US11908188B2
Embodiments of this application disclose methods, systems, and devices for medical image analysis and medical video stream processing. In one aspect, a method comprises extracting video frames from a medical image video stream that includes at least two pathological-section-based video frames. The method also comprises identifying single-frame image features in the video frames, mapping the single-frame image features into single-frame diagnostic classification results, and performing a classification mapping based on a video stream feature sequence that comprises the single-frame image features. The classification mapping comprises performing a convolution operation on the video stream feature sequence through a preset convolutional layer, obtaining a convolution result in accordance with the convolution operation, and performing fully connected mapping on the convolution result through a preset fully connected layer. In accordance with the classification mapping, a target diagnostic classification result corresponding to the medical image video stream is determined.
US11908186B2
Systems and methods for optimizing asset maintenance protocols by predicting vegetation-driven outages are disclosed. An example method includes determining, by one or more processors, a failure probability for each asset in a set of assets within a designated area. The example method further includes defining, by the one or more processors, an asset risk for each asset in the set of assets based on the failure probability, and clustering, by the one or more processors, vegetation within the designated area to determine a predicted vegetation-driven outage. The example method further includes optimizing, by the one or more processors, a set of asset maintenance protocols corresponding to the set of assets based on the asset risk and the predicted vegetation-driven outage.
US11908184B2
Surveillance systems process video streams obtained by a surveillance device, such as a drone, to either obscure or highlight objects in a surveillance area based on tags associated with the objects. A method of providing obscurant data includes receiving image data including an image of a target and receiving a preference setting corresponding to the target. Obscurant data of at least a portion of the image data corresponding to the target are determined using the received preference setting. A method of providing surveillance image data includes capturing image data including an image of a target, querying a database to receive a preference setting corresponding to the target, determining the obscurant data of the portion of the image data, and selectively modifying the received image data according to the determined obscurant data to provide the surveillance image data.
US11908180B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a text prompt describing a scene; processing the text prompt using a text encoder neural network to generate a contextual embedding of the text prompt; and processing the contextual embedding using a sequence of generative neural networks to generate a final video depicting the scene.
US11908166B2
A vehicular imaging system includes a camera disposed behind a windshield of a vehicle and viewing through a portion of the windshield. Image data captured by the camera is provided to a control. The control receives, via a communication bus of the vehicle, at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) vehicle pitch information relating to pitch of the vehicle, (ii) vehicle yaw information relating to yaw of the vehicle and (iii) vehicle steering information relating to steering of the vehicle. The system automatically corrects for misalignment of the camera. Image data captured by the camera is processed at the control for a lane departure warning system of the vehicle and for at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) an automatic headlamp control system of the vehicle, (ii) a collision avoidance system of the vehicle and (iii) an adaptive front lighting system of the vehicle.
US11908163B2
Techniques for performing multi-sensor calibration on a vehicle are described. A method includes obtaining, from each of at least two sensors located on a vehicle, sensor data item of a road comprising a lane marker, extracting, from each sensor data item, a location information of the lane marker, and calculating extrinsic parameters of the at least two sensors based on determining a difference between the location information of the lane marker from each sensor data item and a previously stored location information of the lane marker.
US11908151B2
Systems and methods are provided for three-dimensional scanning and measurement by a device having a processor. The processor is configured to receive images of an object from at least. two angles; preprocess the images using morphological refinement; create a source point cloud based on the images; remove outliers from the source point cloud; globally register the source point cloud to generate a transformed source point cloud; compare the transformed source point cloud with a target point cloud to generate a stitched point cloud that thereby creates a stitched 3D model; measure the resulting stitched 3D model; and provide the resulting stitched 3D model for comparison to a digitized item to assess sizing of the 3D model to the item.
US11908147B1
A device for calibrating and monitoring the position displacement of a camera relative to a support. A device for calibrating and monitoring a laser wavelength shift and the laser position displacement relative to a support. A method for calibrating and monitoring the position displacement of a camera relative to a support. A method for calibrating and monitoring the laser wavelength shift and the laser position displacement relative to a support.
US11908133B2
A cell image segmentation method using scribble labels includes iteratively pre-training via an image segmentation network (U-Net) using a cell image and scribble labels indicating a cell region and a background region as training data, calculating an exponential moving average (EMA) of image segmentation prediction probabilities at a predetermined interval during the pre-training, self-training by assigning the cell region and the background region for which the EMA of image segmentation prediction probabilities is over a preset threshold to be a pseudo-label, and iteratively refining the image segmentation prediction probability based on a scribbled loss (Lsp) obtained through a result of the training and an unscribbled loss (Lup). Accordingly, it is possible to achieve cell image segmentation with high reliability using only scribble labels.
US11908125B2
Surgical kit inspection systems and methods are provided for inspecting surgical kits having parts of different types. The surgical kit inspection system comprises a vision unit including a first camera unit and a second camera unit to capture images of parts of a first type and a second type in each kit and to capture images of loose parts from each kit that are placed on a light surface. A robot supports the vision unit to move the first and second camera units relative to the parts in each surgical kit. One or more controllers obtain unique inspection instructions for each of the surgical kits to control inspection of each of the surgical kits and control movement of the robot and the vision unit accordingly to provide output indicating inspection results for each of the surgical kits.
US11908120B2
A fault detection method and system for tunnel dome lights based on an improved localization loss function. The method includes: constructing a dataset of tunnel dome light detection images; acquiring a you only look once (YOLO) v5s neural network based on the improved localization loss function; training the YOLO v5s neural network according to the dataset to obtain a trained YOLO v5s neural network; acquiring a to-be-detected tunnel dome light image; detecting, with the trained YOLO v5s neural network, the to-be-detected tunnel dome light image to obtain position coordinates of luminous dome lights; and determining, according to the position coordinates of the luminous dome lights, whether a fault occurs in the tunnel dome lights. The present disclosure can accurately localize the tunnel dome lights and label the positions, and can detect whether the tunnel dome lights work normally according to a relative positional relationship between the labeled dome lights.
US11908119B2
In an abnormality detection device for detecting whether there is an abnormality in either of an optical sensor and a camera that are used to detect objects around a vehicle, a correlation value calculation unit calculates a correlation value between at least one of a reflection intensity image that is detected by the optical sensor emitting light toward surroundings of the vehicle and then receiving reflected light of emitted light and a background light image that is detected by the optical sensor receiving light from the surroundings of the vehicle while the optical sensor is emitting no light, and a captured image of the surroundings from the camera. An abnormality determination unit is configured to, in response to the correlation value calculated by the correlation value calculation unit being out of a predefined range, determine that there is an abnormality in either of the optical sensor and the camera.
US11908113B2
An image processing method includes: (a) receiving a to-be-processed image; (b) obtaining a target brightness of the to-be-processed image; (c) creating a histogram curve of the to-be-processed image; (d) clipping the histogram curve according to a clipping value; (e) obtaining a mapping function of the clipped histogram curve; (f) obtaining a mapped image mapped according to the mapping function; (g) obtaining an average brightness of the mapped image; (h) obtaining a difference between the target brightness and the average brightness; and (i) if the difference is greater than a threshold, adjusting the clipping value and repeating steps (d) to (i) until the difference is less than the threshold. Thus, if the to-be-processed image does not reach the target brightness, the image processing device automatically repeats steps (c) to (i) until the to-be-processed image reaches the target brightness.
US11908111B2
Image analysis and processing may include a first sensor readout unit receiving first Bayer format image data corresponding to a first input image, a second sensor readout unit receiving second Bayer format image data corresponding to a second input image, a first Bayer-to-RGB unit obtaining first RGB format image data based on the first Bayer format image data, a second Bayer-to-RGB unit obtaining second RGB format image data based on the second Bayer format image data, a high dynamic range unit configured obtaining high dynamic range image data based on a combination of the first RGB format image data and the second RGB format image data, an RGB-to-YUV unit obtaining YUV format image data based on the high dynamic range image data, and a three-dimensional noise reduction unit obtaining processed image data based on the YUV format image data.
US11908105B2
An image inpainting method is performed at a computing device, the method including: displaying an original image, and determining a to-be-inpainted first original region and a second original region different from the first original region in the original image in accordance with a user input; identifying a target pixel and a target pixel block comprising the target pixel in the first original region; obtaining a target search region from the second original region according to the target pixel and the target pixel block comprising the target pixel, an area of the target search region being smaller than an area of the second original region; and searching the target search region for a reference pixel block matching the target pixel block and updating the original image by inpainting the target pixel block according to the reference pixel block, and displaying the updated image.
US11908101B2
A system for capturing, organizing, and storing handwritten notes includes a plurality of boundary markers. The boundary markers are configured to be positioned on a writing surface. The system also includes a tangible non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with instructions which, when run on a camera-equipped computing device, causes the camera-equipped computing device to execute processes. The processes include capturing an image of the writing surface with the markers thereon. The processes also include detecting the boundary markers in the captured image. Additionally, the processes include identifying a virtual boundary in the captured image based on the positions of the boundary markers. The processes then unwarp a portion of the captured image within the virtual boundary to produce an unwarped image.
US11908097B2
An information processing system, a program, and an information processing method that can improve convenience when operating a movable object within an application. An information processing system that provides an application that can be executed on an information processing terminal includes a detection unit that detects a three-dimensional motion of a finger of a user, and a motion control unit that controls a three-dimensional motion of a movable object within the application based on the three-dimensional motion of the finger of the user detected by the detection unit.
US11908086B2
In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for initializing members of a shared enhanced reality setting is described. In accordance with some embodiments, an exemplary process for forming a private sub-space and example features of the private sub-space is described.
US11908083B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a video that includes a depiction of a real-world object; generating a three-dimensional (3D) body mesh associated with the real-world object that tracks movement of the real-world object across frames of the video; obtaining an external mesh associated with an augmented reality element; automatically establishing a correspondence between the 3D body mesh associated with the real-world object and the external mesh; deforming the external mesh based on movement of the real-world object and the established correspondence with the 3D body mesh; and modifying the video to include a display of the augmented reality element based on the deformed external mesh.
US11908079B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for variable rate tessellation. A graphics processor may receive data for geometry processing of a plurality of patches in a draw call. The graphics processor may reduce a tessellation factor of each of the plurality of patches based on a property of each of the plurality of patches. The reduced tessellation factor may correspond to a TRF. The property may correspond to a shading rate or a number of visible pixels. The graphics processor may apply the TRF for each of the plurality of patches. The graphics processor may render each of the plurality of patches based on the applied TRF for each of the plurality of patches.
US11908075B2
Described are techniques for generating, updating, and using sensor-based navigational maps. An input map is generated based on sensor data captured by a first sensor of a first vehicle. The input map is filtered based on one or more criteria to generate a filtered map corresponding to a three-dimensional representation of a route traveled by the first vehicle. The filtering can be based on detecting features using sensor data captured by a second sensor of the first vehicle. The one or more criteria can include object classes, distance criteria, and/or other criteria relating to attributes of features in the sensor data captured by the first sensor and/or the sensor data captured by the second sensor. The filtered map can be stored for transmission to a second vehicle, for use in determining a location of the second vehicle while the second vehicle is traveling along the same route.
US11908071B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to reconstructing representations of bodies from images. An example method of the present disclosure includes inputting, into a machine-learned reconstruction model, input data descriptive of an image depicting a body; predicting, using a machine-learned marker prediction component of the reconstruction model, a set of surface marker locations on the body; and outputting, using a machine-learned marker poser component of the reconstruction model, an output representation of the body that corresponds to the set of surface marker locations. In the example method, one or more parameters of the reconstruction model were learned at least in part based on a consistency loss corresponding to a distance between relaxed-constraint representations generated from a prior set of surface marker locations predicted according to the one or more parameters and parametric representations generated from the prior set using kinematic constraints associated with the body.
US11908067B1
A method and a device for gigapixel-level light field intelligent reconstruction of a large-scale scene are provided. The method includes: obtaining a coarse three-dimensional geometric model based on a multi-view three-dimensional reconstruction system; constructing an implicit representation of the meta-deformed manifold on the coarse three-dimensional geometric model; and optimizing the implicit representation of the meta-deformed manifold to obtain the light field reconstruction in the form of free viewpoint rendering of the large-scale scene.
US11908062B2
A method for real-time shadow rendering using cached shadow maps and deferred shading by a video processor of a game console or the like includes, for at least each key frame of video output, determining a viewpoint for a current key frame based on user input, filtering a texel of a frame-specific shadow map based on a dynamic mask wherein the texel is filtered, for a shadowed light, from a static shadow map and a dynamic shadow map or from the static shadow map only, based on the dynamic mask value for the texel, and rendering the current key frame based on the frame-specific shadow map and a deferred-shadow rendering algorithm. The method enables efficient rendering of thousands of shadowed lights in large environments by consumer-grade game consoles.
US11908057B2
Systems and methods for image retargeting are provided. Image data may be acquired that includes motion capture data indicative of motion of a plurality of markers disposed on a surface of a first subject. Each of the markers may be associated with a respective location on the first subject. A plurality of blendshapes may be calculated for the motion capture data based on a configuration of the markers. An error function may be identified for the plurality of blendshapes, and it may be determined that the plurality of blendshapes can be used to retarget a second subject based on the error function. The plurality of blendshapes may then be applied to a second subject to generate a new animation.
US11908041B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and a method for performing operations comprising: receiving an image that includes a depiction of a real-world environment; processing the image to obtain data indicating presence of a real-world object in the real-world environment; receiving input that selects an AR experience comprising an AR object; determining that the real-world object detected in the real-world environment depicted in the image indicated in the obtained data corresponds to the AR object; applying a machine learning technique to the image to generate a new image that depicts the real-world environment without the real-world object; and applying the AR object to the new image to generate a modified new image that depicts the real-world environment including the AR object in place of the real-world object.
US11908040B2
An image processing method and a computer system. The method may be applied to a cloud-side server in a cloud mobile phone. The server may be a virtualization server, a host operating system and a guest operating system are deployed on the server, a user mode graphics driver is deployed in the guest operating system, and a kernel mode graphics driver is deployed in the host operating system. The user mode graphics driver and the kernel mode graphics driver collaborate with each other to implement image rendering of the server. Then, the server may send a rendered image to the cloud mobile phone. Accordingly, an instruction translation process is reduced, to reduce overheads of a processor and improve image processing efficiency.
US11908039B2
A graphics rendering method includes obtaining, by a central processing unit (CPU), to-be-processed vertex data. The to-be-processed vertex data is vertex data used by a graphics processing unit (GPU) for graphics rendering processing. The method also includes processing, by the CPU, the to-be-processed vertex data to obtain vertex data within a field of view of a user. The method additionally includes sending, by the CPU, the vertex data within the field of view of the user to the GPU for the graphics rendering processing.
US11908033B2
The present disclosure creates a communication group with surrounding users during movement. The present disclosure is an information processing system including a server and a user terminal. A server includes a first controller configured to: receive a group creation request of a communication group with a second user terminal that exists in a predetermined range from the first user terminal and is moving in the same direction as the first user terminal, from the first user terminal; create a communication group including users of the first and second user terminals; and notify the first and second user terminals that the communication group is created. A user terminal includes a second controller configured to: detect the second user terminal during movement; transmit the group creation request to the server; receive a notification that the communication group is created from the server; and notify the user that the communication group is created.
US11908029B2
A machine and process for managing restrictions of a wireless device associated with an inmate service account. The machine and process include a kiosk operable to exchange data with the wireless device, including limited-use restrictions related to: an inmate associated with the inmate service account, a correctional facility, and/or a parole requirement. The kiosk may also unlock the wireless device when the inmate is released from the correctional facility by removing the limited-use restrictions from the wireless device.
US11908022B1
Devices, systems, and methods herein relate to generating a machine learning model for providing access to earned income. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive calibration datasets including (1) historical time data indicating time worked by a set of users and (2) historical earnings data indicating earnings made by the set of users. The processor may be configured to construct, based on the calibration datasets, a model for identifying anomalous data. The processor may be configured to receive, from a compute device associated with an entity, raw data for a current time period. The processor may be configured to process the raw data by removing anomalous data to produce processed data. The processor may be configured to determine an available balance for each user from the set of users based on the processed data.
US11908021B2
A computer-implemented method includes presenting, by a workbench application, a first user interface that includes a notes field in which free-form text may be entered by the user, receiving, by the workbench application, free-form text that the user entered in the notes field, analyzing, by the workbench application, the free-form text to identify relevant keyword(s), and presenting a second user interface for a data reporting application. The method also includes identifying, by the workbench application, one or more data entry fields of the second user interface corresponding to the keyword(s), automatically populating, by the workbench application and via an API, the one or more data entry fields of the second user interface based upon the one or more keywords, and causing, by the workbench application via the API, the linked data reporting application to store data for the one or more data entry fields in a data storage record.
US11908014B2
Systems and methods for distributed ledger-based intraday trading are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include: receiving a digital representation of an amount of collateral for a cash borrower; receiving a digital representation of an amount of cash for a cash provider; receiving agreement from the cash borrower and the cash provider to terms of an intraday trade comprising a duration of the intraday trade, a collateral trade amount of the collateral, and a cash trade amount of cash; a smart contract executing the intraday trade by providing the trade amount of the digital collateral to the cash provider and the cash trade amount of the digital cash to the cash borrower; and the smart contract returning the trade amount of the digital collateral to the cash borrower and the cash trade amount of the digital cash to the cash provider at the completion of the intraday trade.
US11908007B2
This invention relates to systems and methods for processing and visualizing data related to trading strategies for exchange-traded equities based upon real-time options data.
US11908006B2
A computer implemented method for cross asset correlation includes receiving, by a processor, portfolio data for a plurality of portfolios, determining, by the processor, a single portfolio performance vector for each of the plurality of portfolios based on a portfolio specific model, determining, by the processor, a joint portfolio performance vector for the plurality of portfolios based on portfolio specific models, determining, by the processor, for each portfolio, a portfolio specific scalar based on the single portfolio performance vector and the joint portfolio performance vector; and modifying, by the processor, a portfolio risk based on the portfolio specific model and the portfolio specific scalar.
US11907995B2
There are provided systems and methods for edge computing storage nodes based on location and activities for user data separate from cloud computing environments. A service provider, such as an online transaction processor, may provide additional services for to users via edge computing systems and edge computing storage nodes. The service may be for data that may be predictively loaded to the edge computing storage node for a particular location, where the edge computing storage node may reside more locally to the location on a network so that data may be served quicker and with less network resource consumption than providing data from a remote cloud computing storage. The data may be predicted to be needed or useful to the user at the location using a user profile for the user, monitored user activities, and/or one or more machine learning models that predict user behaviors at the location.
US11907977B2
Described are approaches for assigning tasks between machine resources (e.g., AI task performers, AI task validators), human resources (e.g., task performers, task validators), and/or other smart systems to facilitate collaborative text detection, text recognition, and text retrieval in order to optimize system performance along a variety of different selection criteria specifying various performant dimensions, including, but not limited to improving system efficiency, reducing task performer and/or task validator idle time, improving triage outcomes, reducing data processing loads, maintaining client confidentiality, etc., that may be associated with one or more customers.
US11907965B2
An information processing device includes a processor configured to provide an incentive to a first user who sells or returns a first vehicle in which a part of a first coating film including an easily peelable layer does not peeled off.
US11907959B2
Methods and systems are presented herein for assessing risk associated with a vendor providing services and/or other products to a financial institution, for preparation of associated risk assessment reports or vendor oversight reports, and for maintenance of a plurality of risk assessment reports or oversight reports associated with a plurality of vendors.
US11907955B2
A method and apparatus that receive blockchain transaction data from a blockchain ledger to a transaction database, receive intelligence labels from a blockchain ecosystem intelligence database, select a blockchain transaction flow comprising blockchain transactions associated with a digital account source address, digital account intermediate addresses, a digital account destination address, and intermediate transactions, receive input trace parameters, where the input trace parameters include at least one of an objective directional setting, a tracing constraint, and a transaction filter, the transaction filter based on the transaction timestamps and the digital assets transferred, apply the intelligence labels to the digital account source address, the digital account intermediate addresses, and the digital account destination address, apply an artificial intelligence graph search algorithm to the blockchain transaction flow based on the input trace parameters, and generate a report including tracing destination summary statistics of the auto-traced path.
US11907948B2
Systems and methods for authentication using radio frequency tags are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for approving a requested operation from a secondary user of a resource that is controlled by a primary user may include (1) a back end comprising at least one computer processor receiving, from a mobile application that is executed by a mobile device associated with a secondary user, a requested operation involving a resource that is controlled by a primary user; (2) the back end receiving a unique identifier from the secondary user mobile application, the unique identifier being read by the mobile application from a tag associated with the secondary user; (3) the back end determining that the received unique identifier matches a stored unique identifier that is associated with the secondary user; and (4) the back end approving the requested operation and communicating the approval to the secondary user mobile application.
US11907945B2
The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented processes that determine, in real time, counterparty geolocation location based on structured messaging data, such as messaging data maintained within message fields of a request-for-payment (RFP) message compliant with the ISO 20022. For example, an apparatus may receive a RFP message that includes message data associated with a transaction involving first and second counterparties, and the RFP message may characterize a real-time payment requested from the second counterparty by the first counterparty. The apparatus may determine a geographic position of the first counterparty based the message data, and based on the first geographic position, transmit notification data to a device operable by the second counterparty. The notification data may cause the device to present digital content associated with at least one of the transaction, the first counterparty, or the second counterparty within a digital interface.
US11907942B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method that monitors a full spectrum of network risks associated with a crypto asset as well as its parent network. These risks are monitored in real-time and may include the risk of a blockchain reorganization event, unexpected inflation, abnormal fee behavior, network attacks, and forks. Combined, the innovative system supports settlement processes, risk controls and cybersecurity incident response.
US11907939B2
The present disclosure involves a method for grouping non-fungible digital tokens. The method includes generating a first transaction on a blockchain having an output of a fungible digital token, with the fungible digital token having a first transaction hash identifier. The method further includes assigning the first transaction hash identifier associated with the fungible digital token with a cryptographic public key, and generating a second transaction on the blockchain having an output of a non-fungible digital token and an input. The fungible digital token is spent as the input into the second transaction, with the non-fungible digital token comprising a second transaction hash identifier and a group identifier associated with the first transaction hash identifier.
US11907938B2
In various example embodiments, a machine is configured to redirect completion of a transaction to a trusted device. For example, the machine determines that a page involving the transaction is being displayed in a user interface of a first device. The page may be associated with the product or service. The machine identifies an interruption of the displaying of the page in the user interface of the first device. The machine identifies a second device that is trusted by the user. The machine transmits a communication including a notification to the second device. The notification indicates the transaction.
US11907936B2
Non-custodial, recoverable wallet that stores private key amongst multiple secure storage mechanisms
A method for securing a split private key (such as used with a cryptocurrency or other non-custodial electronic wallet) amongst a password, biometrics, and a social service. The process may use a sharding scheme such as Shamir's Secret Sharing to ensure that multiple key shards must be obtained before the entire private key can be obtained. The user may select the number of shards required to retrieve the private key thereby controlling the security of the account. An additional shard may be held on an encrypted server and allows for account recovery even while maintaining non-custodial ownership of the wallet.
US11907929B2
Mobile devices are each associated with a respective toll account and are also configured to periodically report their location and related information while traveling in a vehicle, which is used to determine any applicable toll fees. In order to avoid assessing the toll fee to each account, a server of a tolling service first identifies mobile devices that are traveling together based on the location information, and then determines which of the mobile devices, if any, has indicated that it is connected to the vehicle audio system. The account associated with the mobile device connected to the vehicle audio system will be assessed the full toll fee, and the accounts associated with the other mobile devices will not be charged. If there is no indication of being connected to the vehicle audio system, then the location information is used to correlate the mobile devices with a license plate image taken at a tolling location, and the account associated with the license plate number will be assessed the toll fee.
US11907926B2
A system receives, from a server, information about a first set of remotely-configured options for an unattended machine. In response to receiving the information about the first set of remotely-configured options, the system displays user interface objects that allow for selection of respective options in the first set of remotely-configured options. After detecting a selection of a first user interface object, the system receives, from the server, specifications regarding electric pulses to be provided to the unattended machine by a pulse-providing device. After sending an authorization grant and the specifications to the pulse-providing device, the system receives an indication that the electric pulses were provided to the unattended machine according to the specifications.
US11907924B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a ride request from a user computing device associated with a user, wherein the ride request requests a user pick-up at a geographic location, determining one or more preferred items of the user, identifying, from a group of vehicles located in the geographic location, a vehicle that comprises an in-vehicle vending apparatus with an inventory that includes one or more of the preferred items of the user, and sending an instruction to a computing device of the vehicle for traveling to the geographic location for the user pick-up.
US11907923B2
An iron-type golf club having selectively machined portions and attributes, including a machined sole portion and/or a machined leading edge portion. The machined portion(s) include continuous machining scallop lines having a scallop height and a step-over distance. The scallop height is 10-75% of a finished leading edge radius at a vertical midpoint demarcation plane, and the step-over distance is less than 150% of the finished leading edge radius at the vertical midpoint demarcation plane.
US11907920B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) system for guiding a user interaction in a phone call or chat session. The system includes a computer running an AI algorithm, such as a machine learning algorithm, which is trained to recognize patterns in user interaction dialog which lead to satisfactory outcomes for the user. The system may operate in a completely autonomous mode, or the system connect a human agent in the loop. The algorithm adaptively guides the dialog to achieve a favorable outcome based on the current status of the dialog—including identifying a next question to ask, information to provide, or an action to take. The algorithm is trained via supervised learning using real dialog transcriptions from past user interactions which have been supplemented with decision points and outcomes. After deployment, update training may be performed on the algorithm using data captured by the system after the user interactions.
US11907916B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that may convert traditional tickets into secure digital assets protected by cryptographic public/private keys that deploy these tickets on a blockchain. By structuring these tickets as smart digital contracts, such system can act as a self-policing escrow while simultaneously allowing ticket issuers greater control over the tickets after the tickets leave the ticket issuers' possession. The system can incorporate specific capabilities into the digital assets to provide an increased level of multiple ownership, security granularity, and sales restrictions in ticket transactions.
US11907905B2
Techniques for managing namespaces in a multi-cluster management (MCM) system to facilitate multi-cluster application development are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system executing the MCM system can create a workspace for an application being developed by a software development team of an organization, where the workspace is a logical grouping of namespaces on which the application has been or will be deployed, and where at least a subset of the namespaces can belong to different clusters of the organization. The computer system can then assign a member of the development team as a workspace administrator of the workspace, thereby enabling that development team member to perform management tasks on the workspace and its member namespaces via the MCM system (e.g., creating and adding namespaces to the workspace, setting access/image/network policies on the workspace, etc.), without help from the organization's IT staff.
US11907899B2
A product count of a number of physical products within a physical grouping of a plurality of the physical products is determined based on an image of the physical grouping. A cycle counter generates image coordinates for visible product surfaces within the image. The cycle counter generates three-dimensional virtual base coordinates for the expected locations of the plurality of the physical products within the physical grouping. The cycle counter determines the actual locations of the visible product surfaces within three-dimensional space based on a comparison of the image coordinates and the virtual base coordinates. The cycle counter determines the product count of the number of physical products within the physical grouping based on the actual locations.
US11907898B2
A computer-implemented system for tracking items in a supply chain. The system may comprise a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute instructions. Those stored instructions include receiving a first input that an item has entered a first station, the input comprising a first location identifier; assigning an inventory identifier to the item; storing the location identifier and the inventory identifier in a data store, associating the location identifier with the inventory identifier; receiving a second input comprising the inventory identifier and a second location identifier when the item is moved to a new station: storing the new location identifier when the item is moved to a new station; storing the new location identifier such that the new location identifier is associated with the inventory identifier with at least one previous station associated with the inventory identifier; receiving a request for a diagram; generating a diagram tracking the item using at least the inventory identifier and at least one location identifier, wherein the diagram tracks the item from the inbound station to the most recent station; and transmitting the diagram for display.
US11907894B2
A cabinet that securely stores items in cabinet drawers using preconfigured nests. The drawers can be reconfigured using one or more dividers to divide the drawers into two or more compartments. The cabinet has cameras mounted to it and uses images to determine if a compartment contains an item and other information. In some embodiments, features are implemented to closely monitor the self-serve access and removal of items from the cabinet. Features can include the incorporation of serialization of items and automated tracking of items in a bulk item stocked in the cabinet. Features can also include multimode access such as allowing users to quickly access contents of the cabinet while for example providing graphical illustrations based on information about the stock in a supporting database.
US11907892B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for delivering packages to customers, comprising a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive, from a first user device in a fulfillment center, a package identifier associated with a package for delivery to a customer, modify a database to assign the package identifier to a group, among a plurality of groups, based on a delivery address associated with the package identifier and a location of a camp to which the package is routed, generate a map of the plurality of groups, send the map for display on a second user device in the camp, and send for display an activatable icon on a location on the map, wherein the location of the activatable icon on the map is associated with the delivery address of the package.
US11907886B2
In an example embodiment, a machine learning algorithm is used to train a machine-learned model to create a three-dimensional representation of products, with each product mapped into a coordinate in the three-dimensional space. The model selects the coordinates based on the similarity of the product to other products. Coordinates that are closer geometrically in the three-dimensional space represent products that are similar to each other, whereas as the coordinates get further and further away, this implies that the products are less and less similar. This machine-learned model then not only allows for quick analysis of multiple products, as similarity between products or groups of products can be performed using geometric calculations (e.g., cosine distance), but also can then be tied into a three-dimensional representation that can be displayed either on a two-dimensional display or displayed on a three-dimensional display.
US11907885B1
A method for simulating a scenario in a computing environment is described. The method includes determining a user intent of a user from an input received from the user for executing at least one intended task by the user, generating a feature set based on analyzing the user intent, and processing, based on the user intent, at least one data feed received from a database to select at least one plan of action for executing the at least one intended task. At least one plan of action is simulated in a graphical user interface as virtual or augmented reality based on the feature set to enable at least one of responding additionally received input from the user and the at least one intended task is performed according to the user intent.
US11907883B1
A system for identifying potential leaders in corporate roles is disclosed. List the individual components of elements that make up the best version of your invention. This includes all steps, decisions, and any necessary physical items. Only the component itself. Number each item according to its number on any accompanying drawings.
US11907875B2
A collaborative development project having a plurality of contributors is provided. A first contributor of the plurality of contributors as an influencer of the collaborative development project. Contributions of the influencer to a sample project are analyzed to determine a development characteristic of the influencer. One or more development rules are then generated based on the determined development characteristic of the influencer. Further, a second contributor of the plurality of contributors may be identified as a follower of the development project. Identified contributions of the follower may then be modified based on the obtained one or more development rules.
US11907868B2
Apparatus, systems, processes, and computer-readable mediums for facilitating the use of drones are described. For one embodiment, such a system includes a user element having a user application computer program configured to instruct a user interface device to facilitate use of user data and use of mission parameter(s) for a proposed drone mission. An owner element includes an owner application computer program configured to facilitate use of owner data and use of at least one drone parameter. A fleet system element is communicatively coupled to the user element and to the owner element and includes a computer system processor configured to facilitate use of a fleet record and use of at least one fleet parameter.
US11907866B2
A method and system are provided that apply a combination of machine learning and graph techniques to classify and transform sequential event data. In some embodiments, the method and system are applied to generate raw data in the shipping industry to automatically classify a sequence of status codes extracted from EDI data files corresponding to a series of physical events experienced by a shipping container into a sequence of meaningful milestones to provide improved visibility regarding the actual status of the shipping container. The method and system can be applied to classify and transform sequential event data for use in the shipping industry and in other applications.
US11907864B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for classifying a trip. Embodiments include receiving, from a plurality of users, a plurality of historical trip records. Each of the plurality of historical trip records may comprise one or more historical trip attributes and historical classification information. Embodiments include training a predictive model, using the plurality of historical trip records, to classify trips based on trip records. Training the predictive model may comprise determining a plurality of hot spots based on the historical trip records, each of the plurality of hot spots comprising a region encompassing one or more locations, and associating, in the predictive model, the plurality of hot spots with historical classification information. Embodiments include receiving, from a user, a new trip record comprising a plurality of trip attributes related to a trip and using the predictive model to predict a classification for the trip based on the trip record.
US11907862B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein for performing sentiment analysis on electronic communications relating to one or more image-based communications methods, such as emoji. Message data may be received. The message data may correspond to a message that is intended to be sent but has not yet been sent to an application. Using a first machine learning model, one or more subsets of the plurality of emoji may be determined. The one or more subsets of the plurality of emoji may comprise one or more different types and quantities of emoji, and may each correspond to the same or a different sentiment. Using a second machine learning model, one or more emojis may be selected from the one or more subsets. The one or more emojis selected may correspond to responses to the message.
US11907856B2
In some examples, a computer system may receive sensor data and failure data for equipment. The system may determine, for the equipment, a plurality of time between failure (TBF) durations that are longer than other TBF durations for the equipment. The system may determine, from the sensor data corresponding to operation of the equipment during the plurality of TBF durations, a plurality of measured sensor values for the equipment. Additionally, the system may determine a subset of the measured sensor values corresponding to a largest number of the TBF durations of the plurality of TBF durations. The system may further determine at least one operating parameter value for the equipment based on the subset of the measured sensor values. The system may send a control signal for operating the equipment based on the operating parameter value and/or a communication based on the operating parameter value.
US11907855B2
A computer implemented method of storing and retrieving feature map data of a neural network the method comprising receiving a first portion of feature map data from local storage, selecting a first set of subportions of the first portion of feature map data, compressing the subportions to produce a first plurality of sections of compressed feature map data and instructing the storage of the sections into external storage. The method also comprises receiving a second plurality of sections of compressed feature map data from the external storage, decompressing the sections to produce a second set of subportions of the second portion of feature map data and storing the second portion of feature map data in local storage. The first and second sets of subportions each correspond to a predetermined format of subdivision and the method comprises selecting the predetermined format of subdivision from a plurality of predetermined formats of subdivision.
US11907849B2
An information processing system includes a storage device that stores therein a trained model, and a processor. The trained model is trained to output a position and shape of an object in a training image based on training data. The training data is data in which the training image is provided with an annotation indicating the position and shape of the object. The training image is an image captured with an angle of view including the object whose position and shape are not clearly displayed in an image. The processor executes detection processing on a detection image to output detected information indicating the position and shape of the object. The processor then causes a display device to display the detected information superimposed on the detection image.
US11907844B2
The present disclosure provides a processing device including: a coarse-grained pruning unit configured to perform coarse-grained pruning on a weight of a neural network to obtain a pruned weight, an operation unit configured to train the neural network according to the pruned weight. The coarse-grained pruning unit is specifically configured to select M weights from the weights of the neural network through a sliding window, and when the M weights meet a preset condition, all or part of the M weights may be set to 0. The processing device can reduce the memory access while reducing the amount of computation, thereby obtaining an acceleration ratio and reducing energy consumption.
US11907842B2
A system comprises a memory that stores computer-executable components; and a processor, operably coupled to the memory, that executes the computer-executable components. The system includes a receiving component that receives a corpus of data; a relation extraction component that generates noisy knowledge graphs from the corpus; and a training component that acquires global representations of entities and relation by training from output of the relation extraction component.
US11907841B1
A machine learning based system and method for automated recognition of consumer products in images and video using a camera system, a neural network using a ranked tagging system, a two-stage recognition application, and a training module. Training image sets of items captured by the camera system are assigned identification tags through template matches to training sets within the neural network. Tags are assigned from various levels of specificity to identify exact product matches. A user recognition application captures images and generates bounding boxes for detected objects and assigns a general classification within the image using a single, fast, convolutional neural network (CNN) layer. General classification narrows subsets for each generated bounding box and multi-scale template matching is applied to achieve detailed identification of single or multiple items detected within single images or video. The training module adjusts smart camera systems and the neural network based on accuracy feedback.
US11907840B2
A device may receive historical data and real-time data associated with a troubleshooting service, identify, using a machine learning model, an optimal resolution based on the historical data and the real-time data, and identify, using a graph analytics model, an optimal path of actions based on the optimal resolution. The machine learning model may be trained to identify one of the set of historical issues associated with the unresolved issue, and identify the optimal resolution based on one of the set of historical resolutions associated with the one of the set of historical issues. The graph analytics model may be trained to generate a set of paths of actions based on the historical data, and identify the optimal path based on respective numbers of actions associated with the set of paths. The device may identify optimal action based on the optimal path and the prior action.
US11907836B2
A computer-implemented method for processing images to determine EI site status is provided. The method includes image processing of an aerial image by two EI feature recognition models. A first EI feature recognition model recognizes a first EI feature and a second EI feature recognition model recognizes a second EI feature. The results of each model are further used to determine a composite indication of EI site status.
US11907835B2
Given an input image, an image enhancement task, and no external examples available to train on, an Image-Specific Deep Network is constructed tailored to solve the task for this specific image. Since there are no external examples available to train on, the network is trained on examples extracted directly from the input image itself. The current solution solves the problem of Super-Resolution (SR), whereas the framework is more general and is not restricted to SR.
US11907831B2
An analog neuromorphic circuit is disclosed, having input voltages applied to a plurality of inputs of the analog neuromorphic circuit. The circuit also includes a plurality of resistive memories that provide a resistance to each input voltage applied to each of the inputs so that each input voltage is multiplied in parallel by the corresponding resistance of each corresponding resistive memory to generate a corresponding current for each input voltage and each corresponding current is added in parallel. The circuit also includes at least one output signal that is generated from each of the input voltages multiplied in parallel with each of the corresponding currents for each of the input voltages added in parallel. The multiplying of each input voltage with each corresponding resistance is executed simultaneously with adding each corresponding current for each input voltage.
US11907828B2
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) may be used for inference of a trained deep neural network (DNN). The trained DNN may comprise a set of parameters and the FPGA may have a first precision configuration defining first number representations of the set of parameters. The FPGA may determine different precision configurations of the trained DNN. A precision configuration of the precision configurations may define second number representations of a subset of the set of parameters. For each precision configuration of the determined precision configurations a bitstream file may be provided. The bitstream files may be stored so that the FPGA may be programmed using one of the stored bitstream files for inference of the trained DNN.
US11907822B2
Interaction between a user and a conversational digital assistant executing on a computing device is controlled. Multiple interaction pairs are stored in one or more datastores accessible by the conversational digital assistant. Each interaction pair includes an interaction query and an associated assistance operation. An interactive engagement event is detected between the user and the conversational digital assistant, responsive to the storing operation. An interaction pair is selected from the one or more datastores, responsive to the operation of detecting an interactive engagement event. The interaction query of the selected interaction pair is communicated to the user. The assistance operation associated with the communicated interaction query is executed, responsive to receipt of a response from the user to the interaction query.
US11907821B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a machine learning model. A method includes: maintaining a plurality of training sessions; assigning, to each worker of one or more workers, a respective training session of the plurality of training sessions; repeatedly performing operations until meeting one or more termination criteria, the operations comprising: receiving an updated training session from a respective worker of the one or more workers, selecting a second training session, selecting, based on comparing the updated training session and the second training session using a fitness evaluation function, either the updated training session or the second training session as a parent training session, generating a child training session from the selected parent training session, and assigning the child training session to an available worker, and selecting a candidate model to be a trained model for the machine learning model.
US11907818B2
Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods that learn a compressed representation of a machine-learned model (e.g., neural network) via representation of the model parameters within a reparameterization space during training of the model. In particular, the present disclosure describes an end-to-end model weight compression approach that employs a latent-variable data compression method. The model parameters (e.g., weights and biases) are represented in a “latent” or “reparameterization” space, amounting to a reparameterization. In some implementations, this space can be equipped with a learned probability model, which is used first to impose an entropy penalty on the parameter representation during training, and second to compress the representation using arithmetic coding after training. The proposed approach can thus maximize accuracy and model compressibility jointly, in an end-to-end fashion, with the rate-error trade-off specified by a hyperparameter.
US11907816B2
A data classification system is trained to classify input data into multiple classes. The system is initially trained by adjusting weights within the system based on a set of training data that includes multiple tuples, each being a training instance and corresponding training label. Two training instances, one from a minority class and one from a majority class, are selected from the set of training data based on entropies for the training instances. A synthetic training instance is generated by combining the two selected training instances and a corresponding training label is generated. A tuple including the synthetic training instance and the synthetic training label is added to the set of training data, resulting in an augmented training data set. One or more such synthetic training instances can be added to the augmented training data set and the system is then re-trained on the augmented training data set.
US11907806B2
A parameter calibration method is provided. The parameter calibration method includes: obtaining a control parameter to be calibrated; determining a simulation running error corresponding to a quantum chip; determining calibration data corresponding to the control parameter to be calibrated based on the simulation running error; and obtaining a calibrated control parameter by calibrating the control parameter to be calibrated based on the calibration data, wherein the calibrated control parameter is used for controlling operation of the quantum chip.
US11907802B2
The invention concerns a system (10) of a package (2) containing a product and an apparatus (1) using said product, the apparatus being refilled by the product contained in the package, wherein a code (21) related to the contained product is associated to the package, said code being a two dimension code and said code presenting a predetermined surface Scode, and wherein the apparatus comprises a code reader (11) to read the code associated to the package, said code reader being an image capturing device, said image capturing device being defined by: —a predetermined focal range, —a horizontal angle of view α and a vertical angle of view β, wherein the apparatus comprises a housing structure (16) and a cavity (12) inside the housing structure, wherein the image capturing device is positioned at the back side of the cavity.
US11907775B2
In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes receiving a new application programming interface (API) specification and extracting one or more keywords from the new API specification. The method also includes identifying, using a trained machine learning (ML) model, one or more existing API specifications that are similar to the new API specification based on the one or more keywords from the new API specification and, responsive to the identification, outputting information regarding the one or more existing API specifications that are similar to the new API specification.
US11907768B2
Entanglement of pages and threads is disclosed. An indication is received of a stalling event caused by a requested portion of memory being inaccessible. It is determined that the requested portion of memory is an entangled portion of memory that is entangled with a physical node in a plurality of physical nodes. A type of the entangled portion of memory is determined. The stalling event is handled based at least in part on the determined type of the entangled portion of memory.
US11907759B2
Technologies for providing predictive thermal management include a compute device. The compute device includes a compute engine and an execution assistant device to assist the compute engine in the execution of a workload. The compute engine is configured to obtain a profile that relates a utilization factor indicative of a present amount of activity of the execution assistant device to a predicted temperature of the execution assistant device, determine, as the execution assistant device assists in the execution of the workload, a value of the utilization factor of the execution assistant device, determine, as a function of the determined value of the utilization factor and the obtained profile, the predicted temperature of the execution assistant device, determine whether the predicted temperature satisfies a predefined threshold temperature, and adjust, in response to a determination that the predicted temperature satisfies the predefined threshold temperature, an operation of the compute device to reduce the predicted temperature. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11907756B2
A graphics processing apparatus that includes at least a memory device and an execution unit coupled to the memory. The memory device can store a command buffer with at least one command that is dependent on completion of at least one other command. The command buffer can include a jump command that causes a jump to a location in the command buffer to identify any unscheduled command. The execution unit is to jump to a location in the command buffer based on execution of the jump command. The execution unit is to perform one or more jumps to one or more locations in the command buffer to attempt to schedule a command with dependency on completion of at least one other command until the command with a dependency on completion of at least one other command is scheduled.
US11907741B2
The present disclosure provides a method for remotely controlling a personal computer (PC). from a mobile device. The method includes displaying, by a first input module operating on the mobile device, an input GUI on the mobile device. The first input module interacts with a second input module operating on the PC. The method includes, upon receiving an activation of a virtual input on the input GUI, retrieving a first simulated input that is associated with the virtual input. The method further includes transmitting the first simulated input to the second input module, wherein the second input module is configured to perform the first simulated input on the PC in response to the activation of the virtual input on the input GUI.
US11907730B2
Systems and methods for determining subsystems of a computer environment that are in a mutual independence state can include a computing device obtaining information indicative of a group of assets of a subsystem of a computer environment. For each asset of the group of assets, the computing device can identify one or more first assets on which the asset depends and one or more second assets that depend on the asset, and determine whether the one or more first assets and the one or more second assets belong to the group of assets. The computing device can determine that the subsystem is in a mutual independence state upon determining, for each asset of the group of assets, that the first and second assets belong to the group of assets. The computing device can update a data record to indicate the determined state of subsystem of the computer environment.
US11907726B2
Systems and methods for virtually partitioning an integrated circuit may include identifying dimensional attributes of a target input dataset and selecting a data partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct data partitioning schemes for the target input dataset based on the dimensional attributes of the target dataset and architectural attributes of an integrated circuit. The methods described herein may also include disintegrating the target dataset into a plurality of distinct subsets of data based on the selected data partitioning scheme and identifying a virtual processing core partitioning scheme from a plurality of distinct processing core partitioning schemes for an architecture of the integrated circuit based on the disintegration of the target input dataset. Additionally, the architecture of the integrated circuit may be virtually partitioned into a plurality of distinct partitions of processing cores and each of the plurality of distinct subsets of data may be mapped to one of the plurality of distinct partitions of processing cores.
US11907725B2
A computer comprising a plurality of processors, each of which are configured to perform operations on data during a compute phase for the computer and, following a pre-compiled synchronisation barrier, exchange data with at least one other of the processors during an exchange phase for the computer, wherein of the processors in the computer is indexed and the data exchange operations carried out by each processor in the exchange phase depend upon its index value.
US11907721B2
Software instructions are executed on a processor within a computer system to configure a steaming engine with stream parameters to define a multidimensional array. The stream parameters define a size for each dimension of the multidimensional array and a pad value indicator. Data is fetched from a memory coupled to the streaming engine responsive to the stream parameters. A stream of vectors is formed for the multidimensional array responsive to the stream parameters from the data fetched from memory. A padded stream vector is formed that includes a specified pad value without accessing the pad value from system memory.
US11907720B2
There is provided a data processing apparatus comprising a plurality of registers, each of the registers having data bits to store data and metadata bits to store metadata. Each of the registers is adapted to operate in a metadata mode in which the metadata bits and the data bits are valid, and a data mode in which the data bits are valid and the metadata bits are invalid. Mode bit storage circuitry indicates whether each of the registers is in the data mode or the metadata mode. Execution circuitry is responsive to a memory operation that is a store operation on one or more given registers.
US11907718B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for executing a loop in a reconfigurable compute fabric. A first flow controller may initiate a first thread at a first synchronous flow to execute a first portion of a first iteration of the loop. A second flow controller may receive a first asynchronous message instructing the second flow controller to initiate a first thread at a second synchronous flow to execute a second portion of the first iteration. The second flow controller may determine that the first iteration of the loop is the last iteration of the loop to be executed and initiate the first thread at the second synchronous flow with a last iteration flag set.
US11907712B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to implement out-of-order access to a shared microcode sequencer by a clustered decode pipeline are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor core includes a first decode cluster comprising a plurality of decoder circuits, a second decode cluster comprising a plurality of decoder circuits, a fetch circuit to fetch a first block of instructions and send the first block of instructions to the first decode cluster for decoding, and fetch a second block of instructions younger in program order than the first block of instructions and send the second block of instructions to the second decode cluster for decoding, a microcode sequencer comprising a memory that stores a plurality of micro-operations, and an arbitration circuit to arbitrate access by the first decode cluster and the second decode cluster to a shared read port of the memory, wherein the arbitration circuit is to allow the second decode cluster decoding the second block of instructions access to the shared read port of the memory instead of the first decode cluster decoding the first block of instructions when an instruction of the second block of instructions has a number of corresponding micro-operations in the microcode sequencer below an arbitration threshold.
US11907702B2
A device for managing update of a vehicle includes a communication device in communication with at least one control device of the vehicle and in communication with an OTA (Over The Air) server for software update of the at least one control device, and a controller that relays communication between the at least one control device and the OTA server, and controls the at least one control device.
US11907700B2
An upgrading method, includes: a server first sends a version check command to a terminal device; then receives feedback data sent by the terminal device based on the version check command; and sends an upgrade command to the terminal device in response to the terminal device being to be upgraded, wherein whether the terminal device is to be upgraded is determined based on the feedback data.
US11907694B2
A method creates a table of keys and values. Each key is an element of an input array which is an input of a machine-learning pre-processing pipeline, and each value is an output of the pipeline. The method measures (1) a hit rate H to the memo table, (2) an average time Ttable to look up the table, (3) an average time Tpipeline to execute the pipeline, and (4) a threshold Telements on a number of elements of the input array. The method looks up the value in the table by using an element of the input array as a key when Tpipeline×H>Ttable and the number of elements in the input array is less than Telements. The method calls the pipeline in place of the lookup for all of the remaining elements in the input array when the value is not in the table.
US11907689B2
Various methods and systems for providing a user interface (UI) generation system for processing UI generation data based on a multi-layer architecture and hierarchically interrelated and supervised scene processes are provided. The UI generation system supports generating UIs based on a scene layer, a viewport layer, and a driver layer that each use protocols and data structures to support UI generation, UI fault recovery operations, and distributed UI generation for UI viewing devices. In operation, scene configuration data is communicated to a viewport engine from a scene engine, the viewport engine uses the scene configuration data to construct a scene management data structure that is defined based on hierarchically arranging and supervising different scene processes. The scene management data structure is used to define scene rendering data that is accessed by a driver engine to cause generation of UI display content, locally or remotely based on the scene rendering data.
US11907688B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for a framework for a heterogenous set of software services to operate in a uniform manner. A system can store data types representing computational abstractions, where the computer has at least one processor and a plurality of heterogenous data storage engines. The system can build, using the plurality of data types, the computational abstractions, the computational abstractions comprising: operations, environment, an event bus, and a workflow management system. The system can then store and execute these computational abstractions as needed.
US11907687B2
According to some embodiments, methods and systems may be associated with a cloud computing environment having an integration service (e.g., associated with a Software-as-a-Service or a Platform-as-a-Service). A design microservice may have a User Interface (“UI”) framework and UI components for a first integration developer. A configuration framework may determine a set of configuration values for an integration component of an integration scenario defined by the first integration developer. The configuration framework may then receive, from the first integration developer, a publication indication associated with the integration component. Responsive to the publication indication, the configuration framework may arrange for the set of configuration values for the integration component to be made available to a second integration developer (e.g., via a marketplace platform).
US11907668B2
The present disclosure provides a method for selecting an annotated sample. The method includes: determining a first attribute and a second attribute of a sample characteristic; in which the first attribute is a characteristic attribute of the sample characteristic in a source field sample set, and the second attribute is a characteristic attribute of the sample characteristic in a target field sample set; and determining a target annotated sample from a plurality of candidate annotated samples of the source field sample set according to the first attribute and the second attribute; in which the target annotated sample is configured to train a classification model, the classification model includes a model for determining an emotion polarity by analyzing an input sample to be classified.
US11907663B2
A system includes: a natural language processing (NLP) model trained in a training domain and configured to perform natural language processing on an input dataset; an accuracy module configured to: calculate a domain shift metric based on the input dataset; and calculate a predicted decrease in accuracy of the NLP model attributable to domain shift relative to the training domain based on the domain shift metric; and a retraining module configured to selectively trigger a retraining of the NLP model based on the predicted decrease in accuracy of the NLP model.
US11907662B2
An automatic terminology linking system includes a candidate generator configured to identify candidate nodes for each terminology that is to be linked to a node of the knowledge base. A pseudo-candidate generator is configured to identify pseudo-candidate nodes for candidate-less terminologies. A candidate scorer is configured to respectively score the candidate nodes and the pseudo-candidate nodes by collective inference using occurrence statistics and co-occurrence statistics for these nodes. The pseudo-candidate generator is configured to identify knowledge base nodes that are semantically-related to candidate-less terminology as the pseudo-candidate nodes for the candidate-less terminology.
US11907651B2
The information processing apparatus analyzes the results of modification performed by user for a recommended character string and determines whether there is an excess or a lack in units of predetermined character string areas in a recommended area corresponding to the recommended character string. In a case where it is determined that there is an excess or a lack as a result of the determination, a recommended character string that eliminates the excess or the lack is specified. Then, area information for specifying the recommended area, which is registered in a database, is updated so that the character string corresponding to the specified recommended area becomes the recommended character string.
US11907650B2
Methods and systems for artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted document annotation and training of machine learning-based models for document data extraction are described. The methods and systems described herein take advantage of a continuous machine learning approach to create document processing pipelines that provide accurate and efficient data extraction from documents that include structured text, semi-structured text, unstructured text, or any combination thereof.
US11907649B2
A method and apparatus for managing an interface, a device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a first interface image of a target application, determining a first text contained in the first interface image, the first text being a text in a first language corresponding to the target application, acquiring a second text obtained by translating the first text, the second text being a text in a second language, and replacing the first text in the first interface image with the second text to obtain a second interface image, and displaying, based on the target application, the second interface image.
US11907646B1
A method includes receiving a user event associated with content of an add-on for a web application displayed on a first user interface. The add-on is a non-native application executed using a hypertext markup language (HTML) element. The method further includes passing the user event to a document object model of the web application using a blank native element. The blank native element links the add-on to the document object model. The method further includes processing the user event using an HTML element renderer. The method further includes displaying updated content associated with the add-on based on the processed user event.
US11907645B2
Computer-implemented techniques are disclosed for presenting an in-page console on a website for reviewing interaction data captured during user interaction with one or more web pages of the website. The web browser activates the in-page console via an activation procedure. One or more of the web pages of the website are selected after activation of the in-page console. A feedback badge on the website can be replaced with a reporting badge upon activation of the in-page console and with the reporting badge displaying an indicator of interaction data captured for the selected web page. The in-page console is overlaid one or more of the selected web pages. The in-page console displays the interaction data, or recordings of user interaction, captured during user interaction with the selected web page to enable review of the captured interaction data for the selected web page overlaid on the selected web page.
US11907641B2
A calculation process is efficiently performed to a text file in which one or more records are included, each of the records includes one or more cells having an arbitrary length, and each of the cells includes arbitrary pieces of characters. A parameter setting apparatus sets a maximum value Scsv and a minimum value scsv of a size of character strings for one record by using attribute information as an input, a maximum value Senc of a total size of encode information, a maximum value Sss of a total size of a calculation value obtained by performing specific calculation to the encode information, and a total size Sref of reference information, obtains a function value of C/(Scsv+Senc+Sref) as the number of records which is a process unit of encoding and calculation, and obtains a function value of f0/I·r·Scsv as the number of parallels in the calculation process. Here, C is a cache memory size, M is a main memory size, and f0 is a function value of scsv·M/(scsv+Senc+max(Sref,Sss)).
US11907634B2
Automating addition of power supply rails, fences, and level translators to a modular circuit design
A specification for a modular circuit design includes a mapping from global clock domains to global voltage domains. A processor assigns, to a first instance of a clocked primitive component, a global voltage domain based on which global clock domain clocks the first instance, automatically adds, to the modular circuit design, first power supply rails to power the first instance, and connects the first power supply rails from the first instance to a first power supply for a first global voltage domain. The processor assigns, to a second instance of the clocked primitive component, a second global voltage domain based on which global clock domain clocks the second instance, automatically adds second power supply rails to power the second instance, and connects the second power supply rails to a second power supply for a second global voltage domain. The processor may perform further processing on the updated modular circuit design.
US11907618B2
A method facilitating operation of a fabrication machine (FM) includes receiving, by a fabrication center application (FCA) running on a computing device (CD), via a fabrication center connector websocket (FCCW), and from a fabrication tools application associated with a 3D modeling application running on another CD, 3D model data of a to-be-fabricated part or assembly (TBF-P/A). The method includes generating, by the FCA, and based on the 3D model data, data representative of an enhanced cut (or bend or threading) list (E-C/B/T-L) usable by a machine control application (MCA) running on a third CD for the FM to fabricate the TBF-P/A, the third CD also running a fabrication desktop application associated with the MCA. The method includes transmitting, by the FCA, and via the FCCW, the E-C/B/T-L data to the third CD to enable use by the MCA of the E-C/B/T-L data for fabricating the TBF-P/A by the FM.
US11907617B2
A method and system for computer aided design (CAD) is disclosed for designing geometric objects, wherein interpolation and/or blending between such objects is performed while deformation data is being input. Thus, a designer obtains immediate feedback to input modifications without separately entering a command(s) for performing such deformations. A novel N-sided surface generation technique is also disclosed herein to efficiently and accurately convert surfaces of high polynomial degree into a collection of lower degree surfaces. E.g., the N-sided surface generation technique disclosed herein subdivides parameter space objects (e.g., polygons) of seven or more sides into a collection of subpolygons, wherein each subpolygon has a reduced number of sides. More particularly, each subpolygon has 3 or 4 sides. The present disclosure is particularly useful for designing the shape of surfaces. Thus, the present disclosure is applicable to various design domains such as the design of, e.g., bottles, vehicles, and watercraft. Additionally, the present disclosure provides for efficient animation via repeatedly modifying surfaces of an animated object such as a representation of a face.
US11907615B2
A context aware service provision method and apparatus for recognizing the user context and executing an action corresponding to the user context according to a rule defined by the user and feeding back the execution result to the user interactively are provided. The method for providing a context-aware service includes receiving a user input, the user input being at least one of a text input and a speech input, identifying a rule including a condition and an action corresponding to the condition based on the received user input, activating the rule to detect a context which corresponds to the condition of the rule, and executing, when the context is detected, the action corresponding to the condition.
US11907608B2
A display apparatus includes a display unit including a display panel configured to display an image, a curvature variation unit disposed on a rear surface of the display unit and varying a curvature of the display unit, and a vibration unit disposed on the rear surface of the display unit configured to vibrate the display panel.
US11907601B2
Provided herein may be a display device and a method of controlling a plurality of display devices. The method may include displaying, on a first display device, a first image including a first partial image, a second partial image, and a third partial image, transmitting, by the first display device, a second image including a fourth partial image corresponding to the first partial image, a fifth partial image corresponding to the second partial image, and a sixth partial mage corresponding to the third partial image to a second display device, displaying the second image on the second display device, receiving, by the first display device, a first touch input for a first input interface included in the third partial image, and receiving, by the first display device, a second touch input for at least one of the fourth, fifth partial image, and sixth partial images.
US11907600B2
A fordable electronic device may include a first display, a second display, and a processor. The processor is configured to: based on the electronic device being in a folded state and a screen being displayed through the second display, detect that unfolding of the electronic device has started; based on and angle exceeding a first angle, control the second display to be in an off state and display at least a portion of a screen displayed through the second display on a first area of the first display and a menu for controlling the screen displayed through the first area on a second area of the first display; and based on the angle exceeding a second angle greater than the first angle, display at least a portion of the screen displayed through the first area and the second area on the entire area of the first display.
US11907588B2
Aspects of the invention include identifying a first subsystem and a second subsystem of a plurality of subsystems respectively storing a first compressed data and a second compressed data, wherein the first compressed data and the second compressed data are fragments of a requested data. A compression method used to compress the first compressed data and second compressed data is identified. A first accelerator of first subsystem and a second accelerator of the second subsystem is identified. The first compressed data from a first local memory of the first subsystem is offloaded to the first accelerator, and the second compressed data from a second local memory of the second subsystem is offloaded to the second accelerator, wherein offloading comprises provided a decompression method for the first compressed data and the second compressed data.
US11907585B2
A method for execution by a storage unit in a dispersed storage network (DSN) includes selecting a storage zone of a memory device of the storage unit based on zone allocation parameters, and designating the selected storage zone as open for writes. A data slice is received via a network for storage. The data slice is written sequentially at a memory location of the one of storage zone based on determining that the storage zone is designated as open for writes. A pointer corresponding to the data slice that indicates the storage zone and the memory location is generated. A read request is received via the network from a requesting entity that indicates the data slice. The data slice is retrieved from the memory device based on the pointer, and is transmitted to the requesting entity.
US11907576B2
A method for communicating with at least one field device via an interface device, wherein each field device is connected to a channel of the interface device, where the method includes receiving a first command associated with a first field device, from an industrial device, communicating with the first field device over a first communication channel for executing the received first command, receiving at least one command associated with the at least one field device, from the industrial device, the at least one commands including at least one command associated with a second field device from the at least one field device, and caching the at least one command in a memory module prior to the execution of the first command.
US11907575B2
A memory controller includes: a first buffer configured to receive a memory request from a host and store therein the received memory request; a command generator configured to generate a first command corresponding to the memory request, and set a type of the first command indicating whether an address comprised in the memory request corresponds to a processing in memory (PIM) memory; a second buffer configured to store therein a plurality of commands comprising the first command; and a command scheduler configured to determine whether to change an order of the first command stored in the second buffer based on the type of the first command.
US11907565B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for storing a write data in a storage system that operates using a log-structured filing system is provided. The present invention may include compressing a write data. The present invention may also include identifying a region of a storage system based on a first size of the compressed write data. The present invention may further include the storage system operating using a log-structured filing system. The present invention may also include a different region of the storage system having a different compression ratio. The present invention may further include writing the compressed write data in the identified region of the storage system.
US11907557B2
Technologies for dividing work across one or more accelerator devices include a compute device. The compute device is to determine a configuration of each of multiple accelerator devices of the compute device, receive a job to be accelerated from a requester device remote from the compute device, and divide the job into multiple tasks for a parallelization of the multiple tasks among the one or more accelerator devices, as a function of a job analysis of the job and the configuration of each accelerator device. The compute engine is further to schedule the tasks to the one or more accelerator devices based on the job analysis and execute the tasks on the one or more accelerator devices for the parallelization of the multiple tasks to obtain an output of the job.
US11907551B2
Storage volumes are pre-provisioned in the operating system of a storage system before they are required to be assigned to an emulation on the storage system. Details of the previously created storage volumes are stored in a management database. If a storage volume is required, the process that needs the storage volume obtains details about a pre-provisioned storage volume from the management database, and instructs the storage system operating system to add the storage volume to a storage group for the process. By pre-provisioning storage volumes in the operating system, it is possible to greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to add storage volumes to processes. The number of storage volumes to be pre-created can be determined based on a regression between the previous storage volume usage and time, and a deterministically obtained value of a number of filesystems that will be created in an upcoming time interval.
US11907542B2
Aspects relate to Input/Output (IO) Memory Management Units (MMUs) that include hardware structures for implementing virtualization. Some implementations allow guests to setup and maintain device IO tables within memory regions to which those guests have been given permissions by a hypervisor. Some implementations provide hardware page table walking capability within the IOMMU, while other implementations provide static tables. Such static tables may be maintained by a hypervisor on behalf of guests. Some implementations reduce a frequency of interrupts or invocation of hypervisor by allowing transactions to be setup by guests without hypervisor involvement within their assigned device IO regions. Devices may communicate with IOMMU to setup the requested memory transaction, and completion thereof may be signaled to the guest without hypervisor involvement. Various other aspects will be evident from the disclosure.
US11907527B2
The present disclosure is directed to positioning animated images within a dynamic keyboard interface. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive, from a user device on which an application is executed, data indicating a context of: the application, and/or a dynamic keyboard interface provided in association with the application; identify, based at least in part on the data indicating the context, a plurality of different animated images, including an animated image comprising an advertisement, for presentation by the dynamic keyboard interface; communicate, to the user device, data indicating the plurality of different animated images; receive, from the user device, data indicating a selection of the animated image comprising the advertisement; and determine, based at least in part on the data indicating the selection and the data indicating the context, a position within the dynamic keyboard interface for presenting the animated image comprising the advertisement.
US11907526B2
A touch region adjustment method includes: determining a region on a touch display of a terminal device and in which a sensing parameter changes to determine a grasping gesture of a user for the terminal device; and adjusting a location of a touch response region on the touch display based on the grasping gesture of the user for the electronic device to avoid an accidental touch caused by the grasping gesture of the user for the screen of the terminal device.
US11907520B2
Provided is a method for configuring at least one rule, e.g., using a graphical user interface. The method may include displaying a graphical user interface including a polygon having at least three edges and an icon at a first position within the polygon. Each edge of the polygon may be associated with a potential outcome of at least one rule. An input to move the icon to a second position within the polygon may be received. The graphical user interface may be displayed with the icon at the second position within the polygon. A distance from the second position of the icon to each edge of the polygon may be determined. The rule(s) may be adjusted based on the distance from the second position of the icon to each edge of the polygon. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11907507B2
The present disclosure provides a control specification visualization program and a control specification visualization method for improving work efficiency when designing a plurality of processes to be executed in controlled devices. The control specification visualization program causes a computer to execute an input process for inputting processing contents of a plurality of processes to be executed in controlled devices, and a visualization process for visualizing a control specification by analyzing the processing contents of the plurality of processes. The visualization process visualizes the control specification by analyzing the processing contents of the plurality of processes based on at least any of operation control modes, a control operation range, input/output items, or meanings/purposes. The operation control modes, the control operation range, the input/output items, and the meanings/purposes are written in the processing contents of the plurality of processes.
US11907505B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computing device including a memory, a display device and a controller. The controller is programmed to provide to a first server a request for User Interface (UI) device configurations, provide to the first server configuration criteria associated with the request, receive configuration data associated with target UI device configurations from the first server, present a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on the display device based on the configuration data where the GUI displays selections for each of the target UI device configurations, provide a selection from among the selections of the target UI device configurations, and receive provisioning information from the first server that allows for implementing the selection of the target UI device configuration. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11907504B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to modifying and navigating building plans. In particular, one or more embodiments relate to a system that improves the ease and efficiency in which a user, through a client device, may view and use building plans comprised of a plurality of content items. The system may receive a plurality of content items associated with a building plan, combine sets of two or more content items representing a substructure, form locational links between the plurality of content items, and provide a navigational interface for display on a client device associated with a user through which the client device may navigate through the plurality of content items of the building plan. Further, alternate content items may be received and overlayed on corresponding content items. Any differences between the corresponding content items may be highlighted.
US11907493B2
An interactive demonstration application can be used to test and experience the use of overlay elements (e.g., application add-ons, such as an interactive chat overlay) on a graphical interface (e.g., of a website or a computer application) before fully integrating the overlay elements into the graphical interface. The interactive demonstration application can also be used to demonstrate and update the live settings of a live overlay element used on a live webpage.
US11907492B2
A control circuit controls an input apparatus to be used underwater. A sense pin is coupled to a sensor electrode arranged so as to allow the user wearing equipment to touch the sensor electrode. A capacitance sensor is coupled to the sense pin, and detects the electrostatic capacitance formed by the sensor electrode. When the electrostatic capacitance Cs detected by the capacitance sensor becomes lower than a predetermined threshold value, the processing unit judges that a touch input by the user has occurred.
US11907480B2
An assembly for holding and controlling curvature of a glass plate for an optical touch sensitive system is described. The assembly comprising a first frame element extending in a first plane and configured to extend at least partially around a panel; at least one second frame element extending in a second plane and forming a support portion for the plate, and at least one spacing element positioned at least partially between the support portion and the first frame element. The spacing element us configured to control a curvature of the first frame element and wherein the at least one second frame element is configured to engage the plate at the support portion, is attached to the first frame element, and is tiltable, by controlling the curvature of the first frame element with said spacing element, to control a curvature of the plate.
US11907471B2
A drive-sense circuit coupled to a variable current load. The drive-sense circuit includes an impedance reference circuit operable to generate an impedance reference signal. The drive-sense circuit further includes a regulated voltage source circuit operable to generate a regulated voltage signal based on an analog regulation signal, where the regulated voltage signal is provided on a line to the variable current load to keep a load impedance on the line substantially matching the impedance reference signal, and where a current of the variable current load affects the regulated voltage signal. The drive-sense circuit further includes a voltage loop correction circuit operable to generate a comparison signal based on the impedance reference signal and the load impedance, where the comparison signal represents the current, and where the analog regulation signal is representative of the comparison signal.
US11907470B2
A touch display device and a touch sensing system are disclosed. When a touch controller transmits or receives data to or from a plurality of touch driving circuits through a common line, the touch driving circuit that does not transmit a sensing completion signal to the touch controller may identify whether a malfunctioned state occurs based on an operation state when a read command is received from the touch controller and may transmit transformed sensing data to the touch controller. Accordingly, the touch controller easily identifies the malfunctioned state of the touch driving circuit and performs control according to a type of the malfunctioned state, thereby preventing or reducing the performance degradation of touch sensing due to a malfunction of the touch driving circuit.
US11907464B2
A signal to be used to propagate a propagating signal through a propagating medium with a touch input surface is sent. The propagating signal has been allowed to propagate through the propagating medium to a plurality of receivers coupled to the propagating medium. A received signal affected by a contact contacting the touch input surface is received. At least a portion of the received signal is compared with one or more reference signal signatures.
US11907461B2
A touch circuit includes: a touch IC; a first pull-up sub-circuit; a second pull-up sub-circuit; a first switching sub-circuit configured to transmit a signal from a data signal input terminal to a data signal port under control of a signal from a first signal input terminal; and a second switching sub-circuit configured to transmit a signal from a clock signal input terminal to a clock signal port under control of the signal from the first signal input terminal. The signal from the data signal input terminal is transmitted to the first switching sub-circuit earlier than the signal from the first signal input terminal, and the signal from the clock signal input terminal is transmitted to the second switching sub-circuit earlier than the signal from the first signal input terminal.
US11907459B2
According to an aspect, a touch detection device includes: drive electrodes, a drive signal being input to each of the drive electrodes; and a first drive electrode included in the drive electrodes and divided into subdivided electrodes. An arrangement pitch of the subdivided electrodes is finer than an arrangement pitch of the drive electrodes, the drive electrodes are configured to perform a touch detection in a first sensing period and in a second sensing period, and the subdivided electrodes are driven collectively in the first sensing period and driven individually in the second sensing period.
US11907456B2
Provided are a touch substrate, a display panel, and a touch display device. The touch substrate, including: a base substrate; a conductive layer on the base substrate, the conductive layer being a single-layer structure, and the conductive layer including a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of leads electrically connected with the plurality of touch electrodes; where: a first grid-like structure is formed between adjacent leads, and a first disconnection line is arranged between the adjacent leads in the first grid-like structure; the touch electrodes have a second grid-like structure, and the second grid-like structure includes a plurality of breakpoints; and a connection line between the plurality of breakpoints has a substantially same shape as the first disconnection line.
US11907455B2
Disclosed is an input sensing part that includes sensing electrodes disposed in an active area, a first ground pattern disposed in an inactive area around the active area, a first ground pad disposed in the inactive area and electrically connected to the first ground pattern, a first antenna pattern insulated from the sensing electrodes and disposed in the active area, a first signal pad that extends from the first antenna pattern and disposed in the inactive area, a 1-1-th ground pad disposed adjacent to the first signal pad and electrically connected to the first ground pattern, and a 1-2-th ground pad disposed adjacent to the first signal pad.
US11907451B2
The present application provides a touch electrode structure and a touch display panel, wherein the first touch electrodes include a plurality of main electrodes connected end to end along a first direction and continuously conducted and branch electrodes connected to the main electrodes, each of the branch electrodes includes a first branch portion and a second branch portion which are arranged crosswise; and a plurality of second touch electrodes, such that the RC delay of the first touch electrodes is effectively reduced, the time required for screen scanning is reduced, and the touch report rate is thereby effectively increased.
US11907449B2
A control knob for controlling operation of a machine, the control knob including: an attachment surface configured for attaching the control knob to a surface of the machine; a display member comprising an electronic display module disposed thereon; a motion sensor configured for sensing motion of the user's hand, said sensor being operably-connected to the display member such that, responsive to the motion sensor sensing motion of the user's hand, the display member is configured to switch operation from a sleep mode into an active mode; an operational mode display controller for controlling display of operational modes of the machine upon the electronic display module, said operational mode display controller being configured for rotational movement around the electronic display module amongst a plurality of rotational positions, said operational mode display controller being operably connected with the electronic display module such that, responsive to the rotational movement of the operational mode display controller amongst the plurality of rotational positions, the electronic display module is configured to display a plurality of operational modes of the machine corresponding to the plurality of rotational positions; and an operational mode selector for controlling selection of one of the plurality of operational modes of the machine when said one of the plurality of operational modes is displayed on the electronic display module, the operational mode selector being configured for depressible movement to actuate selection of the operational mode displayed on the electronic display module.
US11907444B1
An information handling system mouse includes a sliding power button on a bottom surface that slides to actuate a power switch on and off. When slid to an on position, the sliding power button is freed to move inward to actuate a tactile button under the sliding power button, such as with an end user inward push. In the off position the sliding power button catches under lip that prevents an inward push at the tactile button. Dual motion of the sliding power button offers intuitive varied end user interactions with a single button structure to save space at the mouse bottom surface.
US11907442B1
An information handling system mouse includes a motion power switch that applies power to the mouse when the mouse is moved in a powered down state to restart the mouse processing resource and position sensor. When a mouse is inactive for predetermined conditions, such as an idle time, the processing resource enables the motion power switch and cuts off power to the mouse. The motion power switch consumes no power until motion of the mouse closes a circuit that reactivates the processing resource to manage the mouse power state. The result is a mouse idle state with no power use and a rapid wake to an operational state.
US11907440B2
A method of a navigation sensor circuit includes: monitoring at least one polling request signal sent from a microcontroller during a variable time interval, wherein the microcontroller is externally coupled to the navigation sensor circuit; calculating at least one polling rate of the microcontroller according to the at least one polling request signal; and dynamically adjusting a sensor frame rate of the navigation sensor circuit according the at least one polling rate, wherein an image sensor of the navigation sensor circuit operates and captures images to generate and output displacement data based on the sensor frame rate.
US11907438B2
An electronic label keyboard includes a display unit disposed on each content area of a keyswitch, a microprocessor, an input module and an output module. The input module receives and reads at least one keyswitch content file provided by an external device, when the microprocessor is activated from a shutdown mode or a hibernate mode, it reads the file analysis software to analyze a keyswitch label content file and outputs a plurality of the keyswitch display signals, so that the output module controls the plurality of display units according to the plurality of keyswitch display signals to output label contents corresponding to the plurality of keyswitch display signals.
US11907436B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes detecting input representing motion of an electronic device and sampling an audio input with a microphone of the electronic device. The example process further includes determining, based on the audio input and the input representing motion of the electronic device, whether to initiate a virtual assistant session. In accordance with a determination to initiate the virtual assistant session, the example process includes initiating the virtual assistant session. In accordance with a determination not to initiate the virtual assistant session, the example process includes forgoing initiating the virtual assistant session.
US11907428B1
A touch device includes a touch panel, a circuit board, a vibrating unit and a pressure detection module. The touch panel includes two press regions. When different press regions of the touch panel are pressed by the user, the vibration feedback values generated by different press regions are different.
US11907426B2
An electronic device has a housing that forms an exterior surface of the electronic device. An array of actuators is coupled to the housing and is operable to move the housing in order to produce sound waves and/or haptic output via the exterior surface. In this way, less space is consumed by acoustic and haptic devices as compared to similar conventional devices, thereby allowing for thinner electronic devices and/or room for other components within the housing. The actuators may be operable to move different regions of the housing to produce sound waves and/or haptic output within different frequency ranges.
US11907419B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein are related to an intelligent UI element selection system using eye-gaze technology. In some example aspects, a UI element selection zone may be determined. The selection zone may be defined as an area surrounding a boundary of the UI element. Gaze input may be received and the gaze input may be compared with the selection zone to determine an intent of the user. The gaze input may comprise one or more gaze locations. Each gaze location may be assigned a value according to its proximity to the UI element and/or its relation to the UI element's selection zone. Each UI element may be assigned a threshold. If the aggregated value of gaze input is equal to or greater than the threshold for the UI element, then the UI element may be selected.
US11907408B2
A device comprising a processing unit having a plurality of processors is provided. At least one encryption unit is provided as part of the device for encrypting data written by the processors to external storage and decrypting data read from that storage. The processors are divided into different sets, with state information held in the encryption unit for performing encryption/decryption operations for requests for different sets of processors. This enables interleaved read completions or write requests from different sets of processors to be handled by the encryption unit, since associated state information for each set of processors is independently maintained.
US11907398B2
Systems and methods are provided for implementing stand-in network identities. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a communication device associated with a user, an on-behalf-of (OBO) request from the user to share permission data with a relying party and, in response to the OBO request, generating a permission request for the permission data and transmitting the permission request to the communication device associated with the user. The method also includes receiving, from the communication device associated with the user, consent from the user to share the permission data with the relying party. The method then includes identifying, in a data structure, an OBO permission for the user with respect to the PII and in response to identifying the OBO permission for the user, transmitting the permission data identified in the OBO request to the relying party.
US11907396B2
Described are methods and systems for using policies to comply with a person's request for data pertaining to the person, pursuant to applicable data privacy laws. A policy is retrieved responsive to receiving a query that includes data to identify records that store data pertaining to the person. The policy indicates first and second database objects, and respective first and second sets of fields, which store data that pertains to persons. The policy is applied. Applying the policy includes retrieving, as first values, data stored in the first set of fields of a first record associated with the data in the query, and retrieving, as second values, data stored in the second set of fields of a second record associated with the first record. The first and second values, and the names of the fields from which they were retrieved, are stored in a document.
US11907395B1
Techniques for identity resolution and data enrichment include configuring, during an onboarding process at an account of a data provider, at least one parameter associated with access to identity resolution functions by an account of a data consumer. A first shared data object is generated at the account of the data provider. The first shared data object corresponds to a second shared data object at the account of the data consumer. The second shared data object at the account of the data consumer is enabled for sharing of log data associated with an application executing at the account of the data consumer. The application is enabled for an identity resolution process based on the detecting of the second shared data object. Source data associated with the identity resolution functions is encoded for communication to the application at the account of the data consumer based on the enabling.
US11907385B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for executing process flows. A package including flow permission metadata indicating a set of flow permissions associated with a set of flows is obtained. Upon receiving a request to initiate execution of a flow in the set of flows, the flow permission metadata is accessed. The flow includes a plurality of flow elements, where each of the flow elements represents a corresponding set of computer-readable instructions. Based upon the set of flow permissions of the flow permission metadata, it is determined whether the user is permitted to execute the flow. Execution of the flow is initiated upon determining that the user is permitted to execute the flow. During execution of the flow, flow performance data such as an identification of paths of the flow that have been traversed may be obtained, where each of the paths corresponds to one or more of the flow elements. Metrics associated with the flow can be updated based, at least in part, on the flow performance data. An indication of the set of metrics can be provided for presentation via a display.
US11907383B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for implementing real-time redaction in a workflow configurable environment. The present invention is configured to electronically receive, from a user input device, a request to load at least one user interface associated with an application; initiate a real-time content redaction engine on contents of the one or more fields associated with the at least one user interface in response to receiving the request, wherein initiating further comprises: parsing one or more embedded structures associated with the one or more fields; identifying private information in the one or more fields based on at least parsing the one or more embedded structures; and masking the private information in the one or more fields; and load the at least one user interface associated with the application in response to masking the private information in the one or more fields.
US11907379B2
In some examples, a computing device creates an event log when an event occurs. If the event log includes a path comprising one or more components, the computing device may determine a hash, using a hash function and a salt, for each of the components and substitute each component in the path with an index to the hash stored in a dictionary. In this way, the computing device replaces each component of the path with an index to a hash in the dictionary to create a modified path. The resulting modified path can be traversed and searched. For example, a search term may be hashed using the hash function and salt, and the dictionary associated with the logs searched for a match. In this way, a particular file name or a particular folder name can be identified in the modified path.
US11907372B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to monitor unique usage characteristics (e.g., system device usage) of an individual information handling system, and to determine a unique system pre-boot interface (PBI) configuration for the individual information handling system based on these monitored unique usage characteristics. The provided systems and methods may also be implemented to automatically update pre-boot interface security configuration for system devices based on the monitored usage characteristics of the individual information handling system.
US11907371B2
A method for detecting a microarchitectural attack on a trusted execution environment (TEE) and/or a violation of an expected execution flow of an application running in the TEE includes implementing a counting thread. An eviction set is loaded in a transaction. The eviction set corresponds to a cache set used by an operation of the application such that a transactional abort is received upon the operation being executed. A value of the counting thread is read upon receiving the transactional abort. These steps are repeated for a next operation of the application running in the TEE and an execution time is measured for the operation based on a difference between the values of the counting thread. The measured execution time for the operation is compared with an expected execution time to detect one or more variations that indicate the microarchitectural attack and/or the violation of the expected execution flow.
US11907368B1
Anomalous activities on a computer network are detected from audit or sign-in activity information of a target entity as recorded in an audit or sign-in log. A baseline graph of the target entity is generated using information on activities of the target entity during a collection period. A predict graph of the target entity is generated with information on activities of the target entity during another collection period, which follows and is shorter than the earlier collection period. A residual graph that indicates nodes or edges that are in the predict graph but not in the baseline graph is generated. The residual graph is scored and the score is compared to a threshold to determine whether the target entity has performed an anomalous activity.
US11907367B2
A dormant account identifier is disclosed. An inactive account can be determined based on whether a user activity of the account is outside a threshold amount. A determination can be made as to whether the inactive account is a dormant account based on account activity of a peer account to the inactive account.
US11907364B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for managing incompliances of application instances running in a cloud environment. Compliance requests can be generated for incompliant instances of cloud applications running on a cloud platform. In response, compliance checks for the one or more incompliant instances of cloud applications running on the cloud platform can be automatically executed. Incompliances can be identified by different compliance monitors instantiated at the cloud platform. Each compliance monitor is responsible for a particular type of incompliances. In response to identifying that a first instance of a first cloud application has a first type of incompliance, a maintenance action to be automatically executed by a first compliance maintainer running on the cloud platform is scheduled. The first compliance maintainer executes automatically a compliance measurement action for the first type of incompliance.
US11907359B2
Cloud storage systems and methods are described for providing event-based user state synchronization among the various cloud elements. A global user directory is maintained on a remote cloud storage system. The global user directory includes a plurality of global user definitions associated with a plurality of user accounts, where each of the user accounts has access to at least one of a remote file system hosted by the remote cloud storage system and a local file system hosted by a local cloud storage system. As global user definition are altered on the remote cloud storage system, user events are generated and communicated to the local cloud storage system, where they are applied to synchronize the local user definitions with the global user definitions. The invention facilitates centralized control of user definitions, near real-time event delivery to local cloud storage systems, and separation of authentication processes from customers' active directory services.
US11907351B2
A method including receiving, by a second user device, an authentication message indicating that the second user device is to authenticate a first user device with a service provider that provides a service to the first user device; determining, by the second user device, one or more authentication factors associated with authenticating the first user device with the service provider; encrypting, by the second user device, the one or more authentication factors based at least in part on utilizing an encryption key associated with a trusted device included in the first user device; and transmitting, by the second user device, one or more encrypted authentication factors to enable authentication of the first user device with the service provider is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11907346B1
Systems and methods may generally be used to authenticate a user. An example method may include capturing an image of a portion of a face of a user, retrieving, based on identification information, a registered model of the face from a database, and comparing the portion of the face in the captured image to a facial feature of the registered model. In response to determining that the portion of the captured image matches the facial feature of the registered model, the method may include granting access to secure content.
US11907343B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the accuracy of authentication questions using transaction limitations provided by users. A request for access to an account associated with a user may be received from a user device. An account restrictions database may be queried to determine one or more transaction rules associated with the account. The one or more transaction rules may have been created by the user and indicate limitations on financial transactions that may be performed via the account. An authentication question may be generated that is associated with a violation of the one or more transaction rules. The authentication question may be provided to the user device, and a response to the authentication question may be received. Access to the account may be provided to the user device based on the response.
US11907342B2
In some aspects, a user device may detect an authentication event associated with unlocking the user device. The user device may determine, based at least in part on sensor data from a sensor of the user device, an environmental context of the user device. The user device may select, from a plurality of authentication functions of the user device, an authentication function based at least in part on the environmental context of the user device. The user device may activate an authentication component that is associated with the authentication function to authenticate a user in association with unlocking the user device. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11907329B2
A convolution calculation apparatus applied for convolution calculation of a convolution layer includes a decompression circuit, a data combination circuit and a calculation circuit. The decompression circuit decompresses compressed weighting data of a convolution kernel of the convolution layer to generate decompressed weighting data. The data combination circuit combines the decompressed weighting data and non-compressed data of the convolution kernel to restore a data order of weighting data of the convolution kernel. The calculation circuit performs calculation according to the weighting data of the convolution kernel and input data of the convolution layer. Since the compressed weighting data of the convolution kernel is transmitted to the convolution calculation apparatus in advance, the compressed weighting data is first decompressed and then convolution calculation is performed accordingly, hence reducing the storage amount and transmission bandwidth used by the convolution kernel in an electronic apparatus.
US11907328B2
A method of manufacturing an apparatus is provided. The apparatus is formed on a wafer or a package. The apparatus includes a polynomial generator, a plurality of matrix generators connected to an output of the polynomial generator, and a convolution generator connected to an output of the plurality of matrix generators. The apparatus is tested using one or more electrical to optical converters, one or more optical splitters, and one or more optical to electrical converters.
US11907327B2
Provided is an arithmetic method of performing convolution operation in convolutional layers of a neutral network by calculating matrix products. The arithmetic method includes: determining, for each of the convolutional layers, whether an amount of input data to be inputted to the convolutional layer is smaller than or equal to a predetermined amount of data; selecting a first arithmetic mode and performing convolution operation in the first arithmetic mode, when the amount of input data is determined to be smaller than or equal to the predetermined amount of data in the determining; selecting a second arithmetic mode and performing convolution operation in the second arithmetic mode, when the amount of input data is determined to be larger than the predetermined amount of data in the determining; and outputting output data which is a result obtained by performing convolution operation.
US11907314B2
Methods and systems for generating an integrated structure for the data from disparate data domains that may be used to aggregate, compare, and/or provide recommendations based on the data available from the disparate domains. The integrated structure may further be accessible to users to perform functions (e.g., searches, filtering operations, etc.) in real-time and receive outputs (e.g., in a user interface).
US11907313B2
An online recommendation system can choose recipes to recommend to a customer based on a set of ingredients the customer is inferred to have on hand (a customer pantry model). For example, the recommendation system can look at recent or historical purchases made by the customer and determine what items the customer still has available based on an assumed shelf life for the purchased items. Using the customer pantry model, the recommendation system selects recipes based on overlapping ingredients between recipe's ingredient lists and ingredients available to the customer (including the customer pantry model and their current shopping cart). In some implementations, the recommendation system first selects a set of candidate recipes based on the overlap, then selects the final set of recipes to recommend based on a score optimization (for example, performed using a machine learning model).
US11907309B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for facilitating user engagement with a bot. One example method includes receiving user input indicative of a user activity. Responsive to the user input, a first server accesses a sequence specification for implementing the user activity. The sequence specification comprises a sequence of interactions with a plurality of service servers. The first server executes the sequence specification by invoking the plurality of service servers to provide services to implement the user activity in accordance with the sequence of interactions specified by the sequence specification.
US11907297B2
An upper-level integrated processing device recognizes an inquiry, generates a search request in a primitive form to be output to each of the individual AI search devices in response to the inquiry, receives an individual reply and the probability thereof corresponding to the search request in the primitive form from a plurality of individual AI search devices, normalizes the probabilities of the individual replies from the individual AI search devices to acquire normalized probabilities, and generates an inquiry reply corresponding to the individual replies and the normalized probabilities thereof, and the lower-level individual AI search device searches Individual AI database using artificial intelligence in response to reception of the search request in the primitive form, acquires an individual reply and the probability thereof, and outputs the same in the primitive form to the integrated processing device. The upper-level devices output reply using a plurality of AI search devices in combination.
US11907296B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for enumerating relationships in an object graph using traversal context objects that are decoupled from the implementation details of an object graph and the objects stored therein. An example method generally includes receiving a request to traverse an object graph, the object graph including a plurality of objects. A root context object is generated, and a traversal context object associated with a root node of the object graph is generated. The traversal context object is linked to the root context object and added to a traversal data structure. The graph is traversed by adding and removing traversal context objects to and from the traversal data structure until a terminating event occurs.
US11907295B2
Provided is a method for reverse real-time matching based on event-driven graph patterns. The method includes definition of a graph pattern, establishment of reverse matching architecture and a reverse matching method; and the graph pattern is used for describing a spatial connection relationship among vertices and edges in a graph in a reverse order and attribute constraints thereof, and includes a linked list of matching steps and matching contexts. Reverse real-time matching of the graph pattern is realized according to the reverse matching architecture, and the problem of event-driven subgraph matching in a real-time scene is solved.
US11907291B2
A system for integrated analysis and management of video data includes a routing server configured to receive video data from an external input video providing device, a video database configured to store the received video data, a video analyzing server cluster including a plurality of video analyzing servers configured to analyze the video data, a metadata database configured to store metadata of the video data, and a video search server configured to search the metadata database and the video database. As described in various embodiments of the present disclosure, the system can perform integrated analysis of various video data received from a number of channels and provide an analysis result, and can also rapidly provide an accurate search result in response to a user's request for search.
US11907288B2
Example systems and methods are audio identification based on data structure are disclosed. An example apparatus includes memory, and one or more processors to execute instructions to execute a constant Q transform on query time slices of query audio, binarize the constant Q transformed query time slices, execute a two-dimensional Fourier transform on query time windows within the binarized and constant Q transformed query time slices to generate two-dimensional Fourier transforms of the query time windows, sequentially order the two-dimensional Fourier transforms in a query data structure, and identify the query audio as a cover rendition of reference audio based on a comparison between the query data structure and a reference data structure associated with the reference audio.
US11907285B2
Concepts and technologies directed to surrogate metadata aggregation for dynamic content assembly are disclosed. Embodiments can include a system that comprises a processor and a memory that stores computer-executable instructions that configure a processor to perform operations. The operations can include obtaining a first visual content from a digital data store, where the first visual content is configured to digitally represent a first scene. The operations can include performing image recognition on the first visual content so as to identify a second visual content that is digitally configured to represent a second scene. The operations can include determining that native original metadata cannot be obtained for the first visual content, where the native original metadata includes information about the first scene digitally represented by the first visual content. The operation can include generating surrogate metadata for the first visual content based on metadata obtained from the second visual content.
US11907276B2
Some implementations are directed to generating a personal database entry for a user based on free-form natural language input formulated by the user via one or more user interface input devices of a computing device of the user. The generated personal database entry may include one or more terms of the natural language input and descriptive metadata determined based on one or more terms of the natural language input and/or based on contextual features associated with receiving the natural language input. Some implementations are directed to generating, based on one or more personal database entries of a user, output that is responsive to further free-form natural language input of the user. For example, one or more entries that are responsive to further natural language input of the user can be identified based on matching content of those entries to one or more search parameters determined based on the further input.
US11907261B2
Techniques are provided for timestamp consistency. An operation targeting a first storage object having a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage object is intercepted. A timestamp is assigned to the operation. A replication operation is created as a replication of the operation. The same timestamp is assigned to the replication operation. The operation is implemented upon the first storage object and the replication operation is implemented upon the second storage object.
US11907258B2
Replicas are selected in a large distributed network, and the roles for these replicas are identified. In one example, a leader is selected from among candidate computing clusters. To make this selection, an activity monitor predicts or monitors the workload of one or more clients. Different activities of the workload are given corresponding weights. The delay in performing requested activities, modified by these weights is found, and the candidate leader with the lowest weighted delay is selected as the leader.
US11907257B2
A computer system and computer-implemented method for duplicating an application state are provided, the method including: recording one or more point-in-time characteristics generated by prior user inputs at one or more user interface elements, the one or more point-in-time characteristics associated with a first application state of a first application instance; transferring the one or more point-in-time characteristics to the provisioned memory resources for generating the second application state; generating a second application instance based on the one or more point-in-time characteristics; configuring the second application state based on the one or more point-in-time characteristics to duplicate the first application state of the first application instance; and storing the prior user inputs in a journal, wherein the journal is configured to enable reproduction of a state of a plurality of modified states of the first application instance.
US11907247B2
Techniques and solutions are described for storing and processing metadata models using a metadata hub that can be accessed by a plurality of computing systems. The metadata hub can receive requests to retrieve or store metadata models. The metadata models can be converted between first and second formats. In some cases, the second format can be a relational format, such as a representation of a metadata model as one or more records in one or more database tables. The metadata hub can be used to compare metadata models, including comparing a metadata model provided by a client system with one or more metadata models stored in a repository maintained by the metadata hub. In at least some cases, the metadata model provided by the client system is not stored. The repository can be queried to find related metadata models, or to find metadata models meeting specified search criteria.
US11907245B2
A computer implemented processing service for efficient streaming of data input from one or more sources to one or more receivers is disclosed. The processing service includes a schema manager that receives commands from a tenant of the data stream processing service. The processing service includes a processing services gateway that validates the data and sends the data to a transformation processor. The transformation processor receives the data and parses the data into the one or more data formats in accordance with the instructions and sends the data in the one or more data formats to an egress service. The egress service outputs the data in the one or more data formats to the one or more receivers, each receiver receiving the data in a data pipeline in one of the one or more formats.
US11907244B2
A field extraction template simplifies the creation of field extraction rules by providing a user with a set of field names commonly assigned to a certain type of data, as well as guidance on how to extract values for those fields. These field extraction rules, in turn, facilitate access to certain “chunks” of the data, or to information derived from those chunks, through named fields. A field extraction template comprises at least a set of field names and ordering data for the field names. The ordering data indicates index positions that are associated with at least some of the field names. A delimiter is specified for splitting data items into arrays of chunks. The chunk of a data item that belongs to a given field name is the chunk whose position within the item's array of chunks is equivalent to the index position associated with the given field name.
US11907240B2
A method, implemented on at least one computing device each of which has at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for presenting a search result in a search result card, the method includes receiving from a user, an input associated with a search query; fetching one or more search results in accordance with the search query; generating a search result card for each of the one or more search results; and presenting to the user, one or more search result cards as a response to the search query, the one or more search result cards corresponding to the one or more search results, respectively.
US11907236B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for fuzzy-searches on encrypted messages include maintaining, in an indexer, a dictionary of words appearing in a message history. Upon receiving a query including at least one search term, a fuzzy search of the dictionary using the at least one search term is performed to determine one or more fuzzy-matching words in the dictionary, and one or more search tokens are generated from the one or more fuzzy-matching words, the one or more search tokens including encrypted versions of the one or more fuzzy-matching words. The one or more search tokens are provided to a search service for searching a database of encrypted messages of the message history, where the at least one search term may not have an exact match with any of the words in the dictionary.
US11907232B2
The present technology provides for facilitating efficient identification of relevant metrics. In one embodiment, a set of candidate metrics for which to determine relevance to a user is identified. For each candidate metric, a set of distribution parameters is determined, including a first distribution parameter based on implicit positive feedback associated with the metric and usage data associated with the metric and a second distribution parameter based on the usage data associated with the metric. Such usage data can efficiently facilitate identifying relevance even with an absence of negative feedback. Using the set of distribution parameters, a corresponding distribution is generated. Each distribution can then be sampled to identify a relevance score for each candidate metric indicating an extent of relevance of the corresponding metric. Based on the relevance scores for each candidate metric, a candidate metric is designated as relevant to the user.
US11907223B2
Aspects described herein relate to executing a compiled user defined function (UDF) in an interpreted database query engine. A database query that invokes a UDF defined in an interpreted programming language can be received, and a shared library produced by compiling the UDF can be loaded during database runtime. The UDF can be executed via the shared library during the invocation of the database query, or another database query, in the interpreted database query engine.
US11907222B1
In some examples, a system determines whether a chain of functions violates a constraint, based on accessing a tracking structure populated with entries as the functions are invoked by respective server processes launched during execution of a database operation, where each entry of the entries of the tracking structure identifies a respective invoked function that is associated with a corresponding program instance, and detecting, using the tracking structure, related functions that form the chain, the related functions being identified as related if associated with a same program instance. In response to determining that the chain of the functions violates the constraint, the system blocks an invocation of a further function to be added to the chain.
US11907219B2
A node includes a plurality of processing core resources. Each processing core resource of the plurality of processing core resources includes a corresponding processing module, a corresponding memory interface module, a corresponding memory device, and a corresponding cache memory. The plurality of processing core resources of the node is operable to collectively perform corresponding operations of the node. Each processing core resource of the plurality of processing core resources of the node is operable to perform operations independently from other ones of the plurality of processing core resources of the node.
US11907216B2
A fusion query method and a multi-model database (MMDB) framework are provided, to add a capability of extending a foreign engine in a relational database engine and manage metadata of the foreign extensible engine by using a user table. This minimizes intrusion to the relational database engine, and implements dynamic loading and unloading of the foreign engine during runtime. Therefore, a maintenance interface and uniform data access to a multi-model database such as a relational database, a graph database, or a time series database are provided for a user, so that learning and use costs of operation and maintenance personnel and application development personnel are reduced, and security of data use is improved.
US11907214B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to conditionally caching responses to automated assistant queries according to certain contextual data that may be associated with each automated assistant query. Each query can be identified based on historical interactions between a user and an automated assistant, and—depending on the query, fulfillment data can be cached according to certain contextual data that influences the query response. Depending on how the contextual data changes, a cached response stored at a client device can be discarded and/or replaced with an updated cached response. For example, a query that users commonly ask prior to leaving for work can have a corresponding assistant response that depends on features of an environment of the users. This unique assistant response can be cached, before the users provide the query, to minimize latency that can occur when network or processing bandwidth is unpredictable.
US11907213B2
A query processing method including decomposing an SQL into logical plans based on data source feature information, to obtain a logical plan set, where the data source feature information is stored in an internal storage space of the query engine; generating physical plans for the logical plan set based on the data source feature information, to obtain a physical plan set; determining query costs of the physical plan set based on the data source feature information, to obtain a physical plan with a highest priority; and executing the physical plan with the highest priority, to obtain a query result queried by a user.
US11907211B2
Disclosed is a data exploration management method, including: acquiring data input by a user, where the data includes data content and an exploration variable; acquiring a pre-stored flow selected by the user, where the pre-stored flow is used to perform data exploration on the data; acquiring an operation, a method, and flow program code of the pre-stored flow, and generating and storing output program code; running the output program code, and acquiring and storing a running result; and displaying the pre-stored flow, the output program code, and the running result. According to the foregoing method, scientific management on a data exploration process ensures that the data exploration process is repeatable, and that an operation and a method of the data exploration process can be invoked, shared, and reused in real time.
US11907203B2
Example embodiments facilitate creation of efficient tree structures (and strategic modification of and manipulation of existing tree structures), such that the resulting tree structures enable rapid computing operations, including, but not limited to, rapid relational set operations (e.g., joining trees, comparing tree structures, determining structural similarities of trees, adding tree nodes, removing or replacing tree nodes, accessing tree data, updating tree data, and so on). An example method relates to a method and/or system for creating and manipulating tree data structures (also simply called trees herein) as, for example, in relational databases. One embodiment uses compact bit-wise path encoding that stores structural data related to tree branches to which a current node belongs. The embodiment facilitates manipulating a representation of a tree and includes traversing at least a portion of the tree from a starting node, and then for each traversed node, modifying node metadata depending on whether or not the traversed node is a sibling node or a child node.
US11907194B2
The disclosed systems and methods can comprise executing a modeling sequence comprising a first model and a second model, obtaining a first result from the first model being used as an input for the second model to obtain a second result, hashing data representative of a first configuration and a second configuration to create a first hash and a second hash, respectively, storing the first result in a first location and the second result in a second location, receiving one or more configuration changes to the second model thereby creating a third configuration associated with the second model, hashing data representative of the third configuration to create a third hash, receiving a request to rerun the modeling sequence, determining that the first configuration is associated with the first model, and providing the first result to the second model without rerunning the first model.
US11907192B1
Systems and methods are provided for master-to-master OT-based artifact peering. A “master-to-master” architecture for artifacts is implemented in a network comprising a plurality of nodes and clients, where no node is designated a “master” or “primary” for a given artifact. A first node receives a subset of remote proposed operations from a second node and determines if a conflict exists between the received subset of remote proposed operations and at least one of a plurality of locally-proposed operations. The first node resolves the conflict based on a total-ordering agreed upon between the first node and the second node. The first node transforms at least one operation, either received or locally-proposed, based on the resolved conflict. The first node than updates a local log to include the transformed operation.
US11907191B2
Methods and systems for managing data processing systems are disclosed. A data processing system may include hardware and/or software components. The operation of the data processing system may depend on the operation of these components. To manage the operation of the data processing system, a system may include a data processing system manager. The data processing system manager may obtain logs for components of the data processing system reflecting the historical operation of these components and use the log to predict the future operation of the data processing system, identify similar operation of other data processing systems, and/or for other purposes. Based on the predictions, the data processing system manager may take action to reduce the likelihood of the data processing system becoming impaired.
US11907181B2
Techniques for generating a schema for a data input file are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer receives a data input file. The server computer system selects a sample excerpt from the data input which comprises a subset of the data input file. The server computer system analyzes the sample excerpt to determine a row delimiter for the data input file, a column delimiter for the data input file, and a plurality of data format types. Using the column delimiter, row delimiter, and plurality of data format types, the server computer system generates a candidate schema for the data input file.
US11907176B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: receiving a request for a lock on a page from a virtual database amongst two or more virtual databases, the virtual database including a number of containers respectively corresponding to the same number of database components of the virtual database. A copy of the page is refreshed with a latest copy of the page in an overall cache prior to granting the lock based on ascertaining that the page is not locked by any other virtual database. The virtual database is granted with the lock and have an exclusive access to the page.
US11907173B1
Systems and methods are provided for exposing disparate storage systems and technologies to compute instances through a unified file system interface that is agnostic to the underlying storage systems and technologies. A file system namespace service may provide the ability to compose a file system from different storage technologies and systems (e.g., block storage, object storage, etc.). The file system namespace service may also provide the ability to layer different storage services (e.g., by treating local block storage volume as a write back cache, by treating a file system as a read-through cache in front of an object storage service, etc.), and/or the ability to bind virtual files to other compute instances and/or storage systems.
US11907170B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for switching serialization techniques for handling concurrent write requests to a shared file. A first node serializes write requests from client nodes to write to the shared file. The first node determines whether to switch to a second node to manage write quests to the shared file based on a pattern of write requests to the shared file. The client nodes are notified to direct write requests to the shared file to the second node in response to determining to switch to the second node. The second node processes write requests to the shared file to serialize writes to the shared file after the client nodes are notified to submit the write requests to the shared file to the second node.
US11907160B2
This disclosure relates to a distributed processing system for configuring multiple processing channels. The distributed processing system includes a main processor, such as an ARM processor, communicatively coupled to a plurality of co-processors, such as stream processors. The co-processors can execute instructions in parallel with each other and interrupt the ARM processor. Longer latency instructions can be executed by the main processor and lower latency instructions can be executed by the co-processors. There are several ways that a stream can be triggered in the distributed processing system. In an embodiment, the distributed processing system is a stream processor system that includes an ARM processor and stream processors configured to access different register sets. The stream processors can include a main stream processor and stream processors in respective transmit and receive channels. The stream processor system can be implemented in a radio system to configure the radio for operation.
US11907158B2
A vector processor with a vector first and multi-lane configuration. A vector operation for a vector processor can include a single vector or multiple vectors as input. Multiple lanes for the input can be used to accelerate the operation in parallel. And, a vector first configuration can enhance the multiple lanes by reducing the number of elements accessed in the lanes to perform the operation in parallel.
US11907153B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the managed systems may need to operate in a predetermined manner conducive to, for example, execution of applications that provide the computer implemented services. Similarly, the managed system may need access to certain hardware resources (e.g., and also software resources such as drivers, firmware, etc.) to provide the desired computer implemented services. To improve the likelihood of the computer implemented services being provided, the managed devices may be managed using a subscription based model. The subscription model may utilize a highly accessible service to obtain information regarding desired capabilities (e.g., a subscription) of a managed system, and use the acquired information to automatically configure and manage the features and capabilities of the managed systems.
US11907152B2
A reconfigurable server includes improved bandwidth connection to adjacent servers and allows for improved access to near-memory storage and for an improved ability to provision resources for an adjacent server. The server includes processor array and a near-memory accelerator module that includes near-memory and the near-memory accelerator module helps provide sufficient bandwidth between the processor array and near-memory. A hardware plane module can be used to provide additional bandwidth and interconnectivity between adjacent servers and/or adjacent switches.
US11907151B2
Described are methods for configuring computing system for and computing systems for PCIe communication between remote computing assets. The system uses a fabric interface device configured to receive multi-lane serial PCIe data from functional elements of a computing asset through a multi-lane PCIe bus, and to transparently extend the multi-lane PCIe bus by converting the multi-lane PCIe data into a retimed parallel version of the PCIe multi-lane data to be sent on bidirectional data communication paths. The fabric interface device is also configured so that the multi-lane PCIe bus can have a first number of lanes and the bidirectional data communication paths can have a different second number of lanes.
US11907150B2
A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.
US11907148B2
An open compute project (OCP) adapter card and a computer device are disclosed. The adapter card includes an OCP connector, a controller, a selector, and a motherboard connector. The OCP connector is configured to connect to an OCP network interface card (NIC). The controller is configured for bandwidth allocation, in-situ control and power-on/off control of the OCP NIC. The selector gates a single-homed host or a dual-homed host based on working mode configuration information stored in the controller. The motherboard connector is configured to connect to a motherboard device.
US11907147B1
A message inspection engine, implemented in hardware in a System on Chip (SOC), is configured using configuration information to obtain a configured message inspection engine. An input message is received at the configured message inspection engine from an upstream functional module in the SOC. The configured message inspection engine is used to analyze the input message to determine a content modification plan and a destination control plan and to generate an output message based at least in part on the input message, the content modification plan, and the destination control plan, including by populating the output message with a downstream functional module specified by the destination control plan. The output message is output from the configured message inspection engine.
US11907145B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes first and second memory devices and a bridge. The IC also includes a first interconnect segment coupled between the first memory device and the bridge. The IC further includes a second interconnect segment coupled between the first and second memory devices, and a third interconnect segment coupled between the bridge and the second memory device. The IC includes a first DMA circuit coupled to the first interconnect segment, and a second DMA circuit coupled to the second interconnect segment. A fourth interconnect segment is coupled between the first and second DMA circuits.
US11907139B2
A mother board topology including a processor operable to be coupled to one or more communication channels for communicating commands. The topology includes a first communication channel electrically coupling a first set of two or more dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) and a first primary data buffer on a mother board. The topology includes a second communication channel electrically coupling a second set of two or more DIMMs and a second primary data buffer on the mother board. The topology includes a third channel electrically coupling the first primary data buffer, the primary second data buffer, and the processor.
US11907137B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for leader node election, comprising a cluster system including a plurality of nodes, a node registry, wherein nodes are configured to transmit registration requests to the node registry, receive node data is response, and to determine a leader node based on the earliest registered node, and wherein the leader node is configured to dynamically allocate data slots between the plurality of nodes, and each of the nodes are configured to store data associated with allocated data slots in an in-memory least recently used component and data associated with all of the data slots in a persistent storage component.
US11907128B2
A technique for managing a storage system involves determining, in response to a first write operation on a first data block on a persistent storage device, whether a first group of data corresponding to the first data block is included in a cache; updating the first group of data in the cache if it is determined that the first group of data is included in the cache; and adding the first group of data to an associated data set of the cache to serve as a first record. Accordingly, such a technique can associatively manage different types of cached data corresponding to a data block, thereby optimizing the system performance.
US11907124B2
Aspects include using a shadow copy of a level 1 (L1) cache in a cache hierarchy. A method includes maintaining the shadow copy of the L1 cache in the cache hierarchy. The maintaining includes updating the shadow copy of the L1 cache with memory content changes to the L1 cache a number of pipeline cycles after the L1 cache is updated with the memory content changes.
US11907122B2
The disclosure relates to technology for up-evicting cache lines. An apparatus comprises a hierarchy of caches comprising a first cache having a first cache controller and a second cache having a second cache controller. The first cache controller is configured to store cache lines evicted from a first processor group to the first cache and to down-evict cache lines from the first cache to the second cache. The second cache controller is configured to store cache lines evicted from a second processor group into the second cache, to up-evict a first cache line from the second cache to the first cache in response to an eviction of a second cache line from the second processor group to the second cache, and to provide the up-evicted first cache line from the first cache to the second processor group in response to a request from the second processor group.
US11907121B2
A method for caching content, a method for reading content, a client, and a storage medium are provided. The method for caching content includes: acquiring JSON data corresponding to content to be delivered, and determining identification information corresponding to the JSON data; grouping the JSON data and storing the grouped JSON data according to the identification information to obtain a memory list corresponding to the identification information, and writing the JSON data to a target disk according to the identification information and the memory list; performing video preloading processing on the content to be delivered according to the JSON data to obtain preloaded video data, and determining address information corresponding to the preloaded video data; and storing the address information in the memory list and the target disk according to the identification information, to complete caching of the JSON data and the preloaded video data.
US11907108B2
A workload is generated to verify a system. The generating includes parsing one or more statements of an input test case to create one or more parsed structures. A comparison is performed of at least one parsed structure of the one or more parsed structures and at least one workload structure of at least one existing workload to identify one or more workload structures as matching the at least one parsed structure. Runtime data relating to at least the one or more workload structures identified as matching is obtained. The workload is created based on at least one matching workload structure of the one or more workload structures identified as matching, the at least one parsed structure of the one or more parsed structures and the runtime data.
US11907107B2
The technology disclosed relates to generating automated test plan scripts. Repository data associated with a test plan script is received. Source code and test plan solution data corresponding to the repository data are analyzed. For example, the repository data may be analyzed using natural language processing and static code analysis. In some embodiments, test steps of the test plan are performed to generate repository data. A suggestion of a reusable component for a particular test step or test validation is provided for one or more of the test steps. A selection of the suggestion of the reusable component for at least one of the test steps is received. An automated test plan script corresponding to the selection is generated.
US11907100B2
A method of tracing instruction execution on a processor of an integrated circuit chip in real time whilst the processor continues to execute instructions during clock cycles of the processor. The instruction execution of the processor is monitored by counting the number of successive instructions which are retired contiguously in time to form an instruction count, and counting the number of subsequent contiguous clock cycles of the processor during which no instruction is retired to form a stall count. A trace message is generated which includes the instruction count and the stall count, and the trace message is outputted.
US11907099B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for estimating the results of a performance test on an updated software application. A method, the method comprising receiving an updated software application, wherein the size of the updated software application is a first size and generating a plurality of small probe, wherein the size of each of the small probe data is a second size, wherein the second size is less than the first size. Conducting a first performance test on the plurality of small probe data and calculating an estimated elapsed time for a performance test on the updated software application. Conducting the performance test on the updated software application and determining if the updated software is given a PASS or FAIL for the performance test, based in part on the elapsed time of the performance test on the updated software application.
US11907089B2
It is suitable for the field of computer graphic processing technologies, and provides a method and apparatus for repairing a graphics processing unit (GPU) video memory access based on active error detection. A small video memory is first distributed and used for error detection of video memory access, and a problem of video memory data access abnormality is found in time through a regular active detection. When the video memory data access abnormality is found, a GPU desktop driving module can suspend a display picture update operation, and a GPU kernel driving module first suspends all video memory access, then re-initializes a video memory controller and repairs the video memory access abnormality, and then restores an access of all the modules to a video memory to normal, refreshes a desktop, and restores a graphic desktop to a normal state.
US11907085B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a smart failover module is disclosed. A processor detects an application specific system fault or degradation event in a first availability zone (AZ) on which an application is running during normal runtime of the application; determines, in response to detecting the application specific system fault or degradation event, whether the application includes an active-passive application infrastructure in which the first AZ is paired with a passive AZ; enables traffic, in connection with running or deployment of the application, on the passive availability zone in response to determining that the application includes an active-passive application infrastructure; and disables traffic from the first AZ on which the application specific system fault or degradation has been detected in response to determining that the application does not include an active-passive application infrastructure and/or in response to enabling traffic on the passive AZ.
US11907077B2
Embodiments of a system and method to track the locality of a file being restored at the time of prefetching; and a mechanism to dynamically adjust the prefetching parallelism, per read batch, optimally based on the locality and other heuristics, such as system load. A process tracks locality of data elements in a batched data stream, as corresponds to a number of different container IDs accessed by the data elements. The prefetch nominally works serially on the data elements, however, if the locality exceeds a threshold separating acceptable versus non-acceptable distribution of data accesses, each batch is divided into a number of smaller sub-batches that are then pre-fetched in parallel with one another.
US11907068B2
A method comprising: receiving a request to read data stored in an array of drives; determining that the data is stored on one or more degraded drives in the array; reconstructing the data from one or more drives in the array other than the degraded drives; providing the reconstructed data in response to the request; and after providing the reconstructed data, writing the reconstructed data to one or more drives in the array other than the degraded drives.
US11907066B2
A parity generation operation based on a set of multiple planes of host data is executed to generate a set of multi-page parity data. The set of multi-page parity data is stored in a cache memory of a memory device. A data recovery operation is performed based on the set of multi-page parity data.
US11907064B2
A memory controller includes a fault predictor which predicts a fault which causes an error occurring in a memory device, an error correction code (ECC) manager which classifies a type of the fault based on the predicted fault, and a plurality of ECC engines which perform ECC in parallel depending on the classified type of the faults. The fault predictor includes a memory error profiler which receives raw data related to the error and processes the raw data into an error profile that is data available for machine learning, and a memory fault prediction network which receives the error profile as an input, performs the machine learning using the error profile, and predicts the fault which causes the error.
US11907060B2
A method begins by a processing module concurrently receiving a first data stream and a second data stream for transmission to a receiving entity. The method continues with the processing module dividing each of the first and second data streams to produce a first plurality of data blocks corresponding to the first data stream and a second plurality of data blocks corresponding to the second data stream, where data blocks of the first plurality of data blocks are time aligned with data blocks of the second plurality of data blocks. The method continues with the processing module creating a data matrix from the first and second plurality of data blocks and generating a coded matrix from the data matrix and an encoding matrix. The method continues with the processing module outputting a plurality of pairs of coded values of the coded matrix to the receiving entity.
US11907057B2
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a fault processing method comprising: receiving two historical faults similar to a target fault; searching keywords in a description of the target fault and each historical fault, wherein the keywords are classified into N grades, and for each system component in a grade, the grade comprises at least one keyword for describing the component, wherein N is an integer no less than 2; for each of the N grades, counting a quantity of identical system components represented by the keywords in the text description of each historical fault and the target fault; and comparing a degree of similarity of each historical fault to the target fault according to the quantity of identical system components counted in each grade of the N different grades, wherein a historical fault relating to a larger number of high-grade identical system components has a higher degree of similarity to the target fault.
US11907049B2
The present information processing apparatus comprises a non-volatile memory that has a first portion including a code area configured to hold a program and a data area configured to hold data. In addition, the information processing apparatus acquires update data of a first portion, and updates the first portion with the acquired update data. In the updating process, at least a portion of the program held in the code area is deleted before updating the contents of the data area, and after updating the contents of the data area, updating to the code area is completed.
US11907047B2
A data storage device, and an error tolerance selecting method thereof which includes: writing data to data blocks of the data storage device; reading written data of the data blocks as read data; comparing the read data and the written data of each data column in the data blocks, and calculating a number of error bits in each chunk including a plurality of data columns accordingly; calculating a difference value between the number of error bits in the chunk and a first threshold value to store the difference value in an error tolerance list; and selecting a largest difference value in the error tolerance list as an error tolerance.
US11907041B2
Embodiments of this application disclose an application processor wakeup method and apparatus applied to a mobile terminal. In the method, whether the mobile terminal is in a preset first state is first detected. After it is determined that the mobile terminal is in the preset first state, a to-be-reported instruction that needs to be reported to an application processor and the priority of the to-be-reported instruction are obtained. When the priority of the to-be-reported instruction is higher than a preset priority, the to-be-reported instruction is reported to the application processor, to wake up the application processor, so that the application processor performs a corresponding operation.
US11907028B2
A portable electronic device, including a first body and a second body, is provided. The second body includes a support structure and a display panel. The support structure is pivotally connected to the first body and is connected to the display panel. The support structure has a first bendable portion. An included angle between the first bendable portion and an edge of the support structure is 45 degrees. The support structure is adapted to be bent along the first bendable portion, so that the second body switches between a first mode and a second mode relative to the first body.
US11907027B2
A portable information handling system supports a flexible OLED display film over housing portions rotationally coupled by a hinge by folding the OLED display film over the hinge. Hinge brackets that couple to the housing portions each have a gear member with a semicircular shape gear inner circumference that engages a gear subassembly of the hinge main body. Hinge bracket rotation translates through the gear subassembly for synchronized housing rotation. The hinge main body has first and second semicircular portions with a smooth surface defined to accept the outer circumference smooth surface of the gear member semicircular shape at first and second rotation axes about which the hinge brackets pivot so that the display film has space to fold in the closed position.
US11907010B2
Disclosed are methods and systems to improve the time synchronization of power distribution systems and/or other distributed device networks. The disclosure relates to nesting selection algorithms to elect a grand master clock from among groups of devices in a network.
US11907001B2
A foot pedal apparatus for use with a workstation operated by a seated user in controlling a robotic surgery system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a platform mountable to the workstation proximate a floor surface on which the workstation is located. The apparatus also includes a first pedal mounted on the platform and having an upwardly disposed actuation surface, and a second pedal mounted vertically elevated with respect to the first pedal and having an upwardly disposed actuation surface, the second pedal having at least a proximate portion vertically overlapping a distal portion of the first pedal such that the first and second pedals have a mounted depth in a direction away from the user that is less than a sum of the respective individual depths of the first and second pedals.
US11906995B2
A voltage regulator coupled between a first node and second node includes a first (full-power) regulator circuit and a second (low-power) regulator circuit. In a first mode: the first regulator circuit is activated (with the second regulator circuit inactive) when the voltage at the first node is a battery voltage, and the voltage regulator is kept de-activated when the voltage at the first node is a ground voltage. In a second mode: the first regulator circuitry in is active (with the second regulator circuitry inactive) when the voltage at the first node is a battery voltage, and the voltage regulator is inactive when the voltage at the first node is a ground voltage. In a third mode: the second regulator circuitry is active (with the first regulator circuitry inactive) irrespective of the voltage at the first node being at the battery voltage or the ground voltage.
US11906993B2
A feedforward correction block for use in a multi-level output system may include circuitry configured to determine an occurrence of a mode transition between operating modes of the multi-level output system, capture a loop filter output of a signal path of the multi-level output system occurring before and after the occurrence of the mode transition, and based on the transition and a change in the loop filter output responsive to the transition, determine a transition-specific compensation function to apply to a feedforward input signal of the signal path that is combined with the loop filter output.
US11906989B2
A procedure for cleaning a pipe or shaft with a cleaning nozzle operated with a cleaning liquid and having a camera module includes the following steps: recording a video during or after the cleaning; transmitting the video to a mobile device over a first distance; transmitting the video with collected corresponding position data of the cleaning location of the pipe or of the shaft to a memory, which is protected by a cleaning service provider and/or nozzle manufacturer, in a data cloud over a second distance; and making the protected memory in the data cloud of the cleaning service provider and/or nozzle manufacturer accessible by the customer commissioning the cleaning procedure. The recorded videos with stored road map are displayed on a screen, and each video with corresponding cleaning location can be accessed from the memory in the data cloud.
US11906986B2
A counter pressure valve arrangement for controlling a pressure level of a hydraulic fluid in a return line from a hydraulic actuator arrangement. The counter pressure valve arrangement comprises a counter pressure valve having: a moveable valve member; a counter pressure regulating port configured for being connected to the hydraulic actuator arrangement via the return line; a tank port configured for being connected to a tank or low pressure reservoir for storing low pressure hydraulic fluid; and a pump port configured for being connected to a source of pressurised hydraulic fluid. A first position of the valve member effects fluid communication between the pump port and the counter pressure regulating port for supplying pressurised hydraulic fluid to the return line, and a second position of the valve member effects fluid communication between the counter pressure regulating port and the tank port for discharging hydraulic fluid from the return line to the tank.
US11906985B2
A valve assembly includes a proportional valve having an opening cross section that can be continuously varied by an actuator; a sensor for sensing the valve output pressure; a digital regulating device; and a switching valve disposed parallel to the proportional valve. The opening cross section of the switching valve is smaller than the maximum opening cross section of the proportional valve. The regulating device is programmed (i) to automatically calculate, at runtime, using the currently given valve output pressure and the current position of the actuator, the maximum working pressure achievable at the maximum opening of the proportional valve with the valve, (ii) and to additionally open the switching valve when the computed maximum achievable working pressure falls below a predefinable target working pressure by a definable deviation value.
US11906983B2
A method of tracking a movement of a target by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the method includes receiving, from a mobile terminal collocating with the target, absolute location coordinate data of the target, acquiring, by a camera of the UAV, image data of the target, determining, based on the absolute location coordinate data and the image data of the target, 3D location coordinate data of the target with respect to the UAV, and controlling, based on the 3D location coordinate data of the target with respect to the UAV, at least one of a direction or a speed of the movement of the UAV, to maintain a constant relative 3D position of the UAV with respect to the target.
US11906980B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for autonomous vehicle operation. A computing system can include a communication device configured to receive a plurality of event signals from at least a first autonomous vehicle that is traversing a path, and a processor in electrical communication with the communication device and configured to determine whether the event signals are indicative of an obstacle in a portion of the path. The communication device can be configured to receive, from at least a second autonomous vehicle, at least one characteristic of the obstacle captured by at least one sensor of the second autonomous vehicle, and transmit, to at least a third autonomous vehicle, at least one task to clear the obstacle from the portion of the path. The processor can be configured to determine, based on the characteristic of the obstacle, the at least one task to be transmitted by the communication device.
US11906979B2
A mobile robot includes a communication unit that communicates with another mobile robot, a sensing unit for sensing the other mobile robot existing in a detection area encompassing a predetermined projected angle with respect to the front of a main body of the mobile robot, and a control unit configured for rotating the main body so that the other mobile robot is sensed in the detection area. The communication unit transmits a control signal configured to cause the other mobile robot to travel in a linear direction by a predetermined distance, to the other mobile robot when the other mobile robot is present in the detection area.
US11906977B2
The present invention discloses a path planning method, including the following steps: establishing an empirical map and a corresponding episodic cognitive map using a RatSLAM algorithm based on an episodic memory model; extracting a road edge in a historical memory image with a Canny operator; performing conversion to a world coordinate system from a pixel coordinate system based on the road edge, and preliminarily judging connectivity according to slope of the road edge; continuously injecting energy into the potential path detection network according to continuous observation of a potential path, so as to further judge the road connectivity; fusing the detected potential path and the original episodic cognitive map, and correspondingly updating the empirical map; and planning a path based on the updated episodic cognitive map. The potential safe path in an environment may be detected, and a better path may be planned based on the updated episodic memory model.
US11906974B2
An autonomous off-road vehicle, upon encountering an obstruction while navigating a route, can apply a first machine-learned model to identify the obstruction. In the event that the first machine-learned model cannot identify the obstruction, the autonomous off-road vehicle can apply a second machine-learned model configured to determine whether or not the obstruction can be ignored, for instance based on dimensions of the obstruction. If the obstruction can be ignored, the autonomous off-road vehicle can continue navigating the route. If the obstruction cannot be ignored, the autonomous off-road vehicle can modify the route, can stop, can flag the obstruction to a remote human operator, can modify an interface of a human operator to display a notification or a video feed from the vehicle, and the like.
US11906973B2
An electronic device and method for controlling a robot is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication unit, a camera, a touch display, a memory, and a processor configured to be operatively connected to the wireless communication unit, the camera, the touch display, and the memory. The processor is configured to recognize a marker of the robot photographed using the camera; generate an indicator indicating a space around the recognized robot; acquire location information for moving the robot to an area within the indicator by using the touch display; and transmit the acquired location information to the robot to move the robot to a location corresponding to the acquired location information.
US11906968B2
Mobile devices, control systems and programs are disclosed. In one example, a mobile device performs different processing when an approaching object is a human. The mobile device includes a control unit that performs traveling control. It receives input detection information of a sensor on the mobile device and uses that to determine whether an approaching object is a human. In the case where the control unit determines that the object is a human, the mobile device stops after setting an article mounted in the mobile device in a direction of being visible to the human. In the case where the control unit determines that the object is not a human, the control unit stops or backs the mobile device or changes a traveling direction of the mobile device so as to avoid collision with the object.
US11906958B2
State-of-the-art approaches have concentrated on building solution(s) to match the amplitude of a time series with a user given one. However, these have failed to implement solution(s) which enables searching for pattern(s) that can depict human vision psychology. Embodiments of the present disclosure determine occurrence of pattern of interest in time series data for anomaly detection, wherein time series data is obtained, and first order derivative is computed. Further an angle of change in direction is derived based on a gradient of change in value of the time series data. This angle is further converted to a measurement unit. The time series data is quantized into bins and a weighted finite state transducers diagram (WFSTD) is obtained based on domain knowledge which is then converted to specific pattern. The specific pattern is searched in the bins to determine occurrence/count of the specific pattern for anomaly detection.
US11906946B2
This document describes a system and method for selectively switching the fast-wet-etching direction of crystalline silicon, c-Si, nanostructures between the (100) and the (110) crystallographic planes of c-Si by a simple method of sample agitation. This method effectively allows the invention to achieve anisotropic and isotropic wet-etching of c-Si.
US11906944B2
Methods and systems include ways to implement change analysis of an automated production line including at least one robot. Monitoring a plurality of operating parameters associated with the automated production line including the at least one robot is followed by recording at least one change to the plurality of operating parameters. A notification is then provided identifying the at least one change to the plurality of operating parameters. The notification can include mapping the at least one change onto a graphical representation of the automated production line, thereby identifying a portion of the automated production line affected by the at least one change. As a result, at least one of the operating parameters can be adjusted in response to the notification. An action can also be performed in response to the notification. In this manner, the change analysis can optimize operation of the automated production line.
US11906941B2
Present invention relates to intelligent three-way switch system having intelligent three-way master switch, intelligent three-way slave switch, and load. In certain embodiments, intelligent three-way master switch includes a DC power supply, a live wire relay, and a switch control unit, and intelligent three-way slave switch includes a switch control unit. The DC power supply provides low voltage DC power to live wire relay and switch control units. When at least one of switch control unit of the intelligent three-way master switch and switch control unit of the intelligent three-way slave switch receives switch control instructions, the switch control unit generates a negative pulse at the switch control unit first terminal, and the negative pulse is transmitted to the live wire relay. The live wire relay detects the negative pulse generated at the switch control unit first terminal and turns “ON” or “OFF” the electrical power to the load.
US11906940B2
The present invention discloses a feedback control system. The feedback control system comprises a plant, configured to produce an output according to a control signal; a first summing block, configured to produce a first difference between an input signal and a measured output signal; a first controller, configured to generate the control signal, such that the first difference decreases to be less than a first threshold or is less than the first threshold; wherein the first controller comprises a memory configured to store a table, and the table contains information of a plurality of transfer functions corresponding to a plurality of operating conditions; wherein the first controller determines an operating condition under which the plant operates, and chooses to utilize a transfer function corresponding to the operating condition to generate the control signal according to the transfer function and the first difference.
US11906933B2
A dial including a base member having a sheet shape containing reinforced fibers, and a decorative member provided on one surface of the base member containing a brittle material.
US11906928B2
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: a toner particle containing a binder resin; and an external additive containing alumina particles having a volume average particle diameter of more than 5 nm and 80 nm or less and silica particles having a volume average particle diameter of 10 nm or more and 90 nm or less, and in the toner particle, a Net intensity NA of a total of an alkali metal element and an alkaline earth metal element, measured by fluorescence X-ray analysis, is 0.10 kcps or more and 1.30 kcps or less, and a ratio (Ws/Wa) of a content Ws of the silica particles to a content Wa of the alumina particles is more than 0.5 and less than 35.
US11906926B2
A developer supply includes a developer accommodating body and a developer discharging body. A track is positioned at a side of the developer discharging body, with the track including a surface that extends from a first position to a second position. When the developer supply container is oriented with the track and the shutter positioned below a horizontal plane that includes the rotational axis and a discharge passageway through which developer is discharged to outside of the developer supply container is formed at the bottommost side of the developer supply container, the track is positioned between the horizontal plane and a shutter in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal plane, the second position is closer to the horizontal plane than the first position is to the horizontal plane, the surface faces upward, and the track extends such that a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis and passing through the track passes through the end of the discharge passageway.
US11906921B2
An image forming apparatus that is capable of properly grasping a load that is imposed on the image forming apparatus by performing high-chroma printing. The image forming apparatus includes a printer engine that causes a heating rotary body to support and convey a sheet with a toner image formed thereon and performs an image formation on the sheet. The printer engine is controlled to perform the image formation on sheets in a first mode in which a toner image based on a piece of image data is formed with a first amount of toner, or a second mode in which a toner image based on the piece of image data is formed with a second amount of toner larger than the first amount of toner. A count function for counting the number of times of the image formation performed in the second mode, rather than the first mode, is performed.
US11906917B1
A fixing device includes a tubular member extending in an axial direction, a heater, and a support. The heater has a first surface in contact with an inner surface of the tubular member. The first surface faces in a first thickness direction. The heater includes a substrate. The substrate includes a cut section at which the substrate is disconnected from a base material. The cut section is positioned at an end portion of the substrate in a first lateral direction. The substrate extends longitudinally along the axial direction. The support is in contact with the inner surface of the tubular member. The support includes a projection longitudinally overlapping at least a portion of the cut section and a low section longitudinally offset from the projection. The projection extends further in the first thickness direction than the low section and the first surface.
US11906915B2
Printing apparatuses include a photoreceptor adapted to print an image by applying marking material to print media, a fuser adapted to heat the marking material on the print media, and a controller. The controller determines the amount of marking material per unit area of the image before the fuser heats the marking material on the print media. The controller rasterizes the image to produce a bitmap of the image, but the amount of marking material per unit area for the image is determined before completion of rasterization and marking of the image. The controller also adjusts the operating temperature of the fuser to a fusing temperature based on the amount of marking material per unit area of the image, causes the photoreceptor to print the image on the print media using the bitmap of the image, and causes the fuser to fuse the marking material to the print media.
US11906910B2
A development device includes a development container, a first conveying member, a second conveying member, a toner concentration sensor, and a developer carrier. The first and second conveying members are equal to each other in outer diameter and shaft diameter, the outer diameter being 1.3 times the shaft diameter or more but 1.6 times the shaft diameter or less. Where L represents an axial length of the first conveying member, K represents a distance of a center position of the sensing surface of the toner concentration sensor from a downstream end of a first conveying chamber of the development container in the first direction, P represents a pitch of the conveying blade of the first conveying member, and R represents a rotational speed of the first conveying member, formula (1) is satisfied: 30000<(P×R×L)/K<45000 (1).
US11906907B2
An apparatus for determining a condition associated with a pellicle for use in a lithographic apparatus, the apparatus including a sensor, wherein the sensor is configured to measure a property associated with the pellicle, the property being indicative of the pellicle condition.
US11906901B2
Alternating copolymers having hydrocarbon-substituted terminal units and repeat units each containing two different monomer units with extreme ultraviolet (EUV)-absorbing elements are disclosed. Alternating copolymers having organic terminal units and repeat units each containing a monomer unit with an EUV-absorbing element and an organic monomer unit are also disclosed. A process of forming a polymer resist, which includes providing an alternating copolymer having repeat units with at least one EUV-absorbing monomer unit and replacing end groups of the alternating copolymer with unreactive terminal units, is disclosed as well.
US11906898B2
In a method of manufacturing a photo mask, a resist layer is formed over a mask blank, which includes a mask substrate, a phase shift layer disposed on the mask substrate and a light blocking layer disposed on the phase shift layer. A resist pattern is formed by using a lithographic operation. The light blocking layer is patterned by using the resist pattern as an etching mask. The phase shift layer is patterned by using the patterned light blocking layer as an etching mask. A border region of the mask substrate is covered with an etching hard cover, while a pattern region of the mask substrate is opened. The patterned light blocking layer in the pattern region is patterned through the opening of the etching hard cover. A photo-etching operation is performed on the pattern region to remove residues of the light blocking layer.
US11906895B2
An image capture method for flash photography includes: capturing at least one first image while a strobe device is operating under a first strobe intensity setting for emitting main flash, capturing at least one second image while the strobe device is operating under a second strobe intensity setting different from the first strobe intensity setting, and generating an output image by blending the at least one first image and the at least one second image.
US11906894B2
A lens control device, comprising a first stepping motor that drives a zoom lens contained in the photographing lens, a second stepping motor that drives a focus lens contained in the photographing lens, and a processor that controls the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor, whereby, within a given section in which the zoom lens and the focus lens are driven, there is a period in which at least one of the first stepping motor and the second stepping motor is driven at a constant rate, and the processor makes a time, required to move the specified section with a specified number of pulses, a specified time.
US11906892B2
A total reflection screen comprises a light diffusion layer, a total reflection layer and a light absorption layer arranged sequentially from an incidence side of the projected light. The light absorption layer can absorb an incident light. The light diffusion layer is used for increasing a divergence angle of emergent light. The total reflection layer comprises a plurality of microstructure units that is rotationally symmetrical and extends continuously in a plane of the total reflection screen. Each of the microstructure units comprises a first material layer disposed at the side of the light diffusion layer and a second material layer disposed at the side of the light absorption layer. The interface between the first material layer and the second material layer is comprised of two intersecting planes, which are disposed in such a way that the projected light is subjected to total reflection continuously at the two intersecting planes.
US11906889B2
A light source system and a projection apparatus are provided. The light source system includes a first light source, a second light source including a second blue laser light source, a wavelength conversion element configured to convert second blue laser light into excited light, and a controller. The first light source includes a first blue laser light source configured to emit first blue laser light, a red laser light source configured to emit red laser light, and a green laser light source configured to emit green laser light. The controller controls the first and second blue laser light sources, the red laser light source, and the green laser light source to combine the first blue laser light, the red laser light, and the green laser light to form light source light, or to combine the first blue laser light and the excited light to form the light source light.
US11906882B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for camera mounts. A camera mount may be capable of floating in liquid. A camera mount may include a base mounted to an inflatable; a floating mount, wherein the floating mount is configured to be attachable to a camera; and a pivotable connection that connects the base to the floating mount. The pivotable connection may be configured to float. A camera mount may include a mount or connection for mounting to an inflatable.
US11906871B2
An electronic paper package structure including a substrate, an electronic ink layer, a cover plate, at least one water vapor barrier and a sealant is provided. The electronic ink layer is disposed on the substrate. The cover plate covers the electronic ink layer, wherein the electronic ink layer is located between the substrate and the cover plate, and a groove is defined by a lower surface of the cover plate, a side surface of the electronic ink layer and an upper surface of the substrate. The at least one water vapor barrier is disposed in the groove. The sealant is filled into the groove to cover the at least one water vapor barrier.
US11906867B2
An electrochemical device is disclosed. The electrochemical device includes a first transparent conductive layer, an electrochromic layer overlying the first transparent conductive layer, a counter electrode layer overlying the electrochromic layer, a second transparent conductive layer, and a switching speed parameter of not greater than 0.68 s/mm at 23° C.
US11906865B2
Provided are a reflective sheet including a cholesteric liquid crystal layer and having excellent reflection wavelength range, diffuse reflectivity, reflectivity, hardness, and scratch resistance; and a transfer film for a reflective sheet that is used for the reflective sheet. The reflective sheet includes a substrate, an adhesive layer, a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, and a hard coat layer in this order, in which in a cross-section of the cholesteric liquid crystal layer observed, at least a part of bright portions and dark portions has a flapping structure, the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a pitch gradient structure in which a helical pitch changes in a thickness direction, and the helical pitch on the adhesive layer side is larger than that on the hard coat layer side.
US11906860B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, a driving element, a first transparent conductive layer, an insulating layer, and a second transparent conductive layer. The driving element is disposed on the substrate and includes a drain electrode having a first edge. The first transparent conductive layer is disposed on the driving element. The insulating layer is disposed between the driving element and the first transparent conductive layer and includes a hole through which the first transparent conductive layer is electrically connected to the driving element. The second transparent conductive layer is disposed on the insulating layer. One of the first and second transparent conductive layers includes at least one slit, and the first or second transparent conductive layer that includes the at least one slit has a second edge. The second edge is located in the hole, and the at least one slit exposes the first edge of the drain electrode.
US11906858B2
A display portion of a display device includes a gate wiring formed of a first metal layer, a signal line formed of a second metal layer, a metal wiring formed of a third metal layer. A terminal portion of the display device includes a first metal portion formed of the second metal layer, and a second metal portion that is laminated on the first metal portion and formed of the third metal layer. The second metal portion covers an upper surface and a side surface of the first metal portion, and a peripheral portion of the second metal portion is covered by an organic insulating film, and the inside of the peripheral portion of the second metal portion is exposed via a first through hole formed in the organic insulating film.
US11906850B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The panel comprises a first and second polarizers, a liquid crystal layer, a first and second optical compensation films. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the opposite first and second polarizers; the first optical compensation film is located between the first polarizer and the liquid crystal layer, and an optical axis of the first optical compensation film is parallel to a plane where the first optical compensation film is in; and the second optical compensation film is located between the first and second polarizers, an optical axis of the second optical compensation film is parallel to a plane where the second optical compensation film is in and perpendicular to the optical axis of the first optical compensation film, and in-plane retardations of the first and second optical compensation films are equal.
US11906849B2
Liquid ink compositions containing quantum dots for optoelectronic display applications are provided. Also provided are solid films formed by drying the ink compositions, optical elements incorporating the solid films, display devices incorporating the optical elements, and methods of forming the solid films, optical elements, and the devices. Liquid ink compositions and solid films made by drying the liquid ink compositions include one or more blue light-absorbing materials in combination with red light-emitting QDs or green light-emitting QDs.
US11906846B2
A display device according to the disclosure comprises: a liquid crystal panel having a front surface configured to display an image; and a light source plate disposed at the rear of the liquid crystal panel configured to provide light to the liquid crystal panel, wherein the light source plate comprises: a printed circuit board having a mounting surface; an LED chip directly mounted on the mounting surface as a chip on board (COB); a transparent resin disposed on the LED chip to encompass the LED chip; a light conversion layer configured to convert the wavelength of light emitted from the LED chip and encompassing the outer peripheral surface of the transparent resin; and a barrier layer covering the light conversion layer from the outside.
US11906837B2
A picture generation apparatus includes: a PCB on which one or more light sources are disposed; an LCD projecting an image using light that is emitted from the one or more light sources; a diffuser disposed between the PCB and the LCD; and a screen configured to be in contact with at least a portion of the LCD and discharge heat generated from the LCD.
US11906835B2
A touch display panel and a display device utilize one thin film transistor is configured for one touch wiring. The thin film transistor is turned on during the lighting test and a corresponding electrical signal is input, which can change the floating state of the touch wiring. The coupling effect between the touch wiring and a data line can be reduced or eliminated, which reduces interference with a data signal, so that bright-line phenomenon caused by the floating touch wiring interfering with the data line during the lighting test can be improved or eliminated.
US11906834B2
A touch panel and a display device are disclosed. The touch panel includes a first area and a second area, and further includes: a plurality of first electrodes located in the first area and a plurality of second electrodes located in the second area. An arrangement density of the first electrodes is greater than an arrangement density of the plurality of second electrodes.
US11906824B2
Embodiments provide for an optical modulator, comprising: a lower guide, comprising: a lower hub, made of monocrystalline silicon; and a lower ridge, made of monocrystalline silicon that extends in a first direction from the lower hub; an upper guide, including: an upper hub; and an upper ridge, made of monocrystalline silicon that extends in a second direction, opposite of the first direction, from the upper hub and is aligned with the lower ridge; and a gate oxide layer separating the lower ridge from the upper ridge and defining a waveguide region with the lower guide and the upper guide.
US11906818B1
Earpiece-less glasses including an interchangeable left eye frame, an interchangeable right eye frame and a nose piece connecting the left eye frame to the right eye frame. The left eye frame and the right eye frame each provide eye lens pockets configured to hold and snuggly fit a respective first eye lens in the respective pockets. The left eye frame and the right eye frame each provide an opening to the pockets so that the first lenses can be replaced with second lenses. A magnification strength of the first lenses may be different from the magnification strength of the second lenses.
US11906816B2
A goggles and air filter combination includes goggles including a container on a top, a frame, an eyeglass held by the frame, and a bridge; a strap having two ends releasably attached to two ends of the frame respectively; and an air filter including a housing disposed in the container, a centrifugal fan disposed in the housing, and a filter element disposed on a top of the centrifugal fan. The air filter communicates with the eyeglass.
US11906809B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention a rotor including a lens and formed with a first driving unit, a stator formed with a second driving unit driving the rotor in response to electromagnetic interaction with the first driving unit, and a base on which the stator is fixed, wherein the rotor is brought into contact with the base, in a case the lens is in a UP posture, and the rotor is distanced from the base, in a case the lens is in a DOWN posture.
US11906802B2
An apparatus includes a substrate that includes one or more routing layers, and an optical module coupled to the substrate. The optical module includes a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and electronic integrated circuit (EIC), wherein the photonic integrated circuit is at least partially embedded within the substrate. The apparatus further includes a fiber optic coupler coupled to at least one of the substrate or PIC, wherein the PIC is configured to transmit or receive an optical signal via the fiber optic coupler.
US11906801B2
An optical receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing having housing walls defining a contact cavity and an optical cavity. The receptacle housing includes an upper wall and a lower wall at a front of the receptacle housing defining a card slot receiving a mating edge of an optical module circuit board of a pluggable optical generator module. The upper wall includes an upper wall opening above the card slot. A contact assembly having receptacle contacts is received in the contact cavity to supply power to the pluggable optical generator module to operate a light source of the pluggable optical generator module. A receive optical connector is coupled to the receptacle housing above the upper wall opening and mated with a supply optical connector of the pluggable optical generator module to receive optical signals from the supply optical connector.
US11906796B2
An optical fiber connector is provided. A receptacle has an angled interior surface that acts to guide an optical fiber into the correct position as a jack is inserted into the receptacle.
US11906789B2
A coupling unit includes a light coupling element comprising an attachment area for receiving and permanently attaching to a plurality of optical waveguides. One or more grooves are provided at the attachment area. Each groove is configured to receive an optical waveguide and defined by a bottom surface, a first region, a second region, and an opening. The first region is defined between the bottom surface and the second region. The first region in cross section has substantially parallel sidewalls separated by a spacing. The second region is disposed between the first region and the opening. A width of the opening is greater than the spacing.
US11906784B2
An optical apparatus, comprising a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer located on the semiconductor substrate, wherein a membrane portion of the dielectric layer is located over a cavity in a surface of the semiconductor substrate, a resistive heater located on the membrane portion, the resistive heater being controllable by a current applied to the resistive heater and an etalon optical filter located on the resistive heater and over the cavity, an optical passband of the etalon optical filter being wavelength tunable by the resistive heater. A method of manufacturing the optical apparatus is also disclosed.
US11906782B2
A multi-fiber cable assembly includes a pigtail segments spliced to a trunk segment using multiple mass fusion splices. The splices are disposed at axially spaced positions within a hollow, flexible conduit. Fibers of the trunk segment are axially fixed at a first demarcation region disposed at the first end of the conduit. Fibers of the pigtail segments are axially fixed at a separate, second demarcation region disposed at the second end of the conduit.
US11906781B2
A method includes providing a photonic wafer that includes an electrical layer and a layer disposed on a substrate. The layer includes at least one optical waveguide that is disposed between the electrical layer and the substrate. The method also includes removing a portion of the substrate underneath the at least one optical waveguide and forming an end-face coupler. A portion of the end-face coupler is within the removed portion of the substrate. The end-face coupler transmits an optical signal to, or receives an optical signal from, an external optical device.
US11906777B2
Embodiments may relate to a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) transceiver that has a silicon waveguide layer coupled with a silicon nitride waveguide layer. In some embodiments, the silicon waveguide layer may include a tapered portion that is coupled with the silicon nitride waveguide layer. In some embodiments, the silicon waveguide layer may be coupled with a first oxide layer with a first z-height, and the silicon nitride waveguide layer may be coupled with a second oxide layer with a second z-height that is greater than the first z-height. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US11906776B2
A backlight module includes a backplane, a light guide plate, a light bar assembly, and fixing adhesive tape. The backplane includes a bottom plate, a counter plate and a side plate connected to form an accommodating space. The light guide plate is in the accommodating space. The light bar assembly is in a U-shaped slot of the backplane and comprises a flexible circuit board and a light-emitting component. The flexible circuit board is on a side of the light guide plate facing away from the bottom plate, and the light-emitting component is at a side surface of the light guide plate. The fixing adhesive tape is between the counter plate and the flexible circuit board. The orthographic projection of the fixing adhesive tape on the bottom plate does not overlap the orthographic projection of the light-emitting component on the bottom plate.
US11906773B2
The present disclosure provides a diffraction light guide plate including: a light guide unit; an input diffraction optical element configured to diffract light which is outputted from a light source and inputted to the input diffraction optical element, to guide the inputted light on the light guide unit; and two diffraction optical elements configured to receive the diffracted light from the input diffraction optical element and one-dimensionally expand the received light by diffraction, wherein each of the two diffraction optical elements receives the expanded light from the other of the diffraction optical elements and outputs the received light from the light guide unit by the diffraction, and there is no region where the two diffraction optical elements overlap each other on the light guide unit.
US11906769B2
An optical system includes: a first optical system including a polarization conversion element aligning a polarization direction of light including color light beams with a predetermined polarization direction, and generating illumination light including the color light beams; a first polarization rotation element disposed at a first pupil position inside the first optical system, including first and second divided regions, in which the first and second divided regions have different polarization characteristics with respect to a first color light beam outputted from the polarization conversion element; a polarizer disposed between the polarization conversion element and the first polarization rotation element, and reducing light in a polarization direction other than the predetermined polarization direction included in light outputted from the polarization conversion element; and light valves each illuminated by at least the first color light beam included in the illumination light generated by the first optical system.
US11906767B2
A tunable optic includes a hexagonal-shaped housing, a polar liquid, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a fourth electrode, a fifth electrode, a sixth electrode, and a grounding electrode. The hexagonal-shaped housing includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth side walls and first and second light transmissive end walls, and the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth side walls and the first and second light transmissive end walls define a hexagonal-shaped inner cavity. The polar liquid is disposed within the hexagonal-shaped inner cavity. The polar liquid has a surface, and the surface has a curvature and a two-dimensional tilt angle that is variable in response to voltages supplied to each of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth electrodes, whereby lens characteristics and light deflection characteristics of the tunable optic are varied.
US11906763B2
A method of fabricating a blazed diffraction grating comprises providing a master template substrate and imprinting periodically repeating lines on the master template substrate in a plurality of master template regions. The periodically repeating lines in different ones of the master template regions extend in different directions. The method additionally comprises using at least one of the master template regions as a master template to imprint at least one blazed diffraction grating pattern on a grating substrate.
US11906762B2
An image light guide for conveying a virtual image has a waveguide that conveys image-bearing light, formed as a flat plate having an in-coupling diffractive optic with a first grating vector diffracting an image-bearing light beam into the waveguide and directing diffracted light. An out-coupling diffractive optic is formed as a plurality of overlapping diffraction gratings including a first grating pattern having first grating vector k1 and a second grating pattern having a second grating vector k2 for expanding and ejecting the expanded image bearing beams from the waveguide into an expanded eyebox within which the virtual image can be seen.
US11906760B2
This specification relates to a decoration member including: a substrate; a pattern layer comprising two or more unit pattern provided on one surface of the substrate; and an inorganic layer formed on the pattern layer, in which the inorganic layer includes a region in which a thickness t(x) of the inorganic layer formed on each unit pattern increases in a direction x in which the unit patterns are arranged.
US11906754B2
A method for triggering switches in a defined order comprises providing two or more PCSS devices and a compatible optical trigger; projecting a beam from the optical trigger; splitting the optical beam into two or more paths toward the two or more PCSS devices, wherein each of the two or more paths has a different length such that each of the two or more PCSS devices are triggered with defined time differentials. Each of the defined path lengths may be determined with the speed of light from the optical trigger along the two or more paths in order to achieve the desired switch-timing differential. The optical path consists of at least one of an optical fiber, a mirror arrangement, and a lens arrangement. Path lengths may be controlled by different fiber lengths, and transmitting a beam through a solid having a higher index of refraction than other beam path(s).
US11906739B2
A display subsystem for a virtual image generation system for use by an end user comprises a planar waveguide apparatus, an optical fiber, at least one light source configured for emitting light from a distal end of the optical fiber, and a collimation element mounted to a distal end of the optical fiber for collimating light from the optical fiber. The virtual image generation system further comprises a mechanical drive assembly to which the optical fiber is mounted to the drive assembly. The mechanical drive assembly is configured for displacing the distal end of the optical fiber, along with the collimation element, in accordance with a scan pattern. The virtual image generation system further comprises an optical waveguide input apparatus configured for directing the collimated light from the collimation element down the planar waveguide apparatus, such that the planar waveguide apparatus displays image frames to the end user.
US11906735B2
A head-up display device (10) includes one picture generation unit (20) that emits both first light (L1) and second light (L2) and includes an optical path adjuster (40) disposed in an optical path of at least one of the first light (L1) and the second light (L2) and having light transmission properties and substantially zero optical power. The optical path adjuster (40) gradually separates the first light (L1) and the second light (L2) as compared with a state before at least one of the first light (L1) and the second light (L2) enters the optical path adjuster (40) in such a manner that the first light (L1) creates a first virtual image (V1) in a position closer to an operator and the second light (L2) creates a second virtual image (V2) in a position farther from the operator than the first virtual image (V1).
US11906734B1
Computer-implemented methods of operating an augmented reality device can involve capturing camera images, processing the camera images, and displaying virtual display images. The camera images can be captured automatically using a camera disposed within an augmented reality device worn by a user. The camera images can be processed automatically using a processor located within the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be displayed automatically to the user within the augmented reality device while the user is looking through the augmented reality device and simultaneously viewing real objects through the augmented reality device. The virtual display images can be based on the processed camera images. Additional steps can include accepting a first user input, storing camera image(s) on a memory located within the augmented reality device based on the first input, accepting a second user input, and displaying stored image(s) to the user based on the second input.
US11906725B2
An illumination lens consists of a first lens and a second lens that are arranged in this order from a light source side toward an irradiation target side. The surface of the first lens close to the light source side and the surface of the first lens close to the irradiation target side are spherical convex surfaces, and the surface of the second lens close to the light source side is a spherical convex surface. Conditional expression determined in advance about the radii of curvature of the surfaces of the first and second lenses is satisfied.
US11906724B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods for generating color video with a monochrome sensor include the acts of (i) selectively energizing each of a plurality of light sources in a sequence, (ii) capturing a monochrome image of the illuminated sample at a monochrome sensor at each stage of the sequence, and (iii) generating a color video from the monochrome images. The sequence can have a series of stages with each stage of the sequence corresponding to activation of a different wavelength of light from the light sources to illuminate a sample. Generating the monochrome video can include the acts of compiling a plurality of monochrome images captured at the monochrome sensor with a single light source into a series of monochrome video frames comprising the monochrome video.
US11906723B2
A high-throughput optical sectioning three-dimensional imaging system which includes: a light beam modulation module configured to modulate a light beam into a modulated light beam capable of being focused on a focal plane of an objective lens and being defocused on a defocusing plane of the objective lens; an imaging module configured to employ a camera to image, in different rows of pixels, a sample under illumination of the modulated light beam; a cutting module configured to cut off an imaged surface layer of the sample; a demodulation module configured to demodulate a sample image of one sample strip of one surface layer into an optical sectioning image, and reconstruct the optical sectioning image of each sample strip of each surface layer into a three-dimensional image. The present disclosure achieves imaging of a whole sample by dividing the sample into at least one surface layer, dividing the at least one surface layer into at least one sample strip, and imaging each sample strip. When a multi-layer imaging cannot be performed, the imaged part can be cut off by the cutting module to realize imaging of any layer of the sample, thereby improving the imaging speed and efficiency.
US11906722B2
An electromagnetic wave detecting device comprising: an emission unit configured to emit electromagnetic waves having coherence; an electromagnetic wave modulating unit configured to modulate one or both of a phase and an amplitude of the emitted electromagnetic waves and to change a state of the modulation relative to an imaging target; and a post-modulation electromagnetic wave intensity detecting unit configured to detect an intensity of post-modulation electromagnetic waves, which are the modulated electromagnetic waves acquired by modulating the electromagnetic waves emitted from the emission unit using the imaging target and the electromagnetic wave modulating unit, using one pixel.
US11906718B2
The invention provides a wide-aperture spherical primary mirror off-axis afocal optical system, including a primary mirror, a secondary mirror and an aberration compensation mirror group. The primary mirror is a spherical reflector, the secondary mirror are higher-order aspherical reflectors. The primary mirror and the secondary mirror form an off-axis two-mirror system to compress the beam aperture. The aberration compensation mirror group is a coaxial reflective system that is used off-axis. The aberration compensation mirror group has focal power to produce compensation aberrations. The incident beam passes through and is reflected by the primary mirror and secondary mirror sequentially and enters the aberration compensation mirror group thereafter. A spherical reflector is used as the primary mirror, which significantly reduces the development and manufacture cost of the system, and an aberration compensation mirror group is used off-axis to correct residual aberration in the system, which effectively improves imaging quality of the system.
US11906716B2
A zoom optical system includes a plurality of lens groups, and upon zooming distances between adjacent lens groups change. The zoom optical system has a focusing lens group that moves upon focusing and an image-side lens group disposed adjacent to an image side of the focusing lens group. The zoom optical system satisfies the conditional expression 0.000
US11906714B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and having at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11906710B2
An image capturing optical lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The fourth lens element has refractive power, and at least one surface thereof is aspheric. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface, and an image-side surface changing from concave at a paraxial region thereof to convex at a peripheral region thereof, and the surfaces are aspheric.
US11906708B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens having a positive refractive power and a concave object-side surface, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a positive refractive power and a concave image-side surface. The first through fifth lenses are sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system.
US11906704B2
Disclosed is a camera optical lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power; a fourth lens having a negative refractive power; a fifth lens having a positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein, the camera optical lens satisfies: −4.50≤f1/f≤−2.20; 2.00≤f2/f≤5.50; −20.00≤(R3+R4)/(R3−R4)≤−2.50; and 3.00≤d9/d10≤10.00; where, f denotes a focus length of camera optical lens; f1 and f2 denote focus lengths of first and second lens respectively; d9 denotes an on-axis thickness of fifth lens; d10 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of fifth lens to an object side surface of sixth lens; R3 and R4 denote central curvature radii of an object side surface and an object side surface of second lens respectively.
US11906701B2
Anti-reflective article includes a layer defining an anti-reflective surface. The anti-reflective surface includes a series of alternating micro-peaks and micro-spaces extending along an axis. The surface also includes a series of nano-peaks extending along an axis. The nano-peaks are disposed at least on the micro-spaces and, optionally, the micro-peaks. The article may be disposed on a photovoltaic module or skylight to reduce reflections and resist the collection of dust and dirt.
US11906699B2
An article that includes: an inorganic oxide substrate having opposing major surfaces; and an optical film structure disposed on a first major surface of the substrate, the optical film structure comprising one or more of a silicon-containing oxide, a silicon-containing nitride and a silicon-containing oxynitride and a physical thickness from about 50 nm to less than 500 nm. The article exhibits a hardness of 8 GPa or greater measured at an indentation depth of about 100 nm or a maximum hardness of 9 GPa or greater measured over an indentation depth range from about 100 nm to about 500 nm, the hardness and the maximum hardness measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test. Further, the article exhibits a single-side photopic average reflectance that is less than 1%.
US11906698B2
Techniques for creating a replacement for optical elements with diffractive planar components based on metasurfaces are provided. In one example, a substantially flat optical component for lensing incoming electromagnetic radiation having at least one wavelength and a first phase into outgoing electromagnetic radiation having a second phase is provided.
US11906674B2
The present technology relates to nanomaterials and methods of their use, and more specifically to methods and structures using nanomaterials to fiducially measure radiation dosing.
US11906671B2
In one example, a LIDAR device includes a light sources that emits light and a transmit lens that directs the emitted light to illuminate a region of an environment with a field-of-view defined by the transmit lens. The LIDAR device also includes a receive lens that focuses at least a portion of incoming light propagating from the illuminated region of the environment along a predefined optical path. The LIDAR device also includes an array of light detectors positioned along the predefined optical path. The LIDAR device also includes an offset light detector positioned outside the predefined optical path. The LIDAR device also includes a controller that determines whether collected sensor data from the array of light detectors includes data associated with another light source different than the light source of the device based on output from the offset light detector.
US11906653B2
A calibration utilizes reference data indicative of a position of a target element relative to a reference location, of a position of a reference point on a rotatable support relative to the reference location, orientation data indicative of at least one angular position of the rotatable support, and antenna measurement data indicative of electromagnetic echo signals received by a radar antenna from the target element. A measured position of the target element relative to the radar antenna is determined based on at least a portion of the antenna measurement data. A reference position of the target element relative to the radar antenna is determined based on the reference data and on at least a portion of the orientation data. At least one bias value or function associated with the orientation data and/or the antenna measurement data is determined based on a deviation between the determined measured position and reference position.
US11906652B2
A Signal Processing Unit (SPU) having a thresholding circuit configured to detect a peak cell of a radar data cube, and to output an identification of the peak cell and energy values of the peak cell and its adjacent cells; and an interpolation circuit coupled to the thresholding circuit, and configured to determine and transmit from the SPU to a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a relative position of the peak cell between the adjacent cells based on the energy values.
US11906644B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor configured to estimate positions of wireless devices communicating each other from a plurality of position candidates based on position candidate information indicating the position candidates of the wireless devices and communication information between the plurality of wireless devices located in any of the plurality of position candidates, and determine a first position among the position candidates according to a likelihood of the wireless devices estimated to be located in the position candidates.
US11906642B2
Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to modify information of an audio data transmission based on one or more measured signal reception and/or transmission characteristics of a radio frequency (RF) signal data transmission that contains or otherwise conveys the audio data transmission. The modified audio data may then be acoustically reproduced in analog form as sound waves. Examples of signal reception characteristics of a RF signal data transmission that may be measured and used as a basis for modifying information of audio data of an audio data transmission include, but are not limited to, time Difference of Arrival (TDOA), Angle of Arrival (AoA), measured received signal strength, etc. Example signal transmission characteristics of a RF signal that may be measured and used as a basis for modifying information of audio data include, but are not limited to, Angle of Departure (AoD).
US11906641B2
A coordinate conversion system including a controller that converts geographic-coordinate-system coordinates of a certain point into site-coordinate-system coordinates includes: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a reference point; and a GNSS antenna that receives a navigation signal. The controller calculates geographic-coordinate-system coordinates of the image-capturing device on the basis of the navigation signal received at the GNSS antenna, and a distance between the image-capturing device and the GNSS antenna; calculates a distance and direction from the image-capturing device to the reference point by performing image processing on the image of the reference point captured by the image-capturing device; calculates the geographic-coordinate-system coordinates of the reference point on the basis of the calculated distance and direction from the image-capturing device to the reference point, and the calculated geographic-coordinate-system coordinates of the image-capturing device; and calibrates the coordinate conversion parameter on the basis of the calculated geographic-coordinate-system coordinates of the reference point, and the site-coordinate-system coordinates of the reference point.
US11906636B2
Provided is a vehicle sensor mounting structure by which a GNSS antenna and at least one external sensor are mounted on a roof of a vehicle, the at least one external sensor being configured to detect an external state of the vehicle. The vehicle sensor mounting structure includes: a first wiring hole into which a sensor wiring line of the at least one external sensor is drawn to be placed under the roof, the first wiring hole being formed in the roof; and a second wiring hole into which an antenna wiring line of the GNSS antenna is drawn to be placed under the roof, the second wiring hole being formed in the roof.
US11906635B2
The invention pertains to a method for recreating unavailable measurements in a GNSS system by producing at least one GNSS parameter estimate Formula (I) at a target carrier frequency (fk), the method comprising at least one of: deriving (1030), from one or more available pseudorange measurements (Pi) at respective other carrier frequencies (fi), a pseudorange estimate Formula (II) at said target carrier frequency (fk) and deriving (1040), from said one or more available pseudorange measurements (Pi) and one or more available carrier phase measurements (φi) at said respective other carrier frequencies (fi), a carrier phase estimate Formula (III) at said target carrier frequency (fk).
US11906622B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems for measuring crosswind speed by optical measurement of laser scintillation. One method includes projecting radiation into a medium, receiving, over time, with a photodetector receiver, a plurality of scintillation patterns of scattered radiation, comparing cumulative a radiation intensity for each received scintillation pattern of the received plurality of scintillation patterns, and measuring a cumulative weighted average cross-movement within the medium using the compared cumulative radiation intensities.
US11906620B2
A radar system processes signals in a flexible, adaptive manner to determine range, Doppler (velocity) and angle of objects in an environment. The radar system includes transmitters configured to transmit radio signals, receivers configured to receive radar signals, and a control unit. The received radio signals include transmitted radio signals transmitted by the transmitters and reflected from objects in an environment. The control unit adaptively controls the transmitters and the receivers based on a selected operating mode for the radar system. The selected operating mode meets a desired operational objective defined by current environmental conditions. The control unit is configured to control the receivers to produce and process data according to the selected operating mode.
US11906607B2
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object positioned in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to enable efficient silent ZTE imaging with self-refocusing. The method of the invention comprises the steps of:—specification of a set of radial k-space spokes to cover a spherical k-space volume;—selection of subsets of a predetermined number of spokes from the specified set so that the concatenation of the spokes contained in each of the subsets forms a closed trajectory in k-space, wherein the selection of the subsets involves optimizing a cost function;—subjecting the object (10) to a zero echo time imaging sequence, wherein each of the subsets of spokes is acquired as a sequence of gradient echo signals; and—reconstructing an MR image from the acquired spokes. Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device and to a computer program for a MR device.
US11906578B2
A multispectral inspection (MSI) device for analyzing an electronic item having a printed circuit board (PCB). An electronic power supply powers the electronic item in accordance with one or more test vectors. An optical imaging scanner, terahertz (THz) imaging scanner, and a functional imaging scanner are each operative to scan the electronic item. An electronic processor is programmed to scan the various scanners and control the power supply to acquire optical, THz, and functional images of the electronic item. The images are combined to form a standard three-dimensional (3D) signature and artificial intelligence (AI) classifiers are applied to the 3D signature to perform non-destructive analyses of the electronic item.
US11906568B2
A monitoring arrangement for electrical equipment includes a first sensor for sensing a surface creeping current on a creeping path-lengthening electrically insulating housing of the equipment. A monitoring system includes electrical equipment, the monitoring arrangement, a communication device for transmitting data to a central server device, and a central server device configured to receive and evaluate the data.
US11906564B2
A method includes providing, by a signal source circuit of a sensing circuit, a signal to a sensor via a conductor. When the sensor is exposed to a condition and is receiving the signal, an electrical characteristic of the sensor affects the signal. The signal includes at least one of: a direct current (DC) component and an oscillating component. When the sensing circuit is in a noisy environment, transient noise couples with the signal to produce a noisy signal. The method further includes comparing, by a transient circuit of the sensing circuit, the noisy signal with a representation of the noisy signal. When the noisy signal compares unfavorably with the representation of the noisy signal, supplying, by the transient circuit, a compensation signal to the conductor. A level of the compensation signal corresponds to a level at which the noisy signal compares unfavorably with the representation of the noisy signal.
US11906561B2
An inspection device inspects a display for defects. The display includes a power supply, a circuit board having a stabilizer to stabilize the power supply, a display panel which is electrically connected to the circuit board and has a first electrode, and an input sensor which is disposed on the display panel and has a second electrode. The inspection logic measures a value of capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode of the display, and includes a frequency setter that sets a driving frequency of the second electrode to a frequency in a predetermined range.
US11906560B2
A method of measuring a fuse resistance includes steps as follows. A predetermined voltage value of a force voltage on a common ground (CGND) bus electrically connected to at least one fuse element, a first current value of a measured current through the CGND bus in a first condition, and a second current value of another measured current through the CGND bus in a second condition are preloaded. The second current value is subtracted from the first current value, so as to get a subtracted current value, thereby removing a value of a leakage current through the CGND bus. The predetermined voltage value is divided by the subtracted current value to equal the fuse resistance of the at least one fuse element.
US11906555B2
Methods and systems for emulating high side current of a power switch including low and high side switches. The method includes generating, with a low side current sensor, a low side current signal for the low side switch when the power switch is in a low state. The method also includes generating, with a first transconductance amplifier, an emulated current signal based on an input voltage of the power switch. The method further includes generating, with a buffer, a fixed reference voltage by sampling the low side current signal when the power switch changes from the low state to a high state. The method also includes generating, with a capacitor, an emulated voltage based on the emulated current signal and the fixed reference voltage. The method further includes, generating, with a second transconductance amplifier, a high side current signal for the high side switch based on the emulated voltage.
US11906538B2
A sensor module includes: a printed circuit board having a first recessed portion formed at a first side, a second recessed portion formed at a second side facing the first side, a third recessed portion formed at a third side, and a fourth recessed portion formed at a fourth side facing the third side; a metal cap including convex portions each bonded to a respective one of the first to fourth recessed portions; and a first inertial sensor and a second inertial sensor that are provided at a main surface of the printed circuit board. The first inertial sensor and the second inertial sensor are disposed outside a region surrounded by a line connecting both ends of the first recessed portion and the second recessed portion and outside a region surrounded by a line connecting both ends of the third recessed portion and the fourth recessed portion.
US11906533B2
A chemical sensing system is described. The chemical sensing system can include a plurality of sensors arranged on at least one substrate. The sensors may have differing sensitivities to sense different analytes, and may each be configured to output a signal in response to sensing one or more of the different analytes. The chemical sensing system can further include a computer processor programmed to receive the signals output from the plurality of sensors. The computer processor may be further programmed to determine a concentration of analytes in the sample based, at least in part, on the received signals and a model relating the signals or information derived from the signals to an output representation having bases corresponding to analytes.
US11906527B2
The field of this invention relates to immunohistochemistry (IHC) and in situ hybridization (ISH) for the targeted detection and mapping of biomolecules (e.g., proteins and miRNAs) in tissues or cells for example, for research use and for clinical use such by pathologists (e.g., biomarker analyses of a resected tumor or tumor biopsy). In particular, the use of mass spectrometric imaging (MSI) as a mode to detect and map the biomolecules in tissues or cells for example. More specifically, the field of this invention relates to photocleavable mass-tag reagents which are attached to probes such as antibodies and nucleic acids and used to achieve multiplex immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization, with MSI as the mode of detection/readout. Probe types other than antibodies and nucleic acids are also covered in the field of invention, including but not limited to carbohydrate-binding proteins (e.g., lectins), receptors and ligands. Finally, the field of the invention also encompasses multi-omic MSI procedures, where MSI of photocleavable mass-tag probes is combined with other modes of MSI, such as direct label-free MSI of endogenous biomolecules from the biospecimen (e.g., tissue), whereby said biomolecules can be intact or digested (e.g., chemically digested or by enzyme).
US11906524B2
The present subject matter provides urea biosensors as well as compositions, devices, and methods comprising such biosensors.
US11906517B2
The present invention relates to the field of medicine and in particular to Parkinson's disease (PD). Specifically the present invention relates to methods and means for early detection of PD. The invention relates also to methods and means for treatment or prophylaxis of PD. In the method of the invention a probability of a subject developing or having Parkinson's disease (PD) is determined by measuring the relative abundances of one or multiple microbial taxa in a sample from a subject; and the probability of the subject developing or having PD is determined based on the measured abundances. The present invention provides a novel approach for the diagnostics of PD.
US11906515B2
A multiplexed lateral flow device includes an impermeable internal reservoir having an opening to receive a sample deposition. A fluid distributor pad is arranged in fluid communication with a lower surface of the internal reservoir. The fluid distributor pad includes a paper based microfluidic element having a pattern of a hydrophobic material to distribute a portion of the sample deposition substantially equally among a plurality of flow paths. Lateral flow assays having a plurality of flow lines are aligned with flow paths of the distributor pad. An impermeable top cover has a first window arranged over the opening of the internal reservoir, and at least a second window arranged over the test results of the lateral flow assays. A housing element houses the reservoir, the distributor pad and lateral flow assays. The housing element includes an impermeable bottom cover and a spacer element arranged between the top and bottom covers and, provides a gap between the lateral flow assays and the impermeable top cover.
US11906514B2
The invention encompasses methods and test strips for detecting the presence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in a biological sample with a lateral flow device which uses lectin conjugates, anti-antigen conjugates, an immobilized serum line, and an immobilized anti-antigen line.
US11906511B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting exhausted T cells in a subject. The present invention also provides methods for treating a subject having a disease characterized by the presence of exhausted T cells or certain subpopulations thereof.
US11906505B2
A method of monitoring renewable carbon in fuel streams in a refinery or blend facility while co-processing a bio-feedstock with a fossil feedstock or blending a renewable product with a fossil product wherein the method provides for quantification of renewable C14 carbon content to adjust the total renewable content to a targeted renewable content in situ while lowering the limit of detection.
US11906500B1
The present invention relates to apparatus for measuring fuel thermal stability, deposit formation rate, and in-situ reactivity via optical methods and as well as methods of making and using same. Applicants' apparatus can deliver the rate and amount of degradation as well as the quantifying and qualifying the chemical species in the fuel on a real time basis during a test. As a result, Applicants' apparatus provides significantly improved performance over the current apparatuses.
US11906496B2
A gas detection device comprises a pump module for drawing in air; a sensor module including a plurality of unit sensors detecting a gas included in the air; a driving module driving the pump module and the sensor module; and a case including a main body mounted to allow at least one among the pump module, the sensor module, and the driving module to be detachable and a cover connected to the main body to allow the at least one among the pump module, the sensor module, and the driving module to be exposed.
US11906491B2
Provided herein is a method for authenticating animal hide gelatins using peptide markers found animal hide gelatin hydrolysates. The method can be used to authenticate animal hide gelatins derived from donkey hide, horse hide, pig hide, and cattle hide.
US11906462B2
The invention relates to a system for determining and/or monitoring a state variable of a measurement object comprising an analysis sensor, a control apparatus and a read-out apparatus. The analysis sensor is configured to be introducible into the measurement object for remaining within the same, to be sensitive to an ion type and to generate measurement data based on a concentration of the ion type in the measurement object. The control apparatus controls the analysis sensor with respect to the generation of the measurement data. The read-out apparatus reads the measurement data out of the analysis sensor. Further, the invention relates to a respective method.
US11906457B2
A gas sensor includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate, a second electrode disposed on the substrate and spaced apart from the first electrode, and a sensitive member disposed on the substrate. The sensitive member contacts first and second electrodes and has a porous structure from a three-dimensional (3D) arrangement of shells including a gas-sensitive material. A thickness of the sensitive member is 5 μm to 10 μm, and a thickness of the shells is 10 nm to 40 nm.
US11906444B2
A method for training a system for automatically detecting a defect of a blade of a turbomachine including a platform intended to receive a blade, at least one image-acquiring device, at least one light source the luminous intensity of which may vary, at least one moving device configured to move the platform with respect to the at least one image-acquiring device or to move the at least one image-acquiring device with respect to the platform, and a processing unit configured to receive acquired images and associate them with the items of information relating to the luminous intensity of the at least one light source and to the relative position of the platform with respect to the at least one image-acquiring device during the image acquisition.
US11906429B2
A two-photon stimulated emission depletion composite microscope using continuous light loss, the microscope comprising: a two-photon imaging unit (100) and an STED imaging unit (200), wherein for thicker samples, the two-photon imaging unit (100) can be used, and for regions of interest on the surface of samples, the STED super-resolution imaging unit (200) can be used. The two-photon stimulated emission depletion composite microscope using continuous light loss integrates two functions of STED imaging and two-photon imaging, so as to provide a powerful tool for cutting-edge biomedical research.
US11906428B2
Provided is a spectrofluorophotometer acquiring both a spectrum and a sample image in measurement of fluorescence of a liquid sample. A spectrofluorophotometer includes a light source, an excitation-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of light of the light source and generates excitation light, a fluorescence-side spectroscope that performs spectral dispersion of fluorescence emitted from a sample irradiated with excitation light into monochromatic light, a sample container installation portion for holding a sample container which receives a liquid sample and is formed of a transparent material, a detector that detects fluorescence emitted from the liquid sample, and an image capturing device that captures a sample image of a sample emitting fluorescence. The sample container installation portion includes a port for allowing excitation light to pass therethrough, a port for allowing fluorescence emitted from a sample to pass therethrough, and a port for allowing the image capturing device to observe a sample.
US11906425B2
A phantom design method includes a correction step and a calculation step. In the correction step, an absorption spectrum of a target of spectroscopic measurement by a near infrared spectrometer is corrected based on a refractive index of the target and a refractive index of a resin used as a base material of a phantom to generate a corrected absorption spectrum. In the calculation step, based on an absorption spectrum of the resin and an absorption spectrum of each of N types of dyes, a concentration of each of the N types of dyes to be contained in the base material is calculated such that an absorption spectrum of the phantom constituted by the base material containing the N types of dyes approximates the corrected absorption spectrum in a predetermined wavelength range of a near infrared region.
US11906424B2
Method for identifying chemical and structural variations through terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
A terahertz scanner for detecting irregularities, such as chemical or structural variations, in a sample and methods of use thereof are described. The described terahertz scanner and algorithms allow for direct, high-sensitivity, high-throughput, and non-invasive detection of irregularities that range from chemical contaminant to material defects in a variety of substrates and settings.
US11906423B2
Methods, assemblies, and controllers may be used for determining and using standardized spectral responses for calibration of spectroscopic analyzers. The methods, assemblies, and controllers may be used to calibrate or recalibrate a spectroscopic analyzer when the spectroscopic analyzer changes from a first state to a second state, the second state being defined as a period of time after a change to the spectroscopic analyzer causing a need to calibrate or recalibrate the spectroscopic analyzer. The calibration or recalibration may result in the spectroscopic analyzer outputting a standardized spectrum, such that the spectroscopic analyzer outputs a corrected material spectrum for an analyzed material, and defining the standardized spectrum. The corrected material spectrum may include signals indicative of material properties of an analyzed material, the material properties of the material being substantially consistent with material properties of the material output by the spectroscopic analyzer in the first state.
US11906421B2
A detector (110) for determining at least one material property of at least one object (112) is proposed. The detector (110) comprises at least one projector (116) configured for illuminating the object (112) with at least one illumination pattern (118) comprising a plurality of illumination features (120); at least one first camera (122) having at least one first sensor element, wherein the first sensor element has a matrix of first optical sensors, the first optical sensors each having a light-sensitive area, wherein each first optical sensor is designed to generate at least one sensor signal in response to an illumination of its respective light-sensitive area by a reflection light beam propagating from the object (112) to the first camera (122), wherein the first camera (122) is configured for imaging at least one first reflection image comprising a plurality of first reflection features generated by the object (112) in response to illumination by the illumination features (120), wherein the first camera (122) is arranged such that the first reflection image is imaged under a first direction of view to the object (112); at least one second camera (124) having at least one second sensor element, wherein the second sensor element has a matrix of second optical sensors, the second optical sensors each having a light-sensitive area, wherein each second optical sensor is designed to generate at least one sensor signal in response to an illumination of its respective light-sensitive area by a reflection light beam propagating from the object (112) to the second camera (124), wherein the second camera (124) is configured for imaging at least one second reflection image comprising a plurality of second reflection features generated by the object (112) in response to illumination by the illumination feature (120), wherein the second camera (124) is arranged such that the second reflection image is imaged under a second direction of view to the object (112), wherein the first direction of view and the second direction of view differ; at least one evaluation device (126) configured for evaluating the first reflection image and the second reflection image, wherein the evaluation comprises matching the first reflection features and the second reflection features and determining a combined material property of matched pairs of first and second reflection features by analysis of their beam profiles.
US11906416B2
A MEMS sensing device for sensing microparticles in an environment external to the MEMS sensing device is provided. The MEMS sensing device comprises a semiconductor body integrating a sensor and a pump unit, the sensor including a sensor cavity, a membrane suspended over the sensor cavity, and a piezoelectric element over the membrane and configured to cause the membrane to oscillate, about an equilibrium position, at a corresponding resonance frequency when sensing electric signals are applied to the piezoelectric element during a first operative phase of the MEMS sensing device, the resonance frequency depending on an amount of microparticles located on the membrane, the membrane having a plurality of through holes for establishing a fluid communication between the sensor cavity and the environment; the pump is configured to cause air pressure in the sensor cavity to be reduced with respect to the air pressure of the environment during the first operative phase, so that microparticles are caused to adhere onto the membrane by a suction force through the plurality of through holes.
US11906413B2
An apparatus and a corresponding method used, in the field of medical analysis, to determine erythrocyte sedimentation rate, as well as other connected parameters.
US11906400B2
A method and system for monitoring wine fermentation is provided. The system comprises a sensor conduit and a sensor enclosure. The sensor enclosure comprises a leveling indicator that indicates if the sensor conduit is vertical.
US11906399B2
A well sampling apparatus is described herein. The well sampling apparatus includes one or more pressure-activated samplers in a sampling assembly. The samplers are coupled to an activating mechanism that includes a remotely activated local actuator. The remotely activated local actuator is coupled to a pressure source that, when released by the remotely activated local actuator, operates the pressure-activated sample to obtain a sample fluid.
US11906398B2
There is provided an automated system for preparing tissue samples that comprises one or more microtomes, a hydration system, and a processor, the processor being programmed to initiate facing, by one or more microtomes, of a first tissue block comprising a first tissue sample embedded in an embedding material, and cause the first tissue block to be hydrated by the hydration system for a first predetermined time, and initiate facing, by one or more microtomes, of a second tissue block while the first tissue block is being hydrated, the second tissue block comprising a second tissue sample embedded in an embedding material, and cause the second tissue block to be hydrated by the hydration system for a second predetermined time, and to initiate the one or more microtomes to begin sectioning of the first tissue block while the second tissue block is being hydrated.
US11906397B2
Methods of and systems for actively detecting an increasing amount of backlash within a machine's mechanical power application to detect, predict, and estimate future mechanical failure.
US11906391B2
A tire system includes a tire-side device and a vehicle-body-side system. The tire-side device may be attached to a tire included in a vehicle. The vehicle-body-side system may be attached to a body of the vehicle. The tire-side device may output a detection signal corresponding to each of a plurality of types of detection targets. The tire-side device may perform processing of the detection signal and generate the data related to the detection target. The tire-side device may perform bidirectional communication with the vehicle-body-side system and transmit the data to the vehicle-body-side system. The vehicle-body-side system may perform bidirectional communication with the tire-side device and receive the data. The vehicle-body-side system may acquire the detection result for the detection target based on the data.
US11906386B2
A wheel balancing tool includes a body member, an attachment member and an alignment member. The body member includes a notch configured to be aligned with a balancing mark on a rim of a vehicle wheel. The attachment member is connected to the body member. The attachment member includes at least one hook configured to attach the tool to the wheel rim. The alignment member extends outwardly from the body portion and is configured to indicate an attachment position on the wheel for a balancing weight.
US11906376B2
A force sensor for a tendon-actuated mechanism, the force sensor comprising: a body having a through hole for passage of a tendon of the tendon-actuated mechanism therethrough, the body configured to be connected to a part of the tendon-actuated mechanism through which the tendon passes; and a sensor provided on the body to obtain a compression force on the body from the part of the tendon-actuated mechanism through which the tendon passes.
US11906373B2
A pressure sensor that includes a piezoelectric film having a first main surface and a second main surface, a first electrode on the first main surface of the piezoelectric film, and a second electrode on the second main surface of the piezoelectric film. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is formed of a material having an elastic modulus of 60 GPa or more, and the product of a thickness of the at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode in a stacking direction of the pressure sensor multiplied by an elastic modulus of the at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is 4 MPa·m or more.
US11906371B2
Thermocouples for high temperature applications are provided. A thermocouple includes a vessel formed from a dielectric material, the vessel defining a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber and second chamber in fluid communication. The thermocouple further includes a first thermoelement disposed in the first chamber, the first thermoelement formed from a first thermoelectric material. The thermocouple further includes a second thermoelement disposed in the second chamber, the second thermoelement formed from a second thermoelectric material different from the first thermoelectric material, and wherein the second thermoelement is a liquid at operating conditions of the thermocouple.
US11906370B2
A method is disclosed for measuring stress distribution generated on a structural object including two support parts and a beam part provided between the support parts. The method includes: generating first data by sensing, through a first sensing unit, of a moving object or an identification display object attached to the structural object; calculating, based on the first data, a movement duration in which the moving object moves between the support parts; generating, as second data, thermal data by sensing of a surface of the beam part through a second sensing unit; calculating a temperature change amount based on a second data group corresponding to the movement duration; and calculating a stress change amount based on the temperature change amount to calculate stress distribution based on the stress change amount.
US11906359B2
A custom-tint paint production system that includes a color sensing device such as a low-resolution spectrophotometer to measure color of a preexisting surface color, a color data translation engine to convert the measured values to spectral curve values, and a tint formulation engine to determine a custom tint formulation based upon the spectral curve values, which is usable by a tinter to tint a base coating composition by adding one or more colorants in amounts based on color measurements from the color sensing device.
US11906358B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include a receiver of an optical sensing system. The receiver may include a Hadamard mask configured to resonate during a scanning procedure performed by the optical sensing system. The Hadamard mask may include a frame beginning pattern corresponding to a start of a frame captured during the scanning procedure. The Hadamard mask may also include a coded pattern configured to provide sub-pixelization of the frame. The receiver may also include a photodetector array positioned on a first side of the Hadamard mask. The photodetector array may be configured to detect light that passes through the Hadamard mask during the scanning procedure to generate the frame.
US11906350B2
A calibration apparatus for calibrating a laser Doppler vibrometer includes: a frequency shifter stage that: receives, from the laser Doppler vibrometer, primary laser light; produces frequency shifted light; communicates the frequency shifted light to a reflector; receives frequency shifted light reflected by the reflector; produces secondary light; and communicates the secondary light to the laser Doppler vibrometer, such that the laser Doppler vibrometer receives the secondary light from the frequency shifter stage and produces a synthetic velocity shift from the secondary light; and the reflector that receives and reflects the frequency shifted light back to the frequency shifter stage.
US11906336B2
A fluid sensor, and associated monitoring and control system, employing a cylindrical venturi to eliminate stratification of fluid passing therethrough, and a capacitive sensor operatively coupled with the cylindrical venturi to facilitate the sensing of the fluid while in the venturi.
US11906335B2
A measuring system includes: a lumen forming a flow path and a flow obstruction arranged in the flow path for effecting a disturbance in a flowing fluid; a sensor arrangement adapted to produce a first sensor signal and a second sensor signal; and transmitter electronics. The transmitter electronics are adapted to receive both the first and second sensor signals and to convert such into first and second sensor signal sampling sequences approximating the first and second sensor signals, respectively, the transmitter electronics further adapted using a digital adaptive filter to ascertain from the first sampling sequence a filter coefficients set and therewith to form a z-transfer function for filtering the second sampling sequence such that the z-transfer function is determined by the filter coefficients set, the signal filter and the second sampling sequence to produce a wanted signal sequence, to produce therefrom digital measured values representing a measurement variable.
US11906332B2
An integrated circuit includes a first substrate. A MOS transistor has a first polysilicon region electrically isolated from the first substrate and including a gate region. A second polysilicon region is electrically isolated from the first polysilicon region and from the first substrate. The second polysilicon region includes a source region, a substrate region and a drain region of the MOS transistor. The first polysilicon region is located between an area of the first substrate and the second polysilicon region.
US11906330B1
Techniques for efficient compression of sensor data are described herein. In an example, metrology data is received from a metrology device, the metrology data comprising one or more of: voltage (V) data; current (A) data; resistive power (W) data; and volt-amps reactive power (VAR) data. The metrology data is processed, wherein the processing comprises: performing peak-detection on the metrology data, to create data-signals comprising: a timestamped peak-values data-signal; and a peak-removed data-signal. Median-filtering is performed on the peak-removed data-signal, wherein a median-filtered data-signal is created. Level-shift detection is performed on the median-filtered data-signal, wherein a timestamped level-shift data-signal is created. The data is sent to a server. The data may include the timestamped peak-values data-signal and the timestamped level-shift data-signal.
US11906329B2
A testing apparatus and method for detecting faults in encoders are disclosed. The testing apparatus includes a signal conditioning circuit board that receives an encoder signal and a central processing unit in communication with the circuit board and configured to: check for faulty amplitude, check for signal symmetry, check for signal offset, and/or check for signal transmission rate. The testing apparatus includes a real-time controller for real-time signal processing and fault detection.
US11906320B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for managing navigation broadcast, and a device, related to an Intelligent transportation technology field. A specific implementation solution includes: obtaining a geographical identifier of a user; obtaining a statement-conversion template set corresponding to the geographical identifier based on the geographical identifier of the user; converting a standard navigation broadcast statement based on the statement-conversion template set to generate a geographical navigation broadcast statement; and performing navigation broadcast based on the geographical navigation broadcast statement. Thereby, the navigation broadcasts are matched with respective regions, users in different regions are provided with diversified and personalized navigation broadcasts.
US11906319B2
A system is disclosed for providing a waste management app. The system may have a locating device disposed onboard a service vehicle and configured to generate a first signal indicative of a location of the service vehicle, an input device, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive a route assignment including waste services to be performed by the service vehicle, and to track movement of the service vehicle during performance of the waste services based on the first signal. The controller may also be configured to provide a graphical user interface for display on the input device, listing the waste services from the route assignment to be performed by the service vehicle and showing a location of the service vehicle relative to at least one location at which the waste services are to be performed.
US11906318B2
The disclosure relates to technology for a navigation system that enhances the safety of drivers using fatigue detection mapping. The navigation system accesses data sources storing map data a route for drivers of one or more first vehicles. Based on the map data, a personalized fatigue map for a driver of a second vehicle is generated based on the map data. The personalized fatigue map displays predicted driver fatigue of the driver of the second vehicle on the route. Drivers in the first and second vehicles are monitored to detect driver fatigue and a level of the driver fatigue is measured according to a calculated fatigue score. When driver fatigue is detected, a recommendation is output to the driver of the second vehicle that is based on the level of the driver fatigue. The personalized fatigue map is updated to reflect the recommendation.
US11906317B2
Systems and methods for presenting information and executing a task. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, location related information is presented. In another aspect, when a user utters a voice command and gazes or gestures at a device, a task is executed. In another aspect, a voice input, a gesture, and user information are used to determine a destination for a trip or a product for a purchase. In another aspect, a voice input and user information are used to determine a destination when a user hails a vehicle.
US11906312B2
The present application discloses an improved transportation matching system, and corresponding methods and computer-readable media. According to the disclosed embodiments, the transportation matching system utilizes an image-based transportation request interface and environmental digital image stream to efficiently generate transportation requests with accurate pickup locations. For instance, the disclosed system can utilize one or more environmental digital images provided from a requestor computing device (e.g., a mobile device or an augmented reality wearable device) to determine information such as the location of the requestor computing device and a transportation pickup location within the environmental digital images. Furthermore, the disclosed system can provide, for display on the requestor computing device, one or more augmented reality elements at the transportation pickup location within an environmental scene that includes the transportation pickup location.
US11906310B2
Techniques are disclosed for evaluating digital map quality. A process includes steps for receiving change data indicating one or more feature discrepancies associated with one or more geographic regions of a digital map, analyzing the change data to determine which of the one or more feature discrepancies resulted in verified updates to the digital map, and generating a quality score for each of the geographic map regions based on the verified updates. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11906309B2
An approach is provided for providing a map matcher tolerant to wrong map features. The approach involves, for instance, finding a segment of a probe trajectory containing a plurality of low-speed probe points. The approach also involves forming a line between a first and a last probe point of the segment. The approach further involves calculating a distance from each probe point of the segment to the line. The approach further involves splitting the segment based on comparing the distance to a threshold at a turning point of the segment. The approach further involves creating a new probe trajectory based on a plurality of high-speed probe points in the probe trajectory and the turning point. The approach further involves estimating a heading of the turning point of the segment based on the new trajectory, and then performing a feasibility check between two consecutive probe points of the new trajectory.
US11906308B2
Optical unit for a projective optical metrological system, which receives a light signal coming from a light constellation comprising a number of light sources; the optical unit includes: an optoelectronic image acquisition system and a first and a second optical circuit, which receive the light signal and are traversed by a first and a second optical beam, respectively. The first and the second optical circuits direct, respectively, at least a first part of the first optical beam and at least a first part of the second optical beam on the optoelectronic image acquisition system, so as to cause the simultaneous formation of two different images of the constellation in the optoelectronic image acquisition system. The optical unit further includes an electronic processing unit coupled to the optoelectronic image acquisition system, which determines a number of quantities indicative of the position and/or attitude of the light constellation with respect to the optical unit, based on the two images. The optical unit further includes an optical receiver and a derivation optical circuit configured to optically couple the optical receiver and at least one of the first and the second optical circuit, so that the optical receiver receives an optical information signal, which is a function of at least one of the first and the second optical beams. The optical receiver demodulates digital data from the optical information signal.
US11906305B2
Provided are a movable marking system, a method of controlling a movable marking apparatus, and a computer-readable recording medium. The movable marking system is a movable marking system that includes a movable marking apparatus, and includes: a data receiving unit for receiving marking data regarding a working surface; a marking unit for performing a marking operation on the working surface in response to the marking data; a sensing unit for scanning space targeted for scanning; and a scan condition setting unit for setting a movement path of the movable marking apparatus corresponding to the marking data, setting a scan position for scanning the space targeted for scanning by taking into account reference map data corresponding to the space targeted for scanning, and setting a scan angle of the sensing unit at the scan position.
US11906293B2
A 1D ultrasonic transducer unit for material detection, comprising a housing having securing device for securing to a surface and having at least three discrete ultrasonic transducers designed to decouple sound waves with a consistent operating frequency between 20 kHz and 400 kHz in a gaseous medium, and a control unit designed to control each ultrasonic transducer individually, wherein two ultrasonic transducers, directly adjacent to one another, are spaced apart by a distance, the 1D ultrasonic transducer unit has a sound channel per ultrasonic transducer with an input opening, associated with exactly one respective ultrasonic transducer, and an output opening, the output openings are arranged along a straight line, a distance from the directly adjacent output opening corresponds at most to the full or half the wavelength in the gaseous medium and is smaller than the corresponding distance.
US11906286B2
The invention discloses a deep learning-based temporal phase unwrapping method for fringe projection profilometry. First, four sets of three-step phase-shifting fringe patterns with different frequencies (including 1, 8, 32, and 64) are projected to the tested objects. The three-step phase-shifting fringe images acquired by the camera are processed to obtain the wrapped phase map using a three-step phase-shifting algorithm. Then, a multi-frequency temporal phase unwrapping (MF-TPU) algorithm is used to unwrap the wrapped phase map to obtain a fringe order map of the high-frequency phase with 64 periods. A residual convolutional neural network is built, and its input data are set to be the wrapped phase maps with frequencies of 1 and 64, and the output data are set to be the fringe order map of the high-frequency phase with 64 periods. Finally, the training dataset and the validation dataset are built to train and validate the network. The network makes predictions on the test dataset to output the fringe order map of the high-frequency phase with 64 periods. The invention exploits a deep learning method to unwrap a wrapped phase map with a frequency of 64 using a wrapped phase map with a frequency of 1 and obtain an absolute phase map with fewer phase errors and higher accuracy.
US11906274B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a reconnaissance and communication assembly, adapted to be launched from a gun barrel into the air. The assembly comprises a carrier (with a cavity) and a payload (within the cavity). The payload is arranged to be controllably expelled from the carrier and once expelled from the carrier, the payload transmits a signal.
US11906270B2
A multi-function dry fire training device to be inserted into the chamber of a firearm, which comprises an illuminator for emitting, upon receiving a command from a controller, a beam of visible or invisible illumination from the barrel of the firearm, the beam being parallel to its central axis; a controller for controlling the functionality of the device including illumination of the illuminator, in response to activation of the firearm trigger; an actuator, being electrically connected to the controller, for activating the controller whenever being struck by the firearm striker and a power source for providing DC power to the controller and illuminator.
US11906261B1
A magazine for storing and separating projectiles for a weapon, in particular for a bow weapon, includes a storage section, which is configured to house at least partially cylindrical projectiles, in particular arrows or bolts, and extends in a first direction. The magazine includes a separating mechanism coupled to the storage section. The separating mechanism includes an actuation section configured to be actuated by the movement of at least one actuation mechanism of a weapon when moved with respect to the first direction. The separating mechanism, upon actuation of the actuation section, is configured to separate a single projectile from a plurality of projectiles in the storage section. The separating mechanism includes a holding section configured to hold the separated single projectile with a predefined force in a launching area of a weapon. A weapon including such a magazine and a method for manufacturing such a magazine are also described.
US11906252B2
A composite cooling film (100) comprises an antisoiling layer (160) secured to a first major surface of a reflective microporous layer (110). The reflective microporous layer (110) comprises a first fluoropolymer and is diffusely reflective of electromagnetic radiation over a majority of wavelengths in the range of 400 to 2500 nanometers. The antisoiling layer (160) has an outwardly facing antisoiling surface (162) opposite the micro-voided polymer film. An article (1100) comprising the composite cooling film (1112) secured to a substrate (1110) is also disclosed.
US11906249B2
A heat exchanger has: a first manifold assembly having a stack of plates; a second manifold assembly having a stack of plates; and a plurality of tubes extending from the first manifold assembly to the second manifold assembly. The plurality of tubes is a plurality groups of tubes. For each of the groups of the tubes: the tubes of the group have first ends mounted between plates of the first manifold assembly; and the tubes of the group have second ends mounted between plates of the second manifold assembly.
US11906246B2
According to one embodiment, an organic film forming apparatus includes a chamber configured to maintain an atmosphere more reduced than an atmospheric pressure, at least one processing room provided inside the chamber and being surrounded by a cover, and an exhaust part configured to exhaust the inside the chamber. The processing room includes an upper heating part including first heaters, a lower heating part including second heaters, and facing the upper heating part, an upper heat equalizing plate provided on the lower heating part side of the upper heating part, a lower heat equalizing plate provided on the upper heating part side of the lower heating part, and workpiece supporters configured to support a workpiece through a gap between the upper and lower heat equalizing plates.
US11906235B2
A refrigeration door system with a defrosting feature includes a housing defining a refrigerated cavity therein, and a door assembly carried by the housing and providing access to the refrigerated cavity. The door assembly includes a door frame and a sliding door coupled to the door frame, the sliding door switching between an open position providing the access to the refrigerated cavity and a closed position where the refrigerated cavity is inaccessible. The door frame includes a top member having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, a first side member coupled transversely to the first end of the top member and having a side conduit therein, a second side member coupled transversely to the second end of the top member, and a medial member coupled transversely to the top member between the first end and the second end of the top member.
US11906232B2
A refrigerator includes a vacuum adiabatic body having a storage space to store a product and a door to open or close the storage space. The main body includes a first plate and perforation plate. A cool air supply gap through which cool aft flows is formed between the first plate and the perforation plate. At least two holes through which cool air is discharged to the storage space are formed in the perforation plate. The first plate may be a wall of the main body.
US11906230B2
A refrigerator includes a first tray assembly defining a portion of an ice making cell, a second tray assembly defining another portion of the ice making cell, a heater disposed adjacent to at least one of the first and second tray assemblies, and a controller configured to control the heater. The refrigerator further includes a pusher having a first edge pressing the ice or at least one of the first and second tray assemblies to separate the ice from the tray assemblies, a bar extending from the first edge, and a second edge disposed at the end of the bar. The second tray assembly includes a first coupling part connected to the pusher and a second coupling part connected to the driver. The controller moves at least one of the pusher and the second tray assembly to change a relative position between the pusher and the second tray assembly.
US11906229B2
An ice machine includes: an ice maker including: an ultrasonic bin sensor mounted to a body; and a controller in electrical communication with the ultrasonic bin sensor and configured to control the ultrasonic bin sensor; and a storage bin coupled to the ice maker and sized to receive a mound of ice, a lens of the ultrasonic bin sensor facing a bottom of an interior cavity of the storage bin, the controller configured to process a return signal of the ultrasonic bin sensor to control a level of ice stored inside the storage bin, the controller further configured to apply a predetermined time delay to filter out a portion of the return signal that exceeds a threshold voltage but does not exceed the time delay.
US11906219B2
A refrigeration cycle may include a compressor and a flash tank. The flash tank is configured for receiving a refrigerant and separating liquid refrigerant and vapour refrigerant. The compressor is configured for compressing the refrigerant and includes a suction port and an injection port. The flash tank is connected to the injection port of the compressor via an injection valve. A method of controlling injection into the compressor includes determining a pressure in the flash tank and controlling the injection valve based on the determined pressure in the flash tank.
US11906193B2
A portable enclosure is configured to mix room air with a controlled amount of exterior air via one or more flexible conduits disposed between the enclosure and an exterior window. At least one flexible conduit is connected to a barrier structure which is designed for sealable placement within the window. One or more mixing dampers are employed to control the amount of exterior air supplied to the enclosure. An air moving device delivers exterior air in controlled amounts to the enclosure which is designed to be moveable so that a more desirable (fresher, cooler, and more contaminant free) stream of air is deliverable to the personal space of an occupant to satisfy ventilation and temperature requirements.
US11906190B2
A distributed metering device and method based on a matching coefficient, wherein the room temperature is regulated by means of an on-off controller according to an on-off time area method based heat metering device, and heat meter for the building is distributed to heat consumers according to a ratio of the on-off control valve opening cumulative time, the building area and the radiator power to a design heat load; or multiplying the ratio of heat meter reading of each household divided by heat load per unit area of each household to heat reading of a heat meter of each household of the entire building divided by the sum of the heat load per unit area of each household by the heat meter reading of a settlement point as the user's shared heat according to a heat meter method based household metering device.
US11906166B2
An injector device for an engine device for introducing a fluidic, in particular a liquid, fuel and a fluid, in particular liquid, oxidizing agent into a combustion chamber of the engine device is provided. The injector device defines a longitudinal axis and comprises at least one first injection element, which is configured in the form of a first fluid channel for fluidically connecting a first collection space for the fluidic oxidizing agent and the combustion chamber, and at least one second injection element, which is configured in the form of a second fluid channel for fluidically connecting a second collection space for the fluidic fuel and the combustion chamber. At least one first resonator element is associated with the at least one first injection element and/or at least one second resonator element is associated with the at least one second injection element.
US11906162B2
A grate bar has a grate bar head, two side walls, a running surface behind the head and between the side walls and an underside disposed below the surface and between the side walls. A recess in one side wall forms an air slot between the surface and underside and is arranged only on one side wall, not in its opposite side wall. In a grate bar arrangement including multiple grate bars, each including a running surface and a grate bar head, in which an upper grate bar with grate bar head is moveably arranged relative to a lower grate bar so that the head may slide over front and rear grate bar running surface areas, the running surface has air slots in the front and rear areas and the head is displaceable relative to these slots so that the opening cross section of all slots remains constant.
US11906158B2
The present invention is in the field of a high pressure heating installation and in particular a waste incineration installation comprising an advanced panel design and cladding thereof. Said cladding relates to a cladding to a in particular at least partly curved surface of a membrane panel, which panel is used in a high temperature and high pressure incinerator, such as a waste incinerator.
US11906153B2
Apparatus and methods for enhanced lighting. The apparatus may include a light-transmitting body. The apparatus may include a light projector. The projector may be configured to propagate into the light-transmitting body an incoming incoherent light. The projector may be configured to propagate into the light-transmitting body an incoming visible coherent light. Emerging coherent light within a visible wavelength rage attributable to the incoming visible coherent light may have a first intensity. The first intensity may be greater than a second intensity. The second intensity may be an intensity of any emerging coherent light that is within the wavelength range and is attributable to the incoming incoherent light. Emerging light may be light that emerges from the light-transmitting body.
US11906151B2
A luminous bottle is disclosed herein. In particular, the luminous bottle may comprise a bottle containing a volume configured to receive liquids, solids, any type of substance, or a combination thereof. For example, in certain embodiments, the luminous bottle may be configured to store consumable beverages, such as, but not limited to, champagne, wine, liquor, beer, soda, water, and/or other types of consumable beverages. The luminous bottle may include a base portion including a recessed portion, a luminous pad configured to adhere to a surface of the luminous bottle and configured to output light, an ornamental component attachable to the bottle and configured to secure onto the luminous pad, and a power compartment configured to secure within the recessed portion of the base portion. The power compartment may include a switch, which, when activated, may cause the luminous pad to emit light.
US11906150B1
A waterproof cover for light strip end, comprising an end cover main body, wherein a recess is formed on an inner side the main body end cover, and waterproof gel is placed in the recess, and two groups of flexible plastic straps are connected symmetrically on both sides of the main body end cover, and t straps are connected with buckle mechanisms. Insert an end of the light strip body into the recess, so that the end of the light strip body squeezes the waterproof gel, and then flip the two groups of flip covers towards each other. The flip covers and flexible plastic straps move towards each other. The teeth on the plastic buckle squeeze each other, thereby causing the main body of the plastic buckle to bend and deform until the teeth engage with each other, so that the two groups of flap covers are fixedly connected.
US11906148B1
The present invention discloses a novel three-dimensional modeling lamp and a manufacturing method thereof. The lamp comprises a lamp shell and a light source arranged in the lamp shell, wherein the lamp shell forms a preset three-dimensional modeling by connecting a plurality of sheets with different shapes through connectors, and the sheets comprise a light-transmitting PET layer and a colorful film layer, the colorful film layer refracts light emitted by the light source, so that the lighting effect of the three-dimensional modeling lamp is better; and a plurality of indentations are formed on the sheets, and the indentations guide users to splice and shape the sheets more conveniently. The manufacturing method comprises the following steps: selecting corresponding sheets according to the preset size and external shape of the three-dimensional modeling lamp, and carrying out indentation treatment on the sheets to facilitate the installation of users.
US11906142B2
A dual LED light fixture is comprised by a lower LED light source housing and an upper LED light source housing. A lower LED light source is mounted in the lower light source housing to generate downlight. An upper LED light source is mounted in the upper LED light source housing and remote from an outer circumferential light transmitting outer side area of the upper light source housing and from which is emitted side light illumination. An LED power supply and light control circuit mounted in the LED light fixture and adapted for connection to a power source. The LED light power supply and control circuit has a dimming circuit and a lower and upper driver current supply circuit. A switch is operative to connect driver current to the upper LED light source when actuated to an “on” position and to disconnect driver current to the upper LED light source when in a normal “off” position. The switch is operative for engagement to its “on” position when desirable to provide drive current to the upper light source and illumination from both the lower and upper LED light sources of the LED light fixture. Various embodiments of the LED light fixture is described.
US11906139B1
A lamp head assembly includes a lamp holder, a light-emitting element, a first lampshade, and a second lampshade. A plug interface is disposed on the lamp holder for supplying power, and the light-emitting element is inserted into the plug interface. The first lampshade includes a first connecting port and a first accommodation cavity, the first connecting port is communicated with the first accommodation cavity, the first lampshade is connected to the lamp holder through the first connecting port, and the light-emitting element is located in the first accommodation cavity. The second lampshade includes an extension body and an abutting portion, and the abutting portion is connected to a first side of the extension body. The abutting portion abuts against the first connecting port, or, the abutting portion abuts against the lamp holder. The extension body extends from the abutting portion toward the first accommodation cavity.
US11906130B2
A lighting fixture includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion includes a base and a wall extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the base. A top portion of the wall includes one or more hinges extending outwardly therefrom. The second housing portion includes a front panel and a side panel extending outwardly from substantially the perimeter of the front panel. A top portion of the front panel includes at least one slot. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an open position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel is disposed elevationally above the base. The second housing is coupled to the first housing in an operational position when the hinge is inserted into the slot and the front panel covers the base.
US11906127B2
The invention relates to a signal light for a motor vehicle that has a fiber optic rod, which has a light emitting surface and a rear surface, in which deflection elements are located, and which has two side walls, and numerous pairs of reflectors and light sources, which are in a row in the rear surface, and which project light bundles through the fiber optic rod, transverse thereto. The fiber optic rod has two rear walls, each of which has deflection element edge and side wall edge, and extends longitudinally between the deflection elements and the side walls. The side wall edges are further apart than the deflection element edges in a cross section of the fiber optic rod that is transverse to the longitudinal direction thereof.
US11906125B2
Lit image projection lamp and assemblies and methods to use the same to generate three-dimensional images. In an exemplary embodiment of a projection device of the present disclosure, the projection device comprises a light source and a curved lens positioned at a first distance from the light source, wherein the curved lens is a lenticular lens, having a concave portion and a convex portion, and wherein the projection device is configured to generate a homogenous light bar image from light emitted from the light source that passes through the curved lens.
US11906122B2
The invention relates to an illumination device (1) for a motor vehicle headlight, comprising: a lighting means (2); a primary optic element (3), which has a primary light input face (3a) for receiving light emitted by the lighting means (2), the light being guided to a primary light output face (3b) and emitted in a main emission direction (4); a secondary optic element (5), which has a secondary light input face (5a), the light from the lighting means (2) being emitted from the primary light output face (3b) via the secondary light input face (5a) into the secondary optic element (5) and being guided inside the secondary optic element (5) to a secondary light output face (5b), wherein the secondary light input face (5a) is formed by a plurality of optical elements (6) which are arranged next to one another in a planar manner and are designed to refract the light beams as they enter the secondary optic element (5) such that the light beams are oriented in the direction of the main emission direction (4) after they are refracted on exiting the secondary light output face (5b).
US11906120B2
A hybrid function LED auxiliary lamp is provided. The auxiliary lamp comprises a housing and a lighting assembly disposed within the housing. The lighting assembly includes a plurality of LED light sources mounted on a printed circuit board. An optical manifold comprising a plurality of reflective cavities is mounted on the printed circuit board. Each reflective cavity defines a respective corresponding focal point. The LED light sources are aligned with respect to the optical manifold such that a center of each respective LED light source corresponds to a respective focal point of a reflective cavity.
US11906115B2
An LED tube lamp includes a glass lamp tube, two end caps, an LED light strip, a power supply, and a diffusion film. The glass lamp tube includes a main body region and two rear end regions, each of the two rear end regions coupled to a respective end of the main body region and each of the two end caps coupled to a respective rear end region. A length of the light strip is longer than the length of a main body region of the glass lamp tube. Each of the two end caps is coupled to a respective end of the glass lamp tube by a adhesive. The LED light strip is attached to an inner circumferential surface of the glass lamp tube with a plurality of LED light sources mounted on the LED light strip. The diffusion film is disposed on an out surface of the glass lamp tube.
US11906109B2
A method for displaying a fill level of a pressure vessel includes measuring an actual fill level of the pressure vessel, calculating a displayable fill level based on the actual fill level, and displaying the displayable fill level via a display device. In the method, during refueling between a first filling point (FP1) and a second filling point (FP2), the displayable fill level is increased in relation to the actual fill level in accordance with a predefined characteristic curve.
US11906106B2
By mounting a line blind valve (2) between a grease container (1) and a grease lubrication pump (3) replacement and mounting of the grease container can take place without leak of grease during the mounting as the outlet section must turn downwards during the mounting. By providing the installation with a line blind valve this can block grease leakage during the mounting and thereafter be opened. The valve (2) includes a flat central part (10) with an opening (11) which part can be displaced in relation to an upper positioned inlet section (4) and a lower positioned outlet section (8) and by displacement of the slide open and close for passage. In order to keep these parts (4, 8, 10) together a magnet (6,7) is embedded in each of the two parts (4, 8) by which a sealed connection is secured with no air infiltration and metal particles held back.
US11906105B1
An apparatus that includes an over the door hanger having at least one hanging bracket and a hook bar supported by the at least one bracket, and a cross bar provided to engage the hook bar of the hanger to support a body, such as a mirror, on the upper edge of a door.
US11906104B2
A device for propping up an object, in particular, a long-handled object. The device includes a V-shaped leg apparatus having a pair of legs that are spaced apart from one another but may be compressed towards one another. Leg holder attaches to the long-handled object and the two legs pass through openings formed through the leg holder. A latch is attached to the long-handled object beneath the leg holder, and a slider is selectively movable along the lengths of the two legs and when moved towards the leg holder causes the legs to spread apart and spring outwardly away from the long-handled object, and when moved towards the latch, cause the legs to be brought together and extend parallel to and adjacent the long-handled object. The slider engages with the latch to lock the device in its propping position.
US11906098B2
An emergency release system for a fluid transfer system is disclosed. The fluid transfer system includes a first valve and a second valve that is selectively fluidly coupled to the first valve. The emergency release system includes a breakaway coupler mechanism engageable with the first valve and the second valve to releasably couple the first valve and the second valve together, an actuator mechanism defined by a dual rod having a first rod member and a second rod member releasably attached to the first rod member, the first rod member engageable with the first valve and the second rod member engageable with the second valve, and a piston-cylinder assembly configured to engage the actuator mechanism to selectively and simultaneously close the first and second valves, and to disengage the breakaway coupler mechanism from the first valve and the second valve.
US11906093B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a mounting structure, a lower water outlet tank, and an air treatment device. The mounting structure is used for mounting a water outlet valve (3) to a water tank body (2) of a lower water outlet tank. The mounting structure includes a rotating connection member (1) on which the water outlet valve (3) is disposed and which includes a rotating operation portion (11) and a first cooperation portion (12) connected with each other. The mounting structure further includes a second cooperation portion (21) disposed on the water tank body (2), the rotating operation portion (11) is rotated by a predetermined angle, such that the first cooperation portion (12) and the second cooperation portion (21) is converted between a first state of separation and a second state of mutual occlusion.
US11906091B2
A hydraulic coupling system is configured to couple a hydraulic hose to a hydraulic cylinder and includes: a compressive adapter assembly including: a first adapter portion configured to receive a portion of the hydraulic hose, and a second adapter portion configured to engage an inlet tube of the hydraulic cylinder, wherein a first tube portion of the inlet tube of the hydraulic cylinder is configured to be received within a portion of the hydraulic hose; and a compressive sleeve assembly configured to engage the compressive adapter assembly and radially compress the first adapter portion of the compressive adapter assembly onto an outer surface of the portion of the hydraulic hose, thus compressing an inner surface of the portion of the hydraulic hose onto the first tube portion of the inlet tube of the hydraulic cylinder.
US11906088B2
A hose and rigid pipe connecting system used in a high pressure system comprises: a hose made up of connecting a core pipe and a corrugated pipe, the outer side of the corrugated pipe being wound and woven by metal wires; a rigid pipe; a transition joint connecting the hose and the rigid pipe; and a retaining ring buckled on the outer side of the hose and the transition joint. The invention has the advantages that the sealing performance between the hose and the rigid pipe can be greatly improved, and the problem that the connecting part of the hose and the rigid pipe can not bear pressure Or resist high and low temperatures is solved; besides, the axial tensile strength and sealing reliability are improved by winding and weaving metal wires on the outer side of the metal corrugated pipe and then welding with the core pipe.
US11906086B2
A flange belt has a flexible belt with a flexible metal insert sheathed within it that allows the flange belt to conform to a flanged joint when the flange belt is wrapped around it. The flexible belt has a first longitudinal channel and a second longitudinal channel. A first band and a second band are sized to fit within the first longitudinal channel and the second longitudinal channel, respectively. The first band and the second band are used to hold the flexible belt on the flanged joint.
US11906082B2
A gland includes an annular ring, the annular ring defining a gland bore, the gland bore defining a gland axis extending through the annular ring; and a joint restraint assembly, the joint restraint assembly including a restraint base, the restraint base attached to the annular ring, the restraint base defining a restraint pocket, the restraint base including a structural rail; a gripper, the gripper disposed within the restraint pocket and configured to move in the restraint pocket; a spring biasing the gripper to move inwards towards the gland axis; and a cover contacting at least a portion of the restraint base.
US11906072B2
A valve assembly including a valve housing and a handle that is movable about an actuation axis to actuate a valve actuator within the valve housing between an open position and a closed position. The handle has a first opening and the valve housing has a second opening. When the valve actuator is in the closed position the first opening aligns with the second opening to enable receipt of a lockout member that prevents movement of the valve actuator from the closed position to the open position.
US11906065B2
An electric valve may include an electric machine having a rotor and a stator, a valve body drivingly connected to the rotor, a valve seat cooperating with the valve body, a housing in which the rotor and the stator are arranged, a split pot arranged in the housing and fluidically separating a dry region from a wet region in the housing, and a spring assembly including at least one spring. The rotor may be arranged in the split pot. The stator may surround the split pot radially on an outside in a circumferential direction. The split pot may protrude beyond an axially outer front side of the rotor. The spring assembly may be coupled to the housing and may rest on the front side spaced apart from the housing such that the spring assembly mechanically impinges on the stator radially and axially.
US11906059B2
Not only a cylindrical weight is inserted with a clearance around an outside of a first axis part or a second axis part that extends opposite to the first axis part and is movable freely in an axial direction but also an annular seat surface on which the cylindrical weight is able to be seated by self-weight is provided with a governor valve. A projecting part(s) is provided with only a part in circumferential direction of one of the annular seat surface and a lower end surface of the cylindrical weight. The cylindrical weight is made sure to be supported on the annular seat surface in an inclined state from an upright posture by contact of the projecting part(s) with the other of the annular seat surface and the lower end surface of the cylindrical weight.
US11906058B2
A rotary valve including a port housing, a port, an axially actuated rotary sleeve disposed within the port housing, the sleeve having a plurality of apertures in fluid communication with the port; and an insert disposed within the sleeve, the insert having an opening, the sleeve being rotatable to align one of the plurality of apertures with the opening. A rotary valve including a port housing, having a port, an axially actuated rotary sleeve disposed within the port housing, the sleeve having an aperture; and an insert disposed within the sleeve, the insert having a plurality of openings of distinct size from one another, the aperture of the sleeve being selectively alignable with one of the plurality of openings.
US11906054B2
The present disclosure relates to a solenoid valve including: a valve seat having a valve flow path; a plunger; a support member disposed at an end of the plunger facing the valve flow path, the support member having an insertion hole into which the valve seat is inserted, and the support member being connected to a spring member configured to elastically support a movement of the plunger; a valve member seated in the support member; an inclined guide surface provided along a periphery of the valve seat; and an inclined recess provided in an inner wall surface of the insertion hole facing the inclined guide surface, in which the inclined recess and the inclined guide surface collectively define a movement path that communicates with the valve flow path, thereby obtaining an advantageous effect of improving stability and reliability.
US11906047B2
A claw-type gearshift includes a sliding sleeve and a clutch body of a speed change gear, in which the sliding sleeve can engage. A blocking ring having an external toothing is arranged axially between the hub body and the clutch body and is fixed to the hub body such that it is rotatable in relation to the sliding sleeve by a certain degree in the circumferential direction between a release position and two locking positions. The blocking ring has a plurality of axially resilient tabs which are directed radially inward and which bear against the hub body and limit the movement of the blocking ring relative to the hub body in the circumferential direction, and a ring portion which is arranged radially outside of the tabs and which includes a friction surface that rests permanently against a mating friction surface on the clutch body.
US11906038B2
An automatic transmission shifter mechanism that is selectable between an automatic transmission mode and a manual shifting mode, including a shifter assembly, a pin attached to the shifter assembly, a first slotted plate to selectively receive a first portion of the shifter assembly, and a detent plate configured to receive the pin at different gear positions, wherein selected shifter assembly positions in the automatic transmission mode are maintained by the pin being located within a corresponding detent of the detent plate, and wherein movement of the first portion of the shifter assembly into the first slotted plate causes the pin to move out of range of detents in the detent plate such that an operator can shift between drive gears in the manual shifting mode.
US11906031B2
A vehicle includes: an interrupter including a first connector connected to a driving source, a second connector connected to a transmission, and a fluid in a gap between the first and second connectors; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives flowability information indicating a value related to flowability of the fluid. The processing circuitry determines whether or not a predetermined power interruption condition is satisfied. When the above condition is satisfied, and the processing circuitry determines that the value is less than a predetermined reference value, the processing circuitry controls the speed change actuator to set the transmission to a first gear stage. When the condition is satisfied, and the processing circuitry determines that the value is not less than the reference value, the processing circuitry controls the speed change actuator to set the transmission to a second gear stage having a lower reduction ratio than the first gear stage.
US11906030B2
A drive sheave assembly of a continuously variable transmission is provided that includes a post, a fixed sheave, a movable sheave assembly, a sleeve and an engine braking assembly. The engine braking assembly includes an axial activation member, a one-way engagement member and a flange. The axial activation member is statically mounted within a central recess of the fixed sheave. The axial activation member is movably connected with the one-way engagement member. A central passage of the one-way engagement member is configured to engage a portion of the sleeve. The flange is coupled to the one-way engagement member to selectively engage a side of an endlessly looped member with axial movement of the one-way engagement member during an engine braking condition.
US11906018B2
A continuous variable planetary (CVP) system includes a CVP hub, which includes a shift mechanism including a shift driver element, and a processing server system to calibrate the CVP system and detect errors within the CVP system. The processing server system performs continuously monitoring or obtaining a transmission speed ratio of the CVP hub. Upon detecting that the transmission speed ratio reaches a particular value, the processing server system records a corresponding position of the shift driver. The processing server system calibrates the CVP system based on the particular value, the corresponding position, and a known relationship between transmission speed ratios and positions of the shift mechanism. The processing server system determines or verifies a full underdrive (FUD) position by iteratively reducing a transmission speed ratio from the particular value until an onset of a backlash condition is detected and determines or verifies a full overdrive (FOD) position.
US11906017B1
The torque transfer assembly can have a torque shaft rotatable around a rotation axis, the torque shaft having a first end and a second end opposite the first end along the rotation axis, a first reference feature at an intermediary location between the first end and the second end, and a sun gear integrated to the torque shaft, at the first end, the second end has a first external diameter, and the sun gear having a second external diameter greater than the first external diameter; and a reference tube having a fixed end secured to the torque shaft adjacent the second end, a free end having a second reference feature adjacent the first reference feature, the reference tube extending around the torque shaft, the reference tube having an internal diameter, the internal diameter being between the first external diameter and the second external diameter.
US11906014B2
This assembly includes a plurality of stacked circular members, and a fixing pin that is disposed inside each of the circular members to arrange and integrate each of the circular members in an axial direction thereof. The fixing pin includes a shaft portion extending in the axial direction, a flange portion extending radially outward from one end side of the shaft portion, a recessed portion that is provided on an end face of the shaft portion on the other side and has a non-circular cross-section orthogonal to the axial direction, and one or a plurality of protruding portions that are provided on an outer circumferential portion of the shaft portion on the other end side and protrude radially outward from an inner circumferential surface of each of the circular members.
US11906010B2
A method of forming a composite component is provided. The method includes locating a fibrous preform, providing a slurry, mixing the slurry with sacrificial fibers, injecting the slurry into the fibrous preform, heating the fibrous preform, forming channels in the fibrous preform, and densifying the fibrous preform. The sacrificial fibers are suspended in the fibrous preform along an injection pathway such that heating the sacrificial fibers forms the channels along the injection pathway as the sacrificial fibers are burned away.
US11906009B2
An example rotational joint assembly for a robotic medical system, the rotational joint assembly comprising at least one arm segment and a rotational joint provided at one end of the arm segment. The rotational joint is to allow the arm segment to rotate about a rotational axis. The rotational joint comprising a brake to lock rotation of the arm segment at the rotational joint and an actuator to selectively engage or disengage the brake. The actuator comprising a cam having two stable regions separated by two transition regions, the two stable regions comprising a first stable region corresponding to engagement of the brake and a second stable region corresponding to disengagement of the brake.
US11906008B2
A brake pad state estimation device estimates a brake pad state including at least one of a wear volume and a temperature of a brake pad of a vehicle. The brake pad state estimation device performs: a brake pad state calculation process calculating the brake pad state based on sensor detection information during braking; and an information output process storing the brake pad state information in a storage and/or transmitting the brake pad state information to the outside. The brake pad state estimation device variably sets a processing frequency of at least one of the brake pad state calculation process and the information output process. The processing frequency when a vehicle speed is lower is lower than the processing frequency when the vehicle speed is higher, or the processing frequency when a brake pressure is lower is lower than the processing frequency when the brake pressure is higher.
US11905999B2
To provide a cam clutch easily switchable from a torque transmitting state to a freewheeling state even during torque transmission between race members. The cam clutch includes a plurality of cams set between a first race member and a second race member. The first race member and second race member are spaced away in the axial direction along the rotation axis of the first race member. The plurality of cams are disposed between the first race member and the second race member in the axial direction, and the first race member and the second race member are configured to be able to move relatively closer to and away from each other in the axial direction.
US11905997B2
A bearing cage includes a first circular ring; a second circular ring provided to be spaced apart from the first ring in a coaxial relationship with the first ring; a plurality of pillars provided in a circumferential direction of the first ring and the second ring, one end of the pillar being connected to the first ring and the other end of the pillar being connected to the second ring; a plurality of pockets provided in the circumferential direction and configured to provide a space in which a bearing roller is accommodated, the pocket being formed to be surrounded by the first ring, the pillars and the second ring; and first reservoirs provided in the pillars and comprising a first storage space for storing lubricant.
US11905994B2
Disclosed are a magnetic bearing, a compressor and an air conditioner. The magnetic bearing includes a radial stator, wherein the radial stator has a plurality of stator teeth extending inwardly in a radial direction thereof; two axial stators are arranged on two axial sides of the stator teeth, respectively; and radial control coils are wound on the stator teeth, each radial control coil being located outside an area of the stator teeth covered oppositely by the two axial stators. The magnetic bearing, the compressor and the air conditioner can effectively reduce the degree of coupling between a radial electromagnetic control magnetic circuit and an axial electromagnetic control magnetic circuit, and reduce the control difficulty of the magnetic bearing.
US11905993B2
A turbomachine according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a rotary shaft, a magnetic bearing including a core body configured to surround the rotary shaft, a plurality of poles radially extending from an inner surface of the core body toward the rotary shaft, and coils wound around the plurality of poles to levitate the rotary shaft by using a magnetic force generated by a magnetic field formed by applied electric current, a sleeve journal bearing disposed between the rotary shaft and the magnetic bearing so as to surround the rotary shaft and configured to levitate the rotary shaft by generating a dynamic pressure when the rotary shaft rotates, and a permanent magnet disposed between the plurality of poles and configured to support the rotary shaft by using a magnetic force.
US11905991B2
A fibre-reinforced polymer composite shaft for transmitting loads along a central axis is provided. The composite shaft comprises a first interface surface extending along the central axis and comprising at least one helical groove and/or a plurality of circumferential grooves for engaging with at least one corresponding helical ridge and/or a plurality of corresponding circumferential ridges of a second interface surface of an end fitting. The at least one helical groove and/or the plurality of circumferential grooves comprises at least one flank with a flank angle of between 32° and 51°. In such an assembly, a preload structure is arranged to provide a radial biasing force to bias the first interference surface against the second interference surface.
US11905978B2
A jet pump comprising a jet nozzle for accelerating a propellant. The jet nozzle has a convergent inlet part and an outlet part connected to the convergent inlet part. The outlet comprises an inner wall diverging at an opening angle. The opening angle is designed such that a propellant flowing through the outlet part at subsonic speed is detached from the inner wall and a propellant flowing through the outlet part at supersonic speed is guided by the inner wall. An automatic, cost-effective and simple changeover of the jet pump to different pressure ratios is hence provided.
US11905976B2
A quick no-water startup apparatus for a centrifugal pump includes, from top to bottom in sequence, one-way passages (1), a self-priming chamber housing (41), sliding devices (5), a self-priming chamber (4), chamber partition plates (2) a concave-convex impeller (3), inlet channels (6) connected on two sides of the self-priming chamber (4), a spring device (7) of an upper-side x-shaped gas-liquid separation device, the upper-side x-shaped gas-liquid separation device (8), upper and middle-side gas-liquid separation device connecting shafts (9), a middle-side gas-liquid separation device (10), lower-side backflow-type gas-liquid separation devices (11), v-shaped backflow channels (122), an inverted v-shaped inlet channel (121), and an inlet. The quick no-water startup apparatus of the present invention enables the centrifugal pump to directly enter a normal operating condition after no-water startup, and 36 times of air exhaust can be completed while the concave-convex impeller (3) in the self-priming chamber (4) rotates by a circle in the early stage. Besides, the apparatus is provided with the upper, middle, and lower gas-liquid separation devices to fully realize separation of gas and liquid, so that gas can be exhausted more quickly and the chamber is filled with water. Therefore, the working efficiency is significantly improved and the operation process is greatly simplified.
US11905975B1
A compressor includes a housing and a mixed-flow rotor mounted within the housing. The mixed-flow rotor includes a blade and a rotor hub with an interior flow passage. The blade includes an internal channel between a pressure surface and a suction surface of the blade. The internal channel extends radially within the blade and is in fluidic communication with the interior flow passage. The blade also includes a plurality of air outlets formed on the blade proximate a leading edge of the blade. The plurality of air outlets extends into the blade to fluidically connect with the internal channel.
US11905958B2
A vacuuming device comprises a main body, a rotary shaft, a vacuum pump rotor, a motor stator and a motor rotor. An air inlet, an air outlet, an oil storage chamber and a motor chamber are disposed in the main body. The oil storage chamber communicates with the air outlet. The rotary shaft is rotationally connected to the main body. The vacuum pump rotor is fixedly mounted to the rotary shaft and cooperatively forms a stator cavity of the vacuum pump with the inner-wall of the main body. The air inlet and the oil storage chamber communicate with the stator cavity of the vacuum pump respectively. The vacuuming device reduces the cost of manufacturing, optimizes the spatial structure and downsizes the device.
US11905954B2
An electric pump includes a housing that includes a gear chamber, a rotor chamber, and a motor chamber. The electric pump includes a first seal member, a second seal member, and a third seal member. The first seal member seals a space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber. The second seal member seals the space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber. The third seal member seals a space between the gear chamber and the motor chamber. The third seal member seals the space between the gear chamber and the motor chamber to a lesser extent than the first seal member and the second seal member seal the space between the gear chamber and the rotor chamber.
US11905951B2
A scroll compressor for compressing a gaseous fluid, in particular a refrigerant. The scroll compressor exhibits a non-moving stator with at least one outlet and a moving orbiter, each with a base plate and a spiral-shaped wall that extends from the base plate. The base plates are arranged relative to one another in such a way that the walls interlock with one another and closed working chambers are created. The volumes and the positions of the working chambers are changed in reaction to a rotary movement of the orbiter here.
US11905950B2
An improved screw pump such as, for example, a twin screw pump, includes a casing including an internal chamber, and first and second rotors rotatably positioned within the chamber of the casing. The first and second rotors have an intermeshing threaded-shape profiling. A plurality of bearing seal assemblies are provided at each end of the first and second rotors. Each bearing seal assembly includes a bearing positioned about an end portion of a rotor to facilitate rotation of the rotor, and a seal positioned about an end portion of a rotor to seal passage of the rotor through the casing. The bearing is coupled to the seal so that the seal may be secured to the casing via the coupling of the bearing to the casing.
US11905941B2
A wastewater sump assembly for receiving and disposing of undesired fluid and, in some cases, solid waste (collectively “wastewater”). A sump basin includes an upstanding wall a base and a top. A sensor in the form, e.g., of a float switch extends into the basin and is operable to actuate a pump to remove collective wastewater from the basin. The sensor depends from a sensor support that is supported distally within the basin in a vertical manner and is supported proximately within the basin in a horizontal manner, with securement of the sensor support not requiring traversal of the basin top and with the distal basin support not needing to be accessed vertically through a pump access aperture in the top.
US11905936B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to an ion thruster for thrust vectored propulsion of a spacecraft, comprising a reservoir for a propellant, an emitter having a base and, on one side of the base, at least one outlet for emitting ions of the propellant, wherein the base is connected to the reservoir for providing flow of propellant from the reservoir to said at least one outlet, and an extractor facing said one side of the emitter for extracting and accelerating the ions from the emitter, wherein the extractor is split into sectors about an axis which orthogonally runs through said one side of the emitter, wherein said sectors are electrically insulated from one another.
US11905935B2
The invention relates to an actuator element (10), comprising an actuator (12), which comprises a shape memory alloy and is designed to shorten or extend itself in the longitudinal extension direction thereof when in an excited state; an electronic control unit, which has a carrier element (18) and a plurality of electronic components (26) for exciting the actuator (12) on the basis of a control signal; and a movable component (20), which is coupled to the actuator and is movable by means of the actuator (12) relative to the carrier element (18); wherein the carrier element (18) defines a guide portion (16), in particular a dimensionally stable guide portion, by means of which the actuator (12) is guided along the longitudinal extension direction thereof.
US11905933B2
The present invention relates to a method and controller for heating a wind turbine blade that comprises a plurality of heating zones. An icing factor is determined based on environmental conditions and one or more heating zones are determined based on the determined icing factor, wherein each heating zone comprises one or more Electro-Thermal Heating Elements. The one or more Electro-Thermal Heating Elements corresponding to the determined heating zones are activated to generate heat.
US11905925B2
A flange arrangement includes a power shaft, a flanged hub connected detachably to the power shaft, and a stop member configured to detachably hold the flanged hub on the power shaft and to exert a disassembly force on the flanged hub so as to be able to rotate about a rotation axis of the power shaft.
US11905924B2
A spreader box for securing a tower having a flange to a pedestal having an embedded first bolt and second bolt includes a first surface coming into contact with the pedestal, a second surface coming into contact with the flange and a third surface and a fourth surface. The first, second, third and fourth surfaces form a hollow box-like shape. The spreader box also includes a first through-hole through the first and second surfaces for receiving the first bolt therethrough and a second through-hole through the first and second surfaces for receiving the second bolt therethrough.
US11905922B2
The present invention relates to a gasket adapted for being placed between a transition piece and a monopile of a wind turbine. One embodiment relates to a gasket for formfitting the bottom part of a transition piece of a wind turbine, the gasket primarily manufactured in an elastomeric material and shaped as a hollow elongated body for surrounding at least a part of the monopile when mounted between the transition piece and the monopile, such that the gasket stabilizes the position of the transition piece relative to the monopile. The presently disclosed gasket can substitute the traditional grouting or bolting procedures when mounting a transition piece on a monopile.
US11905921B2
A main beam for wind turbine blade, comprising: one or more carbon fiber pultruded bodies, wherein, each carbon fiber pultruded body comprising one or more carbon fiber pultruded sheets, the carbon fiber pultruded sheets are stacked along the thickness direction and are formed by curing a first infusion material, wherein a glass fiber infusion material is arranged between every two carbon fiber pultruded sheets; one or more inlays, which are arranged adjacent to the carbon fiber pultruded body in a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the main beam; one or more overlays, which cover the carbon fiber pultruded bodies and/or the inlays on both sides in the thickness direction of the main beam; and a second infusion material, which impregnates carbon fiber pultruded bodies, the inlays and the overlays.
US11905918B2
A hydrokinetic energy based power generation system is described, including several modules filled with fluid or vacuum and anchored to a stream bed of water body, multiple basic units associated with each module for converting hydrokinetic energy into electrical energy, wherein each basic unit includes two springs affixed with a top and bottom portion of the modules in such a way that the hydrokinetic energy induces vibrations within the springs, a cylindrical tube positioned between the springs, and contained with a ferromagnetic fluid, two fixed magnets and a movable magnet, wherein the movable magnet oscillates in between the fixed magnets due to the induced disturbances caused by waves/ocean and repulsive forces caused by the fixed magnets, an electric coil associated with the tube, for generating electric current by harnessing the relative motion of the movable magnet and electric coil due to electromagnetism phenomenon and in accordance with laws of electromagnetic induction.
US11905913B2
An interspatial blocker for a thrust reverser system of a turbofan engine, and a thrust reverser system and a turbofan engine incorporating the same. The interspatial blocker includes a first and second flap that rotate from a stored position to a blocking position, and a leading-edge structure rotatably coupling the first flap to the second flap. The leading-edge structure is set up to be installed in a fan nacelle of a turbofan engine in a substantially radial orientation such that the first flap rotates in a first direction about a first axis extending in a substantially radial direction from the stored position to the blocking position, and such that the second flap rotates in a second direction about a second axis extending in the substantially radial direction from the stored position to the blocking position, with the first direction being opposite to the second direction.
US11905911B2
A guiding portion of an intake valve head includes a specific tangent line, which, when the intake valve is in a fully open state, intersects with at least one selected from an ignition plug and a closed exhaust valve. A line segment that agrees with a tangent line contacting the guiding portion and extends from a contact point of the tangent line with the guiding portion to an intersection point of the tangent line with a central axis of the head is defined as a first line segment, a line segment that agrees with the central axis and extends from the intersection point toward the intake passage is defined as a second line segment, and an angle formed by the first second line segments is defined as a specific angle. The tangent line that minimizes the specific angle is the specific tangent line.
US11905909B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to liquid-cooled cylinder heads. In one example embodiment, a cylinder head is disclosed including a component which extends into a combustion chamber, an upper cooling jacked, a lower cooling jacket, a plurality of valves arranged around the component, a plurality of cylinder head screws, an oil deck, a fire deck, a plurality of valve guides, and a fixed connection. The fixed connection is arranged from each valve guide to the component, and is a ring having at least one support. The support and the ring extend at least from the oil deck to the fire deck thereby bounding the combustion chamber, and the component is connected to the plurality of cylinder head screws.
US11905892B2
A method of determining performance characteristics of a flow machine having a rotor interacting with a flow field. The method comprises: receiving performance data for the flow machine comprising data values of a performance parameter of the rotor and mass flow for the flow machine at one or more defined rotor condition, the performance data defining a two-dimensional array of data in which points for a common rotor condition are identifiable; determining or receiving exit mass flow values for the flow downstream of the rotor; and identifying one or more point in the received performance data and interpolating from said one or more point to a corresponding one or more point at a different rotor condition based on a correlation of the exit mass flow values for said points.
US11905886B2
A heatshield for a gas turbine engine includes a main body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, lateral edges, a first surface and a second surface, the first surface being exposed to a hot working gas in use passing through the gas turbine engine. The main body having an array of cooling channels for conveying a coolant flow, where each cooling channel of the array of cooling channels having a surface. At least one cooling channel of the array of cooling channels includes at least one flow disturbing feature extending from the surface and into the cooling channel.
US11905878B2
An alternator includes an exciter field device generating an exciter magnetic field in a first air gap, an exciter armature device configured to rotate with respect to the exciter magnetic field and impart a first voltage in a first set of coils at the first air gap, a main stator device including a second set of coils, and a rotor field device configured to be energized by the first current in the first set of coils and generate a main magnetic field that imparts a second voltage on the main stator device at a second air gap. The main stator device and the exciter field device lie in on a common plane normal to an axis of rotation, and the exciter armature device is inwardly spaced from the exciter field device, main stator device, and the rotor field device.
US11905876B2
A passive cooling system includes a fan configured to generate an air flow path for a radiator, the air flow path extending from the fan to the radiator and a cooling pipe extended between a turbocharger and an intake manifold, the cooling path positioned in the air flow path between the fan and the radiator.
US11905875B2
A vehicle heat exchange system may include a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first medium and a second medium, a second heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the first medium and a third medium, a third heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the second medium and the third medium, a switch valve, and a control unit. The switch valve may be configured to enable selective switching between (i) a first path that supplies the second medium that has passed through the third heat exchanger to an inverter via an inverter radiator and (ii) a second path that supplies the second medium that has passed through the third heat exchanger to the inverter via the first heat exchanger. The control unit may be configured to control the switch valve such that the second path is selected when the first medium is in a predetermined low-temperature state.
US11905874B2
A system for controlling reductant spray momentum for a target spray distribution includes an exhaust system having an exhaust conduit with exhaust flowing therethrough, a reductant injection system for injecting reductant into the exhaust flowing through the exhaust system based on one or more injection parameters, a reductant supply system for supplying reductant to the reductant injection system based on one or more supply parameters, and a controller. The controller is configured to access current vehicle, engine, exhaust, or reductant condition parameters, determine one or more control parameters based on a control model and the accessed current vehicle, engine, exhaust, or reductant condition parameters, and modify a value of the one or more injection parameters or the one or more supply parameters to control the reductant spray.
US11905869B2
An exhaust aftertreatment system for an internal combustion engine includes an outer casing having an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet between which a fluid flow path for exhaust gases is provided, a selective catalytic reduction unit provided in the fluid flow path for reducing nitrogen oxides, a reductant dosing device for adding reductant to the exhaust flow upstream of the selective catalytic reduction unit, and a rotatable mixer device for mixing the reductant with exhaust gases upstream of the selective catalytic reduction unit, an air inlet valve provided upstream of the mixer device for introducing air into the fluid flow path, and an electric motor arranged for rotating the mixer device to create a suction of air into the fluid flow path via the air inlet valve.
US11905868B2
A system that may include an exhaust gas source that provides exhaust gas pollutants, a primary catalytic converter coupled downstream of the exhaust gas source, and an adsorption unit, configured to adsorb exhaust gas pollutants. The adsorption unit may be coupled downstream of the exhaust gas source. A process that may include introducing exhaust gas comprising exhaust gas pollutants into a system that includes an adsorption unit, such that the exhaust gas may flow through the adsorption unit and the exhaust gas pollutants may be adsorbed into an adsorption media in the adsorption unit as adsorbed exhaust gas pollutants. A depleted exhaust gas may pass from the adsorption unit.
US11905857B2
A plant for storing energy comprises a casing for the storage of a working fluid other than atmospheric air, in gaseous phase and in equilibrium of pressure with the atmosphere; a tank for the storage of said working fluid in liquid or supercritical phase with a temperature close to the critical temperature. The plant is configured to perform a closed cyclic thermodynamic transformation, first in one direction in a charge configuration and then in an opposite direction in a discharge configuration, between said casing and said tank. In the charge configuration the plant stores heat and pressure and in the discharge configuration the plant generates energy. The plant is also configured to define a closed circuit and to perform a closed thermodynamic cycle in the closed circuit with at least a part of the working fluid.
US11905856B2
A geothermal district heating (DH) system includes a plurality of DH conduits each of the conduits extending to a corresponding heat consumer; means for delivering a DH-usable fluid through said plurality of DH conduits; a fluid circuit through which a geothermal fluid is flowable; and at least two heat exchangers, each of the heat exchangers configured to transfer heat directly or indirectly from the geothermal fluid to said DH-usable fluid with a total heat influx provided by the at least two heat exchangers to said DH-usable fluid that is sufficiently high to raise a temperature of the DH-usable fluid to a predetermined DH-usable temperature without need for any supplemental fossil fuel derived waste heat to be transferred to said DH-usable fluid.
US11905848B2
To provide a turbine blade, a manufacturing method for a turbine blade, and a gas turbine. In the turbine blade including a cooling passage provided along a blade height direction, the cooling passage includes: a first cooling hole including one end opening toward a front end, and having an inner diameter that is constant along the blade height direction; and a second cooling hole including one end communicating with the other end of the first cooling hole without a level difference, and having an inner diameter that is increased toward a base end. A length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a position where the first cooling hole and the second cooling hole are communicated with is 40% to 60% of a length from the one end of the first cooling hole to a gas path surface on the base end.
US11905825B2
Methods and apparatus for hydrocarbon monitoring are provided. An example method (e.g., performed by a monitoring system) includes receiving one or more first downhole measurements including a first speed of sound (SoS) measurement of a flowing fluid at a first location, wherein a pressure of the flowing fluid at the first location is greater than a bubble-point pressure of the flowing fluid; receiving one or more second downhole measurements including a second SoS measurement of the flowing fluid at a second location, wherein a pressure of the flowing fluid at the second location is less than the bubble-point pressure of the flowing fluid and wherein the flowing fluid is a 3-phase fluid mixture at the second location; and calculating one or more phase flow rates of the 3-phase fluid mixture, based on the first SoS measurement, the second SoS measurement, and a measurement of a bulk velocity of the flowing fluid.
US11905823B2
A system and a method for determining a location of an untethered drone in a wellbore are described herein. The system includes one or more markers to be placed within a wellbore casing where each of the one or more markers is configured to transmit a continuous or periodic signal. The system further includes a first sensor to be transported by the untethered drone where the first sensor is configured to sense an existence of the one or more markers.
US11905815B2
There is described a computer-implemented method of controlling a drilling operation. In particular, there is described a computer-implemented method of determining that a differential pressure is in an oscillating state. In response to determining that the differential pressure is in the oscillating state, a weight on bit setpoint is decreased so as to decrease the differential pressure. There is also described a computer-implemented method of determining a difference between a differential pressure and a target differential pressure. The target differential pressure is less than a differential pressure limit. A weight on bit setpoint is adjusted as a function of the difference between the differential pressure and the target differential pressure so as to adjust the differential pressure and thereby reduce the difference between the differential pressure and the target differential pressure.
US11905809B2
A system can determine a heterogeneity and a score for a reservoir for optimizing a drilling location. The system can receive a wireline log associated with a well that is positioned in a subterranean formation that includes a reservoir. The system can determine, using the wireline log, at least one statistical parameter for an interval of the well. The system can determine, using the at least one statistical parameter, a vertical heterogeneity of the reservoir. The system can determine, using the vertical heterogeneity, a score associated with the reservoir. The score can indicate an extraction difficulty and a carbon intensity of the reservoir. The system can output the score for optimizing a drilling location.
US11905803B2
Methods and systems for producing hydrocarbons. An example method includes producing a non-hydrocarbon liquid from a first horizontal wellbore, the first horizontal wellbore extending from a vertical wellbore and through a hydrocarbon producing formation. The method further includes pumping the non-hydrocarbon liquid with a first pump into a second horizontal wellbore, the second horizontal wellbore extending from the vertical wellbore and disposed downhole and underneath the first horizontal wellbore. The method additionally includes pumping a hydrocarbon liquid uphole to a surface with a second pump disposed downhole of the first horizontal wellbore.
US11905801B2
A system for hanging tubing in a wellbore includes a tubular body, a plurality of lower slips mounted along the tubular body, a spring cone disposed around the tubular body and fixed to the plurality of lower slips, the spring cone comprising a lock ring having a ratchet profile, and a packer element disposed around the tubular body, below and adjacent the spring cone.
US11905800B2
A downhole energy harvesting apparatus comprising a fluidic oscillator comprising: an inlet channel configured to receive fluid from a wellbore, a feedback system coupled to the inlet channel to oscillate the fluid, and an outlet channel coupled to the feedback system and configured to receive the oscillated fluid from the feedback system, and at least one piezoelectric element disposed on at least one side of the outlet channel and configured to generate an electric signal in response to variations in pressure of the oscillated fluid.
US11905795B1
A coiled tubing system includes an injector assembly configured to receive and longitudinally move coiled tubing through the injector assembly, a well control stack operatively coupled to the injector assembly and configured to receive the coiled tubing from the injector assembly, and a snap arrestor including one or more wheels configured to rotate as the coiled tubing moves longitudinally, a tachometer that measures rotations per minute (RPM), and a microprocessor that receives and converts the RPM into a real-time measured linear speed of the coiled tubing. When the real-time measured linear speed of the coiled tubing exceeds a predetermined linear speed threshold, a command signal is sent to the injector assembly to grippingly engage the coiled tubing and thereby cease longitudinal movement of the coiled tubing.
US11905794B2
Methods for operating drill strings in a wellbore include providing a drilling apparatus that includes a Kelly drive system for rotating the drill string that includes a bottom hole assembly (BHA) and a Kelly engaged with the Kelly drive system. The BHA includes a hydraulically driven rotating string reamer coupled to the drill string uphole from a drill bit and a near-bit reamer. The hydraulically driven rotating string reamer includes a hydraulic drive operatively coupled to a string reamer. The methods include translating the BHA axially through the wellbore and, while translating the BHA, circulating drilling fluid through the drill string, which causes the hydraulic drive to rotate the string reamer relative to the drill string, drill bit, and near-bit reamer. Rotation of the string reamer by the hydraulic drive reams away imperfections extending radially inward from a wellbore wall of the wellbore.
US11905780B2
An annular seal configured to prevent fluid from outside the wellbore from entering a well head stuffing box and tripping an anti-pollution control device. The seal comprising an elastomeric material and having a seam configured to allow the seal to installed on or in a stuffing box without dismantling well-head equipment.
US11905777B2
An agitator deployable in a wellbore includes a housing including a central axis and a central passage, a valve including a first valve body having a first contact face and a second valve body permitted to rotate relative to the first valve body and having a second contact face configured to contact the first contact face, a first valve adapter including a first receptacle which receives at least a portion of the first valve body to couple the first valve adapter to the first valve body, and a flexible valve configured to permit the first valve body to flex relative to the first valve adapter whereby an angular misalignment may form between a central axis of the first valve body and a central axis of the first valve adapter.
US11905766B2
A threaded tubular connection includes a box member having a female external thread, a female internal thread, and a female intermediate sealing surface between the female external thread and the female internal thread, and a pin member having a corresponding male external thread, a male internal thread, and a male intermediate sealing surface, such that male threads interlock by thread engagement with female threads, and intermediate sealing surfaces form an intermediate metal-to-metal seal when the threaded tubular connection is made up. The box member includes a minimal outer diameter at the intermediate metal-to-metal seal location, the minimal outer diameter being smaller than respectively an external and an internal outer diameter respectively being located above the female external thread and the female internal thread.
US11905762B2
An apparatus for retaining a transmission line within a drill string component includes a drill string component comprising a bore having an internal diameter. A slot having a shoulder is formed in the internal surface to receive an electromagnetic transmission line. A tension anchor is configured to be attached to the electromagnetic transmission line. The tension anchor comprises an inner sleeve configured to be crimped onto an outer diameter of the electromagnetic transmission line, and an outer sleeve configured to be coupled with the inner sleeve. The outer sleeve comprises an electrical connector device configured to be electrically coupled with the electromagnetic transmission line. The tension anchor is further configured to be received in the slot in engagement with the shoulder.
US11905757B2
Photoelectric window blinds, which consist of a plurality of elongated lamellas, which are arranged in parallel and connected between each other by at least two stripes, equipped with a drive for their assembling, disassembling and changing an inclination angle, on which solar panels are mounted, the panels being connected between each other and equipped with a means for transmission of an obtained electric energy to external networks or to a means for storage. According to the invention, each solar panel is formed by at least two sections of solar elements, which are arranged on a base made of an electrically insulating material and covered by a temperature and moisture stable layer, coupled to each other and by a means for electrical connection embedded therein, and it is configured to receive at least one additional section. An edge section of each solar panel is equipped with a means for transformation of an output power, the means being a DC/DC transformer or a Schotky diode embedded into the base made of the electrically insulating material from a side of the panel faced towards the lamella, and coupled to a shared bus that is connected to a DC-to-AC current transformer. Therewith, a cross-section profile of the lamellas has a C-shape with curved edges, which form guides for mounting the solar panels in a longitudinal direction, wherein a distance between edges of the sections of the solar elements of the solar panel and edges of the electrically insulating base equals to a width of the edges of the lamella guides.
US11905747B2
A liftable hinge mechanism includes a base, a connecting component and a pin. The base has a narrow slot. The connecting component has an axle hole. The pin slidably passes through the narrow slot and rotatably inserts into the axle hole. The connecting component can be rotated and/or shifted relative to the base via the pin. A reciprocating engaging mechanism includes a shaft, a rotary plate, a first engaging component and a linkage module. The rotary plate is rotatably disposed on the shaft. The linkage module is connected between the rotary plate and the first engaging component. Rotation of the rotary plate drives the linkage module to move the first engaging component into a locking mode or an unlocking mode. The liftable hinge mechanism and the reciprocating engaging mechanism are applied to an airtight device with a housing and a cover capable of being folded and unfolded.
US11905744B2
A method for operating a motor vehicle locking system, particularly for acting upon a motor vehicle cover and preferably a motor vehicle door for the purpose of locking it. A drive for the cover is acted upon depending on a pre-locked position and a fully latched position of the cover determined by a sensor. According to the invention, a sensor detects the over-travel beyond the fully latched position, resulting in the motor being driven in a reverse direction irrespective of the previously assumed fully latched position.
US11905742B2
An information handling system housing is secured against unauthorized access with a security device integrated in the housing that selectively enables and disables screw movement relative to threads disposed in the housing. For instance, a freewheeling nut in the housing interfaces with an actuator that selectively releases or holds the freewheeling nut relative to the housing. When released, a screw coupled to the freewheeling nut cannot rotate relative to the threads of the freewheeling nut so that the screw maintains the housing secured until the freewheeling nut is held in position to allow removal of the screw.
US11905741B2
A releasable locking mechanism for a refrigerated unit. A latch plate is movable between a position that can be engaged by a deadbolt and a position clear of the deadbolt. The latch plate is moved by a door release accessible from an interior of the refrigerated unit. When the door release is activated, a pin blocks movement of the latch plate so that the refrigerated unit remains unlocked until the pin is reset.
US11905736B1
The lock with key having expanding arm elements is an electromechanical lock mechanism. The lock with key having expanding arm elements comprises a key structure, a lock structure, and a lock control circuit. The lock structure is a fastening device. The lock structure secures the position of a first object relative to a second object. The lock structure is a releasable structure such that the position of the first object relative to the second object can be adjusted after the lock structure is released. The lock control circuit is an electric circuit. The lock control circuit forms an electronic locking mechanism that fastens and releases the locking structure. The key structure is a multi-blade structure that controls the operation of the lock control circuit.
US11905726B2
A unitary pool cover housing for assembling a pool cover system such that the housing and pool cover system may be substantially assembled at the manufacturing facility and delivered together for quick installation at the pool site.
US11905722B2
A lowering system for lowering ceiling formworks during the removal of formworks of a building ceiling, comprising a reciprocating piston and a support base, and a locking device, wherein the reciprocating piston is slidably mounted in the support base, and can be pushed from an extended working position to a lowered position, and can be locked in the extended position by means of the locking device. The locking device has a pivot bearing and an eccentric lever, wherein the eccentric lever is rotatably mounted in the pivot bearing, and the reciprocating piston and the support base are supported against each other in the working position by means of the eccentric lever.
US11905717B2
Methods and equipment to apply a decorative surface on a building panel wherein the surface includes a mix of fibres, binders, wear resistant particles and pigments. Layers may be applied as separate layers with equipment that applies essentially only one of the materials in the surface mix. A method of forming a surface layer on a substrate, the method including forming a first layer of a first material, applying a second layer of a second material on the first layer, mixing the first and second layers into a mix comprising the first and the second material, and applying the mix on a substrate for forming a surface layer.
US11905716B2
A system for distributing wireless networking components in a venue. The system includes panels that define a floor surface. The panels each have a planar configuration with an upper surface opposite a lower surface. The panels include a material that is transparent to radio waves, and the panels define a storage space below the panels and the storage space may be used to store and distribute wireless networking component.
US11905711B2
A gutter cleaner comprising: a fan assembly; a guide configured to at least partially support the fan assembly on a gutter, wherein the guide comprises a skid configured to slide along the gutter; a handle coupled to the fan assembly at a location adjacent to a first axial end of the handle; and a battery port disposed at a location adjacent to a second axial end of the handle, the second axial end of the handle being opposite the first axial end of the handle, wherein the gutter cleaner is supportable via the handle by an operator located at an elevation below the gutter, and wherein the gutter cleaner has an approximately neutral operational buoyancy.
US11905703B2
A soft boundary structure is implemented using a resonator structure capable of receiving sound or vibration, establishing resonance coupled with received sound or vibration, and creating a reflection with a pi phase factor. A soft boundary is located on or closely adjacent the resonator structure. The soft boundary cooperates with the resonator structure to attenuate the sound or vibration.
