US11912426B2
Thrust values for motors in an aircraft are generated where each flight controller in a plurality of flight controllers generates a thrust value for each motor in a plurality of motors using an optimization problem with a single solution. Each flight controller in the plurality of flight controllers passes one of the generated thrust values to a corresponding motor in the plurality of motors, where other generated thrust values for that flight controller terminate at that flight controller. The plurality of motors perform the passed thrust values.
US11912423B2
Propulsion systems for aircraft include a fan and a low pressure turbine operably coupled to a first shaft, a low pressure compressor and an intermediate pressure turbine operably coupled to a second shaft, and a high pressure compressor and a high pressure turbine operably coupled to a third shaft. A burner is arranged between the high pressure compressor and the high pressure turbine, with a main flow path defined through the propulsion system. A hydrogen fuel system is configured to supply hydrogen fuel to the burner. A condenser is arranged along the main flow path and configured to extract water from exhaust from the burner. An evaporator is arranged along the main flow path and configured to receive a portion of the water to generate steam which is injected into the main flow path upstream from the evaporator.
US11912422B2
A hybrid electric aircraft powerplant arrangement can include a first wing pair of powerplants for a first wing of an aircraft, the first wing pair comprising a first electric powerplant configured to drive a first air mover and a first heat engine powerplant configured to drive a second air mover separate from the first air mover. The arrangement can include a second wing pair of powerplants for a second wing of the aircraft, the second wing pair comprising a second electric powerplant configured to drive a third air mover separate from the first and second air movers, and a second heat engine powerplant configured to drive a fourth air mover separate from the first, second, and third air movers.
US11912419B2
Improvements to ice protection systems as disclosed herein include monitoring ice accretion intensity based on atmospheric conditions proximate to a vehicle. Examples of parameters that measure atmospheric conditions include a water content and a size distribution of an atmosphere around a vehicle. These parameters, along with other vehicle parameters, are used to control at least one ice protection element to reduce ice accretion intensity at one or more designated locations of the vehicle. Incorporating measurements of cloud conditions enables nuanced control of the ice protection system and improves overall system efficiency of the vehicle.
US11912416B2
Aircraft systems including a pressurized fuel tank containing a pressurized fuel, a turbo expander configured to receive the pressurized fuel from the fuel tank, the turbo expander configured to decrease a pressure of the pressurized fuel to generate low pressure fuel having pressure less than the pressurized fuel, a fuel-to-air heat exchanger configured to receive the low pressure fuel from the turbo expander as a first working fluid and air as a second working fluid, the heat exchanger configured to cool the air and warm the fuel, an aircraft cabin configured to receive the cooled air, and a fuel consumption system configured to consume the fuel to generate power.
US11912408B2
In various embodiments, specialized vehicle launch systems and methods are provided to enable personnel to launch and operate one or more UAVs from the safety of a vehicle or other mobile location. In various embodiments, a launch system comprises a launch device and an operator terminal. The launch device is adapted to be mounted on an exterior surface of a vehicle and is communicably coupled to the operator terminal, which is operable from the interior of the vehicle. The vehicle launch system allows an operator to control one or more UAVs from inside the vehicle, without requiring the operator to step outside of the vehicle to interact with the UAV or launch device.
US11912407B1
Unmanned vehicles may be terrestrial, aerial, nautical, or multi-mode. Unmanned vehicles may accomplish tasks by breaking out into sub-drones, re-grouping itself, changing form, or re-orienting its sensors.
US11912403B2
An exemplary pitch link centering tool includes a rod having a longitudinal axis, a front face, a rear face, a first rod end and a second rod end, the first rod end having a first aperture with a first rotational axis, the second rod end having a second aperture with a second rotational axis, a first connector coupled to the first rod end, the first connector having a first slot extending in a first radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis and a second connector coupled to the second rod end, the second connector having a second slot extending in a second radial direction relative to the longitudinal axis different from the first radial direction.
US11912401B2
A braking system includes a brake stack; a first brake cavity operably coupled to the brake stack, the first brake cavity including a first plurality of brake actuators; a second brake cavity operably coupled to the brake stack, the second brake cavity including a second plurality of brake actuators; and a brake control module, the brake control module being configured to activate either the first plurality of brake actuators or both the first plurality of brake actuators and the second plurality of brake actuators in response to an input brake load.
US11912394B2
A propulsion assembly for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), includes a motor, a propeller seat configured to be driven by the motor and to receive a propeller, and a sensor configured to collect sensing data useful for determining a type of the propeller disposed on the propeller seat and controlling the motor based on the type of the propeller.
US11912391B2
This disclosure describes flanking rudders, including asymmetrically shaped flanking rudders and methods of manufacturing and using asymmetrically shaped flanking rudders. An exemplary asymmetrically shaped flanking rudder includes an exterior surface having a first shape and an exterior surface having second shape different from the first shape.
US11912388B2
A marine vessel power supply system for a marine vessel including an electric motor to rotate a propeller includes an inverter to supply electric power to the electric motor, a battery to supply electric power to the inverter, and an electronic control unit configured or programmed to control the inverter. The inverter includes an inverter circuit to convert DC electric power supplied from the battery to AC electric power, a voltage detector to detect the voltage in a wiring between the battery and the inverter circuit, and a microcomputer configured or programmed to communicate with the electronic control unit and to control the inverter circuit according to a command supplied from the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit calculates an SOC estimate indicative of an estimated state-of-charge value of the battery based on a value of the voltage detected by the voltage detector and acquired from the microcomputer.
US11912379B2
Methods and apparatus for monitoring windlass rotation are provided to determine the real time rate and length of rode release when anchoring a boat. The rotation can be monitored in real time using directional sound and/or electromagnetic radiation receivers and/or transmitter in a module attached to the windlass. Another windlass module can monitor windlass rotation using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) components such as accelerometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes, and/or inertial measurement units (IMU) to sense motion and/or position.
US11912378B2
A visual distress signal device that generates and emits bright light and/or infrared light to alert bystanders during times of distress. The device may be particularly suited for use on boats. The device may comprise a heat sink assembly that includes a screw-on collar that is attached to a housing of the device, such that the screw-on collar dissipates heat generated by electromagnetic radiation emitting elements away from an interior of the housing. The device may be configured for activation by a mobile phone or other mobile device which may be connected to the device via wireless communication. Furthermore, the mobile device may comprise a software application that can be used to alert persons in a contact list regarding the user's location and emergency status.
US11912367B2
In an embodiment, there is provided a motorcycle comprising at least one front wheel, at least one rear wheel and a vehicle body, the vehicle body comprising a substantially open elongate duct extending longitudinally through a central portion of the vehicle body between an open inlet aperture arranged at a front portion of the vehicle body and an open outlet aperture arranged at a rear portion of the vehicle body.
US11912364B2
A mounting assembly of a scooter seat, and a scooter. The mounting assembly comprises a mounting base (120), a supporting block (130), and a fastener; the mounting base (120) comprises a top plate (122) and two side plates (123) fixedly provided on two opposite sides of the top plate (122); mounting holes for fixing the scooter seat (900) are provided on the top plate (122); the two side plates (123) are clamped on the scooter body; the top plate (122) is provided on a footboard of the scooter body; the supporting block (130) is interposed between the scooter body and the side plates (123); the fastener is provided on the side plates (123) and tightly locks the supporting block (130) to enable the supporting block (130) to be fastened on the scooter body.
US11912348B2
A vehicle is provided that includes a sensor arrangement configured to sense one or more regions proximate to an exterior of the vehicle, and a controller configured to process signals generated by the sensor arrangement and to detect and generate a geometric profile of a trailer in the one or more regions proximate to the exterior of the vehicle, the controller further determining an air resistance of the trailer based on the geometric profile and calculating an expected driving range of the vehicle based on the detected air resistance.
US11912346B2
A vehicle includes a chassis, a passenger compartment supported by the chassis, and a box supported by the chassis spaced from the passenger compartment. The box including a lower bed fixedly mounted to the chassis, an upper bed, and a tail gate pivotally connected to the upper bed. Each of the upper bed, and the tail gate is shiftable relative to the lower bed.
US11912345B2
A center load rack and pinion steering mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism comprises a center load steering rack housing mounted to a vehicle frame, with a longitudinal slot through the front surface thereof, the slot being fitted with a bushing of a material that is resistant to damage from heat and bending. A pair of center link mounting bolts secure a center link and a center link pad to the rack wherein the center link pad extends through the bushing such that the upper and lower surfaces of the center link pad engage the upper and lower inner surfaces of the bushing, respectively, to prevent upward and downward movement and twisting of the center link and the center link pad relative to the rack in response to steered wheels of the vehicle contacting rough or uneven terrain while in use to prevent damage to components of the steering mechanism.
US11912344B2
A vehicle lower part structure includes: center rail portions disposed at a central part in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; front rail portions disposed forward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear rail portions disposed rearward of the center rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; front connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the front rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; rear connecting rail portions connecting the center rail portions and the rear rail portions in the front-rear direction of the vehicle; first mount portions supporting a vehicle body constituting a cabin; and second mount portions supporting the vehicle body.
US11912336B2
The present disclosure relates to a rear sub-frame assembly, applied to an electric vehicle main body, and rear sub-frame assembly comprises a rear sub-frame main body and positioning supports, rear sub-frame main body is bilateral symmetry structure; vehicle body connecting parts connected with rear sub-frame main body on upper portion of rear sub-frame main body, and battery pack guard plate connecting parts connected with rear sub-frame main body on lower portion of rear sub-frame main body are constructed on rear sub-frame main body, stabilizing rod mounting parts, upper control arm mounting parts and lower control arm mounting parts are further arranged on rear sub-frame main body respectively; the quantity of positioning supports respectively arranged close to left end and right end of rear sub-frame main body is two, and positioning parts matched with external positioning members to position rear sub-frame main body are constructed on two positioning supports respectively.
US11912333B2
A steering device includes a steering shaft, a steering column, a bracket, and a fastening mechanism. An upper column includes a clamp, a cylindrical part, a pair of protrusions, and contact ribs. The clamp includes a continuous clamp and a spaced clamp. The protrusions include a continuous protrusion and a spaced protrusion. The contact ribs include first contact ribs disposed each of which is disposed on the outer peripheral surface of the clamp, second contact ribs each of which is disposed on a side surface of the protrusion and disposed opposite to the first contact rib with respect to a long groove, and at least one third contact rib disposed on a side surface of the spaced protrusion and between the first contact rib and the long groove. The third contact rib has a protrusion amount greater than those of the first contact rib and the second contact rib.
US11912326B2
A wheeled cart includes a collapsible basket assembly configured to transport a variety of objects placed within. A brake lever arm is pivotably attached to the basket assembly and pivotable about a brake lever arm axis. A brake lever arm distal end is engaged by a user's foot to move between a released position and a braked position. The brake lever arm includes a brake feature. An inside face of a wheel includes a plurality of stops radially disposed about its axis. In the braked position the brake feature is configured to be positioned between at least two of the plurality of stops of the respective rear wheel thereby preventing rotation of the wheel. In the released position the brake feature is configured to be positioned outside the plurality of stops thereby allowing rotation of the wheel.
US11912316B2
A vehicle coupler, a coupler tongue and a coupler body. Upper traction platforms and lower traction platforms of the coupler tongue and the hook body are arranged in an offset manner in the horizontal direction, and the section R of a traction surface of the upper traction platform and the section S of a traction surface of the lower traction platform are obtained by sectioning the coupler tongue along any vertical surface across an axis of a pin hole; and the perpendicular distance between the point on the section R closest to a nock portion and the axis of the pin hole is k, and the perpendicular distance between the point on the section S closest to the neck portion and the axis of the pin hole is m, and as such, n=|k−m|, and 10 mm≤n≤125 mm.
US11912294B2
A method for calibrating an ADAS sensor of an advanced driver assistance system of a vehicle (9) comprises the following steps: (A) deriving an attitude parameter of the vehicle (9); receiving the derived attitude parameter in a control unit (11); (B) comparing the derived attitude parameter with a corresponding reference parameter; (C) aiding with the positioning of a support structure (3) near the service area (8), where a calibration device (41) is mounted on the support structure (3); sending a calibration command from the control unit (11) to an electronic control unit (95) of the vehicle (9) to determine an interaction between the ADAS sensor and the calibration device (41); processing data received from the electronic control unit (95) of the vehicle (9) in the control unit (11).
US11912293B2
A method determines a blockage of a sensor of a plurality of sensors of an ego vehicle. The method determines a prior blockage probability of the sensor of the plurality of sensors; receives sensor data of the sensor of the plurality of sensors; determines a performance of the sensor based on the received sensor data; calculates a posterior blockage probability based on the prior blockage probability of the sensor and the performance of the sensor; and determines the blockage of the sensors using the calculated posterior blockage probability.
US11912288B2
A controller causes a calculation device to perform calculation that determines an operation of a moving object and generates digital signals that define the operations of actuators. The generated digital signals are output to a digital signal transmission path by a signal bus control IC. ICs attached to the actuators obtain digital signals that define the operations of the actuators from the digital signal transmission path and generate control signals for the actuators based on the operations defined by the digital signals.
US11912285B2
An apparatus for an autonomous vehicle may include a plurality of sensors and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a trip plan via including a pick-up location, a drop-off location, an identity of the passenger, and control parameters, execute the trip plan according to the pick-up location, the drop-off location, the identity of the passenger, and the control parameters, receive sensor data from the plurality of sensors, and analyze the sensor data in relation to a criteria profile to determine whether compliance boundaries of the criteria profile have been violated. The criteria profile may be generated based on the trip plan and may indicate compliance boundaries for the trip plan. The processing circuitry may be further configured to send an alert in response to determining that the sensor data indicates that a violation of a compliance boundary of the criteria profile has occurred.
US11912283B2
Technologies and techniques for automatically generating labeled steering torque data, with which an artificial intelligence (AI) unit is trained to detect hands-off conditions when the vehicle is being operated.
US11912279B2
Systems and methods for limiting functionality of a vehicle are described. In one example, vehicle feature modules may specify vehicle behaviors and vehicle operation is limited according to the specified behaviors. Vehicle actuators may be adjusted to limit vehicle operation according to the specified vehicle behaviors. The vehicle behaviors may apply to powertrain systems, navigation systems, climate control systems, lighting systems and other vehicle systems.
US11912265B2
Aspects relate to methods and systems for parking a vehicle. An exemplary system includes a first plurality of sensors located on the vehicle and configured to detect first sensor data as a function of objects over a first height range, a second plurality of sensors located on the vehicle and configured to detect second sensor data as a function of objects over a second height range at least partially greater than the first height range, and a computing device configured to receive the first sensor data from the first plurality of sensors and the second sensor data from the second plurality of sensors, and determine the space proximal the vehicle is suitable for parking the vehicle as a function of the first sensor data, the second sensor data, and a height of the vehicle.
US11912263B2
A method for controlling vehicle propulsion includes identifying at least one route characteristic of a portion of a route being traversed by a vehicle. The method further includes determining a profile for a target vehicle speed based on the at least one route characteristic and a vehicle energy consumption profile. The method further includes selectively adjusting a vehicle speed control input based on the target vehicle speed profile. The method further includes communicating the vehicle speed control input to a vehicle propulsion controller to achieve the target vehicle speed profile.
US11912256B2
To suppress a sharp variation in the posture of a vehicle in a control apparatus that is configured to control the posture of the vehicle by adjusting a distribution ratio of a braking force between the front and rear during braking of the vehicle. The control apparatus includes a distribution setting unit that is configured to change the braking force distribution ratio from a basic braking force ratio during braking of the vehicle so that a posture of the vehicle follows a posture indicated by the target posture value. If the target posture value is varied when the braking force distribution ratio is different from the basic braking force ratio, the distribution setting unit sets the amount of change, by which the braking force distribution ratio is changed per unit time, equal to or smaller than a restriction amount.
US11912254B2
A method for automatically emergency stopping a motor vehicle from a starting speed to a standstill by a braking device of the motor vehicle is provided. The braking device is actuated to carry out a delay profile with at least two delay phases. During a delay increase phase the delay until a threshold delay is increased and during a delay decrease phase, lasting until standstill, the delay is reduced to zero. The temporal courses of the delay are determined during the delay increase and the delay decrease at least sectionally as nth degree polynomials, where n>0, depending on the starting speed, in such a way that a stopping duration, which represents a time duration necessary for emergency stopping, does not fall below a predetermined minimum stopping duration and a distance covered during the stopping duration does not exceed a predetermined maximum stopping distance.
US11912247B2
A block includes a first block portion, a second block portion, a third block portion and a fourth block portion. The first block portion has a first upper surface, a second upper surface, and a lower surface. The second block portion is over the first block portion and has a third upper surface. The third block portion is over the first block portion and has a fourth upper surface. The fourth block portion is over the first block portion, has a fifth upper surface, and is positioned between the second block portion and the third block portion. A first recessed region is between the second block portion and the fourth block portion. A second recessed region is between the third block portion and the fourth block portion. The first upper surface is exposed in the first recessed region and the second upper surface is exposed in the second recessed region.
US11912236B2
A vehicle ramp device includes a ramp plate deployed at a lower end of a door opening, a moving body moving in a deploying or retracting direction of the ramp plate, a support arm rotatably connected to the ramp plate and the moving body to allow a rear end portion of the ramp plate to be lifted up when the ramp plate is deployed, a fall prevention member rotatably connected to the ramp plate, an urging member urging the fall prevention member to make it stand on a side end portion of the ramp plate, and a pressing member abutting against the fall prevention member that moves downward together with the ramp plate having been lifted up based on a rotation of the support arm and pressing the fall prevention member to bend it on a top surface of the ramp plate against an urging force of the urging member.
US11912233B1
A door interface system for a vehicle door includes a sensor and a visual indicator. The sensor may be a proximity sensor and may be positioned proximate to the visual indicator such that it will detect an object proximate to the proximity sensor. The visual indicator may convey the position of the sensor and/or a status of the vehicle door. The door interface system is configured to control the vehicle door based at least in part on detecting an object proximate the visual indicator.
US11912229B2
A system including an airbag assembly for a vehicle is disclosed. The airbag assembly includes a housing supporting the airbag, an inflation device (“inflator”) in fluid communication with the airbag for inflating the airbag from an uninflated position to an inflated position, a tether fixed to the airbag that helps control the deployment and inflation of the airbag, and a tether lid configured to open in order to release the tether during deployment. The tether lid is installed in a pillar garnish of the vehicle, and is opened in response to the force of the tether as it is pulled by the deploying airbag.
US11912205B2
A position detector is supported to be movable between a first position and a second position lower than the first position. A mounting stay is below the position detector when the position detector is in the first position, and, when the position detector is rotated together with the mounting stay from a state in which the position detector is in the first position, the position detector is moved to the second position and the mounting stay is positioned above the position detector in the second position and covers over the position detector so as to restrain the automatic steering control.
US11912199B2
A vehicular trailer hitching assist system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing at least rearward of the vehicle. During a reversing maneuver of the vehicle toward a trailer that is spaced from the vehicle at a distance from the vehicle, the camera views at least a portion of a front profile of the trailer. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera. The vehicular trailer hitching assist system, via image processing at the ECU of image data captured by the camera during the reversing maneuver of the vehicle toward the trailer, determines a plurality of landmarks corresponding to the front profile of the trailer. Based at least in part on the determined plurality of landmarks, the vehicular trailer hitching assist system determines location of a trailer coupler of the trailer.
US11912196B2
An apparatus for outputting a virtual engine sound includes: an output device that outputs the virtual engine sound; a bumper beam connected to a rear surface of the output device; and a bumper foam connected to the output device and the bumper beam while opening left and right side surfaces of the output device. The apparatus for outputting a virtual engine sound may improve a virtual engine sound output efficiency by utilizing a sound pressure radiated from a side surface of the virtual engine sound output device.
US11912194B2
A sound output apparatus of a vehicle may include a sensor sensing a driving speed of the vehicle and a number of revolutions of a driving motor, a storage storing opposed-phase sound sources of a noise according to the number of revolutions of the driving motor, and a controller allowing an opposed-phase sound source corresponding to the number of revolutions of the driving motor, from among the opposed-phase sound sources stored in the storage to be output when the driving speed of the vehicle exceeds a predetermined speed.
US11912191B2
A kitchen module for a vehicle includes a frame system for providing structural support, a rail system affixed to the frame system and the vehicle, and a plurality of kitchen components mounted to the frame system. The rail system is configured to allow the frame system to move relative to the vehicle. The plurality of kitchen components include a sink, a potable water tank, a waste-water tank, a rangetop, at least one drawer, a countertop, lights, any other suitable component, or any combination thereof. The vehicle, which may be an electric vehicle having a battery module, can include an electrical extension connecting an electric power source of the vehicle to the kitchen module. The electrical extension may be coupled to at least one of an actuator of the rail system and a rangetop.
US11912189B2
Provided is a vehicle cup holder allowing wireless charging. A vehicle cup holder allowing wireless charging according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a housing having an accommodation space for accommodating objects, including a portable telephone; a support member coupled to the housing by means of a rotational shaft to allow rotation in the accommodation space, and comprising a wireless transmission module for wirelessly charging the battery of a portable telephone; and a driving member allowing or disallowing rotation of the rotational shaft so as to maintain the support member in a first state in which a portable telephone can be charged, or in a second state in which an object can be accommodated in the accommodation space.
US11912186B2
Examples provide a modular tray table apparatus associated with a console of a seat unit. A tray table carrier unit is removably mounted to a portion of the console. A tray table support element is coupled to the carrier unit and a tray table. The tray table support element movably supports the tray table. A linear displacement mechanism is disposed between the tray table and the tray table support element. The tray table slides along a linear displacement path between a fully retracted configuration and at least one deployed configuration. A rotational displacement mechanism disposed between the tray table and the tray table support element. The tray table slides along a rotational displacement path defined by at least one rotational guide between a linear configuration of the tray table and a substantially perpendicular configuration of the tray table when the tray table is in a fully deployed configuration.
US11912183B2
A shaft locking mechanism includes a rack disposed on a translating shaft and a toothed locking lever disposed on a corresponding translation post. The toothed locking lever engages the rack in a locked orientation to prevent the shaft translating within the translation post. The toothed locking lever is disengaged during translation and the shaft may be translated and locked in place with very granular adjustability. A control rod release mechanism may be biased to maintain the toothed locking lever in the locked orientation. A cam feature on the toothed locking lever engages the body of the control rod which defines a recessed portion that coincides with the cam while in an unlocked orientation.
US11912181B2
A suspension seat, including: a lower side member that forms a vehicle lower side of a suspension; an upper side member that forms a vehicle upper side of the suspension, and that is configured to support a vehicle seat body from the vehicle lower side; a suspension link mechanism that includes a vehicle lower side portion coupled to the lower side member and a vehicle upper side portion coupled to the upper side member, and that undergoes displacement so as to displace the upper side member along a vehicle vertical direction; a linear displacement section that is provided at the suspension link mechanism and is configured to undergo linear displacement in conjunction with displacement of the suspension link mechanism; and a locking mechanism that immobilizes the linear displacement section so as to immobilize displacement of the suspension link mechanism.
US11912168B2
An apparatus and method control regenerative braking torque of an electric vehicle on which an anti-lock brake system (ABS) is mounted. The apparatus and method can compensate the regenerative braking torque of the driving motor based on the behavior model of the electric vehicle, such that the ABS is prevented from entering an operating range to the maximum limit to maximize the energy recovery rate through regenerative braking. The apparatus includes a disturbance extractor that extracts a disturbance in a specific frequency band from a difference between a behavior model and an actual behavior of the electric vehicle. The apparatus includes a torque compensator that compensates for the regenerative braking torque based on the disturbance extracted by the disturbance extractor.
US11912162B2
A battery management system for electric vehicles includes electric vehicles each including a battery to supply electric power to a driving motor and an information processor to communicate with the electric vehicles. The electric vehicles each include a degradation state detector to detect a degradation state of the battery, and a usage state detector to detect a usage state of the battery. The information processor include a battery information storage to store information about the degradation state and the usage state of the battery, a degradation state estimator to estimate a future degradation state of the battery of a specific electric vehicle, based on the information stored in the battery information storage, and a vehicle control changer to change control of a certain electric vehicle to delay degradation of the battery if the future degradation state of the battery is estimated to deteriorate by a predetermined amount or greater.
US11912159B2
A method for operating a system for ascertaining a state of charge of a battery of a motor vehicle includes providing operating variables of the battery, providing a calculated state of charge in the motor vehicle using a state-of-charge model that indicates a calculated state of charge depending on at least one battery model parameter of the state-of-charge model for the battery, and ascertaining a reference state of charge using a reference state-of-charge model depending on the operating variables. The reference state-of-charge model is trained to indicate the reference state of charge depending on the operating variables and/or a predefined aging state. The method further includes performing a correction of the at least one battery model parameter depending on a difference between the reference state of charge and the calculated state of charge in order to adapt the calculated state of charge to the reference state of charge.
US11912158B2
A battery management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a memory to store a charging sequence table that records a correspondence relationship between first to mth temperature ranges, first to mth SOC lists and first to mth current lists, a sensing unit to detect a voltage, a current and a temperature of a battery, and a control unit. Each of the SOC lists defines first to nth SOC ranges. The control unit determines a current SOC of the battery based on the detected voltage and the detected current. The control unit determines a temperature range of interest, a SOC list of interest and a current list of interest based on the detected temperature. The control unit determines a remaining charging time required to charge the battery to a target SOC based on the detected current, the current SOC, the SOC list of interest and the current list of interest.
US11912156B2
A dual motor powered compact drive comprises two electrical motors powering the planetary gear mechanism. The dual drive can provide variable speed and torque. A single electric motor operated braking system with a screw-driven wedged brake pads is described using a compact test set-up. The system comprises at least one motor and a screw shaft connected to transmit the power to a sliding plunger, and braking pads located on a braking disc, and a force sensor applied to measure the braking force, and a device to measure the parameters of the braking motor and the parameters are used as the inputs to establish a control strategy. Systems and methods for monitoring a battery pack including multiple cells are provided. The battery management system further comprises a control strategy for implementing a balancing algorithm. A balancing strategy comprises a determination of battery cells to be balanced, and a calculated balancing current.
US11912155B2
A battery pack locking mechanism, used for unlocking or locking a battery pack on the bracket, and comprising a fixing portion. The fixing portion has a locking space. When the battery pack is placed relative to the bracket, the locking mechanism is used for locking a connecting portion on the battery pack in the locking space. On one side of the locking space, the locking mechanism is provided with an opening facing towards the battery pack and entering the bracket along the horizontal direction, so that the connecting portion enters the opening along the horizontal direction and moves into the locking space. According to the locking mechanism, effectively reducing the complexity of the process and the step of mounting and fixing the battery pack on the bracket. Also provided are a bracket assembly, an electric vehicle, and a battery pack locking method.
US11912154B2
A power management system includes a plurality of power adjustment resources electrically connected to a microgrid. The plurality of power adjustment resources include a plurality of EVSEs, each of EVSEs including a parking space. When any one of a plurality of power feeding vehicles is parked in the parking space, an EVSE enables power feeding from a vehicle parked in the parking space to the microgrid. A CEMS server manages the parking space. When a balance of power supply and demand in the microgrid is in an overdemand state, the CEMS server allocates the parking space to a power feeding vehicle that responds to a request for power feeding to the microgrid, of the plurality of power feeding vehicles.
US11912152B2
In a control device for a vehicle, the vehicle is configured to charge an electric power storage device with an electric power supplied from a charger. The control device includes an input and output circuit and a control circuit. The input and output circuit is configured to input predetermined signal and output the predetermined signal. The control circuit is configured to prepare for charging of the electric power storage device by controlling transmission and reception of signals through the input and output circuit according to a predefined communication sequence. The control circuit is configured to proceed with the predefined communication sequence by transmitting the second signal to the charger even when the vehicle does not receive the first signal at the predetermined timing.
US11912145B2
This disclosure describes charging systems for electrified vehicles. Exemplary charging systems may employ a multi-voltage charging circuit that supports charging of a traction battery pack at both a first voltage level during a first charging condition and a second, different voltage level during a second charging condition. Higher voltage levels may be experienced during the second charging condition as compared to the first charging condition.
US11912142B2
A method for charging a battery of a vehicle with electrical energy using a charging station which includes at least one source for generating flashes. At least one flash is generated using the at least one source, an amount of electrical energy is provided via the air using the at least one receiver of the vehicle. The received amount of electrical energy is provided to the battery by the at least one receiver.
US11912135B2
A control system for an electrified powertrain of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) includes an accelerator pedal and a controller configured to determine maximum and minimum values for driver pedal position based on a first position of the accelerator pedal indicative of a first driver pedal position, determine whether the accelerator pedal position remains constant relative to the first position, when the accelerator pedal position does not remain constant and moves to a second position indicative of a second driver pedal position, detect that driver pedal position is increasing when the second driver pedal position is greater than the first minimum value and setting the first maximum value to the second driver pedal position and detect decreasing driver pedal position when the second driver pedal position is less than the first maximum value and setting the minimum value to the second driver pedal position.
US11912134B2
A hybrid vehicle includes: an oil passage including a common oil passage through which lubricating oil discharged from an oil pump flows, an engine lubricating oil passage extending from the common oil passage toward an engine internal space, and a transmission lubricating oil passage extending from the common oil passage toward a transmission internal space; and a variable throttle valve that can change a flow rate in the transmission lubricating oil passage. The variable throttle valve increases an opening degree of the variable throttle valve in a mode transition in which a first traveling mode in which the hybrid vehicle travels by driving power of an engine transitions to a second traveling mode in which the hybrid vehicle stops the engine and travels by the driving power of the electric motor.
US11912129B2
A panel intended for the cockpit of a vehicle is conductive so that a large number of electrical and electronic devices can be installed inside the cockpit. The panel has a structure consisting of a plurality of layers of substantially equal shape and size, superimposed and firmly coupled to one another. One of the layers consists of a flexible printed circuit board that extends substantially over the entire surface of the panel, or at least over a substantial portion thereof, and that is provided with electrical connectors arranged at positions where the electrical and electronic devices associated with the dashboard are to be subsequently installed. Wired connections of electrical and electronic devices associated with the dashboard are eliminated. This entails a considerable simplification when making electrical connections to these electrical and electronic devices, as well as in the case of subsequent maintenance and/or repair work.
US11912124B2
A tractor includes: a vehicle body; an engine bonnet that forms an engine compartment; an engine disposed in the engine compartment; a first exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and purifies exhaust gas discharged by the engine; and a second exhaust-gas cleaning device that is disposed in the engine compartment and purifies the exhaust gas, the first exhaust-gas cleaning device being disposed above the engine such that a long side of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to a vehicle-body lateral width direction, the second exhaust-gas cleaning device being disposed behind the engine such that a long side of the second exhaust-gas cleaning device is substantially parallel to the vehicle-body lateral width orientation, and a maximum vertical length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device is shorter than a maximum longitudinal length of the first exhaust-gas cleaning device.
US11912121B2
A traction battery assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes a lower tier of battery arrays, an upper tier of battery arrays, and a support structure disposed between the lower tier and the upper tier. The lower tier is suspended from a downwardly facing side of the support structure. The upper tier is disposed atop an upwardly facing side of the support structure.
US11912117B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle body in which a mounting chamber is provided, and an equipment unit disposed within the mounting chamber. The equipment unit includes a compartment cross member extending in one direction, the compartment cross member of which a first end portion and a second end portion situated on respective ends in the first direction being fixed to the vehicle body, and a first equipment and a second equipment fixed to the compartment cross member and disposed with a spacing between each other. A rigidity of the equipment unit at a portion situated between the first equipment and the second equipment is higher than a rigidity of the equipment unit at a portion where the first end portion is situated.
US11912113B2
A door assembly includes a door that turns between a fully-closed position and a fully-open position to open or close a door opening, and hinges that support a front edge portion of the door and are provided such that the trajectory of the center of gravity of the door when the door turns from the fully-closed position to the fully-open position is curved upwardly in an up-down direction and the highest point of the trajectory is positioned between both ends of the trajectory.
US11912109B2
A flush glass apparatus includes a fixed glass having an opening, an operation glass configured to open and close the opening of the fixed glass, a lower rail configured to slidably support a lower portion of the operation glass, a sealing member provided below the lower rail to seal a gap between an inner surface of the fixed glass and a vehicle body, one or more upper drain holes provided on the lower rail to discharge rainwater on the lower rail to a buffer area between the lower rail and the sealing member, and a drain induction member interposed between the inner surface of the fixed glass and the sealing member and providing a lower drain hole to discharge rainwater in the buffer area to the outside.
US11912093B2
A system for a vehicle includes a memory storing a stored driver distribution profile of a driver input parameter and a stored suspension setting corresponding to the stored driver distribution profile. The system further includes a sensor to detect a current value of the driver input parameter. The system further includes a processor communicably coupled to the memory and the sensor. The processor is configured to determine a current driver distribution profile of the driver input parameter based on the current value of the driver input parameter. The processor is configured to determine a current suspension setting based on the current driver distribution profile. The processor is configured to adjust the stored suspension setting to generate a stored adjusted suspension setting corresponding to the current suspension setting.
US11912087B2
An electric suspension apparatus includes an electric actuator mounted in a vehicle, the electric actuator being driven with a motor, a voltage determination unit determining whether an electromotive force generated by the motor is equal to or more than a predetermined voltage in a state where regenerative power is generated in the motor, and an instruction unit short-circuiting the motor in a case where the voltage determination unit determines that the electromotive force generated by the motor is equal to or more than the predetermined voltage.
US11912086B2
A suspension system for a vehicle and method for operating the same includes a shock absorber housing having a longitudinal axis, a spring disposed around the shock absorber housing, a retainer collar disposed around the shock absorber housing and an actuator engaged to the retainer collar. The actuator moves at least a portion of the retainer collar to move the spring in a direction corresponding the longitudinal axis. A switch generates a ride height position signal. A controller is coupled to the actuator and the switch. The controller controls a position of the actuator in response to the ride height position signal.
US11912079B1
A new type of a hitching hook device includes a hitching ball body and a hitching arm, the hitching arm includes a square steel configured to connect to a vehicle receiver, and the hitching ball body includes at least one hitching ball. The hitching ball body includes a holding jaw, and at least a horizontal clamping groove is defined on the holding jaw. The hitching arm includes at least two square grooves, a fixing plate is disposed between adjacent two square grooves, and a latch is disposed on a top of the hitching arm. The holding jaw of the hitching ball body is clamped to the fixing plate through the horizontal clamping groove, and the latch extends from the top of the hitching arm to a bottom of the hitching arm by passing through the holding jaw. The hitching hook device is tool with many advantages improving work efficiency.
US11912067B2
In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a tire comprising a belt portion and a tread portion radially outward of the belt portion, wherein the tread portion comprises a radially outer tread layer for contacting the road when driving and a radially inner tread layer arranged between the radially outer tread layer and the belt portion, wherein the radially outer tread layer comprises a first rubber composition having a first shear storage modulus G′1 and the radially inner tread layer comprises a second rubber composition having a second shear storage modulus G′2, wherein the second shear storage modulus G′2 is between 3 MPa and 9 MPa higher than the first shear storage modulus G′1, and wherein the first shear storage modulus G′1 ranges from 1 MPa to 3 MPa and the second shear storage modulus G′2 ranges from 4 MPa to 12 MPa.
US11912049B2
A cartridge is installed in a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part, a printing head that is provided in the cartridge installation part and performs printing on a printing tape, and a device case, the device case having a device-side tape introduction port that introduces the printing tape from an outside to an inside of the device case and a device-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to the outside of the device case. The cartridge includes a tape path through which the printing tape introduced from the device-side tape introduction port is fed toward the device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part.
US11912047B2
A hybrid printing machine is described having both silk screening stations and a direct-to-garment digital printing station with a raster image processor to control a portion of a printing process.
US11912045B2
A method of operating a printer evaluates the effect of printing a print job with two different orientations of the image content data for the print job. The orientation that produces the least increase in the cross-process direction displacement error for the inkjets in the printer is selected for printing the print job. By attenuating the increase in cross-process direction displacement error, the interval between printhead maintenance operations is increased.
US11912039B2
A liquid discharging apparatus, having a head, a reservoir section including a liquid reservoir chamber and an atmosphere communication path, a liquid flow path connecting the head with the liquid reservoir chamber, a switching assembly to switch states of the atmosphere communication path between a connecting state and a disconnecting state, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to control the switching assembly to switch the states of the atmosphere communication path from the connecting state to the disconnecting state; after switching the states of the atmosphere communication path, control the head to discharge the liquid; and after switching the states of the atmosphere communication path, and in response to a predetermined connection condition being satisfied, control the switching assembly to switch the states of the atmosphere communication path from the disconnecting state to the connecting state.
US11912037B2
An ink is circulated in a circulation path including a supply sub-tank, a discharge head and a collection sub-tank in a head unit. If the amount of the ink in the head unit decreases, the ink stored in the buffer tank is replenished to the head unit. On the other hand, in a first non-replenishment time during which the ink is not replenished, the ink is circulated through the buffer tank, the collection sub-tank and the supply sub-tank in this order. Thus, a temperature fluctuation of the replenishment ink stored in the buffer tank is suppressed. As a result, even if the ink is replenished to the head unit from the buffer tank, physical properties, particularly a viscosity, of the ink do not largely vary.
US11912025B2
In some examples, a controller includes an interface to receive an indication based on an electrical current through a device, and a processor to send control data to the device to operate the device, detect a measurement based on the indication that is responsive to an operation of the device according to the control data, and determine whether an issue exists in the device responsive to determining whether the measurement satisfies an expected property based on the control data.
US11912022B2
A digital printing system (10) includes a flexible intermediate transfer member (ITM) (44) and a dancer assembly (100). The ITM (44) is configured to receive ink droplets from an ink supply system to form an image thereon, and to transfer the image to a target substrate (50). The dancer assembly (100) includes a fluid chamber (103) and a rotatable element (111) fitted in the fluid chamber (103), the fluid chamber (103) includes an inlet (107) configured to receive pressurized fluid (130) into the fluid chamber (103), and the pressurized fluid (130) causes the rotatable element (111) to move relative to the fluid chamber (103) and to apply tension to the ITM (44) while being rotated by the ITM (44).
US11912001B2
A method of manufacturing a polymer film includes melting a resin, extruding the melted resin through a die to produce a polymer film, shaping the polymer film, cooling the polymer film, illuminating a surface with a light source, capturing an image of a shadow cast by the polymer film on the surface while the polymer film is between the light source and the surface, calculating a frequency spectrum of at least a portion of the captured image, and adjusting a process parameter of the melting, the extruding, the shaping, or the cooling based on the frequency spectrum.
US11911997B2
A method for obtaining a laminated curved glazing, particularly for a motor vehicle windscreen or roof. The method includes the deposition (b) of an enamel layer on a stack of thin layers deposited on a first glass sheet as well as the deposition (c), at least on the enamel layer, of refractory particles based on oxides, of metals or carbides, at least one dimension of which is larger than 30 μm. The stack of thin layers is completely dissolved by the enamel layer at the end of a bending procedure (d) carried out before laminating (e) the first glass sheet with an additional glass sheet by a lamination interlayer.
US11911992B2
Systems for providing efficient manufacturing of sheet or box structures, corrugate sheets, or other products of varying size and structure often with pre-applied print (“pre-print”) are provided herein. The systems include various features and modules that enable automated control of the corrugator, including the knives, slitters, scorers and cut-to-mark detection system(s), are contemplated. Colored markings may be used to indicate an order change section between two order sections of a roll plan for the manufacturing process. The colored markings are detected as the corrugator runs and, once detected, a controller determines a next set of order instructions—e.g., to match the upcoming order. Thus, an order change may occur, thereby enabling automated control of the corrugator based on the new order instructions. Computer readable markings may enable checking of the actual position in the roll plan to an intended position, enabling stopping or changing of the corrugator operation if needed.
US11911987B2
Provided is a wind turbine blade, with a generally hollow blade body including half shells and webs the webs including flanges connecting the respective web to the respective half shell, and with webs being supported via reinforcement structures relative to the respective half shell, which reinforcement structures are arranged between an outer and an inner layer of each half shell and extend in the lengthwise direction of the blade, whereby the reinforcement structures each include at least one stack composed of several glass fiber layers infused with resin, and that at least one stiffening element extending parallel to the first and second reinforcement structures over at least a part of their length including at least one stack composed of several pultruded composite strips including carbon fibers with the strips being fixed in the resin is arranged between the first and second reinforcement structures.
US11911984B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a laminating equipment for a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tire tag. The laminating equipment includes: a frame, a feeding mechanism, wherein the feeding mechanism is provided on the frame, and a laminating mechanism, wherein the laminating mechanism is provided on the frame. The laminating mechanism is configured to press rubber and an electronic chip of materials to be fed from the feeding mechanism. The feeding mechanism includes a support frame, a coiling portion which is provided on the support frame, and a driving wheel which is rotationally provided on the support frame. One end of the material to be fed is provided on the coiling portion, and the other end cooperates with the driving wheel, so as to move the material to be fed under a driving of the driving wheel. The technical solution of the present disclosure may solve a problem in the conventional art that the efficiency of manual feeding is low.
US11911980B2
The invention relates to a single-ply semi-finished product web which is reinforced with unidirectionally orientated continuous fibers and exhibits a movement direction and comprises a matrix containing at least 60% by weight of one or more thermoplastic polymers selected from the group consisting of polyamide, polyolefin and mixtures thereof and comprising welding seams of overlapping fiber-reinforced semi-finished product web segments at periodically occurring intervals, wherein the fiber plies of the fiber-reinforced semi-finished product web segments overlap, wherein the thickness of the semi-finished product web in the region of the welding seams is at least exactly as high as the arithmetic mean of the other regions of the semi-finished product web, and wherein the width of the regions of the welding seams is more than 1 mm to 8 mm in the movement direction, and wherein the thickness of the semi-finished product web in the regions outside the regions of the welding seams is 0.01 mm to 0.40 mm, and wherein the unidirectionally orientated continuous fibers enclose a predetermined angle with the movement direction, the value α of which is in the range of more than 0° to 90°, and to a method for its manufacture and to its use for manufacturing a multi-layer composite material and/or organic sheet.
US11911979B2
A method for manufacturing a striking plate of a golf club head includes the steps of: a sewing step, in which at least one roving material is sewn onto a base material so as to form a laminate blank with an uneven thickness in a normal direction of the base material; and a forming step, in which the laminate blank is placed in a mold cavity of a mold and is formed into the striking plate with an uneven thickness.
US11911978B2
A method for manufacturing a composite barrel structure includes fabricating a first plurality of composite panels that are assemblable into a first partial composite barrel section. The fabricating includes assembling a first layup of composite material and, concurrently, assembling at least one additional layup. The fabricating further includes heating the first layup with the at least one additional layup. A system for fabricating a plurality of panels that are assemblable into partial barrel sections includes a first workstation for fabricating a first plurality of composite panels that are assemblable into a first partial composite barrel section. The first workstation includes a first assembly station configured to concurrently assemble a first layup of composite material and at least one additional layup and a first heating station configured to heat the first layup concurrently with the at least one additional layup to yield the first plurality of composite panels.
US11911977B2
An illustrative example of the present disclosure provides a machine configured to form a composite structure. The machine includes a composite placement machine, measuring equipment, a tool path generator, and compaction equipment. The composite placement machine lays up composite plies. The measuring equipment measures surfaces of the composite plies to form measurements during layup of the composite plies. A computer includes a model of the composite plies for a structure. The tool path generator forms a modified tool path based upon a difference between the measurements and expected measurements for the composite plies in the model.
US11911974B2
Provided are: a metal-resin composite structure, including a surface-roughened metal member and a resin member bonded to the metal member and composed of a polyarylene sulfide resin (PAS) composition; a PAS resin composition and a resin member, for use in the metal-resin composite structure; and a method. More specifically, provided are: a PAS resin composition including a PAS resin (A) and a phenol resin (B) in an amount of 0.05 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the resin (A); a resin member obtained by melt-molding the PAS resin composition; and a metal-resin composite structure including a surface-roughened metal member and a resin member bonded to the metal member and composed of the PAS resin composition, wherein the metal member is made of aluminum, copper, magnesium, iron, titanium or an alloy containing at least one of them; and a method for producing the same.
US11911963B2
The present invention relates to an exchangeable additive manufacturing machine system. The system includes a manufacturing spindle; a thermal conducting module configured to include a working well in a center portion, wherein the manufacturing spindle is configured to rotate in the working well and the manufacturing spindle and the working well defines a manufacturing region; and a capillary based functional liquid releasing module configured on the thermal conducting module to release a functional liquid to one of a first gap, a second gap and a third gap included between the thermal conducting module and the manufacturing platform.
US11911956B2
The present disclosure relates to the use of occluding fluids, such as a high-density fluid (a “z-fluid”) or a low-density fluid (an “a-fluid”), to displace resin within a vat during 3D printing. Further, an a-fluid may act as a protective boundary for a 3D printing resin wherein the a-fluid sits on top of the printing resin. Another embodiment of the disclosure provides a process of assessing which regions of a computer-aided design (CAD) model take advantage of a buoying force supplied by the occluding fluid, such that fewer support structures are needed for printing a final CAD model compared to printing the CAD model without the occluding fluid.
US11911954B2
The invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object with an additive manufacturing system, such as an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system, a selective laser sintering system, and/or an electrophotography-based additive manufacturing system, comprising providing a support material comprising more than 50% wt. of a semi-crystalline polyamide [polyamide (A)] having a melting point, as determined according to ASTM D3418, of at least 250° C. and possessing a water absorption at saturation, by immersion in water at 23° C., of at least 2% wt.
US11911950B2
A method of forming a vacuum insulated structure includes providing a structural envelope an insulating cavity defined within the structural envelope. An expanding device is attached to opposing outer walls of the structural envelope and the interior cavity is expanded by pulling the opposing outer walls away from one another to define an expanded state. An insulating material is disposed within the insulating cavity to occupy substantially all of the insulating cavity in the expanded state. Gas is expressed from the insulating cavity to collapse the structural envelope to a final state and a final interior volume that is less than the expanded interior volume. The final state of the structural envelope defines a densified state of the insulating material within the insulating cavity. The vacuum port is then closed to hermetically seal the insulating cavity.
US11911949B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to methods and apparatus involving the extrusion of polymers or other materials. As may be implemented in accordance with various embodiments, a polymer is delivered into an inlet of a nozzle structure having the inlet and an outlet. The polymer is viscously heated and melted by rotating the nozzle structure about an axis extending through the inlet and the outlet, therein facilitating extrusion of the melted polymer through the nozzle structure outlet. A polymer supply may deliver the polymer into the nozzle structure inlet, and a coupler may facilitation rotation of the nozzle structure. A driver may further operate to control rotation of the nozzle structure relative to the coupler, for instance by generating a rotational output that causes rotation of the nozzle structure.
US11911948B2
The invention discloses a starch-based multi-channel airflow unit and a preparation method and an application thereof. The preparation method of the present invention comprises the following steps: melting a polylactic acid, wherein a temperature of a first temperature control zone is 135° C. to 145° C., a temperature of a second temperature control zone is 175° C. to 185° C., a temperature of a third temperature control zone is 190° C. to 200° C., and a temperature of a fourth temperature control zone is 175° C. to 185° C.; gelatinizing a starch-based material, adding the starch-based material in the third temperature control zone and fully mixing the mixture; adding a polyol in the third temperature control zone, and fully mixing the mixture; and extruding out the mixed material through twin screws, sizing in vacuum, cooling and sizing, and winding and cutting to obtain the starch-based multi-channel airflow unit.
US11911946B2
An injection molding machine capable of changing the position of the supply hole of the resin material in a cylinder as appropriate is provided. An injection molding machine according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a supply hole through which a resin material is supplied to an inside of a cylinder, the supply hole being formed in a side wall part of the cylinder; and a closing part that, when a torpedo piston moves to a side of an other end part of the cylinder in order to plasticize the resin material, moves together with the torpedo piston and closes the supply hole.
US11911931B2
A multi-layered article including a substrate; a release layer including polyvinyl alcohol and at least one cross-linking agent; and a first selective light modulator layer; wherein the release layer crosslinks and is water insoluble is disclosed. Also, disclosed is a multi-layered article including a substrate; a waterborne release layer; and a first selective light modulator layer including a cross-linking agent. Methods of making the multi-layered articles are also disclosed.
US11911930B2
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that includes providing a polymer melt and separating the polymer melt from the extruder into at least eight streams. The multiple streams are exposed to a chamber pressure within a chamber that is below approximately 25 millibars, or another predetermined pressure. The streams are recombined into a single polymer stream. Polymer from the polymer stream is then formed into bulked continuous carpet filament.
US11911928B2
Method for producing a cementitious board (1), wherein a first liner (2) with first overlap sections (5) is provided and furnished with at least one layer of at least one slurry comprising a cementitious material (3); a second liner (4) with second overlap sections (8) is provided and arranged such that it contacts the first overlap sections (5) of the first liner (2), wherein the at least one layer of the at least one slurry (3) is arranged between the first liner (2) and the second liner (4); an adhesive foam (6) is provided at least partly on at least one of the first or second overlap sections (5, 8); and the first liner (2) and the second liner (4) are bonded via the adhesive foam (6) in the overlap sections (5, 8).
US11911906B2
A method for controlling a patrolling robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring, as first situation information on the patrolling robot, at least one of weight information on a support coupled to the patrolling robot and image information on the support and information on a location of the patrolling robot in a patrolling place; and determining a task and a travel route of the patrolling robot on the basis of the first situation information.
US11911905B2
A robot control apparatus includes a selection part that selects a scenario to be used which an operator who operates a robot uses while operating the robot from among a plurality of scenario candidates in which an elapsed time since the robot has started an action and action contents of the robot are associated with each other, and a robot control part that controls the robot on the basis of the scenario to be used.
US11911903B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to robotic devices and artificial intelligence. More specifically, some embodiments relate to a robotic device for picking items from a bin and perturbing items in a bin. The robotic device may include one or more picking elements and one or more perturbation elements for disturbing a present arrangement of items in the bin. In an exemplary embodiment, a perturbation element comprises a compressed air valve. In some implementations, the robotic device may also include one or more computer-vision systems. Based on image data from the one or more computer-vision systems, a strategy for picking up items from the bin is determined. When no strategies with high probability of success exist, the robotic device may perturb the contents of the bin to create new available pick-up points.
US11911897B2
In one embodiment, a mechanically over-damped actuator includes an output link comprising a lever and a torsion spring associated with the lever, wherein the lever has an initial equilibrium position and is pivotable about a pivot axis, wherein the spring opposes pivoting of the lever away from its initial equilibrium position such that the spring tends to return the lever to the equilibrium position.
US11911896B2
A nanoscale positioning apparatus with a large stroke and multiple degrees of freedom and a control method thereof are provided. The nanoscale positioning apparatus includes a base, a plurality of parallel branch chain mechanisms and a working table. Each of the parallel branch chain mechanisms includes an electric cylinder, a micro-motion drive mechanism, a laser interferometer, a grating measuring device, a self-locking upper hinge and a self-locking lower hinge. The top of the base is connected to one end of the electric cylinder through the self-locking lower hinge. The other end of the electric cylinder is connected to one end of the micro-motion drive mechanism. The other end of the micro-motion drive mechanism is connected to the bottom of the working table through the self-locking upper hinge. The positioning apparatus has multiple degrees of freedom, and realizes multi-degree-of-freedom arbitrary position adjustment of the working table through parallel branch chain mechanisms.
US11911883B2
A hydraulic tensioner (1), comprising: abase (2); a piston (3) mounted for sliding motion relative to the base (2), the base (2) and the piston (3) defining a pressure space (4) therebetween and being arranged to be urged apart along an axis (8) upon introduction of a fluid into the pressure space (4), the tensioner (1) having an internal bore (6) along the axis (8) having first and second ends along the axis and comprising a threaded component having an internally threaded portion (7) at the first end and coupled to the piston (3); the tensioner (1) further comprising: a threaded stud (10) having an exterior thread which engages the internally threaded portion (7) of the threaded component; and a drive mechanism (12) arranged to transmit rotational motion from the second end of the internal bore (9) to the threaded stud; the tensioner being arranged such that rotational motion applied to the drive mechanism (12) at the second end causes rotation of the stud (10) relative to the threaded component, with the engagement of the exterior thread of the stud (10) and the internal thread of the threaded component causing the stud to move along the axis as it rotates.
US11911874B2
A portable wet sand blasting device or a portable wet sand blaster with a specially designed and shaped hand truck tank with an inclined side, wheels, axle, base feet, and a handle to allow the heavy device to be more easily moved from job to job. The specially designed and shaped hand truck tank includes a special pump and special internal plumbing and mixing outputs that provide optimum water and abrasive slurry mixing wherein sufficient slurry mixing is required for the effective use of a wet sand blasting device.
US11911871B2
A method of manufacturing a composite article includes providing a polishing pad; rubbing over the polishing pad to produce a polishing pad debris; collecting the polishing pad debris; providing a wood material; and applying a force over the wood material and the polishing pad debris to form the composite article, wherein the composite article includes the wood material and the polishing pad debris, and the rubbing of the polishing pad includes removing a portion of the polishing pad to produce the polishing pad debris.
US11911868B2
Accuracy of detection of a fly out of a substrate from a polishing head is improved. A substrate processing apparatus includes a polishing table 350 to which a polishing pad 352 for polishing the substrate is attachable, a polishing head 302 for holding and pressing the substrate against the polishing pad 352, a retainer member disposed surrounding the polishing head 302, a retainer member pressurization chamber disposed adjacent to the retainer member, an arm 360 for holding and turning the polishing head 302, and a slip out detector 910 for detecting a fly out of the substrate from the polishing head 302 based on a turning torque of the arm 360 or based on a flow rate of a fluid supplied to the retainer member pressurization chamber.
US11911863B2
An attachment and detachment device that excels in responsiveness to attachment and detachment of a workpiece even when the workpiece is thin while utilizing an electrostatic chuck method is provided. The attachment and detachment device that enables suction and separation of a workpiece includes a machinable ceramic layer, an adhesion activating layer provided on the machinable ceramic layer, an electrode layer provided on the adhesion activating layer, and a dielectric layer provided on the electrode layer, wherein the electrode layer is covered with the adhesion activating layer and the dielectric layer, and the dielectric layer has a volume resistivity of 109 to 1012 Ω·cm.
US11911861B2
A machining system includes a cover body having an opening and defining a machining area of a workpiece, a door portion provided in the opening, an actuator that operates the door portion between a first position at which the opening is closed and a second position at which the opening is opened, a controller that controls the actuator, and a robot arm that operates through the opening to convey a workpiece between the machining area and an external area outside the machining area. The controller controls the actuator such that the door portion is positioned at a third position when the robot arm conveys the workpiece. An opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the third position is smaller than an opening area of the opening when the door portion is positioned at the second position.
US11911850B2
A pillar delivery method is a method for delivering a plurality of pillars onto a substrate, including a glass panel, to manufacture a glass panel unit. The pillar delivery method includes an irradiation step, a holding step, and a mounting step. The irradiation step includes setting, over a holder, a sheet for use to form pillars and irradiating the sheet with a laser beam to punch out the plurality of pillars. The holding step includes having the plurality of pillars, which have been punched out of the sheet, held by the holder. The mounting step includes picking up some or all of the plurality of pillars from the holder and mounting the pillars onto the substrate.
US11911846B2
Provided is a work processing apparatus configured so that limitations on the contents of processing for a work piece or the type of work piece can be reduced and processing for a wider range of processing contents and work piece can be performed. In a work processing apparatus 100, a work table 101 is, through a table displacement mechanism 103, supported on a rotation base 120 to be rotatably driven by a table rotary drive motor 125, and a weight holding tool 110 is supported on the rotation base 120 through a weight displacement mechanism 114. The table displacement mechanism 103 includes a rack-and-pinion mechanism configured to displace the work table 101 in an X-axis direction as viewed in the figure. At the table displacement mechanism 103, a power inputter 108 configured to input drive force from a table displacement mechanism drive apparatus 130 is provided. The table displacement mechanism drive apparatus 130 is, by a drive source displacement apparatus 132, connected to or disconnected from the power inputter 108.
US11911836B2
A structural joint between two components of metal material is obtained by carrying out an electrical resistance welding spot between said components and subsequently performing a step of applying a cladding of metal material by an additive manufacturing technology. In one example, after a first step of applying a coarse base cladding, a second step of applying a fine cladding is carried out, again by additive manufacturing technology. The fine cladding can include a distribution of stiffening micro-ribs above the base cladding. The same method can also be applied to a single sheet metal component, rather than to a welded joint.
US11911826B2
A method of preparation of titanium and titanium alloy powder for 3D printing is based on a fluidized bed jet milling technique. Hydride-dehydrite titanium powder and titanium alloy powder are used as main raw material powder, jet milling and shaping are carried out in shielding atmosphere of nitrogen or argon, and finally high-performance titanium and titanium alloy powder meeting the requirements of 3D printing process is obtained. The titanium and titanium alloy powder prepared using this method has a narrow particle size distribution, approximately spherical shape, and controllable oxygen content.
US11911817B2
An apparatus for forming a part is provided, which includes a die. The die includes a round orifice, a central mandrel disposed within the round orifice, and a plurality of bridges and a corresponding plurality of portholes between the bridges. The bridges and the portholes extending around the central mandrel. A spacing of the bridges around the mandrel is non-equiangular. The die allows a material to be extruded through the die to form a round, closed geometry tube from the material such that the round, closed geometry tube has non-equiangular welds after emerging from the die.
US11911814B2
A method of forming an elongate electrical connection feature that traverses at least one step on or in a substrate is disclosed. A metallic nanoparticle composition is extruded from a capillary tube while the capillary tube is displaced relative to the substrate. The method includes: (1) continuously extruding the composition from the capillary tube while displacing the capillary tube by a height increment during a displacement period; (2) continuously extruding the composition from the capillary tube while the capillary tube is stationary during a stationary period; and (3) repeatedly executing (1) and (2) until the capillary tube is displaced from a position at a step bottom portion to another position at a height not lower than a step top portion.
US11911813B2
An ecological reconstructed sponge structure of a strip mine dump includes a three-layered sponge ecological structure arranged on a groundmass layer of the dump. From bottom to top, the three-layer sponge ecological structure comprises a water-resisting layer, a water-containing layer and a topsoil ecological layer. A thickness of the water-resisting layer is 100˜200 cm, a permeability coefficient of the water-resisting layer is 0.35˜0.7 m/d, and a degree of compaction is 1200˜1400 KPa. A thickness of the water-containing layer is 150˜250 cm, a permeability coefficient of the water-containing layer is 10˜20 m/d, and a degree of compaction is 800˜900 KPa. A thickness of the topsoil ecological layer is 40˜60 cm. Soil layer thicknesses and water content may be monitored through a ground penetrating radar.
US11911804B2
A transfer substrate recycling apparatus is a transfer substrate recycling apparatus including: a first pass line in which an elongated belt-shaped transfer substrate is unwound and conveyed; a second pass line in which an elongated belt-shaped self-adhesive film is unwound and conveyed; a controlling portion configured to control the conveyance of the transfer substrate; a first removal portion provided in the first pass line, the first removal portion being configured to remove an impurity on the transfer substrate by transferring the impurity onto the self-adhesive film; an inspection portion provided on a downstream side from the first removal portion in the first pass line, the inspection portion being configured to inspect a surface of the transfer substrate; and a second removal portion provided in the first pass line, the second removal portion being configured to remove a residual impurity detected by the inspection portion.
US11911796B2
A package sort cell includes a robot with an end of arm tool for transporting packages from an in-feed conveyor to a selected one of a plurality of out-feed conveyors or bins, the robot receiving instruction from the package reader as to which of the plurality of conveyors or bins to hand-off the package. An end of arm tool may be in the configuration of a conveyor which may be aligned with the out-feed conveyor on a bottom up movement. The end of arm tool may also be in the configuration of a hanging carriage frame suspending a conveyor in a top down movement. A worker platform may be provided which may be movable between in-use and out-of-use positions whereby upon robot downtime, the platform may move into the in-use position for a worker to temporarily takeover the transfer functions of the robot. A plurality of sort cells may be arranged in side by side relation adjacent a like plurality of package delivery points (e.g., truck bays) and include diverter conveyors to allow diversion of a selected quantity of packages from one cell to an adjacent cell when the adjacent cell has no associated package delivery occurring at that time.
US11911792B2
A capacitive transducer is provided. The capacitive transducer includes a plate including a protruding center mass and a substrate with a center depression configured to accept the center mass. The capacitive transducer also includes a first electrode coupled to a non-horizontal edge surface of the center mass and a second electrode coupled to a non-horizontal edge surface of the center depression. The capacitive transducer further includes a third electrode coupled to a horizontal edge surface of the center mass and a fourth electrode coupled to a horizontal edge surface of the center depression. The plate is coupled to the substrate at least along an outer perimeter area of the plate and the substrate.
US11911790B2
A central tubular defines a central flow passage and spray nozzles along an outer circumference of the central tubular. A first brush pig supports a first end of the central tubular. A second brush pig supports a second end of the tubular. An inflatable balloon is at the second end of the tubular. The inflatable balloon is encircled by the second brush pig. The inflatable balloon is configured to cause a first pressure drop across the balloon when in an inflated state and cause a second pressure drop, less than the first pressure drop, across the balloon when in a deflated state. A flow control system is at the first end of the tubular and is configured to regulate fluid exchange with the tubular and fluid exchange with the inflatable balloon.
US11911782B2
A nozzle flow stirring pipe includes a pipe body and a nozzle. The pipe body is cylindrical and includes an inner pipe member and an outer pipe member. The inner pipe member has a liquid-extracting channel. The outer pipe member fits around the inner pipe member. A reflow channel is defined between an inner wall of the outer pipe member and an outer wall of the inner pipe member. The nozzle is disposed at one end of the pipe body. The inner pipe member is penetratingly disposed at the nozzle and exposed from below. The nozzle has a plurality of liquid-ejecting pores in communication with one end of the reflow channel.
US11911776B2
A method for integrated processing of finely dispersed metal-containing waste, wherein the method includes mixing metal-containing waste with magnetic field activated water into a pulp, subjecting the pulp in a reaction chamber to a rotating magnetic field generated by rotating ferromagnetic elements, carried out in a vortex layer with a rotation speed of the ferromagnetic elements being at least 2800 rpm, until a magnetostriction effect and subsequent reduction of metal oxides occurs, and carrying out hydrocyclone separation of the metal oxides.
US11911775B2
A compact hydraulic particle separator apparatus is disclosed. The disclosed apparatus comprises an upper chamber and a lower chamber separated by a partition. A liquid fluid flow upwelling through the partition from the lower chamber is caused to mix with tangential jet of fluid flowing introduced above the partition in the upper chamber produces an upwardly-flowing cyclonic flow within the upper chamber. Particle mixtures containing low- and high-density particles and other solids are introduced into the upper chamber through a feed tube having a mouth that is offset from the center of the upper chamber. Low-density particles are immediately entrained in the cyclonic flow and swept upward and exit the apparatus.
US11911774B2
A carpet recycling method is disclosed. In a toroidal flow pulper, pieces of carpet are disintegrated in a quantity of liquid to form a slurry of fibrous carpet materials and carpet ash. At least a portion of the fibrous carpet materials are separated from the slurry, and the separated fibrous carpet materials are dried. At least a portion of the carpet ash is isolated from the slurry, and the isolated carpet ash is dried. Thus, a first output comprising dried separated fibrous carpet materials is produced, and a second output comprising dried carpet ash is produced.
US11911773B2
An apparatus (2) and a method for attaching a cone-shaped crushing mantle (4) of a cone crusher (100) to a carrier cone (6) of the cone crusher (100) and for detaching the crushing mantle (4) from the carrier cone (6) are provided. The apparatus (2) comprises a hydraulically actuated pre-tensioning actuator (24) adapted for pressing the crushing mantle (4) against the carrier cone (6) in a pre-tensioning process in the axial direction prior to tightening attachment screws (18) in the head region (20) of the carrier cone (6). The hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) comprises a pressure chamber (26) for receiving a pressurized hydraulic medium and a piston (28) limiting the pressure chamber (26). The hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) is applied externally to a pressure plate (10) during the pre-tensioning process, such that a piston rod (36) of the piston (28) or a rod-shaped element attached thereto extends through the central opening (14) of the pressure plate (10) and is attached to the head region (20) of the carrier cone (6), wherein the pressure chamber (26) and the piston (28) of the hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) are located on a side of the pressure plate (10) opposite to the carrier cone (6). The hydraulic pre-tensioning actuator (24) may be released and removed from the pressure plate (10) outside the pre-tensioning process.
US11911766B2
An assembly for storing sample processing consumables that includes a cover and a tray. The cover includes a flexible panel and a cover wall that extends downward from the perimeter of the panel, where the panel and the cover wall define a cavity. The tray has a top surface that defines a plurality of wells and a side surface that extends downward from the perimeter of the top surface. The panel is situated adjacent the top surface of the tray, where a first portion of the tray is received within the cover cavity, such that a press fit is formed between the side surface of the tray and an inner surface of the cover wall, thereby releasably coupling the cover to the tray. At least a portion of the wells contain a sample processing consumable, and the cover is configured to be decoupled from the tray by applying a force to the panel to overcome the press fit.
US11911758B2
Disclosed is a method for determining a starting amount of a first substance which is required for providing a predeterminable number of samples in a liquid handling process. Also disclosed is a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer program product. The liquid handling process is described through at least one work step, taking into account at least one secondary condition. An estimated value for the starting amount of the first substance is determined. A simulation of the at least one work step is then performed. A new estimated value for the starting amount is determined and the simulation is repeated if the prior simulation could not be completed or an actual value ascertained in the simulation deviates from the estimated value by more than a predeterminable tolerance. Otherwise, the actual value ascertained on the basis of the simulation is the starting amount of the first substance.
US11911753B2
A method for producing a ceramic honeycomb structure including at least one slit filled with a filling material in a cross section in an axial direction of the honeycomb structure, wherein the honeycomb structure includes: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, wherein the method includes the steps of: preparing a honeycomb structure element comprising at least one slit; masking one end face of the honeycomb structure element except for the slit; and providing the honeycomb structure comprising the at least one slit filled with the filling material by applying a pressure to an axial direction of the honeycomb structure element and feeding the filling material from the one end face to intrude the filling material from the slit on the one end face side to the slit on the other end face side.
US11911749B2
Provided are a chromium catalyst precursor, an ethylene oligomerization catalyst including the same, and a method of preparing an ethylene oligomer using the same. More particularly, a chromium catalyst precursor which may oligomerize ethylene with high activity and high selectivity in spite of not using methylaluminoxane (MAO) or modified-methylaluminoxane (MMAO), an oligomerization catalyst including the same, and a method of preparing an ethylene oligomer using the same are provided.
US11911745B2
Provided herein is a porous β-cyclodextrin-containing monolith having a microstructure templated by the external phase of a HIPE, as well as processes of manufacturing the same and uses thereof.
US11911743B2
Sorbent materials that are treated with ions, salts, oxides, hydroxides, or carbonates of calcium, magnesium, strontium, or barium are useful in removing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), 2,3,3,3,-tetrafluoro-2-(heptafluoropropoxy)propanoate and heptafluoropropyl 1,2,2,2-tetrafluoroethyl ether, and similar compounds from liquids and gases are disclosed. The sorbent materials with the disclosed treatments offer improved performance as measured against untreated sorbent materials.
US11911736B2
Compounding device system, software and method for controlling the process of compounding admixtures
An exemplary compounding method of controlling a compounding device to prepare an admixture of at least two distinct material sources can include examining material source solutions for incompatibility of the ingredients and operating a first and a second pump to prevent one of the incompatible source solutions from entering a common flow path. The processing method can detect degradation of a fluid line by evaluating one or more of calibration error rate data, cumulative volumetric flow data, or cumulative pump operation data. The processing method can also selectively transfer a first group of source solutions using the first pump, receiving pump data from one or more sensors that sense actions of the pumps, applying fluid correction factors and calculating discrete pump movements, the pump movements being indicative of an amount of source solution displacement by a pump, and operating the pumps to selectively dispense the source solution amounts according to a preparation order.
US11911730B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate, a counter-substrate, a negative liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules, a retardation film attached to a surface of the array substrate, a first polarizer attached to the retardation film and having a first absorption axis, a second polarizer attached to a surface of the counter-substrate, and having a second absorption axis which is parallel to a direction of initial alignment of the liquid crystal molecules and perpendicular to the first absorption axis, a cover member located opposite to the second polarizer, and ultraviolet curing resin which bonds the second polarizer and the cover member to each other.
US11911722B2
An apparatus configured to purify air and sanitizing including a main base including one or more buttons configured to operate the apparatus, a lid attachable to the main base and that includes one or more ventilation perforations to intake air and an orifice to output purified air, a filter adjacent to the one or more ventilation perforations and enclosed in the lid, wherein the filter is configured to remove at least bacteria from atmospheric air and extract purified air, a fan configured to intake atmospheric air into the filter and blow purified air extracted from the filter outside of an orifice of the lid, a tank configured to store liquid, wherein the liquid includes at least liquid sanitizer, a pump configured to output liquid stored in a tank, and a cavity section that includes an outlet configured to output the liquid sanitizer in response to actuation of the pump.
US11911714B2
This disclosure generally relates to perforated filter media and coalescing filter elements utilizing perforated filter media. One example coalescing filter element is structured to separate a dispersed phase from a continuous phase of a mixture. The filter media includes a first coalescing layer. The first coalescing layer includes a first filter media. The first filter media has a plurality of pores and a first perforation. Each of the plurality of pores is smaller than the first perforation. The first perforation is formed in the first filter media and extends through the first filter media. The plurality of pores are structured to capture a portion of the dispersed phase. The first perforation is structured to facilitate the transmission of coalesced drops of the dispersed phase through the first coalescing layer such that the coalesced drops of the dispersed phase are separated from the portion of the dispersed phase captured in the first coalescing layer.
US11911711B2
A parallel assembly of chromatography column modules, the assembly having one common assembly inlet and one common assembly outlet, each column module comprising a bed space filled with chromatography medium and each column module comprises integrated fluid conduits which when the column module is connected with other column modules are adapted to connect the bed space of the column module with the assembly inlet and the assembly outlet, wherein the total length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the assembly inlet to one bed space together with the length and/or volume of the fluid conduit from the same bed space to the assembly outlet is substantially the same for all bed spaces and modules installed in the parallel assembly.
US11911706B2
An automated runway loop including a u-shaped runway, wherein the runway is configured to support an aerial projectile with the runway having a discharging end and a receiving end. The runway has a support attached to the runway and to a motor capable of extending and retracting the runway along an axis. At least one sensor is positioned along the runway and configured to provide at least one output indicative of at least one parameter of the aerial projectile. A computer is connected to the sensors and the motor, the computer controlling energization of the motor based at least in part on an indicated parameter of the aerial projectile, where the energization of the motor causes the aerial projectile to be discharged from one end of the runway and to be received at the other end of the runway.
US11911702B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) parameter configuration method for a racing AI model performed by an AI parameter configuration device is provided. A first parameter set including m sets of AI parameters is obtained. Each of the m sets of AI parameters is used by the racing AI model to travel on a track. The racing AI model is controlled to undergo an adaptation degree test according to each of the m sets of AI parameters to obtain m adaptation degrees. The m adaptation degrees are positively correlated with travel distances of the racing AI model on the track according to the m sets of AI parameters. A second parameter set is generated according to the first parameter set in a case that all the m adaptation degrees are less than an adaptation degree threshold. In a case that a target adaptation degree in the m adaptation degrees is greater than the adaptation degree threshold, an AI parameter corresponding to the target adaptation degree is configured as a target AI parameter.
US11911686B2
A skateboard truck includes a metal bolt called a kingpin and a threaded fastener, called a hex nut, which when combined hold the two main components of a truck together: the baseplate, which is mounted to the bottom surface of the skateboard deck; and the turning part of the truck called the hanger, which is mounted onto the baseplate by means of the kingpin, and affixed tightly into the baseplate by means of a threaded shaft nut assembly permanently affixed within the baseplate. Two bushings placed along the shaft of the kingpin and on either side of a flange protruding from the hanger hold the hanger in place by the tightening of the kingpin into the threaded shaft nut fastener. The kingpin is oriented such that a threaded portion of the kingpin (on an end opposite a bolt head portion) is generally facing towards a bottom surface of the skateboard deck.
US11911684B2
Systems and methods for resolving discrepancies between recordings made by multiple scorekeepers for a game comprising discrete events. In an example, a discrepancy resolving system include at least two personal computing devices and a remote server connected thereto, wherein each of the personal computing devices and the server is equipped with software which enables the personal computing devices to receive recordings of game events from a different scorekeeper, sending such recordings to the server, where the recordings from different scorekeepers are compared and discrepancies detected. The discrepancies are sent back to the computing devices for further responses from the scorekeepers. When the responses from different scorekeepers agree with each other, the discrepancies are resolved. When all scorekeepers resolve all discrepancies and agree that the game is over and all game events have been recorded, all versions of game event recordings are identical, and can be merged into one completed, official, scorekeeping record.
US11911681B2
A method can include providing an object having a size smaller than a size of a known regulation object, projecting the object, via a delivery device, toward a trainee, and training the trainee to follow the object. A method can include determining a game parameter of a game trajectory of a sports object that was projected along the game trajectory in a real-time sports event, and based on the game parameters, adapting a delivery device to deliver a training object along a training trajectory that mimics at least a portion of the game trajectory, with the training object being smaller than the sports object.
US11911680B2
An apparatus includes support members, a cable, a rolling mechanism and a tackling bag. The cable is configured to extend between the support members. The rolling mechanism is configured to traverse the cable and includes first and second sets of wheels. The cable is configured to extend between two wheels of the first set of wheels and between two wheels of the second set of wheels. The tackling bag is configured for attachment to the rolling mechanism. When a downward force is applied to the tackling bag, the pulley device detaches from the wheel housing and a portion of the cable extends around one of the two wheels of the first set of wheels and around one of the two wheels of the second set of wheels to prevent the rolling mechanism from further traversing the cable once the downward force is applied to the tackling bag.
US11911679B2
A golf training aid is described that stabilizes a wrist and an elbow of a golfer during a golf swing. The golf training aid includes a flexible sleeve and an elongated rigid insert. The flexible sleeve is configured to receive the wrist and the elbow of the golfer. The elongated rigid insert is secured to the flexible sleeve. The flexible sleeve keeps the rigid insert in contact with the wrist and the elbow of the golfer so as to prevent pivoting of the wrist and pivoting of the elbow.
US11911675B2
Innovative apparatuses and methods for a novel training device is provided that includes a base, a frame, a material attached to the frame, wherein the material comprises a non-solid material; and an image affixed to a first side of the non-solid material, wherein the image is viewable on the first side of the non-solid material and viewable on a second side of the non-solid material.
US11911671B2
A ball striking device has a head that includes a metal face configured for striking a ball, a rearwardly extending metal band, a top piece, and a bottom piece. The metal band has a first end extending from one side of the face, a second end extending from the opposite side of the face, and a rear portion extending between the first and second ends and defining at least a portion of the rear periphery of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are non-metallic or substantially non-metallic. The top piece is connected to the top side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a top side of the head, and the bottom piece is connected to the bottom side of the metal band and forms at least a portion of a bottom side of the head. The top piece and the bottom piece are separated by the metal band.
US11911670B2
A compact putter-type club head comprising a compact body profile and a small strike surface area is described herein. The compact putter head achieves distinct alignment and delivery advantages under a variety of putting conditions and is uniquely suited to produce accurate putting from the rough or fringe. The small body dimensions, including the strike face, force the player to focus on making a center strike, while also providing minimal resistance when travelling through tall grass. Certain features and characteristics of the compact putter head are specifically tailored to produce one of these benefits, while certain other features or characteristics provide benefits across multiple areas.
US11911663B2
A training device and a training method for reducing hypertonic are disclosed. The training device includes a base, a driving circuit, two pedals, a control circuit, and a switch circuit. The driving circuit is fixed on the base. Each of the two pedals is coupled to the base. The driving circuit drives each of the two pedals to swing repeatedly between a first position and a second position relative to the base. When the control circuit executes a training program, the control circuit actuates the driving circuit.
US11911653B2
A motor driven omnidirectional treadmill that allows users to walk, jog, or run in any direct ion. When the treadmill is coupled with computer-generated immersive environments users can maneuver their way on-foot through 360-degree VR environments of infinite expanse and scope.
US11911650B1
The present invention provides a multifunctional fitness frame with a reversible pedal structure, which comprises a main frame, a pull ring arranged on the main frame and a pedal arranged on the main frame, wherein the pedal is arranged on the main frame in a reversible manner, and a support tube and a rotating shaft are also penetrated on the main frame; the pedal is turned over by the rotating shaft and leans against the support tube to facilitate the user to practice paddling; and the pedal can also be turned over and leaned against the ground by the rotating shaft to realize storage, so that the user can practice other actions conveniently.
US11911641B2
The present disclosure concerns a fire spread-limiting assembly comprising a heat resistant covering; and a cooling fluid circulation assembly comprising: a cooling fluid source integrated to the heat resistant covering, one or more flexible fluid lines being part of the heat resistant covering, and a pump fluidly connected to said one or more flexible fluid lines and to the cooling fluid source and configured to circulate the cooling fluid within said one or more flexible fluid lines upon actuation. There is also disclosed a method for limiting a spread of a fire.
US11911623B2
A method, system and device for implanting an electrode assembly of an implantable medical device in a patient's heart. Positioning one or more radiopaque markers in a coronary sinus of the patient's heart. Positioning, by using the one or more positioned radiopaque markers as a fluoroscopic visual reference, a distal tip of a delivery catheter within a right atrium of the patient's heart so that a distal opening of a lumen of the catheter is against a septal wall of the heart at a location between the ostium of the coronary sinus and the A-V nodal area of the right atrium, and so that the tip of the catheter is generally directed toward a left ventricle of the patient's heart. Advancing the electrode assembly through the lumen of the catheter and into the septal wall.
US11911621B2
The present disclosure provides devices, systems, and methods for spinal cord stimulation. In some exemplary embodiments, a lead is provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the lead includes a paddle and an electrode array distributed in the paddle. The electrode array includes a first column of electrodes and a second column of electrodes. The first column of electrodes and the second column of electrodes are symmetric about the midline of the paddle. The first column of electrodes includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The second column of electrodes includes a fourth electrode corresponding to the first electrode, a fifth electrode corresponding to the second electrode, and a sixth electrode corresponding to the third electrode. A vertical inter-electrode distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is larger than that between the second electrode and the third electrode.
US11911614B2
The present disclosure provides a device for state-dependent pudendal nerve stimulation for bladder control in a subject and methods of making and using the same.
US11911609B1
The present invention relates to a system and methods for noninvasively providing therapy for movement disorder symptoms. The present invention provides such a therapy system which provides trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in order to treat those symptoms and the disorders. The present invention further provides such tDCS therapy while the subject sleeps in order to minimize the time required and impact of the therapy on the subject's waking life. The system, methods, and devices of the present invention are intended to provide a low-dose electrical current, trans-cranially, to a specific area of the subject's brain while he or she sleeps in order to decrease the occurrence, severity, and duration of the symptoms of movement disorders. The present invention aims to reduce the amount of medication necessary, counteract the effects of medication wearing off during sleep, and to overall improve the quality of life of subjects suffering from movement disorders.
US11911601B2
An insertion mechanism for a cannula includes a cannula housing, a displaceable cannula, at least one cannula holder, an insertion spring, a triggering element, and a safety device. The safety device, in a secured state, holds the triggering element in a blocked position against a force of the insertion spring and, in a released state, releases the triggering element such that the triggering element is movable into a release position by the force of said insertion energy store and the at least one cannula holder is able to move relative to the cannula housing, driven by the insertion energy store, so as to trigger or implement an insertion movement or insertion. To reach the released state, the safety mechanism is heatable by a heating element and softened and/or weakened with respect to its mechanical carrying or holding capacity, or severed or at least partially or completely melted.
US11911592B2
An intravenous (IV) spike for administering a medicinal fluid from a container may include a head portion at a proximal end thereof, a base portion at a distal end thereof, and an elongate body portion connecting the head and the base portions. The elongate body portion may be configured to be coupled to the container. The IV spike may further include a radial notch extending at least partially along a circumference of an outer surface of the elongate body portion. The radial notch may be recessed radially inward from the outer surface.
US11911586B2
Disinfection cap includes housing comprising closed top, essentially cylindrical sidewall, and open bottom formed by the sidewall with opening to inner cavity within the housing for receiving tip including mating feature of needleless connector. Disinfection sponge can be configured within inner cavity, removable cover sealing opening to inner cavity to seal sponge within inner cavity prior to cap use. Inner cavity includes at least one thread on inner surface of its sidewall that does not correspond to the mating feature of needleless connector, but is sufficient to interlock with mating feature of needleless connector. Plurality of disinfection caps are disposed on strip of IV pole hanging device such that each cap can be peeled off the strip unsealed for immediate use, or separated from the strip sealed for later use.
US11911583B2
A therapeutic delivery device that provides a controlled release of high doses of a therapeutic agent in a local area, sustains the high dose controlled release with a percutaneous port for refilling the device, and is versatile for use with multiple types of therapeutic agents and/or implant systems. A rate determining/controlled release membrane is used to decrease the molecular mobility of the therapeutic compounds thereby controlling the therapeutic release profile. The therapeutic delivery device includes a body defining an internal reservoir for receiving a therapeutic agent and including a first membrane for providing a controlled release of the therapeutic agent to the surgical site, a port in fluid communication with the reservoir, a sleeve configured to encapsulate the body, and a rigid housing configured to support the body and a portion of the sleeve, the rigid housing configured to release the body and the sleeve after the body and the sleeve are anchored position relative to the surgical site.
US11911574B2
A catheter system for imparting pressure to induce fractures at a treatment site within or adjacent a blood vessel wall includes a catheter, a fortified balloon inflation fluid and a first light guide. The catheter includes an elongate shaft and a balloon that is coupled to the elongate shaft. The balloon has a balloon wall and can expand to a first expanded configuration to anchor the catheter in position relative. The fortified balloon inflation fluid can expand the balloon to the first expanded configuration. The fortified balloon inflation fluid includes a base inflation fluid and a fortification component. The fortification component reduces a threshold for inducing plasma formation in the fortified balloon inflation fluid compared to the base inflation fluid. The fortification component can include at least one of carbon and iron. The first light guide is disposed along the elongate shaft and is positioned at least partially within the balloon. The first light guide is in optical communication with a light source and the fortified balloon inflation fluid. The light source provides sub-millisecond pulses of a light to the first light guide so that plasma formation and rapid bubble formation occur in the fortified balloon inflation fluid, thereby imparting pressure waves upon the treatment site.
US11911572B2
A balloon retention urinary catheter includes a porous and spongy distal tip. In one method, a polymer is mixed with sacrificial particles and the mixture is molded in the form of the tip, and then cured. The cured tip is then placed in a solvent in which the sacrificial particles elute from the tip but in which the polymer is insoluble. Once the particles elute out of the polymer in the tip, a softer porous polymeric structure results. The tip may be structured to be softer prior to use or for transformation to a softer state once in the bladder.
US11911563B2
There is provided a flexible, helically wound conduit for a breathing circuit. The conduit includes an inlet, an outlet, and an enclosing wall defining a flow passage between the inlet and the outlet, wherein at least a region of the enclosing wall is permeable to water vapor and one or more of O2 and CO2. The axial tensile strength of the enclosing wall is greater than 40N. Further provided are limbs comprising the conduit, a method of manufacturing the conduit and the use of the conduit to remove water vapor and/or CO2 from gas exhaled by a patient.
US11911561B2
The present disclosure relates to an aerosol production assembly. The aerosol production assembly may include a reservoir that contains an aerosol precursor composition and an atomizer that receives the aerosol precursor composition from the reservoir and heats the aerosol precursor composition to produce an aerosol. The aerosol production assembly may additionally include a body that directs the aerosol through an outlet. The body may include a surface including a micro-pattern that defines at least one of hydrophobic and anti-microbial properties. The surface including the micro-pattern may not include a chemical coating that provides these properties. Rather, the surface may define a three-dimensional structure that provides hydrophobic and/or anti-microbial properties. A related assembly method is also provided.
US11911558B2
A medical device includes a user interface component and an energy harvesting system coupled to the user interface component. The energy harvesting system energy includes a harvesting component, a power storage device connected to the energy harvesting component and an output is coupled to the user interface and operably connected to the power storage device. A method of using the medical device is also provided.
US11911557B2
A heating element for a vaporizer cartridge is provided. The vaporizer cartridge may include a reservoir containing vaporizable material and a wicking element in fluid communication with the reservoir. The heating element may include a heating portion, a cartridge contact, and a leg. The heating portion includes at least two tines spaced apart from one another. The cartridge contact may be in in electrical communication with a power source. The leg extends between the heating portion and the cartridge contact. The heating portion may be crimped around the wicking element such that the heating portion secures the wicking element to the heating element and contacts at least two surfaces of the wicking element.
US11911556B2
Some illustrative embodiments of an instillation assembly for treating a tissue site may include a fluid distribution lumen and a fluid hub that may define a fluid instillation pathway. The fluid distribution lumen may be defined by a first film layer and a second film layer, and the fluid hub may be positioned in fluid communication with the fluid distribution lumen. The instillation assembly may be used in combination with a reduced-pressure assembly that may define a reduced-pressure pathway separate from the fluid instillation pathway.
US11911552B2
A combined bio-artificial liver support system, includes branch tubes that are connected in sequence: a blood input branch tube, an upstream tail end, a first plasma separation branch tube comprising at least a first plasma separator, a non-biological purification branch tube comprising at least a plasma perfusion device and a bilirubin adsorber, a biological purification branch tube comprising at least a hepatocyte culture cartridge assembly, and a plasma return branch tube, a downstream tail end of which is set as a blood output end.
US11911550B2
A pressure measuring device 30 installs on a tube 11 for transferring a medium BL so as to measure a pressure of the medium BL inside the tube 11. The pressure measuring device 30 includes a main body portion 31 mountable to the tube 11, polarizing means 34 disposed in the main body portion 31 so that light oscillating in a specific direction is transmitted therethrough, an image acquisition unit 32 disposed in the main body portion 31 so that image information on a pressure receiver that is deformed in response to the received pressure is acquired through the polarizing means 34, and a control unit 100 that converts the image information acquired by the image acquisition unit 32 into pressure information about the pressure.
US11911533B2
There are provided tissue repair laminates containing at least two biodegradable polyurethane foam layers and a polyurethane structural layer. The biodegradable polyurethane is derived from biodegradable polyols. The laminates resist shrinkage under in vivo conditions and possess desirable mechanical properties such as high tensile strength. The laminates find use in, for example, the repair of tissue or muscle wall defects.
US11911530B2
A disinfecting system and method with monitoring and safety system. The system is available at a semiconductor level with sensors for enabling effective disinfection and human machine interface functions. UV transmissive material can assist in effective distribution of UV-C light for disinfection and visible light for feedback. A replaceable sealed UV source can disinfect multiple distinct areas and be configured with a wide variety of equipment, such as medical equipment, vacuums, and cabinetry. Disinfection interlocks promote safety and efficiency.
US11911529B2
A system may automatically conduct hygiene cycles for a confined space such an interior space of a box suitable for storing and/or carrying packaged food. The system may include a hygiene device that can be attached to the box to conduct the hygiene cycles. The system may also automatically collect information related to the hygiene cycles and transmit the collected information to a network.
US11911526B1
A drinking straw sanitizing appliance includes an exterior housing defining an interior having an adjustable heating element configured to covert a unit of water into steam. The interior is configured to also removable secure drinking straws therein thereby subjecting the same to sanitizing steam when the device is activated. The exterior of the device has a plurality of controls and a lid of the device has a locking mechanism.
US11911519B2
A device for producing nanoparticles includes: a first connector comprising a first supply tube fitting member, a second supply tube fitting member, and a first discharge tube fitting member; a first tube having one side connected to the first supply tube fitting member; a second tube having one side connected to the second supply tube fitting member; a first conduit having one side connected to the first discharge tube fitting member; a first supply connected to another side of the first tube to supply a first material to the first conduit; and a second supply connected to another side of the second tube to supply a second material to the first conduit.
US11911504B2
A device for protecting neurons and reducing inflammation and adhesion formation following surgery is provided. Also provided is a method for protecting neurons and reducing inflammation and adhesion formation following surgery. The device includes a bioabsorbable substrate and a layer of an oxidation inhibitor mimicking the effects of superoxide dismutase and catalase enzymes located on a surface of the substrate. Oxidation inhibitors that may be used include EUK-8, EUK-134, EUK-189, and EUK-207 (a mimetic of superoxide dismutase/catalase), monosodium luminol or phenyl N-t-butylnitrone or an analog with similar anti-oxidant properties. The oxidation inhibitors reduce oxidative stress and trigger the subject's natural anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory defenses, thereby reducing neuron death, loss of neuron connectivity, inflammation and scarring and restoring excitatory function of neurons.
US11911492B2
A unit-dose dentifrice composition includes a soluble fibrous composition and a nonfibrous composition. The soluble fibrous composition includes web forming material and tin ion source. The nonfibrous composition includes abrasive. The abrasive and the tin ion source are in separate locations within the unit-dose dentifrice composition.
US11911490B2
The present invention relates to an aerosol device comprising: —a container containing a cosmetic composition which comprises one or more powders in a content of less than 7% by weight relative to the total weight of the composition, and—a dispensing head comprising a body and an end part comprising at least two outlet orifices configured to allow spraying of the composition about a longitudinal axis of the end part in at least two different directions, the dispensing head comprising at least first and second chambers, through which the composition stream successively passes before it exits via the outlet orifices.
US11911487B2
The present invention provides methods and materials useful delivering liquids, including liquids comprising nucleic acid molecules into cells. In particular, the present invention provides methods for delivering saline solution, exogenous compositions, and isolated vectors to kidney cells, using the renal vein as a guide and under hydrodynamic pressure. The delivery methods and materials herein are useful to research, prognose, ameliorate symptoms of kidney injury, and treat kidney pathologies.
US11911478B2
Compositions useful in the treatment of cough and cold symptoms, including but not limited to, cough, nasal congestion and sore throat, are disclosed.
US11911470B2
Provided herein are methods for treating pancreatic cancer using a combination of radiotherapy and an agent that inhibits binding of PD-L1 to PD1 (e.g., durvalumab).
US11911464B2
Anti-parasitic compounds and uses thereof. Compounds comprising a C-terminal peptide adjuvant conjugated to an N-terminal peptide antigen via a protease-cleavable linker, said peptide adjuvant comprising a peptide analog of C5a, wherein said peptide antigen comprises an antigenic epitope of a parasitic organism, such as T. gondii. Methods of therapeutic or prophylactic treatment of a parasitic infections.
US11911452B2
Provided are mixed carrier, multivalent pneumococcal conjugate compositions comprising 21 different pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide-protein conjugates, wherein each of the conjugates includes a capsular polysaccharide from a different serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae conjugated to either tetanus toxoid (TT) or CRM197, wherein the Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes are selected from 1, 3, 4, 5, 6A, 6B, 7F, 8, 9N, 9V, 10A, 11 A, 12F, 14, 15B, 18C, 19A, 19F, 22F, 23F, and 33F, where the capsular polysaccharides of two of serotypes 1, 3, and 5 and one or both of serotypes 15B and 22F are conjugated to TT and the remaining capsular polysaccharides are conjugated to CRM197. Also provided are methods of producing the mixed carrier, multivalent pneumococcal conjugate compositions and methods of using the same for prophylaxis against Streptococcus pneumoniae infection or disease in a subject.
US11911445B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising PYY (e.g., PYY(3-36) and analogs and variants thereof), satiety peptides, satiety hormones, metabolic hormones, and methods of treating metabolic diseases with such compositions are provided. Aspects include methods of increasing a feeling of fullness in patients treated with pharmaceutical compositions comprising PYY, PYY(3-36), satiety peptides, satiety hormones, metabolic hormones, and analogs, receptor antagonists and variants thereof.
US11911426B2
The disclosure provides the use of a plant in the preparation of medicines and health products for preventing and treating ovarian injury. The application found that seabuckthorn fruit pulp and seabuckthorn seed oil have good preventive and therapeutic effects on ovarian injury. Seabuckthorn fruit pulp and seabuckthorn seed oil can prevent mouse ovarian injury and estrus cycle disorders, and can improve ovarian reserve, etc. Meanwhile, they also have good therapeutic effects on the above-mentioned injuries. This application provides a basis for the prevention and treatment of ovarian injury directly by seabuckthorn fruit pulp and seabuckthorn seed oil.
US11911423B2
A Bifidobacterium lactis BL-99 strain capable of enhancing immunity and the use thereof, which belongs to the technical field of microorganisms, is described. The Bifidobacterium lactis BL-99 provided by the present invention is deposited in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center CGMCC on Apr. 26, 2018 with the deposit number CGMCC No. 15650. The bacteria have gastric acid resistance and intestinal fluid resistance, can significantly promote the growth of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, significantly increase antibody-producing cells and half hemolysis value HC50, activate NK cell activity, and can be used to prepare foods for immunity enhancement. It also has the effects in preventing osteoporosis, increasing blood calcium and/or phosphorus ions, which has a wide range of application prospects.
US11911422B2
A Bifidobacterium lactis BL-99 strain capable of enhancing immunity and the use thereof, which belongs to the technical field of microorganisms, is described. The Bifidobacterium lactis BL-99 provided by the present invention is deposited in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center CGMCC on Apr. 26, 2018 with the deposit number CGMCC No. 15650. The bacteria have gastric acid resistance and intestinal fluid resistance, can significantly promote the growth of Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus, significantly increase antibody-producing cells and half hemolysis value HC50, activate NK cell activity, and can be used to prepare foods for immunity enhancement. It also has the effects in preventing osteoporosis, increasing blood calcium and/or phosphorus ions, which has a wide range of application prospects.
US11911421B2
Disclosed herein is a probiotic composition that includes Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salicinius AP-32, Lactobacillus johnsonii MH-68, and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis CP-9, which are deposited at the China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) respectively under accession numbers CCTCC M 2011127, CCTCC M 2011128, and CCTCC M 2014588. A number ratio of Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salicinius AP-32, Lactobacillus johnsonii MH-68, and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis CP-9 ranges from 1:0.1:0.1 to 1:1:8. Also disclosed herein is use of the probiotic composition for alleviating type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM).
US11911404B2
Disclosed are methods for treating a cancer and/or enhancing immune responses to infiltration of tumors comprising administering to a subject a fucose. Also disclosed herein are methods of detecting the presence of a sugar-modified protein (i.e., a glycosylated protein).
US11911394B2
The present invention relates to a method for preventing transmission of influenza, wherein said method comprises administering an effective amount of a compound to a patient having an influenza virus infection, herein referred to as “index patient”, wherein the compound has one of the formulae (I) and (II), or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The compound to be used in the present invention reduces infectivity of the influenza virus of the index patient, and therefore, reduces the risk of the index patient to trigger an influenza epidemic or an influenza pandemic as compared to a control patient. Therefore, one aspect of the present invention relates to a method for preventing an influenza epidemic or an influenza pandemic, wherein the method comprises administering an effective amount of a compound to patients having an influenza virus infection (index patients), wherein the compound is administered to at least 10% of all influenza infected persons of a city's or country's population, and wherein the compound has one of the formulae (I) and (II), or is a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11911391B2
The present invention is related to novel compositions comprising at least one active ingredient of the family of the triazines combined with another active ingredient and specific compounds that allow the reduction of foam formation. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions in the form of aqueous suspensions comprising a triazine, an iron complex, and one or more surfactant(s) having a particular HLB.
US11911384B2
A method for treating or preventing heart failure involving blockage of small blood vessels is described. The method involves administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a vasodilator.
US11911377B2
The present disclosure provides a method for treating hypertension by using a compound, wherein the compound is selected from the group consisting of: (E)-4-(3-(3-methyl benzyloxy)benzylidene)-1-phenylpyrazolidine-3,5-dione, (2R)-2-amino-3-(2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-N′-((E)-quinolin-7-ylmethylene)propane hydrazide, and a combination thereof. The present disclosure uses a small molecule compound (E)-4-(3-(3-methyl benzyloxy)benzylidene)-1-phenylpyrazolidine-3,5-dione, (2R)-2-amino-3-(2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-N′-((E)-quinolin-7-ylmethylene)propane hydrazide or a combination thereof, which can be developed as a therapeutic drug for lowering blood pressure, whether it is taken orally or injected.
US11911376B2
Methods of treating, reducing the risk of, preventing, or alleviating at least one symptom of a retinal disease, injury, or condition in a subject involve administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of kynurenic acid to the subject. The kynurenic acid may be administered intravenously or intravitreally. Systems for treating retinal diseases, injuries, or conditions are also disclosed and may include an administration device.
US11911374B2
The present disclosure includes a method for treating or ameliorating a cancer or the effects of a cancer in a subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a hedgehog inhibitor (HHI) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a chemotherapeutic agent (CTA).
US11911365B2
Provided is a composition for use in treating a skin condition, the composition comprising: (a) a first component comprising a substituted or unsubstituted diindolylmethane compound; and (b) a second component comprising a substituted or unsubstituted retinoid compound.
US11911362B2
Compositions are provided for the liquid oral administration of topiramate and its salts. The invention further provides methods for treating diseases and disorders using the compositions.
US11911361B2
The present invention is generally directed to substantially pure cannabidiol, stable cannabinoid pharmaceutical formulations, and methods of their use.
US11911352B2
A method of forming an implant in tissue can include: providing a polymer solution having an effective amount of polymer dissolved in a biocompatible, water-soluble organic solvent; injecting a plurality of droplets of the polymer solution in the tissue; fusing the injected droplets together; dissipating the biocompatible, water-soluble organic solvent in the tissue; and precipitating the polymer from the injected polymer solution so as to form the implant.
US11911336B2
A system for assisting with a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) treatment being administered to a patient. In one aspect, the system includes electrodes to provide an ECG signal of the patient, one or more sensors configured to measure an intrinsic myocardial wall movement of the patient, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to perform operations including: during the CPR treatment being administered to the patient, receiving an input from the sensor(s), processing the input from the sensor(s) and the ECG signal, determining, based on processing, whether the intrinsic myocardial wall movement is indicative of a perfusion movement of the patient's heart, and providing an indication to a user of the system based on the determination.
US11911335B2
The present disclosure relates to a bidirectional reciprocating oscillating massager, including a peripheral component, wherein a first gear box fixing member and a second gear box fixing member are respectively arranged inside the peripheral component; the first gear box fixing member and the second gear box fixing member are connected through a bolt; rotating slots are formed in tops of both the first gear box fixing member and the second gear box fixing member; inner walls of the rotating slots are rotatably connected with driven shafts; outer walls of the driven shafts are sleeved with driven teeth; the same motor is fixedly connected inside the first gear box fixing member and the second gear box fixing member; an output shaft of the motor is connected with a driving tooth; and the driving tooth are meshed with the driven teeth.
US11911332B2
A passive spine elongation device has a front portion and a rear portion pivotally connected to the front leg portion. An adjustment device connected to the front portion and the rear portion allows the distance between the front and leg portions to be adjusted, thereby allowing a variable apex angle and adjustable height of the same. The front portion includes a head support, a torso support and a pelvic/hip support. The rear portion includes a leg support. The head support is spaced from the torso support, while the torso support is also spaced from the pelvic/hip support.
US11911331B2
A leg brace configured to be attached to a leg of a user, includes a rear thigh link extending along a thigh of the user, and a lower-leg link rotatably connected to the rear thigh link and extending along a lower leg of the user. A handle is provided in the thigh link, the handle being configured to project forward when the user is in the sitting position. The rear thigh link and the lower-leg link are connected to each other near the knee joint of the user. Specifically, the rear thigh link and the lower-leg link are connected to each other at a rear connection part disposed near the knee joint. Further, the rear thigh link and the handle are also connected to each other near the knee joint.
US11911326B2
In one example, a hospital bed headboard is disclosed. The hospital bed headboard includes a planar multiple paneled headboard. The planar multiple paneled headboard may be attached or detached from a hospital bed frame. The hospital bed headboard includes a first panel positioned adjacent to a second panel. Each one of the first panel and the second panel is to open and to close an egress in the planar multiple paneled headboard. The hospital bed headboard may also include a third panel. The first, second and third panels may be disengaged (or installed) as a single unit from a mobile hospital bed headboard.
US11911322B2
A reclining wheelchair apparatus for providing a convenient way for wheelchair users to rest or be cared for includes a chair base frame and a plurality of wheels coupled to the chair base frame. A seat bottom is coupled to a base top side and a pair of pivot brackets is pivotably coupled to a base top side adjacent the base back side. A chair back is coupled to the pair of pivot brackets and moves between an upright position and a reclined position. The pair of pivot brackets rests on a pair of bracket supports when the chair back is in the reclined position. A pair of locking pins is coupled to the pair of pivot brackets and selectively engages with the base top side to secure the chair back in the upright position.
US11911317B2
A stack of eye shields includes a plurality of eye shields each having a frame with receivers located along the frame and latches located to engage the receivers, and spaced apart elevated support surfaces along and rising above an upper portion of the frame; and a lens installed on the frame and having lens apertures extending through the lens and aligned with the receivers of the frame, with the latches engaged with the receivers securing the lens to the frame. The eye shields are stacked one on top of another with each of the eye shields oriented substantially parallel to one another with each of the elevated surfaces of an overlying one of the frames of the stack being slightly forward of a corresponding one of the elevated surfaces of the underlying frame of the stack, with each frame of each eye shield of the stack having a gap therebetween except at contact surfaces where the elevated support surfaces contact an adjacent lower surface of an overlying eye shield. The elevated support surfaces of the frames stabilize the stack of the eye shields for shipping and dispensing of the stack of the eye shields.
US11911315B2
A method and system for use in an ocular surgical procedure is provided. The design includes a handpiece having an ultrasonically vibrating tip operational within a plurality of operating modes including a first operating mode and a sensing device, such as a vacuum pressure sensor. A controller is connected to the handpiece and sensing device and is configured to receive data from the sensing device and adjust at least one operational parameter (time/duty cycle of operation, power during operation) associated with the first operating mode and adjust at least one parameter associated with another operating mode based on the data received from the sensing device. Operational modes may include multiple longitudinal or non-longitudinal modes (torsional, transversal, etc.) or combinations of longitudinal and/or non-longitudinal modes.
US11911314B2
A portable device for attaching a contact lens to an eye includes a first clamp including a first grip portion having a first grip hole and a first arm including two branches extending from the first grip portion, each branch extending obliquely and being bent, and a second clamp having a shape identical to the shape of the first clamp, the second clamp including a second grip portion having a second grip hole and a second arm, wherein the first arm and the second arm are coupled to each other so as to intersect each other about a pivot point, and a first eye opening means and a second eye opening means are installed at tip ends of the first arm and the second arm, respectively, each eye opening means being configured to be brought into tight contact with a corresponding eyelid.
US11911313B2
An eye implantation device has a body including a support system adapted to engage at three points with an iridocorneal angle of an anterior chamber of an eye into which the device is implanted.
US11911304B2
Flared stents are disclosed, and apparatus and methods for delivering such stents into a bifurcation between a main vessel and a branch vessel. The stent includes a first tubular portion a second flaring portion that may be flared radially outwardly to contact the ostium. The stent may include variable mechanical properties along its length. The stent may be delivered using a catheter including proximal and distal ends, the stent overlying first and second balloons on the distal end. During use, the catheter is advanced through an ostium into the branch to place the stent within the branch. The first balloon is expanded to flare the stent to contact a wall of the ostium, thereby causing the stent to migrate partially into the ostium. The second balloon is expanded to fully expand the stent within the ostium and branch.
US11911299B2
A prosthetic attachment system and corresponding lock assembly for connecting a distal end of a prosthetic liner to a distal end of a prosthetic socket. The lock assembly includes a base arranged to be supported by the distal end of the prosthetic socket, and defining a bore. An attachment pin is arranged to be carried by the prosthetic liner and insertable through the bore. A lock mechanism is arranged to be carried by the base and is rotatable about a rotation axis. The lock mechanism includes a control knob extending outwardly from a side of the base. The attachment pin is arranged to interact with the lock mechanism cause the control knob to spin at least one projection of the control knob about the rotation axis.
US11911292B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for intervertebral body fusion that provide more robust support within the disc space. Intervertebral body fusion devices can have a unitary monolithic body including a plurality of body segments interconnected with each other by flexure members. Devices be configured to be inserted through an opening in a compressed configuration and then expanded within the disc space to an expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, devices can have a greater mediolateral or transverse to the disc space footprint. This wider footprint provides greater support for the vertebrae relative to the size of the opening through which the device is inserted.
US11911280B2
A knee joint prosthesis system for implantation in a first knee joint of a patient. The first knee joint has a condition. The knee joint prosthesis system includes a tibial baseplate component, a femoral component having a femoral articulation surface, and a tibial insert. The tibial insert includes a tibial articulation surface configured to articulate with the femoral articulation surface. The tibial articulation surface includes a medial tibial compartment asymmetrical to a lateral tibial compartment. The tibial articulation surface is shaped to cooperate with the femoral articulation surface to adapt kinematics of the first knee joint having the condition and the tibial articulation surface is also suitable for implantation in a second knee joint on a second side, the second knee joint lacking the condition.
US11911278B2
In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, relate to TMJ implantation materials and implants (e.g., temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disc), methods of making TMJ implantation materials and implants, methods of forming a TMJ implantation material or an implant, and the like.
US11911273B2
A prosthetic heart valve holder system includes a prosthetic heart valve having a base at an inflow end, a plurality of commissure posts extending from the base toward an outflow end, and valve leaflets secured to the commissure posts to permit flow through the heart valve. A deflector is provided at the outflow end having a central hub and a plurality of arms extending from the central hub secured to and covering the tips of respective commissure posts. A valve support body is secured to the base and a post connects the valve support body to the hub of the deflector. The plurality of arms are sufficiently collapsible such that, in a first position, free ends of the arms are located axially between the hub and the valve support body to prevent suture looping during an implant procedure, and in a second position, the hub is located axially between the free ends of the arms and the valve support body to permit removal of the deflector from the outflow side of the valve, through the valve leaflets, to the inflow side of the valve.
US11911272B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include a plurality of absorbable filaments arranged in a support structure and configured degrade within a defined time period and a membrane arranged about the plurality of absorbable filaments and configured to contain fragments of the plurality of absorbable filaments in response to a fracture or degradation of a filament.
US11911270B2
The present embodiments provide a medical device for implantation in a patient comprising a stent and a valve. The stent comprises a proximal region comprising a cylindrical shape having a first outer diameter in an expanded state, and a distal region comprising a cylindrical shape having a second outer diameter in the expanded state. The second outer diameter is greater than the first outer diameter. A proximal region of the valve is at least partially positioned within the proximal region of the stent, and the distal region of the valve is at least partially positioned within one of tapered and distal regions of the stent. When implanted, the proximal region of the stent and the proximal region of the valve are aligned with a native valve, and the distal region of the valve is distally spaced-apart from the native valve.
US11911267B2
An artificial heart valve suitable to be delivered percutaneously, comprises a plurality of support elements in the form of a plurality of base segments and a plurality of posts; a plurality of flexible leaflets, each leaflet attached to two of the posts; and one or more strings passing through the plurality of support elements. The artificial heart valve is configurable between a collapsed delivery configuration in which the posts are located side-by-side and closer together and an expanded operational configuration in which the posts are located side-by-side and further apart. When the artificial heart valve is in the collapsed delivery configuration, application of tension to the one or more strings pulls each support element into engagement with adjacent support elements until the artificial heart valve adopts the expanded operational configuration in which the support elements together form a support structure defining an aperture for blood flow.
US11911263B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for storing and/or shipping an intraocular lens (IOL) cartridge are provided. A system comprises a packaging comprising a passage. The IOL cartridge is removably disposed within the passage. The IOL cartridge comprises a nozzle and a compartment configured to receive an IOL. The nozzle is in fluid communication with the compartment. The IOL cartridge further comprises a dial configured to rotate upon withdrawal of the IOL cartridge from the passage, wherein an inner surface of the dial is exposed to the compartment. The dial is configured to fold the IOL and release the IOL cartridge from the packaging upon rotation of the dial.
US11911258B2
An occlusive device includes a covering component configured to modulate passage of blood or thrombus therethrough, and an occlusion frame that includes a plurality of elongate occlusion frame members. The elongate occlusion frame members are arranged to form a generally disc-shaped member. The occlusion frame is at least partially covered by the covering component. The device further includes an anchor frame that includes a plurality of elongate anchor frame members. The device further includes a first hub component from which the elongate frame members extend, and a second hub component from which the elongate frame members extend.
US11911257B2
An implant delivery tube fitting (12) and an implant delivery system. The implant delivery tube fitting (12) is used for loading and delivering an implant, and the implant delivery tube fitting (12) comprises, sequentially from a proximal end to a distal end, an outer tube (122) and a capsule (121). The inner lumen of the capsule (121) is adapted to receive an implant, and the capsule (121) is provided at the distal end of the outer tube (122). The capsule (121) has a telescopic structure, and the outer tube (122) can drive the capsule (121) to make a telescopic movement so that the capsule (121) is lengthened or shortened.
US11911249B2
Provided herein are fluid-absorbent articles, fluid absorbent cores, and fluid-absorbent mixtures with improved properties, especially rewet performance and liquid acquisition. The fluid-absorbent article includes (A) an upper liquid-pervious sheet, (B) a lower liquid-impervious sheet, (C) a fluid-absorbent core including from 60 to 20% by weight fibrous material and from 40 to 80% by weight of at least a first type of water-absorbent polymer particles, (G) and at least a second type of water-absorbent polymer particles (H) based on the sum of water-absorbent polymer particles and fibrous material, (D) an optional acquisition-distribution layer (D) between (A) and (C), (F) other optional components, wherein the first type of water absorbent polymer particles (G) of the fluid-absorbent core (C) have a SFC of at least 20×10−7 cm3·s/g, and wherein the at least second type of water-absorbent polymer particles (H) of the fluid-absorbent core have a sphericity of at least 0.80.
US11911237B2
A dental aligner apparatus is comprised of a bar, a rotatable end member, a slidable end member, and a spring member. The bar includes a first end member and a second end member. The rotatable end member is disposed at a first end of the bar and coupled to the first end member. The slidable end member is disposed at a second end of the bar and coupled to the second end member. The spring member is disposed between the rotatable end member and the slidable end member and coupled to the first and second end members.
US11911235B2
An occlusal splint arrangement having a maxillary miniplast splint and a mandibular miniplast splint, and including a positioning means defining the position of the mandibular miniplast splint with respect to the maxillary miniplast splint in the x-direction. The positioning means is designed like a fixing band transmitting tensile forces, the two ends of the fixing band being fixed to two fastening elements, and the fastening elements being disposed in the left and the right molar region of the mandibular miniplast splint, and a middle section of the fixing band being guided at a guide means, and the guide means being disposed in the incisor region of the maxillary miniplast splint.
US11911234B2
The invention relates to a mixing capsule (1) comprising a housing in the form of a cylinder, characterised in that the mixing capsule has an applicator (2) at the top surface (15) of the cylinder and an auxiliary capsule (3) at the base surface of the cylinder being mounted displaceably in the direction of the longitudinal axis, the auxiliary capsule (3) being mounted displaceably in the direction of the longitudinal axis in a cylindrical inside pipe (4) and/or a mounting of the mixing capsule (1), the housing of the mixing capsule comprising an outer housing sleeve (5) and an inner housing sleeve (6) being mounted rotatably against each other and displaceably into each other, the auxiliary capsule (3) and the cylindrical inside pipe (4) and/or the mounting taking a first partial volume of the internal volume (9) of the mixing capsule (1) in a first position of the inner housing sleeve (6), the mixing capsule (1) having a second partial volume of the internal volume (9) being independent from the auxiliary capsule (3) and the cylindrical inside pipe (4) and/or the mounting, the second partial volume having a composition A, the auxiliary capsule (3) containing a composition B, the internal volume (9) of the cylinder being increased compared to the first position in a second position of the inner housing sleeve (6) after the outer housing sleeve (5) and the inner housing sleeve (6) being pushed apart along the longitudinal axis, the increased internal volume (9) being adapted to receive composition B besides composition A, composition A and composition B being mixable to composition C by moving the mixing capsule, composition C being ejectable via the applicator (2) when the outer housing sleeve (5) and the inner housing sleeve (6) being telescoped. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for mixing at least two compositions A and B to a composition C in a mixing capsule. The invention likewise refers to a use of a mixing capsule.
US11911218B2
A diagnostic ultrasound system has a 2D array transducer which is operated with 1×N patches, patches which are only a single element wide. The “N” length of the patches extends in the elevation direction of a scanned 2D image plane, with the single element width extending in the lateral (azimuth) direction. Focusing is done along each patch in the elevation direction by a microbeamformer, and focusing in the lateral (azimuth) direction is done by the system beamformer. The minimal width of each patch in the azimuth direction enables the production of images highly resolved in the azimuthal plane of a 2D image, including the reception of highly resolved multilines for high frame rate imaging.
US11911214B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a guided at-home ultrasound imaging session. In one example, a system for ultrasonically scanning a tissue sample includes a hand-held ultrasound probe including a transducer array of transducer elements, a probe position tracking device including one or more position sensors coupled to the ultrasound probe, and a controller. The controller is configured to, during an imaging session, determine a position of the ultrasound probe relative to a target position based on position data collected by the probe position tracking device, and responsive to an indication that the ultrasound probe is at the target position, acquire image data with the transducer array.
US11911206B2
Disclosed is a calibration object for an x-ray system and an optical system, the calibration object comprising: a first part made of a first material having a matte surface, the first material having a first attenuation coefficient of x-rays; a second part made of a second material having a second attenuation coefficient of x-rays different from the attenuation coefficient of the first material; wherein the first part is attached to the second part so that one or more features are detectable by one or more optical cameras.
US11911203B2
Methods for correlating intraluminal data with x-ray image data involve providing x-ray image data of a tubular organ, providing intraluminal data of the tubular organ, synchronizing the x-ray image data with the intraluminal data based on a cardiac cycle extracted from an available input signal and/or the x-ray image data and/or the intraluminal data to match x-ray image data with intraluminal data in a specific cardiac phase, and co-registering x-ray image data with intraluminal data by creating a cumulative image at the specific cardiac phase which reconstructs the path followed by an intraluminal wire used for acquiring the intraluminal data to link the intraluminal data to spatial locations of the path followed by the wire within the x-ray image. A corresponding system and computer program are also disclosed. The method and systems can be controlled by one or more computer systems configured with specific executable instructions.
US11911199B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a medical imaging apparatus and a treatment device. The medical imaging apparatus includes: an imaging source, a beam stop array and a detector; the beam stop array is arranged between the imaging source and the detector; and the beam stop array includes a plurality of stop elements, the plurality of stop elements are distributed in rows in a direction perpendicular to a rotation axis, and the number of the stop elements is less than or equal to a preset number. After image reconstruction is performed using the projection, shadow areas corresponding to each slice image are reduced, errors of the slice image are reduced, and the imaging quality is improved.
US11911197B2
Techniques are provided for x-ray sensing for intraoral tomography. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes detecting an x-ray pulse based on energy received at one or more pixels of a pixel array. The method also includes integrating the energy received at each of the pixels of the array of pixels, in response to the detection, wherein the energy received at each of the pixels is associated with the x-ray pulse. The method further includes multiplexing readouts of analog signals from the array of pixels into two or more parallel channels. The method further includes simultaneously converting (or otherwise in parallel) the analog signals of each of the channels into digital signals and storing the digital signals in memory as frames of data. The method may further include, for example, transmitting the frames of data from the memory, over a Universal Serial Bus, to an imaging system.
US11911195B2
Embodiments can provide a visual indicator system, attachable to a medical imaging patient bed. The visual indicator system comprising: one or more light strips, each light strip comprising a plurality of lights; a distance meter, attachable to one end of the medical imaging patient bed; a storage device, configured to store one or more preconfigured finger gestures; and a microcontroller. The one or more light strips are attachable to the medical imaging patient bed; wherein the microcontroller is configured to illuminate the one or more light strips after the one or more preconfigured finger gestures are made with respect to the one or more light strips. A position of the illumination of the light strip corresponds to a position of performing the one or more preconfigured finger gestures and one or more distance measurements received from the distance meter.
US11911193B2
One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for generating a resultant image dataset of a patient based on spatial distributions of materials in the patient.
US11911191B2
A system for containing and transporting a medical device may include a container including a bottom face and surrounding side faces as a closed first end and an open second end to form an inner portion for receiving and retaining the medical device. At least a portion of one or more of the side faces may have an indentation extending along a length of the respective side face. A liner and cover may be removably enclosable about the container. The liner may be extendable over the side faces to line the inner portion of the container. The cover may enclose the medical device in the container between the liner and cover. The indentation may be formed into the inner portion of the container. The container may be compatibly receivable in a first transportation device in a first orientation.
US11911180B2
A system for monitoring a user includes a garment configured to be placed on a foot of the user, a cover coupled to the garment, and a sensor arrangement between the garment and the cover, wherein the sensor arrangement comprises at least one temperature sensor to measure at least one temperature on the foot of the user. A method for making a system for monitoring a user includes forming a sensor arrangement including at least one sensor lead coupled to a temperature sensor, positioning at least a portion of the sensor arrangement on a garment configured to be placed on a foot of the user, and enclosing at least the portion of the sensor arrangement between the garment and a cover.
US11911179B2
The present invention provides methods and systems that provide for reliable, convenient, and noninvasive assessment of hydration status. The methods and apparatuses can use the temporal sequence of the aortic value opening and closing along with the user's body position to derive parameters that determine the hydration status of the user. The user can use this information to make near-term lifestyle changes that can improve physical performance, health, and general wellbeing.
US11911173B2
A system for quantifying risk associated with preclinical indicators of one or more clinical skin conditions, the system is formed of a plurality of measurement tools in connection with a processor, the measurement tools configured to various pre-clinical indicators of the skin health of a subject' hand, where the processor is configured to calculate a score based on the combined data from the plurality of measurement tools, this score being representative of the subject's risk of future development of one or more clinical skin conditions.
US11911170B2
An electrode for neural sensing and stimulation comprising a first electrode disposed on a probe and a second electrode disposed on the probe, wherein a voltage or impedance is sensed using the first electrode and second electrode.
US11911165B2
A method includes estimating, by a consumer electronic device, an atrial fibrillation (AF) burden of a subject based on multiple measurements passively collected by at least one sensor associated with the consumer electronic device while the subject is in a free-living environment. The method also includes outputting, by the consumer electronic device, an AF burden notification associated with the subject based on the estimated AF burden. The method further includes outputting, by the consumer electronic device, an AF burden recommendation based on the estimated AF burden.
US11911164B2
Systems and techniques for managing biological signals. In one implementation, a method includes receiving a cardiac biological signal that includes information describing events, determining a merit of each event based on one or more of a severity of a cardiac condition associated with the event and a quality of the event, and handling a subset of the events that meet a merit criterion. The subset can be handled for medical purposes.
US11911163B2
A wireless earpiece includes a wireless earpiece housing, a processor, and a transceiver configured to produce electromagnetic pulses capable of reaching a brain of a user. A method of stimulating the brain of the user using the wireless earpiece includes receiving a request at the wireless earpiece and generating an electromagnetic pulse in response to the request.
US11911160B2
An automated urine-output-measurement system can include single-patient equipment and multi-patient equipment. The single-patient equipment can include a urinary catheter and a urine-collection system. The urine-collection system can include drainage tubing and a drainage receptacle. The multi-patient equipment can include a urine monitor. The urine monitor can include a housing having a cavity configured to house the drainage receptacle, a urine-measurement means for measuring urine-output into the drainage receptacle, and an integrated display screen configured to display patient information including measurements of the urine output. A method of the automated urine-output-measurement system can include placing the drainage receptacle in the urine monitor of the automated urine-output-measurement system, and confirming a volume of urine in the drainage receptacle with that indicated on the urine monitor once a patient has produced urine.
US11911159B2
According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for calculating information on urination. The method includes the steps of acquiring a sound signal related to urination of a user, calculating a urination parameter related to an effective value (or urination parameters related to an effective value and a spectral centroid) from the acquired sound signal, and estimating a urine flow rate of the user with reference to the calculated urination parameter.
US11911154B2
The disclosure discloses a skin-attached blood oxygen saturation detection system and a preparation method thereof. The system includes a front-end flexible blood oxygen saturation detection circuit and a back-end signal processing output module connected to each other. The front-end flexible blood oxygen saturation detection circuit uses a flexible packaging material to act as a packaging layer, a surface of the front-end flexible blood oxygen saturation detection circuit has an adhesive functional layer, and is configured to detect blood oxygen saturation of a human tissue through a reflective optical principle. The back-end signal processing output module is configured to transmit a blood oxygen saturation signal to a mobile terminal through a Bluetooth antenna transmission module.
US11911146B2
A living body detection device includes a receiver that receives, from at least one non-contact sensor, a measurement result obtained by measuring a detection area with the at least one non-contact sensor, an extraction circuit that extracts a biological signal from the measurement result, a counting circuit that counts the number of living bodies present in the detection area from the biological signal, and an acquisition circuit that acquires a prescribed number of living bodies to be present in the detection area, and a verification circuit that verifies whether the number of living bodies counted by the counting circuit is equal to the prescribed number and outputs a result of verification.
US11911125B2
A surgical instrument for use with a robotic manipulator includes an end effector assembly having one or two end effector members, each having a distal treatment end, a proximal end, and a tendon pass-through. Tendons that provide both mechanical actuation and electrical conduction to the end effector members are positioned in the pass-throughs.
US11911124B2
An active-passive parallel-connected reduction robot includes: an active manipulator, provided with an active output end having multiple degrees of freedom; a synchronized motion platform, a fracture reduction needle being fixedly mounted on the synchronized motion platform, the active output end of the active manipulator being connected to the synchronized motion platform; and a passive manipulator, one end thereof being fixedly provided, the other end being provided with a passive output end having multiple degrees of freedom, and the passive output end being slidably mounted on the synchronized motion platform. The passive manipulator is capable of maintaining a locked degree of freedom when the active manipulator drives the synchronized motion platform to insert the fracture reduction needle into a fractured end requiring reduction. The active manipulator drives the synchronized motion platform to execute a reduction operation with the support of the passive manipulator.
US11911123B2
A body mountable robot may include a set of stages disposed in a parallel configuration. The body mountable robot may include a set of actuating joints, wherein an actuating joint, of the set of actuating joints, is configured to rotate with respect to a corresponding stage of the set of stages. The body mountable robot may include at least one actuator, wherein the at least one actuator is configured to actuate at least one actuating joint of the set of actuating joints. The body mountable robot may include a set of scissor mechanisms, wherein a scissor mechanism, of the set of scissor mechanisms, that is coupled to the actuating joint, is supported by the corresponding stage, and wherein the scissor mechanism is configured to translate with respect to the corresponding stage.
US11911105B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems, apparatuses and methods for prediction, diagnosis, planning and monitoring for myopia and myopic progression. In some embodiments, one or more refractive properties of the eye is determined for each of a plurality of retinal locations of the eye. The plurality of locations may comprise a central region, such as a fovea of the eye, or non-foveal region such as a peripheral region or a region of the macula outside the fovea. Measuring the refractive properties of the eye for the plurality of locations may be helpful in diagnosing myopia and other ocular conditions by providing the refractive properties of the eye for locations away from the fovea, such as the peripheral retina.
US11911097B2
Performing an initial ablation of tissue using an electrode in a probe distal end to apply a first power and estimating an overall thickness of the tissue based on measurements during the ablation of parameters of a change of temperature of the probe distal end, the first power, an irrigation rate for irrigating the tissue and a contact force applied by the probe distal end to the tissue. The method also includes in response to the estimated thickness, computing at least one of a second power required and a second time period for ablation to complete ablation of the tissue. The method further includes performing a subsequent ablation of the tissue using the computed at least one of the second power and the time period for ablation.
US11911089B2
An apparatus includes a body, a shaft assembly, an articulation section, an end effector, an articulation connector, and an articulation drive assembly. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body. The end effector is connected to the articulation section such that the end effector is configured to deflect relative to the longitudinal axis of the shaft assembly. The articulation connector is configured to translate relative to the shaft assembly to deflect the end effector relative to the longitudinal axis. The articulation drive assembly is configured to translate the articulation connector relative to the shaft assembly. The articulation drive assembly includes a rotatable housing and a first lead screw assembly. The first lead screw assembly includes a first half and a second half. The first lead screw assembly is slidably coupled with the shaft assembly and is configured to translate in response to rotation of the rotatable housing.
US11911076B2
A modular pedicle screw assembly for immobilisation and stabilisation of spinal segments in a patient. One example of the modular pedicle screw assembly includes a bone screw, a uniaxial inner collet arranged to cooperate with a head of the bone screw, a seat arranged to provide seating for retention of the inner collet, and an inner collet actuator designed to engage the seat to activate the inner collet for clamping about the head of the bone screw.
US11911074B2
A strut measurement and feedback device and corresponding systems and methods for use with an external fixator are disclosed. The strut measurement and feedback device can be attached to a strut of an external fixator. The strut measurement and feedback device can confirm that the strut measurement and feedback device is attached to a proper strut to be adjusted. The strut measurement and feedback device can provide real-time feedback to an individual as the length of the strut is being adjusted to ensure the length adjustment complies with a prescription for the length of the strut. As a result, a patient can more effectively comply with the prescription as adjustments to the strut are made over time, thereby improving the likelihood of successful bone alignment.
US11911072B2
Systems and methods are provided for insertion of a medical device into a blood vessel. The system may include a sheath assembly with an introducer sheath and a variable size repositioning sheath. The variable size repositioning sheath may be configured to be adjustable in size in a radial direction and to be inserted into the blood vessel or an expandable introducer sheath. In some aspects, the system may include an intracardiac device such as a blood pump with an elongate catheter.
US11911066B2
An endoluminal punch system including a sheath and dilator. The endoluminal punch may include energy delivery system capable of being transmitted from the proximal end to the distal end of the endoluminal punch to assist with tissue crossing and incisions. The dilator may include selectively deployable cutting mechanism to create incisions in tissue that are larger than their basic external diameter. The system may also be configured to reduce the risk of generating plastic emboli during insertion of the endoluminal punch.
US11911061B2
Systems and methods for creating autologous monocuspid and bicuspid valves can include a catheter having a single expandable element or a double expandable element. Once the leaflets of the valve are created, various techniques can be used to fix the leaflets to the vessel wall or to each other, including clips, tissue anchors, adhesives, and heat.
US11911046B2
A resection guide locator includes a bone engagement portion with surfaces that are complementary to the surface topographies of a bone to be resected during surgery. A housing includes a socket defined by a resilient annular wall that is sized and arranged so to accept a resection guide by press-fit to thereby position and hold the resection guide within the socket. The resection guide is maintained in a predetermined, preferred position while the surfaces are releasably locked in position on the bone. A method is disclosed for forming and using the resection guide locator.
US11911042B2
A method of using an occlusion clamp, the method comprising: (a) repositioning a tongs so that tissue interposes the tongs, the tongs comprising a first longitudinal segment operatively coupled proximally to a second longitudinal segment, the tongs including a first spring exerting a proximal bias tending to direct a proximal portion of each of the first and second longitudinal segments toward one another, where each of the first and second longitudinal segments includes a distal free end; (b) repositioning a second spring distally along each of the first and second longitudinal segments to exert a bias tending to direct a distal portion of each of the first and second longitudinal segments toward one another, where repositioning of the tongs so that tissue interposes the tongs precedes repositioning the second spring distally along each of the first and second longitudinal segments.
US11911035B2
Force modulating tissue bridges, and associated applicators, kits and methods are provided. A force modulating tissue bridge can be a medical article for at least partially covering a wound and/or scar tissue. The medical article can include an elastic arch extending over an area, and a medial strut connected to the arch and extending into the area over which the central section extends.
US11911010B2
A medical instrument port is described for use with a surgical mask or other protective face covering. The medical instrument port provides a sealed pathway through which a medical instrument can be passed without exposing the clinician to aerosolized droplets expelled from the patient's respiratory system when the medical instrument is introduced into the patient's nasal and/or oral passages.
US11911007B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device, an endoscope system, and an image processing method capable of observing an accurate structure of a subject while preventing a substantial decrease in a frame rate in a case where an image is acquired using a plurality of observation lights. An image processing device according to a first aspect of the present invention includes an image input unit that inputs a first image and a second image captured at different times, in which the image input unit inputs the first image captured with first observation light and the second image captured with second observation light different from the first observation light; a parameter calculation unit that calculates a parameter for registering the first image and the second image; an image generation unit that applies the parameter to the first image to generate a registered first image; and a display control unit that causes a display device to sequentially display the input first image and the generated registered first image.
US11911006B2
The invention relates to a method for detecting visible and infrared light using a medical imaging system, said medical imaging system comprising a camera module configured to receive a visible light signal and at least one infrared light signal from an object image. The medical imaging system for detecting visible and comprises an input for visible light for illuminating a tissue; an input for excitation light for exciting a fluorescence agent in the tissue; a camera module configured to receive a visible light signal and at least one infrared light signal from an object image in the tissue. The camera module comprises at least a first, second, and third optical path for directing light from the object image to a first, second, and third filter and sensor combination respectively. In any order, the first, second, and third filters are a green filter, an infrared filter, and a red/blue patterned filter comprising red and blue filters in alternating pattern. Half of the red/blue patterned filter is a red filter and the other half is a blue filter. The green and infrared light are thus sampled at full sensor resolution, for the red and blue light spatial interpolation is required.
US11911005B2
An endoscopic retraction assist device includes a body comprising opposite proximal and distal end portions and a central portion between the proximal and distal end portions, and a device channel defined in the body. At the central portion of the body, the device channel transitions from a circular portion having a circular cross section or perimeter to an arcuate portion having an elongated arcuate cross section or perimeter.
US11911004B2
A bending and extending device 1 comprises an elastic hollow guide unit 2 and a movable part 3 to be movably inserted into the guide unit 2. The movable part 3 is constituted, either partially or entirely, of a plurality of belt-like flexible parts 30a and 30b, which extend in the axial direction of the guide unit 2 and the flexible parts 30a and 30b are connected at distal ends. The bending and extending device 1 is characterized in that, when, by the sliding operation of the flexible parts 30a and 30b, a cross-section in which a contact point T of the flexible part 30a and the inner surface of the guide unit 2 is present on an extending line Y extending from a line segment connecting the centroid P of the flexible part 30b and the axial center G of the guide unit 2 and in which the flexible part 30a and the second flexible part 30b are in contact with each other is generated, and when the cross-section is divided into two ranges by a predetermined straight line X, the centroid P of the flexible part 30b is not positioned in a range in which the contact point T is present; and the predetermined straight line X is a line that passes through the axial center G of the guide unit 2, and that orthogonally crosses the extending line Y.
US11911000B2
An endoscope includes a first subassembly, a second subassembly, a third subassembly, and a fourth subassembly, which are sequentially assembled and tested in making the endoscope. The first subassembly includes a pressure-sealed electrical cable connected to an image capture unit. The second subassembly includes the first subassembly, a shell, a light pipe, and a lid. The third subassembly includes the second subassembly, a central tube, and a flange. The fourth subassembly includes the third subassembly, a base, a shaft, and optionally an articulating assembly.
US11910997B2
Errors in a blended stream that would result in non-display or obscuring of a live video stream from a medical device may be automatically detected, and a failover stream corresponding to the first live video stream may be displayed to medical personnel. For example, one or more second input streams that are being blended may contain no data or invalid data which may result in the blended stream not displaying (or obscuring) the live video stream (if the blended were displayed). Switching from blending to a failover buffer may occur within the time to process a single video image frame. Upon detection (prior to display) that the blended stream would not display the live video stream, display of the live video stream from the failover buffer may be initiated. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11910995B2
The application relates to the problem of navigating a surgical instrument (at 301, 311) towards a region-of-interest (at 312) in endoscopic surgery when an image (300) provided by the endoscope is obscured at least partly by obscuring matter (at 303), wherein the obscuring matter is a leaking body fluid, debris or smoke caused by ablation. To address this problem, a computer-implemented method is proposed, wherein, upon detecting that the image from the endoscope is at least partly obscured, a second image is determined based on a sequence of historic images and based on the current position and orientation of the endoscope. Furthermore, a virtual image (310) is generated based on the determined second image.
US11910983B2
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises a hand vacuum cleaner, a surface cleaning head and a rigid air flow conduit removably mountable between the surface cleaning head air outlet and the dirty air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner. The hand vacuum cleaner comprises a main body and a cyclone unit. The main body has a suction motor axis of rotation and an axially extending sidewall wherein an end of a pistol grip handle is mounted to the sidewall. The dirty air inlet of the hand vacuum cleaner is removably drivingly mounted to a downstream end of the rigid air flow conduit. When the hand vacuum cleaner is positioned with the front end of the hand vacuum cleaner in front of the rear end of the hand vacuum cleaner, the cyclone axis of rotation is generally horizontal.
US11910981B2
A flow controller for controlling water flow from a pump pumping water from a sump of a dishwasher to a water conduit system of the dishwasher. The flow controller comprises a plate with openings. The openings form water outlets to the water conduit system. The flow controller also comprises a disc rotatably arranged in relation to the plate. The disc comprises openings arranged for allowing closing and opening of the water outlets in the plate during rotation of the disc. The flow controller comprises a cavity formed between the disc and the plate configured to allow water to flow back from the water conduit system via a water outlet in the plate being closed by the disc and via the cavity to a drain outlet in the plate. Hereby water can return from a closed water outlet in the plate via the drain outlet in the disc to the sump.
US11910978B2
A gloved wash mitt apparatus for keeping a mitt in place while maintaining dry hands includes a mitt body having a mitt top side, a mitt bottom side, a mitt left edge, a mitt right edge, a mitt top edge, and an open mitt bottom edge defining a mitt cavity. The mitt body has an outer side to dry dust or wet wash a surface without creating scratches. A glove body is coupled to the mitt body within the mitt cavity. The glove body has a glove palm portion, a plurality of glove finger portions extending from the glove palm portion, a glove wrist portion coupled to the glove palm portion, and an open glove bottom side. A glove perimeter of the glove wrist portion is continuously coupled to a mitt perimeter of the open mitt bottom edge. The glove body is waterproof.
US11910977B2
A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for wet cleaning includes a heated fluid delivery system having a dual-phase distributor that dispenses heated liquid and steam vapor. The dual-phase distributor can include a phase separator that separates a vapor phase of a heated fluid from a liquid phase of the heated fluid, a heated liquid outlet, and a steam vapor outlet. The apparatus can further include a liquid delivery system, and/or a recovery system.
US11910973B2
A debris collecting base station cooperates with the cleaning robot. The cleaning robot has a debris outlet for discharging debris. The debris collecting base station includes a base, a debris collecting device, a first communication component and a microcontroller. The base has a debris intake passageway. One end of the debris intake passageway pneumatically interfaces with the debris outlet, the debris collecting device is mounted on the base and is communicated with the end of the debris intake passageway away from the debris outlet. The microcontroller is electrically connected to the first communication component and the debris collecting device, which controls the first communication component to send and receive interactive signals with the cleaning robot and controls working modes of the debris collecting base station based on the interactive signals.
US11910968B2
A self-lifting toilet seat system includes a toilet seat configured to be sat upon by a user. The system has a hinge configured to rotatably couple the toilet seat and a toilet bowl. The hinge is configured so that the toilet seat is transitionable from an up position to a down position. A lifting system is configured to raise the toilet seat towards the up position. A sealed hinge housing has at least a portion of a delay system therein. The delay system is configured to cause a time delay before the lifting system causes the toilet seat to self-lift towards the up position. The delay system is configured so that the time delay begins after removal of a threshold downward force on the toilet seat.
US11910958B2
An upper part for a spice mill at least partly of a plastic material includes an upper cover surface with at least one opening, in particular a through-opening for ground spices, a circumferential lateral surface, and a milling element or a mounting for the milling element. A preferably elastically deformable snap-action element, by which the upper part can be rotatably connected to a lower part, is arranged so as to be flush with the opening in plan view.
US11910956B2
Grill grates include side walls defining the perimeter of the grill grate and flavor bars, with grease channels between them. The grease channels have continuous, closed bottoms. The flavor bars include dormers. The dormers are configured to direct drippings around the openings, to the grease channels. The dormers can have openings facing substantially towards the grease channels. The grill grates can be formed by methods such as stamping or casting. Stamping the grill grates can include providing metal with flanges and tabs to ensure sufficient material to allow the flavor bars and dormers to be formed, and the grease channels and side walls then sealed through welding. The grill grate can trap drippings in the grease channels while allowing smoke and heat to reach cooked items through the dormers in addition to heat transfer through the material of the flavor bars.
US11910955B2
Cases for portable grills are disclosed. An example case includes a base, a first flap extending from the base, a second flap extending from the base, a third flap extending from the base, and a fourth flap extending from the base. The base is centrally located relative to the first, second, third, and fourth flaps. The case is configured to be positioned in an open configuration in which the first flap extends radially away from the base in a first direction, the second flap extends radially away from the base in a second direction that differs from the first direction, the third flap extends radially away from the base in a third direction that differs from the first and second directions, and the fourth flap extends radially away from the base in a fourth direction that differs from the first, second, and third directions.
US11910945B1
A bed linen combination for use on a mattress. The combination includes a bottom fitted sheet having a first side, an opposing second side, a top edge and a foot-end which is sized and shaped to fit over the mattress. The combination also includes a top flat sheet attached to the bottom fitted sheet at the foot-end and a portion of the first and second sides of the bottom fitted sheet at first and second side attachment segments. Tags may also be affixed at the ends of the side attachment segments to the top flat sheet and bottom fitted sheet. In another embodiment of the present invention, a blanket may be magnetically held in place at the foot-end of the top flat sheet and bottom fitted sheet.
US11910942B2
A device includes a cup having an open top, an interior bottom and an exterior bottom, a compartment coupled to the exterior bottom of the cup, and a removable film coupled to the compartment. The cup may be operable to hold a liquid. The compartment may be operable to hold an item, and the removable film may be operable to expose the item.
US11910938B2
A mullion assembly for a merchandiser including an elongated mullion body that has a first end and a second end. The mullion body defines an elongated channel extending from the first end toward the second end along a longitudinal axis oriented along a length of the mullion body. The channel is defined by a support surface, opposite sidewalls, and opposite hooks that are coupled to the sidewalls and that extend in a direction across the longitudinal axis. A light assembly is coupled to the mullion body within the elongated channel, and the light assembly is captured by the hooks to retain the light assembly in the channel.
US11910929B2
In systems and methods for adjusting the firmness of a mattress assembly and/or modulating the pressure in a mattress assembly, a mattress assembly includes: a two-dimensional array of bladders; at least one pump that is in fluid communication with the bladders to provide air and/or fluid to the bladders; multiple valves that are interposed between the pump and the bladders to control the flow of air and/or fluid to or from the bladders; a pressure sensor operably connected to one or more of the bladders; and a controller in communication with the pump, the valves, and the pressure sensors. The controller is configured to selectively actuate the pump and one or more of the valves, while receiving feedback from the pressure sensors, in order to adjust the firmness of the mattress assembly and/or modulate the pressure in the mattress assembly.
US11910925B2
A furniture apparatus including a frame, a movable facade configured to transition between an open state and a closed state; and a hidden container configured to rest on a set of support ledges attached to one or more of the frame and an unhidden container optionally associated with the furniture apparatus such that the hidden container is configured to be visible when the movable facade is in the open state, and the hidden container is configured to be hidden from view when the hidden container is installed in the furniture apparatus and the movable facade is in the closed state.
US11910921B2
A shelf for storing bottles in a wine cabinet has a rectangular frame bounded by two side beams and two crossbeams, respectively front and rear, and being equipped with individualized reception locations for a plurality of bottles. Each slot has a cradle for the neck of a bottle, the cradle being equipped with a sensor to detect the presence of a bottle neck. The front crossbeam of the shelf can include, for each individualized location, an electronic device to visualize the presence of a bottle.
US11910918B2
A retail management system includes a carriage base and an engagement mechanism. The carriage base includes a first end defining a front surface and a second end formed at an opposite end from the first end. The engagement mechanism is disposed at the first end of the carriage base and includes a plurality of carriage teeth extending from the front surface, the plurality of carriage teeth including at least one primary carriage tooth having a first configuration and at least one secondary carriage tooth having a second configuration that is different than the first configuration.
US11910914B2
A desk including a support column having a top and a worksurface having a bottom. An attachment plate is disposed between and coupled to the top of the support column and to the bottom of the worksurface. A leveling component is disposed between the support column and the attachment plate. The leveling component is adjustable between a plurality of positions such that the attachment plate is moveable to a corresponding plurality of angular orientations relative to the top.
US11910913B2
An apparatus drives and guides movement of a display assembly that includes a display unit. At least one track extends along at least one side of the display assembly and defines a path along which the display assembly is driven. A plurality of pins extend from the display assembly to the at least one track. At least one constant force spring has at one end a coiled part that is rotatably coupled to the display assembly, and an opposing end fastened to a fixed mounting location, and an uncoiled part extending between the coiled part and the opposing end. The at least one constant force spring is configured to drive the display assembly from a lowered position to a raised position while the plurality of pins travels along the at least one track and guide movement of the display assembly.
US11910912B2
A backcombing brush for backcombing hair includes an array of bristles 4. Each bristle extends from a base to a free end and two lengths of bristle are provided. Shorter bristles 4a and the bottom of longer bristles 4b carry out backcombing, whilst the longer bristles smooth hair, or untangle knots/tangles in the hair to reduce the level of backcombing. The long bristles have a relatively wide first portion 5, towards the base of the bristle, and a relatively narrow second portion 6, towards the free end of the bristle. The bristles are arranged such that bristles in one row neither extend between adjacent bristles in an adjacent row nor partially occlude the space between bristles in an adjacent row.
US11910908B2
A lipstick tube with a replaceable mechanism includes a base and the mechanism. The mechanism includes a barrel, a fork, a spiral and an aluminum shell that are coaxially sleeved sequentially from inside out. A barrel engaging member integrally protrudes from an outer side wall of the barrel. A hollow guide groove extending in an axial direction of the fork is formed in the fork. A spiral guide groove extending in an axial direction of the spiral component and spiraling upward is formed in an inner side wall of the spiral component. The barrel engaging member is configured for passing through the hollow guide groove and then being embedded into and sliding in the spiral guide groove. The spiral component is configured for axially stopping and circumferentially rotating relative to the fork. The aluminum shell is configured for being fixed in position relative to the spiral component.
US11910902B2
The invention provides a device (1) connectable to an apparatus (1000) with a rotational driving element (1001), the device (1) comprising a connector element (58) for functional coupling to the apparatus (1000), wherein the connector element (58) is configured to be detachably attached to the apparatus (1000), a receiving element (10) for functionally coupling to the rotational driving element (1001), wherein the receiving element (10) has an axis of rotation (A), a base (20) suitable to be connected to a skin treatment element (200), a rotational coupling mechanism (30) for rotationally coupling of the base (20) with the receiving element (10), and an oscillation generator (40) configured to introduce an oscillation movement (45) to the base (20) parallel to the axis of rotation (A) during rotation of the base (20) with a base rotation frequency, based on a periodical repulsion or attraction of a first permanent magnet (41) and a second permanent magnet (42) comprised by the oscillation generator (40), induced by rotation of the receiving element (10).
US11910900B2
A convertible containment device includes a flexible base portion configured to substantially conform to a supporting surface when the device is in an open configuration, a wall affixed to a perimeter of the flexible base and extending away from the flexible base when the device is in the open configuration, and a cinch cord in operable relation with the wall, and forming a loop when the device is in the open configuration. The cinch cord is configured such that pulling the cinch cord causes the device to transform from the open configuration to a bag-like configuration by gathering the wall to form an annulus having an opening, and the opening of the annulus is sized to prohibit exit of an object from within the bag-like configuration.
US11910897B2
A lightweight case with a mobile wall cabinet having a base tray, a case lid in the form of a hood shell, with a base tray mounted on it, in particular rotatable through 360° perpendicular to the roller plane and plane of the base tray, wheels and telescopic rails with integrated locking as prefabricated components and a flexible, lightweight suitcase wall material which is formed between the floor trough and the hood shell, wherein the hood shell with the telescopic rails is designed to be lockable, translatorically retractable and extendable by means of a pushbutton integrated in the hood shell and an integrated pushbutton force distributor strut and with a supporting strut, the supporting strut fastening at least one, preferably two, telescopic rails to the suitcase wall material, so that the suitcase is formed with a stable spatial structure forming a wall cupboard, in particular also for the expanded state.
US11910894B2
Suitcase protector comprising a cardboard packaging, characterised by the fact that it is made from the development of a die-cut sheet of cardboard, in which a rectangular, horizontally elongated, major section is defined, which, by means of vertical folding lines, determines the two major (1-1′) and minor (2 2′) sides of a rectangular prismatic container, which by means of vertical folding lines determine the two larger (1-1′) and smaller (2 2′) sides of a rectangular prismatic container.
US11910893B2
The present invention relates to a portable insulated food container. More particularly the present invention relates to a portable insulated food container with a greater heat-retaining capacity. The portable insulated food container comprises of a vacuum insulated removable outer cover, a vacuum insulated base, a vacuum insulated base carrier, one or more non-insulated container(s), one or more detachable lid(s), a supporting base, and one or more interlocking units. Advantageously the present invention relates to a portable insulated food container with different shapes like oval, rectangle, square, hexagon, etc and sizes.
US11910887B2
A fastening tape having a substrate layer having a nonwoven layer with two opposite faces defining a first outer face and a second outer face of the substrate layer, and at least one fastening element provided on the first outer face of the substrate layer, the fastening tape being characterized in that the substrate layer presents an air permeability which is higher than 0 and lower than 30 l.m−2.s−1 as per ISO 9237 with a pressure of 200 Pa for a sample with a tested zone having a diameter of 8 mm.
US11910884B2
The present invention relates to a lace, string, strap or zip cord lock or securement device that can be applied to an apparel item or accessory. The device has a threaded cap and threaded housing which attaches to a base. The housing includes a continuous opening through which the laces, strings, straps, or cords can be inserted such that they enter the opening on one side of the housing and exit the opening on the other side of the housing. Then, the cap can be turned to tighten the cap and cause it to move downwards on the housing until the laces, strings, cords or straps are pinned between the cap and the base. In addition, a lace, strap, string or cord insertion tool is provided to aid a user in inserting laces, strings, cord or straps through the continuous opening.
US11910881B2
A closure mechanism for an article of footwear is provided. The article of footwear having an upper comprising a lateral sidewall and a medial sidewall, a vamp, an ankle opening, a first tension member, a second tension member, and a slider. The first tension member being coupled to the lateral sidewall portion and the second tension member being coupled to the medial sidewall at each of a first end near the vamp, an intermediate point at the ankle opening, and a second end. The slider may be coupled to and movable along the tension members from a first position at the vamp to a second position at the ankle opening, such that moving the slider from the first position to the second position operatively reduces a maximum size of the ankle opening.
US11910880B1
A lace lock including at least some of a lace lock base; a cam lock at least partially rotatable within a base cavity of the lace lock base; a fastener engaging a cam post of the lace lock base to maintain a lace lock cover in a position relative to the lace lock base; and a lace cord, wherein a distal end portion of the lace cord is attached or coupled to the lace lock base, wherein a proximal end portion of the lace cord is positioned through at least a portion of the lace lock base to selectively engage the cam lock if the cam lock is in the engaged position so that interaction between at least a camming surface of the cam lock resists a withdrawing force of the lace cord from the lace lock base.
US11910876B2
A compression appliance includes a textile-based wrap, an electronic assembly, and wiring comprising a single wire looped through the length of the wrap. The wiring comprises shape changing materials that are used to apply controllable intermittent sequential compression or constriction pressure to a body portion of a person when the compression appliance is wrapped around the body portion. The appliance can incorporate a pre-tensioning element that applies a known initial tension to the shape changing material prior to activation of a compression cycle. The wire can be then actuated according to a compression protocol to sequentially contract and release the wire. The proposed wiring and component configuration will need access to lower power and a reduced volume of hardware as compared to conventional compression appliances.
US11910875B2
An upper for a sports shoe includes a plurality of areas. The areas include a medial area, a lateral area, a toe area, an instep area, a heel area, and a collar area. The upper includes at least one protrusion in at least four of the plurality of areas. The protrusions protrude from an outer surface of the upper.
US11910874B1
A system for decorating a wearable item includes a support member and a detachable member. One of the support member and the detachable member includes a protrusion, and the other of the support member and the detachable member includes a recess configured to couple with the protrusion. With the protrusion slidably received in the recess, the detachable member may be secured to the support member, allowing a surface of the detachable member, optionally provided with a logo or decorative indicia, to be affixed to the support member and displayed.
US11910871B2
Computer based systems and methods for designing (e.g., customization) of consumer products, articles of footwear, knit footwear uppers, and the like. In some embodiments, a user may generate and/or modify footwear designs using a footwear design interface. Additionally or alternatively, the footwear design interface may be configured to simulate the layout and/or operation of a knitting machine to provide the user with the impression of physically designing and/or manufacturing an article of footwear. In other embodiments, the system may disallow prospective footwear design changes based on limitations associated with inventory availability and the footwear design characteristics.
US11910868B2
A sole for an article of footwear includes a base having an outer edge defining a perimeter, the base having a forefoot portion, a midfoot portion and a heel portion; and a plurality of resilient projections extending from the base, wherein the plurality of projections includes a plurality of projections extending non-orthogonally from the base about the perimeter of the base and a plurality of projections extending substantially orthogonally from the base within the non-orthogonal projections.
US11910856B2
Aspects herein are directed to an upper-body garment that facilitates upright sleeping. The garment includes an inner hood with a mesh elastic panel that is adapted to be positioned across the wearer's forehead helping to anchor the inner hood on to the wearer's head. The inner hood includes a low stretch or no stretch center panel. The center panel extends from the mesh elastic panel, down the center back of the inner hood, and further extends on to a back aspect of a torso portion of the garment where it forms a center portion of the back of the upper-body garment. Because the center panel has low stretch or no stretch, the wearer's head and neck are held in an upright or generally upright position when the inner hood is donned. The upper-body garment further includes a large volume outer hood positioned external to the inner hood.
US11910852B2
A facemask system with automated voice display is disclosed. The facemask includes a covering configured to be positioned about the face of a user. At least one microphone is positioned adjacent the covering and the facemask includes a display for displaying language spoken captured by at least one microphone. A processor is in operable communication with the microphone and the display. The facemask includes a memory that contains instructions that can be executed by the processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving signals from at least one microphone, identifying language contained within the signals, and displaying the language on the display.
US11910848B2
An activewear garment having facial opening formed on an anterior side of an upper head portion of the garment. An elastic securing band is attached to the upper head portion. The elastic band includes a top portion and a bottom portion, each portion having a first end and a second end. There are first and second gaps between the respective ends of the top portion and bottom portion of the elastic band to facilitate the insertion and removal of items intended for insertion in or on a user's ears such as, for example, ear pods and athletic glasses.
US11910841B2
Infant swaddling allows an infant to be comfortably and easily swaddled. The swaddling includes a pouch featuring a lower end that can be opened and closed to allow an infant's soiled diaper to be easily removed and replaced or to take a rectal temperature. The swaddling can include a blanket that comprises a first blanket flap and a second blanket flap and that can be removably attached to the pouch. The swaddle is used by placing one of the blanket flaps over the pouch, and then placing the other blanket flap over the pouch.
US11910840B2
A manufacturing machine for producing disposable cartridges for electronic cigarettes can have a manufacturing drum supporting at least one group of seats, each adapted to receive a component of the disposable cartridge; and a feeding unit which feeds the components of the disposable cartridges to the seats. Each seat has a housing through channel crossing the manufacturing drum from side-to-side to contain a component and a pair of opposite jaws mounted in the housing channel and movable between a gripping position, in which they engage a component arranged in the housing channel and a transfer position, in which they do not engage the component. Each pair of jaws has two teeth arranged at the top and projecting from the corresponding jaws towards the center of the seat, so that the two teeth hold the component inside the seat at the top when the two jaws are in the gripping position.
US11910839B2
A case for an aerosol-generating device is provided, the case including a housing; a holder to receive a portion of the device, the holder being movably couplable to the housing and movable relative to the housing between an open position configured to receive the device and a closed position configured to store the device; a holder position detector configured to detect whether the holder is in the open position or the closed position, the holder position detector including circuitry configured to determine a position of the holder relative to the housing; a power supply; an electrical connector configured to electrically connect the power supply to an aerosol-generating device received in the holder; and power supply control circuitry configured to control a supply of power from the power supply to the device received in the holder and connected to the electrical connector.
US11910831B2
A vaporizer heating element assembly has a case structure with a plurality of walls collectively defining a case interior. An upper wall has an access opening, a left wall has a reservoir window, and a lower wall has a vaporization window. A thin plate heating element formed from an electrically conductive material is positioned within the case structure parallel to the lower wall and adjacent the vaporization window. A liquid transport structure is configured for transporting liquid by capillary action from a liquid intake surface to a liquid outflow surface and is disposed within the case interior so that the liquid intake surface is adjacent the reservoir window and the liquid outflow surface is adjacent or in contact with the thin plate heating element. The heating element assembly also has an access closure sized and configured to seal the access opening.
US11910827B2
Vaporization devices having portions to enable signal transmission therethrough. A vaporization device includes a body having a first end, a second end, and forming an internal cavity. At least a portion of the internal cavity forming a cartridge receptacle. The vaporization device includes a battery disposed within the internal cavity and a processor operatively coupled to the battery and disposed within the body. The processor is arranged to respond to a signal to switch the vaporization device between a first operational mode and a second operational mode. The vaporization device also includes a portion of the body arranged to permit transmission of the signal through the portion of the body from a location external to the body, thereby permitting the processor to switch the vaporization device between the first and second operational modes in response to the receipt of the signal.
US11910820B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a centrifugal device. The invention furthermore relates to a centrifugal device. The centrifugal device is provided with a drum which can be driven at a variable speed of rotation, with a frame and with vibration dampers arranged between the frame and the drum. The invention furthermore relates to a computer program product.
US11910808B2
The present disclosure provides compositions formulated for ruminants that comprise beneficial microbes. Particularly, the disclosure provides a composition comprising microorganisms with at least 97% sequence identity to any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-60 and 2045-2107. Such compositions can be used for increasing milk production or improving milk compositional characteristics in ruminants.
US11910806B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a chocolate which has a reduced trans fatty acid content and yet shows a high compatibility with cocoa butter, excellent blooming resistance and high meltability in mouth. A transesterified fat or oil wherein, in the constituting fatty acid composition thereof, the content of unsaturated fatty acids is regulated to not more than 10 mass % and the composition of other fatty acids is controlled to a preset content.
US11910805B2
A low sugar content sweet food spread is provided said food spread comprising at least one of a cocoa product and a nut product, at least one vegetable oil and at least one sweetener. The at least one vegetable oil is substantially free or free of palm oil and the sugar content of the spread is less than about 20% by weight of the total spread. The food spread possesses excellent properties and is advantageously spreadable at low temperature.
US11910794B2
The invention provides novel solutions and methods for storage and delivery of pollen to a female reproductive part of a recipient plant. The pollen storage solution provided includes a solute that maintains the tonicity of the pollen storage solution at a concentration between about 0.5 M and about 3.0 M and a cryoprotectant. The methods provided include storing the pollen storage solution and applying pollen stored in the storage pollen solution to at least a first female reproductive part of a recipient plant, thereby pollinating the female reproductive part with the stored pollen from the donor plant.
US11910792B2
A break-away apparatus for a boom arm is positioned at a joint between a main boom and a boom tip to allow the boom tip to assume a neutral position and forward, rearward, and upward positions. A hinge assembly is positioned between the boom tip and main boom. The hinge assembly includes an upper ball joint, a first hinge, and a second hinge. The boom tip is movable relative to the main boom about an axis of the first hinge, about an axis of the second hinge axis, and/or about a pivot defined by the upper ball joint. A first spring assists a return of the boom tip to the neutral position.
US11910783B2
A pet-monitoring system including at least one of a wearable component, base station and user device. The system utilizes data collected from each of these components as well as the state of any connections between the devices to: (i) make various determinations about the pet's health and environment; (ii) notify the user of substantial changes in the pet's health and environment; (iii) determine how to efficiently utilize communication, monitoring or interaction modules within the wearable component, base station and user device; and (iv) automate interactions with the pet using interaction modules within the wearable component, base station and user device.
US11910782B2
A light up buckle for use with a dog collar. The buckle design comprises a Plastic Computer Board (PCB) which incorporates LED's, a mini-USB port, a switch and a rechargeable battery. The entire assembly is water-resistant, by means of two rubber components that interlock when the buckle is closed. The buckle is intended for illumination at night to aid the visibility of an owner's canine that wears the buckle on the collar.
US11910778B2
An absorbent pad may include a liquid permeable layer, a liquid impermeable layer, and a liquid absorbent layer disposed between the liquid permeable layer and the liquid impermeable layer. The liquid absorbent layer may include a first absorption region and a second absorption region. The second absorption region may extend around the first absorption region and may be configured to absorb more liquid per unit area than the first absorption region.
US11910776B2
A soybean cultivar designated 00231732 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 00231732, to the plants of soybean cultivar 00231732, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 00231732, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 00231732. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 00231732. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 00231732, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 00231732 with another soybean cultivar.
US11910774B1
A novel maize variety designated X08R703FR and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08R703FR with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08R703FR through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X08R703FR, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08R703FR are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08R703FR and methods of using maize variety X08R703FR are disclosed.
US11910773B2
A wheat variety designated 6PCMK57B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PCMK57B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PCMK57B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PCMK57B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PCMK57B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PCMK57B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
US11910768B2
The present invention discloses a method for breeding a new variety of high-quality Gossypium hirsutum, including breeding a parent Xiang 176 line, breeding parent Xiang 267, crossing and composite-crossing the Xiang 176 line and the Xiang 267 as parents, and obtaining the new variety of high-quality conventional Gossypium hirsutum in their offspring. The plant type of this variety was tower type, with good growth vigor in the seedling stage and the boll opening stage, good uniformity, dense stalk cilia, white anthers, smooth boll opening, stable agronomic traits, high yield, and excellent fiber quality.
US11910762B2
A light source for plant cultivation includes at least two light emitting devices supplying light to a plant. Each of the light emitting devices includes a first semiconductor layer doped with a first conductivity type dopant, a second semiconductor layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer and doped with a second conductivity type dopant different from the first conductivity type dopant, and an active layer interposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The light emitting devices emit light towards the plant under a different condition in terms of at least one of wavelength, radiation intensity, and emission timing to control the type and content of phytochemicals in the plant.
US11910758B2
A vegetation hanger includes a crossbar and an arm coupled to an end portion of the crossbar. The crossbar defines a plurality of serrations configured to prevent the vegetation from sliding on the crossbar. The arm includes a handle and defines a slot configured for hanging the vegetation on a horizontal support bar.
US11910751B1
The robotic system for harvesting, and performing pre- and post-harvesting tasks of date palm trees includes three main parts: a truck platform, a scissor lift, and a multi-task system. The truck platform provides mobility for the whole system, while the scissor lift raises the multi-task system to the top of the palm tree. The multi-task system is fixed on top of the scissor lift and includes a large basin that catches fruits during harvesting. A circular track is fixed within the basin and includes a 2-degree-of-freedom (DOF) slider base mounted thereon. On top of the 2-DOF slider base is a robotic arm fitted with the proper tool (harvesting tool, maintenance tool or bagging system) for the task to be performed. The circular track has pivoting sections, and the basin has a flexible portion in the rear of the truck platform to allow the system to surround the palm tree.
US11910747B2
A work machine includes a housing, a motor positioned on an upper surface of the housing, a battery connected with the motor, and a blade to be driven by the motor. An air introduction member that cools a control device by causing air to flow is provided on an inside of a motor case. Plural bottom surface ventilation ports and plural side surface ventilation ports are provided in the motor case. Both of the ventilation ports cause air to flow into the inside of the motor case. The plural bottom surface ventilation ports and the plural side surface ventilation ports are disposed at positions lower than the air introduction member and the control device.
US11910746B2
Assemblies allowing a repositionable discharge deflector to be added to a mower with a discharge chute are described. These assemblies include a base, a swing bracket, a discharge deflector, a motor, and a switch. The base is attached to the mower, and the motor is attached to the base and includes a rotating output shaft. The swing bracket is rotationally attached to the base and is rotationally coupled to the rotating output shaft of the motor. The discharge deflector is attached to the swing bracket and positionable via rotation of the rotating output shaft so as to at least partially block the discharge chute of the mower. The switch is in electrical communication with the motor and is able to cause the motor to rotate the rotating output shaft. The assemblies allow a user to modify the trajectory of mown material discharged from the discharge chute of the mower with a push of the switch.
US11910741B2
A planting tool includes a tube element with an inlet end and an outlet end. A ground support is rotatably connected to the tube element via a pivot point and includes a first part with a pedal area and a second part with a hatch area. A mechanism has a first clamp and a second clamp. In an open state the mechanism prevents movement between the hatch area and the outlet end and maintains the hatch area at a distance from the outlet end by contact between the first and second clamp. In a closed state the mechanism prevents movement between the hatch area and the outlet end and maintains the hatch area in contact with the outlet end. The first clamp includes a switch allowing a user to change position of the first clamp to switch the state of the mechanism from the open state to the closed state.
US11917927B2
A production line device prepares a superconducting circuit layer on a substrate. The device prepares an under bump metallization (UBM) layer on an upper surface of the superconducting circuit layer. A superconducting connection is formed between the UBM layer and the superconducting circuit layer. The production device prepares a welding spot on an upper surface of the UBM layer to obtain a qubit assembly configured for a flip-chip superconducting quantum chip. A superconducting electrical connection is formed between the welding spot and the UBM layer.
US11917925B2
The magnetoresistive stack or structure of a magnetoresistive device includes one or more electrodes or electrically conductive lines, a magnetically fixed region, a magnetically free region disposed between the electrodes or electrically conductive lines, and a dielectric layer disposed between the free and fixed regions. The magnetoresistive device may further include a spin-Hall (SH) material proximate to at least a portion of the free region, and one or more insertion layers comprising antiferromagnetic material.
US11917919B2
An electret includes a substrate and an electret layer formed above a surface of the substrate. The electret layer is a composite metal compound containing two or more different metal elements, and is obtained by subjecting a thin film mainly composed of an inorganic dielectric material having a bandgap energy of 4 eV or more to a polarization treatment.
US11917914B1
Provided are a compound capable of improving the light-emitting efficiency, stability, and lifespan of an element; an organic electronic element using same; and an electronic device thereof.
US11917913B2
The invention relates to materials, to electroluminescence devices comprising said materials and to the use thereof.
US11917910B2
The present invention relates to a novel organic compound and an organic electroluminescent device using the same, and more particularly, to a novel compound having excellent electron transport capability and light emitting capability, and an organic electroluminescent device improved in terms of luminous efficiency, driving voltage, lifespan, etc. by including the novel compound in one or more organic layers.
US11917905B2
A light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the interlayer includes i) a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, and ii) an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode, and the hole transport region includes a Group 11 metal chalcogenide compound including a Group 11 metal and a chalcogenide element with the proviso that oxygen is excluded from the chalcogenide element.
US11917895B2
A manufacturing method of a display device includes providing a first organic layer in a display area and a non-display area, to cover a pixel electrode and a pad electrode, respectively, providing a first electrode of a light emitting element, in the display area, the first organic layer being between the pixel electrode and the first electrode, after forming the first electrode, removing a portion of the first organic layer which is in the non-display area, to expose the pad electrode from the first organic layer; and providing a light emitting layer of the light emitting element, corresponding to the first electrode.
US11917891B2
A display substrate and a display apparatus are provided, the display substrate includes a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region; the display region includes multiple sub-pixels, multiple data lines and multiple power supply lines; the peripheral region includes at least one test data signal line, at least one test control signal line and multiple test units, the multiple test units are at a side of the multiple data lines away from the display region, and at least one of the multiple test units is electrically connected with at least one of the multiple data lines, the at least one test data signal line, and the at least one test control signal line; the peripheral region further includes a first power supply bus and multiple connecting parts, the first power supply bus is at a side of the multiple test units away from the display region.
US11917889B2
A flexible display panel is provided, which includes a base substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) array layer, and an encapsulation layer. The TFT array layer includes an inorganic layer. An organic layer is disposed on the TFT array layer in a non-display region. The organic layer is defined with a hollow structure at least penetrating the organic layer and the encapsulation layer covers the hollow structure. The organic layer includes a planarization layer, a pixel definition layer, and a support layer. The hollow structure includes grooves with different groove levels, which improves a bending resistance of the flexible display panel and prevents cracks from extending to a display region.
US11917886B2
An electronic device includes a light emitting diode and a light converting layer disposed on the light emitting diode. The electronic device emits a green output light under an operation of a highest brightness. The green output light has an output spectrum. An intensity integral of the output spectrum from 380 nm to 489 nm is defined as a first intensity integral. An intensity integral of the output spectrum from 490 nm to 780 nm is defined as a second intensity integral. A ratio of the first intensity integral over the second intensity integral is defined as a first ratio, and the first ratio is greater than 0% and less than or equal to 7.5%.
US11917885B2
An electronic device includes a first substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements each having a horizontal length and a vertical length which are less than or equal to about 10 micrometers (μm), each of the plurality of light emitting elements being disposed on the first substrate, a quantum dot color filter layer disposed on the plurality of light emitting elements, and a first overcoat layer between a plurality of light emitting elements and the quantum dot color filter layer. The quantum dot color filter layer includes a plurality of quantum dot color filters partitioned by a plurality of first partition walls so as to be overlapped with the plurality of light emitting elements, respectively.
US11917884B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel; and a light control member disposed on the display panel. The light control member includes a plurality of partition walls spaced apart from each other, and a plurality of light control units each disposed between any two of the plurality of partition walls, and at least one of the plurality of light control units includes a first region containing organic monomers and an inorganic material and a second region containing the inorganic material dispersed in an organic polymer, thereby improving display quality and reliability of the display apparatus.
US11917881B2
A display device includes light transmitting areas including a first light transmitting area and light emitting areas around the light transmitting areas and including a first light emitting area disposed around the first light transmitting area, wherein the first light emitting area includes a first-first light emitting area adjacent to a first portion of each of the light transmitting areas, a first-second light emitting area adjacent to a second portion of each of the light transmitting areas, a first-third light emitting area adjacent to a third portion of each of the light transmitting areas, and a first-fourth light emitting area disposed adjacent to a fourth portion of each of the light transmitting areas. The first-first to first-fourth light emitting areas each include at least one of first to third light emitting portions to emit light of first to third colors, respectively.
US11917880B2
A display device includes a light emitting diode electrically connected between a driving voltage line and a common voltage line; a driving transistor electrically connected between the driving voltage line and the light emitting diode; a second transistor electrically connected between a first electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the driving voltage line and a data line; a first scan line electrically connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor; a third transistor electrically connected between a second electrode of the driving transistor electrically connected to the light emitting diode and a gate electrode of the driving transistor; and a connection electrode that connects the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the third transistor, wherein at least a part of a contact portion where the connection electrode contacts the third transistor does not overlap the first scan line.
US11917879B2
A display device including: a substrate; an active layer disposed on the substrate and including active patterns; a first conductive layer disposed on the active layer; a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer and including a data line; a third conductive layer disposed on the second conductive layer; and a light-emitting element disposed on the third conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer includes a scan line, a first voltage line, and a second voltage line, the third conductive layer includes a third voltage line connected to the first voltage line and a fourth voltage line connected to the second voltage line, the first voltage line and the second voltage line extend in a first direction, the third voltage line and the fourth voltage line extend in a second direction, and the third voltage line and the fourth voltage line are alternately arranged in the first direction.
US11917873B2
A display device includes a substrate having a pixel area and a peripheral area, a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate in the pixel area, a plurality of data lines that supply a plurality of data signals to the pixels, a plurality of scan lines that supply a plurality of scan signals to the pixels, a plurality of power supply lines that supply a first voltage to the pixels, and first through third insulating layers. The first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate, the second insulating layer is disposed on the first insulating layer, and the third insulating layer is disposed on the second insulating layer. The scan lines are disposed below the third insulating layer on the substrate in the pixel area, and are disposed on the third insulating layer in the peripheral area.
US11917870B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a first area, and a second area adjacent to the first area; a plurality of first pixel circuits at the first area of the substrate, each of the plurality of first pixel circuits including a silicon-based transistor, and an oxide-based transistor; a plurality of second pixel circuits at the second area of the substrate, the plurality of second pixel circuits including transistors; a first shielding layer at the first area, the first shielding layer including a shielding pattern overlapping with the silicon-based transistor of each of the plurality of first pixel circuits; and a second shielding layer at the second area, the second shielding layer including a first through-hole between adjacent second pixel circuits from among the plurality of second pixel circuits. The first shielding layer and the second shielding layer include different materials from each other.
US11917861B2
A display device is provided, wherein a metal reflective pattern formed at intervals between a plurality of pixel driving circuits is equivalent to or is similar to a first predetermined metal pattern in an area corresponding to the plurality of pixel driving circuits, thereby making reflectance of a transitional display area uniform, and thereby solving a technical problem of uneven brightness in a display device under dark conditions.
US11917858B2
The display device includes a light-emitting element layer provided with a plurality of light-emitting elements, and a TFT layer that is provided below the light-emitting element layer and includes TFT configured to drive the plurality of light-emitting elements. Further, at least one thermal insulation layer configured to thermally insulate the plurality of light-emitting elements from external heat is provided, and the thermal insulation layer includes a molybdenum-containing complex and a polyphenylene sulfide-based resin.
US11917854B2
A display panel, a display device, and a driving method thereof are provided. A light-reflecting layer is disposed under a light-emitting layer of the display panel. When the display panel is under strong light, the light-emitting layer does not work, and the light-reflecting layer reflects natural light to achieve a full-color display. When the display panel is in low light or darkness, the light-emitting layer works, and the light-reflecting layer reflects the light emitted by the light-emitting layer to reduce a working intensity of the light-emitting layer and achieves the full-color display, thereby improving service life and visual effect of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).
US11917851B2
Provided is a packaging structure for packaging a display device, the packaging structure comprising: at least one composite film layer, wherein the composite film layer comprises an inorganic pattern and an organic pattern, the inorganic pattern comprises a plurality of curved structures arranged at intervals, the organic pattern comprises a first organic sub-pattern, and the first organic sub-pattern and the inorganic pattern are located in a same layer and are complementary in position; and wherein an orthographic projection of the composite film layer onto the display device at least covers a display area of the display device. A display substrate, a display apparatus, and a method for packaging a display device are also provided.
US11917840B2
A novel light-emitting device with high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device with a high blue index (BI) is provided. A light-emitting device with low power consumption is provided. A light-emitting device including a first electrode and a second electrode which are a reflective electrode and a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective electrode, and an EL layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the EL layer contains an emission center substance, where when the emission center substance in the EL layer includes only one kind of substance, photon energy of a peak wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting device is designed from an average value of photon energy of light emitted by the emission center substance in a solution state and emission edge energy on a short wavelength side of an emission spectrum of the emission center substance in the solution state.
US11917839B2
To improve an SN ratio of a photoelectric conversion element. A photoelectric conversion element (10) includes an anode (12), a cathode (16), an active layer (14) provided between the anode and the cathode, and a hole transport layer (13) provided between the anode and the active layer. The active layer includes a p-type semiconductor material, which is a polymer compound having an absorption peak wavelength of 900 nm or higher, and an n-type semiconductor material, and an energy gap between an LUMO of the n-type semiconductor material contained in the active layer and a HOMO of a hole transport material contained in the hole transport layer is less than 0.9 eV.
US11917837B2
A method of forming the semiconductor device is provided. The method includes following steps. A memory structure is formed over a first conductive line over a substrate and is electrically connected to the first conductive line. A sacrificial layer is formed on the memory structure. A spacer layer is formed to cover the memory structure and the sacrificial layer. A first dielectric layer is formed to cover the spacer layer. A planarization process is performed to remove a portion of the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed on the spacer layer and the first dielectric layer. A patterning process is performed to form an opening exposing a portion of the top surface of the sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer is removed to form a recess. A second conductive line is formed in the opening and the recess to be electrically coupled to the memory structure.
US11917821B2
In the highly efficient fabrication processes for HNOR arrays provided herein, the channel regions of the storage transistors in the HNOR arrays are protected by a protective layer after deposition until the subsequent deposition of a charge-trapping material before forming local word lines. Both the silicon for the channel regions and the protective material may be deposited in amorphous form and are subsequently crystallized in an anneal step. The protective material may be silicon boron, silicon carbon or silicon germanium. The protective material induces greater grain boundaries in the crystallized silicon in the channel regions, thereby providing greater charge carrier mobility, greater conductivity and greater current densities.
US11917809B2
Methods, systems, and devices for thin film transistor deck selection in a memory device are described. A memory device may include memory arrays arranged in a stack of decks formed over a substrate, and deck selection components distributed among the layers to leverage common substrate-based circuitry. For example, each memory array of the stack may include a set of digit lines of a corresponding deck, and deck selection circuitry operable to couple the set of digit lines with a column decoder that is shared among multiple decks. To access memory cells of a selected memory array on one deck, the deck selection circuitry corresponding to the memory array may each be activated, while the deck selection circuitry corresponding to a non-selected memory array on another deck may be deactivated. The deck selection circuitry, such as transistors, may leverage thin-film manufacturing techniques, such as various techniques for forming vertical transistors.
US11917806B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure, relating to the technical field of semiconductors. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate; forming multiple active pillars arranged in an array on the substrate, where an outer surface layer of each of the active pillars has a concave-convex surface; forming a gate oxide layer on the substrate, where a filling region is formed between two adjacent active pillars in the same row; forming a word line and a first dielectric layer in the filling region; exposing a top surface of each of the active pillars; forming a contact layer on the top surface of each of the active pillars; and forming a capacitor structure on the contact layer.
US11917799B2
Embodiments included herein are directed towards an apparatus and method for manufacturing an electrical cooling apparatus. The method may include forming a first entirely solid metal plate to generate an enclosure. The method may also include affixing a bottom metal plate to the first entirely solid metal plate, the bottom metal plate may define a channel system. The bottom metal plate may include one or more inlet openings into the channel system, where the one or more inlet openings are configured to allow coolant to enter or exit the channel system.
US11917791B2
The invention relates to a heat dissipation device comprising a support (10) and a heat sink (12) designed to be cooled by an air flow passing through the sink (12), the support (10) having a first housing inside which the sink (10) is held, the support (10) being further configured to accommodate an electronic control module (2) designed to be cooled by the sink (12).
US11917778B2
A foldable display device includes a first casing and a second casing. The first casing is rotatable about a first rotation center, and the second casing is rotatable about a second rotation center. Coordinates of an orthographic projection of the first rotation center on an xoy coordinate plane are (x1, y1), and coordinates of an orthographic projection of the second rotation center on the xoy coordinate plane are (−x1, y1). A predetermined value is defined by a sum of coordinate values x1 and y1, the coordinate value x1 is greater than zero, and the coordinate value y1 is greater than −0.3 millimeter (mm) and less than or equal to one mm.
US11917769B2
The present application relates to the technical field of circuit board fabricating, and provides a method for fabricating an asymmetric board, the method includes fabricating a master board, fabricating a second sub-board, thermal compression bonding the master board and the second sub-board, and milling an asymmetric board; further includes at least one of the following three steps: laying copper on the connection areas of the master board except for the second copper layer of an outermost layer to obtain laying copper area, removing copper on the connection areas of the third copper layer, and after the step of milling the asymmetric board, on each of the sub-boards, performing depth control milling at the connection areas from a side of the second sub-board on each sub-board to obtain a depth control groove.
US11917766B2
A board work machine includes a backup plate, a backup member disposed on the backup plate to support a board from below, a movement device configured to move the backup member, a movement control section configured to control an operation of the movement device based on a position program indicating a position of the backup member disposed on the backup plate, a display section configured to display the position of the backup member indicated by the position program in a superimposed manner on a board image indicating the board, and an editing section configured to edit the position program in response to a request for increasing or decreasing the number of the backup members and changing the position of the backup member from an operator.
US11917765B2
A device for estimating a cause of a mounting error includes a first determination section configured to perform a process of determining whether the error occurrence status is biased under a condition that an individual as the first factor is specified according to a difference in the second factor, on each of multiple individuals as the first factor, a second determination section configured to perform a process of determining whether the error occurrence status is biased under a condition that an individual as the second factor is specified according to a difference in the first factor, on each of multiple individuals as the second factor, and a cause estimation section configured to estimate a causative individual causing the mounting error based on determination results in the first determination section and the second determination section.
US11917763B2
A fingerprint identification apparatus and an electrode device. The fingerprint identification apparatus could be configured to be disposed under a variety of different display screens, reducing a thickness of space for installation of the fingerprint identification apparatus under a screen. The fingerprint identification apparatus includes: a support plate; and at least one fingerprint sensor chip, the at least one fingerprint sensor chip being disposed at an upper surface of the support plate; where the support plate is configured to be mounted to an upper surface of a middle frame of the electronic device so that the at least one fingerprint sensor chip is located under the display screen of the electronic device; and the at least one fingerprint sensor chip is configured to receive a fingerprint detecting signal returned by reflection or scattering via a human finger on the display screen.
US11917761B2
A surface mount device having features on contacts to prevent the surface mount device from tombstoning. The feature may be channel defined by the contact that helps balance a torque/force applied on each side of the surface mount device during a reflow soldering process. The feature may also be a solder mask that helps balance a torque/force applied on each side of the surface mount device during a reflow soldering process.
US11917758B2
A substrate structure, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic device. The substrate structure includes a substrate, conductive wires and conductive members. Multiple through holes penetrate through the substrate body of the substrate. Multiple first conductive pads are arranged on the first surface of the substrate body. Multiple second conductive pads are arranged on the second surface of the substrate body. The conductive wires are accommodated in the through holes and each has a first end in the first opening of corresponding through hole and a second end in the second opening of corresponding through hole. The conductive members are distributed on the first and second surfaces, and both ends thereof are connected to the corresponding first and second conductive pads through the conductive members. At least part of each conductive wire does not contact the hole wall of each through hole in a direct manner.
US11917755B2
The carrier-foil-attached ultra-thin copper foil according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a carrier foil, a release layer, a first ultra-thin copper foil, a Cu—Al bonding strength improvement layer, an Al layer, and a second ultra-thin copper foil, wherein the release layer may comprise a first metal (A3) having peeling properties, and a second metal (B3) and third metal (C3) facilitating the plating of the first metal (A3).
US11917740B2
Systems and methods are provided to transmit a data encoded power signal to addressable devices. A lighting controller sends the data encoded power waveform to a plurality of addressable lighting modules to power and control a behavior of the lighting modules. An inventory function causes the lighting controller to send, one by one, each of the possible unique addresses, or for a particular range of addresses, a command to turn ON lighting modules. The lighting controller monitors the current draw of the power supply or the data encoded power waveform and compares the monitored current with a threshold to determine whether the addressed lighting module responded to the command. The lighting controller provides the user, via a user interface, a list of the responding lighting modules based on the comparison.
US11917728B2
A small cell device includes a housing body, a heat sink, an interface board, a first power amplifier (PA) board, a second PA board, a power board, and a main board. The housing body defines a cavity and has two depthwise ends. The heat sink is coupled to the housing proximate a first depthwise end. The interface board is positioned within the cavity and adjacent to the heat sink. The first PA board is positioned within the cavity and adjacent to the interface board and the heat sink. The second PA board is positioned within the cavity and proximate a second depthwise end. The power board is positioned within the cavity and adjacent to the second PA board. The main board is positioned within the cavity between the interface board and the second PA board. The heat sink dissipates heat generated during operation of at least the first PA board.
US11917725B2
A session initiation protocol register request message for RLOS can be received at a P-CSCF. The session initiation protocol register request message can include an IP multimedia public user identification for a UE. The session initiation protocol register request message can be forwarded to a Serving Call Session Control Function (S-CSCF). A UE identifier in a 200 OK response can be received in response to forwarding the session initiation protocol register request message at the P-CSCF from the S-CSCF. Signaling can be ciphered using a security key for the UE in response to receiving the 200 OK response.
US11917715B2
This disclosure is related to a procedure to provide emergency services support for a UE which does not have a valid subscription for the serving PLMN. This disclosure more specifically provides procedure to support IMS emergency call or eCall support for a UE which is in limited state on a E-UTRA cell is connected to both EPC and 5GCN.
US11917714B2
The present disclosure provides a display device including: a communication interface configured to perform Bluetooth communication with at least one external device; and a processor configured to obtain a list of connected devices including information about at least one external device Bluetooth-paired or connected with the display device through the communication interface, and obtain first execution information about a first application being executed on the display device, obtain first necessary device condition information required by the first application based on the first execution information, and release a connection with at least one external device not satisfying the first necessary device condition information in the list of connected devices.
US11917711B2
Disclosed are a Radio Resource Control (RRC) state transition method, a terminal, a Centralized Unit (CU), a Distributed Unit (DU) and a computer-readable storage medium. The RRC state transition method includes: when a terminal changes from a current state to an RRC connected state, the terminal requests to resume an RRC connection by using an existing Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) configuration; when the terminal receives a response from a Distributed Unit (DU) for request of resuming the RRC connection, if the response comprises a newly allocated SRB configuration, the terminal replaces the existing SRB configuration with the newly allocated SRB configuration to resume the RRC connection.
US11917706B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for configuring a sidelink radio bearer on a sidelink interface used for vehicle communication and processing radio link failure. The method may include receiving sidelink radio bearer configuration information for configuring a sidelink radio bearer on a sidelink interface used for the vehicle communication from a base station; configuring the sidelink radio bearer based on the sidelink radio bearer configuration information, and transmitting the sidelink radio bearer configuration information to another UE subject to the vehicle communication; detecting a sidelink radio link failure when an acknowledged mode (AM) radio link control (RLC) entity linked to the sidelink radio bearer reaches a maximum number of retransmissions; and indicating the detection of the sidelink radio link failure to a higher layer regardless of a radio resource control (RRC) state of the UE when the sidelink radio link failure is detected.
US11917702B2
An indication method, including receiving, by first user equipment, a first message sent by second user equipment, where the first message includes information indicating that the second user equipment supports an evolved user equipment-to-network relay function, and receiving, by the first user equipment, a second message sent by a network device, where the second message includes information indicating that the network device supports an evolved user equipment-to-network relay, or the second message includes information indicating that a cell in which the network device sends the second message supports an evolved user equipment-to-network relay.
US11917699B2
Systems and methods include reception, at a first device, of a wireless communication packet from a second device, determination, at the first device, of a received service identifier included in the wireless communication packet, determination, at the first device, of whether the received service identifier matches a first service identifier or a second service identifier, if the received service identifier matches the first service identifier or the second service identifier, establishment, at the first device, of a connection to a server of the second device using a device address included in the wireless communication packet, requesting, using the connection and at the first device, of a user identifier from the server of the second device, if the received service identifier matches the first service identifier, transmission, from the first device to a remote server, of a first indication of proximity of a user of the first device to a user associated with the user identifier and a second indication of proximity of the user associated with the user identifier to the user of the first device, and, if the received service identifier matches the second service identifier, transmission, from the first device to the remote server, of the first indication of proximity of the user of the first device to a user associated with the user identifier.
US11917694B2
Embodiments include methods performed by a wireless device for random access to a wireless communications network. Such methods include transmitting a random access preamble in a first uplink (UL) bandwidth part (BWP) of a carrier and selecting a first downlink (DL) BWP of the carrier based on an association between the first UL BWP and the first DL BWP. Such methods include monitoring the first DL BWP for a random access response from the wireless communication network to the transmitted random access preamble. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a base station configured to support random access by wireless devices, as well as wireless devices and base stations configured to perform such methods.
US11917693B2
Infrastructure equipment for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the infrastructure equipment including: receiver circuitry configured to receive a second signal from a terminal device of the wireless telecommunications network; and transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a third signal to the terminal device, the third signal being transmitted in response to the reception of the second signal, the third signal being for the terminal device to determine, in combination with a first signal received by the terminal device, the spatial position of the terminal device, and the third signal being comprised within a system information block (SIB).
US11917692B2
Uplink and downlink synchronization procedures are described for wireless communications. A base station may send a reconfiguration message to a wireless device before a random access procedure. The reconfiguration message may set an active uplink index and an active downlink index to the same value.
US11917691B2
A wireless communication method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a random access request to a network device on a high frequency uplink carrier or a supplementary uplink (SUL) carrier deployed at a frequency band lower than the high frequency uplink carrier; and acquiring, by the terminal device, a random access response (RAR) sent by the network device in response to the random access request.
US11917683B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving a signal by using a variable band width in a communication system are disclosed. An operating method of a terminal comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, first configuration information about one or more guard bands of an unlicensed band; confirming the one or more guard bands configured in the unlicensed band on the basis of the first configuration information; and confirming a plurality of RB sets configured in the unlicensed band on the basis of the one or more guard bands. Therefore, performance of the communication system can be improved.
US11917677B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to channel access for multi-link devices (MLDs). A MLD may identify a first backoff count associated with a first enhanced distributed channel access function (EDCAF) for a first communication link used by the MLD; identify a second backoff count associated with a second EDCAF for a second communication link used by the MLD, the first backoff count less than the second backoff count; determine a time period after that the first backoff count reaches zero and during which to refrain from transmitting using the first communication link, the time period based on the second backoff count; determine that the first communication link transitioned from an idle state to a busy state during the time period; and generate a third backoff count associated with the first EDCAF based on the first communication link transitioning to the busy state during the time period.
US11917671B2
A station (STA) may include an antenna and a processor operatively coupled to the antenna. The processor and the antenna may be configured to send, to an access point (AP), a first message including an indication of one or more secondary channels in an operating band. The operating band may include a primary channel and the one or more secondary channels. The processor and the antenna may be further configured to receive, from the AP, a second message including an indication of a channel of the one or more secondary channels to use in a scheduled transmission period.
US11917667B2
Disclosed are example embodiments of systems and methods for an interference imbalance manager (IIM). The method includes an outer loop that goes over the K subcarrier sets ki and an inner loop that goes over the M dominant intra-frequency cells that IC are performed on, for each subcarrier set ki the noise plus interference power estimate of that set is initialized by N by setting: N(ki)=N. The method includes, for each subcarrier set ki the IIM determine when the pilots of each cell m collide with that subcarrier set. When there is no collision, the interference plus noise of that set N(ki) is not adjusted. When there is a collision the interference plus noise of that set N(ki) is adjusted by removing the power contribution Em of that cell by applying the correction: N(ki)=N(ki)−Em. The method includes looping over all considered cells M and when all adjustments are complete to N(ki) for subcarrier set ki the program provides the adjusted N(ki) output and exits the m loop.
US11917664B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support reducing conflicts with between scheduling request opportunities and downlink resources. A base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with a scheduling request periodicity and offset for identifying scheduling request opportunities. The UE and base station may apply the periodicity and the offset to a first subset of time periods of a set of multiple time periods, where the first subset of time periods may include scheduling request opportunities that do not overlap with resources allocated for downlink transmissions. Based on applying the offset and periodicity to the first subset of time periods, the UE may identify a scheduling request opportunity, in a first time period of the first subset, and may transmit a scheduling request to the base station via the scheduling request opportunity.
US11917653B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may determine an angle-based estimation capability of the UE. The UE may report the angle-based estimation capability of the UE to a network entity. In an aspect, a network entity may receive, from a user equipment (UE), information indicating an angle-based estimation capability of the UE. The network entity may determine, based on the angle-based estimation capability of the UE, an angle-based estimation configuration. The network entity may send the angle-based estimation configuration to the UE.
US11917646B2
A host operable to provide an over-the-top (OTT) service is disclosed. The host is configured to provide and initiate transmission of user data to a network node for transmission to a user equipment (UE). To transmit the user data, the network node determines a PDSCH-to-HARQ timing for an upcoming downlink transmission of the user data to the UE. The network node also determines that HARQ feedback for the upcoming transmission should be delayed by the UE until further notification from the network node; transmits, to the UE, a first DCI associated with the upcoming transmission, the first DCI including a first PDSCH-to-HARQ timing-indicator value for indicating to the UE that the HARQ feedback for the upcoming transmission should be delayed until further notification from the network node; and transmit the user data from the host to the UE in the upcoming transmission to provide the OTT service.
US11917642B2
The disclosure describes mechanisms for reliability enhancement on control channel and data channel and mechanisms in URLLC. An apparatus of a RAN node for URLLC includes baseband circuitry to configure at least one DCI for scheduling transmission of at least one PDSCH content having same information. For each DCI, the baseband circuitry determines a CORESET for transmitting the DCI. The disclosure further describes mechanisms for the support of low latency transmission in URLLC. To improve peak data rate and spectrum efficiency in FDD system, the RAN node configures a DCI for scheduling data transmission using blank resources of a self-contained slot structure. Further, CBG-based transmission with separate HARQ-ACK feedback is provided to configure a DCI for scheduling data transmission of a TB and to divide the TB into multiple CBGs, and to configure uplink control data to carry separate HARQ feedback for the CBGs.
US11917638B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine a downlink configuration including a set of resources for receiving downlink transmissions. The UE may determine, based on the downlink configuration, an uplink configuration including a set of resources for transmitting scheduling requests at a set of scheduling request occasions. In some aspects, the set of scheduling request occasions may be arranged according to a non-uniform spacing pattern in the time domain. The UE may transmit, to a base station, one or more scheduling requests based on the uplink configuration.
US11917636B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) is configured such that sounding reference signal (SRS) is switched among a number of antennas on a number of carriers associated with a default data subscription (DDS). The UE is also configured to receive a signal, scheduled using discontinuous reception (DRX), and associated with a non-default data subscription using at least one of the antennas used by the DDS. The UE determines based on carrier characteristics which resource is used to receive the signal during a DRX cycle. In some aspects, the decision is based on avoiding a conflict between the SRS switching and DRX reception. In further aspects, the decision is based on selecting the carrier contributing least to downlink throughput.
US11917632B2
Systems and methods for determining an uplink control channel resource to use for transmitting uplink control information to a network node are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving a first downlink control channel message that schedules a first downlink shared channel transmission, receiving a second downlink control channel message that schedules a second downlink shared channel transmission, and determining an uplink control channel resource to use for transmitting uplink control information to a network node. The uplink control information comprises Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback for both the first downlink transmission and the second downlink transmission, and determining the uplink control channel resources for transmitting the uplink control information comprises determining the uplink control channel resources based on: (a) signaling received from the network node and (b) resource determination performed by the wireless device based on a latest received one of the first downlink control channel message and the second downlink control channel message. The method further comprises transmitting the uplink control information using the determined uplink control channel resource.
US11917631B2
The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting and receiving a downlink signal between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for supporting same. According to an embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, when the terminal recognizes that a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a second PDSCH are overlapped, the terminal may receive a downlink signal including the first PDSCH, under the assumption that a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) for the second PDSCH and the first PDSCH are overlapped.
US11917626B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for uplink transmission for multi-panel operation. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11917603B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for encoding repetitions of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). In some aspects, the disclosed methods or techniques include first determining that a first number of REs of a first PUCCH repetition used for UCI transmission is different than a second number of REs of a second PUCCH repetition used for the UCI transmission. Based on the determination, the UE performs one or more actions to provide a same mother polar code length for generating coded bits for each of the first and second PUCCH repetitions. The UE performs polar code encoding of information bits of the UCI for the first PUCCH repetition and the second PUCCH repetition based on the same mother polar code length. The UE transmits the first and the second PUCCH repetitions including the respective polar-encoded UCI.
US11917601B2
A method of wireless communication includes receiving a first beam using a first antenna device during an occasion of a reference signal. The method further includes receiving a second beam using a second antenna device that is distinct from the first antenna device during the occasion of the reference signal. Receiving the first beam and the second beam includes inputting, to a modem, a representation of a combination of the first beam and the second beam. Receiving the first beam and the second beam further includes generating, by the modem based on the representation, a first signal associated with the first beam using a first parameter associated with the first antenna device and a second signal associated with the second beam using a second parameter associated with the second antenna device.
US11917598B2
A method, base station and user equipment are provided for wireless communication. The method can include steps: transmitting data on a first frequency band; transmitting, on a second frequency band, a detection signal for detecting a channel condition of the second frequency band; generating channel condition information about the second frequency band based on the received detection signal; feeding back the channel condition information via the first frequency band; and selecting a current data transmission frequency band based at least in part on the feedback channel condition information about the second frequency band and/or traffic requirement information; wherein the current data transmission frequency band is any one of the first frequency band, the second frequency band or a cooperative transmission of the first frequency band with the second frequency band.
US11917593B2
A system and method for valid subframe determination between a base station and user equipment based on transmission of an additional system information block are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device includes: receiving a SystemInformationBlockType1 message in a first subframe of a frame from a communication node; receiving the SystemInformationBlockType1 message in a second subframe of the frame from the communication node based on communication device capability for processing the SystemInformationBlockType1 message in the second subframe; sending a radio resource control signal to the communication node based on the communication device capability for processing the SystemInformationBlockType1 message in the second subframe; and utilizing the second subframe as either a valid subframe or an invalid subframe based on the communication device capability for processing the SystemInformationBlockType1 message in the second subframe.
US11917587B2
Supporting multi-signal source communications in a distributed communications system (DCS) is disclosed. The DCS includes a routing circuit configured to route downlink and uplink communications signals between multiple signal sources and a number of remote units. In examples disclosed herein, the routing circuit and each of the remote units are functionally divided based on an open radio access network (O-RAN) Split 7.2 configuration. To support downlink communications from multiple signal sources, the routing circuit generates a downlink frequency-domain communications signal, which includes one or more selected logical channels associated with one or more of the multiple signal sources, for each of the remote units in the DCS. Accordingly, each remote unit converts the downlink frequency-domain communications signal into a downlink time-domain communications signal for transmission in a downlink radio frequency (RF) communications signal. As such, it may be possible to improve scalability while reducing cost and space of the DCS.
US11917577B2
The present disclosure provides a paging method, a positioning information sending method, a core network node and a base station, and relates to the technical field of communication. The paging method is applied to the core network node in a satellite Internet communication system and comprises the following steps: acquiring the setting mode of the tracking area TA in the satellite Internet communication system; determining the base station for paging the terminal according to the setting mode; and sending a paging message to the base station; wherein the setting mode comprises one of the following setting mode: dividing the satellite Internet communication system one TA; setting at least two fixed TAs; and setting at least two non-fixed TAs.
US11917575B2
Embodiments are directed to automatic location of access points in a network. An embodiment of one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums includes instructions for transmitting a request from a computing device to multiple access points in a network to determine a distance between each pair of access points of the multiple access points; receiving at the computing device the determined distances between each pair of access points; generating a proximity matrix containing the determined distances between each pair of access points; solving the proximity matrix to automatically generate a set of locations for the multiple access points; and orienting the generated set of locations for the multiple access points based on known locations of one or more anchor points in a subset of the access points.
US11917570B2
A wireless communication system is provided allowing a base station to indicate RTT compensation for UEs to adjust their local time clocks to correct propagation delay timing errors and synchronize with the global clock of a base station. A base station sends a downlink transmission including timing information to a UE and receives an uplink transmission from the UE after the downlink transmission. The base station determines a RTT compensation associated with the timing information based on a RTT between the downlink transmission and the uplink transmission. The base station then transmits the RTT compensation to the UE. UEs are thus allowed to synchronize at a high precision with the time clock of the base station. UEs may be configured with different resolutions or granularities in timing correction so that certain UEs can achieve high precision timing correction while other UEs can adjust their time clocks with less precision.
US11917566B2
The present disclosure relates to: a method comprising: a step for receiving a synchronization signal/public broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block within a plurality of SS/PBCH block candidates located on an unlicensed band; and a step for obtaining time synchronization on the basis of the SS/PBCH block, wherein on the basis of subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the SS/PBCH block being set to 240 kHz, the plurality of SS/PBCH block candidates are located in both a first half section and a second half section of a time window set for transmission of the SS/PBCH block; and a device therefor.
US11917565B2
This application provides a channel access indication method and device. The method includes: receiving, by a first communications device, a channel synchronization request sent by a second communications device, where the channel synchronization request is used to request the first communications device to send a synchronization frame to the second communications device, and a wake-up receiver is configured for the second communications device; and according to the channel synchronization request and a time at which the second communications device is woken up and that is learned by the first communications device based on preset signaling, sending, by the first communications device when a channel is idle, the synchronization frame to the woken-up second communications device, where the synchronization frame is used to instruct the woken-up second communications device to access the channel after receiving the synchronization frame.
US11917563B2
Disclosed is a method for a UE to acquire time information about a Synchronization Signal/Physical Broadcast Channel (SS/PBCH) block in an unlicensed band. In particular, the method is characterized by: receiving SS/PBCH blocks through a plurality of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a specific slot; detecting the respective phases of the plurality of OFDM symbols; detecting the sequence of PBCH Demodulation Reference Signals (DMRSs) included among the plurality of OFDM symbols; and acquiring time information about the SS/PBCH blocks on the basis of the respective phases of the plurality of OFDM symbols and the sequence of the PBCH DMRSs.
US11917542B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for adjusting a time period to delay entering a power save mode (leak guard) for wireless communications. In one aspect, a wireless communication device may adjust a time period to delay entering a power save mode. The time period is associated with the wireless communication device remaining awake to prevent an access point from transmitting to the wireless communication device while the wireless communication device is in the power save mode. The wireless communication device also may provide, to the AP, an indication that the wireless communication device is entering a power save mode, and the wireless communication device may enter the power save mode. Entering the power save mode is at least the adjusted time period after providing the indication to the AP.
US11917537B2
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate power management at a User Equipment (UE) via selection of a power management stage based on a current power status. One example aspect is a UE comprising one or more processors configured to: monitor a temperature of the UE via one or more temperature sensors and a power usage of the UE; determine a power status of the UE based at least in part on the temperature of the UE and the power usage of the UE; select, based at least in part on the determined power status, a power management stage of a plurality of power management stages; and implement one or more power management techniques associated with the selected power management stage. A notification can be triggered to alert a user that the processor is implementing the one or more power management techniques prior to implementation.
US11917536B2
A method is described for initiating a wireless network to connect an electronic device among a set of first-type electronic devices with a second-type electronic device. The method comprising: receiving, at a service server configured to service the set of first-type electronic devices, data pertaining to a user-id; retrieving, from a database, a unique network configuration associated with the user-id, wherein the unique network configuration is known beforehand by the second-type electronic device; selecting, at the service server, an electronic device among the set of first-type electronic devices; and sending, to the selected electronic device, the unique network configuration associated with the user-id for allowing the selected electronic device to initiate a wireless network using the unique network configuration associated with the user-id.
US11917535B2
The present invention is machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile platform that has a controller that can communicate with RFID tags and receives RFID information into a mobile vehicle foreign network with an all-in-one mobile solution and also communicates with a home network having a computer server. The present invention provides an integrated command and communication platform to support communications by cell phone, WiFi, GPS, RFID controller, vehicle information controller, and real-time integration to optimize performance of the remote tracking network. With the use of the present invention, fleet services, mobile inventory, and asset tracking can be efficiently organized and conducted across a fleet of vehicles, a multitude of remote tracking devices, and geographically around the world.
US11917533B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage subscription service is provided. The network slice usage subscription service may allow a network device to obtain network slice usage information and event notifications. The event notification may indicate when an end device is using a network slice and when the end device is no longer the network slice. The network device may include an application function (AF) device. The network device may use the event notification to perform an operation relating to the network slice and/or the end device.
US11917531B2
A transmitter and a method therein for transmitting discovery signals to a receiver. The transmitter and the receiver are comprised in a radio communications system. The transmitter transmits two or more discovery signals over two or more directions. Each discovery signal is configured to span over a fraction of a carrier bandwidth.
US11917525B2
This application provides a wireless communication method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: A terminal receives a system message that is broadcast by an access network device on a physical broadcast channel PBCH, where the system message includes an extension field, and the extension field is used to indicate a format of the system message. The terminal discards the system message if information about the extension field is first information, where the first information is used to indicate that the format of the system message is an extended format. In this way, the terminal can select a proper manner to correctly process the system message.
US11917524B2
A communication apparatus includes a management unit configured to manage communication between a communication device and a base station via a relay unit, and an update unit configured to, based on an update of first logical information used for access between the relay unit and the base station, update second logical information used for access between the communication device connected to the relay unit, and the base station.
US11917518B2
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. In some embodiments, a network node configured to communicate with a wireless device (WD) is provided. The network node is configured to indicate, in a System Information Block (SIB) whether a network supports an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) emergency communication service, the indication associated to a network identifier, the network identifier identifying the network. In some embodiments, a wireless device is configured to receive, in a SIB, an indication of whether a network supports an IMS emergency communication service, the indication associated to a network identifier, the network identifier identifying the network; and select a network to initiate an emergency communication service based at least in part on the received indication.
US11917513B2
A load control system may include one or more wireless control devices that may be associated via a programming device. An identifier for a first wireless control device may be determined in response to an actuation of a button on the first wireless control device. An association between the first wireless control device and a second wireless control device may be defined at the programming device. The identifier for the first wireless control device may be transmitted to the second wireless control device, which may cause the first wireless control device to enter a sleep mode. The first wireless control device may enter the sleep mode after an actuation of a button on the first wireless control device. The identifier may be determined in response to the actuation of the button on the first wireless control device and/or prior to the first wireless control device entering the sleep mode.
US11917512B2
A communication device may include a first type of interface and a second type of interface. The communication device may execute the communication of object data with a mobile device using the second type of interface after executing a specific process for causing the communication device to shift to a communication-enabled state, in a case where it is determined that the communication device is not currently in the communication-enabled state. Also, the communication device may execute the communication of the object data with the mobile device using the second type of interface without executing the specific process, in a case where it is determined that the communication device is currently in the communication-enabled state.
US11917500B2
A method includes identifying a broadcast set of access points from among the plurality of access points based on access point interference data associated with a plurality of access points disposed in an environment, where the access point interference data includes current radio frequency (RF) signal interference data associated with each of the plurality of access points, predicted RF signal interference data associated with each of the plurality of access points, or a combination thereof. The method includes partitioning a data packet into a plurality of data subpackets based on the broadcast set of access points and broadcasting the plurality of data subpackets to a vehicle via the broadcast set of access points.
US11917494B2
This application provides a positioning method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a positioning apparatus, information about a transmission environment of each channel in a plurality of channels for a terminal device; determining, by the positioning apparatus, a target channel from the plurality of channels based on the information about the transmission environment of each channel; and locating, by the positioning apparatus, the terminal device based on positioning measurement information of the target channel. The positioning method and apparatus provided in this application helps improve positioning accuracy.
US11917487B2
Disclosed herein are techniques of geo-location for building sites including: providing means for determining a precise position; providing an application; starting the application; providing at least one feature option to the user of the application, the at least one feature option including at least one option that uses the precise position; acting upon at least one feature action on behalf of the user, the at least one feature action including at least one action that uses the at least one feature option; interacting with a 3D end point on the basis of the at least one feature action; and providing a final output that takes into account the interaction with the 3D end point. Users are enabled to precisely position building information that specifies precise construction deficiencies of a building site in a 3D model and to address those deficiencies during construction.
US11917482B2
Sessions in progress are seamlessly moved between devices of a software platform. Proximity-based session handovers are performed between devices of the software platform utilizing non-penetrating signals. The non-penetrating signals are detected by mobile devices. The non-penetrating signals include a frequency signature. The frequency signature is associated with a stationary device. A request to handover a session in progress from the mobile device to the stationary device is transmitted based on the detection of a non-penetrating signal. A handover of the session in progress from the mobile device to the stationary device is performed such that the session in progress is continued at the stationary device without interruption.
US11917476B2
A communication technique for convergence of a 5th generation (5G) communication system is provided, for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond that supported by a 4th generation (4G) system, with internet of things (IoT) technology, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related service, etc.), based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. A method and an apparatus for handling cell reselection and frequency priorities for vehicle to everything sidelink (V2X SL) communication of a user equipment (UE) are provided.
US11917474B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a source base station, configuration information for a conditional handover indicating an execution condition and one or more secondary cell group (SCG) configurations associated with one or more candidate base stations. The UE may transmit, to the source base station, a measurement report indicating one or more measurements associated with at least one of the source base station or the one or more candidate base stations. The UE may perform the conditional handover with a candidate base station, of the one or more candidate base stations, using an updated SCG configuration associated with the candidate base station, wherein the updated SCG configuration is based on an SCG configuration, of the one or more SCG configurations, and the one or more measurements. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11917472B2
Aspects directed towards Quality of Service (QoS) flow remapping are disclosed. In an example, upon detecting a mapping reconfiguration of a first QoS flow from a first data radio bearer (DRB) to another DRB, a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP) control protocol data unit (PDU) is generated indicating that a final SDAP data PDU associated with the first QoS flow has been transmitted on the first DRB. The SDAP control PDU is then transmitted via the first DRB. In another example, upon detecting a mapping reconfiguration of a first QoS flow from a first DRB to another DRB, an end marker parameter is set in an SDAP header of a first SDAP data PDU received from an upper layer after the mapping reconfiguration indicating that the first SDAP data PDU is a final SDAP data PDU associated with the first QoS flow transmitted on the first DRB.
US11917461B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify, while camped on a first cell associated with a first radio access technology (RAT), a power management level for a communication using a second RAT, wherein the power management level indicates an available power for the communication using the second RAT, and wherein the available power is based at least in part on an exposure rate or an absorption rate. The UE may delay a transmission of a measurement report on the first cell based at least in part on the identification of the power management level. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11917452B2
Provided are an information transmission method and device. The method includes that: an Integrated Access and Backhaul Links (IAB) node transmits link information to a second IAB node, wherein the second IAB node is an IAB child node or an IAB parent node or an IAB donor. Also provided are an electronic device and a storage medium.
US11917445B2
A method performed by a BS for CHO is provided. The method includes transmitting a CHO command to a UE, the CHO command including a CHO command ID and a measurement ID associated with the CHO command ID; causing the UE to execute the CHO command to handover to a target BS when a trigger condition associated with the measurement ID is fulfilled; causing the UE to forgo transmitting the measurement report during the execution of the CHO command despite the UE being configured, via a report configuration associated with the measurement ID, to transmit the measurement report; transmitting, to the UE, a message that causes the UE to remove the CHO command; and after transmitting the message to the UE, determining that the report configuration is removed by the UE without transmitting, to the UE, an instruction to remove the report configuration.
US11917442B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring data transmission. Aspects relate to determining a data transmission configuration utilizing a machine-learning based algorithm, such as a data transmission configuration for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) applications. A method that may be performed by a base station (BS) includes receiving a feedback report from a user equipment (UE) including an indication of a first state corresponding to a plurality of channel condition parameters and determining one or more actions based, at least in part, on the first state. The BS may determining the one or more actions utilizing a machine learning algorithm that uses a second state, where the second state is based, at least in part, on the first state.
US11917439B2
There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.
US11917438B2
A user device includes a receiving unit that receives from a base station device a measurement configuration including a condition for triggering a measurement report; a control unit that executes a measurement based on the measurement configuration; and a transmitting unit that transmits a measurement report to the base station device in response to the condition for triggering a measurement report being met, wherein the control unit modifies the measurement configuration based on a parameter indicating mobility capability or based on a type of user device.
US11917433B2
A method and system for generating performance measurements related to DL and UL packet delays through a NG-RAN are described. The NG-RAN receives GTP PDU monitoring packets from a UPF and, in response measures the DL delays of the packets to and UL delays from a UE. The NG-RAN determines the per 5QI and per S-NSSAI distribution of the DL and UL delays and sends the performance measurements to a service provider. The average DL and UL delays may also be provided to the service provider. The service provider is in the NG-RAN or a separate management system. For a network slice, service providers for different NG-RANs send the performance measurements to a network slice service provider, where the individual NG-RAN performance measurements are combined to provide both the average and distribution of the DL and UL delays in the network slice.
US11917424B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for signaling a quasi-colocation (QCL) update in a wireless communication system. A network or base station may indicate to a UE to change a spatial relationship for transmission/reception. The base station may provide aperiodic reference signals for the UE to use in beam tracking according to the new spatial relationship. Optionally, the base station may also provide aperiodic reference signals for time, frequency, and/or phase tracking. Thus, the network may configure the UE to change to the new spatial relationship and use the aperiodic reference signals to quickly complete initial tracking operations.
US11917421B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed to configuring carrier aggregation zones based on transmission information in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include identifying, by carrier aggregation equipment including a processor, carrier transmission information corresponding to a first carrier signal and a second carrier signal. The method can further include analyzing, by the carrier aggregation equipment, the carrier transmission information to determine first overlap zone information representative of a first carrier overlap zone for the first carrier signal and the second carrier signal. Further, based on the first overlap zone information, the method includes facilitating configuring transmission parameter information representative of a transmission parameter applicable to transmission of the first carrier signal, to enable carrier aggregation by network equipment within the first carrier overlap zone.
US11917410B2
A method in a user device that supports a plurality of message authentication code (MAC) lengths for integrity protection of wireless communications includes receiving, from a base station, a first message including an information element (1002), determining, based on the information element, that a first MAC length of the plurality of MAC lengths is to be used for integrity protection (1004) and, thereafter, generating a second message including a MAC having the first MAC length (1006). The method also includes transmitting the second message to the base station (1008).
US11917408B2
A controller and method of controlling a mobile device. The controller is coupled to a mobile device through a mobile communications environment. The controller is coupled to the mobile communications environment at a location remote from the mobile device, and includes a receiver that receives data from the mobile device, a processor that evaluates the data received from the mobile device based upon rules for the mobile device, and a transmitter that sends data to the mobile device to at least one of alert the user to a condition and modify current operating parameters on the mobile device.
US11917407B2
Embodiments herein relate to the field of communications, and more particularly to key matching for extensible authentication protocol over local area network (EAPOL) handshaking using distributed computing. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11917406B2
A communication apparatus accepts an input of a passphrase by a user operation, sets an authentication scheme based on a passphrase length of the passphrase, and performs wireless connection with a partner apparatus using the set authentication scheme, wherein (i) in a case where the passphrase length is within a predetermined range, an authentication scheme of any of WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access), WPA2, and WPA3, or a combination of at least two of WPA, WPA2, or WPA3, is set, and (ii) otherwise, an authentication scheme of WPA3 is set.
US11917403B2
An electronic device including: one or more processors to control operations thereof, to simultaneously process multiple wireless signals received from a plurality of multimedia devices transmitting streaming media content and to transmit the processed wireless signals to another one of the plurality of multimedia devices; a storage device to store received broadcast media content; and a network controller to wirelessly receive streaming broadcast media content from a plurality of broadcast media sources, to provide a wired and a wireless connectivity to the plurality of multimedia devices, to exchange media processing capabilities between the electronic device and the plurality of multimedia devices after establishing network connections therebetween, to receive a wireless signal including streaming media content from at least one of the plurality of multimedia devices, and to stream a processed version of the received wireless signal including streaming media content to another one of the plurality of multimedia devices, the processed version of the received wireless signal including streaming media content being processed based on the received media processing capabilities of the multimedia device receiving the transmitted wireless signal including streaming media content.
US11917402B2
A method of digital radio communication between a first device and a second device is disclosed. An advertising packet is transmitted between first and second devices, wherein the packet includes a first address and a data portion. Additionally, an encryption key is transmitted between the devices. The first device generates a second address by encrypting an identity value derived from part of the first address using the encryption key and the data portion. The result is encrypted to generate second portion of the second address. The first device then transmits a connection request including the second address. The second device decrypts the second portion and uses the encryption key to determine correspondence with the first portion. If said correspondence is determined, the second device decrypts the first portion using at least the encryption key and compares it to an expected identity value derived from the first address.
US11917392B2
An apparatus is disclosed comprising means for providing first positional data indicative of a first user position in a virtual space which comprises a plurality of audio objects. The means may also be for receiving, based at least partially on the first positional data, data indicative of a first allocation of the audio objects into a prioritized order or into one of a plurality of prioritized groups in which each group has a respective priority order, and receiving audio data associated with at least some of the audio objects. The means may also be for rendering the received audio data for at least some of the audio objects associated with the received audio data, based on the first allocation data, in which audio objects with a higher priority or in a higher priority group are rendered with priority over audio objects allocated with a lower priority or in a lower priority group.
US11917391B2
In an audio signal processing method, a processing device obtains a current position relationship between a sound source and a listener. The processing device then obtains a current audio rendering function based on the current position relationship. When the current position relationship is different from a stored previous position relationship, the processing device adjusts an initial gain of the current audio rendering function based on the current position relationship and the previous position relationship, to obtain an adjusted gain of the current audio rendering function. The processing device then obtains an adjusted audio rendering function based on the current audio rendering function and the adjusted gain, and generates a current output signal based on a current input signal and the adjusted audio rendering function.
US11917383B2
Various embodiments are directed to a modular headset assembly comprising a headband, a detachable audio module in wired communication with a computing device via a cord coupled to the detachable audio module, the detachable audio module being detachably secured relative to the headband and comprising: a module housing; and a cord retention element disposed within an interior of the module housing and comprising an at least partially dynamic configuration relative to the module housing defined at least in part by a range of relative rotational motion between the cord retention element and the module housing, wherein the cord retention element may rotate within the module housing at least partially independently of an angular configuration of the module housing; wherein the cord is engaged with the cord retention element such that the cord retention element may rotates along the range of relative rotational motion based on forces acting on the cord.
US11917382B2
An in-vehicle acoustic system includes a first amplifier that outputs a first audio signal to a first mid-range speaker; a second amplifier that outputs a second audio signal to a second mid-range speaker; a third amplifier that outputs a third audio signal to a first high-range speaker and a first low-range speaker; and a fourth amplifier that outputs a fourth audio signal to a second high-range speaker and a second low-range speaker, in which the third audio signal is inputted to the first high-range speaker, the fourth audio signal is inputted to the second high-range speaker, the first audio signal is inputted to a deep-bass speaker, the third audio signal is inputted to the first low-range speaker, the fourth audio signal is inputted to the second low-range speaker.
US11917379B1
A system for sound localization can include a first electronic device having a microphone to detect a sound, and a second electronic device. A processor can be in communication with the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The processor can receive a first signal from the first electronic device corresponding to the detected sound, determine a location of origin of the detected sound based at least in part on the first signal, and provide a second signal to the second electronic device based at least in part on the location of origin.
US11917371B2
An exemplary system includes a processor communicatively coupled to a memory and configured to execute instructions to access configuration parameters indicative of a current configuration of a hearing device and determine, based on the configuration parameters, a plurality of text-based notifications associated with the current configuration of the hearing device. Each text-based notification included in the plurality of text-based notifications may be indicative of a different issue to be considered when fitting the hearing device to a user. The processor may further execute the instructions to present, within a graphical user interface view displayed by a display device, a hearing device fitting interface concurrently with a listing of at least some of the plurality of text-based notifications.
US11917370B2
A binaural hearing system comprises first and second hearing aids, each comprising antenna and transceiver circuitry allowing the exchange of audio signals between them and a BTE-part adapted for being located at or behind the external ear (pinna) of the user and comprising front and rear input transducers providing respective front and rear electric input signals. Each of the hearing aids comprises primary and secondary adaptive 2-channel beamformers each providing a spatially filtered signal based on first and second beamformer-input signals. The primary and secondary 2-channel beamformers are coupled in a cascaded structure. The inputs to the primary 2-channel beamformers are, locally generated, front and rear electric input signals. The inputs to the secondary 2-channel beamformer may be beamformed signals from the first and second hearing aids respectively. The spatially filtered signal of the secondary 2-channel beamformer may comprise an estimate of a target signal in the environment of the user.
US11917368B2
A hearing aid includes a microphone, and a processing unit. The microphone is configured to receive sound incident on the hearing aid and deliver a corresponding microphone output to the processing unit. The processing unit is configured to process the microphone output to determine whether the incident sound comprises potentially harmful sound, and to generate a processor output including a processed version of the microphone output. A method of protecting a hearing aid wearer from sudden loud sounds uses a microphone in the hearing aid to receive incident sound and deliver a corresponding microphone output to a processing unit in the hearing aid. The processing unit processes the microphone output to generate a first processor output, determined by whether the incident sound includes potentially harmful impulsive sound, and a second processor output including a processed version of the microphone output.
US11917364B2
A display apparatus includes a display module including a display panel configured to display an image, a structure at a rear surface of the display module, and a vibration generator at the structure. The structure may include a nonlinear portion covering a periphery of the rear surface of the display module and a sound emission port spaced apart from the rear surface of the display module.
US11917345B2
A method for providing wireless telecommunications. The method includes providing a modular remote radio unit (RRU) capable of wirelessly transmitting data, placing the modular RRU on a boom truck with a boom arm, transporting the remote radio unit to a deployment location, setting the modular RRU on a structure at the deployment location by lifting the modular RRU off the boom truck with the boom arm, electrically coupling a power input of the modular RRU to a power source to power the modular RRU, and transmitting and receiving wireless data with the modular RRU unit after the power input is coupled to the power source.
US11917343B2
The present disclosure provides an image processing method, an image processing device, a display device, and a storage medium. The image processing method is suitable for processing an image to be processed to obtain a target image, image data of the image to be processed includes a gray-scale value corresponding to each basic color component of a plurality of basic color components. The image processing method includes: determining a target color temperature; determining a target value of each basic color component corresponding to the target color temperature; determining a transformation parameter of each basic color component according to the target value of each basic color component; and based on the transformation parameter of each basic color component, performing a transformation operation on the gray-scale value, corresponding to each basic color component, in the image data of the image to be processed to obtain image data of the target image.
US11917342B2
A projection system according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an image formation apparatus, a projection lens, a measurement apparatus, a control apparatus, and a measurement assisting apparatus. The image formation apparatus forms image light. The projection lens projects the image light. The measurement apparatus measures the image light. The control apparatus controls the image formation apparatus on the basis of output of the measurement apparatus. The measurement assisting apparatus is disposed between the image formation apparatus and the projection lens and is configured to be capable of selectively switching between a first state to cause the image light to enter the projection lens and a second state to cause the image light to enter the measurement apparatus.
US11917334B2
A surveillance system including a fixed camera and one or more temporary cameras and a control means coupled to the fixed camera and the one or more temporary cameras is disclosed. The control means is configured to extend coverage of the fixed camera using the one or more temporary cameras coupled to the fixed camera. Each of the one or more temporary cameras includes one or more sensors and is configured to be deployed and adjusted based on sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors of the one or more temporary cameras and from one or more fixed camera sensors co-located with the fixed camera.
US11917329B2
A display device and a video communication data processing method are disclosed. The method comprises: in response to an instruction for video communication with at least one peer device, a controller collecting a global image of a local device by means of an image acquisition device; and presenting a local preview window in a user interface, and displaying, in the local preview window, a video image of the local device according to the global image, wherein when there is a moving target in the global image, the video image of the local device is a partial image corresponding to a target stable area of the moving target.
US11917327B2
A method for reducing artifacts in streaming video implemented by a computing device involves determining whether a video quality assessment score for a current segment of a channel of a video stream with a first resolution and a first bit rate meets a quality threshold, replacing the current segment with a replacement segment with a lower resolution than the first resolution, in response to the current segment failing to meet the quality threshold, and publishing the replacement segment at the first bit rate as part of the video stream.
US11917324B1
A method for detecting cheating by a first user engaging in an examination activity in an extended reality (XR) environment includes creating an audiovisual recording while the first user is engaged in the examination activity in the XR environment and displaying an interactive version of the recording to a second user to review for possible cheating by the first user during the examination activity.
US11917323B2
Real-time metadata tracks recorded to media streams allow search and analysis operations in a variety of contexts. Search queries can be performed using information in real-time metadata tracks such as closed captioning, sub-title, statistical tracks, miscellaneous data tracks. Media streams can also be augmented with additional tracks. The metadata tracks not only allow efficient searching and indexing, but also allow insertion of content specific advertising during appropriate portions of a media stream based on the content of the metadata tracks.
US11917320B2
Disclosed are a method, device and system for sending a virtual card and a readable storage medium, which are configured to receive at least one audio-video stream data of a plurality of participant terminals in communication connection with a server side; determine target audio-video stream data corresponding to at least one speaker from the at least one audio-video stream data; obtain biological characteristic information for identifying the at least one speaker from the target audio-video stream data, the biological characteristic information includes face characteristic information and/or voiceprint characteristic information; generate a virtual card according to the biological characteristic information; overlay the virtual card to the target audio-video stream data, and synthesize the target audio-video stream data with other audio-video stream data in response to there being a plurality of audio-video stream data into a to-be-sent audio-video stream data; send the to-be-sent audio-video stream data to the participant terminals.
US11917314B2
An image sensor includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion portion, a reset gate for controlling removal of a charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a charge accumulation portion, an accumulation gate for controlling a transfer of the charge from the photoelectric conversion portion to the charge accumulation portion, and a readout gate for controlling readout of the charge from the charge accumulation portion. The reset gate removes the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion by excitation light. The accumulation gate transfers the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion by fluorescence to the charge accumulation portion. The readout gate performs control for reading out the charge after the charge transfer is performed n times. The number n of the charge transfers is set for each pixel.
US11917313B2
According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of sampling switches, a plurality of sample-and-hold circuits, and a plurality of output switches. The plurality of pixels are arranged at least in a column direction. The plurality of sampling switches are configured to sample signals outputted from the pixels belonging to columns in parallel. The plurality of sample-and-hold circuits are configured to sample and hold signals outputted from the plurality of sampling switches. The plurality of output switches are configured to output signals stored in the plurality of sample-and-hold circuits at predetermined timing.
US11917311B2
An image sensor with improved image quality is provided. An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels. Each of the unit pixels includes a first photoelectric converter configured to convert received light into charges, a first transfer transistor electrically connected between the first photoelectric converter and a first node, a connection transistor disposed connected to a second node and the first node, a dual conversion transistor electrically connected between a third node and the second node, a second transfer transistor electrically connected between a fourth node and the third node, a second photoelectric converter electrically connected to the fourth node and configured to convert the received light into charges, a first switch electrically connected to the second photoelectric converter and the fourth node, a first capacitor electrically connected to the fourth node, and a electrically second capacitor connected to the third node.
US11917303B2
A camera module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a light emitting unit which includes a plurality of light emitting areas and drives at least one of the plurality of light emitting areas according to a first control signal so as to output an optical signal; a light receiving unit for collecting the optical signal; a sensor unit which includes a plurality of light receiving areas corresponding to the plurality of light emitting areas, respectively, and drives at least one of the plurality of light receiving areas according to a second control signal to generate an image signal on the basis of the collected light signal; and a control unit which generates at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal on the basis of the image signal and controls at least one of the light emitting unit and the sensor unit on the basis of at least one of the first control signal and the second control signal.
US11917300B2
An image pickup apparatus capable of performing an appropriate correction processing that suppresses an influence of high luminance light is provided. The image pickup apparatus comprising at least one processor and/or circuit configured to function as inferring a luminance of a high luminance subject having a pixel signal saturation level or higher based on image signals generated from a plurality of pixels, and determining an area for obtaining a correction value used when correcting the image signals based on the inferred luminance of the high luminance subject.
US11917299B2
One embodiment of an apparatus includes a reference position receiving unit configured to receive intermediate or end panorama reference position information input by a user, and a control unit configured to control an imaging device to begin generating a plurality of images to be used to generate a panoramic image based on the intermediate or end panorama reference position information input by the user after the reference position receiving unit receives the intermediate or end panorama reference position information.
US11917290B2
In order to realize a photoelectric conversion device having a photoelectric conversion element for outputting a signal according to the incidence of a photon that has a low power consumption, the photoelectric conversion device includes: at least one pixel including a photoelectric conversion element that outputs a signal according to an incident photon; a photon counter that measures the number of photons incident to the pixel; a time counter that measures a time until the photon counter reaches a first threshold after starting measurement and outputs the measured time as a pixel value; and a first threshold changing unit configured to change the first threshold.
US11917282B2
Systems and methods for site-based estimation of storage requirements, such as for surveillance video cameras, are described. Product information, a data retention policy, and an intended recording mode about a camera of a surveillance system may be received through a user interface of a user device. A baseline storage value is determined based on the received product information and the data retention policy. A storage requirement may be calculated based on the baseline data storage value and a determined recording co-efficient value based on a sample scene at the camera location. Scene descriptors may be generated based on the sample scene to retrieve the recording co-efficient value from a lookup table.
US11917273B2
An image generating device, a method and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The image generating device includes a passive sensor, an active sensor, a mask forming unit, a memory storing at least one instruction, and a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to obtain a first depth map with respect to a first space by using the passive sensor, identify an unidentified region of the first depth map, obtain a second depth map with respect to the unidentified region by using the active sensor and the mask forming unit configured to form a mask based on the unidentified region, and obtain a third depth map with respect to the first space based on the first depth map and the second depth map.
US11917271B2
A playback application seamlessly advances playback of and interactive media title in response to user selections in a manner that minimizes latency and preserves user immersion in a narrative. The playback application buffers an interstitial segment included in the interactive media title and feeds portions of the interstitial segment to a media player only when those portions are needed for display. When the user selects an option displayed during the interstitial segment, the playback application begins buffering a subsequent media segment and stops feeding portions of the interstitial segment to the media player. The playback application starts feeding blocks of the subsequent media segment to the media player and then seamlessly advances playback to the subsequent media segment.
US11917264B2
Systems and methods for video presentation and analytics for a sporting event are disclosed. In one embodiment, the sporting event is an auto racing event. A server platform is provided to collect and analyze real-time raw data and historical raw data, and compare drivers/vehicles from a current auto racing event and/or a historical auto racing event. The server platform is operable to overlay a ghost driver/vehicle on the images of a driver/vehicle in the current auto racing event based on the comparison. The server platform also provides a GUI for displaying the current auto racing event with enhanced features.
US11917258B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced ship-based network connectivity using a content delivery network (CDN) edge server. An example method includes receiving user requests from user devices in wireless communication with a system, with the user requests being associated with applications executing on the user devices. An operating status associated with a satellite communication system is determined, the operation status being indicative of the satellite communication system having bandwidth and/or connectivity to route the user requests via a satellite network. Based on the operating status being negative, a first subset of the user requests is queued for transmission. A second subset of the user requests are responded to using an edge cache. Based on the operating status being positive, the user requests are transmitted via the satellite network to a shore-based system, the shore-based system routing the user requests to web applications associated with different functionality.
US11917251B2
Systems and methods are described for determining that a plurality of user profiles, stored in the memory, are associated with an account of a media application; generating for presentation a media asset during a first consumption session associated with the account; generating for presentation a selectable option to associate a current progress point of the media asset with one or more of the plurality of user profiles associated with the account; receiving a selection of one or more of the plurality of user profiles via the selectable option; during a second consumption session, receiving a request for accessing the media asset; and in response to determining that the second consumption session is associated with the selected one or more user profiles, resuming the media asset from the progress point associated with the selectable option.
US11917249B2
A system to perform processing operations of input (video) streams, including is disclosed. The system consists of an input module, a stream type detection engine, a plurality of processing resources a resource monitoring engine, an attribution module, a dispatching module, and various other optional interface modules.
US11917245B2
Various embodiments described herein support or provide for cultural distance prediction operations of a media asset, such as determining events in a media asset, determining geographical region corresponding to the culture of origin and the culture of destination, accessing weight values of cultural attribute categories respectively associated with the geographical regions of the culture of origin and the culture of destination, generating cultural distance score of events, and causing display of the cultural distance score on a user interface of a client device.
US11917244B2
Methods and systems for saving resources when outputting a media asset such as a video are provided. The media asset is split into a first portion with a first importance and a second portion with the second importance. The first portion is displayed with a first set of output parameters (e.g., resolution, bit rate, frame rate, display size) and the second portion is displayed with a second set of output parameters that correspond to a lower quality than the first set of output parameters (e.g., a lower resolution, a lower bit rate, a lower frame rate, a lower display size).
US11917238B2
The present invention relates to a wireless display system that minimizes a case in which a control signal does not reach a control target due to interference or the like when a remote control device transmits the control signal to a receiving module or a transmitting module, and a method for operating the same. The wireless display system includes a receiving module including a display unit, and a transmitting module configured to transmit, to the receiving module, an image to be output by the display unit. The receiving module and the transmitting module share a control signal received from a remote control device.
US11917234B2
The disclosed technology relates to an electronic device including a display device and an image sensor. The device may include a processor configured to cause the display device to output an illumination image in response to a command to capture one or more digital images of a scene. The processor can also be configured to cause the image sensor to receive the one or more digital images of the scene while the illumination image is displayed.
US11917232B2
Collaborative video capture and sharing is described. A login to a primary device is received from a first user. A session is formed between the primary device and a secondary device. A start command and a stop command are sent during the session from the primary device to the secondary device to cause the secondary device to begin and stop a take. The session ID and an identification of the devices of the session are loaded to a remote data store from the primary device through the primary device communications interface. The take at the primary device is uploaded into the remote data store through the primary device communications interface with the session ID, and the primary device ID; and the secondary device uploads the take of the secondary device camera into the remote data store through the secondary device communications interface with the secondary device ID.
US11917230B2
A system and method for maximizing bandwidth in an uplink for a 5G communication system is disclosed. Multiple end devices generate image streams. A gateway is coupled to the end devices. The gateway includes a gateway monitor agent collecting utilization rate data of the gateway and an image inspector collecting inspection data from the received image streams. An edge server is coupled to the gateway. The edge server includes an edge server monitor agent collecting utilization rate data of the edge server. An analytics manager is coupled to the gateway and the edge server. The analytics manager is configured to determine an allocation strategy based on the collected utilization rate data from the gateway and the edge server.
US11917223B2
Methods, systems, and media for presenting media content items belonging to a media content group are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: retrieving metadata associated with video content segments, wherein the metadata includes user metadata, description metadata, and time metadata; generating subsets of video content segments from the video content segments based on the user metadata, wherein each of the subsets of video content segments is grouped into media content groups by: normalizing the description metadata; determining a similarity score between the normalized description metadata for a first video content segment and a second video content segment in the subset of video content segments; and determining whether to place the each of the first and second video content segments into a media content group based on the similarity score; arranging the video content segments within each of the media content groups based on time metadata; and causing at least one of the arranged media content groups to be presented in the video window in response to receiving a request for a video content item.
US11917220B2
A section-specific video data stream is derived by reducing a video data stream pertaining an entire scene with conservation of conformance by use of a file format and incorporating slices into which tiles of a set of tiles are encoded which forms the section, are incorporated into a set of one or more source tracks and a set of one or more gathering tracks including construction instructions is used in order to indicate a synthesis of the section-specific video data stream by signaling replacements of certain portions of the slices and instructing to copy certain portions of the slices. Further, there is described a concept pertaining an indication of a position of a region of interest.
US11917218B2
A server includes: a video data acquiring unit configured to acquire video data in which a game is imaged; a storage configured to store the video data; an image determining unit configured to determine whether or not target image data, which is data of a target image indicating an advertisement client, is included in the stored video data; an advertisement setting unit configured to generate, when the target image data is included in the video data, advertisement setting data at a time when video based on the video data is displayed in an external display, the advertisement setting data being to be used for displaying, in the external display, an advertisement of the advertisement client corresponding to the target image; and a communication unit configured to be capable of sending the video data and the advertisement setting data to outside.
US11917215B2
Systems and methods are described for receiving a first request, associated with a first user profile, to record a content item, and storing, at a server and based on the first request, a first copy of the content item, accessible via the first user profile. A second request to record the content item may be received, associated with a second user profile, and content consumption history associated with the second user profile may be identified. Based on such content consumption history, a determination may be made to refrain from storing a second copy of the content item based on the second request. In response to receiving a request, associated with the second user profile, to access the content item, the content item may be played at a device associated with the second user profile based on the stored first copy of the content item.
US11917212B2
Disclosed herein are a QTBT split structure allowing blocks of various shapes capable of more efficiently reflecting various local characteristics of video and a method of efficiently signaling the split structure.
US11917211B2
Techniques for video processing, including video coding, video decoding and video transcoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video including a video picture including a video tile including one or more slices and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that a second slice in a tile that includes a first slice in a picture has a height that is represented in a unit of coding tree units. The first slice has a first slice index, and the second slice has a second slice index that is determined based on the first slice index and a number of explicitly provided slice heights in the video tile. The height of the second slice is determined based on the first slice index and the second slice index.
US11917204B2
A method for image decoding, according to the present invention, includes the following steps: receiving image information including a plurality of filter coefficients; generating a restored block for a current block on the basis of the image information; and applying an adaptive loop filter to the restored block on the basis of the plurality of filter coefficients. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency may be improved, and complexity may be reduced.
US11917195B2
A method and a device for encoding/decoding an image according to the present invention may determine a reference region for intra prediction of a current block, derive an intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of a predetermined MPM candidate group, and perform intra prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference region and the intra prediction mode.
US11917179B2
A decoder includes circuitry which, in operation, parses a first flag indicating whether a CCALF (cross component adaptive loop filtering) process is enabled for a first block located adjacent to a left side of a current block; parses a second flag indicating whether the CCALF process is enabled for a second block located adjacent to an upper side of the current block; determines a first index associated with a color component of the current block; and derives a second index indicating a context model, using the first flag, the second flag, and the first index. The circuitry, in operation, performs entropy decoding of a third flag indicating whether the CCALF process is enabled for the current block, using the context model indicated by the second index; and performs the CCALF process on the current block in response to the third flag indicating the CCALF process is enabled for the current block.
US11917177B2
A media content processing device may decode visual volumetric content based on one or more messages, which may indicate which attribute sub-bitstream of one or more attribute sub-bitstreams indicated in a parameter set is active, The parameter set may include a visual volumetric video-based parameter set. The message indicating one or more active attribute sub-bitstreams may be received by the decoder, A decoder may perform decoding, such as determining which attribute sub-bitstream to use for decoding visual media content, based on the one or more messages, The one or more messages may be generated and sent to a decoder, for example, to indicate the deactivation of the one or more attribute sub-bitstreams. The decoder may determine an inactive attribute sub-bitstream and skip the inactive attribute sub-bitstream for decoding the visual media content based on the one or more messages.
US11917160B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a motion vector for a current block; determining whether to apply refinement to the motion vector for the current block; deriving a refined motion vector by applying decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) to the motion vector if it is determined to apply refinement to the motion vector for the current block; deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the refined motion vector; and generating reconstruction samples for the current block on the basis of the prediction samples, wherein the step of determining whether to apply refinement includes determining whether to apply the refinement on the basis of at least one of the size of the current block and bi-prediction weight index information for the current block.
US11917159B2
A prediction method, including: creating a candidate list corresponding to a coding mode for the coding mode used by a coding block in an original picture, wherein the coding mode includes a first affine motion mode or a second affine motion mode, a reference block in the candidate list is spatially adjacent to the coding block, and the reference block is coded using the first affine motion mode or the second affine motion mode; performing affine motion estimation on the coding block according to the candidate list corresponding to the coding mode to obtain coding parameters corresponding to the coding block; and performing predictive coding on the coding block on the basis of the coding parameters corresponding to the coding block.
US11917158B2
A computer-implemented method, system, or computer-readable medium may include estimating local motion of an input video frame of an input video by computing a local motion vector corresponding to a respective candidate pixel patch from among one or more candidate pixel patches within the input video frame. Global motion may be estimated by computing a global motion vector. One or more subject motion vectors may be computed based on a corresponding local motion vector and the global motion vector. A number of static frames of the video may be identified. The input video may be determined to be a static video if a ratio of the number of static frames to a number of the video frames in the input video meets a static frame threshold and determining that the input video is a motion video if the ratio fails to meet the static frame threshold.
US11917137B2
There is includes a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a hardware processor or processors to perform intra prediction among a plurality of reference lines, to set a plurality of intra prediction modes for a zero reference line nearest to a current block of the intra prediction among non-zero reference lines, and to set one or more most probable modes for one of the non-zero reference lines.
US11917133B2
Technology for improving coding efficiency by performing a block split suitable for picture coding and decoding is provided. A moving-picture coding device for performing an affine transform in units of coding blocks includes an affine inheritance merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine inheritance merging candidate for inheriting an affine model of blocks neighboring a coding target block in a space domain, an affine construction merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine construction merging candidate from a plurality of motion information elements of blocks neighboring the coding target block in a space or time domain, and an affine fixation merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine fixation merging candidate in which motion information of an affine control point is fixed. A motion vector of each affine control point is fixed to (0, 0) in the affine fixation merging candidate.
US11917132B2
A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video having one or more video layers comprising a current picture comprising a current slice and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies a condition under which a reference picture list for the current slice is disallowed to have an active entry that refers to a picture that precedes, in a decoding order or an output order, an intra random access point picture associated with the current picture.
US11917128B2
A motion field estimate determined using motion vector information of two or more reference frames of a current/encoded frame is used to derive a motion vector for inter-prediction of the current/encoded frame. Motion trajectory information, including concatenated motion vectors and locations of the current/encoded frame at which those concatenated motion vectors point, is determined by concatenating motion vectors of the reference frames. A motion field estimate is determined using the motion trajectory information and, in some cases, by interpolating unavailable motion vectors using neighbors. The motion field estimate is used to determine a co-located reference frame for the current/encoded frame, and an inter-prediction process is performed for the current/encoded frame using a motion vector derived using the co-located reference frame. During decoding, the motion field estimate may be determined using motion vectors signaled within a bitstream and without additional side information, thereby improving prediction coding efficiency.
US11917126B2
An augmented reality, virtual reality, or other wearable apparatus comprises an eye tracking device comprising an image sensor, a lens, and one or more processors. In some embodiments, the lens comprises a marker, and the one or more processors are configured to receive an image from the image sensor, wherein the image shows the marker, determine a distance from the image sensor to the marker based on the image, and change a calibration parameter of an eye tracking algorithm based on the distance. In some embodiments, the one or more processors are configured to receive image data from the image sensor, wherein the image data corresponds to an image as observed through the lens, determine a level or pattern of pincushion distortion in the image based on the image data, and change a calibration parameter of an eye tracking algorithm based on the level or the pattern of pincushion distortion.
US11917120B2
Eyewear including a sensor integrated into frame of eyewear. In one example, the sensor comprises a strain gauge, such as a metallic foil gauge, that is configured to sense and measure distortion of the frame when worn by a user and under different force profiles, by measuring a strain in the frame when bent. The measured strain by strain gauge is sensed by a processor, and the processor performs dynamic calibration of image processing based on the measured strain. The distortion measured by the strain gauge is used by the processor to correct calibration of the cameras, and the displays.
US11917118B2
An information processing apparatus (100) includes: a calculation unit (163) that calculates an index value related to display of stereoscopic image content including a stereoscopic image based on a relative position of a viewer with respect to a position of a display unit (150) that displays the stereoscopic image; and a display control unit (164) that controls display processing performed by the display unit (150) based on the index value calculated by the calculation unit (163).
US11917114B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus capable of preventing deterioration in accuracy of image position adjustment due to erroneous detection of a marker.
US11917104B2
A system and method for enhanced outbound campaign management, comprising a campaign management console, a data services engine, a traffic shaper, an agent desktop, Control agent desktop, an autodialer, and a simple dialer which allows enterprises to conduct unified communications campaigns without differentiating between prior expressed written consent consumers, and those who have not provided prior expressed written consent, to being autodialed or receiving artificial or pre-recorded voice messages, allowing for compliance with regulations regarding such consent without splitting or bifurcating or otherwise hampering communications campaigns for the enterprise customers.
US11917103B2
A desktop agent configured to execute on a computer includes a web-application interface and an agent communication port. The web-application interface receives an application launch request for an emergency service application from a web-based application executing in a browser. The emergency service application has a plurality of application communication ports. The agent communication port transmits a launch message to a selected port of the plurality of application communication ports, the selected port selected based on the application launch request. The agent communication port receives, from the selected port, information collected by the emergency service application responsive to the launch message. The desktop agent is configured to transmit the information collected by the emergency service application to a cloud-based computer aided dispatch system.
US11917100B2
A communication device and method can include one or more processors operatively coupled to memory and an audible output device, where the one or more processors initiates a call from a calling party that includes an audio clip associated with the call.
US11917096B2
A method for revenue assurance in a telephone network. The method comprises receiving a call request from a first user device on a network to a second user device, where the user device associated with a first user account has an account credit value insufficient to complete the requested call. A call timer duration is set to instantly expire on encountering a chargeable event. The call is continued toward the second user device. Upon encountering a chargeable event, the call is released. The chargeable event may be presenting a Ring Back Tone to the caller and confirming that the second device is ringing. The chargeable event may be detecting when the call has been answered.
US11917093B2
A downlead cable includes a first connector configured to connect to a headset of a communication system. A second connector is configured to connect to a connection port of a handset or a radio system. The downlead cable further includes wires connecting the first and second connectors and a cable jacket encapsulating the wires. A transformer is wired inline between the first and second connectors. The transformer is configured to enable the headset to mimic the electrical characteristics a microphone which the handset or the radio system is configured to interface.
US11917089B2
Embodiments of a physical unclonable function (PUF) device and a method for generating helper data for a PUF device with an array of cells are disclosed. In an embodiment, the PUF device comprises an array of cells, wherein each cell of the array generates an output signal, a reliable cell group detector coupled to the array of cells to find reliable groups of cells in the array of cells having sufficient reliable cells and output addresses of the reliable groups of cells, and a storage device coupled to the reliable cell group detector to store the addresses of the reliable groups of cells to be used as helper data for PUF response operations.
US11917075B2
Disclosed is a multi-signature security account control system. The present invention comprises a multi-signature security account in which at least three participating accounts have management authority, wherein the participating accounts are a first participating account corresponding to a user terminal, a second participating account corresponding to an HSM management server, and a third participating account corresponding to an exchange server, and the HSM management server may control the authority of the multi-signature security account to be controlled by using signature information provided from at least two of the participating accounts.
US11917069B1
Secure user authentication using a OTP involve pre-storing an application on a first device for generating a valid OTP for the user responsive to receiving entry of a valid PIN, no part of the valid PIN is stored on the first device and pre-storing on a back-end server the valid PIN and a valid shared secret for the user. Upon receiving entry of a purported PIN, a purported shared secret is dynamically synthesized on the first device by the application based on the purported PIN and a purported OTP is generated on the first device. When entry of the purported OTP is received by the server in an attempt to log on the server from a second device, the server cryptographically calculates a window of OTPs, and logs on to the server from the second device is allowed if the calculated window of OTPs corresponds to the received OTP.
US11917050B1
Systems and methods are described for generating a blockchain-based user profile. In various aspects, one or more blockchain IDs associated with a user is received, where each blockchain ID is associated with a corresponding blockchain. One or more blockchain transactions are identified that are associated with the one or more blockchain IDs, where a trust profile for the user can be generated based on the one or more blockchain transactions. The trust profile can include user information determined from the one or more blockchain transactions.
