US11915342B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can obtain data associated with a computer-based experience. The computer-based experience can be based on interactive real-time technology. At least one virtual camera can be configured within the computer-based experience in a real-time engine. Data associated with an edit cut of the computer-based experience can be obtained based on content captured by the at least one virtual camera. A plurality of shots that correspond to two-dimensional content can be generated from the edit cut of the computer-based experience in the real-time engine. Data associated with a two-dimensional version of the computer-based experience can be generated with the real-time engine based on the plurality of shots. The two-dimensional version can be rendered based on the generated data.
US11915338B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to a graphics processing unit (GPU). In one aspect, a GPU includes a general purpose register (GPR) having registers, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) configured to read pixels of an image independently of a shared memory, and a level 1 (L1) cache storing the pixels read by the ALU. The ALU can implement pixel mapping by fetching a quad of pixels, which includes pixels of first, second, third, and fourth pixel types, from the L1 cache, grouping the pixels of the different pixel types of the quad into four groups based on pixel type, and, for each group, separating the pixels included in the group into three regions that each have a set of pixels. The pixels for each group can then be loaded into the registers corresponding to the three regions.
US11915337B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a downsampler in a single compute shader pass are disclosed. A central processing unit (CPU) issues a single-pass compute shader kernel to perform downsampling of a texture on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The GPU includes a plurality of compute units for executing thread groups of the kernel. Each thread group fetches a patch of the texture, and each individual thread downsamples four quads of texels to compute mip levels 1 and 2 independently of the other threads. For mip level 3, texel data is written back over one of the local data share (LDS) entries from which the texel data was loaded. This eliminates the need for a barrier between loads and stores for computing mip level 3. The remaining mip levels are computed in a similar fashion by the thread groups of the single-pass kernel.
US11915336B2
The present disclosure provides a method of embedding a watermark on a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) image. The method includes: performing an entropy decoding on the JPEG image to generate quantized discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients; determining target bits in a bit plane of the quantized DCT coefficients on the basis of a watermark-embedding table (WET); and embedding a watermark based on metadata of the JPEG image in the target bits. Also, the present disclosure provides a method of verifying integrity of the image by using the embedded watermark.
US11915334B2
Provided is an information processing device including a presence/absence prediction unit that performs prediction of presence/absence of a user at a visit destination on a basis of sensed data, and a providing unit that provides a result of the prediction to an external device.
US11915332B2
A system and process for management of liabilities is disclosed. The embodiments mitigate variance in the assessment of liability values. In an exemplary embodiment, a liability may be created under rules stored in the form of an digital token. The rules may form a smart contract wherein the terms within the contract change automatically based on criteria being met. The token associated with the smart contract may have tangible value that can appreciate/depreciate and may thus be a tradeable asset or commodity. The inventory of liabilities associated with an issuer may thus be tracked and value precisely assessed.
US11915331B2
A system and method of providing nutritional data for a user is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a selected restaurant from a health tracking device, and providing menu data for the user based on the selected restaurant. The method further includes receiving a selected menu item from the health tracking device, associating the selected menu item with a plurality of food items in a database, and providing the plurality of food items for the user. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a selected one of the plurality of food items from the health tracking device, and providing nutritional data based on the selected one of the plurality of food items.
US11915326B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a concept for determining the relevance of a tag within a post. Responsive to receiving a post composed by a first user and containing a tag referring to a second user, a post context based on a topic of the post, a user context based on a record of the first user and a tag context based on a record of the second user are obtained. The post context and the user context are compared to the tag context, and it is determined whether the tag is relevant to the post and the first user based on comparing the post context and the user context to the tag context.
US11915312B2
Systems and methods for processing peer-to-peer financial product markup language agency notices are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus, a computer-implemented method for processing peer-to-peer financial product markup language agency notices may include: (1) receiving a FpML notice from a sender to a receiver; (2) obtaining a sender unique identifier for the sender and a receiver unique identifier for the receiver; (3) generating a FpML message body for a transaction associated with the notice; (4) generating FpML data comprising the unique identifiers and the FpML message body; (5) generating an electronic message comprising the FpML data; and (6) sending the electronic message FpML data to the receiver.
US11915311B2
A method, apparatus, and server for generating a user score based on social networking information is provided. In the disclosed method, by processing circuitry of an information processing apparatus, default annotation information of a plurality of sampled users, an ith user score and an ith relative user score for each of the sampled users are obtained. A user score model is trained according to the ith user score of the respective sampled user, the ith relative user score of the respective sampled user, and the default annotation information of the respective sampled user. An (i+1)th user score of the respective sampled user is subsequently calculated and a trained user score model, for each of the sampled users, is obtained when the (i+1)th user score for the respective sampled user satisfies a training termination condition, The method provides a solution to evaluate the user score for a use when personal information of the user is missing or incorrect.
US11915308B2
A system and method are provided for transacting data on a network. The system includes a data submission interface, the data submission interface configured to enable one or more data generators to register data with the network, the data being stored in a location accessible to data consumers accessing the network. The system also includes a data consumer interface to enable one or more data consumers to find data on the network and transact with the one or more data generators to obtain access to and/or ownership of data submitted to the network. The system also includes a blockchain network for storing at least a ledger associated with data registered with the network via the data submission interface to provide an immutable assignment of ownership rights of the data to the respective one or more data generators, and to provide an immutable record of data transactions.
US11915302B2
A method of accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by a user on different website domains includes providing a first embedded code on a first website domain and a second embedded code on a second website domain in which the first website domain is different from said second website domain. Each of the embedded codes allows a specified third party server to communicate interactively with the user. The method further includes automatically accumulating a personalized list of products viewed by the user in a database on the specified third party server, wherein the personalized list includes at least a first product and a second product, wherein the first product is on the first website domain and the second product is on the second website domain.
US11915301B2
A product ordering system and method provides an online portal for a buyer to select a product for purchase, whereby the product being purchased is already en route and shipped to a destination by a seller. The online portal allows the buyer to select a quantity, purchase terms, payment type. Based on this information from the buyer, as well as in some cases, the remaining quantity of product and/or the remaining days the products have before their shipment is completed, a per unit price is computed.
US11915299B2
An embodiment of this disclosure provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes a memory element configured to store a plurality of products and services and a processor. The processor is configured to receive profile information for a user accessing a plurality of video content. The processor is also configured to receive video content information for each of the plurality of video content being accessed by the user in a smart viewer. The video content information identifies at least one category associated with each of the plurality of video content. The processor is also configured to identify one or more of the plurality of products or services based on the profile information and the at least one category of the video content information. The processor is also configured to send the one or more of the plurality of products or services to the smart viewer.
US11915297B2
A basket-aware recommendation system can include a computing device configured to receive an indication of a navigation from a user device. The indication includes a user identifier and a set of basket items. The computing device is configured to generate a set of eligible items based on the set of basket items. The computing device is configured to generate a feature representation based on the corresponding item category count within the set of eligible items and select items of the set of eligible items within the corresponding item category. The computing device is configured to compute a number of category display items based on the potential click value and the normalized relevance value. The computing device is configured to transmit the number of category display items for each category of the set of item categories to the user device for display on a user interface.
US11915291B2
A computer-implemented method may include receiving a customer submission for a vehicle from a customer device, the customer submission including a plurality of customer criteria; receiving a request from the customer device to provide the customer submission to a merchant device; and receiving a reply from the merchant device, the reply including a plurality of merchant criteria. The computer-implemented method also may include determining a variance between the customer criteria and the merchant criteria, and transmitting, to the merchant device, at least one of the variance or the customer criteria.
US11915280B1
Systems and methods which provide parasitic postage indicia comprising thin indicium information and corresponding postage indicium data are shown. The thin indicium information may be disposed in a mail scan block in parasitism for use in identifying the corresponding postage indicium data. This thin indicium information may comprise one or more pieces of information configured to be carried within a structure of a mail scan block present on a mail item and which uniquely or substantially uniquely identifies a postage indicium data packet comprised of postage indicium data. The postage indicium data may be generated as proof of payment for postal services and stored for access using the thin indicium information. As a mail item is processed a mail scan block thereon may be scanned and the thin indicium information extracted for identifying a corresponding postage indicium data packet for proof of payment for postal services.
US11915276B2
A system includes a millimeter (MM) wave radar detector, where the MM wave radar detector generates signal data associated with a person of interest (POI) within a field of view of the MM wave radar detector. The system further includes an Access Point (AP) coupled with the MM wave radar detector. The AP includes a computing device to receive and analyze the signal data provided by the MM wave radar detector to determine a movement or action of the POI within the field of view, and facilitate generation of a feedback response in response to the determined movement or action of the POI.
US11915271B2
At least a main area and a candidate area are provided on a display screen of a display device, and a display control unit that causes content displayed in the candidate area when reproduction of content displayed in the main area ends to be displayed in the main area, and a detection unit that detects a person from a captured image of at least a place where the display screen is visually recognizable are included, wherein the display control unit changes the content displayed in the candidate area depending on the person during reproduction of the content displayed in the main area.
US11915269B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, devices, and the like for tokenizing offers. The current disclosure presents a system and method that can present a tokenized offer for saving and retrieving from a digital wallet. The tokenized offer may be presented on a client site for selection by a user interested in taking advantage of the promotion without having to leave the current site. The current disclosure also presents a system that can retrieve the tokenized offer saved for use with a purchase. The tokenized offer may be automatically applied and on display at the merchant site and/or retrieved from the digital wallet.
US11915266B2
An optimized fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The optimized fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information in an optimized manner and/or provides a status of the information. In some embodiments, the optimized fact checking system generates, aggregates, and/or summarizes content.
US11915259B2
A computerized system for transacting the purchase and sale of consumer motor fuels between motor fuel merchants and retail consumers through software on a mobile or desktop connected device for periods in the future through the simultaneous execution of multi-party, multi-layered contingent transactions and pricing algorithms to ensure that all inter-related motor fuel merchant transactions are simultaneously transacted upon a retail consumer purchase execution. Motor fuels include refined products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, renewable fuels (e.g. ethanol, biodiesel), natural gas (including liquefied natural gas), jet fuel and electricity.
US11915255B1
Systems and methods receive contextual data related to spending as well as spending data. Correlations are determined to explain variables that influence spending amounts or rates. Systems and methods can collect user spending context data associated with a user, generate spending correlations between variables of the user spending context data, determine a next event based on at least one of the location data and the relationship data, and generate a next event value for the next event having at least a subset of the variables.
US11915245B2
Systems and methods of reconfiguring machine learning models are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a server computer, external data and determining, by the server computer, a machine learning model from a plurality of machine learning models, based on the external data. The plurality of machine learning models are in standby mode. The server computer configures an AI engine with the machine learning model. The method also includes receiving, by the server computer, a prediction request from a client computer, processing the prediction request with the AI engine to form a prediction response, and sending the prediction response to the client computer.
US11915239B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for updating and managing hosted catalogs in a procurement system. A procurement system is provided comprising at least one live hosted catalog and at least one staged hosted catalog. Catalog update files are received into the system, and a data integration component validates and imports the catalog updates to the staged catalog, and an authorized buyer user is presented a summary of the update information and, upon an acceptance of the updates by the buyer user, the catalog update information is promoted to the live hosted catalog. In one embodiment a central catalog service maintains status information of the updates and coordinates workflow. In another embodiment, the system evaluates the update information and determines whether an approval is required.
US11915238B2
Computer implemented methods are provided that create and/or validate a spending blockchain transaction that includes i) a plurality of locking scripts each representing an instance of an execution thread (which can be execution threads that are forked from an execution thread represented by a locking script of a previous blockchain transaction and/or execution threads of at least one previous blockchain transaction that are managed and/or controlled for inter-thread communication and control) or ii) a locking script representing an instance of an execution thread joined from a plurality of execution threads represented at least one previous blockchain transaction. Once created and/or validated, the spending blockchain transaction can be communicated on a blockchain network for storage in a blockchain ledger. The blockchain transactions can implement thread-specific locking scripts and associated fork, join and barrier constructs for concurrent or asynchronous threads of execution. The transactions can be validated and stored in a blockchain ledger. The blockchain transactions can be used as part of a smart contract.
US11915237B2
A blockchain transaction filtering method including receiving a transaction request at the server, executing a first smart contract function comprised by a first smart contract stored on the server responsive to the transaction request, executing a first filter smart contract function comprised by a first filter smart contract stored on the server responsive to the transaction request, the first filter smart contract function checking the transaction request for inconsistency with a first filtering criterion, defining a first identified transaction request and implementing a first response responsive to identifying the first identified transaction request. The method further includes transmitting the transaction request to a transaction pattern learning system, receiving a second filter smart contract comprising a second filter smart contract function from the transaction pattern learning system, and storing the second filter smart contract on the server for execution responsive to receiving subsequent transaction requests.
US11915220B2
An apparatus for dynamic credit card reader mode management is provided, the apparatus including: a point-of sale (POS) terminal, configured to accept employee login credentials via a magnetic stripe card, to display menu items for selection, to add selected menu items to an order, and to accept payment for the order, where the payment may be obtained via swipe, dip, or tap, the POS terminal including: a first card reader, configured to read first provided cards when enabled; a second card reader, configured to read second provided cards when enabled; and a dual reader controller, coupled to the first and second card readers, configured to determine one or more workflow states of the POS terminal, and configured to dynamically control modes of the first and second card readers according to the one or more workflow states.
US11915215B2
In example embodiments, a system and method for managing the resale of digital media rights is provided. In example embodiments, user accounts that store digital media rights for digital content may be maintained. An indication that a first user having a first user account intends to transfer digital media rights for a particular digital content may is received. A verification process is performed to verify that the digital media rights of the first user are transferable. Based on an indication that a transaction has occurred, the digital media rights are transferred from the first user account to a second user account associated with a second user that is a recipient of the digital media rights.
US11915212B2
In one embodiment, a securities transaction system includes a ledger storing securities balances of security assets managed by a payment service and owned by users of the payment service. The securities balances relate to securities purchased on from a securities exchange system. The securities transaction system includes processors for executing instructions executable to send, to a mobile wallet application associated with the payment service, information regarding one or more of the security assets managed by the payment service; receive, from the mobile wallet application, a purchase request to acquire an amount of one of the security assets; update, via the ledger, the securities balances to reflect amounts of security assets respectively managed by the payment service and owned by the user based on the purchase request; and initiate one or more transactions from the securities exchange system to maintain a specified level of the security asset.
US11915210B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to provide an animated 2D barcode check that is used to securely and efficiently transmit financial information between mobile devices. The financial information includes a check written by a payer and transmitted to a merchant. The check includes account information of the payer and of the merchant with a payment service provider, a payment amount, and a cryptographic signature that has been certified by the payment service provider. The payer's mobile device encodes the check into a sequence of 2D barcodes and displays the sequence of 2D barcodes in a loop that is scanned by a camera on the merchant's mobile device. The merchant uses the cryptographic signature to verify the validity of the signature on the check without having Internet connectivity to the payment service provider. The merchant may later present the check to the payment service provider to receive payment.
US11915200B2
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: receiving an indication of a particular design style; determining, based on the indication, functional product groups that comprise a plurality of custom products having indicia of the particular design style; initiating a collaboration session between a user and one or more collaborators to allow selecting one or more particular custom products; in response to receiving a selection of the particular custom products, generating a group of customized products comprising the one or more particular custom products, each particular customized product associated with a product type of a plurality of product types, each product type of the plurality of product types associated with a manufacturing constraint of multiple manufacturing constraints, each particular customized product having shared content that all of the one or more particular custom products share; obtaining manufacturing methods for manufacturing the customized particular products; and proceeding to manufacturing.
US11915192B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for scanning a shopping space. The system pace comprises a locomotion system of a motorized unit, a camera system, and a central computer system. The central computer system is configured to receive motorized unit location information from the locomotion system, the motorized unit location information comprises a plurality of sets of coordinates each associated with a timestamp, receive item identifier instances from the camera system, wherein each item identifier instance is associated with a timestamp, and determine a location for each item identifier instance based on the timestamps associated of the item identifier instances and the timestamps associated with the plurality of sets of coordinates of the motorized unit location information.
US11915190B2
A system includes a processor coupled with a data store and configured to transmit an availability message to a user device and receive a pickup message from the user device. The processor is also configured to calculate an arrival time based on the initiation time, the initiation location, and a distribution center location for the distribution center and update the arrival time at continuous intervals based on real-time information. The processor is also configured to transmit a preparation message to a distribution center device, receive an arrival message from a distribution center image sensor, and transmit a delivery message to the distribution center device. The processor is also configured to transmit an order receipt message to the distribution center image sensor and receive a departure message from the distribution center image sensor including an image identifying the vehicle associated with the item order based on the corresponding vehicle identifier.
US11915188B2
A delivery server includes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: transmit arrival information of a product to a user terminal carried by a user who has ordered the product; transmit, in a case where unattended delivery is instructed by the user terminal, unattended delivery information to a home delivery terminal of a delivery person who delivers the product, and request a signature of the user; transmit the signature information to the home delivery terminal in response to receiving signature information regarding the signature of the user from the user terminal; and transmit delivery completion information of the product to the user terminal.
US11915181B2
Various computer-implemented methods for utilizing a modified upper confidence bound (UCB) in an agent-simulator environment in well placement planning for oil fields are disclosed herein. A set of well placement sequences for placing well in a geographical region may be received, where each well placement sequent defines a sequence of multiple oil wells to be placed within the geographical region. A computer-implemented simulation may be executed on each of the well placement sequences to determine, for each of the well placement sequences, a reward based upon a calculated hydrocarbon recovery and a cost of the calculated hydrocarbon recovery. The well placement sequences may be iteratively selected for the computer-implemented simulations using the modified UCB algorithm and based upon the rewards determined for each of the plurality of well placement sequences.
US11915179B2
Systems and methods of improving AI governance are disclosed. One or more sub-contexts associated with a plurality of users are generated from one or more data sources. The one or more sub-contexts represent one or more changes in data that are relevant to assessing one or more risks associated with the plurality of users. One or more sub-contexts are provided as training data to a plurality of models. Each of the models is associated with a confidence score. A probabilistic assessment of the one or more risks associated with the plurality of users is generated based on an application of the plurality of models to additional data pertaining to the plurality of users received in real time. The probabilistic assessment is presented in a dashboard user interface, the dashboard user interface having user interface elements configured to provide insight into how the probabilistic assessment was generated.
US11915175B2
A system and method is disclosed for allocating products to one or more sellers. The system includes a database operable to store data associated with one or more enterprises. The system further includes an order promising system coupled with the database and operable to model the flow of the products through the one or more enterprises and allocate resources to the one or more sellers based on the modeled flow of the products.
US11915173B2
Provided is a computer-based supplier knowledge management method, system, and computer program product. The system embodies the computer program code which, when executed performs the method. The method includes establishing an electronic profile for one or more users from an entity; establishing an electronic supplier profile for each of a plurality of suppliers, each supplier profile comprising a set of supplier keywords; generating an electronic RFI by an entity user, the RFI comprising a set of user specified RFI keywords corresponding to a project; and electronically processing the RFI, including performing keyword matching between the RFI keywords and one or more of the supplier profiles and generating a list of candidate suppliers for the project based, at least in part, on the keyword matching.
US11915172B2
Robot-assisted package delivery with integrated curbside parking monitoring and curb operations optimization is disclosed herein. An example method includes dispatching a delivery vehicle and delivery robot to a delivery location, the delivery location including a parking location for the delivery vehicle that allows for deployment of the delivery robot on a delivery mission, determining occupancy of the parking location, the delivery vehicle parking at the parking location when the parking location is unoccupied, the delivery robot being deployed upon parking of the delivery vehicle, and instructing the delivery vehicle to remain parked during the delivery mission or to leave the parking location and return at later point in time based on an estimated time of arrival of the delivery robot after the delivery mission.
US11915169B2
In an embodiment, a cloud server determines a point in time in a current task, and identifies a corresponding point in time in each of a number of completed tasks retrieved from a first database. User activity data from a second database is used to calculate time spent on the current task up to the identified point in time, a ratio between time spent on each completed task after the corresponding point in time and time spent on the completed task before the corresponding point in time. The cloud server also calculates a similarity score between each completed task and the current task based on a number of parameters and using a predetermined algorithm. A weighted arithmetic mean of the time ratios can be calculated using the similarity scores as weights, and can be used in conjunction with the time spent on the current task up to the identified point in time, to calculate time required to complete the current task.
US11915164B2
An information processing apparatus manages a vehicle used for a car-sharing service. The information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to acquire, from a user, as application information for using the vehicle, one of application information for reservation use for making a reservation in advance and application information for on-demand use for accepting use of a vehicle stopped at an on-demand stand-by station. The same vehicle can be used for both the reservation use and the on-demand use.
US11915156B1
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to facilitating event forecasting. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a set of events determined from raw machine data is obtained. The events are analyzed to identify leading indicators that indicate a future occurrence of a target event, wherein the leading indicators occur during a search period of time the precedes a warning period of time, thereby providing time for an action to be performed prior to an occurrence of a predicted target event. At least one of the leading indicators is used to predict a target event. An event notification is provided indicating the prediction of the target event.
US11915152B2
A machine learning (ML) system includes a student ML system, a learning coach ML system, and a reference system that generates training data for the student ML system. The learning coach ML system learns to make an enhancement to the student ML system or to its learning process, such as updated hyperparameter or a network structural change, based on training of the student ML system with the training data generated by the reference system. The system may also comprise a learning experimentation system that communicates with the reference system to conduct experiments on the learning of the student learning system. Also, the learning experimentation system can determine a cost function for the learning coach ML system.
US11915147B2
Techniques that facilitate model support in deep learning are provided. In one example, a system includes a graphics processing unit and a central processing unit memory. The graphics processing unit processes data to train a deep neural network. The central processing unit memory stores a portion of the data to train the deep neural network. The graphics processing unit provides, during a forward pass process of the deep neural network that traverses through a set of layers for the deep neural network from a first layer of the set of layers to a last layer of the set of layers that provides a set of outputs for the deep neural network, input data for a layer from the set of layers for the deep neural network to the central processing unit memory.
US11915145B2
In various examples, a two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) deep neural network (DNN) is implemented to fuse 2D and 3D object detection results for classifying objects. For example, regions of interest (ROIs) and/or bounding shapes corresponding thereto may be determined using one or more region proposal networks (RPNs)—such as an image-based RPN and/or a depth-based RPN. Each ROI may be extended into a frustum in 3D world-space, and a point cloud may be filtered to include only points from within the frustum. The remaining points may be voxelated to generate a volume in 3D world space, and the volume may be applied to a 3D DNN to generate one or more vectors. The one or more vectors, in addition to one or more additional vectors generated using a 2D DNN processing image data, may be applied to a classifier network to generate a classification for an object.
US11915144B2
A method comprising: obtaining (400), in a first apparatus (500), media content, encoding (402), in a neural data compression network of the first apparatus (500), the media content wherein one or more parameters of the neural data compression network are determined based on a type of at least one analysis task to be performed on the media content; and transmitting (404) the encoded media content to a second apparatus (502).
US11915129B2
A system and a computer-implemented method for ranking tabular data entities by likelihood of comprising answers for (natural language) queries, based on multimodal descriptions of the tabular data entities, comprising separate representations, which represent different aspects of the tabular data entities. The ranking is based on joint representations, generated from the query representation and separate representations of the tabular data entities' aspects, using gated multimodal units. The computer-implemented method may be used for applications such as web searches, data aggregation, and research tasks.
US11915128B2
A tri-state neural network circuit includes, in an intermediate layer: an input value Xi to which convolution is applied; a nonzero convolution operation circuit configured to receive a weight Wi and to perform a convolution operation thereof; a sum circuit configured to take a sum of operation values each subjected to the convolution operation and a bias W0; and an activating function circuit configured to convert a signal Y generated by taking the sum, using an activating function f(u). The nonzero convolution operation circuit is configured to skip a weight Wi having a zero weight and to perform a convolution operation based on a nonzero weight and an input value Xi corresponding thereto.
US11915119B2
A convolutional neural network (CNN) processing method includes selecting a survival network in a precision convolutional network based on a result of performing a high speed convolution operation between an input and a kernel using a high speed convolutional network, and performing a precision convolution operation between the input and the kernel using the survival network.
US11915118B2
A method and an apparatus for processing layers in a neural network fetch Input Feature Map (IFM) tiles of an IFM tensor and kernel tiles of a kernel tensor, perform a convolutional operation on the IFM tiles and the kernel tiles by exploiting IFM sparsity and kernel sparsity, and generate a plurality of OFM tiles corresponding to the IFM tiles.
US11915110B1
A method may include ingesting a plurality of sources files from a plurality of infrastructure assets; inputting the plurality of source files into a cognitive computing engine (CCE); receiving an output from the CCE, the output indicating a plurality of relationships between the infrastructure assets; and updating a data store based on the plurality of relationships.
US11915099B2
An information processing method includes: acquiring a first object detection result obtained by use of an object detection model to which sensing data from a first sensor is input, and a second object detection result obtained by use of a second sensor; determining a degree of agreement between the first object detection result and the second object detection result in a specific region in a sensing space of the first sensor and the second sensor; and selecting the sensing data as learning data for the object detection model, according to the degree of agreement obtained in the determining.
US11915098B2
A method includes obtaining, by a first computing device of a multi-part code system, a first portion of a code from a network computing device. The network computing device generated the first portion of the code and a second portion of the code from the code. The method further includes displaying the first portion of the code on a code display area of an interactive display of the first computing device and instructing a user of the first computing device to position the first computing device near the second portion of the code such that the first and second portions of the code align. When the first portion of the code is aligned with the second portion of the code, the method further includes producing the code and sending a finalize interaction notification to the network computing device. The finalize interaction notification includes information from the produced code.
US11915096B2
According to an aspect, a detection system includes: a sensor provided with a plurality of photosensors in a detection area; a controller configured to control the sensor; and a data storage configured to store correction value data including correction values for detection values of the photosensors and identification codes of a plurality of the sensors in such a manner that the identification codes are associated one-to-one with the correction value data. The controller is configured to acquire the correction value data corresponding to the identification code of the sensor from the data storage and correct the detection values of the photosensors based on the acquired correction value data.
US11915093B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for encoding data in composite patterns such that the encoded data is perceptible in one or more infrared spectral ranges while significantly imperceptible in visible light spectral range by encoding the data in one or more first partial patterns and/or in one or more second partial patterns of the composite pattern where the first partial pattern(s) is painted using a first print material and the second partial pattern(s) is painted using a second. The first and second paint materials are characterized by reflecting substantially similar light in the visible light spectral range and significantly different light in the infrared spectral range(s) such that the first and second patterns are indistinguishable in the visible light spectral range while highly distinguishable in the infrared spectral range(s). further disclosed are methods and systems for decoding the composite patterns to decode and extract the encoded data.
US11915079B2
A biometric sensor module for detecting a biometric feature of a user comprises: a biometric sensor comprising an array of sensing elements for acquiring sensing signals indicative of a biometric feature of a user, the array of sensing elements arranged facing towards a front side of the biometric sensor. Further, the biometric sensor module comprises a bottom flexible film attached to a back side, opposite the front side, of the biometric sensor. The bottom flexible film can carry at least one electrically conductive line electrically connectable to the biometric sensor and electrically connectable to an external electrical circuit. The biometric sensor module further comprises a top film attached to the biometric sensor closer to the front side of the biometric sensor than the bottom flexible film. The flexible film includes a bent portion such that the flexible film is bent towards the top film.
US11915072B2
A halftone raster image, suitable for rendering a continuous-tone image, which comprises a plurality of regularly tiled spiral dots. Said spiral dots comprise (i) image pixels arranged as a first arc (200) or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a first spiral (100), and (ii) non-image pixels arranged as a second arc (201) or as a plurality of arcs which together represent a second spiral (101), wherein neighbour halftone dots from said plurality of regularly tiled halftone dots represent a double spiral or triple spiral.
US11915071B1
Methods, systems, and storage media for outline character printing on a printing device are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: allocate cache memory of a printing device for registration of an outline character; register outline character data wherein the metadata portion comprises a description of the outline character and the data portion comprises a scanline table for the outline character; receive a print job data at the printing device; determine the print job data identifies the outline character in the cache memory at the printing device; render the scanline table accessed from the cache memory as a pattern of pixels for the outline character for the print job data received; and print, on the printing device, the pattern of pixels rendered from the scanline table accessed from the cache memory for the print job data received.
US11915069B1
An apparatus for controlling the printing on wire or cable. The apparatus including a processor, a bus connected to the processor, a user input connected to the bus, a display screen connected to the user input and the bus, a first storage system connected to the bus, data stored in the first storage system and displayable on the display screen, wherein the data includes manufacturing and print information, a printer connected to the bus, wherein the printer prints the data on the wire or cable, a communication device connected to the bus, and an identification device connected to the bus, wherein identification device receives information from a user.
US11915065B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for brokerless reliable totally ordered many-to-many inter-process communication on a single node. A messaging protocol is provided that utilizes shared memory for one of the control plane and data plane, and multicast for the other plane. Readers and writers can store either control messages or message data in the shared memory, including in a ring buffer. Write access to portions of the shared memory can be controlled by a robust futex, which includes a locking mechanism that is crash recoverable. In general, the writers and readers can control the pace of communications and the crash of any process does not crash the overall messaging on the node.
US11915044B2
A processing node selects a first task from a task list and sends, to a task assignment repository, a first write operation with a first task identifier of the first task to assign the first task to the processing node. The processing node detects failure of the first write operation based on the first task already being assigned and selects a second task from the task list. The processing node sends, to the task assignment repository, a second write operation with a second task identifier of the second task to assign the second task to the processing node. The processing node detects success of the second write operation and executes the second task.
US11915041B1
An artificial intelligence (AI) sequencer is provided. The Al sequencer includes a queue manager configured to manage a plurality of queues for maintaining data of AI jobs, wherein an AI job includes processing of one or more AI functions; a scheduler for scheduling execution of data maintained by the plurality of queues; a plurality of job processing units (JPUs), wherein each of the plurality JPUs is configured to at least generate an execution sequence for an AI job; and a plurality of dispatchers connected to a plurality of AI accelerators, wherein each of the plurality of dispatchers is configured to dispatch at least a function of the AI job to an AI accelerator, wherein a function is dispatched to an AI accelerator at an order determined by an execution sequence created for a respective AI job.
US11915036B2
The present application discloses a method for modifying an internal configuration of a virtual machine, a system and a device, wherein the method is applied to a virtual machine installed with a proxy service therein, and the proxy service is configured for, after the proxy service itself is started up, sending a datum request to a preset IP address via a virtual network card corresponding to the virtual machine. The method includes, when there is a target virtual network card sending a datum request to the preset IP address, according to a predetermined corresponding relation between virtual network cards and virtual machines, determining a target virtual machine corresponding to the target virtual network card; from a database, obtaining target configuration data corresponding to the target virtual machine.
US11915029B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may receive a first license associated with a first amount of physical storage to permit an operating system (OS) and/or a hypervisor to utilize; initialize a data structure with first information associated with the first amount of the physical storage; retrieve the first information associated with the first amount of the physical storage from the data structure; receive a second license associated with a second amount of the physical storage, greater than the first amount, to permit the OS and/or the hypervisor to utilize; update the data structure with second information associated with the second amount of the physical storage; receive a notification associated with the second amount of the physical storage; and retrieve the second information associated with the second amount of the physical storage from the data structure.
US11915028B2
Embodiments relate to a virtualization layer capturing replayable execution traces of VMs managed by the virtualization layer. Execution tracing can be performed on any unit of execution managed by the virtualization layer, e.g., threads, processes, virtual processors, individual VMs, multiple VMs, etc. Traced execution units may be executing in parallel. Execution tracing involves capturing to a buffer: executed instructions, memory inputted to instructions, memory outputted by instructions, registers touched by instructions, and ordering markers. Trace data can be captured in chunks, where causality is preserved and ordering is preserved between chunks but not necessarily within chunks. The chunks may be delineated by inserting monotonically increasing markers between context switches, thus relatively ordering the chunks. Determinism may be partially provided by identifying non-deterministic events. VM tracing may be transparent to guest software, which need not be instrumented. Alternatively, guests may interface with the virtualization layer to control tracing functionality.
US11915013B2
An operating system service for persistently executing programs comprises a registration service configured to register a manifest defining a persistence mode of a user-controllable program. The operating system service further comprises a runtime service configured, based on the persistence mode defined via the manifest, to detect and reject termination requests for the program, and to detect that the program has terminated and restart execution of the program.
US11915010B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for cross-platform multi-transport remote code activation are provided. A first device operating on a first platform receives a wake initiation that indicates code for activation on a second device operating on a second platform. The first device identifies compatible transports for transmitting a wake message indicating the code for activation to the second device. The first device selects at least one transport and transmits the wake message over the transport to the second device. The second device, upon receiving the wake message, processes the wake message and activates the code, which was not executing prior to activating.
US11915006B2
A method, system and device for pipeline processing of instructions and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a target instruction set (S101); acquiring a target prediction result, wherein the target prediction result is a result obtained by predicting a jump mode of the target instruction set (S102); performing pipeline processing on the target instruction set according to the target prediction result (S103); determining if a pipeline flushing request is received (S104); and if so, correspondingly saving the target instruction set and a corresponding pipeline processing result, so as to perform pipeline processing on the target instruction set again on the basis of the pipeline processing result (S105). By means of the method, system, and device and computer-readable storage medium, a target instruction set and a corresponding pipeline processing result are correspondingly saved, so that when the target instruction set is subsequently processed again, the saved pipeline processing result can be directly used to perform pipeline processing, and the efficiency of pipeline processing of instructions can be improved.
US11915003B2
Disclosed are a process parasitism-based branch prediction method and device for serverless computing, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: receiving a calling request of a user for a target function; when capacity expansion is required, scheduling a container executing the target function to a new server that has not executed the target function in a preset period of time, wherein a parasitic process is pre-added to a base image of the container; triggering the parasitic process when the container is initialized on the new server, the parasitic process being used for initiating a system call, and triggering a system kernel to select a target template function according to the type of the target function and copying the target template function N times; using execution data of the copied N target template functions as training data to train a branch predictor on the new server.
US11915000B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to precisely monitor memory store accesses are described. In one embodiment, a system includes a memory, a hardware processor core comprising a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction, an execution circuit to execute the decoded instruction to produce a resultant, a store buffer, and a retirement circuit to retire the instruction when a store request for the resultant from the execution circuit is queued into the store buffer for storage into the memory, and a performance monitoring circuit to mark the retired instruction for monitoring of post-retirement performance information between being queued in the store buffer and being stored in the memory, enable a store fence after the retired instruction to be inserted that causes previous store requests to complete within the memory, and on detection of completion of the store request for the instruction in the memory, store the post-retirement performance information in storage of the performance monitoring circuit.
US11914997B2
A method for executing new instructions is provided. The method is used in a processor and includes: receiving an instruction; when the received instruction is an unknown instruction, executing a conversion program by an operating system, wherein the conversion program executes the following steps: determining whether the received instruction is a new instruction; converting the received instruction into at least one old instruction when the received instruction is a new instruction; and executing the at least one old instruction.
US11914993B1
An aggregate representation of a collection of source code examples is constructed. The collection includes positive examples that conform to a coding practice and negative examples do not conform to the coding practice. The aggregate representation includes nodes corresponding to source code elements, and edges representing relationships between code elements. Using an iterative analysis of the aggregate representation, a rule to automatically detect non-conformance is generated. The rule is used to provide an indication that a set of source code is non-conformant.
US11914992B2
Systems and methods for routing requests to a plurality of server clusters are disclosed, especially in a workflow management context. A first server cluster handles requests concerning a first software version and a second server cluster responds to requests concerning a second version of that same software. Upon receiving a request to change default routing of requests, a configuration of a gateway router is updated and subsequent requests concerning the first software are routed to the second server cluster while subsequent request concerning the second software remain routed to the first server cluster. A first graphical user interface (GUI) is provided to be used in defining a series of steps in a workflow and to creating a secondary GUI that will be used when performing the series of steps. Tools for automation and data extraction during the workflow are provided and workflow state is tracked until completion of the workflow.
US11914982B2
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to an edge-CaaS (eCaaS) framework for providing life-cycle management of containerized applications on the edge. According to an example, declarative intents are received indicative of a use case for which a cluster of a container orchestration platform is to be deployed within an edge site that is to be created based on infrastructure associated with a private network. A deployment template is created by performing intent translation on the declarative intents and based on a set of constraints. The deployment template identifies the container orchestration platform selected by the intent translation. The deployment template is then executed to deploy and configure the edge site, including provisioning and configuring the infrastructure, installing the container orchestration platform on the infrastructure, configuring the cluster within the container orchestration platform, and deploying a containerized application or portion thereof on the cluster.
US11914978B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for code optimization. The methods include generating, based on a first macro of a user code, an assembly code corresponding to the user code. The first macro includes one or more parameters relating to one or more branch codes, and the assembly code includes assembly branch codes corresponding to the branch codes and jump codes corresponding to the assembly branch codes. The methods further include obtaining, based on a second macro of the user code, target information for identifying an execution condition of the one or more branch codes, and determining, based on the assembly code and the target information, a compiled user code. When being executed, the compiled user code may call, based on the target information, a procedure to determine a value of the execution condition. The procedure is configured to modify an execution flow of the compiled user code.
US11914972B2
Data processing apparatuses, methods of data processing, complementary instructions and programs related to ring buffer administration are disclosed. An enqueuing operation performs an atomic compare-and-swap oper-ation to store a first processed data item indication to an enqueuing-target slot in the ring buffer contingent on an in-order marker not being present there and, when successful, determines that a ready-to-dequeue condition is true for the first processed data item indication. A dequeuing operation, when the ready-to-de-queue condition for a dequeuing-target slot is true, comprises writing a null data item to the dequeuing-target slot and, when dequeuing in-order, further comprises, dependent on whether a next contiguous slot has null content, determining a retirement condition and, when the retirement condition is true, performing a retirement process on the next contiguous slot comprising making the next con-tiguous slot available to a subsequent enqueuing operation. Further subsequent slots may also be retired.
US11914969B2
Systems and methods are provided that train a machine-learned language encoding model through the use of a contrastive learning task. In particular, the present disclosure describes a contrastive learning task where the encoder learns to distinguish input tokens from plausible alternatives. In some implementations, on each training example the proposed method masks out some subset (e.g., 15%) of the original input tokens, replaces the masked tokens with samples from a “generator” (e.g., which may be a small masked language model), and then trains the encoder to predict whether each token comes from the original data or is a replacement produced by the generator.
US11914962B2
The present disclosure relates generally to determining intent based upon speech input using a dialog system. More particularly, techniques are described using matching-based machine learning techniques to identify an intent corresponding to speech input in a dialog system. These procedures do not require training when intents are added or removed from the set of possible intents.
US11914959B2
The disclosure provides an entity linking method and apparatus, and relates to the technical field of computers. The entity linking method comprises: recognizing a to-be-disambiguated entity in a target text; encoding the to-be-disambiguated entity to obtain a text code; encoding candidate entities corresponding to the to-be-disambiguated entity to obtain entity description codes; determining co-occurrence features between the target text and entity description information of the candidate entities; and determining an entity object corresponding to the to-be-disambiguated entity according to the text code, the entity description codes and the co-occurrence features.
US11914957B2
Systems and methods for dynamically assessing and displaying quality features of electronic messages, while composed on client devices, can include one or more processors monitoring the process of composing the electronic message. The one or more processors can retrieve, upon detecting a pause event, data associated with the composed electronic message from a message composing container, and determine a plurality of feature values for a plurality of features of the electronic message based on the retrieved data. The one or more processors can determine, based on the plurality of feature values, a likelihood of receiving a response from a receiving entity once the electronic message is sent to that receiving entity. The one or more processors can provide an indication of the determined likelihood of receiving a response and indications of the plurality of determined feature values for display in association with a message composing window displaying the text received.
US11914952B2
A method may include for intent-based natural language processing may include conversation engine: receiving from a conversation program executed on a user electronic device, a unique identifier for a user; calling an external controls program with the unique identifier and a type of the user electronic device, wherein the external controls program identifies a directive of intent and an alternate action; receiving the directive of intent and the alternate action; receiving text of an utterance in a conversation from the conversation program; selecting one of a plurality a priority of intents based on the text of the utterance; receiving a plurality of potential intents and a confidence score for each potential intent from a natural language understanding computer program; selecting a selected intent; determining that the directive of intent matches the selected intent; and executing the alternate action.
US11914951B2
Techniques for template generation from image content include extracting information associated with an input image. The information comprises: 1) layout information indicating positions of content corresponding to a content type of a plurality of content types within the input image; and 2) text attributes indicating at least a font of text included in the input image. A user-editable template having the characteristics of the input image is generated based on the layout information and the text attributes.
US11914948B1
Provided methods and systems allow dynamic rendering of a reflexive questionnaire based on a modifiable spreadsheet for users with little to no programming experience and knowledge. Some methods comprise receiving a modifiable spreadsheet with multiple rows, each row comprising rendering instructions for a reflexive questionnaire from a first computer, such as a data type cell, statement cell, logic cell, and a field identifier; rendering a graphical user interface, on a second computer, comprising a label and an input element corresponding to the rendering instructions of a first row of the spreadsheet; receiving an input from the second computer; evaluating the input against the logic cell of the spreadsheet; in response to the input complying with the logic cell of the spreadsheet, dynamically rendering a second label and a second input element to be displayed on the graphical user interface based on the logic of the first row.
US11914945B2
The present disclosure relates to a non-transitory computer readable medium for a separate context viewing, organization, and management area for annotations that have been created. The rationale for such computer readable medium is discussed in detail. These annotations can be created on webpages or PDF documents available at a uniform resource locator (URL) anywhere on the World Wide Web. Once these annotations are created, having a system to manage the life cycle of these annotations in various contexts separate from the original web page is beneficial. This annotation life cycle and the rationale for various steps within this life cycle is discussed in detail. The present disclosure also describes some pertinent filtering and display technologies for annotations that have been created.
US11914938B2
A simulation model of a multilayer capacitor for three-dimensional electromagnetic simulation includes a pair of input/output ports, a plate-shaped first internal electrode model and a plate-shaped second internal electrode model between the pair of input/output ports. A capacitance, an equivalent series resistance, and an equivalent series inductance obtained from an actually measured value of an impedance characteristic of the multilayer capacitor are set for the first internal electrode model and the second internal electrode model. The first internal electrode model faces two side surfaces opposed in a width direction of the multilayer capacitor. The second internal electrode model faces two main surfaces opposed in a height direction intersecting the width direction of the multilayer capacitor.
US11914937B2
Techniques, systems, and devices are described for providing a computational frame for estimating high-dimensional stochastic behaviors. In one exemplary aspect, a method for performing numerical estimation includes receiving a set of measurements of a stochastic behavior. The set of correlated measurements follows a non-standard probability distribution and is non-linearly correlated. Also, a non-linear relationship exists between a set of system variables that describes the stochastic behavior and a corresponding set of measurements. The method includes determining, based on the set of measurements, a numerical model of the stochastic behavior. The numerical model comprises a feature space comprising non-correlated features corresponding to the stochastic behavior. The non-correlated features have a dimensionality of M and the set of measurements has a dimensionality of N, M being smaller than N. The method includes generating a set of approximated system variables corresponding to the set of measurements based on the numerical model.
US11914935B2
An example computing system is configured to (i) receive a request to generate a cross-sectional view of a three-dimensional drawing file, where the cross-sectional view is based on a location of a cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file and includes an intersection of two meshes within the three-dimensional drawing file; (ii) generate the cross-sectional view of the three-dimensional drawing file; (iii) add, to the generated cross-sectional view, dimensioning information involving at least one of the two meshes; (iv) generate one or more controls for adjusting a location of the cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file; and (v) based on an input indicating a selection of the one or more controls, adjust the location of the cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file, update the cross-sectional view based on the adjusted location of the cross-section line, and update the dimensioning information to correspond to the updated cross-sectional view.
US11914933B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for to generation of dynamic design flows for integrated circuits. For example, a method may include accessing a design flow configuration data structure, wherein the design flow configuration data structure is encoded in a tool control language; based on the design flow configuration data structure, selecting multiple flowmodules from a set of flowmodules, wherein each flowmodule provides an application programming interface, in the tool control language, to a respective electronic design automation tool; based on the design flow configuration data structure, generating a design flow as a directed acyclic graph including the selected flowmodules as vertices; and generating an output integrated circuit design data structure, based on one or more input integrated circuit design data structures, using the design flow to control the respective electronic design automation tools of the selected flowmodules.
US11914932B2
A parts packing method is used to optimize build bed part placement for additive manufacturing. The method includes a user interface to parts packing software, enabling a process engineer to select parts from a pool of parts, group parts to have uniform orientation, and specify a range of angles and rotation of the parts. Additionally, the user interface accepts input related to process variations among different printers as well as drift over time of a single printer. The user interface feeds the data into the parts packing program to optimize build bed part placement.
US11914927B2
Systems, methods, and software for filtering components, such as hardware components, compatible with computer-modeled structures are presented. A compatible components system provides selection methods that present components compatible with computer-aided design (CAD) models designed in computer modeling software. The system executes methods designed to filter components made available to designers using attribute information of the features and attribute information of the components. Designers may interact with the compatibility methods numerous times, narrowing components through a series or number of filtering steps until a desired compatible component is easily selected. The computer modeling software may include graphical user interfaces for selecting component source locations, filtering types of components presented by the system, and adding components to CAD models.
US11914924B2
A system and method for dictation using a peripheral device includes a voice recognition mouse. The voice recognition mouse includes a microphone, a first button, a processor coupled to the microphone and the first button, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect actuation of the first button and in response to detecting actuation of the first button, invoke the microphone for capturing audio speech from a user. The captured audio speech is streamed to a first module. The first module is configured to invoke a second module for converting the captured audio speech into text and forward the text to the first module for providing to an application expecting the text, the application being configured to display the text on a display device.
US11914918B2
A medical information processing apparatus comprises an obtaining unit that obtains medical information, a learning unit that performs learning on a function of the medical information processing apparatus using the medical information, an evaluation data holding unit that holds evaluation data in which a correct answer to be obtained by executing the function is known, the evaluation data being for evaluating a learning result of the learning unit, an evaluating unit that evaluates a learning result obtained through learning, based on the evaluation data, and an accepting unit that accepts an instruction to apply a learning result of the learning unit to the function.
US11914911B1
Provided is an industrial printing system that performs peer-to-peer distributed processing of production printing. The industrial printing system performs production printing and includes a plurality of site servers. A plurality of site servers performs distributed processing of print jobs. Each site server has a storage unit, a processing determination unit, and a processing management unit. The storage unit stores a capacity table showing the capacity that can be processed in the print process and the post-processing process. The processing determination unit determines other site servers that can process jobs from a plurality of site servers based on the capacity table stored in the storage unit. The processing management unit sets a schedule for processing jobs by other site servers determined to be processable by the processing determination unit and sends jobs to other site servers to request processing according to the schedule settings.
US11914910B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer, which reproduces a color tone of a printed matter and displays the color tone on a screen before printing, to realize a function of acquiring a density value of a color material that develops a color by absorption of a specific wavelength component and a property of paper related to the absorption of the specific wavelength component, and a function of displaying an image that reproduces the color tone of the printed matter based on the density value and the property of the paper.
US11914905B1
Examples describe memory refresh operations for memory subsystems. One example is a method for a memory controller, the method including entering a first state upon exiting self-refresh state, wherein the first state comprises activating a first timer. The method includes entering a second state from the first state upon detecting an end of an active period and detecting that the first timer has not expired. The method includes entering a third state from the second state upon detecting expiration of the second state, wherein the third state comprises re-entering the self-refresh state.
US11914898B2
Various implementations described herein relate to creating a namespace in response to determining that a sum of namespace sizes of a plurality of namespaces is less than a first threshold for the point of thin-provisioning. A write command and data are received from a host. The write command and the data are received in response to determining that a sum of namespace utilization of the plurality of namespaces is less than a second threshold. The data is compressed and stored in the created namespace.
US11914895B2
A method for updating stored information and an apparatus. A controller performs error correction code (ECC) decoding on stored data information based on the stored data information and stored ECC check information to generate an error-corrected codeword, where the error-corrected codeword includes error-corrected data information. The controller generates candidate to-be-written data information based on the error-corrected data information and a data update indication. The controller performs a mask operation on the candidate to-be-written data information based on the stored data information, and writes unmasked content in the candidate to-be-written data information into a memory.
US11914894B2
Example storage systems, storage devices, and methods provide management of idle time compute tasks from host systems. Storage devices may receive host storage commands for reading and writing host data and host compute commands for executing host compute tasks. Some host compute commands may include a scheduling tag. The storage device may operate in a storage processing state and an idle state and may selectively execute delayed host compute tasks during the idle state.
US11914891B2
A storage device can guarantee data write-requested from a host. The storage device includes: a buffer memory for storing data write-requested from the host; a memory device including user blocks, reserved blocks which substitute for the user blocks, and power loss protection blocks for storing buffer data stored in the buffer memory when a sudden power loss occurs, in which a power supply is abnormally interrupted; and a memory controller for determining whether any memory block capable of storing the write-requested data among the user blocks and the reserved blocks exists in response to a write operation error of the user blocks and the reserved blocks, and changing to a user block, one or more power loss protection blocks among the power loss protection blocks according to whether any memory block capable of storing the write-requested data exists.
US11914885B2
The present disclosure provides a memory controller including a state detector detecting whether the memory device is in an idle state, a program controller, based on detection information that indicates a state of the memory device, selecting neighboring strings that are adjacent to a string that is coupled to a memory cell, among the memory cells, on which a program operation or a read operation was performed before the detecting, selecting monitoring memory cells that are coupled to at least one word line, the memory cells being a part of the neighboring strings, and controlling the memory device to perform a plurality of loops to program the monitoring memory cells, and a bad block selector selecting a memory block with the monitoring memory cells as a bad block based on a rate of increase in threshold voltage of a threshold voltage distribution of the monitoring memory cells.
US11914881B2
A data migration method and an apparatus are provided. The method is as follows: sending, by a first storage system, a location update request to a location server, where the location update request is used to indicate the location server to update location information of a first bucket from being located in a second storage system to being located in the first storage system; migrating data in a first bucket from the second storage system; receiving a data access request, where the data access request is used to access the data in the first bucket; and determining based on a type of the data access request and a migration status of the data, that the first storage system or the second storage system processes the data access request.
US11914877B2
Systems and methods for managing access to a block device. An example method includes receiving, by a processing device from an entity operating in a cloud-computing environment, a memory access command referencing a block device of a distributed storage system that is accessible by a plurality of entities of the cloud computing environment; identifying a data structure associated with the referenced block device, wherein the data structure identifies entities of the cloud-computing environment that are allowed access to the block device; determining, in view of the data structure, whether the entity is allowed access to the block device by the memory access command; and responsive to determining that the entity is allowed access to the block device by memory access command, executing the memory access command.
US11914875B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify storage workloads to be run on a storage system, and to determine a mix of input/output (TO) patterns associated with the identified storage workloads, the mix of IO patterns comprising a first set of IO patterns characterizing types of IO operations performed by a first storage workload and at least a second set of IO patterns characterizing types of IO operations performed by a second storage workload. The processing device is also configured to calculate an affinity metric for the mix of IO patterns, the calculated affinity metric characterizing a difference between (i) performance metrics for the mix of IO patterns running concurrently and (ii) the first and second sets of IO patterns running individually. The processing device is further configured to allocate the identified storage workloads to storage devices of the storage system based on the calculated affinity metric.
US11914866B2
One example method includes performing delta operations to protect data. During a delta operation, a primary map and a secondary map are processed using bit logic. The bit logic determines how to handle data stored at a location on the volume associated with an entry in the primary map and included in the current delta operation when a new write for the same location is received as the corresponding entry in the primary map is processed.
US11914863B2
A serial data buffer integrated circuit comprises unidirectional host-side input and output ports, and unidirectional memory-side input and output ports. Scheduling logic generates memory device commands for writing to and reading from a memory device based on a set of host-side input packets received from a memory controller. A unidirectional serial host side input port receives host-side input packets from the memory controller. A unidirectional serial memory side output port transmits the memory device commands and the write data to the memory device based on the scheduled timing. A unidirectional serial memory side input port receives read data from the memory device in response to a read command, and a unidirectional serial host side output port transmits the read data to the memory controller within the timing constraints of the memory device.
US11914859B2
Computer implemented systems and methods for permanently displaying banner advertisements to a smartphone user, wherein the system provides logic and content to display such advertisements using a process which cannot be disabled by the user, and which does not require actions for the user, and which does not run via a standard-type application which the user would download. The banner ads are constantly displayed and the operating system, and other applications are not presented as full screen applications because the system of the present invention reserves screen space for banner ad placement. In one embodiment, a display driver used by the operating system is configured to reserve banner space on the screen and the “home” application and all other applications are given spatial dimensions representative of the normal viewable area in which those applications use to display information to the user with banner space reserved for display of advertising content.
US11914858B1
A window replacement display device having a memory that stores landscape information, a clock unit that generates current time information, a display unit for displaying the landscape information, and a control unit configured to change the landscape information according to the current time information and to display it on the display unit.
US11914856B2
A method for dynamically spatially visualizing in real time or historically tag localization and sensing data in a User Interface through the combined GUI elements of a Floor Layout view. An indoor map view visually indicates tags as colored dots moving within boundaries of Readers. Localization data from these tags are used to position and move them in a spatially accurate way. Playback controls GUI which allows for pausing or to instantly view historical tag localization and sensing data by dragging the playback control's scrubber backwards in time.
US11914855B2
Systems and methods include providing a user interface visualizing a current state of an optical network; receiving user inputs related to capacity mining in the optical network; determining a future state with the capacity mining based on the user inputs; and providing the user interface visualizing the future state. The future state can be presented with respect to a failed link and restoration of traffic on the failed link. The future state can include a plurality of plans with a visualization showing how much of the traffic is restored based on different approaches to the capacity mining. The capacity mining can include configuring optical modems based on determined available excess capacity.
US11914853B2
Systems and methods are provided for configuring automatic playback settings on a media playback device. A graphical user interface displays automatic playback settings and receives selections of customized settings for automatic playback. The settings can include context granularity for automatic playback, limiting autoplay to when the media playback device is connected to a wireless network, and activating an audible notification when automatic playback of media content is beginning. An initial queue of media content is selected for playback on the media playback device. The system ascertains whether autoplay is enabled for a particular situation. If autoplay is enabled, the system automatically generates a queue of media that is related to the initial queue and initiates playback on the media playback device after the initial queue concludes.
US11914849B1
A method for enhancing interaction between a customer and a customer service representative of a company is provided. A graphical user interface (GUI) of a windows control tool is displayed. A type of an interaction between the customer and the customer service representative at a computer operated by the company is determined. One or more applications associated with the type of interaction are launched based on a predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. One or more application windows corresponding to the launched applications are arranged on a screen based on the predetermined display layout associated with the type of interaction. The windows control tool is configured to control the one or more application windows based on customer service representative's input. The GUI of the windows control tool displays a plurality of window objects corresponding to the one or more launched applications.
US11914842B1
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamic application icons are described. The application may receive, as part of an application downloading operation, an application software package. The application software package may include a plurality of icons that are configured to visually distinguish the application on a user interface of the user device from other applications running on an operating system of the user device. The application may identify a satisfaction of an achievement threshold corresponding to an alternate icon based on processing data. The application may output, to the operating system of the user device, a visual display instruction to display the alternate icon on the user interface instead of the default icon based on identifying the satisfaction of the achievement threshold. The alternate icon may be visually representative of a type of achievement corresponding to the achievement threshold.
US11914837B2
A video acquisition method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The video acquisition method is applicable to a virtual scene including at least one virtual object and at least one virtual camera. The terminal determines a target virtual object from the at least one virtual object in response to a camera capturing instruction triggered by a user on a virtual scene interface, controls the at least one virtual camera to capture the target virtual object to acquire capturing data of the target virtual object, and acquires the video of the target virtual object based on the capturing data.
US11914834B2
A sensor includes a first substrate on a back side of a display panel, a first coil extending in a first direction at a predetermined angle between 0 and 90 degrees with respect to a long-side direction of the first substrate and including a first long-side portion provided with first and second end portions, a second coil including a second long-side portion extending in a second direction, a first leader line including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to the first end portion, and the second end is connected to wiring on a second substrate arranged to extend at a right angle toward the outside of the sensor from one side of the first substrate, and a second leader line including first end connected to the end portion and a second end connected to the wiring on the second substrate.
US11914828B1
The present invention relates to a method for improving detection sensitivity of an object capacitance by applying driving voltages having different phases to different driving signal lines to reduce the amplitude of a second sensing signal and increasing the difference between the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. In addition, a driving voltage of a reverse phase is applied to the CDAs that do not detect an object, thereby contributing to an additional sensitivity improvement. The detection sensitivity of object capacitance is improved by increasing a ratio of charges stolen by a driving voltage in a reverse phase applied to a plurality of driving CDA compared to charges supplied by a driving voltage applied to a pair of driving CDA.
US11914814B2
A touch driving circuit and a touch display device are disclosed. A group sensing control switch connected between lines connected to sensing units included in a touch driving circuit is disposed, thereby providing a structure in which one sensing unit can drive a touch electrode driven by another sensing unit. One sensing unit simultaneously drives two or more touch electrodes according to an operation state of a group sensing control switch to perform touch sensing, thereby providing a touch driving circuit and a touch display device capable of maintaining the resolution of touch sensing and improving touch sensitivity according to a driving environment.
US11914811B2
A display substrate and a preparation method therefor, and a display device, the display substrate including a base as well as a display area, a binding needle area, a first unit test electrode and a second unit test electrode which are on one side of the base. The binding needle area is on one side of the display area; the first unit test electrode is on the side, away from the display area, of the binding needle area; the second unit test electrode is on the side, away from the binding needle area, of the first unit test electrode; the display substrate comprises a first metal layer, a second metal layer and an insulating layer between the first metal layer and the second metal layer; the first unit test electrode is on the first metal layer, and the second unit test electrode is on the second metal layer.
US11914807B2
Device and method for biometric recognition are provided. When first touch surface and second touch surface are in folded state, if it is determined that first touch surface faces current user, since sensing unit is provided under first touch surface, first touch surface can directly capture first contact information of user. When it is determined that second touch surface is facing current user, processing unit projects the touch recognition area and the second touch part that is currently in contact with first touch surface onto second touch surface correspondingly, user can move second touch part so that virtual second touch part on second touch surface is within virtual touch recognition area. Thus, touch recognition area of first touch surface which is facing away from user can obtain second contact information. Problems such as inconvenience of multi-fingerprint fingerprint operation of under-screen fingerprint recognition device after folding are solved.
US11914793B2
A detecting device includes a sensor unit having a detection region in which a plurality of electrodes are arrayed, and a detector configured to detect a gesture corresponding to movement of an object to be detected in a space on the detection region based on a detected value of each of the electrodes.
US11914787B2
Disclosed is a method for a social interaction by a robot device. The method includes receiving an input from a user, determining an emotional state of the user by mapping the received input with a set of emotions and dynamically interacting with the user based on the determined emotional state in response to the input. Dynamically interacting with the user includes generating contextual parameters based on the determined emotional state. The method includes determining an action in response to the received input based on the generated contextual parameters and performing the determined action. The method further includes receiving another input from the user in response to the performed action and dynamically updating the mapping of the received input with the set of emotions based on the other input for interacting with the user.
US11914731B1
Aspects described herein relate to securely performing cross-boundary backup operations. A service of a computing resource service provider may enable backup operations between a source account and a destination account of an organization based at least in part on a security policy allowing such operations.
US11914730B2
A data storage method is provided at a computer system, including: obtaining first data and second data of a target object, the first data and the second data being data of different dimensions for measuring any aspect of the target object from generation to existence; storing the first data and the second data of the target object in the first node; receiving audit information of the first node for indicating the first data and the second data stored in the first node; verifying the audit information based on target audit information of at least one target node that transacts with the first node; broadcasting a verification success notification in the data storage system in a case that the verification succeeds; and determining that a consensus on the audit information is reached in a case that the received verification success notification meets a consensus success condition.
US11914719B1
A system determines a baseline cyberthreat-risk score for a user, and displays the baseline cyberthreat-risk score via a user interface. The system presents at least one cyberthreat-education activity via the user interface, and receives, via the user interface, at least one user input associated with the presented at least one cyberthreat-education activity. The system generates an updated cyberthreat-risk score at least in part by updating the baseline cyberthreat-risk score based at least in part on the user input, and displays the updated cyberthreat-risk score via the user interface.
US11914711B2
Malware can be automatically detected and countermeasures automatically generated. A virtual machine (VM) is run with an operating system configured with a monitoring subsystem. The monitoring subsystem is configured to generate event data based on events occurring on the virtual machine. The monitoring subsystem can run within the operating system kernel. Kernel drivers can register to receive specific events. The events are therefore sent to the drivers, which can send them to a classifier. The classifier can detect malware based on the events. When a sample is run on the VM, the classifier can detect malware in the sample. While running the sample, event data is collected. A countermeasure compiler can generate a countermeasure to the malware, the countermeasure based on the event data.
US11914706B2
The present application provides a circuit design method and an associated circuit. The circuit design method is for generating a circuit, and the method includes: arranging a plurality of attack detection circuits around a specific circuit unit, wherein the specific circuit unit is in the circuit; determining a number of a plurality of spare cells required by the circuit according to a number of the attack detection circuit; and placing the spare cells in the circuit according to the number of the spare cells.
US11914705B2
An approach for clustering large sets of categorical data involves iteratively ordering the data points, partitioning the data into blocks based on the ordering, and clustering the data points within each block, where different iterations use different orderings and, thus, different partitionings. In some embodiments, the data points are represented by multi-dimensional categorical vectors, and the orderings are based on permutations of the categorical dimensions. The iterative clustering may be repeated for multiple successive time windows to track the clusters. Various applications of the disclosed clustering approach, including for cyber security, are also described.
US11914704B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for identifying and blocking anomalous transactions within a computing system. An example method generally includes selecting a set of accounts for analysis. For each respective account, an anomaly score is calculated based on an account number associated with the respective account and transaction amounts associated with the respective account. An aggregated anomaly score is generated for each respective account provider of a plurality of account providers based on the anomaly score associated with each respective account. The aggregated anomaly score for each respective account provider is normalized based on a historical minimum and historical maximum anomaly score for the respective account provider. One or more account providers that are potential targets of anomalous activity are identified. One or more actions are taken to block completion of transactions requested by one or more accounts associated with the identified one or more account providers.
US11914698B2
A random password policy for a specific user associated with an entity is generated based on a global password requirement. A new password created by the specific user based on the generated random password policy is identified. That the new password complies with a set of requirements specified by the generated random password policy is confirmed.
US11914694B2
A computing device includes a system that authenticates a user of the computing device. A first sensor obtains a first representation of a physical characteristic of the user that is compared to a registered representation of the physical characteristic of the user. A first level of access to the computing device is enabled based on the first representation of the physical characteristic matching the second representation of the physical characteristic. A second sensor obtains a first representation of a liveness characteristic of the user that indicates that the user is alive. The first representation of the liveness characteristic is compared to a registered representation of the liveness characteristic of the user. A second level of access to the computing device is enabled based on the first representation of the liveness characteristic of the user matching the second representation of the liveness characteristic of the user.
US11914693B2
A fingerprint recognition method includes, when a fingerprint authentication module is in a disabled state, receiving a touch operation used to trigger an application program. If fingerprint authentication is not required for execution of the application program, the fingerprint recognition module is kept in a disabled state, and after the application program has been executed for specific duration, the fingerprint authentication module is enabled again, to perform the fingerprint authentication.
US11914690B2
Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems for provide a new two-factor or user authentication procedure. In a scenario in which a user is enrolled in the verification system, a method can include receiving, at a network-based server, a unique identifier associated with a user that desires to access a service from an application or a website, identifying a typing profile associated with the unique identifier and presenting a reference text on a user device of the user. The method can include receiving a typing pattern of the user and determining whether there is a match between the typing pattern and one or more previously recorded typing patterns for the user. When the determination indicates that the user is verified, the method includes presenting a one-time password on a display of the user device. The user enters the one-time password into an input field and validating, via the network-based server, the one-time password.
US11914685B2
According to certain aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes receiving, at a manager device, data comprising at least one managed device. The method includes identifying, at the manager device, a website associated with the at least one managed device. The method also includes receiving, at a mobile device management server from the manager device, a first message to cause the mobile device management server to initiate transmission of a second message comprising a command that causes the at least one managed device to navigate to the website via a browser, restrict access to other websites other than the website, and enable a camera. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11914682B2
When a hash expected value, which is an expected value of a hash value of activation software, is stored in a storing unit (111), a security calculation unit (110) compares the hash value of the activation software with the hash expected value. A main calculation unit (109) activates the activation software when the hash value and the hash expected value match, and stops a process when both do not match. The main calculation unit (109) performs signature verification for the activation software when the hash expected value is not stored in the storing unit (111), and stores in the storing unit (111) as the hash value expected value, the hash value of the activation software as well as activates the activation software when the signature verification is successful. The main calculation unit (109) stops a process when the signature verification is not successful.
US11914677B2
An image processing method includes obtaining a sample image, a category label of the sample image, and a label value of the category label. The method further includes calling a preset image processing model to perform segmentation processing on the sample image to obtain at least two sub-regions. The method further includes calling the preset image processing model to perform category prediction on the sample image to obtain a predicted value of the category label. The method further includes updating a network parameter of the preset image processing model according to center coordinates of the sub-regions, the label value of the category label, and the predicted value of the category label. The method further includes performing iterative training on the preset image processing model according to the updated network parameter, to obtain a target image processing model.
US11914666B2
Methods for generating content summaries in a web content management service, wherein in one embodiment a digital page editor and a component browser are launched to enable selection of a first content item. A summary of the first content item is automatically generated according to parameters that may have default values or values set by a user. The parameters may specify a size for the summary as a percentage of the first content item's size, as a particular number of lines, characters or words, as a size for a particular type of device, etc. The automatically generated summary is provided to the digital page editor, which can edit it and add it to the digital page. The summary is stored in a content repository as an independent summary content item with its own metadata.
US11914662B2
Various methods are provided for determining and displaying local content. One example method may comprise receiving input, at an interface of a global positioning system (GPS) enabled mobile device, to open a mobile application, and without any additional input, accessing a location service of the GPS enabled mobile device to determine a GPS location and a current time and automatically generating a query, identifying local content from a content index in accordance with an editing target, and upon determination that the number of articles specified by the editing target has not been met, climbing, by an editing algorithm, a place hierarchy to determine a larger geographic area in which to meet the editing target, the larger geographic area containing the location, and displaying the results, via an interface, on the GPS enabled mobile device.
US11914655B2
A documentation generation engine coupled to a mutation handler are provided, configured to traverse a knowledge base to derive selective views. Organizations may configure a documentation generator application running on generator hosts to summarize records of a knowledge base storing institutional knowledge, and relationships therebetween, as human-readable reference documents. It is undesired for the documentation generator to query the knowledge base on a naive basis in response to updates in order to derive views required to generate updated documentation. Therefore, example embodiments of the present disclosure provide a query-writing framework which describes a schema organizing these records for human readability and describing relationships of these records to other records of interest, from which a set of queries may be derived which cause a knowledge base to return all records topically related by a schema of a query-writing framework, while minimizing excess querying unnecessarily amplifying computational workload and network traffic.
US11914654B2
A document management apparatus includes a display control unit that performs control to display a first document and a second document, a comment reception unit that receives a comment to be added to a part of the first document displayed by the display control unit, and an association unit that associates a part of the second document that is a basis of the comment received by the comment reception unit with the comment.
US11914653B1
Systems and methods for removing data from strings are disclosed. A system can access a first hash table that stores representations of a first set of strings, where the representations have predetermined number of characters. The system can generate a second hash table that stores a second representations of a string of a second set of strings, where the second representations have the predetermined number of characters. Upon determining that the first hash table includes at least one of the plurality of second representations of the string included in the second hash table, the system can increment a counter associated with the string. The system can generate a third set of strings by removing the string from the second set of strings responsive to determining that the counter satisfies a threshold, and transmit the third set of strings to a computing system.
US11914645B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating content based on matching mappings by implementing deconstruction and reconstruction techniques. The system may retrieve a first content structure that includes a first object with a first mapping that includes a first list of attribute values. The system may then search content structures for a matching content structure having a second object with a second list of attributes and a second mapping including second attribute values corresponding to the second list of attributes. Upon finding a match, the system may generate a new content structure having the first object from the first content structure with the second mapping from the matching content structure. The system may then generate for output a new content segment based on the newly generated content structure.
US11914636B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for adding new features to a network service. A method includes receiving an image depicting an object of interest. A category set is determined for the object of interest and an image signature is generated for the image. Using the category set and the image signature, the method identifies a set of publications within a publication database and assigns a rank to each publication. The method causes presentation of the ranked list of publications at a computing device from which the image was received.
US11914629B2
The present invention relates to information retrieval. In order to facilitate a search and identification of documents, there is provided a computer-implemented method for training a classifier model for data classification in response to a search query. The computer-implemented method comprises: a) obtaining a dataset that comprises a seed set of labeled data representing a training dataset; b) training the classifier model by using the training dataset to fit parameters of the classifier model; c) evaluating a quality of the classifier model using a test dataset that comprises unlabeled data from the obtained dataset to generate a classifier confidence score indicative of a probability of correctness of the classifier model working on the test dataset; d) determining a global risk value of misclassification and a reward value based on the classifier confidence score on the test dataset; e) iteratively updating the parameters of the classifier model and performing steps b) to d) until the global risk value falls within a predetermined risk limit value or an expected reward value is reached.
US11914627B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for disambiguating join paths for natural language queries. One of the methods includes, obtaining a natural language query from a user; parsing the natural language query into structured operations to be performed on APIs of a knowledge base, including: responsive to detecting a parsing ambiguity in which the natural language query can be parsed in two or more ways: providing, through a user interface, to the user one or more information items identifying the parsing ambiguity; responsive to a user interaction with an information item: modifying the parsing in accordance with the user interaction to generate one or more structured operations; performing the one or more structured operations on the structured APIs of the knowledge base to determine one or more search results; and providing one or more search results to the user.
US11914621B2
An association metric for record attributes associated with cardinalities that are not necessarily the same is used for training and/or applying an entity resolution (ER) model. A pair of records includes (a) a first record indicating a first set of values for a first attribute and (b) a second record indicating a second set of values for a second attribute. Each of the first set of values and each of the second set of values are compared to determine individual association metrics. A first-level reduction operation is applied to subsets of the individual association metrics to determine reduced association metrics. A second-level reduction operation is applied to the reduced association metrics to determine an association metric, for the pair of records, for training and/or applying an ER model.
US11914618B2
A system and method for managing data lifecycles that can provide an adaptable data management system configured to optimize the lifecycles of data and the reliability of databases. The system can provide data management systems with the ability to attach, detach, and drop segments of data based on key partitions of the data objects to optimize database utilization. By including the key partitions to the data objects, the database including the data objects can now perform data management operations based on the key partitions. The system, based on the key partitions, can identify a location of the data object to attach row entries, detach row entries from the existing tables, and delete the detached row entries from the database altogether. The system can operate on any relational database management system.
US11914617B2
A follower system and a leader system store records for a plurality of users. Each of the follower system and the leader system stores at least a record for a user. Each of the follower system and the leader system stores a private log and a public log. The public log is periodically synchronized across the follower system and the leader system. The private log of each system is maintained independent of the other system. The follower system transmits information stored in the public logs to the leader system for synchronizing the public logs of the follower system and the leader system in response to updating the public logs with information describing the second set of transactions.
US11914616B1
Systems and methods for creating a consistent blockchain including block commitment determinations are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving a request for blockchain data from an application or a user, receiving proposed canonical heads from a plurality of blockchain nodes, receiving votes to determine a correct state for a consistent blockchain that includes a canonical head, the blockchain data being included in the consistent view of a blockchain, determining the canonical head based on the votes, determining a commitment level for at least one block in the consistent view of the blockchain, providing the consistent view of the blockchain to the application or the user, and exposing the commitment level for the at least one block.
US11914613B2
Methods for data visibility in nested transactions in distributed systems are performed by systems and devices. Distributed executions of queries are performed in processing systems according to isolation level protocols with unique nested transaction identifiers for data management and versioning across one or more data sets, one or more compute pools, etc., within a logical server via a single transaction manager that oversees the isolation semantics and data versioning. A distributed query processor of the systems and devices performs nested transaction versioning for distributed tasks by generating nested transaction identifiers, encoded in data rows, which are used to enforce correct data visibility. Data visibility is restricted to previously committed data from distributed transactions and tasks, and is blocked for distributed transactions and tasks that run concurrently. Local commits for completed transactions and tasks are used to minimize transaction manager interactions, and instant rollbacks are enabled for aborted transactions and tasks.
US11914612B2
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed selective synchronization of linked records. A criteria may be received for a primary database that includes records. Records of the primary database may be linked to records of a first instance database. The criteria may include an inclusion of an expression or value in a specified field of a record. Records of the primary database may be determined to meet the criteria by determining that the records of the primary database include the expression or value of the criteria in the specified field. Records of the primary database that meet the criteria may be synchronized with the first instance database. The synchronization of records of the primary database that do not meet the criteria may be prevented.
US11914610B1
Conversion that includes multiple targets or sources of a data store migration may be performed. A request that specifies a mapping between multiple sources and one or more targets, one or more sources and multiple targets, or multiple sources and multiple targets may be created for data store migration. Metadata may be obtained for the selected sources and targets for the mapping. Conversion scripts may then be generated for the mapping based on an analysis using the metadata. The conversion scripts may then be stored for later execution.
US11914607B2
A system and method is disclosed for providing data staging and loading through a master data management (MDM) system coupled with one or more business entities. The system is operable to invoke batch data loading of data associated with one or more source systems associated with the one or more business entities, into an input staging area. The system is further operable to load the data from the input staging area into a master repository and subsequently load the data from the master repository into an output staging area.
US11914606B2
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform acts of receiving, from an extraction, transform, load (ETL) application, a matrix, which can comprise raw feature data; storing the matrix comprising the raw feature data in a standard format in the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage devices; receiving a configuration file over a computer network; storing the configuration file in a standard format in the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage devices; instantiating one or more unifier applications based upon the configuration file; identifying relevant feature data of the raw feature data; storing the relevant feature data in a standardized format in an output file in the one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices; and transmitting, over the computer network in real time to a model building system, the output file comprising the relevant feature data from the one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices, so that the machine learning model building applications have immediate access to up-to-date data. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11914605B2
A system includes a communications interface configured to receive a plurality of data series captured by a plurality of sensors. A first database includes at least a first data series of the plurality of data series. A second database includes metadata related to the first data series. One or more processors are configured to receive an instruction including an indication of a computation to perform and metadata filter criteria, query the second database to determine at least a portion of the first data series that satisfies the metadata filter criteria by reference to at least the metadata related to the first data series, access, from the first database and based on results of the query of the second database, the portion of the first data series, and perform the computation on the portion of first data series accessed from the first database.
US11914604B2
A system and a method for a metric time series (MTS) generation. The method includes operations of receiving telemetry data comprising a metric name, a new measurement value, and metadata associated with the metric name, and generating a hash key value based on the metric name and a set of key-value pairs of a plurality of key-value pairs included in the metadata. The method includes determining whether the generated hash key value exists in a memory, and in response to determining that the generated hash key value does not exist in the memory, initializing an MTS associated with the generated hash key with a measurement value being set to zero. The method includes an instance of the MTS corresponding to a current time, and associating the instance of the MTS with the new measurement value received in the telemetry data.
US11914598B2
Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for database table partition pruning based on statistical information associated with non-partition columns. A tree partition specification is received defining partitions for a plurality of computed column statistics. Respective partitions are created for the plurality of computed column statistics based on the tree partition specification. A request is received to compute statistics for a plurality of columns of the plurality of computed column statistics to result in a plurality of computed column statistics. In response to determining that one or more modifications have been made to the partitioned database, the plurality of computed column statistics is marked as invalid. The computed column statistics are refreshed in response to modifications of the partitioned table. Thereafter, the statistics are marked as valid. Unnecessary table partitions are pruned based on the statistics, and the associated query is executed.
US11914592B2
Systems and methods for processing structured queries over clusters are provided herein. An example system includes a plurality of clusters, wherein a local cluster is configured to receive, from a client, a structured query language (SQL) structured query, determine, based on the SQL structured query, a list of remote clusters of the plurality of clusters, process the SQL structured query to generate a local query executable by a local search engine of the local cluster and remote queries executable by remote search engines of the remote clusters, send the remote queries to the remote clusters to obtain remote results, execute the local query to obtain local results, combine the remote results and the local results to obtain an aggregated result, and return the aggregated result to the client.
US11914590B1
Systems and methods are provided to implement a database request router that routes queries to database servers storing database replicas. In embodiments, the request router maintains caching state metadata that indicates respective caching states of the database servers. For an incoming query, the request router selects a database server to receive the query based on the caching states of the database servers to improve cache utilization. In embodiments, the caching state metadata indicates whether different database objects used by observed queries are cached at individual servers. The database objects used may be determined from execution plans for the queries, obtained from the database servers. In embodiments, the request router may determine a querying pattern of the database and use it to predict an expected time for certain queries. The request router may generate a priming query ahead of the expected time to prepare database server cache for the expected queries.
US11914585B2
Disclosed are systems and methods of querying a hybrid event index of a user. The systems and methods can include receiving a search request pertaining to at least a first namespace of a plurality of namespaces and determining a first index server storing a first portion of the hybrid event index associated with the first namespace. The systems and methods can further include searching, the first portion of the hybrid event index stored at the first index server, determining one or more attributes from the search request, and determining a payload based on the search results of the first portion of the hybrid event index. Finally, the systems and methods can include applying one or more attributes to the payload and sending the filtered payload.
US11914584B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for reset command configuration, a device, and a storage medium, the method, applied to an editor of target software, includes: starting a command group storage unit and starting a snapshot session through the inputted startGroup command; directly performing the reset command configuration on the target software in an command-type manner through the inputted operation execution command; converting change information of an object in the snapshot-type session into a command pair through the snapshot capture command, pressing the command pair into the command group storage unit, and using all command groups of the command pair as a reset command to realize performing the reset command configuration on the target software in the snapshot-type manner, thereby achieving that the target software supports both the command-type reset command configuration and the snapshot-type reset command configuration.
US11914583B2
Various embodiments are directed to a system that utilizes regular expression (regex) to recognize at least portions of characters, words, text, numbers, etc. in a structured or unstructured dataset, any patterns associated therewith, and/or similarities between the determined patterns. In examples, a regex-based pattern recognition platform may receive a dataset and determine whether at least a first regex pattern and a second regex pattern can be identified. The occurrences of the first and second regex patterns and the frequency of those occurrences may reveal something about the dataset itself or any patterns contained therein.
US11914582B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for generating a list of suggested queries associated with one or more keywords are provided. For example, one or more keywords may be received via a search interface. A plurality of queries associated with the one or more keywords may be determined based upon the one or more keywords and a historical query database. A plurality of relationship scores associated with the plurality of queries may be generated based upon a plurality of search sessions associated with the historical query database. The historical query database may be analyzed to determine a plurality of click rates associated with the plurality of queries. A list of suggested queries may be generated based upon the plurality of relationship scores and the plurality of click rates.
US11914578B2
In some aspects, a server may receive commands from a computing device. The commands may cause the server to create an empty xbundle comprising a context and create a set of additional empty xbundles within the context. The set of additional empty xbundles includes at least a first xbundle, a second xbundle, and a third xbundle. The commands may cause the server to connect the first xbundle to the second xbundle using the third xbundle to create a particular xbundle in which the first xbundle comprises a first vertex, the second xbundle comprises a second vertex, and the third xbundle comprises an edge connecting the first xbundle to the second xbundle. The commands may cause the server to save, in a datastore, the particular xbundle comprising the context that includes the first xbundle, the second xbundle, and the third xbundle.
US11914577B2
Embodiments are directed to association of storage objects in a multi-tenant, cloud-based storage environment. More specifically, a first object can be made available in the file system of the environment and can be accessed, for example, by its file or object name. At some point thereafter, an auxiliary object can be provided that is related to the first object. For example, this auxiliary object can comprise metadata or other content associated with or related to the first object. According to one embodiment, this auxiliary object can be assigned an identifier that not only uniquely identifies the auxiliary object but also identifies, within the identifier itself, the relationship to the first object. This relational naming can be used to track the relationship between objects, e.g., to update the auxiliary object based on changes to the first object, but without a separate mapping of the objects.
US11914572B2
Technologies are described providing adaptive query routing in a replicated database environment. The technologies can be used with a variety of replication protocols. Prepared statements, such as for queries, from a database client can be routed to a source node, or a source node and available replica nodes, when a replica node becomes unavailable. When a replica node becomes available again, a prepared statement can be updated to indicate that the updated prepared statement can be executed at nodes including the replica node that is available again. Prepared statement routing can also be used when a portion of replicated data becomes unavailable at a replica node, but a portion of replicated data remains available.
US11914569B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for providing a redundancy tool for performing transactions. A transaction to be performed on a data stored in a database may be received. A timestamp may be assigned to the transaction. A lock may be assigned on the timestamp. The transaction may be performed on the data. The lock may be refreshed while performing the transaction on the data. A validity of the lock may be checked at after performing the transaction on the data. Responsive to the lock being valid, a result of performing the transaction on the data may be committed.
US11914568B2
A computer system hosting a column-store database engine is responsive to database requests for the update and retrieval of data from within a stable data table and providing for the storage of database tuples within a column-store organized database structure. A positional delta tree data structure is implemented in the memory space of the database engine and is operatively coupled in an update data transfer path between a database engine interface and the stable data table. The positional delta tree data structure includes a differential data storage layer operative to store differential update data values in positionally defined relative reference to database tuples stored by the stable data table.
US11914563B2
New data structures for analyzing a log are generated. A hierarchical data structure includes a plurality of hierarchical nodes. Each node is associated with data and metadata. Each node may also be associated with analysis data. Information (data, metadata, and/or analysis data) of an ancestor node is imputed to a descendant node; a descendant node inherits the information of an ancestor node. When determining analysis data for a particular hierarchical node, information from any ancestor node to the particular hierarchical node may be used; however, information from non-ancestor nodes is not necessarily used. A timeline data structure includes a reference to a hierarchical node within a hierarchical data structure and a reference to an event type. The timeline data structure is thereby associated with the information of the referenced hierarchical node and information of any ancestor nodes to the referenced hierarchical node.
US11914558B2
Systems and methods are provided in order to avoid ingesting the entire contents of one or more data sources. An object may be associated with one or more pieces/fragments of data that can be stored in different data sources. When a request for the object is initiated, a search for those pieces/fragments of data can be performed. Nodes associated with each data source may generate data queries appropriate for its corresponding data source, retrieve, and if needed transform the data into an object-based data structure. Any pieces/fragments of data that have been discovered and retrieved can be joined, e.g., by an application programming interface server, and forwarded to a requesting client or application. In this way, only data relevant to the object is obtained. Moreover, object versioning can be employed so that the most up-to-date data is obtained.
US11914553B2
A system for identifying similarities between tables and databases stored in a storage server comprises the storage server and a management server. The storage server comprises a first database configured to store a plurality of first database tables, and a second database configured to store a plurality of second database tables. The management server is configured to store a storage index indicating metadata describing a plurality of tables stored at the storage server, wherein the metadata indicates a column name of a column in each of the tables, determine a table similarity score, a database similarity score, and access data, and transmit an instruction to the storage server to delete data stored in at least one of the first database or the source table to eliminate redundancies at the storage server.
US11914545B2
Configuration states for a computing device and/or associated peripherals (“profiles”) are stored in one or more non-volatile logic (“NVL”) arrays. Using the non-volatile sub-system for the computing device, triggers for reconfiguration of the respective device or peripherals are provided to an NVL array controller, which controls provision of the new profile(s) for the respective device or peripherals over a dedicated bus to a configuration register that stores the active profiles for the device and associated peripherals.
US11914544B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a board, a memory controller, and a semiconductor memory. When a signal input to a third port or a command received from an outside of the memory system satisfies a first condition, the memory controller is configured to use a first port as a first signal port and to use a second port as a second signal port. When the signal input to the third port or the command received from the outside of the memory system satisfies a second condition, the memory controller is configured to use the first port as the second signal port and to use the second port as the first signal port.
US11914539B2
An input switching circuit dynamically connects, based on an input mapping table, input streams to inputs of a wavefront pre-transform circuit. An output switching circuit dynamically connects, based on an output mapping table, output data at outputs of the wavefront pre-transform circuit to transport streams. A controller controls, based on a wiping command, at least one of the input and output switching circuits to alter at least one of the input and output mapping tables such that the at least one of the input and output switching circuits is disabled for connection. A first subset of the transport streams operates in a foreground mode available to a user and is transported for storage in remote storage sites at a network and a second subset of the transport streams operates in a background mode available to an administrator and is not transported for storage in the remote storage sites.
US11914519B2
Aspects described herein relate to a method comprising: receiving a request to write data to a persistent storage device, the request comprising data; determining an affinity of the data; writing the request to a cache line of a cache; associating the cache line with the affinity of the data; and reporting the data as having been written to the persistent storage device.
US11914516B1
System and techniques for memory side cache request handling are described herein. When a memory request is received, a cache set for the memory request is determined. Here, the cache set has multiple ways and each way corresponds to a cache line. It can be detected that a way of the multiple ways is not ready for the memory request. In this case, a representation of the memory request is stored in a queue of multiple queues based on an interface upon which the memory request was received and the present ways of the cache set. Entries from the multiple queues can be dequeued in a defined order to determine a next memory request to process. The defined order gives priority to memory requests for a present way and then for external over internal requests.
US11914515B2
A cache memory device is provided in the disclosure. The cache memory device includes a first AGC, a compression circuit, a second AGC, a virtual tag array, and a comparator circuit. The first AGC generates a virtual address based on a load instruction. The compression circuit obtains the higher part of the virtual address and generates a target hash value based on the higher part of the virtual address. The second AGC generates the lower part of the virtual address based on the load instruction. The virtual tag array obtains the lower part and selects a set of memory units. The comparator circuit compares the target hash value to a hash value stored in each memory unit of the set of memory units. When the comparator circuit generates the virtual tag miss signal, the comparator circuit transmits the virtual tag miss signal to the reservation station.
US11914507B2
To make validity of a prediction model created by machine learning be able to be verified with appropriate accuracy and efficiency. A software test apparatus includes a storage device configured to store a prediction model, and an arithmetic device. The arithmetic device is configured to accept inputs of a precondition, a constraint condition, and an approximation threshold value, convert the prediction model into a logical expression, analyze an approximation range based on the approximation threshold value with respect to the logical expression to simplify the logical expression, generate an inspection expression by combining the simplified logical expression with the precondition and negation of the constraint condition, search for, as a counterexample, a value satisfying the inspection expression, input the value to the prediction model to evaluate inspection accuracy when the counterexample exists, and output a result of the evaluation.
US11914501B1
An instrumentation analysis system processes data streams by executing instructions specified using a data stream language program. A user interface allows users to specify data stream language programs. The user interface presents widgets to the user to specify various components of a data stream language program, including a filter expression, an analytical function representing an aggregation or transformation, and so on. The user interface allows users to specify an expression based on results of previously specified data stream language programs. The instrumentation analysis system processes the data stream language programs specified by the user to generate a set of result data streams and plots the result data streams, for example, on a screen of a client device.
US11914496B2
Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to maintain data consistency in a data pipeline. In some examples, a computing system comprises data monitoring circuitry that monitors the operations of the data pipeline. The data pipeline receives input data, processes the input data, and generates output data. The data monitoring circuitry receives and processes the output data sets to identify changes between the output data sets. The data monitoring circuitry generates a consistency score based on the changes that indicates a similarity level between the output data sets. The data monitoring circuitry determines when the consistency score exceeds a threshold value. When the consistency score exceeds the threshold value, the data monitoring circuitry generates and transfers an alert that indicates ones of the output data sets that exceeded the threshold value.
US11914493B2
Provided is an information processing device which is capable of suppressing a deterioration in accuracy of detecting an anomaly and accuracy of analyzing the anomaly, while suppressing an increase in an amount of data to be stored. The information processing system includes anomaly detection unit that collects event data indicating a predetermined event detected in a process of a device to be monitored, determines whether a predetermined index value related to the event exceeds a preset first threshold, and instructs enhanced monitoring of the device to be monitored and the process related to the event when the index value exceeds the first threshold, and collection instruction unit that determines an additional event being an event to be additionally monitored when the enhanced monitoring is instructed, and instructs the device to be monitored, which is subjected to the enhanced monitoring, to monitor the determined additional event.
US11914492B2
An Information Handling System (IHS) includes multiple hardware devices, and a baseboard Management Controller (BMC) in communication with the plurality of hardware devices. The BMC includes executable instructions for identifying at least one non-registered hardware device from among the multiple hardware devices that is not registered for use within the IHS by the BMC. For this non-registered hardware device, the BMC generates power profile data. Using the power profile data of the non-registered hardware device, the BMC determines a level of electrical power to sufficiently supply the plurality of hardware devices of the IHS, and controls one or more power supply units to supply the determined level of electrical power to the plurality of hardware devices.
US11914488B2
Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for handling fault tolerance in a blockchain enabled network system. The system includes a computing system with at least one of a plurality of processors arranged as an active processor node, at least one data storage device including a first ledger corresponding to a first blockchain and a second ledger corresponding to a second blockchain, at least one standby processor node, and at least one standby data storage device. The at least one active processor node is programmed or configured to analyze and record blocks corresponding to data received through the network system on the first ledger and the second ledger such that the first ledger and the second ledger have matching data, detect at least one failure or anticipated failure, and in response to detecting the at least one failure or anticipated failure, generating a switch-over command.
US11914484B2
The NVDIMM (200) comprises a DRAM (201), a NAND flash memory (202) and a NVDIMM controller (100), the NVDIMM controller (100) controlling the NVDIMM (200) and comprising a DDR controller (101), a NAND flash memory controller (102), a data backup module (103) and a data recovery module (104), and the DDR controller (101) using and enabling DBI. The backup method comprises: reading, by the DDR controller (101), N-bit DQ and 1-bit DBI from the DRAM (201) and sending the same to the data backup module; encoding, by the data backup module (103), the N-bit DQ and the 1-bit DBI into N-bit EDQ according to the values of the N-bit DQ and the 1-bit DBI, and sending the N-bit EDQ to the NAND flash memory controller; and receiving, by the NAND flash memory controller (102), the N-bit EDQ and writing the N-bit EDQ into the NAND flash memory (202).
US11914480B2
Content of an object of a source system for backup is received at a backup system different from the source system. A standby version of at least a portion of the object of the source system is maintained at a recovery system. A backup of the received content is performed using the backup system. In response to a request to place the standby version at a specified recovery time point, backup data utilized in updating the standby version to the specified recovery time point is provided to the recovery system via the backup system.
US11914478B2
A method for managing file based backups (FBBs) includes obtaining, by a backup agent, a FBB generation request for a file system at a point in time, in response to the FBB generation request: identifying a target backup storage system in which to store the FBB, identifying a target exposed application programming interface (API) associated with the target backup storage system, generating a FBB corresponding to the FBB generation request, wherein the FBB comprises a FBB metadata file, wherein the FBB is in a common data streaming format (CDSF), generating an API command based on the FBB and the target exposed API, and initiating storage of the FBB in the target backup storage system using the API command.
US11914476B2
Methods, systems, and devices for generating a balanced codeword protected by an error correction code are described. A memory device may receive data bits for storage. Based on the data bits, the memory device may generate a codeword that includes the data bits, parity bits, and placeholder bits. The memory device may balance the codeword by inverting one or more packets of the codeword. After balancing the codeword, the memory device may store at least a portion of the codeword in memory so that a later operation or a decoding process reveals the packets that were inverted as part of the balancing process. Accordingly, the memory device may re-invert the appropriate packets to recover the original data bits.
US11914463B2
A method of an automatic support service that includes receiving a request for additional assistance for an error from a user interface, retrieving error information from a logging system for the error, generating an error information collection interface, in response to the request, populating the error information collection interface with the error information from the logging system, sending the error information collection interface to be displayed to the user by the user interface, and receiving additional error information from the user via the error information collection interface.
US11914447B1
A computing methodology in digital systems for performing computationally expensive operations while lowering the required computing resources, the power consumed to accomplish the computation, and maximizing the system throughput. Intermediate computations within the operation may be analyzed and those that have low gain values are identified and may be either removed from the computation or calculated with lower precision.
US11914446B2
An electronic device control method, apparatus, and an electronic device, where the electronic device control method includes determining a running mode of a current running application in an electronic device, and controlling, based on the running mode, a component in the electronic device to execute an operation corresponding to the running mode, where the component includes a component employed for running the current running application.
US11914440B2
A system for consistently implementing reset and power management of IP agents on a System on a Chip (SoC). When IP agents undergo a reset, an individual negotiation takes placed between an interconnect and each IP agent over a link. Each IP agent can emerge from reset at its own time schedule, independently of the timing of the other IP agents. The interconnect may be configured as a proxy for any IP agent that is inoperable, including prior to reset, when in a power-down mode, or malfunctioning.
US11914437B2
A computing device cooling system includes a chassis including chassis surface(s). The chassis houses component(s), chassis surface temperature sensor(s) configured to report a chassis surface temperature associated with the chassis surface(s), component temperature sensor(s) configured to report a component temperature associated with the component(s); a first fan system configured to generate a component cooling airflow that reduces the component temperature of the component(s), and a second fan system configured to generate a chassis surface cooling airflow that reduces the chassis surface temperature of the chassis surface(s). A fan control system is coupled to the chassis surface temperature sensor(s), the component temperature sensor(s), the first fan system, and the second fan system. The fan control system operates the first fan system when a component temperature exceeds a component temperature threshold, and operates the second fan system when a chassis surface temperature exceeds a chassis surface temperature threshold.
US11914433B2
A hinge and a mobile terminal to resolve poor use effect of a foldable electronic device. The hinge includes a main body, and a first folding assembly and a second folding assembly that are symmetrically disposed along the main body. When the first folding assembly and the second folding assembly are rotated toward each other, a length of the hinge can be extended, and an accommodation space for accommodating the flexible display can be formed. When the first folding assembly and the second folding assembly are rotated away from each other, the length of the hinge can be reduced, and a support surface for supporting the flexible display can be formed, so that the flexible display cannot be stretched, compressed, or the like during folding and unfolding, thereby improving the use effect and safety of the mobile terminal.
US11914432B2
A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, a pivot element, a heat source, a first flexible heat conductive element, and a flip cover is provided. The pivot element is connected to the second body, and the second body is pivotally connected to the first body through the pivot element. The heat source is disposed in the first body. The first flexible heat conductive element is thermally coupled to the heat source and extends toward the pivot element from the heat source. The first flexible heat conductive element passes through the pivot element and extends into the inside of the second body and is thus thermally coupled to the second body. The flip cover is pivotally connected to the first body and located on a moving path of the pivot element.
US11914426B2
A computing device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a display housing that includes a display operatively coupled to the processor, display housing bumper supports and peripheral display housing bumpers mounted to the display housing bumper supports; a base housing that includes base housing bumper supports and peripheral base housing bumpers mounted to the base housing bumper supports; and a hinge assembly that couples the display housing and the base housing.
US11914422B2
An information processing system include plural deformable devices to be worn on a living body for use, each device being configured to be detachably attached to at least another one of the devices, in which each device includes a display unit, and a processor, when communication among the plural devices is in a disconnection state, the processor of each device independently controls display of the corresponding one of the display units, and when the plural devices are in a communication state, the processors work cooperatively so as to control the display of the display units of the devices.
US11914418B2
A data acquisition system and a control method, apparatus, and device therefor, and a medium. The data acquisition system comprises: a signal transmission line, the signal transmission line having multiple first signal delay units connected in series, and the output end of each of the first signal delay units forming an acquisition point; multiple acquisition units, the acquisition units being connected to the acquisition points of the first signal delay units to acquire signals at the acquisition points; a clock unit, configured to generate a control signal; a comparison unit, configured to compare the period of the control signal with the period of a standard signal, and generate an adjustment signal according to the comparison result; and an adjustment unit, configured to adjust a power supply voltage for the signal transmission line and the clock unit according to the adjustment signal, so that the ratio of the period of the control signal to the period of the standard signal meets a set threshold range.
US11914416B2
A transmitter circuit that receives parallel signals and outputs a serial signal in response to the parallel signals may include; a clock generator generating first clock signals having different respective phases, a multiplexer including selection circuits respectively configured to selectively provide at least two of the parallel signals to an output node in response to at least two of the first clock signals, and an output driver generating the serial signal by amplifying a signal at the output node.
US11914415B2
An optical neural network is constructed based on photonic integrated circuits to perform neuromorphic computing. In the optical neural network, matrix multiplication is implemented using one or more optical interference units, which can apply an arbitrary weighting matrix multiplication to an array of input optical signals. Nonlinear activation is realized by an optical nonlinearity unit, which can be based on nonlinear optical effects, such as saturable absorption. These calculations are implemented optically, thereby resulting in high calculation speeds and low power consumption in the optical neural network.
US11914399B2
An optical fiber sensing system according to the present disclosure includes an optical fiber (10) that detects vibration, a detection unit (21) that detects occurrence of a predetermined event, based on an optical signal on which vibration detected by the optical fiber (10) is superimposed, an identification unit (22) that identifies an occurrence location of the predetermined event, based on the optical signal, and identifies a movement destination area serving as a moving destination of an unmanned aerial vehicle that monitors an occurrence location of the predetermined event, based on an occurrence location of the predetermined event, and a control unit (23) that controls the unmanned aerial vehicle to move to the movement destination area.
US11914397B2
A robot control system according to the present embodiment is a robot control system that controls a plurality of mobile robots that can autonomously move in a facility. The robot control system acquires error information indicating that an error has occurred in a first transport robot, acquires transported object information related to a transported object of the first transport robot, determines a second transport robot able to transport the transported object of the first transport robot among the transport robots based on the transported object information and the error information, and moves the second transport robot to a transfer location of the transported object of the first transport robot.
US11914396B2
When a non-operable notification is output from any of a plurality of operating vehicles, an operation schedule creator creates a substitute vehicle introduction operation schedule based on planned stopping times and a target velocity determined by a normal operation schedule, as an operation schedule to be provided, to each of operating vehicles other than a non-operable vehicle which has output the non-operable notification, when the operating vehicle passes an operation schedule updating location for a first time after the non-operable notification is output.
US11914390B2
Techniques for determining information associated with sounds detected in an environment based on audio data and map data or perception data are discussed herein. A vehicle can use map data and/or perception data to distinguish between multiple audio signals or sounds. A direct source of sound can be distinguished from a reflected source of sound by determining a direction of arrival of sounds and which objects the directions of arrival are associated with in the environment. A reflected sound can be received without receiving a direct sound. Based on the reflected sound and map data or perception data, characteristics of sound in an occluded region of the environment may be determined and used to control the vehicle.
US11914386B2
A mobile object control device includes a first controller that recognizes a surrounding situation of a mobile object based on an output of a detection device having a space around the mobile object as a detection range and generates a first movement plan for the mobile object in a first period based on the recognized surrounding situation of the mobile object, and a second controller that generates a second movement plan for the mobile object in a second period shorter than the first period, and when the second controller generates label data in which label information indicating different values depending on at least the presence or absence of a moving object is imparted to each of division elements obtained by dividing the space around the mobile object into a finite number, and generates the second movement plan based on the label data.
US11914379B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to generate a path plan. An example method includes generating guidance lines for a next path of a vehicle based on an edge of a current path, generating a first path plan of a field within a field boundary, the first path plan generated using a first degree heading, generating a second path plan of the field within the field boundary, the second path plan generated using a second degree heading, and when the first path plan includes a first cost lower than a second cost of the second path plan, transmitting the first path plan to a vehicle to control the vehicle.
US11914373B2
An example method comprises receiving a number of inputs to a system employing an artificial neural network (ANN), wherein the ANN comprises a number of ANN partitions each having respective weight matrix data and bias data corresponding thereto stored in a memory. The method includes: determining an ANN partition to which the number of inputs correspond, reading, from the memory the weight matrix data and bias data corresponding to the determined ANN partition, and a first cryptographic code corresponding to the determined ANN partition; generating, using the weight matrix data and bias data read from the memory, a second cryptographic code corresponding to the determined ANN partition; determining whether the first cryptographic code and the second cryptographic code match; and responsive to determining a mismatch between the first cryptographic code and the second cryptographic code, issuing an indication of the mismatch to a controller of the system.
US11914371B2
An autonomous driving vehicle provides a driverless transportation service for a user. An alarming phenomenon is a natural phenomenon that potentially causes a disaster. The autonomous driving vehicle recognizes, based on driving environment information, the alarming phenomenon at a current location of the autonomous driving vehicle or on a planned travel route from the current location to a destination. When recognizing the alarming phenomenon, the autonomous driving vehicle determines whether to continue or halt vehicle travel control in accordance with a current travel plan. When determining to halt the vehicle travel control in accordance with the current travel plan, the autonomous driving vehicle sets an emergency plan depending on a type of the alarming phenomenon and controls the autonomous driving vehicle in accordance with the emergency plan.
US11914369B2
A method for controlling a UAV in an environment includes receiving first and second sensing signals from a vision sensor and a proximity sensor, respectively, coupled to the UAV. The first and second sensing signals include first and second depth information of the environment, respectively. The method further includes selecting the first and second sensing signals for generating first and second portions of an environmental map, respectively, based on a suitable criterion associated with distinct characteristics of various portions of the environment or distinct capabilities of the vision sensor and the proximity sensor, generating first and second sets of depth images for the first and second portions of the environmental map, respectively, based on the first and second sensing signals, respectively, combining the first and second sets of depth images to generate the environmental map; and effecting the UAV to navigate in the environment using the environmental map.
US11914366B2
Blended operator and autonomous control in an autonomous vehicle, including: receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors of an autonomous vehicle; determining, based on the sensor data, a degree of autonomous control for each control input of a plurality of control inputs; and applying the degree of autonomous control for each control input of the plurality of control inputs.
US11914365B2
A system for autonomous or semi-autonomous operation of a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a machine automation portal (MAP) application configured to enable a computing device to (a) display a map of a work site and (b) provide a graphical user interface that enables a user to (i) define a boundary of an autonomous operating zone on the map and (ii) define a boundary of one or more exclusion zones. The system also includes a robotics processing unit configured to (a) receive the boundary of the autonomous operating zone and the boundary of each exclusion zone from the computing device, (b) generate a planned command path that the vehicle will travel to perform a task within the autonomous operating zone while avoiding each exclusion zone, and (c) control operation of the vehicle so that the vehicle travels the planned command path to perform the task.
US11914356B2
The present invention relates to an integrity index detecting method for a device by means of a control output signal which, after establishing an integrity index reference table based on an integrity reference value set based on information collected from a normal device and a defect reference value set based on information collected from a device before a malfunction occurs, outputs an integrity index value indicating an integrity of the device in real time by applying a gradient value with respect to a time interval value between control output signals collected from the device in real time to the integrity index reference table to provide the integrity index value to a manager.
US11914353B2
A control system configured to serve one or more energy loads in a building comprises equipment configured to consume, produce, or store one or more resources including electricity, water, natural gas, steam, hot thermal energy, cold thermal energy, or electrical energy. The control system includes an asset allocator configured to receive an input model that describes a physical layout of the equipment and create a net list that defines connections between the equipment using the input model. The asset allocator is configured to discover one or more systems of interconnected equipment and one or more groups of equipment using the net list, formulate an optimization problem using the systems and groups of equipment, and operate the equipment according to the optimization problem.
US11914348B2
A plant operating condition setting support system for supporting the setting of an operating condition of a plant that performs a process formed by devices includes: control devices that subject controlled devices to feedback control respectively; and an operating condition setting support device that provides integrated support for the setting of the control devices, which perform feedback control tasks respectively and independently. The operating condition setting support device includes: a measured value multiple acquisition unit that acquires measured values indicating states of the controlled devices, respectively; and a control device adjustment parameter determination unit that determines, based on the measured values acquired, control device adjustment parameters used by each of the control devices to determine manipulation variables for control that should be input to the controlled devices, according to a policy learned by deep reinforcement learning.
US11914347B2
A method includes selecting one of a first safety architecture and a second safety architecture of a protection system configured to monitor a protection system. The protection system includes an input base, a controller base and an output base. The selecting includes selecting one of a first voting logic associated with the first safety architecture and a second voting logic associated with the second architecture. The controller base is configured to execute the selected voting logic. The method also includes configuring the protection system including a plurality of processing channels to operate in one of a first configuration associated with the first safety architecture and a second configuration associated with the second safety architecture. The configuring includes altering the number of processing channels releasably coupled to the protection system and hardware relay output in the protection system. Each processing channel of the plurality of processing channels includes an input circuit coupled to the input base, a controller coupled to the controller base and an output circuit coupled to the output base.
US11914344B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a control method and apparatus for hybrid process recipes, and a device and a medium. The control method includes: acquiring hybrid process recipe operation groups associated with process recipes operated by etching chambers of an etching machine, where different process recipes correspond to different hybrid process recipe operation groups; acquiring a switching rule of different hybrid process recipe operation groups; and controlling, based on a reserved process recipe for a real-time reserved demand of a target etching chamber and a requirement of the switching rule, the etching machine to automatically switch to a target hybrid process recipe operation group associated with the reserved process recipe.
US11914340B2
A method for compensating a signal of a motor includes acquiring an original signal and nonlinear parameters of the motor; calculating a compensation signal for the original signal according to the acquired nonlinear parameters; and loading the calculated compensation signal into the motor to excite the motor to vibrate. An electronic apparatus and a storage medium are also provided. In this method, the original excitation signal is compensated for nonlinearity according to the nonlinear motor parameters, and is then used for exciting the motor. Therefore, the actual vibration effect can be closer to the expected effect as designed, which can bring more desirable tactility experience.
US11914336B2
Devices, methods, and systems for controlling a plurality of devices and equipment installed at a building. A system or common model of the devices and equipment at the building may be accessible by a technician during setup of a BMS for a building. The system model may enforce standardized device names and standardized point names that may be hardware agnostic for the plurality of devices and equipment installed at the building. A gateway in communication with the installed devices and equipment, along with a computing device storing the system model, may receive point information from the installed devices and equipment and convert the received point information into hardware agnostic point information. The gateway may receive hardware agnostic control commands from the system model and convert the hardware agnostic control commands into hardware specific control commands.
US11914335B2
An industrial control system may receive processing information from at least two control systems associated with at least two components within an industrial automation system. The processing information may include a processing load value for each of the at least two control systems. The industrial control system may then distribute processing loads associated with the at least two control systems when a total processing load between the at least two control systems is unbalanced.
US11914330B2
A timepiece including: a dial; a windshield glass having a plurality of curved surfaces that differ from each other in curvature; and a hand disposed between the dial and the windshield glass, wherein the windshield glass includes: a first curved surface having a first curvature and including a center of the windshield glass; a second curved surface disposed adjacent to the first curved surface and having a second curvature larger than the first curvature; and a third curved surface disposed adjacent to the second curved surface and having a third curvature larger than the second curvature, a thickness of the first curved surface and a thickness of the second curved surface are equal, and in plan view, a distal end of the hand is disposed on a center C side of the windshield glass with respect to a boundary between the second curved surface and the third curved surface.
US11914328B2
A method for treating a surface (2) of a base (1) of a timepiece component (10), in particular a balance spring, e.g. a balance spring made of a paramagnetic NbZr alloy, includes: a first step of depositing a first layer (41) of a first oxide or first nitride or first carbide; and a second step of depositing a second layer (51) of a second oxide or second nitride or second carbide.
US11914325B2
A toner comprising a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a wax, wherein the binder resin comprises an amorphous polyester resin and a polymer A, contents of the amorphous polyester resin and the polymer A in the binder resin are within specific ranges, the polymer A comprises a first monomer unit in which ester (meth)acrylates comprising 18 to 36 carbon atoms are polymerized, a content ratio of the first monomer unit in the polymer A is within specific range, the toner comprises a matrix-domain structure comprising a matrix comprising the amorphous polyester resin and domains, and the domains comprise a domain A comprising at least 80 mass % of the polymer A and a domain B comprising at least 80 mass % of the wax.
US11914323B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body housing; a developing cartridge attachable to and detachable from the main body housing; a drum cartridge attachable to and detachable from the main body housing; and a developing guide for guiding attachment and detachment of the developing cartridge to and from the main body housing. The developing cartridge includes a developing roller and a developing memory for storing information. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum. The developing guide is movable together with the developing cartridge between a first position where the developing roller is in contact with the photosensitive drum and a second position where the developing roller is separated from the photosensitive drum. The developing guide includes a developing memory terminal configured to be in contact with the developing memory in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the main body housing.
US11914321B1
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on paper, a conveying unit configured to convey the paper through the image forming unit, and a housing configured to accommodate the image forming unit and the conveying unit. The conveying unit is arranged on one side surface side of the housing. The housing has an opening on a side wall on a conveying unit side. The opening is open only downward.
US11914318B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first image forming part that forms a first image on a print medium using a photoluminescent developer containing a photoluminescent pigment; a second image forming part that forms a second image on the print medium using a coloring developer containing a coloring material; and a lamination part that laminates the first image and the second image on the print medium, wherein a viscoelastic phase angle (A) of the coloring developer and a viscoelastic phase angle (B) of the photoluminescent developer when measured at 125[° C.] using a viscoelasticity measuring device satisfy follow: 21.1[°]≤(A·B)≤31.6[°]. where A means a viscoelastic phase angle of the coloring developer, B means a viscoelastic phase angle of the photoluminescent developer.
US11914317B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device configured to supply toner onto the photosensitive drum, a transfer device configured to transfer the toner supplied onto the photosensitive drum onto a sheet, a spraying device configured to spray a fixing liquid toward the sheet onto which the toner has been transferred, the spraying device including a housing configured to accommodate the fixing liquid and nozzles configured to spray the fixing liquid inside the housing, and a collecting device configured to collect the fixing liquid sprayed from the nozzles and did not adhere to the sheet. The collecting device includes a collection tray configured to accommodate the fixing liquid, a collection pipe connected to the collection tray and configured to allow the fixing liquid in the collection tray to pass therethrough, and a collection pump configured to send the fixing liquid in the collection pipe toward the housing.
US11914313B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a toner feed body that is an endless belt holding a toner image, or is a transfer member transferring a toner image to a recording medium nipped between the endless belt and the transfer member; an electric charge imparting member that is provided so as to face a surface of the toner feed body and increases an amount of electric charges of toner adhering to the surface of the toner feed body; and a toner attracting member that is provided at a more downstream part of the toner feed body than the electric charge imparting member in a feed direction of the toner feed body and attracts the toner by being applied with a voltage having a polarity opposite to a polarity of the toner adhering to the surface of the toner feed body.
US11914312B2
A developing device includes a developing container storing a two-component developer containing a magnetic carrier and a toner, a developer carrying member carrying the developer on its outer circumferential surface, and a regulation member arranged to be opposed at a prescribed distance to the developer carrying member. The developer carrying member includes a developing sleeve on which a magnetic brush is formed, and a magnet secured in the developing sleeve and having a plurality of magnetic poles including a regulation pole opposed to the regulation member and a downstream-side magnetic pole arranged downstream of the regulation pole with respect to the rotation direction of the developing sleeve. The magnet is such that the vertical magnetic force gradient [mT/°] has a local minimum value near a position at which the vertical magnetic force is 0 [mT] between the downstream-side surface of the regulation member and the downstream-side magnetic pole.
US11914310B2
An image forming apparatus configured to perform image formation using a component unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from a main body of the image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: an access unit configured to access a storage device included in the component unit attached to the main body; and a control unit configured to control the access unit to read and update information stored in the storage device. The storage device includes a first area and a second area configured to store use information indicating a use state of the component unit, and updating of the use information stored in the first area by the control unit is configured such that updating only within a predetermined limit is permitted, and no limit is provided on updating of the use information stored in the second area.
US11914309B2
The present disclosure provides a toner cartridge. The toner cartridge includes a toner hopper containing toner, a waste toner bin containing waste toner, and a developing part disposed in the toner hopper. The toner hopper and the waste toner bin are movably connected; and the toner hopper is capable of moving from a first position to a second position relative to the waste toner bin. When the toner hopper is at the first position, the developing part is electrically connected to a printer and capable of receiving a developing voltage signal sent by the printer; and when the toner hopper is at the second position, the developing unit is electrically disconnected from the printer and not capable of receiving the developing voltage signal sent by the printer or not capable of sending an electrical signal to the printer.
US11914308B2
A lithographic apparatus having a substrate table, a projection system, an encoder system, a measurement frame and a measurement system. The substrate table has a holding surface for holding a substrate. The projection system is for projecting an image on the substrate. The encoder system is for providing a signal representative of a position of the substrate table. The measurement system is for measuring a property of the lithographic apparatus. The holding surface is along a plane. The projection system is at a first side of the plane. The measurement frame is arranged to support at least part of the encoder system and at least part of the measurement system at a second side of the plane different from the first side.
US11914306B2
A calibrated lithographic model may be used to generate a lithographic model output based on an integrated circuit (IC) design layout. Next, at least a chemical parameter may be extracted from the lithographic model output. A calibrated defect rate model may then be used to predict a defect rate for the IC design layout based on the chemical parameter.
US11914305B2
In embodiments of a digital lithography system, physical design data prepared at a data prep server in a hierarchical data structure. A leaf node comprises a repeater nod, comprising a bitmap image and a plurality of locations at which the bitmap appears in a physical design. At an EYE server, a repeater node bitmap is adjusted based upon, for example, spatial light modulator rotational adjustment and substrate distortion. The adjusted repeater node and the plurality of locations in which the adjusted repeater appears is compared to the repeater of the data prep server and its plurality of locations. In further embodiments, a rasterizer generates a checksum of bitmap to be printed to a substrate, from the EYE server bitmap. The checksum is compared to a checksum of the EYE server bitmap.
US11914304B2
A method to control the density of a three-dimensional photonic crystal template involves changing the irradiation time from at least four laser beams to yield a periodic percolating matrix of mass and voids free of condensed matter from a photoresist composition. The photoresist composition includes a photoinitiator at a concentration where the dose or irradiation is controlled by the irradiation time and is less than the irradiation time that would convert all photoinitiator to initiating species such that the density of the three-dimensional photonic crystal template differs for different irradiation times. A deposition of reflecting or absorbing particles can be patterned on the surface of the photoresist composition to form a template with varying densities above different areas of the substrate.
US11914300B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor chip, in which the manufacturing yield is excellent, and a kit. According to the present invention, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor chip includes Process 1 of forming an insulating layer on a base material, Process 2 of forming a patterned resist film on the insulating layer, Process 3 of forming the insulating layer having an opening portion by etching the insulating layer with the patterned resist film as a mask, Process 4 of removing the patterned resist film, Process 5 of filling the opening portion of the insulating layer with metal, and Process 6 of performing chemical-mechanical polishing on the insulating layer filled with metal. In at least one process of Process 1 to Process 6, a chemical liquid which includes an organic solvent and metal impurities including at least one metal atom selected from the group consisting of a Fe atom, a Cr atom, a Ni atom, and a Pb atom, and in which the total content of the metal atom is 0.001 to 100 mass ppt is used.
US11914292B2
The photosensitive resin composition includes an alkali-soluble resin (A), an ethylenically-unsaturated monomer (B), a photopolymerization initiator (C), a solvent (D), and a pigment (E). The alkali- soluble resin (A) includes an alkali-soluble resin (A-1), wherein the alkali-soluble resin (A-1) includes a structural unit represented by formula (I-1) and a structural unit represented by formula (I-2). The photopolymerization initiator (C) includes an acylphosphine oxide compound represented by formula (III-1).
US11914286B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for a lithography process in accordance with some embodiments. The apparatus includes a pellicle membrane, a pellicle frame including a material selected from the group consisting of boron nitride (BN), boron carbide (BC), and a combination thereof, a mask, a first adhesive layer that secures the pellicle membrane to the pellicle frame, and a second adhesive layer that secures the pellicle frame to the mask.
US11914285B2
The present invention provides an FPD pellicle frame body in which external color is controlled so as to make it easy to prevent scattering of exposure light, to perform the foreign object non-adhesion inspection before use, and the like, and a method for manufacturing the frame body efficiently. The FPD pellicle frame body of the present invention comprises: a stainless-steel member having a transparent oxide coating, and a film thickness of the transparent oxide coating being 420 nm to 700 nm. It is preferable that a brightness index L* due to the interference color of the reflected lights from the surface of the transparent oxide coating and the surface of the stainless-steel member is 33 or less.
US11914282B2
A system of measuring an image of a pattern in a scanning type EUV mask may include a high-power laser output unit including a flat mirror and a spherical mirror, which are used to focus a high-power femto-second laser on a gas cell; a coherent EUV light generating portion generating a coherent EUV light; a pin-hole, a graphene filter, and a zirconium (Zr) filter; a stage; an x-ray spherical mirror configured to focus a coherent EUV light; a zone-plate lens placed between the stage and the x-ray spherical mirror; an x-ray flat mirror placed between the zone-plate lens and the x-ray spherical mirror; an order sorting aperture (OSA) placed on the stage and configured to transmit only a first-order diffraction light of the focused coherent EUV light; and a detector portion placed on the stage.
US11914280B2
A drum for processing a thermal image medium has first and second end plates that extend orthogonally to an axis of rotation and enclose an inner core. First and second inner partitions along the axis define a first end zone between the first partition and the first end plate, a second end zone between the second partition and the second end plate, and a middle zone between the first and second partitions. Each inner partition has sleeve portions that extend outward from the partition, in an axial direction. A first lamp heater extends parallel to the axis and through one or more sleeve portions and has a first filament within the first end zone and a second filament within the second end zone. A second lamp heater extends parallel to the axis and through one or more sleeve portions and has a central filament within the middle zone.
US11914279B2
A camera actuator according to the embodiment includes a housing; a prism unit disposed in the housing; and a driving unit for tilting the prism unit; wherein the prism unit includes a prism mover including a receiving portion; and a prism disposed in the receiving portion; wherein the housing includes a sidewall and a guide portion including an inclined surface disposed on the sidewall.
US11914278B2
A prism block includes a first prism having first, second and third surfaces, a second prism having a fourth surface parallel to the first surface, a fifth surface facing the second surface, and a sixth surface, a third prism having seventh and eight surfaces respectively facing the second and fifth surfaces, and an optical path separation coating disposed between the fifth and eighth surfaces. Illumination light incident on the third surface is reflected by the second surface, and is emitted from the first surface. Projection light incident on the first surface is emitted from the fourth surface. Imaging light incident on the fourth surface is reflected by the optical path separation coating, and is emitted from the sixth surface. A projection axis plane including optical paths of the illumination light and the projection light, and an imaging axis plane including an optical path of the imaging light intersect each other.
US11914268B2
An optical frequency comb light source and an optical frequency comb generation method, where the light source includes a laser diode, a coupler, a Kerr nonlinear device, a beam splitter, and a phase shifter. The laser diode is connected to one input port of the coupler, and the other input port of the coupler is connected to an output port of the phase shifter. An output port of the coupler is connected to an input port of the Kerr nonlinear device. An output port of the Kerr nonlinear device is connected to an input port of the beam splitter. One output port of the beam splitter is connected to an input port of the phase shifter. The other output port of the beam splitter is configured to output a plurality of optical frequency combs. A multi-wavelength light source with relatively high power may be provided.
US11914254B2
A liquid crystal display device comprising a TFT substrate having pixels each including a common electrode formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film formed so as to cover the common electrode, a pixel electrode having a slit and formed on the interlayer insulating film, a through-hole formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, and a source electrode electrically conducted to the pixel electrode via the through-hole. A taper angle at a depth of D/2 of the through-hole is equal to or more than 50 degrees. The pixel electrode covers part of a side wall of the through-hole but does not cover the remaining part of the side wall of the through-hole. This configuration facilitates the alignment film material to flow into the through-hole, thereby solving a thickness unevenness of the alignment film in vicinity of the through-hole.
US11914250B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus are provided. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a sealant on the base substrate; and a contact layer between the base substrate and the sealant, the contact layer being in contact with the sealant. In the display substrate, a contact layer surface of the contact layer, which is away from the base substrate, is not flat at a contact position where the contact layer is in contact with the sealant.
US11914228B2
An ophthalmic lens that includes a lens material having two opposing curved surfaces, the curved surfaces defining a lens axis; and a light scattering region surrounding a clear aperture. The clear aperture and the light scattering region are substantially centered on the lens axis, and the light scattering region has a plurality of spaced apart scattering centers (e.g., on a lens surface and/or embedded in the lens material) sized and shaped to scatter incident light, the scattering centers being arranged in a pattern that includes a random variation in spacing between adjacent dots and/or a random variation in dot size.
US11914226B2
Systems and methods for creating fully custom products from scratch without exclusive use of off-the-shelf or pre-specified components. A system for creating custom products includes a computer communicatively coupled with an image capture device and configured to construct an anatomic model of the user based on captured image data and/or measurement data. The computer provides a configurable product model and enables preview and automatic or user-guided customization of the product model. A display is communicatively coupled with the computer and displays the custom product model superimposed on the anatomic model or image data of the user. The computer is further configured to provide the customized product model to a manufacturer for manufacturing eyewear for the user in accordance with the customized product model.
US11914218B2
The present invention relates to a camera module, and the present invention may comprise: a lens; a heating layer positioned on the lens so as to generate heat when power is supplied thereto; and a heating wire, which is positioned on the surface of the lens or of the heating layer, which generates heat when a current is supplied thereto from an external power supply, and which is electrically connected to the heating layer. The present invention comprises a heating wire, besides the heating layer that comprises a conductive material, and thus can reduce the time taken to supply a heating body with a current, and the reduced heating time accordingly enables rapid heating.
US11914217B2
An imaging lens assembly has an optical axis, and includes a plastic carrier element and an imaging lens element set. The plastic carrier element includes an object-side surface, an image-side surface, an outer surface and an inner surface. The object-side surface includes an object-side opening. The image-side surface includes an image-side opening. The inner surface is connected to the object-side opening and the image-side opening. The imaging lens element set is disposed in the plastic carrier element, and includes at least three lens elements, each of at least two adjacent lens elements of the lens elements includes a first axial assembling structure, the first axial assembling structures are corresponding to and connected to each other. A solid medium interval is maintained between the adjacent lens elements and the inner surface. The solid medium interval is directly contacted with the adjacent lens elements and the inner surface.
US11914213B1
The disclosed fiber optic cable may include (1) a plurality of optical fibers, (2) a core tube surrounding the plurality of optical fibers, (3) a thixotropic gel filling an interstitial space among the optical fibers within the core tube, (4) an intermediate layer surrounding the core tube, where the intermediate layer includes a plurality of linear elements contra-helically wrapped about the core tube, and (5) an outer layer surrounding the intermediate layer, where the outer layer includes a combination of a moisture-cure cross-linked material and an activation catalyst, where the outer layer is formed by masticating and extruding the combination onto the intermediate layer. Various other cables, assemblies, and methods are also disclosed.
US11914210B2
A fiber optic furcation assembly includes a main fiber optic cable structure, a plurality of furcation tubes, and a housing with a cavity including a transition portion. A plurality of optical fibers each continuously and uninterruptedly extends through an end portion of a jacket of the main fiber optic cable structure, the transition portion of the cavity of the housing, and a respective one of the plurality of furcation tubes. In one embodiment, the cavity includes a securing portion including a plurality of protrusions. The plurality of protrusions defines a plurality of locating channels and at least one securing channel that intersects the locating channels. Bonding material is positioned within the securing channel and bonds the plurality of furcation tubes to the plurality of protrusions. In another embodiment, a cable mount includes a housing attachment, a cable jacket attachment, and a passage. The housing attachment is mounted within a port of the housing. Each optical fiber also extends through the passage of the cable mount, respectively.
US11914201B2
A multi-chip photonic assembly includes first and second photonic integrated circuits having first and second waveguides vertically stacked such that first vertical dimensions of the first and second waveguides occupy different horizontal planes in the stack. At least one of the first and second waveguides has a region that has a second vertical dimension that is larger than the first vertical dimension and either horizontally overlaps the other waveguide and/or vertically contacts the other waveguide. Light moving through one of the waveguides from the first vertical dimension to the other vertical dimension changes modes vertically so that the light moves from one waveguide to the other.
US11914196B2
An optical ferrule assembly includes a hybrid optical ferrule having a glass portion assembled to a polymeric portion. The polymeric portion includes a groove for receiving and supporting an optical fiber having opposing open front and back ends. A light redirecting member includes an input surface for receiving light from the optical fiber and a light redirecting side. The open back end of the groove and the input surface define a recessed region therebetween. The glass portion includes an optically transparent glass insert disposed in the recessed region conforming in shape to an internal shape of the recessed region. An optical fiber is received and supported in the groove. The optical fiber includes a fiber end laser welded to the glass insert so that a central light ray from the optical fiber propagates through the glass insert before being received and redirected by the light redirecting side.
US11914194B2
An optical connection structure includes a MCF, a first ferrule, a plurality of optical fibers, and a second ferrule. The MCF includes first cores and a first cladding. The first ferrule has a first inner hole and a first ferrule end surface. Each optical fiber optically connected to the MCF includes a second core and a second cladding. The second ferrule has a second inner hole housing tip parts of the optical fibers, and a second ferrule end surface. The second ferrule fixes the tip parts of the optical fibers in the second inner hole by an adhesive. The adhesive is packed in the second inner hole such that a surface of the adhesive is recessed from the second ferrule end surface into the second inner hole. A refractive-index matching material is applied in a space sealed by the first ferrule end surface and the second ferrule end surface.
US11914192B2
A remote indicator system comprising a housing and a display unit located remotely from the housing. The housing comprises a first light source and a first end of an end-emitting fibre optic cable. The display unit comprises a second end of the fibre optic cable. The housing includes manual switching means configurable to allow light from the first light source to pass into the first end of the optical fibre cable and further configurable to prevent light from the first light source from passing into the first end of the optical fibre cable.
US11914183B1
A display includes a stack that includes, from top to bottom: a display layer including an array of spaced pixels and/or spaced subpixels and an array of spaced transmission spaces, wherein each transmission space is defined by a spacing between a subset of the spaced pixels and/or spaced subpixels; a micro-lens array (MLA) layer including an array of micro-lenses, wherein each micro-lens includes a curved surface in alignment with a corresponding one of the transmission spaces; and a laser light emitting (LLE) layer including an array laser diodes, wherein each laser diode is positioned in alignment with one micro-lens of the MLA layer and the corresponding one of the transmission spaces of the display layer and the curved surfaces of the micro-lenses face the LLE layer.
US11914180B2
An optical filter has a back-scattering property. The linear transmittance thereof to light of at least some avelengths in the wavelength range of 760-2000 nm is 60% or higher. The azimuth is 20° from an incidence plane when the polar angle of the direction of incidence of incident light is 0°. The value of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function in the direction ‘here the polar angle is −60’ is BRDF (0°; 20°, −60°). The azimuth is 20° from an incidence plane when the polar angle of the direction of incidence of incident light is 30°. The value of a bidirectional reflectance distribution function in the direction where the polar angle is −60° is BRDF (30°; 20°, −60°). The azimuth is 20° from an incidence plane when the polar angle of the direction of incidence of incident light is 60°.
US11914171B2
A lens driving device is provided. The lens driving device can include a housing, a bobbin disposed in the housing, and a first coil disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the bobbin. The bobbin can comprise a flange unit outwardly protruding more than the first coil, and the housing can comprise a mounting unit overlapped with the flange unit of the bobbin, such that a downward movement of the bobbin is limited by the flange unit and the mounting unit.
US11914170B2
An apparatus for providing a bias current to a hall sensor includes: a bias provider configured to provide the bias current to the hall sensor; and a processor configured to produce a bias current control value based on a node voltage between the hall sensor and the bias provider, wherein the bias provider is configured to vary the bias current based on the bias current control value.
US11914149B2
A system for generating a virtual image for a wearer includes: a lens providing vision of a real scene and having refractive power related to the prescription of the wearer, a directive light source that emits directive light beams to create the virtual image, a reflecting element positioned on or in the lens that receives and redirects the directive light beams emitted by the directive light source toward a convergence area of an eye of the wearer, a dynamical optical element for modifying the received light beams, and a memory storing prescription data relative to the prescription of the wearer, the dynamical optical element modifying the light beams at the convergence area so as to compensate at least partly the prescription of the wearer.
US11914147B2
Image generation apparatus and image generation method using frequency lower than display frame rate
Methods and apparatus provide for generating an image by way of acquiring information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation of a camera. The image is generated for display on a display unit. A rate at which the image is generated is at a first frequency, which is lower than a second frequency corresponding to a frame rate of the display unit.
US11914143B2
An augmented reality device includes an image output unit disposed at a preset angle from a horizontal direction to output an augmented reality image of a preset polarization direction, a polarization reflection film reflecting light of the preset polarization direction and transmitting other light than the light of the preset polarization direction, and an optical component disposed on a light path of an image output from the image output unit. The optical component has a preset refractive index and a preset shape. The polarization reflection film is applied on a first surface of the optical component which is positioned farther away from the image output unit.
US11914138B2
A distal end frame includes: a distal end frame body including a resin molded product; an image pickup unit housing chamber formed of a bottomed hole with an opening which is formed on a distal end surface of the distal end frame body; a through hole penetrating from a bottom face of the image pickup unit housing chamber to a proximal end side of the distal end frame body; a mounting face formed on the bottom face of the image pickup unit housing chamber; an inclined face that is formed in a region containing a part of an inner wall face of the through hole to be adjacent to the mounting face, and is visible through the opening; and a wiring pattern that is formed of the metal pattern constituting the molded interconnect device, and is continuously formed in a region containing the mounting face and the inclined face.
US11914137B2
In one aspect, a light module is disclosed, which includes a housing providing a hollow chamber extending from a proximal end to a distal end, and a lens positioned in the hollow chamber, where the lens has a lens body comprising an input surface for receiving light from a light source and an output surface through which light exits the lens body, said lens further comprising a collar at least partially encircling said lens body. The light module further includes at least one shoulder on which the lens collar can be seated for positioning the lens within the housing. A light source, e.g., an LED, is coupled to the hollow chamber, e.g., at its proximal end, for providing light to the lens. In some embodiments, an optical window is disposed in the hollow chamber and is optically coupled to the output surface of the lens such that the light exiting the lens passes through the optical window before exiting the light module. In some embodiments, the shoulder can be formed as part of the housing. In other embodiments, the shoulder can be provided by a sleeve disposed in the module's housing.
US11914135B2
An interpupillary distance adjustment mechanism can be used to set the interpupillary distance (IPD) between a pair of independently pivoting monocular assemblies of a binocular optical device. Once the IPD of the binocular optical device has been set to match the IPD of a user, the interpupillary distance adjustment mechanism acts as a rotational stop enabling the user to return a monocular assembly of the binocular optical device to the desired position when the monocular assembly is moved from the stowed position to the operation position. An example interpupillary distance adjustment mechanism comprises: a housing adapted for attachment to a binocular optical device, a pair of set-stop pins, and a pair of thumb dials. The housing includes a pair of set-stop pin sheaths, one for each set-stop pin. Each thumb dial is operably connected to a set-stop pin and configured to longitudinally displace the operably connected set-stop pin from its sheath.
US11914133B2
Apparatus and methods are described for analyzing a bodily sample. A microscope system acquires one or more microscope images of the bodily sample. A computer processor identifies elements as being candidates of a given entity, in the one or more images. At least one sample-informative feature, relating to a characteristic of the candidates of the given entity in the sample as a whole, is extracted from the one or more images. A characteristic of the sample is determined at least partially based upon the sample-informative feature, and an output is generated in response thereto. Other applications are also described.
US11914131B1
A testing system (10) for an infectious disease, such as Covod-19, has a specimen collector (11) with a housing (12) receiving a specimen of bodily fluids discharged from a cough of a test subject through a specimen inlet (15). After specimen collection, the specimen inlet (15) is closed, and the collector (11) is brough to a mating electronic testing device (13). A seal (55) is removed to expose a transparent specimen tray (43) upon which the specimen has fallen and installed into a collector receptacle (14). A microscope (15) is focused on the specimen, Photographs of the specimen are taken through a microscope (15) and then compared to photographs of specimens known to have indications of infection (26). Based on the comparison, a test result and level of confidence is obtained. The collector (11) is then removed from the testing device (13), and discarded.
US11914120B2
A windshield corrective optical system includes a motor vehicle having a windshield. A camera is positioned within an occupant compartment of the motor vehicle directed toward the windshield and receiving light rays passing through the windshield. A sensor is configured to receive the light rays. A corrective element is configured to allow passage of the light rays through the corrective element to the sensor. The corrective element corrects aberrations of the light rays induced by passing through the windshield prior to the light rays reaching the sensor.
US11914118B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens group, a second lens group, and a third lens group, sequentially arranged from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes two lenses having negative and positive refractive power, the second lens group includes a plurality of lenses, and the third lens group includes two lenses having negative and positive refractive power.
US11914111B2
The disclosure provides an imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes, from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a movable diaphragm, a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, a third lens with a refractive power, a fourth lens with a refractive power, a fifth lens with a refractive power and a sixth lens with a negative refractive power, wherein TSmin is a distance from the movable diaphragm at a minimum distance from an imaging surface of the imaging lens assembly to an object-side surface of the first lens on the optical axis, TSmax is a distance from the movable diaphragm at a maximum distance from the imaging surface of the imaging lens assembly to the object-side surface of the first lens on the optical axis and EPDmin is a minimum entrance pupil diameter of the imaging lens assembly.
US11914110B2
The disclosure discloses a photographic optical system, sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. Wherein the first lens has a positive refractive power, an object-side surface thereof is a convex surface, an image-side surface is a concave surface. The second lens has a negative refractive power, an object-side surface thereof is a convex surface, an image-side surface is a concave surface. The sixth lens has a negative refractive power. TTL is a distance from the object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging surface of the photographic optical system on the optical axis and ImgH is a half the diagonal length of an effective pixel area on the imaging surface of the photographic optical system, and TTL and ImgH satisfy TTL/ImgH<1.5.
US11914104B2
An optical system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens. The first lens includes an object-side surface that is convex with a meniscus shape. The second lens includes an image-side surface that is convex. The third lens includes an image-side surface that is concave. The fifth lens includes an image-side surface that is concave. The first to sixth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side to an image side.
US11914094B2
A multi-purpose detection circuit for object detection and vehicle position determination is described. For example, the circuit is configurable for detecting foreign metallic objects, living objects, and a vehicle or type of vehicle above an inductive wireless power transmitter. The circuit is also configurable for determining the vehicle's position relative to the inductive wireless power transmitter. An example apparatus includes a measurement circuit including a multiplexer, electrically connected to a plurality of inductive and capacitive sense circuits, for measuring one or more electrical characteristics in each of the inductive and capacitive sense circuits according to a predetermined time multiplexing scheme. The apparatus further includes a control and evaluation circuit for evaluating the measured electrical characteristics and determining at least one of a presence of a metallic object, a living object, a vehicle, or a type of vehicle, and a vehicle position based on changes in the measured electrical characteristics.
US11914092B2
The present disclosure provides an inductive magnetic sensor, which includes a signal pre-amplifying measurement circuit, a feedback loop, a magnetic core and coil group, a low-noise autozero processing circuit, and an output protection module. The magnetic core and coil group is electrically connected between the signal pre-amplifying measurement circuit and the feedback loop, the signal pre-amplifying measurement circuit comprises the low-noise autozero processing circuit, and the feedback loop and the low-noise autozero processing circuit are electrically connected to the output protection module respectively. By introducing the resonant notch filter, it may extend the passband to the low frequency, and extend the low-frequency characteristic of the magnetic sensor, to obtain a better low-frequency magnetic sensor. The present disclosure further provides an electromagnetic prospecting equipment.
US11914091B2
A method for fluid identification (water, oil, gas or CO2) and saturation estimation in subsurface rock formations using the prestack inverted seismic data by calculating the target fluid saturation (Sfl)(114) in a reservoir given the magnitude obtained from the P- to S-wave velocity ratio (Vp/Vs) (103), and acoustic impedance (AI) (102) extracted from the seismic data inversion, comprising the following steps: a) obtaining wireline log data within a zone of interest in a nearby well (101) and determining the suitable cementation and mineralogy factors by calibrating the background water-bearing sand trend with the reference 0% (or 0 fraction) Sfl curve onto the acoustic impedance-Vp/Vs ratio plane (110), b) calibrating Sfl computed from the acoustic impedance-Vp/Vs ratio curves with Sfl obtained from a conventional method by iterating P-wave velocity (Vpfl) and density (ρfl) of the target fluid (111), c) obtaining inverted seismic data in the form of Acoustic Impedance (AI) (102) and Vp/Vs ratio (103) cubes, and d) calculating the target fluid saturation using the calibrated rock physics model inputting the obtained parameters from model calibration (cementation factor, mineralogy factor, density and P-wave velocity of the target fluid) along with inverted Vp/Vs ratio and acoustic impedance cubes data (113), resulting in a Sfl cube (114).
US11914088B2
Embodiments included herein are directed towards a marine seismic streamer. The seismic streamer may include an outer skin formed in a longitudinally extending tubular shape, an inner surface of the outer skin defining an internal volume containing a gel substance. The seismic streamer may also include a plurality of micro-electro-mechanical (“MEMS”) sensors and a plurality of hydrophones associated with the outer skin, wherein the plurality of MEMS sensors are spaced non-uniformly in the seismic streamer along an axial direction of the streamer, such that not more than 100 MEMS sensors are located in the seismic streamer over a continuous 100 meter axial length of seismic streamer. The seismic streamer may further include an electronics system extending axially through an inside portion of the outer skin and a strength member core extending axially through an inside portion of the outer skin.
US11914084B2
For determining whether oil waste at a field testing site is exempt from selected naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) waste regulations, a measurement apparatus including a detection module that determine radioactivity counts per minute for an oil waste sample is utilized. The measurement apparatus includes an analysis module that uses a first nonlinear transfer function to determine a mass for the oil waste based on a volume of solids determined via BS&W testing. The analysis module uses a second nonlinear transfer function to determine a maximum radioactivity level for the sample which is then normalized to picoCuries/g. The normalized maximum radioactivity level per gram is compared to a NORM exemption level for a selected region and communicated to entities at the field-testing site and optionally to other entities. A system and a method perform the functions of the measurement apparatus.
US11914082B2
A ranging device includes transducers, a transmission circuit, a reception circuit, a transfer data generation circuit, and a transfer circuit. The transmission circuit causes the transducers to transmit transmission waves. The reception circuit outputs a received signal obtained by digitizing a reflected wave of the transmission wave with a sampling frequency equal to or more than a frequency of the transmission wave. The generation circuit separates, into a target period and a non-target period, time-series received signals. The target period is a period in which a wave height is equal to or more than a threshold. The non-target period is a period in which a wave height is less than the threshold. The generation circuit performs thinning-out processing on received signals in the non-target period and generates waveform information indicating a waveform received by the transducer. The transfer circuit outputs the waveform information.
US11914076B2
LiDAR system and methods discussed herein use a dispersion element or optic that has a refraction gradient that causes a light pulse to be redirected to a particular angle based on its wavelength. The dispersion element can be used to control a scanning path for light pulses being projected as part of the LiDAR's field of view. The dispersion element enables redirection of light pulses without requiring the physical movement of a medium such as mirror or other reflective surface, and in effect further enables at least portion of the LiDAR's field of view to be managed through solid state control. The solid state control can be performed by selectively adjusting the wavelength of the light pulses to control their projection along the scanning path.
US11914075B2
A distance measurement apparatus includes: a laser light source configured to emit emitted light to be applied to an object to be measured; a laser light source control circuit configured to control the laser light source; a MEMS mirror configured to two-dimensionally scan the object with the emitted light; a reflecting member configured to cover a part of a scan region, and reflect the emitted light; and a light detector configured to receive reflected light from the object to be measured and reflected light from the reflecting member, and output a received light signal. The laser light source control circuit sets, to a threshold value, an amount of the emitted light obtained when output of the light detector is saturated, and controls an amount of the emitted light such that the amount of the emitted light is less than the threshold value.
US11914073B2
A waveguide comprises a first surface and a second surface. The first surface comprises a first plurality of grating structures. The first surface other than the first plurality of grating structures comprises a first reflective layer. The second surface comprises a second reflective layer. The waveguide is configured to guide an in-coupled light beam to undergo reflections between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer. The first plurality of grating structures are configured to disrupt the reflections to cause at least a portion of the in-coupled light beam to couple out of the waveguide and project from the first surface, the portion of the in-coupled light beam coupled out of the waveguide forming out-coupled light beams.
US11914070B2
A radar target simulator front end, configured to simulate at least one radar target for testing a radar device under test is provided. The radar target simulator front end comprises at least two antenna units, arranged along a first angle under investigation. The at least two antenna units are configured to be selectively activated and deactivated. Whereby each antenna unit of the at least two antenna units generates a simulated radar target along the first angle under investigation, when activated.
US11914062B2
Calibrating a positioning system comprising a plurality of anchor nodes used to determine tag positions within a localization area using radio technology. The method includes performing, at a plurality of first measurement points in the localization area using the localization tag, first ranging measurements with respect to the plurality of anchor nodes using the radio technology to determine respective first distances from the measurement device to the plurality of anchor nodes and performing, at the plurality of first measurement points using the at least one odometry sensor, first odometry measurements to estimate respective first positions of the measurement device in the localization area, estimating locations of the plurality of anchor nodes based on the respective first distances determined by the first ranging measurements and the respective first positions estimated by the first odometry measurements, and calibrating the positioning system using the estimated locations of the plurality of anchor nodes.
US11914061B2
A method of estimating the location of a signal source comprises, by a processing unit: determining ΔΔφm,n which represents a difference between accumulated phases of signals, Sm and Sn, received by at least one pair of the receivers, determining a first estimate of the location of said signal source based on position data and ΔΔφm,n of said at least one pair of receivers, said first estimate being associated with an accuracy area, determining data representative of difference in times of arrival of modulation patterns of the signals Sm, Sn, wherein said data comprise an ambiguity, and for said at least one pair of receivers, using at least said data representative of difference in times of arrival of the modulation patterns of the signals, ΔΔφm,n, and said accuracy area, to obtain second estimates êSrck of the source location, at least some of them being located within the accuracy area.
US11914060B2
This application provides a positioning method, apparatus, and device. The method includes: receiving a first positioning reference signal PRS on a first frequency domain resource, where the first frequency domain resource is a frequency domain resource in an unlicensed spectrum; receiving a second PRS on a second frequency domain resource, where the second frequency domain resource is a frequency domain resource in a licensed spectrum; determining, based on the first PRS and the second PRS, a first positioning measurement result corresponding to the first PRS and a second positioning measurement result corresponding to the second PRS; and determining a location of a terminal based on the first positioning measurement result and the second positioning measurement result. The method may be applicable to quickly and accurately determining the location of the terminal without occupying a large quantity of frequency domain resources in the licensed spectrum.
US11914058B2
The positioning capabilities of a User Equipment (UE) are stored in a core network to reduce positioning latency when the UE indicates that its positioning capabilities are stable and/or are long term valid. The UE may provide its positioning capabilities to a location server during a location session along with an indication of whether the positioning capabilities are stable. The location server may enable storage of the positioning capabilities for the UE in the core network, e.g., in the location server or another entity in the core network such as Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), if there is an indication that the positioning capabilities are stable. The AMF may include a UE identifier in location requests with which the location server may retrieve the UE positioning capabilities if stored at the location server or may include the UE positioning capabilities if stored at the AMF.
US11914057B2
A system for detecting an object approaching and/or impacting electrical equipment is disclosed. The system includes a housing for the electrical equipment and acoustic sensor(s) for measuring a sound pressure of the object approaching the housing, the acoustic sensor(s) disposed at a location at which the acoustic sensor(s) is not in contact with the housing. The system further includes vibration sensor(s) for measuring an acceleration of a surface of the housing caused by the object striking the housing, the vibration sensor(s) disposed at a location at which the vibration sensor(s) is in contact with the housing, and a computer readable storage medium having thereon machine-readable instructions that when executed determine the approach of the object for impact on the housing and/or the impact of the object to the housing.
US11914054B2
Systems and methods for estimating attitude and heading are provided. The systems and methods utilize carrier phase single difference (CSD) measurements or carrier phase double difference (CDD) measurements and a validation test for CSD or CDD measurement residuals. The systems and methods include applying a wrapping function with limit of ±half of the GNSS carrier signal wavelength to CSD or CDD measurement residuals to generate refined CSD or CDD measurement residuals and validating the refined CSD or CDD measurement residuals variance to determine valid CSD or CDD measurements. By using the validated CSD and CDD measurements, the systems and methods enable low grade hybrid inertial navigation systems to estimate attitude and heading with integrity and without a magnetometer or the need for integer ambiguity resolution even during the static or steady phases of flight/operation.
US11914038B2
An electro-optical system has a laser drive electronic circuit, a laser light source and an optical interferometer, forming a closed loop. The laser drive electronic circuit is arranged to receive a reference frequency as input, and a beat frequency as feedback. The laser drive electronic circuit generates a drive output based on a phase difference between the reference frequency and the beat frequency. The optical interferometer, coupled to the laser light, generates optical energy at the beat frequency.
US11914037B2
A light detection and ranging (Lidar) system includes a light transmission component driven by a phase-keyed burst pattern generator operable to apply a phase-coded key for activating the light source in a series of on/off pulses for the transmitted TX light. The on/off sequence is chosen such that the pattern's auto-correlation function has a maximized peak to side lobe ratio. The on/off pulses of the received RX light reflected from the object or scene is converted to a bitstream that is cross-correlated with the phase-coded key. A peak detector finds the peak of the cross-correlation function and generate a time-of-flight signal indicative of the time between the transmission of the TX light and the peak of the cross-correlation function.
US11914032B2
A radar support device supports a radar that detects an object in front of a vehicle. The radar support device includes a bracket that is mounted to the vehicle and a plurality of guide rods that extend rearward from the radar while fixed to the radar and coupled to the bracket in forward and rearward directions. A plurality of fastening members are fastened to the plurality of guide rods from a rear surface of the bracket, and one or more springs are installed between the radar and the bracket to move the radar forward.
US11914031B2
A mount for securing an element such as a radar transceiver on a vehicle includes a bracket securable to a vehicle bumper or other component. A cover plate is securable to the vehicle component opposite the bracket, and fasteners are extended through the cover plate and the bracket to clamp the bracket and the cover plate against opposite sides of the vehicle component, with the radar transceiver or other element located between the cover plate and a base of the bracket. An alignment arrangement may be included to permit changes to the positioning of the radar transceiver or other element between the cover plate and the base of the bracket for proper transceiver alignment. A process of securing a radar transceiver or other element on a vehicle is also described.
US11914029B2
A reconfigurable GPR device for acquiring radar data about a medium includes a radar antenna with a first polarization, a processor unit connected to the antenna, and a casing around the antenna and the processor unit. Further the device includes at least one of a wheel assembly and a direction-determining unit. If present, the wheel assembly includes a holder, a wheel and a wheel rotation sensor. The wheel rotation sensor is connected to the processor unit, and an axis of the wheel is pivotal relative to the first polarization. If present, the direction-determining unit is connected to the processor unit and adapted to determine directional information. The directional information is descriptive of an angle between a direction of movement of the device and the first polarization.
US11914025B1
A plurality of positional sensing devices are situated at regular intervals within an environment and collect data for tracking objects moving within the environment. Phase shift of modulated Doppler pulses reflected from the sensing devices to objects are measured and converted into positional data indicating positions of detected objects within the environment. Associated timestamp data is also collected by the positional sensing devices. The positional data and associated timestamp data is aggregated from the plurality of positional sensors, and the aggregated positional data and is clustered to determine point clouds which are associated with the detected objects. The clusters are tracked by tracklets that track the position of each cluster over time. Trajectories for each detected object are determined by connecting tracklets together that are associated with the same detected object.
US11914021B2
An object is to enable measurement of position and velocity of a measurement object. A velocity measurement device includes a transmitting means, a receiving means, and a signal processing means. The transmitting means transmits a transmission signal by a transmitting antenna toward a measurement object. The receiving means receives a reflected wave from the measurement object with multiple receiving antennas and generates a reception signal for each of the receiving antennas. The signal processing means obtains a phase plane of the reflected wave with respect to an antenna plane of the multiple receiving antennas from a phase difference between the reception signals to specify an arrival direction of the reflected wave, obtains a distance to the measurement object from a propagation delay time of the reflected wave, and calculates a phase fluctuation of the reflected wave to calculate a velocity of the measurement object from the phase fluctuation.
US11914013B2
A method for using water proton transverse relaxation rate R2(T) to monitor, in real time, the sedimentation rates of multiphase mixtures such as drug products and drug substances. The method provides a practical application of wNMR as an analytical tool to study and provide higher quality and more efficient multiphase mixtures.
US11914009B2
An NMR apparatus includes a depressurizing device for depressurizing an NMR probe, a gas supply device for supplying gas into the NMR probe to thereby pressurize the NMR probe, and a control device. The control device alternately repeats depressurization of the NMR probe, using the depressurizing device, and pressurization of the NMR probe, using the gas supply device. This replaces the gas in the NMR probe.
US11914007B2
A magnetic field sensor package includes a sensor housing; a first sensor chip having an integrated first differential magnetic field sensor circuit, the first sensor chip being arranged in the sensor housing; a second sensor chip having an integrated second differential magnetic field sensor circuit, the second sensor chip being arranged in the sensor housing; a common leadframe arranged in the sensor housing and interposed between the first sensor chip and the second sensor chip; and an insulating layer arranged in the sensor housing interposed between the first sensor chip and the common leadframe. The first sensor chip is coupled to the common leadframe via the insulating layer. Additionally, the insulating layer electrically insulates the first sensor chip from the common leadframe such that the first sensor chip and the second sensor chip are galvanically decoupled from each other.
US11914006B2
The application provides a driving circuit. The circuit includes: a segment display, including a plurality of light-emitting units; a controller, configured to generate a control instruction for the segment display according to a configuration signal; a digital driver, connected to the controller, and configured to generate a pulse driving signal according to the control instruction from the controller; and an amplification circuit, with one end being connected to the digital driver and the other end being connected to the plurality of light-emitting units of the segment display. The application also provides a magnetic sensing circuit and an electrical device. The magnetic sensing circuit includes a magnetic sensor, a sensing selection circuit, and a result representation circuit. A plurality of magnetic sensors are provided, and at least some of the plurality of magnetic sensors are capable of being connected to the sensing selection circuit by a sensing output terminal.
US11913994B2
A battery condition monitoring apparatus includes a measurer configured to measure a charging current which is an internal current of a converter and is charged into a sub-battery, a charging voltage of the converter, and an ambient temperature of a vehicle, an impedance calculator configured to an impedance of the sub-battery on basis of a voltage and a current each measured by the measurer, and a determiner configured to determine a condition of the sub-battery by using the ambient temperature of the vehicle and the impedance of the sub-battery.
US11913990B2
An automated test equipment for testing one or more devices under test, comprises at least one port processing unit, comprising a high-speed-input-output interface, HSIO, for connecting with at least one of the devices under test, a memory for storing data received by the port processing unit from one or more connected devices under test, and a streaming error detection block, configured to detect a command error in the received data, wherein the port processing unit is configured to, in response to detection of the command error, limit the storing in the memory of data following, in the received data, after the command which is detected to be erroneous. A method and computer program for automated testing of one or more devices under test are also described.
US11913989B2
A burn-in board for burn-in testing of semiconductor devices includes a strip socket mounted to a PCB. The strip socket includes a socket base configured to receive a device strip including an array of semiconductor devices, and a socket lid including at least one heating block. The socket lid is movable moved between (a) an open position allowing the device strip to be mounted on the socket base and (b) a closed position in which the socket lid including the heating block(s) is closed down on the mounted device strip. The strip socket includes conductive contacts configured to contact individual semiconductor devices on the device strip to allow selective monitoring of individual semiconductor devices during a burn-in test process. The burn-in board may also include heating control circuitry to control the heating block(s) during the burn-in test process.
US11913977B2
A system for determining a health status of a positive temperature coefficient resistor (PTCR) heater assembly includes a PTCR heater assembly and a health monitoring system. An input voltage is provided to the PTCR heater assembly to provide heating. The health monitoring system includes a first sensor configured to sense the input voltage at the PTCR heater assembly and a second sensor configured to sense a current through the PTCR heater assembly. The health monitoring system is configured to determine a baseline characteristic and an observed characteristic each relating to an inrush peak of the PTCR heater assembly and based on the input voltage and the current. The health monitoring system compares the observed characteristic to the baseline characteristic to assess a health status of the PTCR heater assembly and outputs the health status for PTCR heater assembly diagnostics and/or prognostics.
US11913976B2
A field device having a safe interface is based on two voltage regulators designed to set electrical current between corresponding contacts of the interface. The field device tests via which of the contacts the field device is connected with a superordinate unit and an automatic configuration of the interface can be performed for the appropriate transmission standard. Because the contacting to the superordinated unit is checked repetitively by means of two electrical current regulators it is assured that the field device can determine and automatically react to a change of the contacting at the interface even during measurement operation. This makes the interface safe and thereby increases the safety of the process plant, in which the field device is applied.
US11913969B2
A method for calibrating a radiometric device for determining and/or monitoring the density of a medium located in a container includes: determining the count rate of the radioactive radiation after it has passed through the empty container on the basis of the activity of the transmitting unit; determining the measured count rate of the radioactive radiation after it has passed through the container when a calibration medium of known density is located in the container; determining the mass attenuation coefficient according to the formula μ=−(ln(N/N0))/(ρ1D), where D is a beam path of the radioactive radiation or inner diameter of the container, and ρ1 is density of the calibration medium; and calculating a calibration curve representing the dependence of the density of the medium on the count rate of the measured radiation intensity after the radiation has passed through the container.
US11913956B2
The present invention provides a tumor blood marker and a use thereof. Specifically, the present invention provides a use of a reagent, which is used to detect GAPDH in a blood sample, in a preparation of a detecting composition for tumor screening, risk evaluation of tumor development in subjects, distinction of tumor progression stages, identification of therapeutic efficacy of tumor and/or risk analysis of tumor progression. The present invention also provides a kit and a method for detecting GAPDH concentrations in blood samples.
US11913939B2
Methods and systems for performing assays in compartmentalized nano-volumes to screen for functional bispecific or multispecific biologics, including: providing a plurality of at least two distinct types of cells, wherein two or more first-type cells are engineered to express substantially a single genetic-variant per cell for a bispecific or multispecific biologic in a secreted form, wherein two or more second-type cells are selected or engineered to produce a positive reporter molecule signal that is triggered by a functional variant of the said biologic expressed by a first-type cell; providing a plurality of compartmentalized nano-volumes, wherein two or more nano-volumes are each provided with substantially one first-type cell, and one or more second-type cell(s); incubating the said nano-volumes over a period of time to allow the expression and secretion of the said biologics inside the said nano-volumes; collecting data representing the positive reporter molecule signal triggered by secreted biologics inside the said nano-volumes, and recovering cells from the nano-volumes with the positive reporter molecule signal and extracting the genetic information representing respective functional variants of the biologics.
US11913931B2
A distributed security system includes a detection unit disposed at a first location. The detection unit includes a particle sensor that is configured to detect a particle count in first location. The detection unit also includes a housing enclosing a portion of the particle sensor. The security system also includes a camera disposed at a second location and having a field of vision encompassing the first location. The camera is configured to capture a video of the first location. The system also includes a server communicatively connected to the detection unit and the camera and configured to associate the particle count with the video.
US11913922B2
Techniques and apparatus for performing target compound detection processes are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, and logic coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be configured to implement a targeted compound detection process, for example, by receiving raw data from analysis of a sample via an analytical device, generating cumulative data from the raw data, receiving compound specification information associated with the sample, and determining quantified compound information via performing targeted compound detection based on the cumulative data and the compound specification information to determine. Other embodiments are described.
US11913915B2
A uniaxial bidirectional synchronous control electromagnetic loaded dynamic shear test system and method, a test apparatus thereof including a support platform, a loading bar system, an electromagnetic pulse generation system, a servo-controlled normal pressure loading system, and a data monitoring and acquisition system. The test apparatus can be used to conduct a dynamic shear test research on a rock-like material under a constant normal pressure close to an actual operating condition, and can also be applied to carry out dynamic shear tests on intact rock-like test specimens in various sizes or jointed rock-like test specimens containing a single structural surface to study dynamic shear mechanical property and shear failure behavior under strain rate of 101−103 s−1, thereby providing an important theoretical and technical support for the design, construction, protection, and safety and stability evaluation of geotechnical engineering, structural engineering.
US11913912B2
Disclosed are a hole expansion ratio testing device, a hole expansion ratio testing method, and an operation program. The hole expansion ratio testing device includes a chucking unit configured to chuck a plate member having a hole, a punching unit inserted into the hole and configured to expand the hole, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of the hole expanded by the punching unit, and an analysis unit configured to extract an interest area corresponding to the hole from the acquired image, linearize the interest area, and provide information on a crack as a blob changes due to the linearization.
US11913909B2
Method is provided for determining the extent of defects, in particular of crack depths, in a test specimen. At least one transmitting transducer excites sound waves in the ultrasonic range, and the sound waves propagate in the form of a sound beam. The acoustic axis of the sound beam preferably forms an angle the normal to a surface of the test specimen facing the transmitting transducer. The sound waves couple into the test specimen obliquely and are reflected in particular in a V-shaped manner at a preferably outer interface of the test specimen. At least one receiving transducer spaced apart from the transmitting transducer receives the sound waves reflected at the interface of the test specimen. By means of an evaluation unit, an extent of a defect arranged within a sound path is determined from a reduction of the amplitude of the sound waves received by the receiving transducer. The transmitting transducer and the receiving transducer are guided past the test specimen at an at least substantially constant distance therefrom, and the sound waves are coupled into the test specimen with an advance section via a liquid medium. A device for detecting signals based on defects in a test specimen is also provided.
US11913906B2
A substance detection element is described herein. The substance detection element includes a supporting substrate, a plate-shaped beam, a detection electrode, and a substance adsorption film. The plate-shaped beam is provided with a piezoelectric element. The detection electrodes detects information about the vibration frequency of the beam. The substance adsorption films changes the vibration frequency of the beam by adhesion of a substance. The substance adsorption films and the detection electrodes are respectively provided at the same position on the front and the back of the beam.
US11913892B2
A condensation detection element comprises a condensation detection unit, the condensation detection unit being formed on a first substrate unit, and a peripheral circuit unit, the peripheral circuit unit being formed on a second substrate unit. The condensation detection unit comprises a thin wire electrode of a first metal and a thin wire electrode of a second metal. The condensation detection unit is configured to detect the presence or absence of water droplet that comes into contact with the thin wire electrode of the first metal and the thin wire electrode of the second metal by a current flowing between the thin wire electrode of the first metal and the thin wire electrode of the second metal. The first substrate unit has a higher thermal conductivity and a lower heat capacity than the second substrate unit.
US11913891B2
A structure for pressurization analysis includes a sample accommodating unit (10) for accommodating an all-solid-state battery (S) therein, and a pressurizing unit (30) having a pressurizing mechanism for causing pressure to act on the all-solid-state battery (S). The all-solid-state battery (S) is pressurized inside the sample accommodating unit (10) while being sandwiched between a pressure receiving member (21) and a pressing member (22). Further, an X-ray window (14) is provided in an outer radial direction orthogonal to an acting direction of the pressure from the pressurizing unit (30), and reflection type X-ray diffraction measurement can be performed through the X-ray window (14).
US11913881B2
An example microscope includes a pump laser for providing a first illumination to a sample. A laser array provides a second illumination to the sample. The laser array may include a plurality of laser elements, each providing oblique illuminations to the sample. An illumination collecting source collects the first illumination and the second illumination from the sample. The illumination collecting source may capture transient 3D refractive index (RI) variations in the sample due to the first illumination and second illumination.
US11913880B2
Described herein is a spectrometer device. The spectrometer device includes: at least one filter element adapted to separate at least one incident light beam into a spectrum of constituent wavelength; at least one sensor element having a matrix of optical sensors, the optical sensors (116,142) each having a light-sensitive area; and at least one evaluation device configured for determining at least one longitudinal coordinate of an object.
US11913877B2
The present invention relates to an improvement in spectral analysis in spectrometry, particularly in a technique of spectral analysis by spectral classification at high speed. A spectral analysis device 10 comprises: a measurement unit 20 that measures a sample spectrum of a target sample 30; and an analysis unit 40 that analyses the sample spectrum, and analyses a compound contained in the target sample 30, wherein the analysis unit has a library that is processed with an arithmetic processing in advance, the library has a plurality of compound groups to which the compound is classified, and the analysis unit further comprises an analysis display part 42, the analysis display part 42 displays, in real time, the compound group to which the compound belongs during analysis of the sample spectrum as the analysis progress or analysis result.
US11913874B2
The system includes a modulatable illumination source configured to illuminate a surface of a sample disposed on a sample stage, a detector configured to detect illumination emanating from a surface of the sample, illumination optics configured to direct illumination from the modulatable illumination source to the surface of the sample, collection optics configured to direct illumination from the surface of the sample to the detector, and a modulation control system communicatively coupled to the modulatable illumination source, wherein the modulation control system is configured to modulate a drive current of the modulatable illumination source at a selected modulation frequency suitable for generating illumination having a selected coherence feature length. In addition, the present invention includes the time-sequential interleaving of outputs of multiple light sources to generate periodic pulse trains for use in multi-wavelength time-sequential optical metrology.
US11913862B2
The present invention aims to provide core-shell particles that can be used in a method of separating a substance to be separated and that allow obtainment of a highly purified product. Each of a plurality of core-shell particles (C) of the present invention includes a core layer (P) as magnetic silica particles containing the magnetic metal oxide particles (A) and a shell layer (Q) that is a silica layer on a surface of the core layer (P), an average thickness of a plurality of shell layers (Q) being 3 to 3000 nm, wherein a weight percentage of the magnetic metal oxide particles (A) in the core layer (P) is 60 to 95 wt % based on a weight of the core layer (P), and the plurality of core-shell particles (C) have a particle size distribution with a coefficient of variation of 50% or less.
US11913856B2
The present invention relates to a differential pressure sensor for a leak detection device comprising: at least two bodies in which a cavity is created; a membrane that is arranged between the two bodies and separates said cavity so as to define a test chamber in each one of said bodies; at least one electrode arranged in each one of the test chambers and facing said membrane so as to form therewith a capacitor; characterised in that said sensor comprises at least two seals arranged between each of said bodies and the membrane.
US11913852B2
A sensor system includes a pump, a valve supplied from the pump, a sensor fixed relative to the pump, a nozzle supplied from the valve and aimed at the sensor, and a computer communicatively coupled to the pump, the valve, and the sensor. The computer is programmed to instruct the pump to operate; while the pump is operating, instruct the valve to close; receive data from the sensor while the pump is operating and the valve is instructed to be closed; and set a flag upon determining, based on the data received from the sensor, that the nozzle is outputting fluid onto the sensor.
US11913850B2
A measuring system for a physical variable, the measuring system having a housing, a measuring tube having at least one tubular deformation body having a cross-section which is deformed at least partially and which is configured to expand elastically under pressure, two feed sections attached to end sections of the deformation body, two sealing sections for sealingly coupling the measuring system to a process, and two molded support sections to carry the housing. A measuring sensor system measures values of at least one of a stretching or a widening at at least two points on a section of the deformation body. An evaluation unit evaluates measured values of the stretching and widening and outputs them as a measurement signal. The housing at least partially surrounds and stabilizes the measuring tube on an outside and is provided with a vacuum and/or a negative pressure compared to the outside atmosphere.
US11913847B2
Mechanoluminescent devices and articles, such as wearable articles, that include mechanoluminescent devices. The mechanoluminescent devices may have a lateral type architecture or a vertical type architecture. The mechanoluminescent devices may be sensors, including pressure sensors.
US11913845B2
A temperature indicator includes a first capacitor configured to change capacitance when exposed to a temperature above a first threshold temperature, a second capacitor configured to change capacitance when exposed to a temperature above a second threshold temperature. The first capacitor is electrically connected to the second capacitor. The second threshold temperature is different than the first threshold temperature. The first capacitor and the second capacitor retain their changed capacitance permanently after they return to a temperature below their respective threshold temperature.
US11913842B2
As a temperature measurement apparatus using a surface acoustic wave of a piezoelectric substrate that performs temperature measurement wirelessly and without power supply, the temperature measurement apparatus accurately measures the temperature of the thermocouple tip end by analyzing the frequency characteristics of the surface acoustic wave propagating on the piezoelectric substrate and including temperature information of the piezoelectric substrate, and detecting change in propagation time of the surface acoustic wave of the piezoelectric substrate that is changed by the electromotive force of the thermocouple.
US11913841B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for sensing temperature of an item and displaying temperature thereof. One or more embodiments of the invention describe the method comprising steps of sensing, by a metal crimp coupled with a sensor, a temperature of content inside an item and determine a value of the temperature. The method further describes step of displaying an indication of the temperature value on an electrochromic strip coupled with the sensor.
US11913830B2
A laser absorptivity measurement device uses a linearly polarized incident beam, an optical configuration comprising an internal polarizing beamsplitter that transmits the linearly polarized incident beam and a quarter-wave plate that converts linearly polarized incident beam into a circularly polarized incident beam that is reflected off a processing substrate. The quarter-wave plate and polarizing beamsplitter can then direct the reflected light back into an integrating volume, where the power of the reflected light can be measured by a photodetector. The laser absorptivity measurement device is capable of making real-time absorption efficiency measurements of a variety of laser-based processes, including laser welding and brazing, additive manufacturing, and laser marking.
US11913823B2
Aircraft landing gear strut breakout friction values are used to correct measured strut pressure as related to the amount of weight supported; with the ability to generate and refine the breakout friction value database, and ability to predict a future breakout friction correction value by trending historical measurements, as compared to recent measurements, as further compared to real-time breakout friction values. The system is used in monitoring, measuring, computing and displaying the weight and center of gravity for aircraft utilizing telescopic oleo landing gear struts. Pressure sensors, temperature sensors, humidity sensors, axle deflection sensors, accelerometers, inclinometers are mounted in relation to each of the landing gear struts to monitor, measure and record strut pressure as related to strut telescopic movement, rates of strut telescopic movement, axle deflection, current temperature, current relative humidity, vertical acceleration; experienced by landing gear struts, as the aircraft proceeds through typical ground and flight operations.
US11913822B2
Methods and systems for detecting membrane blockage in a gas detector are disclosed. In some embodiments, the gas detector comprises a membrane defining a sensing chamber of the detector, the sensing chamber comprising a relaxed state pressure. The method comprises applying one or more forces on one or more walls of the membrane, wherein applying the force causes a volume change inside the sensing chamber. The method further comprises measuring a pressure change inside the sensing chamber, the pressure change being caused by the volume change. The method further comprises determining a rate of return to the relaxed state inside the chamber and determining a condition of the membrane based on the determined rate of return to the relaxed state.
US11913814B2
A position-measuring device includes a carrier body having a first and second measuring graduations and a reference mark. The first and second measuring graduations include graduation structures periodically arranged along first and second measurement directions, respectively, that are perpendicular to each other. The graduation structures of the first measuring graduation each extend parallel to a first direction and the reference mark extends in a second direction that forms an angle different from 0° with the first direction. First and second scanners are configured to scan the first and second measuring graduations and generate first and second scanning signals, respectively. A third scanner is configured to scan the reference mark and generate a reference pulse. The position-measuring device is configured such that a phase angle of the reference pulse is determined as a function of the first scanning signals and the reference pulse.
US11913812B2
A control assembly for controlling a speed or torque of operation of an electric device includes a control assembly housing, a magnetic sensor, a magnetic element; and an actuator. The actuator moves relative to the control assembly and, responsive to that movement, the magnetic sensor and magnetic element are moved relative to each other between a first position and a second position so that the magnetic sensor senses a first magnetic field reading when in the first position and senses a second magnetic field reading when in the second position. A control module is operably connected to the magnetic sensor and configured for controlling the electric device, and a magnetic shielding element is positioned within the control assembly housing to alleviate a magnetic signal source external to the control assembly from interfering with the sensing by the magnetic sensor.
US11913807B2
Example methods and systems for calibrating sensors using road map data are provided. An autonomous vehicle may use various vehicle sensors to assist in navigation. Within examples, the autonomous vehicle may calibrate vehicle sensors through performing a comparison or analysis between information about the environment received by sensors with similar information provided by map data (e.g., a road map). The autonomous vehicle may compare object locations as provided by the sensors and as shown by map data. Based on the comparison, the autonomous vehicle may adjust various sensors to accurately reflect the information as provided by the road map. In some instances, the autonomous vehicle may adjust the position, height, orientation, direction-of-focus, scaling, or other parameters of a sensor based on the information provided by a road map.
US11913802B2
Disclosed herein an autonomous driving system includes a first sensor installed in a vehicle, having a field of view facing in front of the vehicle, and configured to acquire front image data; a second sensor selected from the group consisting of a radar and a light detection and ranging, installed in the vehicle, having a detection field of view facing in front of the vehicle, and configured to acquire forward detection data; a communicator configured to receive a high definition map at a current location of the vehicle from an external server; and a controller including a processor configured to process the high definition map, the front image data, and the forward detection data.
US11913798B2
A system for optimizing charging for a vehicle having a rechargeable energy storage unit and travelling on a route includes a controller. The controller has a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the controller to obtain details of the route, including surveying local charging infrastructure to determine availability of one or more charging stations within a predefined radius of the route. The controller is adapted to obtain respective station parameters pertaining to the one or more charging stations. Based on user input, at least one session goal is selected from a predefined set of goals. The controller is adapted to generate a recommended charging profile respectively for one or more stops along the route, based in part on the session goal and the respective station parameters.
US11913797B2
Systems and methods for selecting a charging entity based on occupancy status are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a current geo-location and state of charge of a requesting vehicle. A plurality of charging entities that are within a remaining distance of the requesting vehicle are identified. Occupancy statuses for one or more charging entities of the plurality of charging entities are determined. The method also includes estimating charging speeds for the one or more charging entities based on the occupancy statuses. A charging station map user interface that pin points the current geo-location of the requesting vehicle and the one or more charging entities is presented. The one or more charging entities are presented with labels based on the charging speeds. The method further includes reserving a charging station of a selected charging entity of the plurality of charging entities by selecting a label.
US11913794B2
A computer-implemented method for calculating a trajectory of a mobile platform. An optimization problem whose total cost function depends on one or several boundary cost functions is solved. A first boundary cost function is, in at least one portion, a continuous and non-constant function of the position of the mobile platform. By way of continuous boundary cost functions, it is possible to achieve a continuous total cost function by which abrupt changes in the motion control of the mobile platform can be avoided. The boundary cost functions can be based on different elementary cost functions that make possible simple and flexible configuration of the motion control system.
US11913787B2
The present disclosure provides a target for aerial survey transformable to hand-fan shape. In this instance, the target includes a central axis, a first identification marker with one end connected to the central axis and having a first length outwards, and a second identification marker with one end connected to the central axis and having a second length outwards, the second identification marker disposed on the first identification marker, wherein the second length is shorter than the first length, the first identification marker includes a plurality of first unit areas having a predetermined angle therebetween with respect to the central axis, and the plurality of first unit areas has an overlap between adjacent first unit areas.
US11913777B2
A diagnostic disc includes a disc body having a sidewall around a circumference of the disc body and at least one protrusion extending outwardly from a top of the sidewall. A non-contact sensor is attached to an underside of each of the at least one protrusion. A a printed circuit board (PCB) is positioned within an interior formed by the disc body. Circuitry is disposed on the PCB and coupled to each non-contact sensor, the circuitry including at least a wireless communication circuit, a memory, and a battery. A cover is positioned over the circuitry inside of the sidewall, wherein the cover seals the circuitry within the interior formed by the disc body from an environment outside of the disc body.
US11913775B2
The present invention provides an intra-hoistway measurement system automatically measuring dimensions within an elevator hoistway prior to elevator installation to reduce labor of workers. An intra-hoistway measurement system according to the present invention includes: a reference laser device that is mounted to a structure on a ceiling or in an upper portion of the hoistway for an elevator and emits a laser beam toward a lowermost part; a mobile measuring device that has a plane measuring device to measure horizontal dimensions within the hoistway; and a moving device that is mounted to the structure on the ceiling or in the upper portion of the hoistway and moves the mobile measuring device up and down. The mobile measuring device has a reference laser detection device that detects the laser beam emitted from the reference laser device, and an attitude detection device that detects its own attitude.
US11913768B2
A sensor system and a method of operating a sensor system including a plurality of sensors tracking a moving object in an area having known bounding surfaces. The apparatus and method calculate a time-specific position of the object based on data and sensor parameters from at least two of the plurality of sensors and determine errors between the calculated time-specific positions calculated. The method and apparatus calculate a minimum system error attributable to the at least two sensors by constraining at least one dimension in the data of the sensor used in the calculated time-specific position of the object associated with the sensor, the constraining based on an object/surface interaction, the minimum system error calculated by solving for modified sensor parameters for each sensor.
US11913766B2
A charge canister for a perforation tool has a cylindrical body with an expansion portion extending along a radius of the cylindrical body, the expansion portion having a narrow portion at a first end of the expansion portion and a wide portion at a second end of the expansion portion opposite from the first end. An explosive material is disposed within the expansion portion in direct contact with an interior surface thereof.
US11913752B2
A crossbow de-cocking mechanism may include a trigger mechanism, a trigger latch mechanism and a winch assembly. A first rotational input to the winch may move a trigger latch to disengage the trigger mechanism. A second rotational input to the trigger latch, opposite to the first, may move the trigger mechanism to move a crossbow bowstring from a cocked position to an un-cocked position.
US11913750B1
An airsoft adapter assembly capable of being removably attached to an airsoft magazine and an airsoft reservoir. The airsoft adapter links an airsoft magazine to a reservoir to allow for interchangeability for attaching different types of reservoirs to an airsoft gun magazine or for attaching the same reservoir to several different configurations of airsoft guns and their coordinating magazine. The airsoft adapter makes a sufficiently airtight seal for high performance projectile shooting with improved projectile conduits and pressurized flow conduits.
US11913742B2
In some embodiments, a fire control mechanism comprises a frame comprising a flange comprising a peak. A hammer is arranged to pivot about a hammer axis. A hammer spring is arranged to bias the hammer about the hammer axis. The hammer spring contacts the peak of the flange.
US11913735B2
A heat exchanger includes a collecting pipe, a number of heat exchange tubes and a distribution pipe. A pipe wall of the distribution pipe defines a number of through holes communicating with the collecting pipe. The through holes are a first through hole, . . . an (n−1)th through hole and an nth through hole disposed in sequence along a direction from a first end to a second end of the distribution pipe. A distance between an (i+1)th through hole and an ith through hole is: di=αiL0, i=1, 2, . . . n−1, α=0.618, L0 is a distance between adjacent heat exchange tubes. As a result, uniformity of refrigerant distribution in the heat exchanger is improved.
US11913731B2
A process heat exchange rod for cooling or heating liquids in a process vessel. The rod may have a linear form and extend downward through an upper wall of the process vessel into proximity with the lower floor. The rod internally defines a circulatory flow path for the heat exchange medium, including an outer jacket and a flow diverter having a central through bore and external helical flutes. Heat exchange medium travels down through the central through bore and then back up through helical grooves formed between the flow diverter and the outer jacket, or vice versa. Accurate heating or cooling of the process fluid is attained by modification of the configuration of the heat exchange rod as well as the flow rate and temperature of the heat exchange medium. The components may be injection molded of a polymer, often transparent, having a high heat transfer coefficient.
US11913724B2
According to one aspect, embodiments herein provide a furnace for debinding and sintering additively manufactured parts comprising a unitarily formed retort having at least one open side, a heater for heating a sintering volume within the retort to a debinding temperature and to a sintering temperature, an end cap sealing the at least one open side, a forming gas line penetrating the end cap for supplying forming gas at a flowrate, and a heat exchanger within the retort, outside the sintering volume, and adjacent a heated wall of the retort, the heat exchanger having an inlet connected to the forming gas line and an outlet to the sintering volume, wherein the heat exchanger includes a heat exchange tube length sufficient to heat the forming gas to within 20 degrees Celsius of the sintering temperature before the forming gas exits the outlet.
US11913723B1
The present invention includes a spray drying disposable device for use in a spray drying system. The disposable has a spray drying head and a plasma drying chamber. The head has a spray dry nozzle assembly in fluid communication with the plasma source and the pressurized aerosol gas source. The pressurized gas flows in a vortex pattern that atomizes plasma droplets in the chamber. The head also includes a plenum has uniform air pressure of the drying gas. A baffle plate forms the floor of the plenum having drying gas jets that supply drying gas to the chamber. The atomized plasma droplets evaporate in the presence of the drying gas emitted from the jets to obtain dried plasma particles and humid air. A capture filter captures the dried plasma particles and allows the humid air to pass. The humid air passes through the gas outlet and the exhaust port.
US11913722B1
The present invention includes a spray drying disposable device for use in a spray drying system. The disposable has a spray drying head and a plasma drying chamber. The head has a spray dry nozzle assembly in fluid communication with the plasma source and the pressurized aerosol gas source. The pressurized gas flows in a vortex pattern that atomizes plasma droplets in the chamber. The head also includes a plenum has uniform air pressure of the drying gas. A baffle plate forms the floor of the plenum having drying gas jets that supply drying gas to the chamber. The atomized plasma droplets evaporate in the presence of the drying gas emitted from the jets to obtain dried plasma particles and humid air. A capture filter captures the dried plasma particles and allows the humid air to pass. The humid air passes through the gas outlet and the exhaust port.
US11913719B2
A liquefaction apparatus that automatically adjusts the load on the liquefaction apparatus correspondingly with an upper limit value of contracted power in different time slots, and which is capable of maximizing the amount of liquefied product produced and of achieving optimum operating efficiency is provided. In certain embodiments, the liquefaction apparatus can include: a production amount calculation unit 91 for obtaining an actual production amount of a liquefied product; a predicted power calculation unit 92 for obtaining a predicted power amount after a predetermined time has elapsed, on the basis of an integrated power value obtained by integrating a usage power; and a power demand control unit 93 for comparing the predicted power amount and a moving average of instantaneous power, and controlling a discharge flow rate of a compressor 3 in such a way as to come infinitely close to a target value, without exceeding the target value, and while using the larger value of the predicted power amount and the moving average of instantaneous power as a value being controlled.
US11913718B2
A method for producing power and argon is provided by providing a residual gas stream, purifying the residual gas stream in a front-end purification unit to remove carbon dioxide, thereby forming a purified residual gas stream, and introducing the purified residual gas stream to a cold box, wherein the purified residual gas stream is cooled and expanded within the cold box to produce power and then fed to a distillation column system for separation therein, thereby forming an argon-enriched stream and optionally a nitrogen-enriched stream and/or an oxygen-enriched stream, wherein the residual gas stream is sourced from a retentate stream of a cold membrane having oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and argon.
US11913717B2
A natural gas liquefying apparatus includes: a precooling unit, which is a treatment unit configured to precool natural gas; a liquefying unit, which is a treatment unit configured to liquefy the natural gas; a refrigerant cooling unit, which is a treatment unit configured to cool a liquefying refrigerant; a compression unit configured to compress vaporized refrigerants; and a pipe rack including air-cooled coolers arrayed and arranged on an upper surface. The treatment units and the compression unit are separately arranged in a first arrangement region and a second arrangement region arranged opposed to each other across a long side of the pipe rack. The pipe rack interposed between the first and second arrangement regions has a region in which no air-cooled cooler is arranged in order to arrange a plurality of pipes, through which refrigerants are allowed to flow, in a direction of a short side of the pipe rack.
US11913709B2
A refrigerator and a home appliance include a cabinet with a storage space formed therein, and a door configured to open and close the storage space, and including a door body filled with an insulator and a door panel detachably mounted on a front surface of the door body, where the door panel includes a panel defining a front appearance of the door, and a panel bracket extending along at least one end of a perimeter of a rear surface of the panel and coupled to the door body, and the panel bracket includes a coupling part coupled to the rear surface of the panel, a support part formed along an end of the coupling part and configured to support an end of the panel, and a mounting part protruding rearward from a rear surface of the coupling part and coupled to the door body.
US11913702B2
A cooling system is disclosed. The cooling system may comprise a first cooling unit installed at a cooling target, the first cooling unit including a first cooling pipe forming a flow path of a first refrigerant; and a second cooling unit installed at the cooling target, the second cooling unit including a second cooling pipe forming a flow path of a second refrigerant, wherein the first cooling pipe includes a first cooling pipe first end adjacent to a first side of the cooling target, the first refrigerant being introduced into the first cooling pipe first end; and a first cooling pipe second end adjacent to a second side of the cooling target, the first refrigerant being discharged from the first cooling pipe second end, wherein the second cooling pipe includes a second cooling pipe first end adjacent to the first side of the cooling target, the second refrigerant being discharged from the second cooling pipe first end; and a second cooling pipe second end adjacent to the second side of the cooling target, the second refrigerant being introduced into the second cooling pipe second end.
US11913694B2
A heat pump system includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a refrigerant flow path included in a heat medium heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a heat source side heat exchanger are connected, the heat medium heat exchanger including the refrigerant flow path and a heat medium flow path; a heat medium feed path connected to the heat medium flow path included in the heat medium heat exchanger; an indoor unit connected to the heat medium feed path and configured to condition air inside a room; a room temperature sensor configured to detect an indoor temperature in the room; a heat medium temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of a heat medium that flows into the indoor unit; and a controller configured to control the refrigerant circuit or the indoor unit by using a set temperature in the room.
US11913690B2
A refrigeration system includes an evaporator configured to receive a flow of refrigerant and transfer heat into the refrigerant within the evaporator to provide cooling for a temperature-controlled space, an expansion valve operable to modulate the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator, a liquid level sensor configured to measure a level of liquid accumulated within a component of the refrigeration system, and a controller configured to operate the expansion valve to increase the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator or decrease the flow of refrigerant into the evaporator based on the level of liquid measured by the liquid level sensor.
US11913688B2
Mechanical refrigeration system includes a compression device. The compression device has a pair of dual-action cylinders connected together by a movable rod thereof. A first cylinder acts as an element for compressing coolant fluid, for which purpose the rod is moved through the second cylinder, fed by a pressurised fluid that allows the flow of coolant fluid in the first cylinder and the flow of pressurised fluid of the second cylinder at the outlet of both devices to be constant, thus configuring a completely autonomous device that does not need electricity or any type of fuel.
US11913685B2
Provided is a chiller and system that may be utilized in a supercritical fluid chromatography method, wherein a non-polar solvent may replace a portion or all of a polar solvent for the purpose of separating or extracting desired sample molecules from a combined sample/solvent stream. The system may reduce the amount of polar solvent necessary for chromatographic separation and/or extraction of desired samples. The system may incorporate a supercritical fluid chiller, a supercritical fluid pressure-equalizing vessel and a supercritical fluid cyclonic separator. The supercritical fluid chiller allows for efficient and consistent pumping of liquid-phase gases employing off-the-shelf HPLC pumps. The pressure equalizing vessel allows the use of off-the-shelf HPLC column cartridges. The system may further incorporate the use of one or more disposable cartridges containing silica gel or other suitable medium. The system may also utilize an open loop cooling circuit using fluids with a positive Joule-Thomson coefficient.
US11913682B2
Apparatus for selectively heating or cooling a food product and methods of assembling and using same
An apparatus for selectively heating or cooling a food product includes a housing including a shell and a thermally-conductive liner coupled to the shell. The shell defines a housing cavity, and the thermally-conductive liner defines a receptacle. The apparatus also includes a removable tray and a plurality of thermoelectric heating/cooling devices disposed within the housing cavity. The removable tray is sized and shaped to be received within the receptacle such that the removable tray is coupled in thermal communication with the thermally-conductive liner. Each of the thermoelectric heating/cooling devices is selectively operable in a heating mode and a cooling mode and is coupled in thermal communication with the thermally-conductive liner such that the liner draws heat away from the removable tray when the thermoelectric devices are operated in the cooling mode, and the liner transfers heat to the removable tray when the thermoelectric devices are operated in the heating mode.
US11913679B1
A geothermal system is used for obtaining heated heat transfer fluid, such as steam, via heat transfer with an underground reservoir of magma. The geothermal system includes a wellbore extending between a surface and into an underground chamber formed in a reservoir of magma. The chamber may be formed by injecting a fluid at an increased pressure into underground magma to form a cavity that acts as the underground chamber.
US11913657B2
For monitoring and controlling an HVAC system which comprises one or more fluid transportation systems with a plurality of parallel zones, a plurality of operating variables of the fluid transportation systems are received (S1) from devices of the HVAC system. Temporal courses are determined (S3) for the operating variables. Interdependencies are determined (S4) between the temporal courses of the operating variables. Depending on the interdependencies, the operating variables and their associated devices are grouped (S5) into different sets which each relates to a different section of the HVAC system and includes the related operating variables and associated devices. The sets are used (S6) to control the devices of a particular section of the HVAC system and/or to generate a fault detection message regarding one or more of the devices of the particular section of the HVAC system.
US11913656B2
A wireless waveguide system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The wireless waveguide system includes a sensor that detects an environmental condition and directs a signal indicative of the environmental condition along an interior of a ductwork. A signal sensor detects a strength of the signal within the interior of the ductwork. A repeater that operates based on the strength of the signal detected by the signal sensor and repeats the signal along a communication path at least partially within the interior of the ductwork to a controller of an HVAC unit.
US11913654B1
A system, method and apparatus for sensor-based air quality metrics for ventilation performance and infection risk. Virus pathogens can be transmitted through the air, as they attach to airborne droplets or particles (bio-aerosols). A ventilation performance and infection risk can be determined using dynamic air exchange rates based on measured changes in air contaminant levels.
US11913652B2
The invention provides a window-mounted smart air purifier comprising a housing unit divided into an indoor air exhaust space, an outdoor air introduction space, an outdoor air discharge space, a central space, and an indoor air introduction space that air moves therebetween; circulation units in the indoor air exhaust space/the outdoor air discharge space, comprising fans that forcibly circulates air and that polluted indoor/outdoor air moves toward outside/inside; an air purification unit comprising filters between the indoor air introduction space and the central space, between the outdoor air introduction space and the central space, and a hepa and deodorization filter and filtering impurities contained in indoor/outdoor air; a heat exchanger exchanging heats between outdoor and indoor air in respective pipes; a controller controlling the first and the second air circulation unit, and a fixing unit fixing the housing unit to a window frame.
US11913651B2
A heat exchanger includes a fin set formed by a plurality of fins stacked together and a refrigerant pipe set passing through the fin set. The fin set includes a connection member, and a first fin member and a second fin member connected to each other via the connection member. An included angle between the first fin member and the second fin member is larger than zero. The first fin member and the second fin member are arranged at two sides, respectively, of a notch of the fin set. The notch is located at an air input side and/or an air output side of the connection member.
US11913647B2
Disclosed herein is a nozzle for a combustor that burns fuel containing hydrogen, which includes a plurality of mixing tubes through which air and fuel flow, a multi-tube configured to contain and support the mixing tubes, a fuel tube formed inside the multi-tube and through which fuel flows, a tip plate coupled to a tip of the multi-tube, and a front plate spaced apart from the tip plate to define a cooling space.
US11913641B1
A brass burner system includes a channel system having a central connection with a first extended element, a second extended element, a third extended element, and a fourth extended element; gas jets engaged with the channel system via a connections, each jet having a top jet portion with an opening; a body portion with a channel connecting to the opening; and a tapered end to engage with one of the connections; the tapered end is to seal within the connection; the brass burner is to produce a decorative flame via the gas jets; and the channel system is to allow gas flow to the gas jets.
US11913640B2
The present invention relates to a device and a method for chemical looping combustion, for which the end of the intake duct (4) opening out within the chamber of the separator (1) is inclined with respect to a horizontal plane (H).
US11913633B2
A power tool includes: a motor; an output shaft that is rotated by a rotational force of the motor; a chip-on-board light emitting diode disposed around the output shaft; and a suppression device configured to suppress a temperature of the chip-on-board light emitting diode to a predetermined allowable value or less.
US11913623B2
Improvements a portable elevated lighting system that uses LED lighting elements for illumination. The LED lights are selected based upon the light transmission angle so the fewest number of lighting elements are needed to provide an even flood or focus of light from the system. A reflector works as a heat sink to remove heat from the LED lights and extend the operation life of the LED's. Thermal paste and or a thermal pad is used between the LED lighting element and the frame to conduct sufficient heat away from the LED element. Two versions are shown as a stadium light and as a circular flood light that provides lighting without shadows or bright areas. The system can be operated from a generator or solar for charging batteries so the lighting can operate self-contained without producing noise.
US11913613B2
A lighting assembly includes at least one light source array provided in a housing and a light scattering primary transmissive optical element having at least one focal region positioned substantially parallel or concentric with the light source array. Lens features of the optical element may include a Fresnel lens pattern to produce at least one focal region. An auxiliary transmissive optical element may be provided to further control light distribution and brightness uniformity.
US11913608B2
A light emitting diode, LED, filament arrangement (100) comprising at least one LED filament (120) comprising a plurality of light emitting diodes, LEDs, (140). The LED filament arrangement further comprises a plurality of first sections (180) and a plurality of second sections (200), wherein the plurality of first sections (180) is configured to emit light of a first colour temperature, CT1, and with a first intensity, I1, during operation, and the plurality of second sections (200) is configured to emit light of a second colour temperature, CT2, and with a second intensity, 12, during operation, wherein at least one of CT1≠CT2 and I1≠I2 is fulfilled, and wherein at least two second sections of the plurality of second sections are adjacently arranged and arranged at least partially parallel to each other.
US11913603B2
A pressure vessel includes: a barrel part disposed in a predefined square area and having a diameter corresponding to a length of one side of the square area; a first nozzle member disposed at one end of the barrel part; a second nozzle member disposed at an opposite end of the barrel part; and clamp rings disposed in the square area, positioned outside the barrel part, and configured to lock the first and second nozzle members to the barrel part, thereby improving spatial utilization and a degree of design freedom.
US11913602B2
A system for lubricating a wire rope includes a housing configured to be mounted adjacent a wire to be lubricated. A cartridge for housing lubricant is disposed on the housing. At least two nozzles are in fluid communication with the cartridge and configured to dispense the lubricant onto a respective wire at a position adjacent a weight bearing portion of the wire.
US11913599B1
A wall fixture mounting assembly for mounting a wall fixture to a wall includes a disk that is mountable to a wall. The disk is comprised of a rigid material thereby facilitating the disk to conceal damage on the wall without having the disk being deformed. An adhesive layer is bonded to the disk thereby facilitating the adhesive layer to adhesively engage the wall for retaining the disk on the wall. A mounting bracket is attachable to the disk and the mounting bracket has a pair of wings each angling away from the mounting bracket. A wall fixture is removably attachable to the mounting bracket for mounting the wall fixture to the wall.
US11913597B2
A product-display system for displaying and securing a retail product. The system may include a retainer having a retainer bracket and a retainer body coupled to the retainer bracket. A retaining cable may be coupled to the retainer body at an opening in the retainer body. A fastener that may be unfastened to release the product from the retainer may only be accessed through the opening of the retainer body such that when the retaining cable is coupled to the opening, no fasteners of the retainer may be visible or accessible. The system may also include a display stem for holding the retainer and product. The display stem may include a recess for receiving at least a portion of the retainer body. The retaining cable may extend through the display stem and may simultaneously transmit power and data to a displayed product. The retainer may be returned to and held on top of the display stem using a retaining cable. The retainer may be oriented on top of the display stem in one or more predetermined positions through the use of magnetic forces.
US11913595B1
An organizer includes a first base including a first rear portion and first side walls together defining a first interior volume and a first opening to the first interior volume and a first cover dimensioned to engage the first side walls of the first base to occlude the first opening to the first interior volume with the first cover in a closed position. The organizer also includes removable containers dimensioned to occupy the first interior volume. Each of the removable containers includes a base including a rear portion and side walls together defining an interior volume and an opening to the interior volume. Each of the removable containers includes a cover dimensioned to engage the side walls of the base to occlude the opening to the interior volume of the removable container with the cover in a closed position.
US11913594B2
A mounting bracket and motor including same have mounting bracket arranged on side of the motor's casing away from front end cover, and includes bracket body. A bearing mounting portion for mounting motor's bearing is on bracket body's side close to casing; and protective cover and at least one of protective cover mounting portion and encoder bracket mounting portion on bracket body's side away from casing. Protective cover mounting portion is configured to fixedly connect bracket body and protective cover. Accommodation space for accommodating encoder is defined between bracket body and protective cover; or encoder bracket mounting portion includes first encoder bracket mounting portion, and first encoder bracket mounting portion is fixedly connected to protective cover by encoder bracket. Accommodation space for accommodating encoder is defined between encoder bracket and protective cover, to resolve weak protection problems for encoder during mounting, large motor's overall volume motor, and high motor costs.
US11913592B2
Thermally insulating pipes are provided for use in the transportation of a heated substance, such as steam or a fluid. The thermally insulating pipes allow the substance traveling through the pipes to retain their heat during transport. The thermally insulating pipes may include one or more layers each of pipe and insulating material, which are overlapping and alternating in the thermally insulating pipe. An outer pipe layer is also provided on the thermally insulating pipe, which may have an increased thickness for threading, splicing or swedging the thermally insulating pipe.
US11913591B2
Composite materials with adjustable spectral properties comprised of IR-reflecting micro-domains overlaying an IR-transparent elastomeric matrix, and capable of dynamically controlling IR radiation transmission are described, as well as methods of fabrication thereof. Systems with capabilities to regulate IR radiation (including heat) transmission based thereon, and methods of regulating IR radiation transmission (including thermal regulation) using the same are also provided.
US11913572B2
A hot bolt clamp and method for repairing a multi-bolt flange of a pipe. The clamp has enclosures that can be assembled around the multi-bolt flange. The clamp has a central opening extending through a first enclosure face and a second enclosure face for the pipe. The clamp includes a flange bolt cavities extending through the enclosure faces configured to enclose flange bolts and having a cutter channel connected to each flange bolt cavity. Restraint bolts extend through the enclosure face to restrain the multi-bolt flange. Flange bolts can be removed and replaced during the repair operation. A cutter tool apparatus can be extended through each cutter channel for use in removing stuck flange bolts. The clamp forms an injectable void around the multi-bolt flange that is injectable with sealant in the event of a loss of gasket integrity during the repair operation.
US11913568B2
A method for determining a switching state of a valve that is actuated by a coil, wherein the method includes: respectively ascertaining a current flowing through the coil and a voltage applied to the coil at several times which follow one another with a prespecified time interval, calculating an inductance variable of the coil based on the currents, the voltage and the time interval, and determining the switching state based on the inductance variable. Also disclosed is a solenoid valve assembly.
US11913567B2
An electromagnetic valve manifold includes valve assemblies arranged in a single direction, each valve assembly including electromagnetic valves arranged in the single direction, a slave station disposed at one of ends of the electromagnetic valve manifold in the single direction, and a valve driving unit disposed in correspondence with each of the valve assemblies. The slave station includes a slave station output port that sends a control signal and valve driving unit power to the valve driving units. The valve driving units each include an electromagnetic valve power input port that receives electromagnetic valve power from an external device and a circuit board configured to control driving of the electromagnetic valves of a corresponding one of the valve assemblies using the control signal and send the electromagnetic valve power to the electromagnetic valves.
US11913565B2
In an electric valve, an upper surface of a main body portion of a valve body, a cylindrical portion of the valve body, and a flange member form a groove in an annular recess shape. A stator unit includes a tubular portion that surrounds the groove. A sealing member is disposed in the groove and held between the cylindrical portion of the valve body and the tubular portion of the sealing member.
US11913564B2
A valve housing (1) has first and third openings (1.1, 1.3), and first and second actuating elements (6.1, 6.2) that are movable along a longitudinal axis of the housing (1). A return element (5) is between the actuating elements (6.1, 6.2), and exerts a force to keep the actuating elements (6.1, 6.2) in a rest position to close or open the first and third openings (1.1. 1.3). First and second wires (4.1, 4.2) are formed from a shape memory alloy. The first wire (4.1) is on the first actuating element (6.1) and the second wire (4.2) is on the second actuating element (6.2). An electric current to the first or second wire (4.1, 4.2) contracts the respective wire (4.1, 4.2) and moves the corresponding actuating element (6.1, 6.2) into an activated position against the force exerted by the return element (5).
US11913559B2
A spool valve includes a sleeve and a spool arranged on an inside of a sleeve to be movable in a longitudinal direction, the sleeve being provided with an inflow port into which fluid is supplied from an external fluid supply hole, and an outflow port through which the fluid is flown to an outside of the sleeve, wherein a supply groove is formed on an outer periphery of the sleeve, and the supply groove includes an inlet space into which the fluid flows from the fluid supply hole and an outlet space formed on a side of the inflow port with respect to the inlet space in an axial direction.
US11913544B2
A method is disclosed for controlling a drill-free curve-CVT including a ring wheel, a set of planet wheels, and a sun wheel, wherein the ring and sun wheel are clamped together. The normal forces between the ring and sun wheel on the one hand and the planet wheels on the other hand are well defined when the transmission ratio is constant. The normal forces for constant ratio are called the static values. The method is configured so that during a continuous increase or decrease of the transmission ratio, any force component added to the static values of the first and/or the second normal force is either zero or smaller than a predefined force component to maintain a microslip condition of the rolling contacts between the planet wheels and the ring and sun wheels. This control of the forces is applied regardless of the speed of the ratio change.
US11913538B2
A wind turbine transmission including a first planetary stage and a second planetary stage, wherein a sun gear of the first planetary stage and a planet carrier of the second planetary stage are interconnected for conjoint rotation by means of a spline joint, the sun gear integrally forms an internal toothing, and a first web of the planet carrier or a sun shaft integrally connected to the first web integrally forms an external toothing of the spline joint.
US11913535B2
A line of vehicle transmissions is provided. The vehicle line includes a first multi-stage gear train assembly with at least two stages, a second multi-stage gear train assembly with at least three stages, and a housing including a first section removably attached to a second section. The second housing section is configured to receive the first and second multi-stage gear train assemblies in different product arrangements.
US11913533B2
A strain wave gearing includes a flex gear including an adjacent member adjacent to an outer gear in a direction along an axis, an outputter including an opposing portion facing the adjacent member in a radial direction centered on the axis, and a transmitter extending along the radial direction. The transmitter is fixed to one of the opposing portion and the adjacent member, and an insertion portion into which the transmitter is inserted is provided in the other of the opposing portion and the adjacent member. The insertion portion allows relative displacement in the circumferential direction of the flex gear and the outputter. A plurality of transmission pairs is arranged in the circumferential direction, the transmission pairs being pairs of the transmitter and the insertion portion.
US11913530B2
A torque converter includes a front cover arranged to receive a torque and an impeller having an impeller shell connected to the front cover. The torque converter further includes a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller and including a turbine shell. The torque converter further includes a lock-up clutch including a clutch plate that is non-rotatably connected to the turbine shell.
US11913529B2
The double pendulum in dynamic motion generates chaotic movement. The current invention integrates two double pendulums with electronic controllers to control the chaotic movement, and a transmission set to use the controlled motion to spin a shaft. The electronic controller provides impulse to each double pendulum and controls the frequency of the oscillations to generate a constant swinging bi-directional motion of the double pendulums. The upper ends of the double pendulums are coupled to a reciprocating transmission set that transforms the swinging bi-directional motion of each double pendulum into a unidirectional spinning motion, transmitted to a horizontal shaft, generating a constant speed as output.
US11913523B2
The precessional gear transmission comprises a body, a satellite wheel with two bevel gear rings driven by a crankshaft in sphero-spatial motion around a fixed point, two central bevel wheels, one immobile fixed in the body and the other mobile mounted on a driven shaft. The teeth of the gear rings have a circular arc flank profile, those of the central bevel wheels are variable curvilinear. The configuration of the parameters of angles, the number of teeth, the ratio of the numbers of teeth of the mating wheels in the gears and the radius of the circular arc of the teeth profile of the gear rings determines the geometry and the kinematics of the contact of the teeth, the degree of frontal overlap, expressed by the number of simultaneously engaged pairs of teeth and defines the pressure angle between the mating flanks.
US11913517B2
A vibration damper that damp vibrations transmitted between a drive unit and a support body. The vibration damper comprises: an elastic member interposed between the drive unit and the support body; a rotor supported by the drive unit or the support body; and a vibration translating mechanism that rotates the rotor and reciprocates the rotor between the drive unit and the support body, in response to the vibrations acting in a vibrating direction to isolate the drive unit and the support body away from each other and bring the drive unit and the support body closer together.
US11913504B2
A clutch weight for a continuously variable transmission is disclosed. The clutch weight, in certain examples, includes a body having a first end having a pivot pin opening and a second end opposite the first end, a curvilinear surface disposed between the first end and the second end configured to engage a roller, and wherein the roller contacts the curvilinear surface at least at a first contact position, and a center of mass of the body disposed a distance Y from a center of the pivot pin opening and a distance X from the first contact position, and where a ratio of X to Y is in the range of between about 0.499 and 0.685.
US11913503B2
To provide a simple-structured cam clutch that does not require precise control and is operable with a smaller drive force and less prone to damage on cam surfaces or inner and outer raceways. The cam clutch includes a plurality of cams circumferentially arranged between an inner race and an outer race and supported by a cage member, and a selector capable of changing an orientation of the cams. The selector includes a driven part allowing a rotation angle thereof to be controlled relative to the inner race or outer race to which the cage member is fixedly attached, and a selector body circumferentially displaceable relative to the driven part in a resilient manner by a spring-loaded mechanism. The selector body includes a cam orientation control protrusion capable of changing the orientation of the cams by making contact with the cams.
US11913501B2
An apparatus for power transmission of a vehicle, including a motor having a motor spline unit extending therefrom, and configured to generate power, a rotating body configured to receive the power and rotate, and a coupler having a toothed structure including grooves and having an exterior to be coupled to the motor spline unit and an interior to be coupled to the rotating body, wherein a width of the grooves formed at one end of the interior is larger than a width of the grooves formed at an opposite end of the interior, a width of the grooves formed at one end of the exterior is smaller than a width of the grooves formed at an opposite end of the exterior, and the coupler is coupled in a tension coupling with the rotating body and the motor.
US11913496B2
An elastomeric bearing includes a first race having an axis of rotation, a second race coaxially arranged relative to the first race and spaced from the first race by a gap and a bearing body in the gap connecting the first race to the second race. The bearing body is formed from a first plurality of elastomeric laminae coaxial with the first race and a second plurality of carbon fiber laminae coaxial with the first race, and the elastomeric laminae and the carbon fiber laminae alternate in a direction from the first race to the second race. The carbon fiber laminae may each include multiple sheets of carbon fibers embedded in a thermoplastic such as polyether ether ketone (PEEK).
US11913495B2
A bearing and/or seal assembly where pressurized gas (e.g., air) may be arranged to produce a contact-free bearing and/or seal is provided. The assembly includes a permeable body (12) including structural features (13) selectively engineered to convey a pressurized gas (Ps) from an inlet side (20) side of the permeable body to an outlet side (22) of the permeable body to form an annular film of the pressurized gas relative to the rotatable shaft. Disclosed embodiments may be produced by way of three-dimensional (3D) Printing/Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies with practically no manufacturing variability; and may also cost-effectively and reliably benefit from the relatively complex geometries and the features and/or conduits that may be involved to, for example, form the desired distribution pattern or impart a desired directionality to the pressurized gas conveyed through the permeable body of the bearing and/or seal assembly.
US11913491B2
A coupling structure includes a welding member formed of resin and a welded member that is formed of resin and to which the welding member is welded. In the welding member, a region that is welded to the welded member on the rear side in a predetermined direction is smaller than a region that is welded to the welded member on the front side in the predetermined direction.
US11913487B2
A sealing nut for securing a battery vent to a battery cover includes an upper body, a base, a fang extending from the base in a direction opposite the upper body, a flange extending from the base in the direction opposite the upper body, and a channel formed between the fang and the flange. The channel extends annularly around the base and is configured to receive a seal member.
US11913485B2
An improved plunger for a self-locking pin having a plunger section and a base section in a unitary one-piece construction, wherein the plunger section is at least substantially orthogonal to the base section. Wherein the base section comprises at least a substantially planar configuration, and may provide for biasing of the plunger section. A portion of the plunger extends outwardly from a bore of the self locking pin in which the plunger resides. The plunger section is preferably wedge-shaped, or may possess other geometrical shapes, while the portion of the plunger disposed inside the bore is of a cylindrical shape. An extended biasing section tor positioning of the plunger section may be in unitary construction with the base section.
US11913483B2
An insulated staple includes a staple including a crown extending between a pair of legs and an insulator including an insulator bridge extending between a pair of insulator legs and a channel extending from an end of one of the insulator legs to an end of the other of the insulator legs. The staple is at least partially received in the channel. A width of the channel at the insulator bridge is greater than a thickness of the staple crown. The insulator includes protrusions extending into the channel and defining therebetween a gap that, in absence of the staple, has a width less than the width of the staple crown to provide a friction fit between the staple crown and the insulator.
US11913482B2
A system for connecting two panels together. A recess is formed in the edge of one panel, and an insert is pressed into and held within the recess. The top of the insert includes holes for receiving epoxy, and epoxy conducting shafts and circuits formed on the outside of the insert assist in the encapsulation of the insert within the panel edge. The top of the insert includes an aperture formed such that a fastener can be received into a cavity formed in the recess and then driven to be secured into a fastener-receiving insert installed into the second panel.
US11913481B2
The present invention concerns an attenuation device (1) of the fluid flow pulsation along a duct of a hydraulic circuit connected with a hydraulic machine, comprising at least an attenuation module (3) passed through by a pass-through duct (5) configured to be placed in fluid communication with said duct of said hydraulic circuit. In particular, in said attenuation module (3) a first duct (7) is obtained having an opened first end (70) in fluid communication with said pass-through duct (5), and a closed second end, said first duct (7) extending along a curved line comprising a plurality of curved sections, said first duct (7) being adapted to attenuate the pulsation of said fluid flow along said duct of said hydraulic circuit to reduce the vibrations generated by said pulsation of said fluid flow.
US11913466B2
To eliminate accumulation of air while preventing a decrease in pump efficiency, a pump is provided. The pump includes a rotary shaft, an impeller that is attached to the rotary shaft and that rotates with rotation of the rotary shaft, a casing that surrounds the rotary shaft, a shaft sealing device that seals a gap between the casing and the rotary shaft, and a baffle plate part that is located between the impeller and the shaft sealing device and attached to a rotating body. The baffle plate part extends in a direction that is inclined or orthogonal with respect to a surface orthogonal to an axial direction of the rotary shaft.
US11913460B2
An exhaust fan assembly can include an outer housing, a fan housing mounted to the outer housing, a fan wheel and an electric motor operably coupled to the fan wheel, the fan wheel and electric motor being mounted within the fan housing, wherein the fan housing defines an open inlet side for accepting airflow in a direction generally parallel to a rotational axis of the fan wheel and an outlet for discharging airflow in a direction generally perpendicular to the rotational axis, wherein the fan housing defines a volute section with an outer perimeter having a continuously curved cross-sectional shape.
US11913456B2
A rotary compressor includes at least one cylinder in which a discharge guide groove is disposed at one side of a vane slot; a roller orbitably provided in the cylinder, and disposed with a hinge groove on an outer circumferential surface thereof; a vane in which one end portion thereof is rotatably inserted into the hinge groove of the roller, and the other end portion thereof is slidably inserted into the vane slot of the cylinder; and a plurality of bearing plates that seals both side surfaces of the cylinder, and at least one side of which is disposed with a discharge port to communicate with the discharge guide groove. The discharge port communicates with a refrigerant residual space defined between the vane slot and the discharge guide groove. Refrigerant in the refrigerant residual space may be discharged even after the roller passes through the discharge guide groove.
US11913455B2
The scroll compressor (1) includes a compression unit (6); a drive shaft (16) which is vertically orientated; upper and lower bearing arrangements (27, 28) configured to rotatably support the drive shaft (16); a centrifugal oil pump (29) including a pick-up tube (32) attached to a lower end portion (23) of the drive shaft (16) and provided with a oil inlet immersed in an oil sump (31), the centrifugal oil pump (29) being configured to deliver oil to the compression unit (6) and to the upper and lower bearing arrangements (27, 28); and a static fairing member (35) secured to a non-rotating part of the scroll compressor (1) and including a static tubular part (36) which is immersed in the oil sump (31) and which surrounds the pick-up tube (32) with a predetermined distance such that a gap is formed between the inner surface of the static tubular part (36) and the outer surface of the pick-up tube (32).
US11913452B2
A screw compressor includes a screw rotor, a gate rotor, and a speed adjuster. The screw rotor has an outer peripheral surface with a plurality of screw grooves. The screw rotor is configured to be rotated. The gate rotor has a plurality of teeth. A ratio T/S of a number T of the teeth to a total number S of the screw grooves is greater than or equal to 2.5. The gate rotor meshes with the screw rotor. The speed adjuster is configured to adjust a rotational speed of the screw rotor. Rotation of the screw rotor at an angle greater than 180° allows the screw compressor to perform a stroke from start of compression to completion of discharge.
US11913444B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for determining the flow rate and fluid density in an electrical submersible pump (ESP) and controlling the ESP based on the flow rate and density. In one implementation, an ESP system includes an ESP, drive circuitry, a current sensor, a voltage sensor, and a processor. The ESP includes an electric motor. The drive circuitry is electrically coupled to the ESP and is configured to provide an electrical signal to power the ESP. The current sensor is configured to measure a current of the electrical signal. The voltage sensor is configured to measure a voltage of the electrical signal. The processor is configured to calculate speed of a shaft of the electric motor based on a frequency induced by rotation of the motor detected in the current. The processor is also configured to calculate a density of fluid in the ESP based on the speed.
US11913443B2
A pumping apparatus 1 for dispensing a flowable product comprises first and second peristaltic pumps 12, 14. The first peristaltic pump 12 comprises a first rotor 18 having at least one pressing member 20, a first cylindrical stator 19 in which the first rotor 18 is rotatable and first flexible tubing 30 extending circumferentially around the first stator 19 against a first inner wall 19a. The second peristaltic pump 14 comprises a second rotor 42 having at least one pressing member 46, a second cylindrical stator 44 in which the second rotor 42 is rotatable and second flexible tubing 54 extending circumferentially around the second stator 44 against a second inner wall 44a. The first and second inner walls 19a, 44a each have a first and second radius r1, r2 respectively with the first radius r1 being greater than the second radius r2, and at least one of the stators 19, 44 is movable relative to the other stator 19, 44.
US11913439B2
A pressure calibration device can include certain features that allow it to be used with a variety of hydraulic and pneumatic systems. A pressure calibration device can be configured to provide pressure or vacuum, and can have a mode selector for selecting to provide pressure or vacuum. A pressure calibration device can have a volume adjuster configured to modify pressures for hydraulic or pneumatic systems. A pressure calibration device can have a pressure release valve and a bleed valve for adjusting pressure values.
US11913438B2
An air inflation device includes an inflation unit defining an interior space, a handgrip unit connected to the inflation unit, and a pressure measuring mechanism disposed in the handgrip unit and including a first tubular member defining a receiving space, and a second tubular member defining a flow guide channel that has an air inlet communicating with the interior space, and an air guide hole communicating with the receiving space. A measuring unit is disposed in the receiving space and has a free end pushed to move relative to the first tubular member by air entering the receiving space from the flow guide channel. An indicating unit indicates a position of the free end in the first tubular member.
US11913429B2
A method for operating a generator of a wind turbine includes generating, via a controller, a time series of a plurality of operating signals of the generator. The method also includes applying at least one algorithm to the time series of the plurality of operating signals of the generator to generate a processed time series of the of the plurality of operating signals of the generator. Moreover, the method includes identifying, via the controller, patterns in the processed time series of the plurality of operating signals of the generator to identify one or more of at least one slip event occurring in the slip coupling or a surface health of the slip coupling. Further, the method includes implementing, via the controller, a control action when the at least one slip event occurring in the slip coupling is identified or the surface health of the slip coupling is indicative of degradation in the slip coupling.
US11913425B2
An energy conversion system comprising: a riser conduit comprising a first liquid; a down-comer comprising a second liquid, the down-comer in fluid communication with the riser conduit, the second liquid comprising first liquid and finely divided material in suspension such that the second liquid has a higher specific gravity than the first liquid, the down-comer in fluid communication with a first tank and a second tank; a converter device arranged to convert energy of the first liquid into energy for output from the energy conversion system, and to discharge the first liquid thereafter; and a recirculator arranged to recirculate third liquid to maintain the finely divided material in suspension, the third liquid comprising second liquid and further finely divided material in suspension. The recirculator is arranged to discharge the third liquid to mix with the first liquid from the converter device to form the second liquid. The first tank and the second tank are arranged between the converter device and the down-comer, to receive the first liquid discharged from the converter and to supply the first liquid to the down-comer. Supply of first liquid to the first and second tanks is in use regulated to maintain the height of liquid in the first and second tanks below a predetermined threshold.
US11913422B2
Provided is a wave force utilization unit capable of further reducing product cost and installation cost and effectively utilizing a wave force while decreasing the wave force, and a wave force utilization system in which the unit is used. The wave force utilization unit includes a box-shaped floating unit 1 supported via a support to move in an up-down direction, in response to movement of the sea surface in the up-down direction. The floating unit 1 includes a main body 2, an introduction part 3 disposed continuously on one side of the main body 2, and a water drain part 4 disposed continuously on the other side of the main body 2, the main body 2 includes an air chamber 5 that is a sealed space and acts to float up the floating unit 1, and a flow-through chamber 6 through which seawater flows from the introduction part 3 to the water drain part 4.
US11913421B2
The present invention belongs to the field of energy harvesting, and in particular relates to an ocean wave energy collector based on magnetic force and triboelectric effect. The ocean wave energy collector includes a plurality of protective shells connected by flexible metal spring modules; a magnetic oscillation system is installed in each protective shell in a matched mode and includes an electric energy output module and a plurality of magnetic oscillators, and each magnetic oscillator includes a first supporting body, a dielectric capsule, first magnet units, second magnet units, a supporting shell, and an electrode unit.
US11913417B2
An internal combustion engine includes an engine block, a crankshaft configured to rotate about a crankshaft axis, a flywheel coupled to the crankshaft and positioned above the engine block, an outer housing positioned above the engine block and the flywheel, and an electric starting system. The electric starting system includes an electric motor and an energy storage device positioned above the flywheel and below the outer housing. The energy storage device is electrically coupled to the electric motor to power the electric motor. When the electric starting system is configured to rotate the crankshaft to start the engine when the electric starting system is activated.
US11913409B2
The present disclosure relates to an afterburner structure with fuel injection nozzles. In the condition of a stable inlet flow, the present disclosure forms a sweeping oscillating jet with a certain frequency at the outlet under an alternate feedback action of a feedback channel and the fluid's Coanda effect, so that the spatial uniformity of the fuel injection is improved; Therefore, without increasing the structural complexity of current afterburner of the turbo-engine and the combustion chamber of the subsonic combustion ramjet, the atomization performance and the uniformity of the oil-gas mixture in the afterburner/combustion chamber of the ramjet can be greatly improved, the combustion efficiency and combustion instability of the engine can be improved and meanwhile the length of the afterburner and the combustion chamber of the subsonic combustion ramjet is shortened.
US11913407B2
A thrust reverser includes a frame, a track disposed on the frame, a carrier operatively coupled to the track, and a first reverser door operatively coupled to the carrier. The first reverser door is movable relative to the frame. The first reverser door is configured to move to a first position in response to the carrier moving with respect to the track in a first direction, and move to a second position in response to the carrier moving with respect to the track in a second direction.
US11913400B2
During a predetermined operation state in which the opening degree of a throttle valve is fixed, an air flow meter positioned more on the upstream side than a pressure control valve detects a first intake air amount when the opening degree of the pressure control valve positioned on the upstream side of the throttle valve is set to a predetermined first valve opening degree and a second intake air amount when the opening degree of the pressure control valve is set to a predetermined second valve opening degree smaller than the first valve opening degree. On the basis of the first intake air amount and the second intake air amount, a diagnosis is made regarding whether there is an abnormality in a first pipe, a second pipe, a third pipe and the like which are included in a blow-by gas recirculation system for blow-by gas treatment.
US11913385B2
A propulsion system includes a drive shaft that rotates about an axis, a fan, a fan shaft that drives the fan about the axis, a reduction mechanism coupling the drive and fan shafts, a compression section driven by the drive shaft, and an inlet channel that extends between the fan and the compression section. The inlet channel includes inner and outer ferrules delimiting an air inlet flow path, the inner ferrule having a minimum radius. The reduction mechanism includes two reduction stages including two or more planet gears circumferentially distributed around the axis, each planet gear including a first portion meshed with the drive shaft and a second portion meshed with the fan shaft and being mounted fixed with respect to the inner ferrule and having a maximum radius greater than the minimum radius such that the air inlet flow path extends partly between the two or more planet gears.
US11913380B2
A system for supplying combustion gas to a turbine engine for fracturing operation by fracturing manifold equipment is disclosed. The system may include a gas supply device, a gas delivery manifold, a filtering device, a gas detecting system and a connecting device. The gas delivery manifold, and the filtering device, and the gas detecting system are integrated on the fracturing manifold equipment. The gas supply device is connected to the gas delivery manifold through the filtering device. The gas delivery manifold supplies gas to the turbine engine through the connecting device. The disclosed system help reduce operational risk, save floor space, reduce wiring/routing of on-site delivery manifold, enhance connection efficiency, and reduce the complexity of wellsite installation.
US11913377B2
An aircraft propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine; an environmental control system (ECS); and a bleed flowpath from the gas turbine engine through the ECS. A turbine is along the bleed flowpath and a propulsion fan is mechanically coupled to the turbine to be driven by the turbine.
US11913369B2
This application relates to a mixer and an exhaust system. Wherein, the mixer comprises a pipe, comprising a side wall that comprises an opening; a doser mounting base provided on the opening of the side wall of the pipe, connecting the pipe through the opening, defining a first space, and comprising an injection inlet; and an attachment, comprising a chamber portion and a deflector portion, wherein the chamber portion comprises a chamber portion inlet corresponding to the injection inlet, and a chamber portion outlet corresponding to the opening of the side wall of the pipe; and the deflector portion extends from a side wall of the chamber portion and makes the pipe, the side wall of the chamber portion and the chamber portion inlet fluidly connected, and the attachment constitutes a swirling structure that forms a swirling movement of exhaust at the chamber portion inlet.
US11913361B2
An energy storage system (TES) converts variable renewable electricity (VRE) to continuous heat at over 1000° C. Intermittent electrical energy heats a solid medium. Heat from the solid medium is delivered continuously on demand. Heat delivery via flowing gas establishes a thermocline which maintains high outlet temperature throughout discharge. The delivered heat which may be used for processes including power generation and cogeneration. In one application, the TES provides higher-temperature heat through non-combustible fluid to an alumina calcination system used to remove impurities or volatile substances and/or to incur thermal decomposition to a desired product.
US11913357B2
A gas turbine sealing interface to seal a gap between a transition duct and a turbine section component is provided. The transition duct includes an outlet exit frame including at least one fastener hole. The turbine section component includes a first stage vane structure including an upstream lip. A seal couples the outlet exit frame to the first stage turbine vane structure. An L-shaped rail including a flat portion and a lipped portion disposed perpendicularly to the flat portion. The seal is secured to the outlet exit frame via the L-shaped rail. An upstream portion of the seal includes a U-shaped cross section forming a first groove. A downstream portion of the seal comprises a groove which engages the upstream lip of the first stage turbine vane structure. A gas turbine engine including a radially inner sealing interface and a radially outer sealing interface is also provided.
US11913354B2
The invention relates to a movable turbomachine blade comprising at least one cooling circuit comprising at least one cavity extending radially between the root and the tip, at least one air intake opening at a radial end of the cavity, a plurality of first discharge slots arranged to open out along the trailing edge between the root and the tip, and a plurality of second discharge slots separate from the first discharge slots and arranged along the trailing edge between the root and the tip, the second discharge slots being offset axially upstream relative to the first discharge slots and each of the first discharge slots being radially offset relative to each of the second discharge slots, with no overlap between the first and second discharge slots.
US11913338B2
The present invention relates to a support method of preset internal cable for in-situ tunnel expansion project, comprising a cable, lockset and an anchoring agent, wherein before the excavation of the newly-built tunnel, a borehole is drilled into the surrounding rock from the in-situ tunnel, and the cable is installed in the borehole and pre-stressed, so as to play a supporting role at the moment of excavation of the newly-built tunnel. The cable is fixed in the depth of the surrounding rock by the anchoring agent, and the lockset of the cable is set at the position of the excavation contour line of the newly-built tunnel inside the surrounding rock. The present invention provides a method that does not interfere with the excavation construction and can effectively support the surrounding rock of the expanded tunnel in advance. It breaks through the “excavation first and then supports” model in the previous tunnel construction, and uses the space of the in-situ tunnel for pre-support, and by applying prestress, the deformation of surrounding rock can be controlled to the maximum extent.
US11913336B2
The invention relates to a low-power microwave coring machine suitable for lunar rocks and a use method. The low-power microwave coring machine suitable for lunar rocks comprises an equipment platform, wherein the support framework front plate and the support framework rear plate are mounted on the equipment platform in a sliding manner, a rear end surface of the support framework rear plate is connected with a front end of the microwave generator mounted on the equipment platform, a rear end of the microwave generator is sequentially connected with the fixed waveguide, the rotary waveguide, the power divider and the drill drum, the high-precision slip ring structure is mounted on the drill drum, the gear ferrules are arranged on an outer wall of the rotary waveguide and an outer wall of the drill drum.
US11913333B2
Determination of three-phase fluid saturations from production and pressure measurements from a well
The determination of subsurface three-phase saturation (that is, oil, water, and gas saturation) across perforations and open completions of production wells using production rates and pressure measurements. A process may use the surface production rates of oil, water, and gas and measured pressures to determine well fractional flows. The subsurface three-phase saturation may be determined using the cell fractional flows calculated from the well fractional flows. Computer-readable media and systems for determining subsurface three-phase saturation are also provided.
US11913331B1
Systems and methods for recovering and protecting sidewall core samples in unconsolidated formations
Systems and methods presented herein include sidewall coring tools used to return core samples of rock from a sidewall of a wellbore as part of a data collection exercise for exploration and production of hydrocarbons. In particular, the systems and methods presented herein perform sidewall coring of a subterranean formation using a combination of rotary and percussive coring. More specifically, the systems and methods presented herein rotate a coring cylinder of a sidewall coring tool back and forth less than a full rotation while pushing the coring cylinder of the sidewall coring tool against a bore wall of a wellbore, and push the coring cylinder of the sidewall coring tool into the subterranean formation to enable extraction of a core sample of the subterranean formation.
US11913327B2
A downhole connection includes a rotating member and an independently rotating member. A solenoid is connected to the independently rotating member and a moving member is connected to the rotating member. The moving member is movable by the solenoid and connected to an actuation valve of a downhole tool on the rotating member.
US11913324B2
An apparatus for downhole multi-dimensional imaging includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a formation resistivity signal, an ultrasonic echo signal and an orientation signal regularly; a sector calculation unit configured to calculate, based on said orientation signal, a sector where a currently acquired signal is from; and a multi-dimensional imaging unit, configured to calculate, based on the signals acquired by the acquisition unit, data of resistivity, distance from a drilling tool to a borehole wall and ultrasonic echo amplitude, and distribute said data into all sectors for feature recognition and extraction, thus obtaining key features characterizing a current formation being drilled, said key features being transmitted to ground for guiding drilling process. The structural complexity and the length of the downhole imaging measurement instrument can be reduced, and feature recognition can be directly performed on the imaging data underground.
US11913320B1
A mobile dewatering system includes a dewatering bin pivotally coupled to a trailer chassis and selectively operable to pivot between a transport configuration and an operation configuration. The dewatering bin has a cylindrical section and a dewatering cone. The dewatering cone includes an outer wall and a screen spatially adjacent the outer wall forming a void therebetween. A plurality of perforated pipes is positioned vertically around an inner circumference of the cylindrical section and intersect the screen such that water from the particle slurry passes into the perforated pipes and drops into the void. A particle slurry introduced into the dewatering cone contacts the screen, and water from the particle slurry passes through the screen and into the void. Water in the void is discharged away from the mobile dewatering system, and dewatered particles pass from the dewatering cone through a discharge port in the bottom of the dewatering cone.
US11913312B2
An intelligent oil extraction system using an all-metal screw pump includes: the all-metal screw pump, an oil collecting unit (43), and a steam generating unit (45); wherein an internal threaded curve surface and an external threaded curve surface of the all-metal screw pump are both tapered spiral structures with equal tapers; the oil extraction system comprises a lifting mechanism and monitoring and control mechanism; the monitoring and control mechanism comprises: a controller (34), a torque sensor (35), a flow sensor (36), a pressure sensor (39), a liquid level detector (38), and a backup power source (37); the controller (34) is electrically connected to the torque sensor (35), the flow sensor (36), the pressure sensor (39), the liquid level detector (38), the backup power source (37), a drive motor (48), a servo motor (33), a first valve and a second valve.
US11913308B2
A method that includes an electronic application identifying a downlink sequence for execution by a surface control system of a drilling rig, with the sequence including target output values of a mud pump system and/or a drive system. The method includes instructing the control system to operate in accordance with the sequence. The application receives measured output values of the mud pump system and/or the drive system and calculates differences between the target and measured output values. When the differences are within a level of tolerance, then the application identifies the control system as compliant; and when the differences are greater than the level of tolerance, then the application identifies the control system as non-compliant. The method also includes the application receiving data from a BHA of the drilling rig and determining, based on the data received, if a downlink to the BHA was successful.
US11913307B2
A pressure control valve for a downhole drilling system includes a choke body and a restrictor body. The choke body is installed in the bore of a housing. A fluid flow flows through an orifice in the choke body. Changing a distance between the choke body and the restrictor body changes a pressure differential uphole of the pressure control valve.
US11913304B2
A wiper plug to activate an internal sleeve positioned within a landing collar, wherein the landing collar and the internal sleeve are integral components.
US11913299B2
A top drive system for wellbore related activities involving a drilling tubulars string. The system includes a frame structure and a top drive device with one or more top drive motors, a transmission housing, a floating quill system with a hollow vertical floating quill shaft. The top drive device has a thrust bearing housing arranged below the transmission housing and suspended via said first and second vertical frame members from the top frame member. A hollow vertical outer main shaft is suspended from the thrust bearing housing and a hollow vertical inner main shaft is arranged vertically mobile within the outer main shaft. The inner main shaft is connected to the floating quill shaft and has a lower connector end that is configured to be connected to a drilling tubulars string via a threaded connection, so as to allow for transmission of the rotary torque from the one or more top drive motors via the transmission, the floating quill shaft, the inner main shaft, to the threadedly connected drilling tubular string.
US11913295B2
A method for plugging a lost-circulation zone in a subsurface formation includes introducing a drillstem including a drilling stabilizer into a wellbore during drilling operations, the drilling stabilizer including at least stabilizer blades and a pressure sensor. Each stabilizer blade includes at least an inner chamber, a light source, and a window. The method further includes injecting a lost-circulation fluid, including a plurality of lost-circulation particles, into the wellbore. Each lost-circulation particle includes a lost-circulation additive encapsulated by a photo-sensitive coating. The method further includes measuring a pressure differential with the pressure sensor and providing a pressure signal to the light source of each stabilizer blade, thereby actuating the light source to produce a light beam, which allows the light beam to contact the photo-sensitive coatings of the lost-circulation particles to release the lost-circulation additives. The method further includes allowing the lost-circulation fluid to plug the lost-circulation zone.
US11913283B2
A ladder walkthrough assembly can include a ladder; and a ladder walkthrough including a frame and a guide post, the frame coupled to the ladder the guide post coupled to the frame and extending upwards above a top end of the ladder. The frame can include a first bracket coupled to a first side rail of the ladder and a second bracket coupled to a second side rail of the ladder.
US11913281B1
A system for, and method of, automated window-shading which uses predefined hierarchies of information to select the best available information from multiple sources, and thereby supports varying levels of integration with other systems. A preferred embodiment includes enough functionality to perform automated functions on its own, but also includes low-level and high-level interfaces to accept information from external devices and systems to provide additional automated shading functionality. It executes operating steps that include the application of predefined hierarchies to select the best available information in order to select a mode of operation and determine a window-shading setting. In this way, the system is capable of supporting varying levels of integration with other systems, including fully autonomous operation without integration, partial integration via a low-level interface that does not require IT overhead and does not present cybersecurity risks, and full integration with a Building Management System.
US11913272B2
The present invention relates to a sectional lifting door system. When the system is in normal operation, a door operator drives a cable drum to wind or unwind a cable for lifting or lowering slats. During a process of lowering the slats, if the slats is stopped or slowed unexpectedly (e.g. the slats hit an obstacle below), the door operator is disconnected from a shaft automatically. At this time, even if the door operator is still activated, the shaft does not rotate, the cable drum does not unwind the cable so that a certain tension force can be maintained on the cable and that the cable is prevented from loosening from the drum, thereby preventing the slats from falling off. Also, it can avoid the situation that the weight of the slats is completely applied to the obstacle because the cable drum continuously unwinds the cable.
US11913271B2
A pivot hinge includes a spring housing with a central tube, a spring assembly, an upper mounting plate, and a lower mounting plate. The bottom end includes a knurled outer surface. A stop cam is positioned about the knurled outer surface and has an inner surface that conform to the knurled outer surface so that it may be positioned in a plurality of rotatable positions relative to the central tube. The stop cam also has an exterior surface which includes a detent. The different rotational positions of the stop cam upon the knurled outer surface changes the relative position of the detent in relationship to the central tube. A cam follower assembly is coupled to the lower mounting plate and has a cam follower plate with a cam follower that rides upon the stop cam and engages the detent recess to hold the door in an open position.
US11913254B2
An interchangeable electro-mechanical lock core for use with a lock device having a locked state and an unlocked state is disclosed. The interchangeable electro-mechanical lock core may include a moveable plug having a first position relative to a lock core body which corresponds to the lock device being in the locked state and a second position relative to a lock core body which corresponds to the lock device being in the unlocked state. The interchangeable electro-mechanical lock core may include a core keeper moveably coupled to a lock core body. The core keeper may be positionable in a retain position wherein the core keeper extends beyond an envelope of lock core body to hold the lock core body in an opening of the lock device and a remove position wherein the core keeper is retracted relative to the envelope of the lock core body to permit removal.
US11913252B2
A wireless electromechanical lock with one or more of an internal antenna, touch activation, and/or a light communication device that acts as a user interface. In some embodiments, the lock utilizes an antenna near the exterior face of the lockset, designed inside the metal body of the lockset itself. A light communication device is provided in some embodiments to communicate information, visually, to the user via animations and dynamic displays of light. In some embodiments, the lockset includes a touch activation capability, which can be used to lock/unlock the lock and/or otherwise provide input.
US11913250B2
A tubular lock for push locking has a lock housing, a switching handle mounted in a front end portion of the lock housing, an upper pin seat and a lower pin seat mounted in the lock housing and the switching handle, and multiple pin assemblies and a core shaft mounted in the upper pin seat and the lower pin seat. A key is only needed when unlocking the tubular lock, and then the tubular lock can be locked by pushing the core shaft. The tubular lock can be used to latch a pivotal mechanism. When the tubular lock is in an unlocking state, the user can switch the latch to the locking angular position or an unlocking angular position by turning the switching handle without using the key. Therefore, flexibility and convenience in using the tubular lock can be efficiently improved.
US11913247B1
A modular, electrically chargeable protective barrier that is structured to be coupled to a temporary fence panel is disclosed. The barrier includes a frame comprising multiple side vertical conductive support members and multiple horizontal conductive support members. The frame is electrically chargeable. The barrier includes multiple exposed conductive wires spanning a distance between the side vertical conductive support members. The exposed conductive wires are electrically chargeable, and a charge passes from the wires to the frame. The barrier includes a conductive bracket and a non-conductive bracket.
US11913246B2
A post and cap assembly for chain link fence is provided, including a tubular post with an upper end, an outer surface and an inner surface. A cap is dimensioned for telescoping engagement with the upper end, the cap having an exterior surface, an interior surface and a depending skirt. At least one depending formation extends from the interior surface for engaging the post upper end, as the skirt engages the outer surface.
US11913243B1
To address one or more of these and/or other needs or problems with the use of climbing aids in the construction industry, the present inventor devised, among other things, one or more exemplary systems, kits, methods, devices, assemblies, and/or components related to providing safe and efficient means for installing temporary walls in commercial building projects as well as for other situations where conventional ladders pose heightened risk of injury and death. One exemplary system includes a telescopic climbing mast having a minimal operational length in the range of at least 15 feet, extending between a base support and a ceiling interface configured to resist lateral movement of an upper end of the mast. An upper portion of the mast further includes a worker safety line tie-off point for connection to a retractable fall restraint line.
US11913231B2
A device maintains proper downspout conductor pipe spacing and alignment. This stationary device attaches directly to the foundation of a home in any location utilizing different embodiments for straight walls, inside corners and outside corner conditions. The device provides fixtures or mounts to position the downspout accurately and reliably relative to the foundation and other components of the house or building. The device may be turned vertically in conjunction with a specifically formed soil and gravel guard to run downspout conductor pipes along the outside of a foundation before it is backfilled. By installing this system before backfilling, the installer is able to chalk line a path with consistent fall to ensure proper water flow through the pipe.
US11913226B2
The present disclosure relates to a method to produce a wear resistant layer (1) and a method to produce a building panel (10) including a wear resistant layer (1). The wear resistant layer (1) includes a thermoplastic material. The wear resistant layer (1) is provided with portions (5, 6) having different gloss levels. The disclosure also relates to such a building panel (10).
US11913222B2
A construction board includes a foam body having first and second planar surfaces, said foam body including a polyisocyanurate foam matrix defining a plurality of closed cells, said closed cells being at least substantially devoid of hydrocarbon blowing agents, and said foam body being characterized by a density, pursuant to ASTM C303, of at least 2.5 lbs/ft3; and a facer disposed on a planar surface of said foam body, said facer including a glass substrate having an internal planar surface proximate to said foam body and an external planar surface opposite said foam body, a first coating disposed on said external surface, and a second coating disposed on or proximate to said internal surface, where said first coating disposed on said external surface includes an inert filler, and where said second coating disposed on or proximate to said internal surface includes intumescent material.
US11913221B2
A secure video visitation booth configured for individual use. The booth includes a plurality of wall assemblies joined at edges to form the walls of the booth, a mesh ceiling panel supported by the wall assemblies, a bench, an A/V module in one of the wall assemblies, a door in a door opening in another of the wall assemblies and a window in yet another of the wall assemblies. Each of the wall assemblies is of a spaced double wall construction, with an acoustic insulation material between the two walls.
US11913209B2
A toilet flush lever assembly is provided, including: a handle member, including an operation member and a shaft connected with each other, the shaft being configured to be rotatably mounted to a water tank; a connection member, being movable and connected with the shaft, including a sleeve portion which is slit to include at least one first slit; a driving member, including a ball joint and a rod member connected with each other, the sleeve portion being disposed around the ball joint; an urging member, sleeved with and radially urging the sleeve portion to restrain the ball joint.
US11913205B2
A modular plumbing system having one or more carriers each attached to a carrier mount that may be joined to one or more base rails. The modular plumbing system may be transported to a construction site fully assembled and ready to be installed by anchoring the plumbing system to a floor and connecting plumbing lines within the plumbing system to existing plumbing lines.
US11913197B2
A shovel includes a lower traveling structure, an upper swing structure swingably mounted on the lower traveling structure, a cab mounted on the upper swing structure, a door provided on the cab, a display placed in the cab, a switch placed at a position near the door and distant from the display, and processing circuitry configured to output information stored in the shovel in response to the switching of the switch.
US11913191B2
An earth levelling blade assembly for mounting on the lift arms of a loader includes a laterally extending main blade and two shoes supported at opposing ends of the main blade for sliding engagement along the ground. The shoes are supported for movement between a forward position ahead of the main blade and a rearward position behind the main blade, as well as being adjustable in height relative to a bottom cutting edge of the main blade. A coupling arrangement between a first mounting frame on the lift arms of the loader and a second mounting frame on the rear mounting face of the main blade (i) supports the second mounting frame to be freely pivotal about a forward axis relative to the first mounting frame in which the forward axis is oriented in the forward working direction of the loader and (ii) supports the second mounting frame to freely translate relative to the first mounting frame along an upright axis.
US11913186B2
A loading module includes a test vehicle, a servo cylinder is mounted on the test vehicle, a piston rod of the servo cylinder is connected with a bearing plate acting on a subgrade surface, an annular loading plate is disposed around the bearing plate, and the loading plate is connected, through a force transmission rod, with a bearing tray on which a counterweight block is placed; a data collecting module includes a second high precision displacement sensor and a plurality of first high precision displacement sensors; a data processing module includes a computer, the computer is connected with a signal input end of the servo cylinder, an output end of the first high precision displacement sensor and an output end of the second high precision displacement sensor respectively, and performs inverse calculation for a dynamic resilient modulus value of a subgrade using a software.
US11913185B2
A control gate adapted to be installed across a channel for liquids. The control gate includes a barrier member with a side member that has a circular arcuate section, the barrier member being pivotally mounted at or adjacent to the base of the channel; and a drive for raising and lowering the barrier member. The drive includes a cable, motor and first and second pulleys. The first pulley is coupled to the motor, the cable is secured to opposite first and second ends of the arcuate section, with the second pulley being adjacent to the arcuate section. The cable passes along the arcuate section from the one end to pass under the second pulley in contact therewith, is looped around the first pulley, above the second pulley, then passes under the second pulley and is secured to the second end of the arcuate section.
US11913184B2
A snow thrower includes a motor, an auger driven by the motor to rotate, a handle device for a user to operate, an auger housing for containing the auger and a frame for connecting the handle device and the auger housing. The auger housing is made of at least two different materials.
US11913178B2
An oscillation module for a compacting roller of a soil compactor includes a plate-like carrier, at least two oscillation mass units supported on the carrier at a distance from one another, and an oscillation drive motor supported on the carrier. The carrier has a connection formation for firmly connecting the carrier to a carrier structure of a compacting roller. Each oscillation mass unit includes an imbalance mass rotatably supported on the carrier about an oscillation axis of rotation. Each imbalance mass of each oscillation mass unit can be driven by the oscillation drive motor for rotation about the respectively assigned oscillation axis of rotation.
US11913174B2
A recyclable paper laminate comprising a water-dispersible barrier against any permeation.
US11913173B2
A biodegradable and recyclable barrier paper laminate comprising an inorganic barrier layer against permeation.
US11913163B2
A heat exchanger includes: a copper pipe forming a refrigerant circulation passage; and a plurality of fins arranged at positions spaced apart from each other along one direction and coupled to an outer circumferential surface of the copper pipe, wherein the copper pipe includes: a plurality of straight tubes extending along the arranged direction of the plurality of fins; and a plurality of return bends connected to one end of one of the plurality of straight tubes and one end of another one of the plurality of straight tubes by welding, wherein burrs having a circumference greater than an outer diameter of each straight tube are formed at both ends of the plurality of straight tubes, a distance between a rim of the burr and an outer surface of the straight tube is 0.4 mm to 1.8 mm.
US11913162B2
The present disclosure relates to a tumble dryer 1 with a rotatable drum 11 and a heat pump for drying process air that enters the drum, the heat pump comprising a condenser 19, a compressor 17, and an evaporator 15. In order to improve energy efficiency, the rotatable drum comprises a circular rear wall with air inlet openings and a radial cylindrical wall with air outlet openings, the compressor 17 is adapted to be run by an inverter 29, allowing the compressor output to be varied, and the expansion 16 is controllable. This allows the heat pump arrangement to be controlled to an optimum heat pump cycle envelope.
US11913160B2
A method of operating a laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to a treating cycle of operation. The laundry treating appliance comprises a treating chamber for receiving the laundry that is selectively accessible through a door movable between opened and closed positions. The method comprises determining at the end of a laundry treating cycle whether the door has been opened and subsequently reclosed and reducing humidity in the treating chamber after the determination that the door has been reclosed.
US11913159B2
Provided is a washing agent pump and a laundry treating apparatus having the same. The laundry treating apparatus may include a cabinet, a tub provided within the cabinet, a rotary tub provided within the tub in a rotatable manner, and a washing agent supply unit. The washing agent supply unit may include a storage container to store a liquid washing agent including a liquid detergent or a liquid softener, the storage container being slidably provided in the cabinet, a washing agent supply passage having one side connected to the storage container and another side connected to the tub, and a washing agent delivery device provided in the washing agent supply passage to deliver the liquid washing agent to the tub.
US11913148B2
A hybrid reinforcing fabric includes glass fibers and carbon fibers. The hybrid reinforcing fabric can be readily infused at an acceptable infusion speed, without requiring that the carbon fiber tows used resin. Thus, the fabric provides for an effective one-step (i.e., in the mold) infusion process during composite part formation.
US11913147B2
A textile device for detecting liquids comprising a matrix fabric obtained by knitting, a first non-insulated conductive wire and a second non-insulated conductive wire knitted with the matrix fabric, a source of electric energy connected to the non-insulated conductive wires in order to create a first electric circuit and to have a potential difference between the non-insulated conductive wires, an electrical resistance measuring device configured to measure the electric resistance R in the first electric circuit. The textile device is configured in such a way that, when the non-insulated conductive wires electrically connect by means of a liquid, the electrical resistance measuring system measures a variation of electric resistance R in said first electric circuit. Furthermore, at least one insulated conductive wire is provided connected to a source of electric energy in order to create a second electric circuit.
US11913146B1
An electrode comprising a conductive textile structure having an inner surface that is connected to one of an electrical power supply and an electrical ground; the conductive textile structure having an outer surface, the outer surface comprising a carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber fabric fixed thereon, the CNT fiber fabric having continuous CNT fiber on the outer surface, wherein the CNT fiber fabric comprises at least one of a CNT fiber, and is at least one of knitted, woven, sewn, and embroidered. The continuous CNT fiber may be a yarn, ribbon, or thread. The CNT fiber fabric includes at least one face having a looped or interlaced structure made from the continuous CNT fiber. The CNT fiber yarn, ribbon, or thread is knitted, woven, sewn, and/or embroidered so that at least one surface comprises a textile made with CNT fiber yarns, ribbons, or threads.
US11913142B2
Systems for fabricating nanofiber yarn at rates of at least 30 m/min (1.8 kilometers (km)/hour (hr)) using a “false twist” nanofiber yarn spinner and a false twist spinning technique are disclosed. In a false twist spinning technique, a twist is introduced to nanofibers in a strand by twisting the nanofibers at points between ends of the strand. This is in contrast to the “true twist” technique where one end of a strand is fixed and the opposing end of the strand is rotated to introduce the twist to intervening portions of yarn.
US11913141B2
In a drafting system (1) for a textile machine, in particular an air-spinning machine, for drafting a strand-shaped fibre band fed to the drafting system, having a plurality of roller pairs arranged in succession in a running direction (A) of the fibre band and each having a top roller (3) and a bottom roller (4), and a weighting device for applying a load to the top roller (3) of the plurality of roller pairs; wherein the respective bottom roller (4) is mounted and held in a housing (2) of the drafting system (1), wherein the respective top roller (3) is mounted and held in the housing (2) of the drafting system (1) by means of a top roller carrier (30) which can be pivoted about a rotary axis.
US11913138B2
Methods for screening of affinity reagents for many target proteins of interest simultaneously. Arrayed targets (e.g., peptide, protein, RNA, cell, etc.) are used in affinity selection experiments to reduce the amount of target needed and to improve the throughput of discovering recombinant affinity reagents to a large collection of targets.
US11913131B2
A ternary zinc-nickel-iron alloy and aqueous alkaline electrolyte for electroplating the alloy includes zinc, nickel, and a complex of an iron salt.
US11913125B2
A layered double hydroxide (LDH) material, methods for using the LDH material to catalyse the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in a water-splitting process and methods for preparing the LDH material. The LDH material includes nickel, iron and chromium species and possesses a sheet-like morphology including at least one hole.
US11913124B2
A method of recovering performance of a water electrolysis system is a method of recovering performance of a water electrolysis system which includes a water electrolysis stack having a solid polymer membrane, a positive electrode, and a negative electrode, the method including the steps of: bringing an operating state of the water electrolysis system into a state of low-temperature operation in which a temperature of water is lower than a temperature of water during ordinary operation in which water electrolysis is carried out by the water electrolysis stack; and in the state of the low-temperature operation, passing an electric current through each of the positive electrode and the negative electrode.
US11913121B2
A method for fabricating a substrate having an electrical interconnection structure is provided, which includes the steps of: providing a substrate body having a plurality of conductive pads and first and second passivation layers sequentially formed on the substrate body and exposing the conductive pads; forming a seed layer on the second passivation layer and the conductive pads; forming a first metal layer on each of the conductive pads, wherein the first metal layer is embedded in the first and second passivation layers without being protruded from the second passivation layer; and forming on the first metal layer a second metal layer protruded from the second passivation layer. As such, when the seed layer on the second passivation layer is removed by etching using an etchant, the etchant will not erode the first metal layer, thereby preventing an undercut structure from being formed underneath the second metal layer.
US11913106B2
A metastable β titanium alloy is provided, which includes, by weight percent, between 24 and 45% niobium, between 0 and 20% zirconium, between 0 and 10% tantalum and/or between 0 and 1.5% silicon and/or less than 2% oxygen, said alloy having a crystallographic structure containing: a mix of austenitic phase and alpha phase; and a presence of omega phase precipitates the volume fraction of which is less than 10%. Also provided is a timepiece spring made from such an alloy and a method for producing such a spring.
US11913099B2
Press hardened steels exhibit increased strength in the press hardened steel parts without a corresponding decrease in elongation. Substitutional elements are included in the steel composition to increase the strength of martensite through a combination of substitutional solute strengthening and a reduction in softening that results from autotempering. Softening as a result of autotempering is minimized by suppression of the martensite start (Ms) temperature through the alloying. As a result of the increased hardenability in the proposed compositions that results from various additions of manganese, chromium, molybdenum, and niobium, the steel compositions permit a boron-free press hardening steel.
US11913097B2
Provided is a Fe—Al-based alloy vibration-damping component including 4.0 to 12.0% by mass of Al with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, having an average crystal grain size in the range of over 700 μm to 2,000 μm and a sectional defect rate of lower than 0.1%, and having an irregular sectional shape. Also provided is a method for manufacturing a Fe—Al-based alloy vibration-damping component. The method obtains a vibration-damping component having an irregular sectional shape, and includes a shaping step in which metal powder including 4.0 to 12.0% by mass of Al with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities is melted and solidified using a heat source with a scanning rate set to 700 to 1700 mm/second to obtain a shaped product and an annealing step in which the shaped product is annealed at a temperature of 800 to 1200° C.
US11913088B2
The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet, which can be used in various applications including automobile parts and exhibits excellent collision safety and excellent moldability, and a method for manufacturing the high-strength steel sheet. The high-strength steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention satisfies a predetermined chemical composition and has a metallographic microstructure having ferrite fraction: 0% to 10%, MA fraction: 0% to 30%, hard phase other than ferrite and MA: 70% to 100% in terms of area proportion and retained austenite fraction: 5% to 30% in terms of volume proportion, and in the high-strength steel sheet, the skewness of IQ as analyzed by the EBRD method is −1.2 to −0.3 when the skewness is expressed by a predetermined relational expression in a case where crystal grains having a bcc structure and a bct structure are regarded as an aggregation of regions having an area of 0.05 μm2.
US11913085B1
A method for preparing a press-hardened steel component is provided. The method includes forming a heated blank by heating a steel alloy blank to a first temperature in a first zone of a furnace having two or more zones, and after the heating of the steel alloy blank to the first temperature, heating the steel alloy blank to a second temperature in a second zone of the furnace. The second temperature is greater than the first temperature. The first zone has a first flow rate for a protective gas, and the second zone has a second flow rate for the protective gas that is greater than the first flow rate. The method further includes stamping and quenching the heated blank at a constant rate to a temperature between a martensite finish temperature of the steel alloy defining the steel alloy blank and room temperature to form the press-hardened steel component.
US11913081B2
A proximity dependent split T7 RNAP (RNA polymerase) sensor using continuous molecular evolution is described. The versatility of the platform is described by creating robust light and small molecule-responsive genetic sensors. The activity-responsive RNAP platform dramatically simplifies and expands genetic circuit creation, and opens new opportunities in protein engineering, synthetic biology, and bioengineering.
US11913075B2
The subject matter disclosed herein is generally directed to detecting and modulating novel gene signatures for the treatment and prognosis of cancer. The novel gene signatures predict overall survival in cancer and can be targeted therapeutically.
US11913074B2
This document provides methods and materials related to treating a disease. For example, this document provides methods for treating a subject's disease based on identifying the risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy PML using a genetic test.
US11913069B2
The present invention relates to a scalable multiplex PCR method that can simultaneously amplify overlapping amplicons without the drawbacks of conventional multiplex PCR. The method selectively amplifying target nucleic acid fragments having an overlapping region. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a first nucleic acid sequence comprising a first tag t2 and a first forward primer F1, obtaining a second nucleic acid sequence comprising a second tag t1 and a first reverse primer R1, obtaining a third nucleic acid sequence comprising the second tag t1 and a second forward primer F2, obtaining a fourth nucleic acid sequence comprising a third tag 3 and a second reverse primer R2, wherein each primer is a gene-specific primer; performing initial cycles of PCR; and then performing later cycles of PCR at higher annealing temperatures to obtain amplification products.
US11913062B2
Present disclosure provides a method including isolating DNA from a source, thereby providing a composition including the isolated DNA. The isolated DNA has at least first and second target regions, where the length of the second target region is greater than the length of the first target region. The method further includes quantifying a total mass of the isolated DNA, quantifying a first quantification cycle (Cq) of the first target region and a second Cq of the second target region, and calculating a Q-ratio for the isolated DNA by dividing the second Cq by the first Cq. The method further includes determining a value for a quality-mass constant (kQm), estimating a required input mass by dividing kQm by the Q-ratio, and preparing the isolated DNA for sequencing if the total mass of the isolated DNA in the composition is equal or greater than the required input mass.
US11913059B1
An apparatus and method for detecting an analyte of interest using paper spray mass spectrometry includes a spray material; a sample on the spray material including an enzyme of interest; a solvent to hydrate the sample, promote enzymatic activity, and extract analytes of interest from the sample; a substrate specific to the enzyme of interest, wherein any of the spray material and the solvent includes the substrate; a voltage source to apply a voltage to the spray material to create charged droplets of a mixture containing the sample; and a mass spectrometer to perform spectrometry on the droplets to perform any of: identify the analytes of interest in the sample; and measure a level of inhibition in any enzymes contained in the sample.
US11913057B2
A method for determining whether a test sample contains a phytopathogenic fungus selectively from two kinds of fungi of a phytopathogenic fungus and a non-phytopathogenic fungus. The method comprises: (a) putting the test sample on a front surface of a substrate comprising a through hole; wherein the substrate comprises a cellulose film on a back surface thereof; the cellulose film has no through hole; the cellulose film has a thickness of more than 2 micrometers and not more than 3.7 micrometers; and the through hole has a cross-sectional area of not less than 7.065 square micrometers and not more than 19.625 square micrometers; (b) leaving the test sample at rest; (c) observing a back surface of the cellulose film; and (d) determining that the test sample contains the phytopathogenic fungus, if a fungus which has penetrated the cellulose film is found on the back surface of the cellulose film.
US11913056B2
Provided is engineered microorganisms expressing acetoacetyl-CoA reductase variants and a method for improving the yield of PHA. Compared with the wild-type acetoacetyl-CoA reductase represented by SEQ ID NO. 31, the variant has one or more of the following mutations: (1) mutation of valine at position 141 to isoleucine or leucine; (2) mutation of methionine at position 12 to threonine, serine, alanine, leucine, lysine or isoleucine; (3) mutation of isoleucine at position 194 to valine, leucine or methionine; (4) mutation of glutamic acid at position 42 to lysine, glutamine, leucine, aspartic acid, proline, threonine, asparagine, or histidine; and (5) mutation of phenylalanine at position 55 to valine, alanine or isoleucine. The variants and their coding genes can promote the synthesis and accumulation of PHA by the strain and increase the yield of PHA.
US11913053B2
Provided is an application of trehalase in fermentative production. The trehalase has amino acid sequences shown in SEQ ID NO.6, SEQ ID NO.7, and SEQ ID NO.8. Provided are methods for producing and applying trehalase, particularly being applied in the production and fermentation of alcohol and an amino acid.
US11913052B2
Disclosed are cell-free systems for metabolic engineering, methods for cell-free metabolic engineering, kits for preparing the disclosed systems, and kits for performing the disclosed methods. The disclosed systems, methods, and kits may be utilized to prepare a chemical product or natural product and to optimize conditions for preparing a chemical product or natural product. The disclosed systems, methods, and kits also may be utilized for combinatorial cell-free metabolism engineering.
US11913050B2
IN The present invention relates to a method for the recombinant production of DNA single stranded molecules, comprising the steps of (1) providing a pseudogene nucleic acid; (2) integrating the pseudogene nucleic acid into a vector, transforming bacterial cells with said vector and producing a precursor ssDNA from said vector under bacterial culture conditions; (3) isolating the precursor ssDNA from the bacterial culture; (4) digesting the precursor ss DNA under reaction conditions where self-cleaving DNA sequences become active; and (5) separating and obtaining the target single stranded DNA oligo- or polynucleotide(s). The method of the present invention is suitable for the mass production of DNA single stranded molecules. The present invention further relates to the use of the target single stranded DNA oligo- or polynucleotide(s), in particular in DNA nanotechnology, or as research tools.
US11913044B2
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to strategies, systems, methods, compositions, and kits that are useful for production (e.g., evolution) of cytidine deaminase protein variants that are characterized by increased soluble expression and/or stability relative to the wild-type cytidine deaminase protein from which they are evolved. In some embodiments, evolved cytidine deaminase variants described by the disclosure are useful for incorporation into targeted nucleic acid editing proteins, for example in fusion proteins with a Cas9 domain or variant thereof.
US11913039B2
A method of producing recombinant alkaline phosphatase comprising control of production parameters, particularly harvest clarified culture fluid (HCCF) and filtration pool (UFDF), to provide a defined total sialic acid content.
US11913038B2
Provided are nucleic acids encoding engineered polymerases comprising at least one modification in a motif A and/or at least one modification in a motif B of the polymerase and engineered polymerases encoded by the nucleic acids. Also provided are engineered DNA polymerases comprising a variant of SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2, or SEQ ID NO:3, the variant being at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO:1, SEQ ID NO:2 or SEQ ID NO:3 and comprising an amino acid substitution at one or more positions selected from the group consisting of L408, Y409, P410, R484, A/L485, and I486. Methods, vectors, kits, and compositions comprising the nucleic acids and compositions, methods and kits comprising the engineered polymerases are also provided.
US11913036B2
The present invention provides engineered acetate kinase (AcK) enzymes, polypeptides having AcK activity, and polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, as well as vectors and host cells comprising these polynucleotides and polypeptides. Methods for producing AcK enzymes are also provided. The present invention further provides compositions comprising the AcK enzymes and methods of using the engineered AcK enzymes. The present invention finds particular use in the production of pharmaceutical compounds.
US11913026B2
A bispecific cytotoxic lymphocyte or macrophage-redirecting autoantibody comprising a cytotoxic lymphocyte or macrophage targeting domain and an autoantibody. Methods for producing bispecific cytotoxic lymphocyte or macrophage-redirecting autoantibody comprising a cytotoxic lymphocyte or macrophage targeting domain and an autoantibody. Methods for treating a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject an isolated bispecific cytotoxic lymphocyte or macrophage-redirecting autoantibody.
