B2
Power conversion apparatus and method for controlling output impedance of power conversion apparatus
A power conversion apparatus and a method for controlling an output impedance of a power conversion apparatus are provided to resolve a prior-art problem of relatively low accuracy of a method for determining a working status of a power conversion apparatus. The method includes: adjusting the output impedance of the power conversion apparatus to a first impedance when the power conversion apparatus does not satisfy a start condition; or adjusting the output impedance of the power conversion apparatus to a second impedance when the power conversion apparatus satisfies a start condition, where the first impedance is not equal to the second impedance.
US11888318B2
Sensing circuitry and clock management circuitry provide transient load management. The sensing circuitry detects a voltage, current, and/or activity associated with a system-on-chip (SoC) and determines whether the detected voltage, current, and/or activity meets a threshold. The clock management circuitry generates clocking signals for the SoC and alters a frequency of the generated clocking signals in response to the detected voltage, current, and/or activity meeting the threshold to alter an amount of power consumed by the SoC.
US11888317B2
A method of Demand Side Management is intended to manage the increasingly chaotic nature of the power grid, and is designed to adapt to the future impact to the grid patterns caused by the ongoing introduction of renewable power generation sources, battery charging associated with the increasing number of electric vehicles, and future unforeseen developments, by utilizing Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques. SPC monitors the quality of the grid by treating the grid as if the grid was a process with varying levels of quality, to which the method can detect, anticipate and respond by making immediate and adaptive future scheduling decisions for the control of device loads, or generation, for the benefit of consumers as well as power companies.
US11888307B2
Isolation circuit system and a signal isolation method thereof. The system includes: a power management unit, configured to output a first signal to a digital logic circuit when power down is detected in a first circuit area, and output a second signal to the digital logic circuit when no power down is detected in the first circuit area; the digital logic circuit, configured to perform logical processing on the first signal received from the power management unit before outputting an isolation signal to the isolation circuit, and perform logical processing on the second signal received from the power management unit before outputting a connection signal to the isolation circuit; and the isolation circuit, configured to block the interactive signal, or to output the interactive signal to a second circuit area after the interactive signal is processed through voltage stabilization.
US11888304B2
An integrated circuit with a hot-plug protection circuit includes input pins and an output pin. The input pins are electrically coupled to a common node in the hot-plug protection circuit via respective electrical connections. The integrated circuit includes clamping circuitry coupled between the common node and the output pin, the clamping circuitry activatable as a result of a voltage spike applied across the clamping circuitry. The plurality of electrical connections and the clamping circuitry provide respective current discharge paths between the input pins in the input pins and the output pin, the respective current discharge paths configured to become conductive as a result of a voltage spike applied to any of the input pins in the plurality of input pins being transferred to the common node via the respective electrical connection in the plurality of electrical connections electrically coupling said any of said input pins to the common node.
US11888297B2
A conductor shielding termination assembly can include a housing tube defining an inner diameter housing channel therethrough and having housing threads on an outer diameter thereof. The housing tube can be made of conductive material. The assembly can include a shoulder bushing configured to insert within the inner diameter housing channel of the housing tube. The shoulder bushing can define an inner diameter bushing channel sized to receive an unshielded portion of a conductor. The assembly can include a jam nut comprising a nut inner diameter channel sized to receive a shielded portion of the conductor and nut threads on an inner diameter thereof configured to mesh with the housing threads. The jam nut and housing tube can be configured to trap a shielding termination within the meshed housing threads and jam nut threads.
US11888295B2
A gas insulated apparatus includes: a grounded metal tank in which an insulating gas is enclosed; a conductor disposed in the tank, voltage being applied to the conductor; and a non-linear resistance layer disposed on at least part of an inner surface of the tank and made from an insulating material containing a particle of a non-linear resistance material, the non-linear resistance material being conductive when voltage higher than or equal to a threshold is applied. The non-linear resistance layer has a thickness that is larger than a sum of a thickness of a conductive portion and a particle diameter of the non-linear resistance material, the conductive portion being a portion of the non-linear resistance layer that is conductive when voltage higher than or equal to the threshold is applied to a metal foreign object on the non-linear resistance layer.
US11888291B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for stronger and more powerful high speed laser arrays. For example, an apparatus is disclosed that comprises an active mesa structure in combination with an electrical waveguide, wherein the active mesa structure comprises a plurality of laser regions within the active mesa structure itself, each laser region of the active mesa structure being electrically isolated within the active mesa structure itself relative to the other laser regions of the active mesa structure.
US11888289B2
One embodiment may provide a light source module including: a light source part including at least one vertical cavity surface-emitting laser, which is configured to transfer light through N (N being a natural number equal to or greater than 1) apertures; at least one collimator lens through which light emitted from the light source part passes; and a driving device configured to make the collimator lens move, wherein the at least one vertical cavity surface-emitting laser comprises divided regions, and an intensity of a beam is controlled according to a predetermined far-distance mode or near-distance mode.
US11888286B2
A laser chip for flip-chip bonding on a silicon photonics chip with passive alignment features. The laser chip includes a chip body made of a p-region and a n-region in vertical direction and extended from a front facet to a rear facet in longitudinal direction, a pair of first vertical stoppers formed respectively beyond two sides of the chip body based on a wider width of the n-region, an active region buried in the chip body between the p-region and the n-region in the vertical direction and extended from the front facet to the rear facet in the longitudinal direction, an alignment mark formed on a top surface of the p-region near the front facet with a lateral distance defined in sub-micron precision relative to the active region; and a thin metal film on the surface of the p-region having a cleaved edge shared with the front facet.
US11888282B2
A laser driving device and a method for enabling a uniform light field, wherein the laser driving device is a high-power laser driving device that enables a uniform light field on the basis of a narrow-band low-spatial-coherence light and is provided for laser fusion. The narrow-band low-spatial-coherence light is configured as a seed of the laser driving device, an amplification and transmission unit amplifies the seed, a frequency conversion unit converts a frequency of the laser, and a focusing component is configured for laser focusing and uniform illumination.
US11888278B2
A support core system for deploying a cold shrink rubber over a cable splice connection in an electrical distribution system. The support core system includes a first solid core, a second solid core, and a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film. The first solid core is configured to fit over a cable in the electrical distribution system and hold a first portion of the cold shrink rubber in an expanded state. The cable includes the cable splice connection. The second solid core is configured to fit over the cable and hold a second portion of the cold shrink rubber in an expanded state. The PET film is positioned between the cold shrink rubber and each of the first solid core and the second solid core.
US11888274B2
An electrical connection device is enabled to be linked materially and electrically to an external support that has an electric potential difference, and at the same time enabled to be linked materially and electrically to an external electrically operated device, and therefore for transmitting electric potential between the external support and the external device, which includes a base that incorporates a spring and a shaft enabled for receiving and transmitting the electric potential difference from the external support and is arranged and enabled on the same base in order to make electrical contact with the support of a compressive force on the spring.
US11888269B2
A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage having cage walls defining first, second, and third module channels in a stacked arrangement. The cage walls include a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, a first separator panel, and a second separator panel. The first and second side wall extend along opposite sides of the first, second and third module channels. The first separator panel is located between the first and second module channels. The second separator panel is located between the second and third module channels. The receptacle connector assembly includes a first receptacle module in the first module channel for mating with a first plug module, a second receptacle module in the second module channel for mating with a second plug module, and a third receptacle module in the third module channel for mating with a third plug module.
US11888268B2
A multi-pole connector set for suppressing electromagnetic wave interference between inner terminals disposed in the same rows. The multi-pole connector set includes a first connector and a second connector mating with each other. The first connector includes first inner terminals arrayed in a plurality of rows, a first insulating member, and a first shield member located between the rows of the first inner terminals. The second connector includes second inner terminals arrayed in a plurality of rows and a second insulating member. The multi-pole connector set further includes connection parts that connect the first shield member and the second inner terminals to each other.
US11888263B2
The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of wire termination contacts for terminating wires to the jack. The jack further includes a circuit board that electrically connects the contact springs to the wire termination contacts. The circuit board includes a multi-zone crosstalk compensation arrangement for reducing crosstalk at the jack.
US11888255B2
A communications connector has a main housing with a front opening and first, second, and third rear openings. The connector also has first, second, and third contacts, the first contact extends from the first rear opening of the main housing to the front opening of the main housing. The second contact extends from the second rear opening of the main housing to the front opening of the main housing. The third contact extends from the third rear opening of the main housing to a shield surrounding a front portion of the main housing.
US11888253B2
A connector with increased durability is provided. A connector includes a mount electrically connected to a battery management unit configured to manage voltages of a plurality of battery cells; a first clip terminal and a second clip terminal configured to be elastically deformable and configure to contact a counterpart connection terminal; and a terminal housing including a side wall configured to electrically insulate the first clip terminal and the second clip terminal from an outside, wherein each of the first clip terminal and the second clip terminal includes a connection portion having a part configured to contact the counterpart connection terminal inserted between the first clip terminal and the second clip terminal; and a support portion extending from the connection portion and configured to be supported by the sidewall of the terminal housing.
US11888252B2
A current transmission assembly and a current transmission system are provided. The current transmission system includes the current transmission assembly and a circuit board structure. The current transmission assembly includes a pluggable component, at least one conductor component, and at least one electrically connecting component. The pluggable component includes a housing, two sets of electrically conductive arms, and two connecting members. Each of the two sets of electrically conductive arms is disposed inside the housing. Each of the conductor components includes an electrical insulator and a wire main body. The electrical insulator encircles the wire main body, so that a first terminal and a second terminal are exposed from the wire main body, and the first terminal is connected to one of the two connecting members. Each of the electrically connecting components includes a connecting portion, to which the second terminal of the wire main body is fixed.
US11888250B2
A terminal-equipped wire is provided with a wire including a conductor, a terminal to be connected to the conductor, and a shell to be mounted on the terminal. The terminal includes a grip portion for sandwiching the conductor. The shell includes a pressing portion for pressing at least a part of the grip portion toward the conductor. The grip portion has a Sn—Ni alloy layer. The Sn—Ni alloy layer includes locally projecting protrusions. The protrusions bite into the conductor.
US11888238B2
Embodiments of a circuit, system, and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a circuit includes first and second microstrip transmission lines. The first and second microstrip transmission lines include linearly arranged conductive strips on the circuit and a slotline formation extends between the first microstrip transmission line and the second microstrip transmission line so that the slotline formation is configured to electromagnetically couple the first microstrip transmission line to the second microstrip transmission line during operation of the circuit. In addition, the circuit includes at least one controllable capacitance circuit electrically connected to at least one of the first microstrip transmission line and the second microstrip transmission line, where a magnitude of a capacitance value of the at least one controllable capacitance circuit (e.g., including a barium strontium titanate (BST) capacitor) is controllable (e.g., in response to a capacitance control signal received at a control interface).
US11888227B2
An antenna device is supported by a supporting member. The antenna device includes a dielectric substrate and a patch antenna. The patch antenna comprises a radiating element and a ground conductor that are provided to the dielectric substrate. The linear conductor fixes a relative position between the antenna device and the supporting member in a direction orthogonal to a normal direction of the dielectric substrate. At least a part of the linear conductor is electromagnetically coupled with the patch antenna to act as a linear antenna.
US11888219B2
An antenna is configured to be soldered on a circuit board. The antenna comprises a main portion, at least one soldering terminal and at least one fixed portion. The main portion has a height in a vertical direction. The main portion is, at least in part, positioned below the soldering terminal in the vertical direction when the soldering terminal is soldered on the circuit board. The soldering terminal extends from the main portion along a horizontal plane perpendicular to the vertical direction. When the soldering terminal is soldered on the circuit board, the fixed portion is fixed on the circuit board at a location different from a location of the soldering terminal.
US11888215B2
An antenna system for a mobile communications base station and a method of operating a communications network including a base station is described. The antenna system includes an antenna array for beamforming and is configured either as a radar sensor, a communications antenna or a combined radar sensor. A radar image may be used to determine a map of objects in the vicinity of the antenna system and to adapt the beam-steering or beamforming of the antenna system.
US11888212B2
An antenna module includes a first antenna unit including at least one first patch antenna pattern, at least one first feed via, and at least one first dielectric layer, a second antenna unit including at least one second patch antenna pattern, at least one second feed via, and at least one second dielectric layer, a first connection portion, a first rigid substrate electrically connecting the first connection portion to the first antenna unit and having a first surface on which the first antenna unit is disposed, a base connection portion, a flexible substrate having a first surface on which the first connection portion is disposed and a second surface on which the base connection portion is disposed, and an IC electrically connected to the flexible substrate through the second surface of the flexible substrate or the first rigid substrate.
US11888211B2
A communication assembly includes a housing, a communication device, an extendable mast, and a control circuit. The housing is configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The communication device includes an antenna and is disposed at least partially within the housing. The extendable mast is mechanically coupled to the housing and supports the antenna. The control circuit is operably coupled to the mast and is configured to generate a signal to raise the mast from a first position of a distal end of the mast to a second position of the distal end in response to determining occurrence of a designated raise event. The antenna extends a greater distance from the housing in the second position of the mast than in the first position.
US11888206B2
A antenna module includes a telematics unit having a telematics printed circuit board and a Peltier element. The telematics printed circuit board has a first section and a second section. The first section is cooled by a forced airflow and the second section is cooled by the Peltier element.
US11888203B2
A filter device having desired characteristics is easily designed. The filter device includes a post-wall waveguide functioning as a resonator group including five congruent resonators (R1 to R5). The resonators (R1, R2) include therein respective control posts (CP1, CP2), and a shortest distance (di) from the control post (CPi) to a narrow wall of the resonator (Ri) satisfies d1>d2. The resonators (R4, R5) include therein respective control posts (CP4, CP5), and a shortest distance (dj) from the control post (CPj) to a narrow wall of the resonator (Rj) satisfies d4
US11888200B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for treating wastewater and generating electricity. The system includes layers of sediment containing microorganisms for treating the wastewater. The system includes layers of granular activated carbon or granular activated carbon with graphene oxide or sand with graphene oxide disposed on top of the sediment layers for enhancing electron transfer, current generation rate, and wastewater treatment. The system also includes one or more anodes and one or more cathodes located on top of the layers of granular activated carbon or granular activated carbon with graphene oxide or sand with graphene oxide. The one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes are configured to generate electrical voltage. The system also includes a battery connected to the one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes and configured to store the electrical voltage generated by the one or more anodes and the one or more cathodes.
US11888192B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack made by stacking a plurality of cells and configured to generate power by being supplied with fuel gas and oxidation gas, a high-voltage battery configured to supplement the power generated by the fuel cell stack while being charged with the power generated by the fuel cell stack or being discharged, a converter provided between the fuel cell stack and the high-voltage battery and configured to change an output voltage or an output current of the fuel cell stack, a power control unit configured to control the fuel cell stack to generate power when the fuel cell stack is requested to be diagnosed, the power control unit being configured to adjust the output current of the fuel cell stack to a predetermined current, and a voltage sensing unit configured to sense a voltage of the fuel cell stack or voltages of the plurality of cells included in the fuel cell stack in the state in which the output current of the fuel cell stack is the predetermined current.
US11888186B2
A bipolar plate assembly includes a first frame member, a second frame member, and a membrane electrode assembly. The first frame member has a first side and a second side. The first side has a first side protuberance. The second frame member includes a first side and a second side. The second side has a second side recess. The membrane electrode assembly has an anode plate and a cathode plate. A portion of the membrane electrode assembly is disposed between the first frame member and the second frame member. The portion of the membrane electrode assembly has a juxtaposition of the anode plate and the cathode plate. The first side protuberance of the first frame member deforms the portion of the membrane electrode assembly into the second side recess of the second frame member.
US11888182B2
A secondary cell is disclosed, comprising a first end plate and a second end plate. The first end plate comprises a contacting tab configured to provide an electrical contact between a first electrode of an electrode assembly and a first terminal, as well as a first spacer arrangement arranged between the first end plate and the electrode assembly and configured to secure the electrode assembly in a length direction. The second end plate comprises a current collector and a second spacer arrangement, wherein the second spacer arrangement is arranged to secure the electrode assembly in the length direction and the current collector to secure the electrode assembly in a direction orthogonal to the length direction. A method for assembling such a cell is also disclosed.
US11888177B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a battery, a power consumption device, and a method and device for producing a battery. The battery includes: a battery cell, the battery cell including a pressure relief mechanism configured to be actuated when an internal pressure or temperature of the battery cell reaches a threshold, to relieve the internal pressure; a fire-fighting pipeline configured to accommodate a fire-fighting medium and discharge the fire-fighting medium toward the battery cell when the pressure relief mechanism is actuated; and an accommodating part configured to accommodate the fire-fighting medium discharged from the fire-fighting pipeline to lower a temperature of the battery cell. According to technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the safety of the battery could be enhanced.
US11888174B2
The present disclosure relates to a contactor box (201) for an electrical energy storage system (200) of an at least partly electrical vehicle (100). The contactor box (201) comprises a first ingoing high voltage connection (203a) adapted to be connected to a second ingoing high voltage connection (203b) of a battery (210). The contactor box (201) comprises a first outgoing high voltage connection (205a) adapted to be connected to a second outgoing high voltage connection (205b) of the battery (210). The first ingoing and the first outgoing high voltage connections (203a, 205a) are adapted to be disengaged from the battery (210) when the contactor box (201) is removed from the vehicle (100), and adapted to be engaged with the battery (210) when the contactor box (201) is inserted into the vehicle (100).
US11888168B2
Discussed are a battery module and a method of manufacturing the battery module. The battery module includes a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked; a first frame having a bottom surface and opposite side surfaces respectively covering a lower side surface and opposite side surfaces of the battery cell stack; and a second frame having an upper surface and front and rear surfaces respectively covering an upper side surface and front and rear surfaces of the battery cell stack, wherein the upper surface of the second frame and the front and rear surfaces of the second frame are integrally formed.
US11888162B2
High energy density and long cycle life all solid-state electrolyte lithium-ion batteries use ceramic-polymer composite anodes which include a polymer matrix with ceramic nanoparticles, silicon-based anode active materials, conducting agents, lithium salts and plasticizer distributed in the matrix. The silicon-based anode active material are anode active particles formed by high energy milling a mixture of silicon, graphite, and metallic and/or non-metallic oxides. A polymer coating is applied to the particles. The networking structure of the electrolyte establishes an effective lithium-ion transport pathway in the electrode and strengthens the contact between the electrode layer and solid-state electrolyte resulting in higher lithium-ion battery cell cycling stability and long battery life.
US11888160B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided an electrode including active material particles, polymer fibers and inorganic solid particles. The polymer fibers have an average fiber diameter of 1 nm to 100 nm.
US11888153B2
A positive electrode active material, a positive electrode including the same, and a lithium secondary batter including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the positive electrode active material includes a lithium transition metal oxide, and a coating layer formed on a surface of the lithium transition metal oxide particle, wherein the coating layer is formed in a film form, and the coating layer includes a carbonized coating polymer and carbide.
US11888147B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery (10) in an example embodiment includes a positive electrode (11) having a lithium metal composite oxide, and a negative electrode (12) having graphite. The lithium metal composite oxide includes first composite oxide particles which are secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles having an average particle size of 50 nm to 5 μm, and second composite oxide particles which are non-aggregated particles having an average particle size of 2 μm to 20 μm. The positive electrode (11) has lower initial charge/discharge efficiency than the initial charge/discharge efficiency of the negative electrode (12).
US11888142B2
A powder application apparatus includes a transport device, a powder supplier, a squeegee, and an ultra-high frequency vibration generator. The transport device is configured to move a sheet in a predetermined direction. The powder supplier is configured to supply powder on a surface of the sheet. The squeegee is positioned at a distance from the sheet, and the powder supplier is configured to adjust a thickness of the powder supplied onto the surface of the sheet. The ultra-high frequency vibration generator is configured to vibrate the squeegee at a frequency of 2 kHz or more and 300 kHz or less.
US11888139B2
A temperature adjustment circuit includes a first temperature adjustment circuit and a second temperature adjustment circuit in which a switching part that is configured to switch between a circulation state where a heat-transfer medium is circulated through a connection circuit in which the first temperature adjustment circuit and the second temperature adjustment circuit are connected to each other and a non-circulation state where the heat-transfer medium is not circulated through the connection circuit.
US11888138B2
The invention relates to a modular assembly for the circulation of a heat transfer fluid of a motor vehicle battery housed in a casing (1) with a floor having channels receiving said fluid, characterised in that the casing (1) comprises: —a module (3) for inlet and outlet of said fluid via a base module (4), the latter comprising channels facing and sealingly abutting the ends of the channels of said floor, said base modules (4) being attached on the floor, —a plurality of base modules (4) distributed along each of the two faces of the floor and facing with a sealing abutment on the ends of the channels of the floor, and —a plurality of bridges (5) fluidically connecting two adjacent base modules (4) and two base modules (4) situated on the opposite side of the casing (1) so as to form a serpentine-shaped circuit.
US11888127B2
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors.
US11888108B2
An energy storage device can include a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the first electrode includes an electrochemically active material and a porous carbon material, and the second electrode includes elemental lithium metal and carbon particles. A method for fabricating an energy storage device can include forming a first electrode and a second electrode, and inserting a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, where forming the first electrode includes combining an electrochemically active material and a porous carbon material, and forming the second electrode includes combining elemental lithium metal and a plurality of carbon particles.
US11888101B2
A display panel is disclosed. The disclosed display panel includes a thin film transistor substrate, a plurality of micro LEDs arranged on one surface of the thin film transistor substrate, a plurality of first connection pads disposed on the one surface of the thin film transistor substrate, a plurality of second connection pads disposed on the other surface of the thin film transistor substrate that faces the one surface, and a plurality of connection wirings disposed on a side surface of the thin film transistor substrate for electrically connecting each of the plurality of first connection pads and the plurality of second connection pads, wherein at least one of an edge region on the one surface and an edge region on the other surface of the thin film transistor substrate includes a cutting area which is cut in an inward direction of the thin film transistor substrate.
US11888094B2
A flip-chip light emitting diode (LED) includes: a sapphire substrate having an edge; an epitaxial layer over the substrate, wherein the epitaxial layer comprises: a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, wherein the epitaxial layer is divided into an epitaxial bulk layer and a barrier structure; and an insulating layer over the epitaxial bulk layer, wherein a portion of the insulating layer that covers a sidewall of the epitaxial bulk layer is separated from the edge of the substrate by the barrier structure.
US11888083B2
In an embodiment an electronic semiconductor chip includes a growth substrate with a growth surface including a flat region having a plurality of three-dimensionally designed surface structures on the flat region, a nucleation layer composed of oxygen-containing AlN in direct contact with the growth surface at the flat region and the three-dimensionally designed surface structures and a nitride-based semiconductor layer sequence on the nucleation layer, wherein the semiconductor layer sequence overlays the three-dimensionally designed surface structures, and wherein the oxygen content in the nucleation layer is greater than 1019 cm−3.
US11888075B2
A plasmonic field-enhanced photodetector is disclosed. The photodetector absorbs surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) by using a light absorbing layer having a conduction band and a valence band in which an energy is split, the SPPs being generated by combining surface plasmons (SPs) with photons of a light wave, and generates photocurrent based on the absorbed SPPs.
US11888068B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a pillar of semiconductor material. The pillar has a base region, and bifurcates into two segments which extend upwardly from the base region. The two segments are horizontally spaced from one another by an intervening region. A conductive gate is within the intervening region. A first source/drain region is within the base region, a second source/drain region is within the segments, and a channel region is within the segments. The channel region is adjacent to the conductive gate and is vertically disposed between the first and second source/drain regions. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11888067B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to ferroelectric materials and semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor memory devices incorporating doped polar materials. In one aspect, a semiconductor device comprises a capacitor which in turn comprises a polar layer comprising a base polar material doped with a dopant. The base polar material includes one or more metal elements and one or both of oxygen or nitrogen. The dopant comprises a metal element that is different from the one or more metal elements and is present at a concentration such that a ferroelectric switching voltage of the capacitor is different from that of the capacitor having the base polar material without being doped with the dopant by more than about 100 mV. The capacitor stack additionally comprises first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer. The capacitor stack further comprises first and second barrier metal layers on respective ones of the first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer.
US11888066B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to ferroelectric materials and semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor memory devices incorporating doped polar materials. In one aspect, a semiconductor device comprises a capacitor which in turn comprises a polar layer comprising a base polar material doped with a dopant. The base polar material includes one or more metal elements and one or both of oxygen or nitrogen. The dopant comprises a metal element that is different from the one or more metal elements and is present at a concentration such that a ferroelectric switching voltage of the capacitor is different from that of the capacitor having the base polar material without being doped with the dopant by more than about 100 mV. The capacitor stack additionally comprises first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer. The capacitor stack further comprises first and second barrier metal layers on respective ones of the first and second crystalline conductive oxide electrodes on opposing sides of the polar layer.
US11888065B2
Provided are a thin film transistor army substrate and an electronic device including the same. The thin film transistor army substrate includes a first active layer disposed on a substrate, a first gate insulating film disposed on the first active layer, a first gate electrode disposed on the first gate insulating film to overlap a part of the first active layer, a first insulating film disposed on the first gate electrode, a second active layer disposed on the first insulating film to overlap the first active layer and the first gate electrode, a second gate insulating film disposed on the second active layer, and a second gate electrode disposed on the second gate insulating film to overlap a part of the second active layer. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode overlap each other, and thus it is possible to reduce an area occupied by transistors.
US11888062B2
Structures for an extended-drain metal-oxide-semiconductor device and methods of forming a structure for an extended-drain metal-oxide-semiconductor device. The structure includes a semiconductor substrate containing a first semiconductor material, a source region and a drain region in the semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode positioned in a lateral direction between the source region and the drain region, and a semiconductor layer positioned on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer contains a second semiconductor material that differs in composition from the first semiconductor material. The gate electrode includes a first section positioned in a vertical direction over the semiconductor layer and a second section positioned in the vertical direction over the semiconductor substrate.
US11888058B2
The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer which includes an active portion and a gate finger portion, an MIS transistor which is formed at the active portion and includes a gate trench as well as a source region, a channel region and a drain region sequentially along a side surface of the gate trench, a plurality of first gate finger trenches arranged by an extended portion of the gate trench at the gate finger portion, a gate electrode embedded each in the gate trench and the first gate finger trench, a second conductive-type first bottom-portion impurity region formed at least at a bottom portion of the first gate finger trench, a gate finger which crosses the plurality of first gate finger trenches and is electrically connected to the gate electrode, and a second conductive-type electric field relaxation region which is formed more deeply than the bottom portion of the first gate finger trench between the mutually adjacent first gate finger trenches.
US11888050B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a lateral bipolar transistor structure with inner and outer spacers, and related methods. A lateral bipolar transistor structure may have an emitter/collector (E/C) layer over an insulator. The E/C layer has a first doping type. A first base layer is on the insulator and adjacent the E/C layer. The first base layer has a second doping type opposite the first doping type. A second base layer is on the first base layer and having the second doping type. A dopant concentration of the second base layer is greater than a dopant concentration of the first base layer. An inner spacer is on the E/C layer and adjacent the second base layer. An outer spacer is on the E/C layer and adjacent the inner spacer.
