US11930506B2

A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from at least one of transmission and reception points (TRPs), downlink control information (DCI) including first information on transmission configuration indication (TCI) states and second information for antenna ports, identifying whether each of the TRPs repeatedly transmits same data via a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) based on a number of code division multiplex (CDM) group indicated by the second information for antenna ports, and receiving data from the TRPs based on a result of the identifying.
US11930500B2

The present invention relates to a method of transmitting a buffer status report (BSR) by a wireless node in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: receiving first logical channel group (LCG) configuration information including identities of LCGs from a network; generating the BSR including a LCG field; and transmitting the BSR to the network, wherein a length of the LCG field is configured according to a highest value of the identities of LCGs.
US11930497B2

Disclosed are a method whereby user equipment receives a data signal in a wireless communication system, and devices which support same. According to one embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, on the basis of (i) configuration information related to dynamic bundling for a precoding resource block (PRB) and (ii) control information for scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), both pieces of information being received from a base station, user equipment can receive a data signal via the first PDSCH on the basis of an assumption related to the first PDSCH.
US11930492B2

The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than that of a beyond-4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like) based on 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. In addition, the disclosure provides a method and apparatus for power control of an IAB node in a wireless communication system.
US11930486B2

A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a scheduling entity determines a first direction of a backhaul link traffic between a first scheduling entity and a second scheduling entity, and determines a second direction of an access link traffic between the scheduling entity and a user equipment (UE) based on the first direction of the backhaul link traffic to reduce potential interference caused by the access link traffic. The scheduling entity transmits or receives the access link traffic in the second direction utilizing at least one of a same transmission resource of the backhaul link traffic. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11930478B2

A communication method for data transmission in the internet of vehicles V2X and a related device. The method includes a first terminal device that receives first information from a first radio access network device, where the first information includes service information of a service of the first terminal device and a resource configuration mode on a sidelink, and there is a correspondence between the service information and the resource configuration mode on the sidelink. The first terminal device transmits, based on the correspondence, data corresponding to the service information on a sidelink transmission resource configured based on the resource configuration mode. The service information may be reliability information.
US11930474B2

Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The UE includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to determine and indicate, to a core network via a radio access network (RAN), one or more cellular internet of things (CIoT) features that are required by the UE and CIoT network behavior expected from the core network to support the one or more CIoT features that are required by the UE. The processor circuitry is configured to select either an enhanced packet core (EPC) or a 5G core (5GC) to establish a wireless connection with the core network, based on a first set of CIoT features supported by the EPC and a second set of CIoT features supported by the 5GC received from the core network.
US11930471B2

Technology for an Information Centric Networking gateway (ICN-GW) operable to modify an ICN message received from a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation (5G) cellular network is disclosed. The ICN-GW can decode the ICN message received from the UE via a Next 5 Generation NodeB (gNB) and an ICN point of attachment (ICNPoA). The ICN-GW can modify the ICN message to produce a modified ICN message. The ICN-GW can encode the modified ICN message to route the modified ICN message to a data network.
US11930461B2

Techniques and systems for extending the capture range of frequency offset error detection are described. For instance, the present disclose describes efficient frequency estimation structures (e.g., zero crossing minimum/maximum (min/max) structures) that may extend carrier frequency offset error capture range by running a bank (e.g., a set) of parallel capture range structures trialing different frequency errors. In some aspects, a set of frequency offset estimation circuits and a set of correlation circuits (e.g., 1-bit correlators) may be used on parallel streams to perform correlation operations on each branch of a received bit stream to determine correlations with known preamble patterns (e.g., to accurately estimate large frequency offset errors).
US11930459B2

Methods and systems are provided for dynamically disabling beamforming functionality of one or more frequency bands. For example, a frequency band may have beamforming enabled. One or more user devices may be connected to the frequency band having beamforming enabled for access to a wireless telecommunications network. User devices connected with the frequency band may be at various locations of a network cell of the wireless telecommunications network (e.g., a cell center, middle cell, cell edge). Fading information may be received by one or more of the user devices connected with the frequency band. One or more fading channel measurements of the first frequency band may be above a threshold. In some embodiments, a fading channel measurement of the first frequency band is higher than another available frequency band having beamforming enabled. As such, beamforming of the first frequency band can be dynamically disabled.
US11930457B2

A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines a power control parameter for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on reception of a medium access control control element (MAC CE); and a transmitting section that transmits the PUSCH by using transmission power based on the power control parameter. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a parameter for transmission power control can be appropriately determined.
US11930452B2

Aspects described herein relate to instructing, from a layer of a modem processor, a host processor to utilize an increased power consumption state for processing data from a network node. The instructing can be performed based on transmitting a signal to the network node and/or receiving signals from the network node, and at a time that allows the host processor to wake up before receiving data from the modem processor for processing.
US11930451B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, control signaling indicating a set of connected discontinuous reception (C-DRX) configurations. The set of C-DRX configurations may include a first C-DRX configuration and a second C-DRX configuration, where at least one C-DRX configuration in the set of C-DRX configurations is a UE-group common C-DRX configuration. The set of C-DRX configurations may correspond to a discontinuous transmission (DTX) cycle of the base station. The UE may select a C-DRX configuration from the set of C-DRX configurations based on receiving the control signaling from the base station. Accordingly, the UE may use the selected C-DRX configuration to communicate with the base station. The selected C-DRX configuration may enable the base station to operate with reduced power consumption and higher DTX efficiency, among other benefits.
US11930449B2

Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may enter into an E-UTRAN Routing Area Paging Channel state, and is configured with an E-UTRAN Routing Area and an Anchor identifier to identify an anchor evolved Node B (eNB) for the UE. The UE selects to a new cell without performing a handover procedure, and performs a cell update procedure. The UE also may enter into a Cell Update Connected state, and is configured with an Anchor identifier. The UE selects to a new cell, performs a cell update procedure, performs a buffer request procedure, and performs a cell update procedure to download buffered data and to perform data transmission with the new cell.
US11930445B2

A network device for providing single-carrier quadrature amplitude modulation (SC-QAM) downstream channel fast pre-scanning. An orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) downstream (DS) channel scan in a foreground process and a single-carrier quadrature amplitude modulation (SC-QAM) DS channel scan in a background process are simultaneously performed. When a first OFDM downstream channel is locked onto, OFDM downstream channel is paused while scanning for SC-QAM downstream channels continues. SC-QAM DS channels identified in the background process are stored in a table. Based on a scan of all OFDM channels and failure to lock onto any OFDM DS channels, the SC-QAM DS channel scan in the background process is stopped and a normal SC-QAM DS channel scan is started. SC-QAM DS channels in the table are scanned first to provide fast pre-scanning. A modem becomes operational with a qualified SC-QAM DS channel obtained from the table.
US11930438B2

Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services. In some embodiments, a computing system might receive, from one or more first sensors and one or more second sensors, first operational states of fixed broadband network nodes and second operational states of wireless network nodes, respectively. The computing system might analyze the received first and second operational states, might determine an optimal network pathway and/or an optimal network backhaul pathway, and might establish the optimal network pathway and/or the optimal network backhaul pathway, through a determined combination of fixed and wireless network nodes, thereby implementing the combined broadband and wireless self-organizing network (“SON”) for provisioning of services.
US11930436B2

An emergency call data relay includes a frame buffer and a frame handler. The frame buffer stores data frames received from a central system (e.g., a central CPE host). The data frames include call data associated with an emergency call being handled at a remote system (e.g., a PSAP) connected to the central system. The frame handler receives a data frame from the frame buffer, identifies a remote system handling the emergency call associated with the call data based on a network address in the data frame, extracts the call data from the data frame, and generates an output packet for a data gateway. The output packet has a header indicating a particular data gateway profile associated with the identified remote system handling the emergency call.
US11930426B2

Examples of detecting whether a device meets an enrollment level are disclosed. In one case, a method for providing access to an application on a client device includes receiving a request to access an application from the client device, determining an enrollment level associated with the application, and determining that multi-factor authentication is required for access to the application on the client device based on the enrollment level associated with the application. The method can also include initiating multi-factor authentication on the client device before access to the application is permitted. The method can also include determining that multi-factor authentication is successful on the client device, transmitting a management component to the client device, and installing the management component on the client device for enrollment as a managed device with a management service.
US11930425B2

Techniques and systems for recovering a communication session from a dedicated bearer failure are disclosed. For example, a P-CSCF node can determine that a dedicated bearer associated with a communication session has failed, and, in response, send a SIP message to a UE associated with the communication session, the SIP message causing the UE to refrain from sending SIP requests using a SIP INVITE method. The process may further include identifying a first network node associated with an identifier of the UE, the first network node comprising one of a PGW or a SMF, and sending an instruction to the first network node to dissociate the dedicated bearer from the communication session. This causes a new attach procedure to be performed by the UE to recover the session without session failure.
US11930422B2

A method performed by a mobile terminal is provided for supporting positioning of the mobile terminal. The method includes receiving a defined filter pattern from a network node in a communications network or another node of the communications network, discovering identities of a plurality of reference devices based on signals received from the plurality of reference devices, filtering the identities of the plurality of reference devices to obtain a subset of identities of the plurality of reference devices that each satisfy the defined filter pattern, and reporting information on the subset of the identities of the plurality of reference devices to the network node.
US11930421B2

A system configured to execute programing instructions comprising: receiving a fence including an area having a geographic location, a plurality of notifications and their content attributes are associated with the fence; receiving location and speed from a mobile device of a user; determining the mobile device is stationary for a predetermine amount of time; identifying a location attribute for the location of mobile device; aggregating a plurality of location attributes associated with the user; determining an audience profile and audience profile attributes for the user based on the aggregated location attributes; detecting the user has crossed into an area defined by the fence; and in response to detecting the user crossing the fence determining a conversion probability based on content attributes of the notifications associated with the fence and audience profile attributes of the audience profile associated with the user; selecting a notification based the conversion probability.
US11930418B2

A method for an infrastructure equipment of a wireless telecommunications network, the wireless telecommunications network comprising a base station and a non-terrestrial network part, the non-terrestrial network part transmitting one or more beams to provide a wireless access interface for transmitting signals to and receiving signals representing data from a communications device within a coverage region of a cell or a spot beam, the method comprising: determining a location of the communications device, determining the coverage region of the cell or the spot beam, determining a relative motion, relative to the communications device, of the coverage region of the cell or the spot beam, and based on the location and the relative motion, initiating a cell change of the communications device.
US11930415B2

A movable relay apparatus for relay communication, the relay apparatus transmits handover destination information to a communication terminal. The handover destination information indicates a handover destination, which allows the communication terminal to carry out a handover.
US11930414B2

Hybrid use of dual policies is provided to improve a communication system. In a multiple access scenario, when an inactive user equipment (UE) transitions to an active state, it may be become a burden to a radio cell on which it was previously camping. In some embodiments, hybrid load balancing is provided using a hierarchical machine learning paradigm based on reinforcement learning in which an LSTM generates a goal for one policy influencing cell reselection so that another policy influencing handover over active UEs can be assisted. The communication system as influenced by the policies is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP). The policies controlling the active UEs and inactive UEs are coupled, and measureable system characteristics are improved. In some embodiments, policy actions depend at least in part on energy saving.
US11930412B2

A wireless communication network (102) can employ techniques for the network (102) to indicate specific radio access characteristics to be used by a user equipment (100) 5 when responding to a paging message. The network (102) can indicate a specific radio access technology (RAT) that the UE (100) should use when connecting to the network (102). In this manner, the UE (100) can initiate a connection using the desired RAT rather than first initiating a connection with an incorrect RAT and performing a handover or network reconfiguration.
US11930411B2

Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for selecting between a primary link and a secondary link for AR/VR applications. A console can provide a VR/AR session to a user through a head wearable display. The console can determine that a first measurement of a primary link between the console and a head wearable display is less than a first threshold. The first measurement can include a quality metric of the primary link. The console can activate a secondary link between the console and the head wearable display. The console can determine whether a second measurement of the primary link between the console and the head wearable display is less than a second threshold. The console can transition when the second measurement is less than the second threshold, traffic on the primary link to the activated secondary link.
US11930403B2

When a first device is an EHT site, a second device generates a frame in a first non-HT format or a frame in a first non-HT duplicated format, where at least three bits in the first seven bits of a scrambling sequence of the frame in the first non-HT format or the frame in the first non-HT duplicated format indicate a bandwidth mode of a channel; or when a first device is a VHT site or an HE site that does not support an EHT, a second device generates a frame in a second non-HT format or a frame in a second non-HT duplicated format, where two bits in the first seven bits of a scrambling sequence of the frame in the second non-HT format or the frame in the second non-HT duplicated format indicate a bandwidth mode of a channel.
US11930390B2

Described are examples for providing intent based network slice management using a management data analytics function (MDAF) to predict deficiencies. A network management system receives an intent for a network slice constituent. The network management system configures computing resources for the network slice constituent to satisfy the intent based on expected performance of the computing resources. The network management system receives feedback with respect to actual performance of the network slice constituent. The network management system determines, based on analysis of the feedback by a management data analytics function (MDAF), a predicted deficiency of the network slice constituent not being able to satisfy the intent. The network management system modifies the configuration of the computing resources based on the feedback and the predicted deficiency to satisfy the intent.
US11930387B2

A method for filtering vehicle-to-X messages, having the following steps: receiving a number of vehicle-to-X messages and adapting a filter parameter for filtering the received vehicle-to-X messages in such a manner that a number of vehicle-to-X messages to be discarded leaves a number of vehicle-to-X messages to be processed from the number of received vehicle-to-X messages. The adaptation is carried out on the basis of a correction value for describing a deviation of the number of vehicle-to-X messages to be processed in a specified duration from a number of vehicle-to-X messages provided for processing in the specified duration. Also disclosed are a corresponding vehicle-to-X communication device and to a computer-readable storage medium.
US11930384B2

Various embodiments relate to a next-generation wireless communication system for supporting higher data transmission rate, beyond a 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system. According to various embodiments, a method of transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same may be provided, and other various embodiments may be provided.
US11930379B2

Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation.
US11930370B2

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US11930359B2

There is disclosed in an example, a gateway apparatus, including a hardware platform having a processor and a memory; a wireless network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: provide a first virtual access point (VAP) secured by an IEEE 802.1x extensible authentication protocol (EAP) enterprise security method; provide a second VAP secured by a WiFi protected access pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) method; onboard a device, comprising determining whether the device supports the EAP method, and enrolling the device with the EAP method if the device supports the EAP method; and if the device does not support the EAP method, enrolling the device with the WPA-PSK method.
US11930347B2

A method of processing audio content including a plurality of audio elements comprises: clustering the plurality of audio elements into a plurality of clusters of audio elements; and for a cluster among the plurality of clusters: for each audio element in the cluster, determining a measure of energy that the audio element contributes to the cluster; for at least one audio element in the cluster, determining a compensation gain based at least in part on the measures of energy for the audio elements in the cluster; and applying the compensation gain to the at least one audio element in the cluster.
US11930333B2

In certain aspects, a noise suppression method and system for a personal sound amplification product (PSAP) are disclosed. An environmental audio signal acquired through one or more microphones is processed to generate a set of first sub-band signals in a set of first sub-bands. The environmental audio signal is also processed to generate a set of second sub-band signals in a set of second sub-bands. A set of first gains for the set of first sub-band signals in the set of first sub-bands is determined based on the set of second sub-band signals in the set of second sub-bands. The set of first sub-band signals is processed based on the set of first gains to generate a noise-suppressed audio signal.
US11930327B2

A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second side of the receiver housing, wherein the pass-through passage is partially defined by the wall defining a receiver opening. The hearing aid assembly also includes an earbud configured to fit over at least a portion of the receiver housing and partially cover the open side of the receiver channel.
US11930321B1

The present invention provides a micro-speaker device. The device has a movable diaphragm device comprising a thickness of material which has a first surface and a second surface opposite of the first surface. In an example, the device has a shaft device having a first end and a second end, where the first end coupled to the second surface. In an example, the device has an actuator device coupled to the second end and configured to drive the shaft device in a piston action to pull and push the movable diaphragm. The device has a housing enclosing the movable diaphragm device, the shaft device, and the actuator device. The device has a vented enclosure opposite of the movable diaphragm to allow air to move in and out of the one or more vent openings to generate a sound pressure signal.
US11930320B2

A flexible vibration module is disclosed. The flexible vibration module includes a piezoelectric composite layer, including: a plurality of piezoelectric portions each having a piezoelectric characteristic, where at least two of the plurality of piezoelectric portions have different sizes; and a flexible portion between the plurality of piezoelectric portions.
US11930317B1

The present disclosure provides an earphone including a sound production component, an ear hook, and a microphone assembly. The microphone assembly includes a first microphone and a second microphone. The sound production component or ear hook includes a first sound hole and a second sound hole corresponding to the first microphone and second microphone, respectively. An extension line of a line connecting a projection of the first sound hole on a sagittal plane of the user and a projection of the second sound hole on the sagittal plane has an intersection point with a projection of an antihelix, a ratio of a first distance between the projection of the first sound hole on the sagittal plane and the projection of the second acoustic hole on the sagittal plane to a second distance between the projection of the second acoustic hole on the sagittal plane and the intersection point is 1.8-4.4.
US11930312B1

The present disclosure relates to an open earphone. The open earphone may include a sound production device and an ear hook including a first part and a second part connected in sequence. The first part may be hooked and arranged between an auricle and a head of a user. The second part may extend to a front lateral surface of the auricle and may be connected to the sound production device. The sound production device may be worn at a position that is near an ear canal without blocking an earhole of the user. The sound production device may be at least partially inserted into an auricular concha cavity of the user. An overlap ratio of a projection area of the sound production device on a sagittal plane to a projection area of the auricular concha cavity on the sagittal plane may be not less than 44.01%.
US11930311B2

Provided is a sound output apparatus including a functional mechanism that performs a specified function; an oscillation providing mechanism that oscillates, as an oscillation-provision-target member, a member included in the functional mechanism; and an oscillation controller that controls an oscillation operation performed by the oscillation providing mechanism, on the basis of sound information. The oscillation providing mechanism includes an actuator, a support member, and a biasing member. The actuator generates oscillation along a specified oscillation axis, and includes a rear end that is situated opposite to the oscillation-provision-target member in an axial direction of the oscillation axis. The biasing member is provided around the support member as viewed along the oscillation axis and of which at least a portion is arranged closer to the oscillation-provision-target member than the rear end of the actuator in the axial direction of the oscillation axis, the biasing member biasing the support member toward the oscillation-provision-target member.
US11930310B2

A speaker grille for a vehicle includes a steel plate, an adhesive layer formed on the steel plate, and a metal sheet layer formed on the adhesive layer. The speaker grille is configured such that the steel plate, the adhesive layer, and the metal sheet layer are stacked in sequence. The speaker grille has a plurality of holes formed through the speaker grille, and the holes may be formed by punching. A method of method for manufacturing the speaker grille can include a step of manufacturing a stack by forming the adhesive layer on the steel plate and forming the metal sheet layer on the adhesive layer; and a step of forming the plurality of holes through the stack by perforating the stack.
US11930308B2

Provided are a device and a method for executing gain calculation processing and gain adjustment processing for matching an output of an imaging element of a multispectral camera with an output of a reference machine, on the basis of a reference machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the reference camera, and an adjustment machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the adjustment camera.
US11930301B2

A camera is provided that stores an encryption key locally and transmits the encryption key using near field communication (NFC) when the encryption key is requested by the user. In one embodiment, the camera includes a lens for recording video and an encryption engine for encrypting the video. The camera further includes a security chip for storing an encryption key locally in the camera. Additionally, the camera includes a near field communication (NFC) module that provides a bridge between the security chip of the camera and the device at which the user is viewing the images recorded by the lens. The NFC module includes memory for temporarily storing the encryption key and an NFC transceiver for sending the encryption key from the memory of the NFC module to the device at which the user is viewing the images recorded by the lens of the camera.
US11930297B2

A video call method includes: receiving a first input performed by a user on a first target contact that is displayed on a first screen; and in response to the first input, initiating a video call request to the first target contact, and displaying a video call interface corresponding to the first target contact on the second screen.
US11930294B2

Methods and systems described herein generate content that quickly cycles between different-colored frames at a rapid rate that may be imperceptible to human viewers. The human eye tends to blend nearby frames together, so that a human viewer will see a full color spectrum even though only a single color is displayed at any given time. The video display may repeatedly cycle between individual color frames, thus providing video content that appears normal to a human viewer. However, a video recording device may capture only some of the color frames. Therefore, the video recorded by video recording devices may include undesirable color flicker or other color artifacts, which may deter unauthorized copying.
US11930289B2

A method of operating a video camera includes capturing a scene of imaging data using a focal plane array (FPA) module of the video camera. The scene of imaging data is characterized by a first bit depth. The method also includes processing, using an image processing module coupled to the FPA module, the scene of imaging data to provide display data characterized by a second bit depth less than the first bit depth. The method further includes forming a super frame including the display data and the scene of imaging data and outputting the super frame.
US11930285B2

Disclosed is an image sensing device including a plurality of selectors suitable for generating a plurality of selected pixel signals corresponding to one of a plurality of pixel signals; a plurality of signal converters suitable for: setting a plurality of initial voltages which are different from one another, on the basis of a plurality of initialization signals during an initialization period, and generating a plurality of converted pixel signals to which the plurality of initial voltages are respectively reflected, on the basis of the plurality of selected pixel signals and a ramp signal during a readout period; and a calculation circuit suitable for averaging the plurality of converted pixel signals.
US11930274B2

This application relates to the field of electronic technologies, and relates to a camera module, an anti-jitter component, and a terminal. The camera module includes an optical folding element, a lens group, and an image sensor that are sequentially arranged along an imaging light beam transmission direction. The camera module further includes a front-end anti-jitter component and a back-end anti-jitter component. The front-end anti-jitter component is connected to at least one of the optical folding element and the lens group. The back-end anti-jitter component is connected to the image sensor. The front-end anti-jitter component is configured to perform first jitter compensation on the imaging light beam and the back-end anti-jitter component is configured to perform second jitter compensation on the imaging light beam.
US11930271B2

An intermediate accessory apparatus configured to be detachably mounted between an interchangeable lens apparatus and an image pickup apparatus includes a storage configured to store characteristic information about a combined optical characteristic of the interchangeable lens apparatus and the intermediate accessory apparatus, the characteristic information being associated with state information indicating a state of the interchangeable lens apparatus, the state information being communicated via a first communication between the interchangeable lens apparatus and the image pickup apparatus, and a processor configured to receive identification information about the interchangeable lens apparatus from the image pickup apparatus, and transmit the characteristic information corresponding to the identification information to the image pickup apparatus, via a second communication between the intermediate accessory apparatus and the image pickup apparatus.
US11930265B2

A photographing apparatus includes a camera; a light-emitting device provided in the vicinity of the camera; a human sensor that detects a photographic subject; first light emission control means for controlling light emission of the light-emitting device in accordance with a first mode when the photographic subject is detected; detection means for detecting that a photograph-taking timing has arrived when an interocular distance of the photographic subject in an image generated by the camera in accordance with the first mode becomes at least a prescribed distance; and second light emission control means for controlling light emission of the light-emitting device, at the photograph-taking timing, in accordance with a second mode in which a light emission intensity is higher than in the first mode.
US11930262B2

A photographing scenario generator is configured to generate a photographing scenario being a condition for photographing a workpiece based on a condition set in advance. The illumination adjuster is configured to switch, with an illumination condition of the photographing unit being set to be variable, the illumination condition to each of a plurality of illumination conditions during one-time relative approach or retreat between a photographing part and the workpiece. The omnifocal image creator is configured to create, for each illumination condition, an omnifocal image obtained by evaluating a focus for each local area based on a plurality of pieces of image data having different focal points, which have been acquired through photographing under the same illumination condition, and reconstructing the image data from a combination of in-focus local images.
US11930254B2

There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining media content from a first content server, determining whether a manifest indicates presence of a remote element, resolving the remote element, manipulating an updated remote element, and streaming at least one of the media content from the first content server and another media content from a second content server based on manipulating the updated remote element.
US11930248B2

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, information processing method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method, capable of improving the convenience of a voice AI assistance service used in cooperation with content. The convenience of the voice AI assistance service used in cooperation with the content can be improved by providing an information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to control a timing of a voice response upon using a voice AI assistance service in cooperation with content on the basis of voice response time information indicating time suitable for the voice response to an utterance of a viewer watching the content. The present technology can be applied to a system in cooperation with a voice AI assistance service, for example.
US11930247B2

Systems and methods for a computer-based process that determines when a viewer is likely to skip over supplemental content and adjusts supplemental content presentation to compensate. Systems of embodiments of the disclosure may utilize various inputs to determine the likelihood of skipping supplemental content, including cursor position at or near specified icons or other UI elements, as well as user actions such as gaze direction, various motions or actions, controller manipulations, and the like. Once a likelihood of skipping supplemental content is determined, various actions may be taken in response, including without limitation selection of supplemental content that conveys its intended message prior to skipping, supplemental content that can be played at increased speed, and designation of supplemental content slots as skippable or non-skippable.
US11930240B2

A media content recording system receives one or more media content streams, such as a video content stream and an audio content stream captured at a computing device. The system also records sensor data collected by one or more sensors of the computing device, such as touch sensors or movement sensors. The system generates a synchronized media content by synchronizing the one or more media content streams with the sensor data. The media content recording system, or a media content playback system, uses the synchronized media content to generate playback content that illustrates inputs to or movement of the computing device while receiving the media content, synchronized with the media content. This playback content is then played back, allowing another user to see, synchronized with the audio or video content, what locations of the computing device the recording user touched or how the recording user moved the computing device.
US11930239B2

An apparatus for capturing video broadcasting signals comprises a plurality of capture channels, each channel producing respective video transport streams as inputs to a multi-channel virtualization module. Each channel comprises: an input interface powered by a low-noise power supply arranged to receive a respective modulated video broadcasting input signal within an input frequency band; a single input, dual output distribution amplifier arranged to produce first and second amplified input signals within a satellite broadcasting frequency band and within a cable and/or terrestrial broadcasting frequency band, respectively. A first tuner is configured to receive and downconvert the first amplified input signal to generate a first baseband signal; a second tuner is configured to receive and downconvert the second amplified input signal to generate a second baseband signal; and a demodulator is configured to receive the baseband signals as input and to generate the respective video transport stream.
US11930237B2

A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display configured to display a user interface window for receiving a letter input; a communication interface configured to receive a control instruction for inputting letters from a control device; and a controller configured to control the display to selectively display an on-screen keypad for inputting letters on the user interface window based on whether the control device includes letter keys for inputting letters.
US11930232B2

A video playing control method includes obtaining a video playing policy, where the video playing policy determines information about a control algorithm used for video playing, determining according to the video playing policy, a target control algorithm used for video playing, downloading and playing a video by using the target control algorithm, collecting video playing quality indicator data in a process of downloading and playing the video, and uploading the quality indicator data to a server, to indicate the server to adjust the video playing policy based on the quality indicator data.
US11930230B2

A method, performed by a hub device, of storing a voice assistant model for controlling a device includes receiving information about a first device connected to the hub device, requesting a voice assistant server to update a device determination model stored in the hub device; receiving the updated device determination model from the voice assistant server and storing the received updated device determination model; requesting, from the voice assistant server, information about a function determination model corresponding to the first device; receiving the information about the function determination model corresponding to the first device from the voice assistant server, and determining whether to store the function determination model in the hub device based on the received information; and based on the function determination model being determined to be stored in the hub device, storing, in the hub device, the function determination model corresponding to the first device.
US11930224B2

A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit in an image. The method comprises obtaining the coding tree unit in the image from a bitstream, the coding tree unit having chroma channels and a luma channel; and determining luma split options for the luma channel of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit. The method also comprises determining chroma split options for the chroma channels of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit, the chroma split options being different to the luma split options, the allowable chroma split options resulting in chroma intra predicted blocks with a minimum size of 16 samples; and decoding the coding blocks by determining flags from the bitstream to select one of the determined luma split options and one of the determined chroma split options.
US11930222B1

A system for encoding video for film grain synthesis is disclosed. A video encoding system includes a film grain description estimator configured to receive an input video comprising film grain and analyze the input video to generate a film grain description for the input video. The video encoding system includes a video encoder configured to receive the input video and, responsive to a determination that the input video comprises film grain, configure one or more encoder settings based on presence of the film grain to achieve a compression target for the input video. The video encoder is further configured to encode the input video comprising film grain using the encoder settings configured based on the presence of film grain to produce encoded video. The video encoding system is configured to send the encoded video and the film grain description to a video destination.
US11930219B2

A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video comprising a video unit and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies whether or how to include, in an adaptation parameter set (APS), information related to a scaling list of the video is based on a first syntax element. The first syntax element indicates whether the APS includes chroma component related syntax elements and is independent of one or more syntax elements in a sequence parameter set (SPS).
US11930217B2

A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. The method may include decoding coded syntax elements corresponding to a wrap-around padding process based on shifting a reference block by a width value that is determined based on luma samples in the reference block; and reconstructing at least one coded current picture using the wrap-around padding process, wherein the wrap-around padding process is applied at boundaries of subpictures.
US11930216B2

A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block in a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video, that splitting the current block into multiple transform units is permitted based on a characteristic of the current block. A signaling of the splitting is omitted in the coded representation. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
US11930211B2

A video decoding method includes obtaining a current frame of a video input; partitioning the current video frame into a plurality of coding blocks; predicting a symbol level for each coding block in intra prediction modes included in an allowed intra prediction mode (AIPM) set; transforming and quantizing a residual symbol level; entropy coding the transformed and quantized residual symbol level; and outputting a bitstream. The intra prediction modes included in the AIPM set are determined by determining whether a current video coding format for the current frame is of a video coding scheme based on VVC standard or a video coding scheme based on AV1 standard. The intra prediction modes include 6 most probable modes (MPM) and 32 remaining modes in the AIPM set for VVC standard, and directional modes of 8 nominal angles and non-directional or smooth modes in the AIPM set for AV1 standard.
US11930195B2

A computer-implemented method retrofit for decoding video in a video decoding chipset is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a video signal and a picture improvement signal; decoding the video signal to create decoded video; deriving, from the picture improvement signal, pixel touching information to be used to modify a pixel of the decoded video; and causing a graphics feeder of the video decoding chipset to overlay the pixel touching information onto the decoded video.
US11930178B2

An image encoding apparatus for encoding an image comprises a generation unit configured to generate, from a first quantization matrix having a size of ×N (N is a positive, a second quantization matrix having a size of ×Q (P and Q are positive integers which satisfy P
US11930176B2

Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which includes context modeling and multiple transform matrix selection, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, that an indication of a transform type in a multiple transform selection (MTS) operation is excluded from the bitstream representation, and wherein the current video block is coded using an intra block copy mode, and performing the conversion, wherein the indication is in a sequence parameter set, a picture parameter set, a tile group header, a slice header, a picture header, a tile header, a coding tree unit row, or a video data unit, and wherein the MTS operation includes using a transform from a plurality of predefined transform candidates for transforming a prediction error of the current video block during the conversion.
US11930173B2

Transform parameter derivation based on block partition is described. In an exemplary aspect, a method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a first block of video and a bitstream representation of the first block of video, whether a use of non-power-of-two partition trees (NPT-T) is enabled or disabled, wherein the NPT-T includes splitting the first block to multiple smaller sized child blocks of the first block, and at least one child block's width and/or height have a dimension that is a non-power-of-two integer; and performing the conversion based on the NPT-T in response to the determination that the NPT-T is enabled.
US11930169B2

Methods and apparatus for video coding are disclosed. According to one method, First ALF (Adaptive Loop Filter) processing is applied to the reconstructed chroma samples for a target reconstructed chroma sample to generate a first filtered chroma sample. Second ALF processing is applied to the related reconstructed luma samples to generate a second filtered chroma sample for the target reconstructed chroma sample, where positions of the related reconstructed luma samples selected for the second ALF processing are determined according to the target chroma format. According to another method, the luma ALF and the cross-component ALF have the same filter coefficient precision.
US11930162B2

A system and method for video compression divides colors of all pixel points of a target video frame into R, G, and B values, and all pixels are placed in a three-dimensional coordinate system to establish a correspondence between each pixel point and the coordinate position. Fuzzy recombination and division are performed on all pixel blocks and pixel points with similar RGB values are divided into pixel blocks to obtain a first target pixel block. Pixel blocks with same RGB values but with coordinates which are not close to the first target pixel block are extracted and divided to obtain a second target pixel block. An area enveloping the second target pixel block is extracted, and vector changes of all dynamic pixel points on the enveloping line are traversed and analyzed to determine a minimum compression change block for compression process.
US11930159B2

Methods, articles, and systems of video coding use intra block copying with hash-based searches.
US11930147B2

A system and method for automatic identification of photocopied documents is disclosed wherein the method is performed by capturing an image of a marked printed document; decoding a digital watermark embedded in the image, obtaining a mark identifier; recovering, by searching a database, at least one calibration parameter associated with the mark identifier; applying a discrete Fourier transform to the image, obtaining a frequency matrix; obtaining at least one maximum frequency value in the frequency matrix; comparing the at least one maximum frequency value with at least one calibration parameter; determining, on the basis of the comparison, if the marked printed document is an original document or a photocopied document.
US11930145B2

An image forming apparatus that is capable of reducing network traffic in sending an audit log. The image forming apparatus is communicable with a communication apparatus. The audit log including multiple types of logs is stored in at least one of the storage device or an external storage device. On receiving from the communication apparatus a request for sending the audit log, the image forming apparatus performs control for sending the audit log to the communication apparatus. In the control for sending the audit log, on receiving the request for sending the audit log, the image forming apparatus sends, to the communication apparatus, information indicating a storage location of one or more logs each having a data amount larger than a predetermined amount among the logs included in the audit log, rather than the one or more logs.
US11930143B2

There is provided an image reading apparatus in which a low output mode is a mode that can be controlled in a coupling state where a low power-feeding USB device is coupled, a high output mode is a mode that can be controlled in a coupling state where a high power-feeding USB device capable of feeding power higher than the low power-feeding USB device is coupled, and a control section does not perform image reading at a second reading speed faster than a first reading speed and performs image reading at the first reading speed in the low output mode.
US11930137B2

An information processing apparatus includes an imaging device to image a medium, a communication device provided so as to communicate with a plurality of information processing apparatuses, and a processor to acquire a use state of the image reading apparatus, set an information processing apparatus capable of executing imaging control of the imaging device, and control the imaging device according to an instruction signal from the set information processing apparatus. The processor determines whether to set a second information processing apparatus as the information processing apparatus capable of executing the imaging control, based on the use state, when receiving a request signal of the imaging control from the second information processing apparatus in a state where a first information processing apparatus is set as the information processing apparatus capable of executing the imaging control.
US11930134B2

A telephone call is elevated to a virtual meeting while maintaining the telephone call as an audio channel of the virtual meeting for an audio-only caller. During a telephone call, one of the participants of the telephone call requests to switch the telephone call to a virtual meeting. To enable an audio-only caller participating in the telephone call to switch to the virtual meeting, a message is transmitted to the phone device of the audio-only caller. Responsive to an interaction with the message at the phone device, the phone device is connected to the virtual meeting in which the telephone call is maintained as the audio channel at least for the audio-only caller. The specific form and content of the message is based on whether a client application associated with a web service used to implement the virtual meeting is installed on the phone device.
US11930129B1

A system and method for disabling distracting apps on a driver's personal devices while allowing passengers travelling in the same vehicle to have full use of their personal devices. The system works by first identifying all the personal devices that are in the vehicle and then establishing a loose mesh network between those devices. Once the mesh network is established, the system identifies which of the personal devices is associated with the driver, and ensures that any distracting apps on the driver's personal device are disabled, while allowing full functionality for any passenger's personal devices.
US11930125B2

Root certificates generated by root certificate authorities may be bound at the time of generation. In an example, a first root certificate can include an identity of a first root certificate authority, a first key identifier associated with a first key of the first root certificate authority and an identity of a first digital signature algorithm used by the first root certificate authority. The first root certificate can also include at least one extension including a second key identifier of a second key associated with the second root certificate authority and an identity of a second digital signature algorithm used by the second root certificate authority, the second digital signature algorithm being different from the first digital signature algorithm.
US11930117B2

Participants as requestors using a requesting network element request one or more tokenization processors to generate tokens that represent a sanitized version of data such that the resultant tokens are amenable to comparison across participants. As circumstances warrant, one or more such tokens can be submitted to the tokenization processor(s) to privately retrieve the original data. Role-based access control scope parameters and tokenization processor-specific tokenization processor secrets can be embedded into reversible tokens that remain invariant under updating of the tokenization processor secrets across tokenization processors. By another approach, role-based access control scope parameters and tokenization processor-specific tokenization processor secrets are embedded into tokens and corresponding key tokens such that upon authorized presentation of a token by a requestor, the corresponding key token is recovered so that the keying material that was used to generate ciphertext is retrievable in order to recover the corresponding plaintext.
US11930114B1

This disclosure describes providing message encryption through identification of sequential prime numbers. Encryption keys are generated, where a public encryption key is generated based on determining a lowest addend value to add to a starting value to produce a next sequential prime number with respect to the starting value. The public encryption key is provided to a computing device, and the computing device can use the public encryption key to encrypt a message. The encrypted message is received from the computing device and decrypted using a private key of the encryption keys that are generated.
US11930104B2

In a method of generating a secret key according to an embodiment, a share of each of a user and a plurality of other users for a secret key of the user are generated, the share of each of the plurality of other users is provided to a user terminal of each of the plurality of other users, a share of the user for a secret key of each of the plurality of other users is received from the user terminal of each of the plurality of other users, and a new secret key of the user is generated using the share of the user for the secret key of the user and the shares of the user for the secret key of each of the plurality of other users.
US11930102B2

A method including determining, by a device, an assigned key pair including an assigned public key and an assigned private key; determining, by the device for a folder including encrypted content, a folder access key pair including a folder access public key and a folder access private key; encrypting, by the device, the folder access private key by utilizing the assigned public key; and accessing, by the device, the encrypted content based at least in part on decrypting the folder access private key. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11930091B2

A method for redundancy control is disclosed. CIoT reader devices act as collaborative IoT gateways for connected objects and collect received data from the connected objects and transmit the data to a backend cloud infrastructure. The method includes assigning to each connected object an identifier ID and a freshness indicator, where the freshness indicator is a label having a value of “fresh” or “expired”, upon receiving data from at least one connected object, setting the freshness indicator to “fresh” for each respective connected object, wherein for each connected object the freshness indicator is configured to change to “expired” after a pre-determined period of time, and sending a message to coordinator device, the message containing a fresh list of ID's of connected objects for which the freshness indicator has “fresh”, wherein the coordinator device broadcasts the fresh list to CIoT reader devices within a broadcasting range of the coordinator device.
US11930088B2

A collection configuration management system can be used to manage one or more monitoring objects, such as tags, included in one or more content objects. The collection configuration management system can compartmentalize monitoring object configurations into a monitoring object bundle that may be executed as a result of loading the one or more content objects. The monitoring object bundle can be generated to include one or more monitoring objects, as well as monitoring object management loader functionality.
US11930086B2

The present disclosure relates to maintaining an electronic activity derived member node network. Exemplary implementations may: generate a plurality of node profiles; generate a node graph generated from the plurality of node profiles; identify a second electronic activity identifying a pair of electronic accounts; identify using the node graph, a pair of participant node profiles corresponding to the pair of electronic accounts identified by the second electronic activity; identify, using the node graph, an edge between a pair of nodes corresponding to the pair of participant node profiles; determine a relevancy score for the second electronic activity corresponding to the pair of the participant node profiles based on context of the second electronic activity; and update the node graph by modifying the connection corresponding to the edge between the pair of participant node profiles based on the relevancy score determined for the second electronic activity.
US11930084B2

A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. A microservice formats a request to a process management microservice and to another microservice to perform an operation on behalf of the microservice. The process management microservice validates the requested operation. Based on the requested operation being valid, process management sends the requested operation to the other microservice. The process management microservice updates the microservices registry with a status of the microservice and the other microservice. The microservice and the other microservice update their respective local status registries.
US11930082B1

Techniques for communications in a multi-zone space are described. In an example, a system stores data indicating devices in zones of a space and data indicating zones that are associated with a communications session. A display in a zone presents graphical user interface indicating the zones associated with the communications session. Incoming audio data can be mixed with audio data detected from another participating zone and a speaker in the zone can output this audio data. Audio data detected from the participating zone can also be mixed and sent to a remote device that is an endpoint of the communications session.
US11930076B1

Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for efficiently sharing assets such as files and folders between a host computer system and a client computer system while minimizing the amount of work the client must perform to efficiently transfer an asset. In one or more embodiments, assets such as files and folders that are to be shared or transferred are placed in appropriate network slice queues by the hosts rather than the clients. These network slice queues allow the files and folders to be placed in slices without utilizing the resources of the clients as well as much of the available network resources. This ensures efficient use of network resources, while minimizing the amount of work the hosts and/or clients must perform in order to perform a backup.
US11930075B2

Systems and methods for supporting efficient virtualization in a lossless interconnection network. An exemplary method can provide, one or more switches, including at least a leaf switch, a plurality of host channel adapters, wherein each of the host channel adapters comprise at least one virtual function, at least one virtual switch, and at least one physical function, a plurality of hypervisors, and a plurality of virtual machines, wherein each of the plurality of virtual machines are associated with at least one virtual function. The method can arrange the plurality of host channel adapters with one or more of a virtual switch with prepopulated local identifiers (LIDs) architecture or a virtual switch with dynamic LID assignment architecture. The method can assign each virtual switch with a LID. The method can calculate one or more linear forwarding tables based at least upon the LIDs assigned to each of the virtual switches.
US11930069B1

Techniques for determining whether HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 is a preferred protocol for communication between a client device and a server over a network are described. A change associated with a network interface of a client device is detected. Based at least in part on detecting the change, a determination is made to identify a preferred communication protocol for a network over which the client device communicates using the network interface. A HTTP/2 probe is transmitted over the network and to a server. A HTTP/3 probe is transmitted over the network and to the server. In response to not receiving a HTTP/3 probe response, the preferred communication protocol is determined to be HTTP/2. In response to receiving the HTTP/2 probe response and the HTTP/3 probe response, the preferred communication protocol is determined to be HTTP/3. The client device communicates with the server over the network using the preferred communication protocol.
US11930067B2

In various exemplary embodiments, a system and an associated method for presenting a commerce application to an electronic device of an end-user. The method includes establishing electronic communications from the end-user to a first server (e.g., an electronic marketplace) in response to the end-user accessing a widget presented by the first server, and establishing electronic communications between the first server and a second server. The second server may be another electronic marketplace. The first server sends a chrome to the end-user. Substantially concurrent with the first server sending a chrome, the second server transmits electronically an Iframe to be placed within the chrome on a browser on an electronic device of the end-user. The blending of the chrome and the Iframe is transparent to the end user; thus, the end-user may be unaware that additional information (e.g., in terms of the Iframe and any accompanying metadata) is being received from the second server.
US11930059B2

Packaging media for optimizing immersive media distribution of a media steam performed by at least one processor, is provided, including: receiving immersive media data for an immersive presentation; acquiring asset information associated with media assets corresponding to a set of scenes included in the immersive media data for the immersive presentation; analyzing characteristics of the media assets based on the asset information, the characteristics comprising an asset type associated with a respective media asset and a frequency that indicates a number of times the respective media asset is used among the set of scenes included in the immersive presentation; ordering the media assets in a sequence based on the asset type and the frequency associated with each of the media assets; and streaming the immersive media data for the immersive presentation based on the ordered sequence of the media assets.
US11930056B1

An embodiment for automatically controlling peripheral devices based on online meeting participant information. The embodiment may detect participants of an online meeting and generate a participant information table. The embodiment may generate a participant group table including one or more preliminary participant groups based on the participant information. The embodiment may generate and send audio through peripheral devices associated with at least one participant in each of the one or more preliminary participant groups to identify the participants in physically shared meeting spaces. The embodiment may update the participant group table to include confirmed participant groups based on the identified participants in the physically shared meeting spaces. The embodiment may determine a presenter for each of the confirmed participant groups and update the participant information. The embodiment may control, for the confirmed participant groups, the peripheral devices of the identified participants in the physically shared meeting.
US11930052B1

A computer-implemented method for improving conference session management is provided. The method comprises determining a participation level for a participant during a conference session, determining a presence expectation for the participant during the conference session, in response to determining the participation level and the presence expectation for the participant, evaluating an impact of the participant departing the conference session, and in response to determining that that the impact exceeds a threshold, sending a departure notification corresponding to a departure of the participant.
US11930041B2

A generalized localization system based on a physical layer aided spoofing signal attacks detection and an identification verification for hybrid heterogeneous networks including aerial and terrestrial communication systems is provided. The generalized localization system includes: a data preprocessing and separation block, a parameter extraction block, a local localization engine, a reliability assessment and trust management block, a location based anomaly detector block and a global fusion center.
US11930036B2

Attacks on a network device, e.g. an IoT device, are detected by analyzing network traffic and subsequently quarantining or blocking the network device on the network to prevent lateral movement of malware. The techniques described herein relate to developing a baseline of network device activity corresponding with a network device during a learning period and comparing the baseline of network device activity with new network activity by the network device in order to identify potentially unusual network device activity by the network device. If unusual network activity is found, remedial actions such as quarantining the network device or restricting some access to a network may be initiated.
US11930018B2

According to some embodiments, a method performed by a classification scanner comprises receiving an electronic message and determining whether the electronic message includes an express indication from the user indicating that a classification applies to the electronic message. In response to determining that the electronic message does not include the express indication that the classification applies to the electronic message, the message further comprises sending the electronic message to a machine learning scanner. The machine learning scanner is adapted to use a machine learning policy to determine whether the classification applies to the electronic message.
US11930014B2

A system includes a central server and one or more user devices connected by a network. The central server receives a request initiated by a user using a user device for a data interaction associated with a data file. The central server checks whether the user is authorized to perform the requested data interaction based on a list of user authorizations. If the user is authorized to perform the data interaction, the central server checks whether the data interaction satisfies at least one rule defined for the user relating to a type of the requested data interaction. If the data interaction satisfies the at least one rule, the central server performs an additional level of authorization to verify an identity of the user. The central server further processes the data interaction when the additional level of authorization is successful.
US11930008B2

Example subscription information configuration methods and a communications device are described. One example method includes receiving a first device identifier by a network device from a first terminal device in a first access mode and receiving a second device identifier from a second terminal device in a second access mode. The network device determines whether the first device identifier matches the second device identifier to identify legality of the first terminal device. If the first device identifier matches the second device identifier, it indicates that the first terminal device is a legal terminal device. The network device sends subscription information of the first terminal device to the first terminal device in the first access mode, so that the first terminal device successfully accesses a network by using the subscription information.
US11930006B2

A system or method for hosting and managing FIDO authenticators in local network or cloud for users in a shared multi-user environment; which receives an authentication request initiated by a relying party application on a computing device via Web Authentication (WebAuthn) interface; and uses unique identifiers (such as RFID tags) to distinguish the hosted authenticators associated with each user to forward the authentication request; and receiving a response to that authentication request from the hosted authenticator on the local network or cloud; and transmitting the authentication response back to the sender application on the computing device for authentication purposes.
US11929997B2

A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for performing advanced authentication techniques and associated applications. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: receiving a policy identifying a set of acceptable authentication capabilities; determining a set of client authentication capabilities; and filtering the set of acceptable authentication capabilities based on the determined set of client authentication capabilities to arrive at a filtered set of one or more authentication capabilities for authenticating a user of the client.
US11929996B2

Cryptographically secure data communications between layered groups of devices in a wireless cooperative broadcast network encrypts datagrams twice prior to transmission by a source device, first using an inner layer key that is shared by a first group of devices, and second using an outer layer key that is shared by a second group of devices; the devices of the first group being members of the second group. Received datagrams are recovered by first decrypting with the outer layer key and second decrypting with the inner layer key.
US11929991B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for entering user credentials through a proxy. One example method generally includes receiving, at a user device, a push request for user data from a cloud server and receiving a request file from an aggregation system. The method further includes injecting user credentials stored on the user device into the request file, wherein when injected the user credentials replace at least one dummy entry of the request file, and transmitting the request file to a data source associated with the request file. The method further includes receiving user data from the data source and transmitting the user data to the aggregation system.
US11929983B1

A first meshnet device in a mesh network, the first meshnet device configured to: determine a first range of first subnet IP addresses associated with a first LAN and a second range of second subnet IP addresses associated with a second LAN; determine a conflict that a first subnet IP address assigned to a first LAN device in the first LAN matches a second subnet IP address assigned to a second LAN device in the second LAN; map an association between an alternate IP address and the first subnet IP address; transmit, to a second meshnet device, the association between the alternate IP address and the first subnet IP address; and receive, from the second meshnet device, an initiation network packet to be transmitted to the first LAN device, the initiation network packet indicating the alternate IP address as a destination address is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11929972B2

An information processing method executed by a computer to control notification by a plurality of terminals (first terminal and second terminal) associated with an appliance includes: obtaining information defining, for each state of a plurality of possible states of the appliance, whether the state is a predetermined state that requires the notification by all of the first terminal and the second terminal; obtaining a state of the appliance; determining whether the state of the appliance obtained is the predetermined state; performing control to cause all of the first terminal and the second terminal to make the notification, when it is determined that the state of the appliance is the predetermined state; and performing control to cause a specific terminal out of the first terminal and the second terminal to make the notification, when it is determined that the state of the appliance is not the predetermined state.
US11929965B2

An information presentation method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining status information for a target message in an instant messaging IM conversation, wherein the target message comprises a message sent by a first user and/or a second user with respect to a target piece of mail, the target piece of mail being a piece of mail shared by the first user with the second user, or is a piece of mail shared by the second user with the first user; presenting the status information on an interface of a mailbox client end of a first user and/or a mailbox client end of a second user on the basis of the status information for the target message. The technical solutions of embodiments can facilitate heightened user interaction efficiency, and improve user experience.
US11929958B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station may detect interference, in a remote interference management (RIM) scenario, in a set of sub-bands of a plurality of sub-bands of a bandwidth portion. The base station may transmit, to identify the set of sub-bands in which interference is detected, a set of reference signals configured to indicate the set of sub-bands in which the interference is detected. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11929956B2

An acknowledgment (ACK)/negative-ACK (NACK)-based relaying scheme for uplink coverage improvement is provided. A relay station receives, from a destination device, a first feedback transmission associated with the first data transmission. The relay station determines whether the destination device successfully receives the first data transmission based on the first feedback transmission. The relay station communicates, with the destination device, a second feedback transmission associated with the first data transmission when the destination device does not successfully receive the first data transmission. The relay station communicates, with the destination device, a second data transmission associated with the second feedback transmission, in which the second data transmission comprises at least a portion of the first data transmission.
US11929951B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a sidelink transmitting (Tx) mobile station may perform a sub-band channel access in candidate frequency resources of an unlicensed band for a sidelink positioning reference signal (PRS) transmission to occur in time resources. The Tx may transmit, from the sidelink Tx mobile station to a sidelink receiving (Rx) mobile station, the sidelink PRS transmission in one or more sub-bands of the unlicensed band that have passed the sub-band channel access. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11929948B2

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of decoding, by a user equipment, a downlink signal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a semi-persistent zero power-channel state information reference signal (SP ZP CSI-RS) resource configuration from a base station; and decoding a downlink signal according to the SP ZP CSI-RS resource configuration. The SP ZP CSI-RS resource configuration includes a plurality of SP ZP CSI-RS resources and information on whether or not each of a plurality of the SP ZP CSI-RS resources is used can be indicated or configured by the base station.
US11929946B2

A wireless device transmits, via a first uplink bandwidth part (BWP), a first preamble for a random-access procedure. A determination is made of a second uplink BWP for transmission of a second preamble for the random-access procedure. The determination is based on not receiving, via a first downlink BWP associated with the first uplink BWP, a random-access response corresponding to the first preamble. Based on the determination of the second uplink BWP, the first downlink BWP is switched to a second downlink BWP associated with the second uplink BWP. The second preamble is transmitted via the second uplink BWP.
US11929945B2

Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance network traffic management. In one implementation, a first host identifies a packet to be transferred from a first virtual machine on the first host to a second virtual machine on a second host. In response to identifying the packet, the first host identifies a source logical port for the first virtual machine, and transferring a communication to the second host, wherein the communication encapsulates the data packet and the source logical port. Once the packet is received by the second host, the second host may use the source logical port to determine a forwarding action for the packet.
US11929934B2

A communication apparatus includes input circuitry, an encapsulator, transmission circuitry and flow control circuitry. The input circuitry is to receive packets from a data source in accordance with a first communication protocol that employs credit-based flow control. The encapsulator is to buffer the packets in a memory buffer and to encapsulate the buffered packets in accordance with a second communication protocol. The transmission circuitry is to transmit the encapsulated packets over a communication link in accordance with the second communication protocol. The flow control circuitry is to receive from the encapsulator buffer status indications that are indicative of a fill level of the memory buffer, and to exchange credit messages with the data source, in accordance with the credit-based flow control of the first communication protocol, responsively to the buffer status indications.
US11929929B2

One aspect of the disclosure provides a method for allocating traffic in a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network comprises a plurality of nodes, with pairs of nodes being connected by respective links. A plurality of demands for connectivity between respective first nodes and respective second nodes are allocated to the telecommunications network, with traffic for each demand being directed via a respective plurality of paths between the respective first and second nodes in accordance with respective weights assigned to each path. The method comprises: determining a criticality of each link forming a path of the plurality of paths for a demand of the plurality of demands, the criticality of a link varying as a function of a utilization of that link at a non-constant gradient between a minimum value at a first value of the utilization and a maximum value at a second value of the utilization, wherein the second value corresponds to a utilization which is over a capacity of the link: determining a criticality of the path as a function of the criticality of the links forming the path: and determining the weight for allocation of traffic to the path as a function of the criticality of the path.
US11929923B2

In accordance with an embodiment, a packet transmission method includes receiving, by a second provider edge (PE) through a multicast tunnel, a bit indexed explicit replication (BIER) packet sent by a first PE, wherein the BIER packet comprises a bit string, and the bit string indicates a customer edge (CE) designated to receive the BIER packet; and processing, by the second PE based on the bit string, the BIER packet.
US11929910B2

A communication method implemented by a first router of an autonomous system using an interior gateway protocol. The method includes determining at least one flow control parameter for sending messages of the interior gateway protocol to the first router, the at least one flow control parameter being determined based on capacity of the first router to process the messages of the interior gateway protocol; and announcing, in a message of the interior gateway protocol, the at least one control parameter to at least a second router of the autonomous system, which is a neighbor of the first router.
US11929908B1

A method including receiving, by a first device from a second device via a meshnet connection in the mesh network, connection information associated with a LAN to which the second device is connected; calculating, by the first device based on utilizing the connection information, a range of subnet IP addresses associated with the LAN; determining, by the first device, that a LAN device is connected to the LAN based on determining that a sample subnet IP address associated with the LAN device falls within the range of subnet IP addresses associated with the LAN; and transmitting, by the first device to the second device via the meshnet connection in the mesh network, an initiation meshnet packet including information to be transmitted by the second device to the LAN device via a LAN connection between the second meshnet device and the LAN device is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11929903B2

Some embodiments provide a novel method for assessing the suitability of network links for connecting compute nodes located at different geographic sites. The method of some embodiments identifies and analyzes sample packets from a set of flows exchanged between first and second compute sites that are connected through a first network link in order to identify attributes of the sampled packets. The method also computes attributes of predicted packets between the identified samples in order to identify attributes of each flow in the set of flows. The method then uses the identified and computed attributes of each flow in the set of flows to emulate the set of flows passing between the two compute sites through the second network link in order to assess whether a second network link should be used for future flows (e.g., future flows exchanged between the first and second compute sites).
US11929899B2

A comprehensive integrated system and method includes (i) proactively monitoring a network for degraded service and to proactively make repairs to components before service outages, (ii) identifying the root causes of hard alarms and failures on a layer 1 transport network and generate trouble tickets; and (iii) after repair, verifying that repaired backbone network meets or exceeds performance criteria of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with customers. A method includes surveilling first equipment in a network wherein the first equipment is in a controlled portion of the network, observing a set of messages wherein the set of messages relate to second equipment in a leased portion of the network, and detecting a fault in the network based on the surveilling step or the observing step. A fault based on the observing step includes the steps of receiving a first message at a first server indicating that a fault was detected in a portion of a leased network, receiving a second message at a second server indicating that the fault was detected in a portion of the leased network, and isolating the fault based on the first message and the second message.
US11929898B1

Techniques for monitoring video conferencing quality-of-service in autonomous systems are disclosed. In an example method, a video conference provider establishes a video conference including a plurality of client devices, in which each client device is connected to an autonomous system of a plurality of autonomous systems. The video conference includes a first client device connected to a first autonomous system administered by a communication service provider (CSP). The video conference provider receives packets from the first client device and determines, from the packets, video conference information including telemetry about the video conference, the first autonomous system traversed by the packets, and the associated CSP. The video conference provider determines one or more metrics about performance of the video conference in the first autonomous system based on the video conference information and outputs the metrics in real-time.
US11929896B1

A system and method for generation of unified graph models for network entities are provided. The method includes collecting, for at least one network entity of a plurality of network entities, at least one network entity data feature, wherein the at least one network entity data feature is a network entity property; genericizing the collected at least one network entity; generating at least a network graph, wherein the generated network graph is a multi-dimensional data structure providing a representation of the plurality of network entities and relations between the network entities of the plurality of network entities; and storing the generated at least a network graph.
US11929895B2

A communication log aggregation device includes: a communicator that obtains flow information including one or more flow records and first statistical information for each flow from each of collection devices, the one or more flow records each including flow identification information included in a message received by at least one observer that is disposed in a control network system, the flow being classified based on the flow identification information, the collection devices each collecting the one or more flow records and the first statistical information for each flow from the message received by the observer; and a flow aggregator that generates aggregated flow information by performing at least one of the following: (i) selecting at least one of the one or more flow records, (ii) adding second statistical information, and (iii) deleting at least one of the one or more flow records, and outputs the aggregated flow information.
US11929891B1

Methods and systems for managing distributed systems are disclosed. The distributed systems may include any number of data processing systems that may contribute to the functionality of the distributed system. To contribute to the functionality of the distributed system, each of the data processing systems may need to be configured to positively contribute to one or more functions. To manage configuration of data processing system, intermediate representations of roles may be used to flexibly manage system configuration. The roles may be taken on by independent and dependent data processing systems.
US11929887B2

A system and method for facilitating and provisioning customer broadband transport service between a digital communication port employing digital communications and at least one communications provider, including communicating with a provisioning server to establish service and to coordinate service offerings of one or more communication providers.
US11929883B1

The disclosure provides an approach for virtual computing instance (VCI) migration. Embodiments include scanning logical segments associated with a customer gateway to identify network addresses associated with the logical segments. Embodiments include determining one or more recommended supernets based on the network addresses associated with the logical segments. Embodiments include providing output to a user based on the one or more recommended supernets. Embodiments include based on the output, receiving input from the user configuring an aggregation supernet for the customer gateway. Embodiments include advertising the aggregation supernet to one or more endpoints separate from the customer gateway.
US11929881B2

Three-dimensional (3D) visualization of multi-layer networks include receiving data associated with a network, wherein the network includes interconnected network elements that operate at a plurality of levels that include any of network layers and encapsulations; displaying a plurality of three-dimensional icons each represent one of a plurality of network elements of the interconnected network elements; and displaying links between the plurality of three-dimensional icons each link representing one of a network layer connection and an encapsulation connection.
US11929877B2

A method includes receiving, from a first device, a first request indicating a client characteristic, generating a second request for content that simulates a data request originating at a client device with the client characteristic, identifying data of a response to the generated second request, and providing, to the first device, a report based on the identified data.
US11929876B1

Disclosed methods include sending, from a resource manager, network configuration information to each of one or more managed resources. The network configuration information may include an IP address for the resource manager, an IP address for each of the managed resources, and a predetermined timeout value. Network configurations for the resource manager and the one or more managed resources may then be set after which each managed resource may start a timer with the predetermined timeout value. If the resource manager detects successful completion of each of the network configuration operations, the resource manager may send a stop timer command to each of the managed resources. If a timeout occurs, the timeout will inform each of the managed resources that the change in network configuration was not entirely successful. The resource manager and each of the managed resources will then restore their network configurations to their previous configurations.
US11929874B2

An information processing apparatus is provided, the apparatus comprises a first communication interface for performing wireless communication via a network provided by an external access point; a second communication interface for performing wired communication; a unit for setting, in a case where a user operation to set a first communication function for connecting to the external access point via the first communication interface to perform wireless communication has been accepted, a setting indicating that a second communication function for performing wired communication will not be used, and unit for setting, in case where a user operation to cancel the setting of the first communication function has been accepted before the information processing apparatus belongs to the network provided by the external access point, a setting indicating that the second communication function will be used.
US11929868B2

A method, apparatus and computer program are disclosed for fixed communication line malfunction detection and recovery, including: monitoring states of a plurality of fixed communication lines; extrapolating future states of the plurality of fixed communication lines; determining a recovery group having as members any of the plurality of fixed communication lines having future states extrapolated to decline below a predetermined minimum quality threshold; and causing initiation of recovery action for each member of the recovery group before the extrapolated decline below the predetermined minimum quality threshold.
US11929867B1

The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for identifying trends in the behavior of execution of services in a cloud platform environment and support alert triggering for expected outages prior their occurrence. Metrics data for performance of the cloud platform is continuously obtained. Based on evaluation of the obtained metrics data, the performance of the cloud platform is tracked over time to identify a trend in a performance of a first service on the cloud platform. The identified trend in the performance is compared with a current performance rate of the first service. Based on an evaluated difference between the current performance rate and the identified trend, the difference is classified into an issue-reporting level associated with a prediction for an outage at the first service. A notification for the trend is reported.
US11929863B2

The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for providing a code cover to Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a multiple user system. A data sequence is received from each of a plurality of users. Further, a reference sequence is generated for the data sequence of each of the plurality of users. Each of the reference sequence is multiplied with a code cover which are orthogonal to each other. Each of the reference sequence is time-multiplexed with corresponding data sequence, to generate a corresponding multiplexed sequence. Further, a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is performed on each of the multiplexed sequence to generate a corresponding DFT-spread-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) symbol. Lastly, the corresponding DFT-s-OFDM symbol is processed for transmitting over corresponding one or more channels.
US11929859B2

A base station transmits, to a wireless device, configuration parameters indicating: downlink resources of a downlink control channel associated with a slot format indication (SFI) radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), and a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation for the wireless device to monitor the downlink control channel. Based on the downlink resources, a monitoring occasion for the downlink control channel is determined to transmit a downlink control information associated with the SFI RNTI. Regardless of whether the DRX operation is in an active time and during the monitoring occasion, the downlink control channel is transmitted that includes the downlink control information associated with the SFI RNTI and indicating a slot format. Based on the slot format, one or more transport blocks is received from the wireless device.
US11929811B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications at a first user equipment (UE) are described. The first UE may receive, from a second UE over a sidelink channel, a first channel state information report, a second channel state information report, and a first transmission configuration indicator, The first UE may select at least one of the first channel state information report or the second channel state information report to be canceled based on receiving an indication associated with the first transmission configuration indicator. The first UE may cancel information included in at least one of the first channel state information report or the second channel state information report based at least in part on the selecting. The first UE may receive a data transmission based at least in part on the cancelling.
US11929806B2

According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method for reporting a plurality of channel state information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises receiving association information related to a plurality of channel state reports and reporting a plurality of channel state information using the association information, wherein in reporting the plurality of channel state information, remaining channel state information except for specific channel state information among the plurality of channel state information is excluded from being reported or is reported in a form of a reduced payload size, according to the association information.
US11929804B1

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may be configured to transmit, to a second wireless device, one or more orbital angular momentum (OAM) signals in accordance with a set of radial codeword sequences associated with a polynomial radial codeword configuration, where the one or more OAM signals are transmitted based on a first value of a polynomial term for the polynomial radial codeword configuration. The first wireless device may receive, from the second wireless device on the one or more OAM signals, a feedback message indicating a second value of the polynomial term. The first wireless device may then transmit, to the second wireless device, one or more additional OAM signals in accordance with the set of radial codeword sequences and based on the second value for the polynomial term.
US11929802B2

An unmanned aerial vehicle can be configured to adjust a beam direction, provide path information, act as a base station, act as a cluster head, include an improved directional antenna or array of directional antennas, communicate in a collaboration using belief propagation, receive communications from a serving station aiding in navigation or improved signal performance, or the like.
US11929797B2

A transmission apparatus including the number of antennas different from a reception apparatus and performing transmission by SC-MIMO to and from the reception apparatus includes a training signal generation unit that generates a known signal predetermined, a CP addition unit that adds a CP to each symbol of a transmission signal including the known signal, a weight generation unit that multiplies a channel matrix estimated based on the known signal by the reception apparatus by a pseudo-inverse matrix obtained by a predetermined number of iterative calculations to generate a transmission weight that is diagonalizable, and a transmission beam formation unit that uses the transmission weight to form a transmission beam for the transmission signal where the CP is added.
US11929795B2

A reception-side apparatus includes: M receive antennas; and a processor configured to execute a first process of acquiring a first signal received from a first transmission-side apparatus from among signals simultaneously received from the N transmission-side apparatuses by receive diversity processing, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal. In the case of N>M, the processor acquires, for each of all patterns of a combination of a first signal, second signals from M−1 transmission-side apparatuses which are to be cancelled by receive diversity processing and third signals from N−M transmission-side apparatuses which are not to be cancelled by the receive diversity processing, a power ratio of power of the first signal relative to total power of the second and third signals based on a predetermined weight and a channel estimate of each signal, and selects a combination with the largest power ratio from among all the patterns.
US11929791B2

To be able to check, from a remote location, a switching result of a power supply route, this communication system comprises: a plurality of terminal stations which each have a function of supplying power to a power supply path; a branching device which switches the power supply route, which includes a power supply path; and a monitoring device which, in response to one of the plurality of terminal stations transmitting to the branching device a switching signal specifying the power supply route, compares the voltages of the power supplied to the power supply paths respectively observed by the plurality of terminal stations, before and after transmission of the switching signal, and which, with the compared power supply voltages each having fluctuated by a first threshold or more, determines a switching result of the power supply route in the branching device.
US11929783B2

A method includes providing outgoing optical signals for transmission by a monostatic optical terminal using multiple transmit channels and providing incoming optical signals obtained by the monostatic optical terminal to multiple receive channels. The method also includes using a polarization beam splitter/combiner to combine the outgoing optical signals into a combined outgoing optical signal and to split a combined incoming optical signal into the incoming optical signals. The method further includes using at least one feedback loop to adjust an aim or path of at least one of the outgoing optical signals or at least one of the incoming optical signals. The method may optionally include using an optical element to convert polarizations of the combined outgoing optical signal in order to generate an output signal and to convert polarizations of an input signal in order to generate the combined incoming optical signal.
US11929764B2

For an encoder for use in a flash memory controller, partial parity blocks generated in the encoder are divided into two parts for further operations, wherein a number of partial parity block(s) of the first part generated earlier is less than a number of partial parity block(s) of the second part. The encoder can reduce the hardware required for the circulant convolution calculation in the encoder, and has high efficiency. In addition, by converting a parity-check matrix to generate an isomorphic matrix, some components in the encoder and the decoder can be further omitted, so as to further reduce the manufacturing cost.
US11929762B2

A low density parity check (LDPC) decoder initializing variable nodes with a value of a codeword and outputting the updated variable nodes as decoded messages with reference to an irregular parity check matrix. The LDPC decoder includes a plurality of unit logic circuits operating in a single mode in which all the unit logic circuits update one variable node group including at least one variable node, or a multi-mode in which each of the unit logic circuits updates a plurality of variable node groups in parallel by updating different variable nodes, and a mode controller controlling the plurality of unit logic circuits to update a high-degree variable node group having a degree greater than a threshold degree among the variable node groups in the single mode, and update a low-degree variable node group having a degree less than or equal to the threshold degree among the variable node groups in the multi-mode.
US11929757B2

Various embodiments provide a filter for propagation delay compensation and interpolation in encoder digital signal processing. The filter can include a first low pass filter configured to reduce noise of a digital input comprising a measured angular position; a first differentiator configured to receive a filtered digital input and to calculate a speed from a difference in time of the measured angular position and a previous angular position; a second low pass filter configured to reduce noise from the speed; a second differentiator configured to receive a filtered speed and to calculate acceleration using a difference in time of the filtered speed and a previous speed; a third low pass filter configured to reduce noise of the acceleration; and a delay compensator configured to receive the filtered digit input, the filtered speed, and a filtered acceleration, and to calculate a propagation delay compensated digital output.
US11929753B1

A non-linear charge pump for phased lock loops. Furthermore, an auxiliary charge pump apparatus, comprising a positive switch electrically connected to a current source configured to supplement power to a charge pump, a negative switch electrically connected to a current sink configured to discharge power from the charge pump, a windowing comparator, further comprising an input signal received from a phase-locked loop, a first comparator configured to compare the input signal against a high voltage threshold, a second comparator configured to compare the input signal against a low voltage threshold, an AND logic gate configured to provide a window signal and an activation circuit electrically connected to the positive switch and negative switch. Additionally, a non-linear charge pump system and method for reacquiring frequency lock of a phase lock loop.
US11929746B2

Digital values obtained from an output of a preceding circuit element are temporarily stored and made available for a subsequent circuit element at a controlled moment of time. A digital value is received for temporary storage, as well as a triggering signal, a triggering edge of which defines an allowable time limit before which a digital value must appear at said data input to become available for said subsequent circuit element. A sequence of first and second pulse-enabled subregister stages is used to temporarily store said digital value. Said triggering signal is provided to said first pulse-enabled subregister stage delayed with respect to the triggering signal received by said second pulse-enabled subregister stage. The length of the delay is a fraction of a cycle of the triggering signal. A timing event observation signal is output as an indicator of said digital value at said data input having changed within a time window that begins at said allowable time limit and is shorter than one cycle of said triggering signal.
US11929744B2

An apparatus includes a moveable electrode which moves along an interstitial pathway defined by four fixed electrodes. The first and second fixed electrodes are separated by a first distance. The third and fourth fixed electrodes are separated by a second distance and adjacent to the first and second fixed electrodes, respectively. A capacitance sensing circuit coupled to the four fixed electrodes determines a first capacitance using the first and second fixed electrodes and a second capacitance using the third and fourth fixed electrodes. In some examples, the apparatus also comprises fifth and sixth fixed electrodes separated by a third distance and orthogonal to the first and second fixed electrodes and seventh and eighth fixed electrodes separated by a fourth distance and orthogonal to the third and fourth fixed electrodes. The fifth and seventh fixed electrodes are adjacent, and the sixth and eighth fixed electrodes are adjacent.
US11929741B2

An inverter logic circuit includes a bipolar junction transistor and a zener diode. The zener diode is connected between the base of the bipolar junction transistor and ground (or other reference voltage). The zener diode is reverse biased such that a leakage current through the zener diode allows for sufficient current through the emitter-base terminals of the bipolar junction transistor when a voltage is applied across the emitter and base terminals of the bipolar junction transistor to turn the transistor ON in the absence of an external signal to the base. As such the bipolar junction transistor functions as a normally ON bipolar junction transistor.
US11929725B2

Provided by a bandpass filter circuit and a multiplexer. The bandpass filter circuit includes at least one electromagnetic LC filter circuit and at least one acoustic wave resonance unit. The at least one acoustic wave resonance unit includes an input port, an output port, at least one circuit element and at least three resonators. The at least one electromagnetic LC filter circuit is electrically connected to the at least one acoustic wave resonance unit, and the at least three resonators include at least one first resonator and at least one second resonator. In a case where the at least one first resonator includes one first resonator, the first resonator is connected in series between the input port and the output port.
US11929719B2

In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes: a first super source follower; a compensation circuit having a compensating node configured to provide a voltage of opposite phase of a voltage of an internal node of the first super source follower; and a first compensation capacitor coupled between an input of the first super source follower and the compensating node of the compensation circuit.
US11929710B2

An oscillator includes a resonator, an oscillation circuit, and first and temperature compensation circuits. The first temperature compensation circuit performs a first-order first temperature compensation processing in a first mode and performs the first-order first temperature compensation processing and a high-order first temperature compensation processing in a second mode for a frequency of a first clock signal generated by oscillation of the resonator by the oscillation circuit. The second temperature compensation circuit receives the first clock signal and outputs a second clock signal subjected to a high-order second temperature compensation processing based on the first clock signal.
US11929708B2

Wire or cable holder assemblies employed in a solar power system are disclosed. In some embodiments, an assembly could include a cap and a base configured with channels. When the cap and the base are clamped to an object (e.g., a solar module frame), enclosures defined by the channels and a surface of the solar frame module are formed to hold cables. In some embodiments, an assembly could include a plunger with at least one leg and a base that includes a receptacle for receiving the plunger and a hook for holding electrical cables. A leg include a rack having teeth adapted to fall into notches or spaces formed by complementary teeth of a pawl found in the receptacle that forms a ratchet which permits insertion of the plunger into the receptacle but not an extraction. If extraction is desired, an external force may be applied to release the pawl.
US11929701B2

The electronic apparatus including a DC motor that is driven based on a current supplied from a power source, and including: a detection circuit that detects an instantaneous interruption of the power source; an H bridge circuit having an upper arm circuit having two switching elements connected in parallel to the power source and a lower arm circuit having two switching elements connected in parallel to a ground, the upper arm circuit and the lower arm circuit being connected in series, and controlling a current to be supplied to the DC motor; and a switching control circuit that controls the switching element, and in a case where an instantaneous interruption of the power source is detected by the detection circuit, the switching control circuit sets the switching elements of the upper arm circuit to off and sets the switching elements of the lower arm circuit to on.
US11929699B2

The present disclosure relates to a double wound motor and a control method therefor, and comprises: a first inverter and a second inverter for supplying phase currents respectively to a first winding unit and a second winding unit of the double wound motor; a gate driver for driving switches respectively included in the first inverter and second inverter and detecting whether there is a switch abnormality in the first inverter or second inverter and whether there is a winding abnormality in the first winding unit and second winding unit; and a motor control unit for outputting a current command to attenuate a torque ripple in response to a torque ripple pattern according to the switch or winding abnormality.
US11929693B2

A control method of an electric machine is described, including a first step of detecting the angular position of a rotor of the electric machine; a second step of detecting the values of the alternate current next to at least two phases of the input current to the electric machine; a third step of detecting the values of voltage and direct current supplied as input to the inverter by the electric supply means; a fourth step of estimating the torque supplied by the electric machine performed by processing data detected in the first and second step; a fifth step of computing the torque supplied by the electric machine performed by processing data detected in the third and first step; a sixth step of comparing the value of the computed torque and the value of the estimated torque; a control system and a motor comprising such system are further described.
US11929691B1

A triboelectric generator can include respective contact members including a first contact member and second contact member. The respective contact members can be movable with respect to each other such that the respective contact members separate from each other in a first configuration and contact each other in a second configuration. The first contact member can include a first conductive layer and a contact layer. The second contact member can be spaced apart from the first contact member in the first configuration and can include an insulating contact layer and a second conductive layer. The insulating contact layer can be configured to come into contact with the contact layer of the first contact member and the transition of the respective contact members from the first configuration to the second configuration can create triboelectric charges. In some examples, the first contact member can include a non-contact insulating layer.
US11929684B2

Isolated power supply control circuits, isolated power supply and control method thereof are disclosed, the control circuit for controlling an isolated power supply includes a secondary-side control signal generator and a primary-side control signal generator. The secondary-side control signal generator produces a secondary-side transistor switch control signal containing information about a turn-off instant of a secondary-side synchronous rectification transistor, which serves as a second turn-on instant. The primary-side control signal generator derives, from a feedback signal, a supposed turn-on instant for a primary-side transistor switch, which serves as a first turn-on instant. The primary side turn-on signal generator further derives a turn-on instant for the primary-side transistor switch from the second or first turn-on instant whichever is later and responsively generates a primary-side transistor switch control signal. This control circuit can effectively avoid shoot-through of primary- and secondary-side transistor switches at the cost of only insignificantly compromised feedback adjustment accuracy.
US11929681B2

A scalable multi-phase switching converter includes: converter modules, each including: a loop control unit, which generates a basic trigger pulse according to a feedback signal in master operation mode; and a switching control unit, which determines an operation mode and a corresponding phase serial order according to a setting signal received by a setting pin in a setting mode, and generates a multi-phase trigger pulse signal at a trigger pin according to the basic trigger pulse in master operation mode. The switching control unit receives the multi-phase trigger pulse signal at the trigger pin in slave operation mode. The switching control unit generates an ON-trigger pulse according to the multi-phase trigger pulse signal and the corresponding phase serial order. An ON-period determination unit generates a conduction control pulse according to the ON-trigger pulse to control a corresponding inductor. The trigger pins of the converter modules are coupled to each other.
US11929672B2

A power converter and a corresponding method of converting power are presented. The power converter includes a ground port, an input port for receiving an input voltage and an output port for providing an output voltage; an inductor; a flying capacitor; a network of switches; and a driver to drive the network of switches with a sequence of states during a drive period. The sequence of states includes a first state and a second state. In the first state one of the input port and the output port is coupled to the ground port via a first path comprising the inductor. In the second state the remaining state among the input port and the output port is coupled to the ground port via a second path and a third path, the second path comprising the flying capacitor and bypassing the inductor, and the third path comprising the inductor.
US11929669B2

The present disclosure relates to a totem pole bridgeless power factor correction device and a power supply system. The device includes a power factor correction module. The power factor correction module includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, an inductor and a control module for generating a zeroth control signal in the first time period to control the third transistor and the fourth transistor to be in an off state, performing a zero-crossing detection on an AC voltage in the first time period, generating a first control signal to control a conduction state of the first transistor and the second transistor before the AC voltage crosses zero, and generating a second control signal to control the conduction state of the first transistor and the second transistor after the AC voltage crosses zero. The embodiments of the present disclosure can enable the device to smoothly transition the current when the device is at the zero-crossing point, and improve the stability and efficiency of the device.
US11929668B2

In the present invention, when a DC reactor is in a magnetically saturated state, the on/off operations of a switching element are suspended and the switching element is set to an off state for a predetermined period of time, thereby resetting the magnetic saturation of the DC reactor and maintaining the supply of power to a load. After resetting the magnetic saturation, the pulse output of the normal pulse mode is restarted.
US11929666B2

A first drive circuit is connected to a first end of a primary winding of a pulse transformer. A second drive circuit is connected to a second end of the primary winding of the pulse transformer. A voltage clamp unit clamps a voltage of a semiconductor element at a specified voltage when a voltage output from a secondary winding of the pulse transformer is negative. A current detection circuit detects current flowing through the semiconductor element and outputs a detection signal. A control circuit controls the first drive circuit and the second drive circuit based on the detection signal. A current limiting circuit imposes a limit on current flowing through the primary winding of the pulse transformer based on the detection signal.
US11929662B2

A power circuit is provided that includes at least a first power supply unit and a second power supply unit. The first power supply unit includes a first input section, a first AC voltage generator, a first rectification-and-smoothing section, and a first isolation section that is provided between the first AC voltage generator and the first rectification-and-smoothing section. The second power supply unit includes a second input section, a second AC voltage generator, a second rectification-and-smoothing section, and a second isolation section that is provided between the second AC voltage generator and the second rectification-and-smoothing section. The power circuit is configured such that the second AC voltage generator generates an AC voltage having a phase obtained by inverting a phase of the AC voltage generated by the first AC voltage generator.
US11929661B2

An in-vehicle power supply device includes an input end configured to be connected to an in-vehicle secondary battery, an output end configured to be connected to an in-vehicle load, an external signal input port configured to receive an activation signal, a first converter unit connected to the input end and the output end, and a second converter unit connected in parallel to the first converter unit. The first converter unit includes a first drive power supply configured to constantly receive power suppled from the input end, and a first voltage converter operable in response to the power received by the first drive power supply to constantly output power from the output end. The second converter unit includes a second drive power supply activated by the activation signal received by the external signal input port, a converter controller configured to start to operate in response to the activating of the second drive power supply, and a second voltage converter configured to start to operate in response to the starting of the operating of the converter controller so as to output power from the output end. The in-vehicle power supply device increases power efficiency.
US11929653B2

According to one embodiment, in a stator, bridge parts of seventh coil segments extend in a direction departing from one end surface while being inclined at a predetermined inclination angle from an axial direction of a stator core to the outside of a radial direction. Regarding the bridge parts of the seventh coil segments adjacent to each other in the radial direction of the stator core, when the same cross-sections defined by the radial direction and the axial direction is viewed from a circumferential direction of the stator core, a first inclination angle of the bridge part positioned relatively in an inner side of the radial direction is smaller than a second inclination angle of the bridge part positioned relatively in an outer side of the radial direction.
US11929648B2

An electric motor includes: a stator including a first stator core, a second stator core, and a slot in which a stator winding is disposed, and a rotor including a first rotor core facing a first stator core in a radial direction and a second stator core facing the second stator core in the radial direction. The first stator core and the second stator core are laminated in an axial direction. The stator includes a depression formed in a position facing the slot and not touching the stator winding. A volume of the first rotor core is smaller than a volume of the second rotor core.
US11929642B2

A generator including a stator frame, a plurality of stator donuts including a plurality of circumferentially disposed notches, and a plurality of a wedge assemblies for mounting the stator donuts to a plurality of building bolts is presented. Each wedge assembly includes a set of opposing wedges. The set of opposing wedges are positioned within a notch in a stator donut to create a locking force between a building bolt and the stator core. The wedge assembly also includes a tensioning bolt to set the opposing wedges to a position creating the locking force between the stator core and the building bolt.
US11929636B2

Devices, methods and systems for providing electrical power are provided. In some embodiments, hybrid generator systems are provided that are capable of both receiving and delivery powering to various different devices and applications, and that are operable to service various demands. Efficiencies in production and signal conditioning are provided wherein stored energy devices and related controls are capable of responding to variable power demands.
US11929635B2

A charging method includes: charging a battery according to a second current value after charging the battery according to a first current value in each of N charging cycles, the second current value being less than the first current value, and N being a positive integer; and charging the battery according to a target cutoff voltage value in the case where a target voltage value is greater than or equal to the target cutoff voltage value at the end of the N charging cycle. The target voltage value is a charging voltage value corresponding to the first current value, and the target cutoff voltage value is a first cutoff voltage value, or the target voltage value is a charging voltage value corresponding to the second current value, the target cutoff voltage value is a second cutoff voltage value.
US11929630B2

A secondary battery charging method that shortens charging time includes a step for introducing a plurality of battery cells onto an activation tray and CC-charging the battery cells; and a step for connecting the plurality of battery cells in parallel. The charging method according to the present invention shortens the time typically required for CV-charging by connecting battery cells in parallel after CC-charging, thus having the effect of replacing CV-charging.
US11929618B2

Systems and methods for detecting abrupt voltage changes and supplying reactive power support are provided. In some embodiments, a genset connected to a power grid can identify a maximum voltage value and a minimum voltage value. The maximum voltage value and the minimum voltage value are based on an average of a plurality of mains voltage values. The genset may detect an abrupt voltage change by determining whether an instantaneous mains voltage value is above the maximum voltage value or below the minimum voltage value. The genset can adjust an amount of reactive current either supplied to the power grid or consumed by the genset for a period of time, responsive to detecting the abrupt voltage change.
US11929616B2

Responding to grid events is provided. The system determines, based on an event, to modify an electrical load of a site. The system selects a parameter for the site to adjust to modify the electrical load. The system identifies a script constructed from previously processed interactions between a human-machine interface of the building management system to adjust the parameter for the site. The system establishes a communication session with a remote access agent executed by a computing device of the site to invoke the building management system of the site. The system generates a sequence of commands defined by the script to adjust the one or more parameters for the site. The system transmits the sequence of commands to cause the remote access agent to execute the sequence of commands on the human-machine interface of the building management system to modify the electrical load of the site.
US11929610B2

Embodiments provide an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and an electrostatic discharge method. The ESD protection circuit includes: a pulse detection unit (100), a discharge transistor (300), a feedback delay unit (200), and a processing unit (400). A first terminal of the pulse detection unit (100) is connected to a first pad (101), a second terminal of the pulse detection unit (100) is connected to a second pad (102), and an output terminal of the pulse detection unit (100) is configured to output a detection result signal. A gate of the discharge transistor (300) is connected to the output terminal of the pulse detection unit (100), a drain of the discharge transistor (300) is connected to the first pad (101), and a source of the discharge transistor (300) is connected to the second pad (102). The feedback delay unit (200) includes a PMOS transistor (Mp) and an NMOS transistor (Mn).
US11929604B2

One or more examples relate, generally, to a programmable voltage lockout circuit provided at an electronic device. Such a programmable voltage lockout circuit asserts a lockout of the electronic device at least partially responsive to a user-programmed threshold and a supply voltage of the electronic device. One or more examples relate, generally, to configuring a programmable voltage lockout circuit utilizing a user-programmed threshold.
US11929602B2

A cable conveyance system includes first and second rails, a plurality of cable-retaining supports, and at least one front panel including one or more electronic visual displays. The plurality of cable-retaining supports are disposed between the first and second rails in parallel, spaced apart relation relative to one another and the first and second rails to define a plurality of spaced apart and parallel longitudinal cable-receiving passages each configured to retain at least one longitudinally-extending cable therein. The at least one front panel is pivotable relative to the first and second rails between an open position and a closed position.
US11929600B2

A joint fitting for an electrical conduit raceway includes a body having an open side and defining a central passageway therein; a lid configured to be disposed on the body to close the open side of the body; at least one fastener configured to connect the lid to the body; and a gasket disposed between the lid and the body, the gasket being configured to seal a connection between the lid and the body. The lid includes at least one aperture formed therein for receiving the at least one fastener therein to allow the fastener to extend through the lid and the gasket comprises at least one cylindrical projection configured to extend into the aperture in the lid and receive the at least one fastener therein to retain the at least one fastener to the lid.
US11929590B2

An optical semiconductor device includes an optical semiconductor chip in which at least one optical element is formed in a semiconductor substrate, and an extended wire pattern that is connected to a first electrode and a second electrode of the optical element and that extends outside the optical semiconductor chip. The first electrode and the second electrode of the optical semiconductor device are formed on the front surface side of the optical semiconductor chip, and the extended wire pattern is disposed on the front surface of the optical semiconductor chip or disposed at a position apart from the front surface.
US11929586B2

A method of delivering optical energy to a substrate comprises applying a temporal group of optical pulses to a region of the substrate, wherein the temporal group comprises twenty or fewer pulses of a femtosecond pulse duration, arranged as a first subgroup of pulses comprising up to three pulses followed by a second subgroup of pulses comprising the remaining pulses in the temporal group; and wherein energies of the pulses are controlled such that pulses in the first subgroup have a first energy per pulse and pulses in a second subgroup of pulses have a second energy per pulse which is less than the first energy.
US11929571B2

An electrical socket and method of making an electrical socket. The socket includes a body that has spaced contact beams extending between the first and second ends and an inner receiving area for accepting a mating pin. The contact beams are configured for aligning into a hyperbolic geometry. Each of the contact beams has a middle section between first and second end sections. Each middle section has a pre-formed contour that defines a cross-section of each contact beam that defines a fully radiused, inner contact area without sharp edges such that each middle section extends further into the inner receiving area than the first and second end sections when the contact beams are aligned into the hyperbolic geometry and such that the fully radiused, inner contact areas of the contact beams are positioned for contact with the mating pin when inserted into the inner receiving area of the socket body.
US11929562B2

According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are provided of antenna assemblies. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna assembly generally includes at least one antenna element configured to be operable for receiving high definition television signals.
US11929559B2

A system includes one or more antennas; and a processor to control a directionality of the antennas in communication with a predetermined target using 5G protocols.
US11929553B2

Disclosed herein are reconfigurable antennas based on moiré patterns with new actuation mechanisms to reduce their energy expenditure.
US11929542B2

System in package (SiP) modules are compact packages that include components such as processors, memory, sensors, and passive components on a single substrate. One low cost and compact way to integrate an antenna into a SiP module is to suspend an antenna in molding compound so that the antenna is embedded in the real estate of the molding compound layer. To embed the antenna, the molding compound is first deposited. A cavity can be cut in the molding compound to hold the antenna. The cavity can be filled with conductive material to form the antenna. Further molding compound can be deposited to cover the antenna and enclose the antenna in the molding compound layer. Ground structures can also be suspended in the molding compound. Such an embedded antenna can be particularly useful for radio applications.
US11929541B2

An antenna includes an optically transparent substrate layer having a first surface and an opposing second surface; a radiating element having a first mesh structure and disposed on the first surface of the substrate layer; a ground plane having a second mesh structure formed on the second surface of the substrate layer; at least two feed lines configured to connect the radiating element to an external circuit; and at least two stubs connected to the radiating element.
US11929536B2

A filter cable, which solves the problem that devices which can better cope with various problems in complex electromagnetic environment and have simple and reasonable structural design are lacking in the related art. The filter cable comprises a core wire; the core wire comprises an insulating substrate and a first conductor layer surrounding the insulating substrate; the first conductor layer has a first etching pattern; the first etching pattern is distributed along the axial direction of the filter cable; and the first etching pattern is used to make the filter cable equivalent to a first filter circuit to realize the filtering function.
US11929515B2

The application relates to a battery pack case and a battery pack. The battery pack case includes: a bottom plate and a side plate connected with the bottom plate, the bottom plate and the side plate surround to form an accommodating portion configured to accommodate a unit cell; the bottom plate is provided with a plurality of first grooves and a plurality of second grooves opening toward the accommodating portion, the plurality of first grooves are spaced apart from each other, the plurality of second grooves are spaced apart from each other, and the first grooves and the second grooves are arranged to cross each other. The bottom plate of the battery pack itself has good rigidity, is not prone to warp deformation, and can prevent the overflow of structural glue from contaminating the wiring harness or electrical components.
US11929511B2

A method of manufacturing a membrane-catalyst assembly including an electrolyte membrane and a catalyst layer bonded to the electrolyte membrane, the method including: a liquid application step of applying, in the atmosphere, a liquid to only a surface of the electrolyte membrane before bonding; and a thermocompression bonding step of bonding, to the catalyst layer, the electrolyte membrane to which the liquid is applied, by thermocompression bonding. Provided is a method of manufacturing a membrane-catalyst assembly including a polymer electrolyte membrane and a catalyst layer bonded to the polymer electrolyte membrane, in which the manufacturing method can achieve both the relaxation of thermocompression bonding conditions and the improvement of adhesion between the catalyst layer and the electrolyte membrane with high productivity.
US11929510B2

The present application relates to a secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof, a battery module and an apparatus. The secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a main body portion and a tab extending out from the main body portion; a current collecting member including a guiding section, which extends in a direction perpendicular to a length direction of the electrode assembly; a transition connecting piece, being separately provided from the current collecting member and including a current collecting portion and a fixing portion, the current collecting portion being adapted to connect with the tab to form a first connection region, the fixing portion being adapted to connect with the guiding section to form a second connection region, and respective projections of the first connection region and the second connection region on a plane perpendicular to the length direction do not overlap.
US11929508B2

An electrode for a secondary battery includes a current collector, a first electrode mixture layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector and including styrene butadiene rubber, and a second electrode mixture layer disposed on the first electrode mixture layer and including a second styrene butadiene rubber. The first styrene butadiene rubber and the second styrene butadiene rubber have a repeating unit of styrene derived structure and a repeating unit of a butadiene derived structure, the first styrene butadiene rubber containing 40 to 90 mol % of a butadiene monomer based on total content of a monomer, and the second styrene butadiene rubber having a lower content of a butadiene monomer than the content of the first styrene butadiene rubber.
US11929497B2

A negative electrode active material as well as a method of preparing a negative electrode active material which includes preparing a silicon-based compound including SiOx, wherein 0.5
US11929496B2

A positive electrode and a secondary battery including the same are provided. The positive electrode includes a current collector and a positive electrode active material layer disposed on the current collector, wherein the positive active material layer includes a positive electrode active material, a binder, and a multi-walled carbon nanotube, wherein the multi-walled carbon nanotube has an average length of 1-2 μm and has a length standard deviation of 0.5 μm or less.
US11929491B2

An anode for a lithium secondary battery includes an anode current collector, and an anode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the anode current collector. The anode active material layer includes a carbon-based active material, a first silicon-based active material doped with magnesium and a second silicon-based active material not doped with magnesium. A content of the first silicon-based active material is in a range from 2 wt % to 20 wt % based on a total weight of the anode active material layer.
US11929490B2

The present disclosure relates to an anode for a lithium secondary battery, wherein an anode material layer is formed on at least one surface of an anode current collector, and the anode material layer includes large-particle graphite, a small-particle silicon-based material, and fine-particle graphite, and satisfies the following conditions 1 to 3: [Condition 1] Average diameter D50 of the large-particle graphite (D1): 1 to 50 μm [Condition 2] Average diameter D50 of the small-particle silicon-based material (D2): 0.155D1 to 0.414D1 [Condition 3] Average diameter D50 of the fine-particle graphite (D3): 0.155D1 to 0.414D1, or 0.155D2 to 0.414D2.
US11929489B2

A manufacturing method for an electrode plate and an electrode plate are provided. The method includes deposition-layer forming to form a deposition layer in which active material particles and binder particles are deposited on a surface of a current collecting foil and heat pressing to form an electrode layer on the surface of the current collecting foil by heating and compressing a deposition-layer-formed current collecting foil having the deposition layer on the surface of the current collecting foil. The deposition layer includes a first deposition layer placed on a side of the current collecting foil and a second deposition layer constituting a surface of the deposition layer. The deposition-layer forming includes forming the deposition layer in which a content rate of the binder particles in the second deposition layer is lower than a content rate of the binder particles in the first deposition layer.
US11929485B2

A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer that includes a positive electrode active material, a fluorine-based binder having a melting point from 152° C. to 166° C., a conductive assistant having a specific surface area from 1000 m2/g to 1500 m2/g, and a vinylpyrrolidone-based polymer.
US11929480B2

The disclosure relates to the technical field of batteries, and proposes a battery and a battery apparatus. The battery includes: a housing; a cell, the cell disposed in the housing. A pole element is disposed on the housing. A heat sink is disposed on the housing.
US11929476B2

Disclosed are battery cooling apparatus for electric vehicle, method of manufacturing, and an insulator structure for the apparatus including an insulator having a side wall of the insulator define an upper open part, a tube inserted into the upper open part of the insulator, and a gap filler disposed in a space between an upper surface of the tube and the battery cell, wherein the side wall comprises an inner inclined surface inclined inward and a tube accommodation part formed in an inner surface of the side wall to accommodate an outer part of the tube, and a gap filler application space is formed between the battery cell and the tube, when the tube is inserted between the tube accommodation part of the insulator and an inner bottom surface of the insulator, and a top of the side wall being located higher than the upper surface of the tube.
US11929471B2

A device for detecting a thermal runaway of a battery module with a number of cells includes a current acquisition module that is configured to capture a set of currents, and a temperature acquisition module that is configured to capture a set of temperatures. The device includes a state of charge capturing module that is configured to capture a set of states, and a resistance calculation module that is configured to derive a set of resistances. The device includes a temperature prediction module that is configured to calculate a set of temperature predictors, and a runaway prediction module that is configured to calculate a set of runaway predictors. A warning module that is configured to set a warning indicator when at least one runaway predictor value of the set of runaway predictors exceeds a predefined threshold value.
US11929465B2

An energy storage element includes a housing enclosing an interior space, which housing is formed of a first metal housing part and a second metal housing part and has a substantially circular upper side and a substantially circular lower side spaced from one another and parallel to one another, and an annular housing side that connects the upper side and the lower side; a winding arranged in the interior, which winding includes a strip-shaped positive and a strip-shaped negative electrode and a strip-shaped separator arranged between the electrodes that are wound in a spiral around a winding axis; wherein the winding has a first end face and a second end face and an annularly circumferential winding outer side, the first and second end faces face in the direction of the circular and mutually parallel upper side and lower side such that the winding axis is oriented perpendicular or at least substantially perpendicular to the upper side and the lower side, and the winding has an axial cavity through which the winding axis runs; and an electrically conductive pin arranged in the cavity and electrically connects one of the electrodes of the winding to one of the housing parts, wherein the first and the second housing part are designed such that they are able moveable against each other along an axis running vertically through the circular upper side and the circular lower side of the housing, and the pin is configured such that the electrical contact to one of the electrodes of the winding is broken when the housing parts move away from one another along the axis.
US11929464B2

The present disclosure relates to a conveying roller for conveying a cell pole piece, the cell pole piece comprising a main body and pole tabs, the main body comprising a bearing area and a transition area, each of the pole tabs comprising a root portion connected to the transition area, a middle section and a top portion, and the conveying roller comprising: a central axis, a first end face and a second end face disposed opposite to each other along the central axis, a transmission portion and an avoidance position provided between the first end face and the second end face, wherein the transmission portion is rotatable around the central axis, the bearing area is contactable with the transmission portion, so that the transmission portion applies a transmission friction force to the cell pole piece, and the avoidance position is capable of avoiding the transition area and the pole tabs.
US11929455B2

An optoelectronic component may include a layer sequence having an active layer configured to emit an electromagnetic primary radiation and a conversion element arranged in the beam path of the primary radiation. The conversion element may include a conversion layer and a conversion potting arranged over the conversion layer. The conversion layer may include a first matrix material and a converter material, and the conversion potting may include a second matrix material and a converter material. There may be a jump in concentration of converter material between the conversion layer and the conversion potting.
US11929453B2

An UV or DUV light-emitting diode package includes: a foundation; a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and third metal layer formed on a top surface of the foundation, wherein the first metal layer and the second metal layer are electrically isolated by a first gap, the third metal layer surrounds the first and second metal layers and is electrically isolated from the first and second metal layers by a second gap; a lens attached to the top surface of the foundation, wherein a cavity is formed between the foundation and the lens; a chip disposed in the cavity, wherein an anode of the chip is electrically connected to the first metal layer and a cathode of the chip is electrically connected to the second metal layer; and a fluid encapsulate, wherein the cavity is fully or partially filled with the fluid encapsulate.
US11929451B2

A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting structure having a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a transparent electrode layer on the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer and spaced apart from an edge of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer on the light emitting structure to cover the transparent electrode layer and including a plurality of holes connected to the transparent electrode layer, and a reflective electrode layer on the first insulating layer and connected to the transparent electrode layer through the plurality of holes.
US11929431B2

A high electron mobility transistor includes a first III-V compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer. The composition of the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer are different from each other. A shallow recess, a first deep recess and a second deep recess are disposed in the second III-V compound layer. The first deep recess and the second deep recess are respectively disposed at two sides of the shallow recess. The source electrode fills in the first deep recess and contacts the top surface of the first III-V compound layer. A drain electrode fills in the second deep recess and contacts the top surface of the first III-V compound layer. The shape of the source electrode and the shape of the drain electrode are different from each other. A gate electrode is disposed on the shallow recess.
US11929419B2

A device includes a semiconductive fin having source and drain regions and a channel region between the source and drain regions, a gate feature over the channel region of the semiconductive fin, a first spacer around the gate feature, source and drain features respectively in the source and drain regions of the semiconductive fin, an interlayer dielectric layer around the first spacer, and a void between the first spacer and the interlayer dielectric layer and spaced apart from the gate feature and the source and drain features.
US11929405B2

In an embodiment, a Group III nitride-based transistor device includes a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode positioned on a first major surface of a Group III nitride based-based layer, wherein the gate electrode is laterally arranged between the source electrode and the drain electrode, a passivation layer arranged on the first major surface and a field plate coupled to the source electrode, the field plate having a lower surface arranged on the passivation layer. The field plate is laterally arranged between and laterally spaced apart from the gate electrode and the drain electrode.
US11929399B2

Integrated structures include (among other components) a deep well structure having a first impurity, well rows contacting the deep well structure and having a second impurity, a well contact ring enclosing the well rows within an enclosed area, a transistor layer on the well rows, transistors within the transistor layer, and at least one ring-enclosed contact contacting the deep well structure. The ring-enclosed contact is positioned within the enclosed area. Such structures further include a well contact connection contacting the well contact ring and the ring-enclosed contact.
US11929394B2

A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a cell portion and an outer peripheral portion disposed around the cell portion, formed with a gate trench at a surface side of the cell portion, and a gate electrode buried in the gate trench via a gate insulating film, forming a channel at a portion lateral to the gate trench at ON-time, the outer peripheral portion has a semiconductor surface disposed at a depth position equal to or deeper than a depth of the gate trench, and the semiconductor device further includes a voltage resistant structure having a semiconductor region of a second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor surface of the outer peripheral portion.
US11929388B2

A display may be formed by an array of light-emitting diodes mounted to the surface of a display substrate. The light-emitting diodes may be inorganic light-emitting diodes formed from separate crystalline semiconductor structures. An array of pixel control circuits may be used to control light emission from the light-emitting diodes. Each pixel control circuit may be configured to control one or more respective passive matrices. To control partial pixel cells in the display, a donor pixel control circuit in a partial pixel cell may control the pixels in a receptor partial pixel cell without a pixel control circuit. To mitigate the size of an inactive area of the display, fanout signal lines for the display may be formed in the light-emitting active area of the display. The fanout signal lines may be formed between a row of pixel control circuits and a bottom edge of the light-emitting active area.
US11929367B2

A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, first active fins that extend in a first direction in the first region, second active fins that extend in the first direction in the second region, a first field insulating layer between the first active fins and that extend in a second direction, a second field insulating layer between the second active fins and extending in the second direction, a gate line that extends in the second direction on the second field insulating layer, the gate line linearly along with the first field insulating layer, a gate isolation layer between the first field insulating layer and the gate line, and gate spacers that extend in the second direction, the gate spacers in contact with both sidewalls of each of the first field insulating layer, the gate line, and the gate isolation layer.
US11929364B2

Semiconductor structures with reduced parasitic capacitance between interconnects and ground, for example, are described. In one case, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a low dielectric constant material region in the substrate. The low dielectric constant material region is positioned between a first device area in the semiconductor structure and a second device area in the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a III-nitride material layer over the substrate. The III-nitride material layer extends over the substrate in the first device area, over the low dielectric constant material region, and over the substrate in the second device area. The semiconductor structure can also include a first device formed in the III-nitride material layer in the first device area, a second device in the III-nitride material layer in the second device area, and an interconnect formed over the low dielectric constant material region. The interconnect can provide a continuous conductive path of metal from the first device area, over the low dielectric constant material region, and to the second device area.
US11929344B2

A conveying unit for conveying a device chip onto a predetermined electrode of a board has a chip chuck that holds under suction one surface of the device chip, a support base to which the chip chuck is fixed in an inclinable manner, and a moving unit that moves the support base, in which a fixing mechanism that fixes the chip chuck to the support base has a plurality of leaf springs extending laterally radially from the chip chuck, the plurality of leaf springs are connected to the support base in the surroundings of the chip chuck, and the plurality of leaf springs are pulled one another, so that the chip chuck is supported in air in an inclinable manner.
US11929341B2

A sintering powder comprising copper particles, wherein: the particles are at least partially coated with a capping agent, and the particles exhibit a D10 of greater than or equal to 100 nm and a D90 of less than or equal to 2000 nm.
US11929338B2

A method includes forming a first package component, and forming a first plurality of electrical connectors at a first surface of the first package component. The first plurality of electrical connectors are laid out as having a honeycomb pattern. A second package component is bonded to the first package component, wherein a second plurality of electrical connectors at a second surface of the second package component are bonded to the first plurality of electrical connectors.
US11929327B2

The present disclosure describes a method for forming liner-free or barrier-free conductive structures. The method includes depositing an etch stop layer on a cobalt contact disposed on a substrate, depositing a dielectric on the etch stop layer, etching the dielectric and the etch stop layer to form an opening that exposes a top surface of the cobalt contact, and etching the exposed top surface of the cobalt contact to form a recess in the cobalt contact extending laterally under the etch stop layer. The method further includes depositing a ruthenium metal to substantially fill the recess and the opening, and annealing the ruthenium metal to form an oxide layer between the ruthenium metal and the dielectric.
US11929323B2

A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a microelectronic device structure comprising a base structure, a doped semiconductive material overlying the base structure, a stack structure overlying the doped semiconductive material, cell pillar structures vertically extending through the stack structure and the doped semiconductive material and into the base structure, and digit line structures vertically overlying the stack structure. An additional microelectronic device structure comprising control logic devices is formed. The microelectronic device structure is attached to the additional microelectronic device structure to form a microelectronic device structure assembly. The base structure and portions of the cell pillar structures vertically extending into the base structure are removed to expose the doped semiconductive material. The doped semiconductive material is then patterned to form at least one source structure over the stack structure and coupled to the cell pillar structures. Microelectronic devices and electronic systems are also described.
US11929316B2

Disclosed are semiconductor packages and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor package comprises a redistribution substrate including dielectric and redistribution patterns, a first substrate pad on the redistribution substrate and penetrating the dielectric pattern to be coupled to the redistribution pattern, a second substrate pad the redistribution substrate and spaced apart from the first substrate pad, a semiconductor chip on the redistribution substrate, a first connection terminal connecting the first substrate pad to one of chip pads of the semiconductor chip, and a second connection terminal connecting the second substrate pad to another one of the chip pads of the semiconductor chip. A top surface of the second substrate pad is located at a higher level than that of a top surface of the first substrate pad. A width of the second substrate pad is less than that of the first substrate pad.
US11929308B2

In a described example, an apparatus includes: a package substrate for mounting a semiconductor die to a die side surface, the package substrate including leads spaced from one another; and cavities extending into the leads from the die side surface, the cavities having sides and a bottom surface of the lead material, the cavities at locations corresponding to post connect locations on the semiconductor die.
US11929307B2

A power semiconductor module, which is a semiconductor device, includes a semiconductor element 155 and a lead frame 318 that is disposed to face the semiconductor element 155 and connected to the semiconductor element 155 by a solder material 162. The lead frame 318 has the top surface 331 including a surface facing the semiconductor element 155, and the side surface 334 connected to the peripheral edge portion 333 of the top surface 331 at a predetermined angle with respect to the top surface 331. The top surface of the lead frame 318 includes the solder surface 332 that is in contact with the solder material 162 and the solder resistance surface on which the solder material 162 is less wettable than on the solder surface 332. The solder resistance surface is formed to surround the periphery of the solder surface 332. In this manner, when the semiconductor element and the lead frame are solder-joined in the semiconductor device, the region where the solder wet-spreads is appropriately controlled.
US11929304B2

A semiconductor apparatus with a heat dissipation conduit in a sidewall interconnection structure, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor apparatus, and an electronic device including the semiconductor apparatus. According to the embodiments, the semiconductor apparatus includes: a carrier substrate having a first region and a second region adjacent to each other; a semiconductor device on the first region; and an interconnection structure on the second region, wherein the interconnection structure includes: an electrical isolation layer; a conductive structure in the electrical isolation layer, wherein at least a part of components require to be electrically connected in the semiconductor device is in contact with and therefore electrically connected to the conductive structure in a lateral direction, wherein the conductive structure is located at a corresponding height in the interconnection structure; and a heat dissipation conduit in the electrical isolation layer.
US11929301B2

A package has a cavity to be sealed by a lid. The package includes a heat sink having a coefficient of thermal expansion of 9 ppm/° C. or more and 15 ppm/° C. or less from 25° C. to 100° C. and a frame disposed on the heat sink, made of ceramics, and surrounding the cavity in plan view. An outer edge of the frame includes a first linear portion extending along a first direction, a second linear portion extending along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a chamfer connecting the first linear portion and the second linear portion in plan view.
US11929289B2

In a semiconductor device, a first active area, a second active area, and a third active area are formed on a substrate. A first gate electrode is formed on the first active area, a second gate electrode is formed on the second active area, and a third gate electrode is formed on the third active area. The first gate electrode has a first P-work-function metal layer, a first capping layer, a first N-work-function metal layer, a first barrier metal layer, and a first conductive layer. The second gate electrode has a second capping layer, a second N-work-function metal layer, a second barrier metal layer, and a second conductive layer. The third gate electrode has a second P-work-function metal layer, a third capping layer, a third N-work-function metal layer, and a third barrier metal layer. The third gate electrode does not have the first and second conductive layers.
US11929287B2

The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure with a dielectric liner. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a fin structure on the substrate. The fin structure includes a stacked fin structure, a fin bottom portion below the stacked fin structure, and an isolation layer between the stacked fin structure and the bottom fin portion. The semiconductor structure further includes a dielectric liner in contact with an end of the stacked fin structure and a spacer structure in contact with the dielectric liner.
US11929274B2

A poling apparatus for poling a polymer thin film formed on a workpiece carried by a workpiece carrier. The workpiece has grounding electrodes and grounding pads located at edges, and a thin film covering the grounding electrodes but exposing the grounding pads. The workpiece carrier has carrier electrodes located around the workpiece and inside grounding ports at the bottom. The poling apparatus includes, in a poling chamber, a poling source generating a plasma, a Z-elevator to raise the workpiece carrier toward the poling source using the grounding ports, and grounding mechanisms including downwardly biased electrical contacts which, when the workpiece carrier is raised by the Z-elevator, connect the grounding pads of the workpiece with the carrier electrodes, to ground the workpiece. The poling apparatus additionally includes preparation platform and transfer platform with conveyer systems with rollers and Z-elevators to move the workpiece carrier in and out of the poling chamber.
US11929272B2

There is provided a technique that includes a substrate support including a support column made of metal and a plurality of supports installed at the support column and configured to support a plurality of substrates in multiple stages; a process chamber configured to accommodate the plurality of substrates supported by the substrate support; and a heater configured to heat the plurality of substrates accommodated in the process chamber, wherein the plurality of supports includes at least a contact portion configured to make contact with the plurality of substrates and made of at least one selected from the group of a metal oxide and a non-metal material.
US11929268B2

A substrate processing system configured to process a substrate includes a carry-in/out unit configured to carry the substrate from/to an outside thereof; a processing unit configured to process a processing surface of the substrate; a cleaning unit provided between the carry-in/out unit and the processing unit when viewed from a top, and configured to clean the processing surface after being processed in the processing unit; a first transfer unit stacked on top of the cleaning unit, and configured to transfer the substrate; and a second transfer unit provided between the processing unit and the first transfer unit when viewed from the top, and configured to transfer the substrate. The first transfer unit transfers the substrate between the carry-in/out unit and the second transfer unit. The second transfer unit transfers the substrate between the first transfer unit and the processing unit and between the processing unit and the cleaning unit.
US11929264B2

A substrate cleaning and drying system includes a cleaning station, a drying station positioned adjacent the cleaning station, a cleaner robot to transfer a substrate from the cleaning station to the drying station, an aligner stage adjacent to the drying station, a robot arm rotatable between a substantially vertical first position for receiving the substrate from the drying station and a substantially horizontal second position for releasing the substrate onto the aligner stage, and a factory interface robot to transfer a substrate from the aligner stage into a factory interface module while in a horizontal orientation. The aligner stage includes a rotatable support to hold the substrate in a substantially horizontal orientation and to rotate the substrate to a desired orientation.
US11929261B2

A method includes forming a set of through-vias in a substrate, the set of through-vias partially penetrating a thickness of the substrate. First connectors are formed over the set of through-vias on a first side of the substrate. The substrate is singulated to form dies. The first side of the dies are attached to a carrier. The dies are thinned from the second side to expose the set of through-vias. Second connectors are formed over the set of through-vias on the second side of the dies. A device die is bonded to the second connectors. The dies and device dies are singulated into multiple packages.
US11929260B2

Embodiments of methods and apparatus for reducing warpage of a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for reducing warpage of a substrate includes: applying an epoxy mold over a plurality of dies on the substrate in a dispenser tool; placing the substrate on a pedestal in a curing chamber, wherein the substrate has an expected post-cure deflection in a first direction; inducing a curvature on the substrate in a direction opposite the first direction; and curing the substrate by heating the substrate in the curing chamber.
US11929251B2

Examples of a substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber, an upper cover provided inside the chamber, an electrostatic chuck which includes an annular portion of a dielectric body and an embedded electrode embedded into the annular portion, the electrostatic chuck being provided inside the chamber, and a plasma unit configured to generate plasma in a region below the upper cover and the electrostatic chuck, wherein the annular portion includes an annular first upper surface located immediately below the upper cover, and a second upper surface located immediately below the upper cover and surrounding the first upper surface, the second upper surface having a height higher than a height of the first upper surface.
US11929246B2

In one aspect, a mass analyzer is disclosed, which comprises a quadrupole having an input end for receiving ions and an output end through which ions can exit the quadrupole, said quadrupole having a plurality of rods to at least some of which a drive RF signal and an excitation signal can be applied. A fixed phase relationship is maintained between the drive RF signal and the excitation signal, thereby enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio of the mass detection signal.
US11929245B2

A sample support body for ionization of a sample, including: a substrate having a first surface, a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, and a plurality of through-holes opening on each of the first surface and the second surface; a conductive layer provided on the first surface; and a matrix crystal layer provided on at least one of the conductive layer and the second surface, in which the matrix crystal layer is formed of a plurality of matrix crystal grains so as to include a gap communicating the plurality of through-holes with an outside.
US11929239B2

A plasma processing apparatus includes: an electrostatic chuck supporting a wafer, and connected to a first power supply, an edge ring disposed to surround an edge of the electrostatic chuck and formed of a material having a first resistivity value, a dielectric ring supporting a lower portion of the edge ring, formed of a material having a second resistivity value lower than that of the first resistivity value, and connected to a second power supply, and an electrode ring disposed in a region overlapping the dielectric ring, in contact with a lower surface of the edge ring, and formed of a material having a third resistivity value greater than the first resistivity value, wherein the third resistivity value is a value of 90 Ωcm to 1000 Ωcm.
US11929234B2

A plasma processing apparatus capable of improving the in-plane uniformity of plasma and a lower stage used for the plasma processing apparatus are anticipated. In an exemplary embodiment, the lower stage is for a lower stage that generates plasma with an upper electrode. The lower stage includes: a lower dielectric body formed of ceramic, a lower electrode embedded in the lower dielectric body, and a heating element embedded in the lower dielectric body. The separation distance between the top surface of the lower dielectric body at the outer edge position thereof and the lower electrode is smaller than the separation distance between the top surface of the lower dielectric body in the central region thereof and the lower electrode. The lower electrode has an inclination region inclined with respect to the top surface between the outer edge position and the central region.
US11929219B2

A shape-memory alloy actuated switch (SMAAS) is provided that enables the stable switching of two separate circuits. The presently disclosed SMAAS includes a substrate, one or more electrical contacts attached to the substrate for connecting to load circuits, and one or more electrically conductive elements for selectively connecting the one or more electrical contacts. The disclosed SMAAS also includes one or more shape-memory alloy actuators attached to the substrate. The one or more shape-memory alloy actuators are configured to move the one or more electrically conductive elements. The shape-memory alloy actuators are self-heated by passing current through the shape-memory alloy material. The disclosed SMAAS may also include electrical contacts to connect an external control current to the shape-memory alloy material. In some examples, the provided SMAAS includes one or more retention mechanisms to prevent movement of the electrically conductive elements after actuation.
US11929218B2

In a rocker arm of an electric switch, the electric switch is actuated by the rocker arm for setting definable positions. The rocker arm of an embodiment includes a first part, for setting the definable positions, and a second part, movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position of the second part, the first part can be moved into the definable positions; and in the second position of the second part, the movement of the first part is blocked.
US11929216B1

A button mechanism includes a button, a module, and a thin sheet spring. The thin sheet spring is in physical communication with the button and with the module. The thin sheet spring exerts a tension force on the button and the module to bias the button toward a normal position. In response to a force greater than the tension force being exerted on the button, a portion of the thin sheet stretches to enable the button to be placed in a contact position. In response to the force being removed from the button, the tension force causes the thin sheet to snap back to an original position and biases the button toward the normal position.
US11929212B2

Embodiments disclosed herein include an electronic package and methods of forming an electronic package. In an embodiment, the electronic package comprises a package substrate, an organic layer over the package substrate, and a capacitor embedded in the organic layer. In an embodiment, the capacitor comprises, a first electrode, where the first electrode comprises a seam between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, a dielectric layer over the first electrode, and a second electrode over the dielectric layer.
US11929211B2

A multi-layer capacitor including a capacitor element having at least two segments. Each segment includes multiple layer planes, including ceramic dielectric layers and electrode layers arranged therebetween, which are arranged in a layer sequence one above the other. The electrode layers include different electrodes, including at least first and second electrodes. The different electrodes overlap in active regions but not in passive regions. Multiple segments are arranged one above the other in a stack direction. The outermost dielectric layers of two segments form a connection region in which the segments are fixedly connected to each other parallel to the layer planes. The connection region contains a relief region. The relief region occupies at least the entire passive region of the capacitor.
US11929209B2

The present disclosure relates to a metal case capacitor that includes: a capacitor module (10) including a capacitor device, a first busbar (1) electrically connected with a thermally-sprayed surface of the capacitor device and having a first lead terminal (1a) on an exposed side, a second busbar (2) electrically connected with the other thermally-sprayed surface of the capacitor device and having a second lead terminal (2a) on an exposed side, and an insulating sheet disposed between the first busbar (1) and the second busbar (2); a metallic external case (20) having a space; a plastic insulating member positioned between the capacitor module (10) and the metallic external case (20) and insulating the capacitor module (10) and the metallic external case (20) from each other; and a filler permeating in a gel or liquid state into a space between the capacitor module (10) and the metallic external case (20).
US11929208B2

A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a laminate and an external electrode connected to the internal electrode layer. The laminate includes a central layer portion in which an internal electrode layer and a dielectric ceramic layer are alternately laminated, and a covering portion covering an outer surface of the central layer portion in the lamination direction and the width direction. A region where the main surface meets the lateral surface in the laminate is defined as a corner portion that is rounded, and a distance from the corner portion to an internal electrode closest to the corner portion is about 20 μm or less.
US11929207B2

A capacitor includes: a plurality of bottom electrodes; a dielectric layer formed over the bottom electrodes; and a top electrode formed over the dielectric layer, wherein the top electrode includes a carbon-containing material and a germanium-containing material that fill a gap between the bottom electrodes.
US11929201B2

A surface mount inductor includes a coil including a wound portion and a feeder end portion drawn out from the wound portion, a compact that contains a magnetic powder and that encapsulates the coil, and an external terminal disposed on the compact and connected to the coil. The compact has surfaces including two pressed surfaces, opposing each other in a direction of an axis of the wound portion and formed by being pressed in the direction of the axis, and a non-pressed surface, adjacent to the two surfaces and not pressed. The coil is disposed so that the axis of the wound portion is parallel to a mount surface of the compact. The mount surface is included in the non-pressed surface, the feeder end portion is exposed from the mount surface, and the external terminal is formed on only the non-pressed surface and connected to the feeder end portion.
US11929200B2

A coil component includes a body; first and second coil portions spaced apart from each other in the body; first and second external electrodes disposed on the body to be spaced apart from each other and connected to both ends of the first coil portion; and first and second ground electrodes spaced apart from each other on the body and connected to both ends of the second coil portion.
US11929197B2

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for producing and using a low-value inductor which is stable at high frequencies, the inductor including a plurality of radial spokes extending between two concentric rings. The inductance of the inductor is controlled by the number and dimensions of the plurality of spokes, as well as the materials of the inductor. In some cases, the inductor is used as a low value inductance standard for directly measuring a low value electrical inductance.
US11929192B2

A cable article made from or containing a polyolefin composition made from or containing: (i) from 20.0 wt % to 80.0 wt % of component T1) being an interpolymer of ethylene and less than 7 wt %, of a polymerizable comonomer; (ii) from 0.5 wt % to 5.0 wt % of a peroxide; and (iii) from 20.0 wt % to 80.0 wt % of component T2). Component T2) is made from or contains: A) 5-35% by weight of a propylene homopolymer or a propylene ethylene copolymer; B) 20-50% by weight of a copolymer of ethylene and a C3-C8 alpha-olefin containing from 0.1% to 20% by weight of alpha-olefin units; and C) 30-60% by weight of a copolymer of ethylene and propylene containing from 25% to 75% by weight of ethylene units. The cable article is selected from the group consisting of cable insulation and cable jacketing.
US11929185B2

A dynamic isotope battery includes: a metallic canal; a housing, defining a chamber for accommodating a heat source and provided with a non-return valve, two opposite ends of the housing being communicated with two ends of the metallic canal respectively to form a closed circulation loop; a fuel cartridge fixedly disposed within the housing; a radioactive source contained in the fuel cartridge; a liquid metal provided in the circulation loop; a piezoelectric transduction component disposed on an inner surface of the metallic canal; a heat dissipation structure, provided at an outer surface of the metallic canal and spaced apart from the piezoelectric transduction component along an axial direction of the metallic canal; and an electromagnetic pump, provided at the metallic canal for driving circular flow of the liquid metal.
US11929175B2

Method and apparatus are described for a system that employs a change management algorithm to drive transfusion “appropriateness” by factoring evidenced-based knowledge and input from practitioners, where said algorithm may also ensure that a blood or blood product transfusion is provided to the right patient, that the blood/blood product is transfused at the right time, and that the procedure is completed for the right reason.
US11929174B2

A machine learning method and an apparatus, a program, a learned model, and a discrimination apparatus capable of controlling a calculation amount by learning a new task without changing output performance for an existing task in a learned network are provided. A machine learning method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a step of adding a new feature amount to at least one intermediate layer included in a learned first neural network that has learned a task of performing first class classification, a step of generating a second neural network having a structure in which a network structure of a calculation path of an existing feature amount of the first neural network is maintained and a new feature amount of a subsequent layer is calculated by performing processing of convolving each of the existing feature amount and the new feature amount, and a step of causing the second neural network to acquire a processing function of performing second class classification by performing learning of the second neural network using a set of learning data corresponding to the second class classification.
US11929165B2

A closed-loop control for a medical therapeutic system is disclosed that includes one or more processes or components for/in the medical therapeutic system, a controller configured to determine whether one or more operations of the process(es) or component(s) are within a corresponding safety envelope, and one or more sensors. The process(es)/component(s) are configured to deliver a controlled amount of a substance, energy or force to a patient. The sensor(s) are configured to measure or determine a value of a measurable parameter of the process(es)/component(s) and/or effected by the operation(s), and provide the value(s) of the measurable parameter(s) to the controller. The controller determines whether each of the operation(s) are within the corresponding safety envelope according to a corresponding function that mathematically describes the operation. The safety envelope corresponds to known safe values of the measurable parameter, or an unmeasured parameter based on the measurable parameter.
US11929161B2

A system for displaying nutrimental artifacts, the system including a user device connected to a central network, and including a display interface, the display interface configuring the user device to retrieve, a verified matter, including a target allotment relating to the user device, receive, from a provider, a plurality of nutrimental artifacts including an allotment value, receive, a filter set modifying the plurality of nutrimental artifacts, order, the plurality of nutrimental artifacts as a function of the verified matter, the allotment value, and the filter set, and display the ordered plurality of nutrimental artifacts within the display interface.
US11929154B2

Patient identification is transmitted to a health care provider prior to the patient arriving at the health care provider. The patient identification may be a driver's license, health insurance card, or other identification, and may be used to pre-register the patient. The transmission may include other information, such as health status, purpose of visit, intended procedures, symptoms, or other information. The transmission may be made via a device, such as a cellular telephone, where the information may be encrypted and transmitted using a secure mechanism. The system may be used by ambulance personnel, paramedics, or other emergency responders to notify a hospital, for example, of an inbound patient, as well as by patients prior to an appointment. The system may also be used by clinicians or other health care providers to prepare for emergent or non-emergent patients prior to arrival.
US11929147B2

Described herein are methods for identifying quasispecies of genomes by clustering sequence reads for samples including the genomes based on the similarities of the sequence reads.
US11929144B2

The present invention provides a method of detecting mutational signatures in a DNA sample. The invention relates to method of detecting signatures arising from rearrangements in the DNA in the sample and determining the contributions of known rearrangement signatures to said rearrangements. In particular embodiments, the contributions are determined by computing the cosine similarity between the rearrangement mutations in said catalogue and the rearrangement mutational signatures. The rearrangement signatures are classified based on whether they are clustered or not, whether they are tandem duplications, deletions, inversions or translocations and on the basis of their size.
US11929140B2

A memory controller comprising a DMA master device configured to provide a first data group to a non-volatile memory (NVM) device, a program buffer memory configured to temporarily store the first data group before the DMA master device provides the first data group to the NVM device, an exclusive OR computing circuit configured to perform an exclusive OR computation and an accumulation on a plurality of data included in the first data group provided from the program buffer memory to generate a first recovery data, after the DMA master device provides the first data group to the NVM device, and a buffer slave device including a first program recovery buffer memory configured to store the first recovery data and provide the first recovery data from the first program recovery buffer memory to the program buffer memory, in response to a program failure signal, may be provided.
US11929138B2

A system includes a memory component, and a processing device coupled with the memory component. The processing device to identify a group of management units of the memory component, wherein the group of management units is included in a set of retired groups of management units, select a management unit from the group of management units, perform a media integrity check on the management unit to determine a failed bit count of the management unit, and in response to the failed bit count of the management unit failing to satisfy a threshold criterion, remove the group of management units from the set of retired groups of management units.
US11929130B2

The present disclosure relates to the field of integrated circuit technologies, and provides a method and device for testing an SR cycle as well as a method and device for testing an AR number. The method for testing an SR cycle includes: executing a preset number of data-retention-capacity acquisition steps, the data-retention-capacity acquisition step including determining a preset refresh time; sending an SR entry command to control a memory to enter an SR operation; sending an SR exit command to control the memory to exit the SR operation after the memory executes the SR for the preset refresh time; detecting a current data retention capacity of the memory; obtaining a cycle of a function of the data retention capacity with respect to the corresponding preset refresh time; and determining the SR cycle of the memory with the cycle of the function.
US11929125B2

Apparatuses and techniques are described for reducing the number of latches used in sense circuits for a memory device. The number of internal user data latches in a sense circuit is reduced by using an external data transfer latch to store a bit of user data, in place of an internal user data latch. The user data in the data transfer latches identifies a subset of the data states which are not prohibited from having a verify test. The subset is shifted as the program operation proceeds, at specified program loops, to encompass higher data states. The completion of programming by a memory cell is indicated by the user data latches and another internal latch of the sense circuit in place of the external data transfer latch.
US11929114B2

A system and method for efficiently resetting data stored in a memory array are described. In various implementations, an integrated circuit includes a memory for storing data, and a processing unit that generates access requests for the data stored in the memory. When access circuitry of the memory array begins a reset operation, it reduces a power supply voltage level used by memory bit cells in a column of the array to a value less than a threshold voltage of transistors. Therefore, the p-type transistors of the bit cells do not contend with the write driver during a write operation. The access circuitry provides the reset data on the write bit lines, and asserts each of the write word lines of the memory array. To complete the write operation, the access circuitry returns the power supply voltage level from below the threshold voltage level to an operating voltage level.
US11929112B2

The sense amplifier includes: an amplification module configured to amplify a voltage transmitted by a bit line or a reference bit line, when the sense amplifier is at an amplification stage; a first switch module configured to control the amplification module to be disconnected from the reference bit line, when the sense amplifier performs a read operation for the bit line and is at the amplification stage. In the disclosure, the power consumption of the sense amplifier may be reduced.
US11929099B2

The disclosed technology is a system and computer-implemented method for assembling and editing a video program from spoken words or soundbites. The disclosed technology imports source audio/video clips and any of multiple formats. Spoken audio is transcribed into searchable text. The text transcript is synchronized to the video track by timecode markers. Each spoken word corresponds to a timecode marker, which in turn corresponds to a video frame or frames. Using word processing operations and text editing functions, a user selects video segments by selecting corresponding transcribed text segments. By selecting text and arranging that text, a corresponding video program is assembled. The selected video segments are assembled on a timeline display in any chosen order by the user. The sequence of video segments may be reordered and edited, as desired, to produce a finished video program for export.
US11929098B1

An automated artificial intelligence (AI) and template-based audio record mixing system and process are disclosed. The automated AI and template-based audio record mixing system and process use provided templates and AI to mix records. The artist maintains full control of how they want to record sound when utilizing the automated AI and template-based audio record mixing system and process.
US11929092B2

A tape drive (226) for use in a tape library (10) that retains at least one tape cartridge (220) that retains magnetic tape (250) includes a drive housing (226A) and a media conditioner (255). The drive housing (226A) is configured to receive the tape cartridge (220). The media conditioner (255) is coupled to the drive housing (226A). The media conditioner (255) is configured to condition the magnetic tape (250) when the tape cartridge (220) is received within the drive housing (226A). The media conditioner (255) can be configured to remove at least one of abrasives, contaminants and lubricants that are on the magnetic tape (250) when the tape cartridge (220) is received within the drive housing (226A). The magnetic tape (250) is configured to move along a predefined path (251) within the drive housing (226A), which is defined by one or more rollers (254). The rollers (254) can include a modified roller (270) having a roller body (274) and an outer coating (276) that is affixed on an outer surface (274A) of the roller body (274). The media conditioner (255) can include the modified roller (270).
US11929090B2

A method for matching audio clips includes: obtaining a first feature sequence corresponding to a first audio clip and a second feature sequence corresponding to a second audio clip; constructing a distance matrix, elements in the distance matrix representing respective distances between first positions in the first feature sequence and second positions in the second feature sequence; calculating a first accumulation distance between a start position and a target position in the distance matrix, and calculating a second accumulation distance between an end position and the target position in the distance matrix; and calculating a minimum distance between the first feature sequence and the second feature sequence based on the first accumulation distance and the second accumulation distance, and determining a degree of matching between the first audio clip and the second audio clip according to the minimum distance.
US11929086B2

Various embodiments of a system and methods for audio source separation via multi-scale feature learning are disclosed.
US11929081B2

An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus may include a microphone; a memory configured to store a wakeup word; and a processor configured to: identify, based on context information of the electronic apparatus, an occurrence of a pre-determined event; change, based on the occurrence of the pre-determined event, a first threshold value for recognizing the wakeup word; obtain, based on a first user voice input received via the microphone, a similarity value between first text information corresponding to the first user voice input and the wakeup word; and perform, based on the similarity value being greater than or equal to the first threshold value, a voice recognition function on second text information corresponding to a second user voice input received via the microphone after the first user voice input.
US11929080B2

According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises a communication module, a memory, and a processor configured to, upon obtaining a first utterance related to a memory service, prepare to store first information for the memory service for the first utterance and store the first information including essential information, sensitivity information for the first information, and an authentication method for the first information, detected from the first utterance, in the memory, and obtain a second utterance for looking up information related to the memory service, upon identifying that the obtained second utterance is one for looking up the first information, complete authentication based on the authentication method, and provide the essential information by a providing method determined based on the sensitivity information. Various other embodiments may be provided.
US11929078B2

Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques training a user detection model to identify a user of a software application based on voice recognition. The method generally includes receiving a data set including a plurality of voice interactions with users of a software application. For each respective recording in the data set, a spectrogram representation is generated based on the respective recording. A plurality of voice recognition models are trained. Each of the plurality of voice recognition models is trained based on the spectrogram representation for each of the plurality of voice recordings in the data set. The plurality of voice recognition models are deployed to an interactive voice response system.
US11929074B2

A method and apparatus for automatically generating a meeting summary is disclosed herein. Meeting audio is recorded and converted into a text-based transcript. Handwritten meeting notes are converted into notes text. The transcript and notes text are correlated to provide correlated meeting text. Meeting topics are determined from the correlated meeting text. A meeting summary is generated from the meeting topics.
US11929058B2

Novel methods and systems for adapting a voice cloning synthesizer for a new speaker using real speech data are disclosed. Utterances from one or more target speakers are parameterized and are used to initialize an embedding vector for use with a voice synthesizer, by means of clustering the utterance data and determining the centroid of the data, using a speaker identification neural network, and/or by finding the closest stored embedded vector to the utterance data.
US11929049B2

An output content generation device, includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a size, in a display region of a display device, of each of pieces of information to be displayed in the display region; a determination unit that determines whether or not the pieces of information are arrangeable in the display region, based on the size of each of the pieces of information and a size of the display region; and a generation unit that allocates the pieces of information in a plurality of screens accommodated in the display region in a distributed manner, and generates output content of the pieces of information, when the pieces of information are not arrangeable in the display region, thereby enabling information to be legibly viewable.
US11929036B2

An electro-optical device includes: a data signal output circuit including a D/A converter circuit; a plurality of terminals; a control circuit supplied with a power supply potential VL from at least one terminal of the plurality of terminals via a first power supply wiring line; and a power supply circuit configured to generate a power supply potential VPL in accordance with potentials AVDD and AVSS supplied via two or more terminals of the plurality of terminals and supply the power supply potential VPL to a second power supply wiring line. The D/A converter circuit includes a plurality of capacitance elements. The first power supply wiring line or the second power supply wiring line is selectively coupled to one portion of the plurality of capacitance elements.
US11929030B2

A display panel, a driving method, and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate, subpixels, driving lines, data lines, a gate driving circuit including clock signal lines and shift register units arranged in extension direction of clock signal lines. The clock signal lines is divided into clock signal line groups; the shift register units is divided into register unit groups; the shift register units in same register unit group are cascaded, adjacent two of shift register units in the extension direction are in different register unit groups; one register unit group corresponds to one clock signal line group; the gate of an input transistor is connected to a clock signal line in a corresponding clock signal line group, the second pole of input transistor is connected to the gate of an output transistor; the second pole of output transistor is connected to at least one driving line.
US11929025B2

Disclosed is a display device comprising a light emitting element, and a pixel driving circuit connected to the light emitting element and configured to include first to fourth nodes, wherein the pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor connected to the first to third nodes, a plurality of switching transistors, a storage capacitor, and a plurality of signals and voltage lines, wherein an initialization voltage applied through an initialization line among the plurality of signals and voltage lines is varied based on a data voltage.
US11929019B2

A method for processing a static pattern in an image and a circuit system are provided. In the method, each of frames of a video is divided into multiple areas. Several algorithms are used to calculate a static pattern index of every area. The static pattern index is used as a reference for determining if the area covers part or entire of a static pattern. An index threshold can be used to check the areas that are determined as the static pattern initially. A time threshold is then used to confirm the areas with the static pattern in every frame. Image data of the areas which are determined as the static patterns can then be adjusted, such as having brightness of the area that is determined as part or entire of the static patterns decreased, for preventing the display panel from negative effects of the static pattern.
US11929013B2

A display device according to an embodiment includes a pixel including a light emitting unit, a data driver that supplies a data voltage to the pixel, and a luminance corrector that corrects image data and generates compensation data corresponding to the data voltage. The light emitting unit includes at least one sub element group. The at least one sub element group includes light emitting elements. The luminance corrector extracts a deterioration value of the at least one sub element group and calculates a luminance value of the at least one sub element group according to a number of the light emitting elements included in the at least one sub element group.
US11929009B2

A shift register comprises a first shift register unit and a second shift register unit. The first shift register unit comprises a first input circuit connected to a first input terminal and a first pull-up node, a first output circuit connected to the first pull-up node, a first output terminal and a first clock terminal, and a first pull-down circuit. The second shift register unit comprises a second input circuit connected to a second input terminal and a second pull-up node, and a second output circuit connected to the second pull-up node, a second output terminal and a second clock signal.
US11929008B2

A processing method includes displaying an indication region including a plurality of representation regions of a plurality of display sub-areas obtained by dividing a plurality of display devices of or connected to an electronic device; in response to an operation on a target object, determining, from the plurality of representation regions, a target representation region to be associated with the target object; and displaying the target object in the display sub-area corresponding to the target representation region.
US11929004B2

A method of driving a display panel that includes first and second display-regions includes: determining maximum luminance data among first data including first red data, first green data, and first blue data for the first display-region, calculating a threshold gray-level based on a luminance gain, a gray-level of the maximum luminance data, and a gamma value for the display panel, selecting a smaller value between the threshold gray-level and a maximum gray-level as a gain determination gray-level, calculating a compensation gain obtained by dividing the gain determination gray-level by the gray-level of the maximum luminance data, generating first compensated data by applying the compensation gain to the first data, displaying a first-image in the first display-region based on the first compensated data, and displaying a second-image in the second display-region based on second data including second red data, second green data, and second blue data for the second display-region.
US11929001B2

A method and a device are provided. The device includes a light-measuring sensor, a display, a memory, and at least one processor operatively connected to the light-measuring sensor, the display, and the memory, wherein the at least one processor is configured to analyze the frequency of an external light source, obtain an operation period of the display, obtain a ratio of an off period of time of the display on the basis of the operation period, and calculate illuminance by using different algorithms on the basis of the relationship between the frequency of the external light source and the operation period and the ratio of the off period of time of the display.
US11928998B2

A display device includes a display panel including a first partial panel region and a second partial panel region, and a panel driver which drives the display panel. The panel driver determines a first driving frequency for the first partial panel region and a second driving frequency for the second partial panel region. In a case where the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency are different from each other, the panel driver sets a boundary portion including a boundary between the first partial panel region and the second partial panel region, and determines a third driving frequency for the boundary portion to be between the first driving frequency and the second driving frequency.
US11928986B2

Content conversion verification, includes: converting, at a first computer system, an original content file to a target format, generating a converted content file in the target format; generating a checksum for the converted content file; and sending the original content file and the checksum to a second computer system. Key words include content verification and checksum.
US11928982B2

Embodiments of the disclosure provide an interaction system, method and device. The interaction system includes an electroencephalogram electrode array that determines a position of a sound source and invoking the electroencephalogram electrode corresponding to the position of the sound source to output a touch signal to a user.
US11928981B2

A seeing device and process that enables a visually impaired user to “see” using touch. It comprises: Sensors/cameras worn approximately at eye level, a microprocessor, and a garment that contains small tactile elements in a matrix that vibrate in a pattern related to the location of objects in front of the user. The cameras take pictures of the area and then map the depth and position of objects. This map is translated onto a person's skin through the garment with tactile elements with each tactile element corresponding to a zone in real space. Some of the tactile elements will trigger sequentially in a snaking pattern with only certain ones activating in a pattern. This will help the person sense where there are objects in his/her path.
US11928980B2

A heavy-duty interactive (HDi) system may include a heavy-duty vehicle; a work tool installed on the heavy-duty vehicle; a memory that stores a plurality of patterns representing operation events for the heavy-duty vehicle; a first sensor affixed to the heavy-duty vehicle that collects first sensor data as the heavy-duty vehicle is operated; a second sensor affixed to the work tool that collects second sensor data as the work tool is operated; and a controller operatively coupled to the first sensor, the second sensor, and the memory. The controller may be configured to identify a heavy-duty vehicle operation event by comparing at least one of the first sensor data and the second sensor data with the plurality of patterns in the memory, and associate the work tool with the heavy-duty vehicle based on a comparison of the first sensor data and the second sensor data.
US11928975B2

Methods and systems for servicing distributed generators are provided herein. For example, a system for servicing distributed generators comprises a distributed generator comprising a plurality of components, a controller communicatively connected to the plurality of components, and an unmanned aerial vehicle communicatively coupled to at least one of the plurality of components or the controller for at least one of transmitting and receiving data relating to the plurality of components.
US11928971B2

A method includes obtaining a plurality of data sets, where each data set of the plurality of data sets includes multivariate time series data for a respective sample period of a plurality of sample periods. The method also includes, for each data set of the plurality of data sets, determining recurrence data indicative of recurrent states in the data set and determining, based on the recurrence data, determinism values of a determinism metric and laminarity values of a laminarity metric. The method further includes determining that a particular data set of the plurality of data sets includes data representing an anomalous state based on a determinism-laminarity curve representing the particular data set, where the determinism-laminarity curve is based on the determinism values of the particular data set and the laminarity values of the particular data set. The method also includes generating output data indicating the anomalous state.
US11928965B2

A vehicle capable of autonomous driving includes a lane detection system. The lane detection system is trained to predict lane lines using training images. The training images are automatically processed by a training module of the lane detection system in order to create ground truth data. The ground truth data is used to train the lane detection system to predict lane lines that are occluded in real-time images of roadways. The lane detection system predicts lane lines of a roadway in a real-time image even though the lane lines maybe indiscernible due to objects on the roadway or due to the position of the lane lines being in the horizon.
US11928962B2

A system for location risk determination and ranking based on vehicle events and/or an accident database includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive accident data and/or event data. The processor is configured to determine a set of incident groups, wherein an incident group of the set of incident groups is associated with a set of accidents of the accident data and/or a set of events of the event data that are grouped by location proximity. The processor is further configured to determine a set of traffic estimations, wherein a traffic estimation of the set of traffic estimations is associated with the incident group of the set of incident groups; and determine a ranking of the set of incident groups based at least in part on the set of accidents, the set of events, and the set of traffic estimations.
US11928958B2

This invention relates to a method for users localization and guidance of the movements of the users through a building adapted in relation to an event, along paths leading to one or more given target places, with connected objects (T, T′) in communication link with a remote resource server which is a control server (S) accessible by a communication network, comprising the following steps: on the basis of a digital model of the building (BIM, CIM), nodes (N) and edges (A) are computed; a user waiting list is assigned to each passage node; a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of movement toward the target places (“E”, “S”, “W”) is automatically computed with the nodes and the edges (A); the actual location of an event is detected; the actual position of each user located in the building is computed; as a function of the profile of the user, of the user's location in real time in the building causing the inaccessibility of certain nodes of the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG), the so-called ‘updated’ Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG′) of moving toward the target places; and a sub-graph DODAG′ are computed.
US11928952B1

A safety system for supervision of a child involving interaction between a pre-trained first adult conveying responsibility for supervision of the child to a pre-trained second adult. The system utilizes a specific interactive scripted conversation between the first adult and the second adult to assign responsibility for supervision of the child to the second adult. Following this, the first adult transfers a wearable to the second adult to provide a visual and tactile transfer of the responsibility of supervision of the child from the first adult and acceptance of the responsibility of supervision of the child by the second adult corresponding to the interactive conversation between the first adult and the second adult.
US11928949B2

Phone reminder device (PRD) apparatus, systems, and methods for pairing with a protected phone include a processor, a memory unit that stores program instructions, a user input device, a Bluetooth low energy radio transceiver, an accelerometer, and an integral power source. PRD processor control routines, including visual feedback and customized auditory alerts, are based on selected modes of method and system operation, persistence of inferred or measured lack of proximity, history and frequency of alerts, current and historical PRD and/or phone movement, historical bases for lack of proximity, and loss of phone connection. User input or separate processor control adjust the transmission power level up with adjusted transmission power level in detecting protected phone proximity saved to the memory unit. Based on user input and PRD system and/or method dynamics, the memory unit maximizes integral power source life. PRD remote control of the protected phone camera application is disclosed.
US11928947B2

A fall detection-based help-seeking method and an electronic device, to improve accuracy of fall detection performed by an electronic device and reduce a probability of mistakenly triggering automatic help-seeking of the electronic device. A solution includes: the electronic device includes a motion sensor and the motion sensor includes an acceleration sensor or a gyro sensor. The electronic device collects a first motion parameter of a user by using the motion sensor. The electronic device obtains a fall confidence of the first motion parameter if the first motion parameter matches a first preset fall parameter, where the fall confidence of the first motion parameter is used to represent a probability that the first motion parameter is a motion parameter collected when the user falls. The electronic device sends help-seeking information if the fall confidence of the first motion parameter is greater than a preset confidence threshold.
US11928943B2

Methods for tracking a container with a tracking device are provided.
US11928942B2

A system and method for premises theft prevention and detection. A system comprises a media capture device, a target area and target object at a workstation, and operably configured code in non-transitory computer readably storage media. A system recognizes a theft or misappropriation and can notify a business owner or police. The system is powered by machine-learning algorithms that progressively improve accuracy and precision in theft detection.
US11928933B2

Innovations in user interface (“UI”) features of electronic gaming machines (“EGMs”) are described. For example, control logic controls the UI of an EGM according to an iterative re-spin process, which uses reels and a reel area on a display screen of the EGM. In a given iteration of the re-spin process, the control logic identifies any locked reels. The control logic spins any unlocked reels for the given iteration on the display screen while holding locked reels in place. The control logic evaluates a condition that depends on whether the reel area encloses a special symbol stack for at least one unlocked, spun reel. If the condition is satisfied, the control logic continues the re-spin process. Upon exit from the re-spin process, the control logic determines a count of special symbol stacks in the reel area, determines an outcome of the re-spin process, and outputs an indication of the outcome.
US11928926B2

A gaming system includes an electronic gaming machine (EGM) located within a defined zone of a gaming venue, a transmitter configured to output a first unique identifier, and a server including a processor and a memory storing instructions, where the instructions cause the processor to receive, in connection with a request at a mobile terminal to transfer funds to a gaming wallet accessible at the EGM, a communication from the mobile terminal including the first unique identifier, determine, based on the received first unique identifier, whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, and transmit, in response to determining whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone, a signal to the mobile terminal indicating whether the mobile terminal is within the defined zone.
US11928924B2

Systems, processes and articles of manufacture provide for a player identity verification system that allows a gaming establishment (e.g., a casino) to determine or verify a player's identity upon certain qualifying activities being determined (e.g., when a player is initiating a wagering session at a table game or placing a wager). In accordance with one embodiment, a live image of a player participating in a qualifying activity (e.g., placement of a wager) is compared to a stored image of a player that is associated with one or more casino chips being used as the wager; a verification of the identity of the player placing the wager is performed by matching the live image to the stored image.
US11928919B2

A casino having a nodal network of wireless transceivers. Each bank of gaming machines has a transceiver within wireless communication range of at least one other transceiver. A casino patron uses a casino app running on a mobile device to communicate with the external network cloud via the nodal network from any location within the casino at which the mobile device is within wireless communication range of a connected transceiver. The mobile device transmits to the connected transceiver an outgoing message that is propagated wirelessly through the nodal network to the external network cloud via a terminal transceiver. The mobile device receives from the connected transceiver an incoming message that has been transmitted from the external network cloud to the terminal transceiver and then propagated wirelessly through the nodal network to the connected transceiver.
US11928916B2

Gaming systems, methods, and machines provided herein may include wheel displays with movable wheel segments that may be caused to have at least portions thereof that at least translate along axes parallel to a center axis of the wheel display when the wheel is in a “spin” mode.
US11928915B2

A method of playing a feature game on a gaming machine. A display displays a first game and a second game. A game controller determines if a merging condition occurs, and if a merging condition occurs, animates a merging of the first game and the second game into a merged game at the display. The merged game has a plurality of display positions from the first game, the second game, and a set of additional display positions.
US11928908B2

A medium processing device includes: a transaction unit including a transaction port and configured to perform at least one of a process of taking in a medium or a process of taking out the medium through the transaction port; a cassette mounting unit including a mounting port wherein a medium cassette is mounted to the mounting port; a cassette processing unit configured to perform at least one of a process of carrying in the medium from the medium cassette mounted to the cassette mounting unit or a process of carrying out the medium to the medium cassette; and a closing member configured to selectively close the transaction port or the mounting port.
US11928891B2

Systems and methods for adapting physical activities and exercises based on facial analysis by image processing are disclosed. A method includes: identifying, by a computer device, a user; receiving, by the computer device, video data of a face region of the user while the user is engaged in exercise or physical activity; analyzing, by the computer device, the video data to determine a detected state of the user, wherein the analyzing the video data includes performing facial analysis using the video data; and providing, by the computer device, feedback to the user based on the analyzing the video data.
US11928886B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel including an image sensor arranged to receive incident light reflected by an external object, a first guide structure arranged between the display panel and the image sensor and configured to change the direction of the incident light which is introduced through a fingerprint recognition area of the display panel, a second guide structure arranged between the first guide structure and the image sensor and configured to change the direction of the incident light which is introduced therein after passing through the first guide structure, and a processor operatively connected to the display panel and the image sensor. According to an embodiment, the electronic device performs fingerprint recognition by acquiring image information through the image sensor on the basis of at least a part of the incident light introduced through the first guide structure and the second guide structure.
US11928883B2

A device for capturing a biometric print of a user, the user compartment including a frontal opening designed for the passage of part of a hand into said user compartment and a lateral opening allowing the passage of the thumb of the user's hand, the lateral opening extending as far as the frontal opening to form a continuous open space, the lateral opening being delimited in a direction of insertion of the user's hand into the user compartment by a user hand positioning stop.
US11928881B2

A detection device includes a sensor unit, a detector configured to receive an output from a sensor, a detection controller configured to drive and control the sensor unit and the detector, and a processor configured to perform processing in accordance with an output from the detector. The detection controller drives the sensor unit and the detector and determines a touch detection duration in which a coordinate of a finger contacting or nearby the sensor unit is detected, and a fingerprint detection duration in which a fingerprint image of the finger is detected.
US11928880B1

Techniques are disclosed for detecting an uncovered portion of a body of a person in a frame of video content. In an example, a first machine learning model of a computing system may output a first score for the frame based on a map that identifies a region of the frame associated with an uncovered body part type. Depending on a value of the first score, a second machine learning model that includes a neural network architecture may further analyze the frame to output a second score. The first score and second score may be merged to produce a third score for the frame. A plurality of scores may be determined, respectively, for frames of the video content, and a maximum score may be selected. The video content may be selected for presentation on a display for further evaluation based on the maximum score.
US11928874B2

A camera (10) for detecting objects (48) moving relative to the camera (10) in a direction of movement (50), comprising an image sensor (18) for recording image data of the objects (48) in a camera field of view (14, 56), an optoelectronic distance sensor (24) using a time-of-flight method having a plurality of measurement zones (30a) for measuring a plurality of distance values to the objects (48) in a distance measurement field of view (58), and a control and evaluation unit (38) configured to find, by measuring distance values over a configuration time and evaluating the distance values and/or their change, a region where objects (48) move, and to automatically set a region of interest (60) for the distance sensor (24) within the distance measurement field of view (58) by determining an object region as the region where objects (48) move.
US11928866B2

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selecting locations in an environment of a vehicle where objects are likely centered and determining properties of those objects. One of the methods includes receiving an input characterizing an environment external to a vehicle. For each of a plurality of locations in the environment, a respective first object score that represents a likelihood that a center of an object is located at the location is determined. Based on the first object scores, one or more locations from the plurality of locations are selected as locations in the environment at which respective objects are likely centered. Object properties of the objects that are likely centered at the selected locations are also determined.
US11928865B2

One variation of a method for monitoring occupancy in a work area includes, at a sensor block: transitioning from an inactive state into an active state when an output of a motion sensor indicates motion in a work area; during a scan cycle in the active state, recording an image through an optical sensor at a time, detecting a set of humans in the image, detecting a second set of human effects in the image, predicting a second set of humans occupying but absent the work area based on the second set of human effects, and estimating a total occupancy in the work area at the time based on the set of humans and the second set of humans; and transmitting the total occupancy to a remote computer system for update of a scheduler for the work area.
US11928863B2

This application discloses a method for determining an implantation location of recommendation information performed at a computer device. The method includes: acquiring a target video; acquiring, according to a scene change status of the target video, a target video frame being used for location detection; performing image recognition on the target video frame to obtain masking information of the target video frame including a first region of an object of a target type in the target video frame; and determining an implantation location of recommendation information in the target video frame based on the first region. Image recognition processing is performed on the target video frame to obtain the masking information of the target video frame, so as to determine the implantation location in the target video frame on the basis of the first region corresponding to the object of the target type in the target video frame.
US11928860B2

Techniques related to object detection using an adaptive convolutional neural network (CNN) are discussed. Such techniques include applying one of multiple configurations of the CNN to input image data in response to an available computational resources for processing the input image data.
US11928849B2

A mechanism is provided to implement an action-object interaction detection mechanism for recognizing actions in cluttered video scenes. An object bounding box is computed around an object of interest identified in a corresponding label in an initial frame where the object of interest appears in the frame. The object bounding box is propagated from the initial frame to a subsequent frame. For the initial frame and the subsequent frame: the object bounding boxes of the initial frame and the subsequent frame are refined and cropped based on the associated refined object bounding boxes. The set of cropped frames are processed to determine a probability that an action that is to be verified from the corresponding label is being performed. Responsive to determining the probability is equal to or exceeds a verification threshold, a confirmation is provided that the action-object interaction video performs the action that is to be verified.
US11928842B2

A method of measuring chromaticity of a target object is implemented using a computer device that stores a plurality of light source spectrum datasets each associated with a specific object. The method includes: obtaining a captured color image of the target object; generating a spectral image based on the captured color image using a spectral transformation matrix; obtaining one of the plurality of light source spectrum datasets that is associated with the target object; and calculating a chromaticity dataset of the target object based on the spectral image and the one of the plurality of light source spectrum datasets.
US11928836B2

An electronic device mounted on a fixed or a movable apparatus is provided. The electronic device may comprise a neural processing unit (NPU), including a plurality of processing elements (PEs), configured to process an operation of an artificial neural network model trained to detect or track at least one object and output an inference result based on at least one image acquired from at least one camera; and a signal generator generating a signal applicable to the at least one camera.
US11928835B2

It is possible to realize navigation that employs map representation data acquired using a captured map photograph, with a map representation data processing device including: a photograph reception unit that receives a map photograph from a terminal device; a determination unit that searches a navigation information group that contains two or more pieces of navigation information that contain map representation data and two or more pieces of correspondence information that are each a set of coordinate information and position information on the map representation data, and determines a piece of navigation information that has a relationship that satisfies a first condition, with the map photograph; and a navigation information transmission unit that transmits the piece of navigation information determined by the determination unit, to the terminal device.
US11928834B2

Presented herein are systems and methods for performing three-dimensional measurements of a surgical space using two-dimensional endoscopic images. According to an aspect, video data taken from an endoscopic imaging device can be used to generate a three-dimensional model of the surgical space represented by the video data. In one or more examples, two-dimensional images from the video data can be used to generate a three-dimensional model of the surgical space. In one or more examples, the one or more two-dimensional images of the surgical space can include a fiducial marker as part of the image. Using both the depth information and a size reference provided by the fiducial marker, the systems and methods herein can generate a three-dimensional model of the surgical space. The generated three-dimensional model can then be used to perform a variety of three-dimensional measurements in a surgical cavity in an accurate and efficient manner.
US11928833B2

According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium on which is stored instructions that the processor may execute to determine displacement levels of multiple locations of an image and to select a sampling density for the multiple locations. The processor may execute the instructions to generate an array of points according to the selected sampling density, the array of points identifying displaced portions of the image.
US11928831B2

An information processing apparatus generates shape data on an object included in a first partial space based on one or more captured images obtained from one or more of a plurality of imaging apparatuses and a first parameter corresponding to the first partial space, the first partial space being included in a plurality of partial spaces in an imaging space which is an image capturing target for the plurality of imaging apparatuses, and generates shape data on an object included in a second partial space based on one or more captured images obtained from one or more of the plurality of imaging apparatuses and a second parameter corresponding to the second partial space, the second partial space being included in the plurality of partial spaces, the second parameter being different from the first parameter.
US11928830B2

Disclosed are methods and systems for generating three-dimensional reconstructions of environments. A system, for example, may include a housing having an image sensor directed in a first direction and a distance sensor directed in a second direction and a control unit including a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor may be configured to execute the instructions to: generate a first 3D model of an environment; generate a plurality of revolved 3D models by revolving the first 3D model relative to the image sensor to a plurality of positions within a predetermined angular range; match a set of distance values to one of the revolved 3D models; determine an angular position of the second direction relative to the first direction; and generate a 3D reconstruction of the environment.
US11928822B2

In various examples, live perception from sensors of a vehicle may be leveraged to detect and classify intersection contention areas in an environment of a vehicle in real-time or near real-time. For example, a deep neural network (DNN) may be trained to compute outputs—such as signed distance functions—that may correspond to locations of boundaries delineating intersection contention areas. The signed distance functions may be decoded and/or post-processed to determine instance segmentation masks representing locations and classifications of intersection areas or regions. The locations of the intersections areas or regions may be generated in image-space and converted to world-space coordinates to aid an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle in navigating intersections according to rules of the road, traffic priority considerations, and/or the like.
US11928814B2

A method for generating a module configured to determine concentration of an analyte in a sample of a body fluid is disclosed. The method includes providing a first set of measurement data derived from images of one or more test strips indicating a color transformation in response to a body fluid containing an analyte. The images can be recorded by multiple devices with differing cameras, software and/or hardware device configurations for image recording and image data processing. A neural network model can be generated in a machine learning process applying an artificial neural network and a module configured to determine concentration of an analyte in a second sample of a body fluid can be generated. Further, the present disclosure includes a system for generating the module as well as a method and a system for determining concentration of an analyte in a sample of a bodily fluid.
US11928812B2

The present technology is generally directed to systems and methods for inspecting an asset in a communication-denied environment. The present technology can include receiving, via an electronic device, an image of a dashboard of the asset; determining, based on the image, a working mode and one or more status identifiers of the asset; transmitting the working mode and the one or more status identifiers to an inspection system; and/or receiving information regarding the status of the asset based on the working mode and one or more status identifiers.
US11928798B2

An image processing apparatus includes a correction unit, a first detection unit, a second detection unit, and a merging unit. The correction unit is configured to perform correction of a misalignment between a plurality of images captured at exposures different from each other. The first detection unit is configured to detect an inappropriate area from the plurality of images. The second detection unit is configured to detect a feature point for the correction by preferentially using an area other than the inappropriate area of the plurality of images. The merging unit is configured to merge the plurality of images on which the correction has been performed.
US11928797B2

Disclosed are an electronic device, and a method for controlling same. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to an electronic device, and a method for controlling same, which can secure high visibility of a subject by acquiring, from an original image, a plurality of sub images having a smaller bit number than the original image, and acquiring a synthesized image on the basis of information about the shapes of objects included in the plurality of sub images.
US11928795B2

This disclosure describes methods, apparatuses, and techniques for capturing a fingerprint image using an electronic device with an under-display fingerprint sensor (UDFPS) embedded under a display screen of a display system. The display system utilizes a pulse-width modulation circuit to generate a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to control light emitted by the display screen. As the display screen illuminates a user's touch, the UDFPS captures light reflected off the user's touch, therefore, capturing the fingerprint image. The captured fingerprint image, however, includes a PWM noise. The electronic device uses a noise-filtering algorithm to filter out and/or reduce the PWM noise in the captured fingerprint image. In one aspect, the noise-filtering algorithm estimates and/or determines the PWM noise in the captured fingerprint image. The noise-filtering algorithm then reduces, extracts, and/or filters out the PWM noise from the captured fingerprint image.
US11928793B2

A video quality assessment apparatus and method are provided. The video quality assessment apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: identify whether a frame included in a video is a fully-blurred frame or a partially-blurred frame based on a blur level of the frame, obtain, in response to the frame being the fully-blurred frame, an analysis-based quality score with respect to the fully-blurred frame; obtain, in response to the frame being the partially-blurred frame, a model-based quality score with respect to the partially-blurred frame; and process the video based on at least one of the analysis-based quality score or the model-based quality score to obtain a processed video.
US11928789B2

A method of processing an image within a vehicle interior with a camera includes acquiring a live image of the vehicle interior. The live image is compared to an ideally aligned image of the vehicle interior having an associated region of interest to generate a homography matrix. The homography matrix is applied to the region of interest to generate a calibrated region of interest projected onto the live image for detecting an object therein.
US11928778B2

A method for human body model reconstruction and a reconstruction system are disclosed. The method includes acquiring a target image, and acquiring a segmented image by segmenting the target image based on an object to be reconstructed in the target image, the target image being one front image of the object; acquiring an initial estimate shape and a part of texture information of the object respectively, according to the segmented image; determining an initial 3D model of the object through the initial estimate shape, the initial 3D model being a 3D model without texture; acquiring complete texture information of the object according to the part of texture information and a texture generation model; and generating a 3D reconstruction model of the object based on the initial 3D model and the complete texture information, the 3D reconstruction model being a 3D model with texture.
US11928776B2

A graphics processing system performs hidden surface removal and texturing/shading on fragments of primitives. The system includes a primary depth buffer (PDB) for storing depth values of resolved fragments, and a secondary depth buffer (SDB) for storing depth values of unresolved fragments. Incoming fragments are depth tested against depth values from either the PDB or the SDB. When a fragment passes a depth test, its depth value is stored in the PDB if it is a resolved fragment (e.g. if it is opaque or translucent), and its depth value is stored in the SDB if it is an unresolved fragment (e.g. if it is a punch through fragment). This provides more opportunities for subsequent opaque objects to overwrite punch through fragments which passed a depth test, thereby reducing unnecessary processing and time which may be spent on fragments which ultimately will not contribute to the final rendered image.
US11928768B2

A method of controlling the order in which primitives, generated during tessellation, are output by the tessellation unit involves sub-dividing a patch, selecting one of the two sub-patches which are formed by the sub-division and tessellating that sub-patch until no further sub-division is possible before tessellating the other (non-selected) sub-patch. The method is recursively applied at each level of sub-division. Patches are output as primitives at the point in the method where they do not require any further sub-division. The selection of a sub-patch is made based on the values of one or more flags and any suitable tessellation method may be used to determine whether to sub-divide a patch. Methods of controlling the order in which vertices are output by the tessellation unit are also described and these may be used in combination with, or independently of, the method of controlling the primitive order.
US11928762B2

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for editing images using a web-based intermediary between a user interface on a client device and an image editing neural network(s) (e.g., a generative adversarial network) on a server(s). The present image editing system supports multiple users in the same software container, advanced concurrency of projection and transformation of the same image, clubbing transformation requests from several users hosted in the same software container, and smooth display updates during a progressive projection.
US11928758B2

This disclosure enables various technologies for augmented-reality, which allow a person to obtain (e.g., electronically reserve, electronically purchase, physically receive) a memorabilia item during an event at or remote from a venue in which a performer is performing or within a preset time period after the event (e.g., within few hours after the event) at or remote from the venue. These technologies may reduce a rise in counterfeits of the memorabilia item, while minimizing a price increase of the memorabilia item.
US11928747B2

A system for data collection and loan activities is disclosed. The system may include a data collection circuit to receive data relating to a status of a loan and a set of items of collateral acting as security for the loan. The system may further include a blockchain service circuit to maintain a secure historical ledger of events related to the loan, and to interpret a plurality of access control features corresponding to parties associated with the loan. The system may further include a loan evaluation circuit to determine a loan status based on the received data, a smart contract circuit to create a smart lending contract for the loan, and an automated agent circuit to perform a loan action based on the loan status, wherein the blockchain service circuit is further structured to update the secure historical ledger of events with the loan action.
US11928745B2

A new issue management (NIMS) platform configured to track and report on New Issue data and generate visual elements, alerts and reports for interface applications. The NIMS platform provides a data capture and normalization solution. The NIMS platform can streamline data capture and dissemination processes and procedures by reducing duplicative data entry and manual input. The NIMS platform can improve data consistency by establishing automated systems across various lines of business for an organization. The NIMS platform can implement data capture, remediation and migration of current and historical data.
US11928739B2

A system for accident reconstruction can include and/or be configured to interface with any or all of: a set of models, a set of modules, a processing system, client application, a user device (equivalently referred to herein as a mobile device), a set of sensors, a vehicle, and/or any other suitable components. A method for accident reconstruction includes collecting a set of inputs; detecting a collision and/or one or more features of the collision; reconstructing the collision; and producing an output based on the reconstruction. Additionally or alternatively, the method can include training a set of models and/or modules, and/or any other suitable processes.
US11928738B1

Systems and methods relating to improving the experience of gig-economy workers are disclosed, with particular reference to gig-economy work involving vehicle use. During or after performance of gig-economy work, data automatically collected may be used to generate and present recommendations or education points to gig-economy workers. Such recommendations may include targeted alerts to notify gig-economy workers of high-demand situations or to coordinate between gig-economy workers and gig-economy customers. Alerts may be generated based upon current excess demand for gig-economy services, as well as gig-economy worker availability and preferences. For example, alerts may be generated in response to detecting emergency conditions in an area in order to mobilize a large number of gig-economy transportation service providers.
US11928730B1

A method including training a machine-learning model, based on historical data, with a maximization problem and one or more minimization problems to improve one or more fairness metrics. The method also can include receiving real-time data. The method additionally can include generating a risk score based on the machine-learning model, as trained, and the real-time data. Other embodiments are described.
US11928723B2

This application relates to systems and methods for facilitating online search based on offline transaction data. In some examples, a disclosed system includes a computing device that is configured to: obtain an online search request that is submitted by a user to an online retailer; generate an online search result comprising a plurality of items that match the query and are available at a first physical retail store associated with the online retailer; generate online search data based on the online search request and the online search result; obtain in-store purchase data of the user, wherein the in-store purchase data comprise at least one offline transaction initiated by the user at one or more physical retail stores associated with the online retailer for purchasing at least one item of the plurality of items within a predetermined time period after generating the online search result; generate, for the query and for each of the at least one item purchased offline, an order feedback signal by associating the in-store purchase data with the online search data; and perform an online search based on the order feedback signal, in response to the query from any user.
US11928713B2

The disclosed computer-implemented method may match transportation requestor devices to transportation provider devices pre-request by using the same matching process employed by a matching engine that is capable of predicting transportation swaps and walks. Multiple matches may be showcased on user devices, and offline transportation providers may see an exact match to a requestor, with an ability to go online and accept the pre-request match. Additional techniques disclosed include the curation and presentation of offers using constraint space partitioning and adjustment of price and/or the presentation of offers based on real-time information to improve the efficiency and/or utilization of transportation provider resources.
US11928707B2

Methods and apparatus for pre-scaling media content to facilitate audience measurement are disclosed. An example method includes encoding a media content sample in accordance with a first encoding configuration and playing the encoded sample. The example method also includes attempting to detect the codes in the sample, and computing a ratio between the codes encoded in the sample and the codes detected when the sample is played.
US11928704B2

A system and a method for delivering digital coupons to customers. A coupon delivery server is designed to manage coupons for displaying to users. The server provides a first user interface for an administrator to manage merchants of the system, provides a second user interface for merchants to customize coupons to be advertised, assigns a scannable code for each coupon, arrange coupons into a list, and display the list of coupons with assigned scannable codes on a display. When a user scans a code from the display via a mobile device, the user is presented a list of merchants, and when the user selects a particular merchant, relative scannable coupons are displayed on the mobile device, the user can then bring the scannable coupon to a point of sale of the selected merchant for automatically redemption of a discount to a purchase of the user.
US11928702B1

A shopper information processing system may include a shopper device associated with a given shopper, and a shopper information processing server. The shopper information processing server may be configured to store shopper information associated with the given shopper on a blockchain, cooperate with the shopper device to store shopper permissions for selectively accessing, on the blockchain, the shopper information, and permit at least one loyalty program to access the selected shopper information on the blockchain based upon the shopper permissions. The shopper information processing server may also be configured to generate a digital coupon based upon an amount of shopper information permitted to be selectively accessed by the at least one loyalty program, and communicate the digital coupon to the shopper device.
US11928700B2

A smart farm platform is disclosed for determining recommended selling prices of agricultural products based on state information of the agricultural products and operation history information of a plant grower, among information received from the plant grower, and a terminal displays the recommended selling prices of agricultural products through a display.
US11928698B2

An information processing apparatus having a first fitness calculation to calculate a fitness using a predetermined function for models in a population; a virtual model generating to select, as parent models, models having higher value of the fitness using the first fitness calculation among the models, and generate a virtual model that outputs by performing calculation of output results of the selected parent models; a second fitness calculation to calculate the fitness of the virtual model using the predetermined function; a replacing operation constituting the population by adding the virtual model and by deleting a model having lower value of the fitness among the models in the population; and a model extracting to extract a model having higher value of the fitness from the population by repeating processing by the virtual model generating, the second fitness calculation, and the model replacing until a predetermined termination condition is reached.
US11928695B1

Embodiments of the disclosed technology provide anti-theft shelving units particularly designed to deter/detect sweeping theft. For example, an anti-theft shelving unit of the disclosed technology may comprise a combination of the following anti-sweeping theft design features: (1) flip-stopper(s) swingably-mounted to shelves of the anti-theft shelving unit; (2) flip-door(s) swingably-mounted to the anti-theft shelving unit; (3) processing circuitry that, in response to an anti-theft-related signal, locks the flip-stopper(s) and flip-door(s) in fixed positions that restrict access to items on the shelves; and (4) shelf-mounted sensors and processing circuitry that determine occurrence of sweeping theft in response to detecting removal of over a threshold number of items from a shelf in a pre-determined time interval.
US11928691B2

Techniques described herein relate to a method for deploying workflows with data management services. The method may include identifying, by a warranty measuring model associated with an information handling system, a first change event associated with the information handling system; obtaining first change information associated with the first change event; making a first determination that the first change event is not associated with an entry of a warranty audit table (WAT); generating a new WAT entry in the WAT using the first change information and an initial timestamp; identifying, by a warranty measuring model, a second change event associated with the information handling system; obtaining second change information associated with the second change event; making a second determination that the second change event is associated with an existing WAT entry of the WAT; updating the existing WAT entry using the second change information and a final timestamp.
US11928683B2

A fraud prevention server and method. The fraud prevention server includes an electronic processor and a memory. The memory includes an online application origination (OAO) service. The electronic processor is configured to perform feature encoding on one or more categorical variables in a first matrix to generate one or more feature encoded categorical variables, generate a second matrix including the one or more feature encoded categorical variables, generate a feature encoded OAO model by training an OAO model with the second matrix, receive information regarding a submission of an online application on a device, determine a fraud score of the online application based on the information that is received and the feature encoded OAO model, the feature encoded OAO model being more precise than the OAO model, and control the client server to approve, hold, or deny the online application based on the fraud score that is determined.
US11928671B2

An authentication and encryption computer system and method are disclosed. An encrypted channel is established with a first device. Transaction information is received over the encrypted channel, including an instrument identifier, wherein the instrument identifier is tokenized, a first amount for item acquisition by a first person, a second amount specified by the first person, and identification information of a second person. An identity of a user of a second device is authenticated to determine that the user is the second person and in response to such authentication, a user interface is provided, including the second amount and an identification of one or more entities is displayed. An instruction is received to distribute at least a portion of the second amount to specified entities. A secure communication is established via remote systems and a portion of the second amount is distributed among respective destinations associated with the specified entities.
US11928670B2

A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via a client device, a request to process an order for value storage tokens, the request indicating at least one token provider and order parameters defining at least one denomination and a quantity of value storage tokens to be associated with the at least one denomination; establishing a communication connection with a server system associated with the at least one token provider through an application programming interface (API) for the at least one token provider; generating one or more API calls for requesting to obtain digital representations of the value storage tokens associated with the order; and receiving the digital representations of the value storage tokens associated with the order.
US11928667B2

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for using multicomputer data transferring to active contactless communication. In one example, such a system may include at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform one or more operations, the operations including: receiving a transaction associated with a merchant on a list of merchants stored in the at least one memory; determining, based on the merchant, a remote server associated with the merchant; assembling a data packet including an identifier of the contactless card and an identifier of the transaction; transmitting the data packet to the determined server across one or more computer networks; receiving confirmation from the determined sever in response to the data packet; and transmitting the confirmation to a user device associated with the transaction.
US11928666B1

A method, apparatus, and system of activating and using a contactless card are disclosed. More particularly, a method of accessing an account is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a transaction card processing circuit from a customer device, information regarding the customer device and information regarding a contactless card associated with the account, where the information regarding the contactless card is received by the customer device via a contactless communication with the contactless card, authenticating a customer associated with the contactless card based on the information regarding the customer device and the information regarding the contactless card, and providing access to the account by the customer device based on the authentication.
US11928662B2

Embodiments herein describe providing feedback to a shopper at a POS system using a computer vision system. Many items at a store may lack barcodes or other identifying marks such as produce. The shopper may have to perform an action to identify the item to the POS system. The computer vision system can double check the identify provided by the shopper to reduce mistakes and deter nefarious actors. If the computer vision system cannot independently confirm that the item being purchased matched the identity provided by the shopper, the POS system can display a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes an image of the item captured by the computer vision system along with identification data of the item identified by the shopper. This gives the shopper a chance to correct any mistakes.
US11928659B2

A document handler system and method includes timed operation functionality in which the manufacturer of the document handler may input coded information in the document handler to establish a timed operation of the document handler which may be contingent on continued payments for use of the document handler. Alternatively, or in addition, the timed operation may be used to establish an appropriate warranty period during which the manufacturer is obligated to provide repairs, modification and/or support for the document handler.
US11928658B2

Disclosed is a system and method for providing, accessing, monitoring and updating content on an e-commerce platform. The platform may have different user interfaces for consultants who act on behalf of an entity to market a product provided by the entity, and for prospects who are interested in learning more about the product, purchase the product and/or become part of the team to market the product. The consultants may upload digital content to the platform via their dedicated consultant interface and the prospects may access the digital content on the platform via their dedicated prospect interfaces. Contents of the prospect webpage and how the prospects interacts with their prospect webpage may be monitored. The contents of the prospect webpage may be updated, automatically or by the consultant associated with that prospect, based on the monitoring.
US11928655B1

A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US11928650B2

A meeting system facilitates spontaneous social encounter between users with a meeting server. The meeting server obtains calendar data, user preferences, and an organization chart associated with each user of a plurality of users. The meeting server selects a first user and a second user for a social encounter based on the calendar data, user preferences, and roles in the organization chart. The meeting server prompts a first user device associated with the first user, and a second user device associated with the second user, for a social encounter. Responsive to obtaining acceptances from the first user and the second user, the meeting server facilitates the social encounter between the first user and the second user.
US11928648B2

Systems and methods for tracking items. A system for tracking an item is configured to scan the item for a computer readable code and convert the computer readable code into a digital identifier associated with the item. The system includes a controller circuit configured to receive authentication information from the mobile computing device, receive a request from the mobile computing device, comprising the digital identifier and a request for information relating to the item. When the memory has the information, the controller circuit obtains the information from the memory and generates an output comprising the digital identifier and the information for display. The output is based on a comparison of a location of the mobile computing device and an expected location of the item.
US11928642B2

A delivery lockbox assembly includes a lock box which has a recess to accommodate a foundation of a building. The lock box has a front entry which is positioned outside of the building to facilitate a parcel to be delivered into the lock box. The lock box has a back entry which is positioned within the building thereby facilitating the back entry to be accessible to an occupant of the building for retrieving the parcel. A locking unit is integrated into the front entry inhibit the parcel from is removed from the lock box by an unauthorized person. the locking unit has an access unit is integrated into the locking unit wherein the access unit is configured to be manipulated by the delivery person. The locking unit is in remote communication with a personal electronic device to alert the occupant that the parcel has been delivered into the lock box.
US11928618B2

The transport allocation planning system includes a transport allocation planning apparatus that creates a transport allocation plan and a user apparatus communicably connected to the transport allocation planning apparatus. The transport allocation planning apparatus transmits an inquiry related to a movement demand of the user to the user apparatus, receives an answer to the inquiry, estimates a movement demand of the user based on the answer, and creates a transport allocation plan based on the estimated movement demand. The user apparatus stores sensor information that is information indicating a current state or a past state of the user apparatus and a utility calculation model for calculating utility of the user during a movement, calculates the utility of the user by applying the sensor information to the utility calculation model, generates an answer to the inquiry based on the calculated utility, and transmits the generated answer to the transport allocation planning apparatus.
US11928614B2

Methods, systems and compositions that allow for treating a patient according to a patient customized therapeutic regimen are provided. Embodiments of the invention include obtaining dosage administration information from a patient and using the same to tailor a therapeutic regimen for the patient. Embodiments of the invention further include preparing and forwarding to the patient physical pharmaceutical dosages based on the customized therapeutic regimen.
US11928610B2

A method for training a probabilistic encoder-decoder having a latent space, the method including: extracting different types of medical data for a group of individuals; creating a data matrix X including the extracted medical data, wherein each row of the data matrix X includes data for one of the group of individuals; creating condition matrix C including features to define a clinical condition, wherein each row of the condition matrix C includes the condition data for one of the group of individuals; and training the encoder and the decoder to learn the latent space by minimizing the reconstruction loss and using a regularization effect to force clinically similar inputs to be close together in the latent space.
US11928604B2

A method and apparatus are provided for building an intelligent automated assistant. Embodiments of the present invention rely on the concept of “active ontologies” (e.g., execution environments constructed in an ontology-like manner) to build and run applications for use by intelligent automated assistants. In one specific embodiment, a method for building an automated assistant includes interfacing a service-oriented architecture that includes a plurality of remote services to an active ontology, where the active ontology includes at least one active processing element that models a domain. At least one of the remote services is then registered for use in the domain.
US11928601B2

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for neural network compression. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving a neural network and identifying a particular set of multiple weights of the neural network. Multiple anchor points are determined based on current values of the particular set of weights of the neural network. The neural network is trained by, at each of multiple training iterations, performing operations comprising adjusting the values of the particular set of weights by backpropagating gradients of a loss function. The loss function comprises a first loss function term based on a prediction accuracy of the neural network and a second loss function term based on a similarity of the current values of the particular set of weights to the anchor points. After training, the values of the particular set of weights are quantized based on the anchor points.
US11928600B2

A method for sequence-to-sequence prediction using a neural network model includes generating an encoded representation based on an input sequence using an encoder of the neural network model and predicting an output sequence based on the encoded representation using a decoder of the neural network model. The neural network model includes a plurality of model parameters learned according to a machine learning process. At least one of the encoder or the decoder includes a branched attention layer. Each branch of the branched attention layer includes an interdependent scaling node configured to scale an intermediate representation of the branch by a learned scaling parameter. The learned scaling parameter depends on one or more other learned scaling parameters of one or more other interdependent scaling nodes of one or more other branches of the branched attention layer.
US11928597B2

There is described a computer-implemented method and system for classifying images, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving an image to be classified, generating a vector representation of the image to be classified using an image embedding method, comparing the vector representation of the image to predefined vector representations of the predefined image categories, and identifying a relevant category amongst the predefined image categories based on the comparison, the relevant category being associated with the image to be classified and outputting the relevant category.
US11928596B2

Various techniques are described for platform management of integrated access of public and privately-accessible datasets utilizing federated query generation and query schema rewriting optimization, including receiving at a dataset access platform a query formatted according to a first data schema, generating a copy of the query, saving the query and the copy to a datastore, parsing the copy of the query in the first schema using an inference engine, determining whether the query comprises data associated with an access control condition associated with accessing the dataset, the access control condition being configured to indicate whether the query is permitted to access the dataset, and rewriting, using a proxy server, the copy of the query in a second schema by converting the copy of the query into a triple associated with the query and another triple associated with the access control condition.
US11928594B2

Training images can be synthesized in order to obtain enough data to train a model (e.g., a neural network) to recognize various classifications of a type of object. Images can be synthesized by blending images of objects labeled using those classifications into selected background images. To improve results, one or more operations are performed to determine whether the synthesized images can still be used as training data, such as by verifying one or more objects of interested represented in those images is not occluded, or at least satisfies a threshold level of acceptance. The training images can be used with real world images to train the model.
US11928593B2

Among a great deal of other disclosure and scope, systems and methods are enclosed that enable for highly efficient labeling of data. For example, in some of many cases, a novel methodology for ranking vectors most useful to label next is disclosed. In such an example, a neural network is trained to predict this ranking methodology upon being given a set of heuristics from which to assess the given problem space. A user can continue the cycle of identifying a set of candidate vectors to label, compiling relevant heuristics from said vectors, ranking vectors via the trained neural network, selecting a subset of the ranked vectors, inquiring an oracle regarding the true labels of the vectors, and then appending the subset of newly labelled vectors to the labelled set of vectors until satisfaction.
US11928585B2

Described is a system for training a neural network for estimating surface normals for use in operating an autonomous platform. The system uses a parallelizable k-nearest neighbor sorting algorithm to provide a patch of points, sampled from the point cloud data, as input to the neural network model. The points are transformed from Euclidean coordinates in a Euclidean space to spherical coordinates. A polar angle of a surface normal of the point cloud data is estimated in the spherical coordinates. The trained neural network model is utilized on the autonomous platform, and the estimate of the polar angle of the surface normal is used to guide operation of the autonomous platform within the environment.
US11928581B2

A method of compressing kernels comprising detecting a plurality of replicated kernels. The plurality of replicated kernels comprise kernels. The method also comprises generating a composite kernel from the replicated kernels. The composite kernel comprises kernel data and meta data indicative of the rotations applied to the composite kernel data. The method also comprises storing a composite kernel.
US11928568B1

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for managing the transmission of mixed-modality messages using machine learning models. An example method generally includes generating, using a first machine learning model, an embedding representation of a mixed-modality message. The mixed-modality message is classified as an effective message or an ineffective message using a second machine learning model and the embedding representation of the mixed-modality message. One or more actions are taken to manage transmission of the mixed-modality message based on the classifying the mixed-modality message as an effective message or an ineffective message.
US11928561B2

A system for customizing informed advisor pairings, the system including a computing device. The computing device is configured to identify a user feature wherein the user feature contains a user biological extraction. The computing device is configured to generate using element training data and using a first machine-learning algorithm a first machine-learning model that outputs advisor elements. The computing device receives an informed advisor element relating to an informed advisor. The computing device determines using output advisor elements whether an informed advisor is compatible for a user.
US11928556B2

Methods and systems for a reinforcement learning system. A spatial and temporal representation of an observed state of an environment is encoded. A previous state is estimated from a given state and a size of a reward is adjusted based on a difference between the estimated previous state and the previous state.
US11928551B2

A computer can comprise a housing, a microprocessor disposed within the housing, a display, and a communication interface communicatively coupled to the microprocessor. The computer can be configured, responsive to locating decodable indicia within content viewable on the display, to decode the decodable indicia to produce at least one decoded message. The computer can be further configured to display the content with decoded message data being embedded into the content. The decoded message data can be provided by at least one decoded message, data derived from the decoded message.
US11928541B2

A closed container includes a detection device for detecting opening of or an attempt to open the container. The detection device includes a contactless passive transponder that is configured to communicate with a reader via an antenna using a carrier signal. An integrated circuit of the transponder includes two input terminals connected to the antenna and two output terminals linked by a first electrically conductive wire having a severable part which is severed in the event of an opening of or an attempted opening of the container. A shorting circuit is configured to short-circuit a first output terminal with a first input terminal in the event of a conductive repair of the severed part which forms an electrical connection between the two output terminals.
US11928535B2

Systems and methods for using QR codes to track, monitor, and consolidate transactions are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system may receive a request from a first device to generate a first QR code associated with a first account. The system may generate the first QR code and send the first QR code to the first device. The system may receive a request from the first device to share a QR code with a second device. The system may update associated data to indicate a sharing of a QR code with the second device. The system may generate a second QR code associated with a second account of the second device and linked to the first account, so that use of the second QR code can be tracked and monitored. The system may send the second QR code to the second device.
US11928528B2

A disclosed method for implementing containers in an information handling system generates, with a first non-privileged container, a request that is sent to a RESTful API. Whenever the API identifies a request requiring host access the API launches a second container, which is configured to operate in a privileged execution mode. The second container accesses the host and executes the requested actions. When the request completes, the first container resumes non-privileged execution, thereby confining privileged mode execution to a container that is only active during host interaction. The host access can be access required to: exchange data with the host, query the host for hardware information, and modify host configuration. The host may be implanted within a device featuring an HCI infrastructure. In one configuration, the host resides of one of multiple distinct nodes of an HCI appliance.
US11928527B2

An information processing apparatus includes a first obtaining unit that references a first storage unit and obtains a communication method of communication data corresponding to a transmission source information and transmission destination information included in data received by a reception unit, and a second obtaining unit that references a second storage unit and obtains the content of transmission destination corresponding to the transmission source information and the transmission destination information included in the received data. The content of the transmission destination indicates destination information used in the obtained communication method, and a transmission unit transmits, to a container or a process of the transmission destination indicated by the transmission source information included in the received data, the communication data according to the communication method obtained by the first obtaining unit and the content of transmission destination obtained by the second obtaining unit.
US11928524B2

The computer system includes one or more storage devices and a management computer, the management computer includes an information collection unit, an event detection unit, a plan generation unit, and a plan execution unit. The plan generation unit determines a target volume of a change process of a right of control in a plan, a processor of a change source of the right of control, and a processor of a change destination of the right of control, estimates an influence by a change process of the right of control in the plan, and the plan execution unit determines execution time of the plan based on the estimation of the influence and the operation information of the storage devices. As a result, in consideration of the influence by an ownership change process, while the influence applied to usage of a computer system is suppressed, the ownership change process is executed.
US11928514B2

A method includes receiving a DNS request, notifying a serverless orchestrator system of data associated with the DNS request, provisioning a function on a serverless function node based on the DNS request, notifying a load balancer regarding the serverless function node, providing a response to the DNS request and routing an API request associated with the DNS request to the serverless function node.
US11928509B2

A method includes receiving, by a processing unit coupled to a first memory device comprising a first type of media and a second memory device comprising a second type of media, data captured from an imaging device coupled to the processing unit and determining, by the processing unit, characteristics of a workload corresponding to processing of the data. The method further includes writing, by the processing unit, a portion of data associated with the workload to the other of the first memory device or the second memory device based on the determined characteristics of the workload and causing the workload to be executed while at least the portion of the data associated with the workload is written to the other of the first memory device or the second memory device.
US11928501B2

Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for a reusable, client-server based ecosystem designed to support content-aware, LiFi-powered transfer of large-scale, semi-structured data files. Containerized client-side applications may include a LiFi communication engine (LCE), a job control engine (JCE), and an execution hub that is configured to interface with the JCE, the LCE, job stakeholders and downstream applications. A central server may include a server-side LCE configured for two-way communication with the client-side LCE. Each LCE may be configured to cluster semi-structured data into data packets, broadcast data packets using an LED array, receive data packets using an array of photoreceptors and synchronize received data packets.
US11928499B2

Systems and methods for intent-based orchestration of independent automation are described.
US11928494B2

Embodiments described herein are directed to configuring managed virtual machines. For instance, a management service (e.g., a mobile device manager) may provide configuration settings to a parent virtual machine. Upon successful application of the configuration settings, the parent virtual machine notifies a configuration service that it is in a steady state and provides the configuration settings to the configuration service. The configuration service notifies a cloud-based service (e.g., a virtual desktop service) that it is configured to instantiate virtual machines. The notification informs the cloud-based service that it is permitted to instantiate child virtual machines. Responsive to receiving the notification, the cloud-based service instantiates child virtual machine(s) as needed. To configure the child virtual machine(s), the configuration service provides the configuration settings received from the parent virtual machine to the child virtual machine(s), and the child virtual machine(s) configure themselves accordingly.
US11928487B2

Seamless integration of multiple applications in tutorials is disclosed herein. In one example, a processor device of a computing device displays, within browser software, a tutorial interface comprising a tutorial guide, wherein the tutorial guide comprises a plurality of task links, and each task link corresponds to an application of a plurality of applications. The processor device receives, using the browser software via a user input device, a first user input indicating a selected task link among the plurality of task links. Responsive to receiving the first user input, the processor device initiates execution of a first application corresponding to the selected task link, wherein the first application executes within the tutorial interface instead of requiring a user to launch and switch between multiple applications in multiple browser tabs or windows.
US11928486B2

A client device can generate a graphical user interface (GUI) including a set of form fields. The client device can receive user input including a first set of form values for the set of form fields from a first entity via the GUI. The client device can also receive an electronic communication via a network, the electronic communication including a second set of form values for the set of form fields as input by a second entity on a remote client device. The client device can compare the second form values to the first form values to identify a mismatch between the first set of form values and the second set of form values. In response to identifying the mismatch, the client device can update the GUI to include a graphical marker indicating the mismatch between the first set of form values and the second set of form values.
US11928482B2

A method includes, for each of a plurality of web resources, receiving, at a communications server, data indicating characteristics of a respective web resource, detecting, based on the received data, that the respective web resource provides functionality for live assistance by a third party content provider through a chat user interface on the respective web resource, and storing, in a database, an entry that indicates that the respective web resource has the functionality. The method includes receiving, from a user, a request to access a particular web resource hosted by a particular third party content provider, determining, based on a stored entry in the database representing the particular web resource, that the web resource provides functionality for live assistance by the particular third party content provider through a particular chat user interface on the web resource, and initiating a chat session between the user and the third party content provider.
US11928478B2

An example computing device includes a tracking device, an interface, a processor, and a controller. The interface including a power pin, a data pin, and a clock pin, where the interface is to couple the tracking device to the computing device via the power pin and the data pin, and the clock pin is disconnected from the tracking device. The controller is communicatively coupled to the processor and the interface, the controller is to control an operation of the tracking device via the data pin.
US11928477B2

A host system includes a device driver with application-specific settings for a hosted application. Input data is generated by one or more tablet devices at a client computer system. A host-side data transfer application receives the input data and forwards it to the host-side driver, which sends the input data to the hosted application. The tablet data sent to the hosted application is configured according to application-specific settings of the host-side driver, which may support multiple application programming interfaces. A dedicated driver-to-driver connection may also be used to transmit data between client-side and host-side drivers. In another aspect, a host sends an identifier of a hosted application currently in use to a client-side driver, which uses that identifier to look up and apply application-specific settings to tablet data sent to the hosted application. This can eliminate the need for a host-side driver while still allowing application-specific settings for hosted applications.
US11928471B2

Embodiments for a metadata predictor. An index pipeline generates indices in an index buffer in which the indices are used for reading out a memory device. A prediction cache is populated with metadata of instructions read from the memory device. A prediction pipeline generates a prediction using the metadata of the instructions from the prediction cache, the populating of the prediction cache with the metadata of the instructions being performed asynchronously to the operating of the prediction pipeline.
US11928465B2

A system and an accelerator circuit including a register file comprising instruction registers to store an instruction for evaluating an elementary function, and data registers comprising a first data register to store an input value. The accelerator circuit further includes a successive cumulative rotation circuit comprising a reconfigurable inner stage to perform a successive cumulative rotation recurrence, and a determination circuit to determine a type of the elementary function based on the instruction, and responsive to determining that the input value is a fixed-point number, configure the reconfigurable inner stage to a configuration for evaluating the type of the elementary function, wherein the successive cumulative rotation circuit is to calculate an evaluation of the elementary function using the reconfigurable inner stage performing the successive cumulative rotation recurrence.
US11928463B2

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an auto-mapping recommendation between a source asset and a target asset in an integration flow design tool. Because the number of fields passed from a source asset to a target asset may be multitudinous, by auto-recommending mappings between fields provided by the source asset to the target asset, an integration flow design tool may save time developers a significant amount of time and optimize the integration flow design process.
US11928462B2

A method includes receiving event strings from source code repositories, creating, for the source code repositories, digests of keywords, receiving log strings, and aggregating the log strings into a log group. The method further includes comparing the digests to the log group to generate scores, whereby the scores correlate the digests to the log group. The method further includes selecting a source code repository from the source code repositories according to the scores, and associating the log group to a service corresponding to the source code repository, where the source code repository corresponds to the digest with a highest score.
US11928457B2

Embodiments of the present application provide a server of a battery swapping station, a charging method and system for a battery, a device and a medium. The method is applied to a server of a battery swapping station, and the method includes: acquiring version information of a first software version after a vehicle mounted with a power battery arrives at the battery swapping station, wherein the first software version is a software version of a first battery management unit of the power battery; controlling, under a condition that the version information of the first software version is lower than version information of a second software version stored in the server, a second battery management unit of the battery swapping station to update the first software version of the first battery management unit to the second software version.
US11928446B2

A method, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for generating heterogenous platform code. The method may obtain a neural network model. The neural network model may be programed to run on at least one platform. The method may also obtain an initial intermediate representation (IR) code by encoding the neural network model, and obtain a target IR code by adding decorations to the initial IR code based on a target platform. The method may also output an executable code optimized to run on the target platform by decoding the target IR code.
US11928431B2

A computer-implemented method of processing language, includes: calculating a value indicating a degree of easiness of association between words with regard to one or more combinations of words in a first word group included in first text data and a second word group included in second text data; associating a first word and a second word based on the value indicating the degree of easiness of association; calculating a value indicating a degree of easiness of association between word groups with regard to a word group in the first text data including the first word and a word group in the second text data including the second word, using a result of the associating and the value indicating the degree of easiness of association between the words; and updating the value indicating the degree of easiness of association between the words by using the value indicating the degree of easiness of association between the word groups.
US11928429B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for packing tokens to train sequence models. In some embodiments, a plurality of datasets for training a sequence model is received. Each dataset in the plurality of datasets includes a sequence of correlated tokens. A set of training data is generated that includes a subset of a sequence of tokens from a first dataset in the plurality of datasets and a subset of a sequence of tokens from a second, different dataset in the plurality of datasets. The sequence model is trained using the set of training data.
US11928428B2

Understanding emojis in the context of online experiences is described. In at least some embodiments, text input is received and a vector representation of the text input is computed. Based on the vector representation, one or more emojis that correspond to the vector representation of the text input are ascertained and a response is formulated that includes at least one of the one or more emojis. In other embodiments, input from a client machine is received. The input includes at least one emoji. A computed vector representation of the emoji is used to look for vector representations of words or phrases that are close to the computed vector representation of the emoji. At least one of the words or phrases is selected and at least one task is performed using the selected word(s) or phrase(s).
US11928424B2

Systems and methods to facilitate a customization and proliferation of models are described. The system receives, via a first interface, table information and communicates the table information to a first model. The first model includes logic to process the values to generate a column of predicted values. The system receives a column of predicted values from the first model. The system appends the column of predicted values to the table information to generate appended table information. The system communicates, via a second interface, the appended table information to a second state including a second plurality of models. The sequence of states is associated with a plurality of interfaces including the first interface and the second interface. The interfaces facilitate a customization and proliferation of models.
US11928423B1

Certain aspects of the disclosure pertain to inferring a candidate entity associated with a transaction with a machine learning model. An organization identifier and description associated with a transaction can be received as input. In response, an entity embedding, comprising a vector for each entity of an organization based on the organization identifier, can be retrieved from storage. A machine learning model can be invoked with the entity embedding and description. The machine learning model can be trained to infer a transaction embedding from the description and compute a similarity score between the transaction embedding and each vector of the entity embedding. A candidate entity with a similarity score satisfying a threshold can be identified and returned. The candidate entity with the highest similarity score can be identified in certain aspects.
US11928419B2

An information display method and apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: determining a target font category to be written in response to an operation of a user on a display device page; determining a target font conversion model corresponding to the target font category in a model library, wherein the model library including font conversion models corresponding to a plurality of font categories; in response to a writing operation of the user on the display device page, determining a standard word corresponding to the writing operation according to a writing trajectory of the writing operation, and generating an initial bitmap corresponding to the standard word; and converting the initial bitmap of the standard word into a target bitmap corresponding to the target font category using the target font conversion model and displaying the target bitmap on the display device page.
US11928418B2

Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for text style suggestions and/or text emphasis suggestions. In an example embodiment, an electronic design application provides a text style suggestion tool that generates text style suggestions to stylize a selected text element based on the context of the design. A text emphasis tool allows a user to select a text element and generate text emphasis suggestions for which words should be emphasized with a different text styling. Various interaction elements allow the user to iterate through the suggestions. For example, a set of style suggestions may be mapped to successive rotational increments around a style wheel, and as the user rotates through the positions on the style wheel, a corresponding text style suggestion is previewed and/or applied.
US11928417B2

A method of displaying an electronic form on a mobile device comprises creating one or more repeatable items comprising a plurality of fields to be filled or displayed wherein one or more of the fields may include another one or more repeatable item. A method of displaying an electronic form on a mobile device having a screen and managed by an operating system comprises attaching a visual priority to one or more fields used in the electronic form; obtaining the current mobile device screen size; and adapting the number of fields to be displayed on the screen based on the screen size and on visual priority attached to one or more of the fields. In one implementation, a minimum width is set for each of the one or more fields, and the fields that can meet the minimum width based on the current mobile device screen size are displayed.
US11928412B2

A design method applied to a capacitor array is provided. The capacitor array includes multiple preset capacitor units, and each preset capacitor includes multiple unit capacitors. The method includes: acquiring unit simulation models of the preset capacitor units; acquiring a first simulation model of the capacitor array based on an arrangement manner of the preset capacitor units in the capacitor array and the unit simulation models of the preset capacitor unit; acquiring an arrangement direction of the preset capacitor units based on the arrangement manner, establishing a parasitic resistance equivalent test structure of a group of preset capacitor units in the same arrangement direction; obtaining a parasitic resistance of each preset capacitor unit based on the parasitic resistance equivalent test structure; and establishing a second simulation model representing the capacitor array based on the parasitic resistance of each preset capacitor unit and the first simulation model.
US11928405B2

Techniques for allocating hydrocarbon production include receiving a selection of a particular area identification (ID) of a plurality of area IDs stored on the server; determining based on the selected particular area ID, a plurality of hydrocarbon production values that include periodic area-level hydrocarbon production values associated with the particular area ID and a plurality of wells associated with the particular area ID; determining a decline curve model for the area-level hydrocarbon production values associated with the particular area ID; modeling the aggregated periodic well-level hydrocarbon production values with the determined decline curve model; and determining allocated well-level hydrocarbon production values based at least in part on the selected decline curve model to display at a client device.
US11928404B1

Methods and systems of simulating a fluid. An outflow of the fluid is determined. An inflow of the fluid is determined. Determining a simulated fluid using the inflow and the outflow.
US11928403B2

An optimization apparatus includes electronic circuits configured to perform calculating, for a plurality of annealing units to which respective states and respective, different temperatures are assigned, respective evaluation function values responsive to the respective states, and causing a transition in the states with probabilities responsive to the temperatures and the evaluation function values, exchanging the temperatures or the states between the plurality of annealing units with predetermined probabilities based on the temperatures and the evaluation function values, and changing a temperature of an annealing unit of interest, such that a probability of exchange between the annealing unit of interest and a first annealing unit situated next thereto on a lower temperature side in a sequence arranged in order of temperature approaches a probability of exchange between the annealing unit of interest and a second annealing unit situated next thereto on a higher temperature side in the sequence.
US11928387B2

A method for controlling target sound playback. A display screen of a control device is configured to display a target sound user setting for controlling target sound playback, wherein the target sound user setting controls a stored target sound level parameter that is stored within memory of the control device. A target sound sequence is generated in accordance with the user setting. A speaker is driven with the target sound sequence. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11928383B2

A screen projection control method, storage medium and communication apparatus are provided. The screen projection control method includes: a screen projection receiving end receiving screen projection request information from a first screen projection sending end; determining, according to the screen projection request information, whether a third screen projection sending end that has triggered an interference-free mode of screen projection exists in at least one second screen projection sending end that is performing screen projection, wherein enabling the interference-free mode comprises stopping accepting a screen projection request; and if the third screen projection sending end that has enabled the screen projection interference-free mode exists, the screen projection receiving end sending response information for refusing the screen projection request to the first screen projection sending end.
US11928376B2

According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to maintain client presence information that is received from a client and maintain printer presence information that is received from a printer. The client presence information may include a client network property and the printer presence information may include a printer network property. In some examples, the processor may receive print job information for a print job from the client and may determine a recommended print job delivery path for the print job based on the print job information, the client presence information, and the printer presence information. The processor may cause the print job to be routed to the printer based on the recommended print job delivery path.
US11928374B2

Example methods, systems, and apparatuses for verifying a printed indicium are provided. An example method may include receiving a captured image of a print media comprising the printed indicium; extracting a quiet zone grade portion from the captured image, where the quiet zone grade portion includes a printed indicium area of the printed indicium and at least one quiet zone area adjacent to the printed indicium area; in response to receiving a user input providing an overwrite quiet zone requirement indication and determining that the at least one quiet zone area does not satisfy at least one quiet zone requirement, causing at least one of adjusting the at least one quiet zone requirement to at least one reduced quiet zone requirement or adding at least one additional quiet zone area to the at least one quiet zone area.
US11928372B2

A method for page management for use with an image forming apparatus includes receiving a request from a user for processing one or more pages of one or more documents. Further, the method includes displaying on a display (a) a thumbnail image generated for each page and (b) a plurality of options for processing the one or more pages. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one option of the plurality of options. Thereafter, the method includes processing the one or more pages, according to the at least one option of the selection received from the user.
US11928364B2

A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to queue write commands received from a host. The commands may include a first write command to write first write data associated with a first stream and a second write command to write second write data associated with a second stream. When the first and second write commands are queued, the memory controller repeatedly performs a sequence of a first operation of acquiring a predetermined amount of the first write data from the host and then transmitting to the non-volatile memory, and a second operation of acquiring the predetermined amount of the second write data from the host and then transmitting to the non-volatile memory. The second operation in the sequence is started after completion of the first operation in the sequence.
US11928363B2

A method of operating a host device to control a storage device which includes a register is provided. The method includes: providing the storage device with a partial array refresh setting indicating a non-masking segment among a masking segment and the non-masking segment; providing a refresh command to the storage device; and providing a write command for the masking segment to the storage device to control the storage device to store data while a partial array refresh is performed in the storage device based on the refresh command.
US11928355B2

Disclosed are a method and apparatus for determining mismatch of a sense amplifier, a storage medium, and an electronic equipment, relating to the field of integrated circuit technology. The method for determining mismatch of a sense amplifier includes: determining a first signal threshold on a first bit line when a first memory cell executes write and read operations; determining a second signal threshold on a second bit line when a second memory cell executes write and read operations; and determining, according to the first signal threshold and the second signal threshold, whether the sense amplifier is mismatched. A method for determining whether the sense amplifier is mismatched is provided.
US11928353B2

A processing device, operatively coupled with a memory device, is configured to perform a write operation on a page of a plurality of pages of a data unit of a memory device. The processing device further generates a parity page for data stored in the page of the data unit and associates the parity page with parity data associated with the data unit. Responsive to determining that a first size of the parity data is larger than a first threshold size, the processing device compresses the parity data. Responsive to determining that a second size of the compressed parity data is larger than a second threshold size, the processing device releases at least a subset of the parity data corresponding to a subset of the data that is free from defects.
US11928345B1

Provided are a computational storage system, computational storage processor, solid-state drive (SSD) and data storing method. The method may include receiving a first storing instruction based on a storage object, generating a second storing instruction based on a flash memory address according to information carried by the first storing instruction and SSD resource information maintained locally, and sending the generated second storing instruction to the SSD. The SSD resource information may include resource occupation information in the SSD. Generating the second storing instruction may include parsing an identification of a storage object, data length information and a starting source address of entire data, allocating a flash memory address or addresses in one or more SSDs for storing data of the storage object according to the data length information and the resource occupancy information in the SSD, and generating the second storing instructions for each SSD.
US11928333B2

Methods, systems, and devices for reset verification in a memory system are described. In some examples, a memory device may perform a reset operation and set a mode register to a first value based on performing the reset operation. The first value may be associated with a successful execution of the reset command. The memory device may transmit an indication to a host device based on determining the first value. The host device may determine from the received indication or from the first value stored in the mode register that the first value is associated with the successful execution of the reset command. Thus, the memory device, or the host device, or both may be configured to verify whether the reset operation is successful.
US11928330B2

Techniques to update a trim parameter in non-volatile memory during either a manufacturing stage or a post-manufacturing stage are described. Trim parameters may be stored in a register located within the memory device that is inaccessible by a host device during a normal mode of operation. Post-manufacturing updates to trim parameters by the host device may be feasible by creating registers located within the memory device that are accessible to the host device to provide information regarding trim parameter setting updates. The memory device may read the information from the registers accessible to the host device to update trim parameters stored in the register inaccessible by the host device. In this manner, the host device may not have a direct access to the trim parameters but still be able to provide an update to the trim parameters by updating an entry of the registers accessible by the host device.
US11928328B2

A non-transitory recording medium has a program recorded thereon for controlling a computer having first recording circuits, an emulator that emulates an information processing device, and a communicator which communicates with the information processing device, and the computer further having second recording circuits. The program controls the communicator to receive first information including input data, which is inputted to the information processing device, from the information processing device, causes recording of the first information in the first recording circuits, and controls the communicator to transmit second information to the information processing device, wherein the second information includes input data for the emulator.
US11928326B2

One or more embodiments of the present disclosure include a content management system that allows a user to easily activate a camera while viewing digital content. For example, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface that includes a scroll element that allows a user to navigate through digital content. In addition, a user can interact with the scroll element to activate a camera. For instance, a user can activate a camera by scrolling the scroll element to and/or beyond a particular position.
US11928325B1

A system, method, and computer-program product includes displaying a plurality of factor-setting user interface (UI) control elements configured to receive an input of characters for specifying a set of design of experiment factors for creating a design of experiment (DOE), displaying a plurality of factor type UI control elements configured to receive input for specifying a factor type of a plurality of factor types, displaying a plurality of dynamic rows of editable UI control elements configured to receive inputs of experimental values for the set of DOE factors, and displaying a composite factor UI control component configured to receive inputs for generating one or more control signals that add or remove one or more DOE factors of the set of DOE factors.
US11928320B1

The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating content clusters from topic data and focus data, generating content collections from content clusters, storing and restoring desktop scene layouts, and storing and arranging video call scenes. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate content clusters based on topic data and focus data associated with content items within a content management system and/or accessed via the internet. The disclosed systems can also generate content collections for a user account of the content management system from the content clusters. In some embodiments, the content scene system can further store and restore desktop scene layouts for arranging application windows presenting content items. Further, the disclosed systems can store and arrange particular desktop scene layouts for video call scenes.
US11928313B2

Systems and methods for interaction of satellite and Internet protocol features in content delivery systems are presented. Using such systems and methods, the delivery of some content to the same product by Satellite delivery, other content by IP delivery, and still other content by both Satellite and IP delivery can enhance the utility of both the content and the product for an end user and can further optimize the costs and quality of service associated with delivering the content. A method of providing content and data to a combined satellite and IP network receiver is presented, including broadcasting via satellite content and data to the receiver, and sending via an IP based communications network content and data to the receiver, where the content and data provided over the Satellite broadcast enables capabilities of the receiver needed to consume content received by IP delivery, and the content and data provided via IP delivery enables capabilities of the receiver needed to consume content received from the satellite broadcast.
US11928311B2

The present application discloses a communication method, a terminal, a server, a communication system, a computer device and a medium. The communication method includes that a server establishes a connection and feeds back a display control in response to requests of a first terminal and a second terminal; then, the server feeds back function feedback information in response to a function request of the first terminal, and feeds back function feedback information in response to a menu request of the second terminal; and the servers presents multiple interface components and maintains and updates each interface component in response to management operation of a third user.
US11928307B2

Aspects disclosed herein provide an operator training system that can train an operator about basic machine movements, operations, and applications, such as asphalt compactor rolling patterns, paving-by-numbers, milling-by-numbers, etc. with the use of a virtual reality headset at any point or time on a work site. The operator training system uses data received from the virtual reality headset and associated hand controls to guide the operator via training scenarios. The operator training system also includes providing immediate feedback on the outcome of the training scenario and may also identify one or more areas of improvement.
US11928292B2

A touchscreen device includes a touchscreen (2), support parts (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) supporting a periphery of the touchscreen (2), and an information output unit outputting information corresponding to an external force acting on the touchscreen (2). Each support part (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) has thereon a pressure sensor (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d) arranged such that a pressure sensing surface thereof is in contact with the periphery of the touchscreen (2) and has a predetermined angle with respect to a planar surface of the touchscreen (2). The information output unit is configured to recognize, based on detected values detected by the pressure sensors (10a, 10b, 10c, 10d), an acting direction along the planer surface of the touchscreen (2) of the external force acting on the touchscreen (2) and output, to the outside, information on the acting direction and positional information detected by the touchscreen (2) for a position on the touchscreen where the external force is acting.
US11928290B2

A scanning operation is performed to measure a first capacitance of a first sensor arrangement located proximate a capacitive sensor that corresponds to a function of a device. In response to the first capacitance not exceeding a first threshold, the scanning operation measures a second capacitance of the capacitive sensor to create an output used to control the function of the device. In response to the first capacitance exceeding the first threshold, operation of the scanning operation is modified to skip measuring of the second capacitance or to refrain from transmitting the output to a host of the device for controlling the function.
US11928288B2

An operation input device including: a first detection section including a first detection surface that detects a position at which a detection target is touching or within a predetermined distance, the first detection section outputting a first signal representing the position; an operation control section that controls a first operation target based on the first signal; an operation determination section that outputs a second signal only when it has determined that the detection target has moved along the first detection surface; and a switching control section that switches the operation control section between an operation enabled state in which control of the first operation target is enabled, and an operation prevented state in which control of the first operation target is prevented, the switching control section switching from the operation prevented state to the operation enabled state in a case in which the second signal has been received.
US11928282B2

The driving method includes: inputting a first scanning signal to each of the first touch electrodes at a same time, and receiving a first sensing signal of each of the second touch electrodes to determine a suspected column according to the first sensing signal; inputting a second scanning signal to each of the second touch electrodes at a same time, and receiving a second sensing signal of each of the first touch electrodes to determine a suspected row according to the second sensing signal; determining a suspected touch region according to the suspected column and the suspected row; and sequentially inputting a third scanning signal row by row to each of the first touch electrodes in the suspected touch region, and receiving a third sensing signal of each of the second touch electrodes in the suspected touch region to determine a touch position according to the third sensing signal.
US11928264B2

One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, on an information handling device, a fixed user interface; presenting, on a display of the information handling device, a view of a portion of the fixed user interface; determining, using a processor, whether movement of the information handling device is detected; and updating, responsive to determining that movement of the information handling device is detected, the view on the display with another portion of the fixed user interface. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11928257B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a light source module, a display module including at least one layer, a camera module, and a processor operatively connected to the light source module, the display module, and the camera module. The processor may emit light through the light source module along a waveguide formed in the at least one layer of the display module, may use the camera module to detect, based on at least one pattern structure formed in the waveguide, at least a part of the light, which has been reflected from a user's eyeball, and may track the movement of the user's eyeball, based on the detected light.
US11928256B2

An electronic device includes a sensor; a memory storing instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: estimate a field of view (FOV) of a user by using another sensor included in a wireless earphone; estimate a FOV of the electronic device by using the sensor; compare the estimated FOV of the user with the estimated FOV of the electronic device; determine whether the user gazes at a screen of the electronic device based on the comparison result; recognize a gaze of the user based on determining that the user gazes at the screen of the electronic device; and perform a specified function based on the gaze of the user.
US11928250B2

A method, computer system, and a computer program product for securing visible data is provided. The present invention may include encrypting an on-screen data rendered on a display of an endpoint device. The present invention may also include authenticating an external decryption device within a periphery defined by the endpoint device. The present invention may further include decrypting the encrypted on-screen data on the authenticated external decryption device.
US11928241B2

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for consent management. A method may include receiving a first data request for user data associated with a user, the user data stored in a user data database; communicating a consent request to the requester system; receiving a consent response from the requester system; storing consent data associated with the consent response for the user data requested in the first data request in an immutable ledger; receiving a consent verification request from the user data database, the consent verification request based on a second data request for the user data from the requester system to the user data database; verifying the consent verification request based on the consent data; and communicating a consent verification response to the user data database, the consent verification response indicating consent from the user to share the user data with the requester system.
US11928240B2

The present invention provides a means for efficiently and securely collecting, storing, and sharing all types of personal, electronic information from, for and between individuals and business users using software that runs on multiple personal, business and cloud computing systems. The information of a primary user is stored in an encrypted relational database which associates the private data with private data fields needed by secondary users or various business users. Each entity is assigned one unique user identity to ensure consistency in data privacy and sharing. Attributes for data groups exist to define the secondary users and business users who the primary user has authorized for access to or master sourcing of certified data. Change lists, including conditions for implementation, are created to facilitate management, scheduling and distribution of changes. Collection, storage, and distribution of personal data is assisted by robotic process automation algorithms.
US11928232B1

A method for protecting sensitive data from being exposed in graph embedding vectors. In some embodiments, a method may include generating first graph embedding vectors from an original graph and generating a proxy graph from the first graph embedding vectors. The proxy graph may include a plurality of proxy nodes and proxy edges connecting the proxy nodes. The proxy nodes may include one or more attributes of the original nodes that are included in the first graph embedding vectors. Second graph embedding vectors may then be generated by encoding the proxy graph and a reconstructed graph may be generated from the second graph embedding vectors. Finally, the reconstructed graph may be compared to the original graph and if a threshold level of similarity is met, a security action may be performed to protect sensitive data from being exposed.
US11928231B2

An authentication model dynamically adjusts authentication factors required for access to a remote resource based on changes to a risk score for a user, a device, or some combination of these. For example, the authentication model may conditionally specify the number and type of authentication factors required by a user/device pair, and may dynamically alter authentication requirements based on changes to a current risk assessment for the user/device while the remote resource is in use.
US11928224B2

Data may be stored by receiving the data to be stored, determining whether the data is regulated in a jurisdiction, and, responsive to the determination, selecting between a regulated storage scheme, requiring that the data be stored and/or processed in the jurisdiction in accordance with one or more laws pertaining to the jurisdiction, and an unregulated storage scheme, in which the data is not required to be stored in the jurisdiction and/or is not required to be stored in accordance with the one or more laws. Further, the regulated storage scheme may be followed by initiating storage of the data in the jurisdiction in accordance with the one or more laws.
US11928202B2

Our Names in physical and real world have transformed into ‘username’s in virtual digital world. Anything that we need to access in digital world asks us for a ‘username’, which can be user selected (like an e-mail address) or provided to a user (like an employee ID/Number). This ‘username’ has indeed become a SuperName, giving access to restricted areas, based on privileges, links to other services as well. So, to a cybercriminal, if a ‘username; is known, more than half the job is done. And once corresponding password is cracked, the whole digital identity lies threadbare. Damages done through transactions of such unauthorized access may get quantified, but dent to privacy is far more damaging.
US11928201B2

Providing virtualized credential information includes determining whether a relying party device has access to a network/cloud infrastructure that contains at least some of the credential information, a license holder device providing the virtualized credential information directly to the relying party device in response to the relying party device not having access to the network/cloud infrastructure, and displaying at least some of the subset of credential data on a screen of the device of the relying party. Providing virtualized credential information may also include the license holder device providing authorization data to the relying party device in response to the relying party device having access to the network/cloud infrastructure and determining a preference for the relying party device to receive at least some of the virtualized credential information from the network/cloud infrastructure.
US11928194B2

A security platform architecture is described herein. The security platform architecture includes multiple layers and utilizes a combination of encryption and other security features to generate a secure environment.
US11928192B2

A host device, a storage device, and a method employ a vendor unique command (VUC) authentication system. The storage device includes a memory and a memory controller which includes a VUC authentication module and controls the memory. The VUC authentication module transmits first memory information about the memory to the host device, receives from the host device a one-time password generated by the first memory information, verifies the one-time password, and receives a vendor unique command from the host device when the one-time password is correct.
US11928191B2

An information handling system includes a device capable of sending and receiving security protocol and data model messages. A management controller with an authorization role as a designated leader is configured to verify authenticity of the device, discover authorization capabilities of the device, and set the authorization role of the device as a follower.
US11928190B2

This disclosure describes systems and methods for protecting commercial off-the-shelf software program code from piracy. A software program may include an executable file having code and data. A platform may modify the executable file such that the data may be placed at a location in memory that is an arbitrary distance from the code. The platform may modify the executable file to include a separation header. The separation header may indicate that the data can be placed at an arbitrary distance in the memory from the code. The separation header may indicate that the code should be loaded into a hardware enclave and that the data should be loaded outside of the hardware enclave. The platform may encrypt the code and provide it to a computing device. The computing device may load the encrypted code into the hardware enclave but load the data into memory outside the hardware enclave.
US11928188B1

A machine has a network interface circuit to provide connectivity to networked machines. A processor is connected to the network interface circuit. A memory is connected to the processor and the network interface circuit. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to record the purchase of a digital asset by a user at a client machine from a data source machine in network communication with the client machine. The location of the digital asset on one or more machines of the networked machines is archived. The location is separate from the data source machine. The digital asset is associated with a data access policy. A request for the digital asset is received. The data access policy is enforced through programmatic control utilized by one or more of the networked machines to form a consent state. Distribution of the digital asset to a networked machine is authorized in response to the consent state.
US11928178B2

A wafer is prepared, and a thickness shape of the prepared wafer at each position in a radial direction is measured for each of a predetermined number of angles into which 360 degrees of a circumference around the center of the wafer are divided. The thickness shape obtained by a measuring machine for each angle is approximated with a sixth or higher order polynomial, and a function of the wafer thickness at the position in the radial direction is created. The thickness shape outputted by the measuring machine and a thickness shape outputted by the function are compared with each other, and an error on the entire surface of the wafer is confirmed to be not greater than a predetermined error. After the confirmation, information of the function for each angle is attached to the wafer as data representing the wafer shape and supplied to a user.
US11928177B2

Methods and apparatus for performing video processing matrix operations within a memory fabric. Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to converting a memory array into a matrix fabric for discrete cosine transform (DCT) matrix transformations and performing DCT matrix operations therein. Exemplary embodiments described herein perform DCT matrix-matrix multiplication operations within a memory device that includes a matrix fabric and matrix multiplication unit (MMU). In one embodiment, matrix-matrix multiplication operations are obtained using separate matrix-vector products. In one exemplary embodiment, the matrix fabric uses a “crossbar” construction of resistive elements. Each resistive element stores a level of impedance that represents the corresponding matrix coefficient value. The crossbar connectivity can be driven with an electrical signal representing the input vector as an analog voltage. The resulting signals can be converted from analog voltages to a digital values by an MMU to yield a vector-matrix product. In some cases, the MMU may additionally perform various other logical operations within the digital domain.
US11928176B2

A system and method for multiplying matrices are provided. The system includes a processor coupled to a memory and a matrix multiply accelerator (MMA) coupled to the processor. The MMA is configured to multiply, based on a bitmap, a compressed first matrix and a second matrix to generate an output matrix including, for each element i,j of the output matrix, a calculation of a dot product of an ith row of the compressed first matrix and a jth column of the second matrix based on the bitmap. Or, the MMA is configured to multiply, based on the bitmap, the second matrix and the compressed first matrix and to generate the output matrix including, for each element i,j of the output matrix, a calculation of a dot product of an ith row of the second matrix and a jth column of the compressed first matrix based on the bitmap.
US11928162B2

The disclosure provides technology for importing a set of media items from a content source by optically analyzing a graphical interface of the content source. An example method includes initiating, by a processing device, an import of a set of media items from a content source; capturing image content of a graphical interface of the content source; extracting data from the image content of the graphical interface; identifying a media item of the content source based on the data from the image content; and storing a reference to the media item.
US11928161B2

Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage media are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In some implementations, a first event data structure is obtained, the first event data structure including first content and a first label including a first plurality of nested categories. A second event data structure is obtained, the second event data structure including second content, and a second label including a second plurality of nested categories. The second label is different from the first label. A context of a mobile device is determined. At least one of the first content or the second content to present using the mobile device is determined. Using the mobile device, the at least one of the first content or the second content is presented.
US11928158B2

A system and method to generate and manage clusters of search terms. A cluster generation process is executed at a first time to generate a first set of clusters including respective sets of search terms. At least one of a first value of a first parameter associated with the first set of clusters or a first value of a second parameter associated with the first set of clusters is determined. At a second time, the cluster generation process is executed to generate a second set of clusters. At least one of a second value of the first parameter associated with the second set of clusters or a second value of the second parameter associated with the second set of clusters is determined. A determination is made whether either the second value of the first parameter satisfies a first condition or the second value of the second parameter satisfies a second condition. The system and method identify an emerging cluster within the second set of clusters in response to satisfaction of either the first condition or the second condition. Information identifying the emerging cluster is displayed via a user interface.
US11928138B2

Embodiments of the present disclosure comprise methods, apparatus and computer readable instructions for establishing a relationship between user accounts. A first account association request message in relation to a first user account in an account based system is received. A first source account identifier which corresponds to the first user account and a first target account identifier which corresponds to the second user account are identified. A second account association request message in relation to the second user account is received. Based on the second account association request message, a second source account identifier which corresponds to the second user account and a second target account identifier which corresponds to the first user account are identified. Responsive to a determination of whether the source account identifiers and target account identifiers relate to the same user account, a relationship is established between the first user account and the second user account.
US11928136B2

Systems and methods are provided for tracking data in a computer network. An exemplary method includes: storing a first data in the one or more data servers; receiving a first request to aggregate the first data; aggregating a first set of the first data; analyzing one or more fields of each of the first set of the first data; removing the one or more first data elements from the first set of the first data; generating a second set of the first data; aggregating the second set of the first data; retrieving information associated with the aggregation of the second set of the first data; and generating one or more reports using the retrieved information associated with the aggregation of the second set of the first data.
US11928135B2

A method is provided to reduce the number of duplicates of each document that is stored within entity databases. The method may include creating discrete links and/or pointers to the location of the document already stored within an entity. The method may also include separating the document into different classification levels. The method may include storing the different parts of the documents in different locations within the entity.
US11928134B1

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for medoid-based data compression. One example method generally includes receiving item data indicative of one or more items, determining one or more medoids based on the item data, determining, for each item of the one or more items, a corresponding medoid based on the one or more medoids, identifying, for each item of the one or more items, a difference between the item and the corresponding medoid for the item, storing the one or more medoids, and storing, for each item of the one or more items, the identified difference between the item and the corresponding medoid.
US11928129B1

Example systems and methods for cloning catalog objects are described. In one implementation, a method includes creating a second catalog object by mapping a second portion of second metadata of the second catalog object to same data of a same data file as a first portion of first metadata of a first catalog object, and, in response to a data storage or data retrieval request directed to the second catalog object, deleting data associated with the second portion of the second metadata from the second catalog object independently of the first catalog object.
US11928128B2

A system for maintaining a meta-database including meta-data representing decentralized data from source databases, which cause inefficient selection of modeling data and/or variables. Each of source and meta-data interfaces communicate with the respective database(s). A key variable repository module operably couples the databases and includes an AI program with a scanner algorithm and a profiler algorithm. The scanner algorithm receives the source data from the source interface, compresses the data, and synchronizes the data with the meta-data using the meta-database interface. The profiler algorithm receives the meta-data from the meta-database interface, generates granular data types for the meta-data, determines variables indicative of the meta-data, generates variable probability distributions, produces variable associations, and modifies the meta-database to include the probability distributions and associations using the meta-data interface. The key interface allows for searching the meta-database for variables, variable probability distributions, and/or variable associations to more efficiency select modeling data and/or variables.
US11928115B2

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for query processing with restrictions in a database clean room. In an embodiment, a system receives a query directed to a combination of a first source dataset from a first database account of a distributed database and a second source dataset from a second database account of the distributed database. The system generates an approved statements table that contains database statement language that can be executed against the combination of the first and second source datasets. Based on determining that the approved statements table includes the query, the system executes the query to produce results data, and stores the results data in the first database account.
US11928107B2

Methods and systems for similarity-based value-to-column classification are disclosed. A method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a natural language search query; determining, by the computing device, a filtering phrase in the natural language search query using a natural language understanding model; encoding, by the computing device, the filtering phrase; retrieving, by the computing device, a plurality of encoded columns; for each of the plurality of encoded columns, the computing device determining a similarity score based on a similarity between the encoded filtering phrase and the encoded column; and outputting, by the computing device, a column corresponding to an encoded column of the plurality of encoded columns having a highest similarity score.
US11928104B2

A method for operating a decentralized application by users of a blockchain. In the method, a first user proposes a state change on a state channel anchored in a blockchain. If a confirmation of the state change by the other users on the state channel does not occur, the first user prompts the other users to confirm within a predefined time span on the blockchain. If the confirmation also does not occur on the blockchain, the state change is carried out at the blockchain.
US11928103B2

A method for configuring an observable object as a digital twin in a digital twin system of any one domain is provided. The method for configuring a digital twin includes defining a purpose for expressing the observable as a digital twin in the domain, organizing data based on a role of the observable object in the domain, configuring the observable object into the digital twin based on the data for the purpose, and synchronizing the observable object and the digital twin.
US11928095B2

Example embodiments relate to a system to generate and cause display of a specially configured graphical user interface to receive and present collections of images. According to certain example embodiments, an image analysis system: receives an image file from a client device; generates a hash value based on the image file; performs a comparison of the hash value with a list that comprises a collection of hash values; identifies a match to the hash value among the collection of hash values; assigns a label to the image file in response to identifying the match among the collection of image files from the list; and indexes the image file at a memory location identified by the label assigned to the image file.
US11928092B2

One example method includes, in a data buffer that includes one or more words and whitespaces, calculating a hash value of data in a window that is movable within the data buffer, comparing the hash value to a mask, and when the hash value matches the mask, identifying a position of the window in the data buffer as a chunk anchor position, searching for a whitespace nearest the chunk anchor position, and designating an offset of the whitespace as a segment boundary.
US11928086B2

Automatic data modeling in a low-latency data access and analysis system includes identifying an analytical-object in response to first data expressing usage intent, generating an analytical model generation data-query for the analytical-object, obtaining a trained analytical model generated in accordance with the analytical model generation query and trained using results data obtained in accordance with the analytical-object, generating a resolved-request representing second data expressing usage intent and indicating a request for results data obtained using the trained analytical model, generating an analytical model results data-query for obtaining the results data in accordance with the trained analytical model and the analytical-object, and outputting data for presenting a visualization of the results data obtained by executing the analytical model results data-query, wherein a first portion of the results data corresponds with the analytical-object and a second portion of the results data corresponds with the trained analytical model.
US11928076B2

A method for administration through files in a storage cluster is provided. The method includes distributing user data, including files, throughout a plurality of storage nodes having non-volatile solid-state memory, through erasure coding. The plurality of storage nodes are housed within a single chassis that couples the storage nodes as the storage cluster. The method includes receiving at the storage cluster a command to write a file or read a file, the file having a filename. The method includes determining whether the filename is reserved and determining an administrative action according to the file, responsive to determining that the filename is reserved. The method includes initiating the administrative action. A storage system is also provided.
US11928069B2

An optical output device is described that includes one bus system. The bus system includes two bus wires of a bus, two bus units and one bus control unit. The two bus units may include one optical output element one output control unit whose output is connected to the one optical output element a first storage unit for storing address data of the respective bus unit a second storage unit for storing a counter value, a comparison unit whose inputs are connected to the first storage unit and to the second storage unit, and a control unit whose input is connected to an output of the comparison unit and which controls the takeover of data from the bus into the output control unit depending on an output signal or on output data of the comparison unit.
US11928065B2

In a digital communication system, a master device and a number of slave devices are coupled in communication with the master device over a shared data communication bus. A selection line for each one of the slave devices couples the master device with a respective slave device and is dedicated to selection by the master device of the respective slave device for communication over the shared data communication bus. Each of the slave devices is able to send an interrupt request to the master device over the respective selection line to be served by the master device initiating a communication over the shared data communication bus, each selection line thereby being a bidirectional communication line between the respective slave device and the master device.
US11928045B1

The present disclosure relates to a method for use with an electronic design. Embodiments may include simulating a processor model and a hardware model, each executed with a corresponding simulator thread on a simulation platform. Embodiments may also include simulating embedded software using the processor model. The simulating may include updating a given register of the processor model that stores a value that changes in response to switching between processes within the embedded software. Embodiments may further include setting a simulator breakpoint and a software breakpoint and enabling debugging of both non-virtual and virtual addresses at the software breakpoint without leaving the software breakpoint.
US11928038B2

An approach for managing data set access based on data set relevance. The approach monitors data set access activities associated with a user. The approach detects access of a first data set by the user. The approach determines a group of data sets associated with the first data set based on a data set mapping associated with the user. The approach recalls one or more data sets of the group of data sets from a slower storage device to a faster storage device.
US11928036B2

A method of recovering a storage device from a failure mode by a controller, the method comprising executing a boot up of the storage device, determining whether an instruction for pseudo boot up of the storage device has been received, switching from the boot up to a pseudo boot up of the storage device if an instruction for the pseudo boot up has been received, and resuming operation of the storage device from the prior operational state. The pseudo boot up restores the storage device to a prior operational state up to the point in time when the storage device encountered a failure triggering event that caused the storage device to enter the failure mode.
US11928018B2

Methods, systems, and devices for coordinated error protection are described. A set of data and an indication of whether a first management procedure performed by a memory device on the set of data detected one or more errors in the set of data may be received at a host device. At the host device, a second error management procedure may be performed on the set of data received from the memory device. Based on the received indication and the second error management procedure, multiple bits indicating whether one or more errors associated with the set of data were detected at the memory device, the host device, or both may be generated. The set of data may be validated or discarded based on the multiple bits.
US11928012B2

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for verification of configurations of compute clusters. An automatic computational process is used to statically and/or dynamically verify configurations of software components installed on one or more interconnected computing entities constituting a compute cluster. Cluster configuration data is obtained, including data representative of a configuration of the software components. The cluster configuration data is processed to identify errors relating to interactions between the software components. Errors may be reported to users and/or corrected by modifying the compute cluster configuration.
US11928011B2

Embodiments of systems and methods for enhanced drift remediation with causal methods and online model modification are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: detect drift in an Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) model configured to make a prediction or a causal reasoning graphical or structural inference based upon input data, identify a root cause of the drift, and tag the input data with an indication of the root cause.
US11928010B2

An example system includes a processor that can receive conversation logs of a dialogue system to be analyzed. The processor can train a predictive machine learning model using a training set of the conversation logs on a selected feature to obtain feature values with associated importance values. The processor can select a number of feature values using a significance score calculated based on the associated importance values. The processor can generate an interactive user interface including the selected number of feature values.
US11928005B2

Various embodiments are generally directed an apparatus and method for receiving information to write on a clustered system comprising at least a first cluster and a second cluster, determining that a failure event has occurred on the clustered system creating unsynchronized information, the unsynchronized information comprising at least one of inflight information and dirty region information, and performing a resynchronization operation to synchronize the unsynchronized information on the first cluster and the second cluster based on log information in at least one of an inflight tracker log for the inflight information and a dirty region log for the dirty region information.
US11928003B2

To provide a voltage control device that includes a power supply circuit that supplies electric power to an input terminal of a controlled circuit, a power supply voltage control circuit that controls the power supply voltage to be supplied from the power supply circuit to the controlled circuit, on the basis of the clock signal to be supplied to the controlled circuit, and a clock generation circuit that receives a power supply that is the internal voltage to be applied to a second internal circuit region at a second wiring distance from the input terminal, and generates the clock signal on the basis of the internal voltage, the second wiring distance being longer than a first wiring distance at which a first internal circuit region is located in the controlled circuit, the first wiring distance and the second wiring distance being wiring distances in the controlled circuit from the input terminal.
US11927996B2

A computing cooling system includes a chassis, heat dissipation device(s) in the chassis, a first fan system in the chassis configured to generate a first airflow that is directed past the heat dissipation device(s) and out of the chassis, and a second fan system in the chassis configured to generate a second airflow that is that is directed into the chassis. A board in the chassis includes a first board section located adjacent the first fan system, and a second board section located adjacent the second fan system and configured to receive the second airflow. The first board section includes first components that are thermally coupled to the heat dissipation device(s) and that are configured to operate in a first temperature range, and the second board section includes second components that are configured to operate in a second temperature range that is lower than the first temperature range.
US11927991B2

Embodiments of synchronized hinges for foldable displays are described. In some embodiments, a hinge may include: a first bracket coupled to a first shaft via a first arm, a second bracket coupled to a second shaft via a second arm, and a synchronization bracket coupled to the first and second shafts.
US11927984B2

An electronic apparatus includes a support member, a first body, and a second body. The first body is of a plate shape and includes a first surface. A first I/O device is arranged on the first surface. The second body is of a plate shape. Ends of the first body and the second body are rotatably connected. In a first positional relationship, the first body and the second body are parallel to each other. In a second positional relationship, the first body and the second body form an angle. In a supported state, the first I/O device faces away from the second body, and the support member is between the first body and the second body to limit the first body from approaching the second body. In an unsupported state, the support member does not limit the first body from approaching the second body.
US11927981B2

Disclosed is an integrated circuit, which counts parameters required for a dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) operation. The integrated circuit includes: an event block accessing a bus, which connects processing devices to each other, and outputting an event signal, based on data transmitted through the bus; a clock counter counting the number of clock signals received from a clock management unit; a plurality of performance counters respectively counting parameters used to calculate a workload, based on the event signal; an interface receiving an operation signal from the DVFS governor, which determines an operation frequency and an operation voltage of a processing device based on the workload, and transmitting the number of clock signals and the parameters to the DVFS governor; and a controller controlling operations of the event block, the clock counter, and the plurality of performance counters, based on the operation signal.
US11927980B2

An electronic device includes a controller, a clock generator, a first operation interface and a first functional unit. The controller generates a first clock enable signal, and then generates a first operation instruction. The clock generator generates a first clock according to the first clock enable signal. The first operation interface generates a first power supply signal according to the first clock, and translates the first operation instruction into a first operation signal. The first functional unit is enabled according to the first power supply signal, and starts to operate according to the first operation signal.
US11927979B2

A multi-directional input device includes an operating member that protrudes from a case and can be tilted, a compression coil spring that returns the operating member to an initial state before a tilting operation, a magnet holding member that is relatively movable with respect to the operating member only in a direction along a protruding direction and is interlocked only in a tilting direction, a magnet arranged in the magnet holding portion, and magnetic sensors that are each disposed at a position facing the magnet and detect a movement of the magnet. The magnetic sensors are each disposed on a side of the magnet and can detect magnetic components in three axial directions orthogonal to one another.
US11927972B2

A system for determining a travel direction that avoids objects when a vehicle travels from a current location to a target location is provided. The system determines a travel direction based on an attract-repel model. The system accesses external object information provided by an external object system. The external object information may include, for each of a plurality of objects, location, type, and constraint. The system assigns a repel value to the location of each object based on the type of and constraint on the object. The system assigns an attractive value to the target location. The system calculates a cumulative force based on the attractive and repulsive forces and sets the travel direction based on the cumulative force.
US11927965B2

Provided is a method for operating a robot, including: capturing images of a workspace; capturing movement data indicative of movement of the robot; capturing LIDAR data as the robot performs work within the workspace; comparing at least one object from the captured images to objects in an object dictionary; identifying a class to which the at least one object belongs; generating a first iteration of a map of the workspace based on the LIDAR data; generating additional iterations of the map based on newly captured LIDAR data and newly captured movement data; actuating the robot to drive along a trajectory that follows along a planned path by providing pulses to one or more electric motors of wheels of the robot; and localizing the robot within an iteration of the map by estimating a position of the robot based on the movement data, slippage, and sensor errors.
US11927959B2

An autonomous driving vehicle provides a driverless transportation service for a user. An alarming phenomenon is a natural phenomenon that potentially causes a disaster. The autonomous driving vehicle recognizes, based on driving environment information, the alarming phenomenon at a current location of the autonomous driving vehicle or on a planned travel route from the current location to a destination. When recognizing the alarming phenomenon, the autonomous driving vehicle determines whether to continue or halt vehicle travel control in accordance with a current travel plan. When determining to halt the vehicle travel control in accordance with the current travel plan, the autonomous driving vehicle sets an emergency plan depending on a type of the alarming phenomenon and controls the autonomous driving vehicle in accordance with the emergency plan.
US11927954B2

A vehicular control system includes a forward-viewing camera, a forward-sensing sensor and an in-cabin-sensing sensor. With the system controlling driving of the vehicle, the system determines a triggering event that triggers handing over driving of the vehicle to a driver of the vehicle before the vehicle encounters an event point associated with the triggering event. The vehicular control system (i) determines a total action time available before the vehicle encounters the event point, (ii) estimates a driver takeover time for the driver to take over control of the vehicle and (iii) estimates a handling time for the driver to control the vehicle to avoid encountering the event point. Responsive to the vehicular control system determining that the estimated driver takeover time is less than the difference between the determined total action time and the estimated handling time, control of the vehicle is handed over to the driver of the vehicle.
US11927950B2

A system for communicating between redundant devices balances the desired attributes of a high availability (HA) control system and a safety control system. The system includes concurrent connections as a fault tolerant mechanism for industrial protocol connections at the transport layer. The concurrent connections establish multiple paths for redundancy from a data producer to a data consumer. Concurrent connections increase availability of the HA control and safety instrumented systems. More specifically, concurrent connections and architectural redundancies eliminate a single point of failure within the control system and further reduce safety connection timeouts during fault detection and/or recovery. Concurrent connections may be used to keep a HA system operational or to provide detection of a failure in a safety system. The industrial control network may be configured to function as a HA control system, as a safety control system, or with certain degrees of both HA and safety-related operation.
US11927941B2

Data system for organising workflows, in which the cooperation of human beings and machines is controlled intra-logistically with optimum protection for the human beings involved, having the following features: g) an intra-logistically relevant work area is divided into production or storage areas (1) that are accessible, by means of transport areas (7), to the human beings and machines involved in the work process without obstacles, wherein the transport areas (7) are completely available to data systems by means of expediently distributed radio subscribers as transmitters and receivers (6), and an intra-logistical manager system undertakes the superordinate control, h) numerous DTSs (driverless transport systems) in various configurations and manufacturer-specific control subsystems are usable, besides transport drones (9), for handling the transport tasks that arise, i) robots in various configurations and manufacturer-specific control subsystems are used, besides people (2) equipped with radios, for carrying out work that arises.
US11927939B2

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for providing customized electric vehicle (EV) chargers. In one embodiment, a device is disclosed that includes a processor, a memory electrically coupled with the processor, a display electrically coupled with the processor, and an enclosure. The enclosure includes a mounting arrangement for securing the device to an EV charger. The device also includes a first communication interface electrically coupled with the processor. The first communication interface is configured for direct connection to the EV charger. The device further includes a second communication interface electrically coupled with the processor. The second communication interface is configured for connection to an internet protocol (IP) network.
US11927933B2

A program comparison apparatus includes: a set alignment unit that divides a comparison source-program which is a first FBD program into sets of program components connected to one another, and rearranges the sets in a line along a Y-axis direction which is a vertical direction in ascending order of execution, and also divides a comparison edited-program which is a second FBD program into sets of program components connected to one another, and rearranges the sets in a line along the Y-axis direction in ascending order of execution; a difference detection unit that detects a difference in the sets between the comparison source-program and the comparison edited-program rearranged as difference information; and a difference display control unit that causes the sets of the comparison source-program and the comparison edited-program that are rearranged to be displayed within a screen of a display device.
US11927932B2

A system includes a power profile engine, a power measurement engine, and a power throttling signal generator. The power profile engine receives a desired power profile, e.g., a first profile current average associated with a first time duration and a second profile current average associated with a second time duration. The power measurement engine measures current being drawn and generates a first running average for the measured currents for the first time duration and generates a second running average for the measured currents for the second time duration. The power throttling signal generator generates a first power throttling signal to throttle power in response to the first running average for the measured currents being greater than the first profile current average and generates a second power throttling signal to throttle power in response to the second running average for the measured currents being greater than the second profile current average.
US11927922B2

A coiling limitation device for a timepiece barrel includes at least one non-return notch arranged to cooperate with a sliding flange of the spring of the barrel, which is integrated in a watch including a resonator cooperating with an escapement mechanism. This device includes an acoustic device for the acoustic monitoring of the coiling of the barrel of a watch positioned on a receptacle included by the device, which acoustic devices are arranged to identify a click noise during each start of cooperation between the sliding flange and a notch. The device includes piloting devices arranged to stop the coiling of the barrel at the instant of the perception of the click noise or the repetition of the click noise.
US11927921B2

The main element 2 is connected to the mechanism of the movement, having parts 4, 5, by an arbor about which it can turn. To this end, it comprises an attachment 6 for fixing to the movement, which is for example formed by a small ring arranged in the opening 9 of the ring of the main element 2. The attachment 6 is thus composed of the same material as the main element and is arranged in the same plane. By virtue of the attachment 6, the winding mass can make a circular movement about the arbor, when it oscillates.
US11927918B2

The invention relates to a mechanism for displaying an information for a timepiece, comprising a mobile (10) intended to be driven in rotation by the movement of the timepiece about a display axis (17), a satellite (20) pivoted on the mobile (10) about a satellite axis (27) parallel to the display axis (17) and remote from a non-zero distance d1 thereof, a display area (80), an indicator (50) secured to the satellite (20) and the position of which relative to the display area (80) provides the information, and a crown (30) centered on the display axis (17) and kinematically connected to the satellite (20). The mechanism is particular in that the indicator (50) is located at a distance d2 from the satellite axis (27), which is greater than or equal to the distance d1.
US11927917B2

The horological movement includes a mechanical resonator and an escapement including an escapement wheel, which has a plurality of teeth, and an anchor formed by a stick and two arms having respectively two mechanical pallets likely to come into contact, when the anchor is subject to an alternative movement, with any of the teeth according to the angular position of the escapement wheel. To avoid damage to the escapement during rocking of the anchor while the escapement wheel is positioned in an unfavourable angular position, the anchor is arranged, during the rocking of this anchor, to be able to bend being subjected to an elastic deformation. The anchor has an elastic capacity between each of the two mechanical pallets and a fork of the anchor, enabling it to absorb elastically, during the elastic deformation, a maximum mechanical energy that the mechanical resonator can have during the normal functioning of the horological movement.
US11927911B2

A replaceable unit for an electrophotographic image forming device includes a housing having a reservoir for holding toner. An electrical connector is positioned on a first side of the housing. The electrical connector includes an electrical contact for contacting a corresponding electrical contact in the image forming device. The electrical contact of the replaceable unit is electrically connected to processing circuitry mounted on the housing. The electrical connector is movable between a first position and a second position. The electrical contact of the replaceable unit moves outward from the first side of the housing along a side-to-side dimension of the housing when the electrical connector moves from the first position to the second position. The electrical contact of the replaceable unit faces downward when the electrical connector is in the second position permitting the corresponding electrical contact to contact the electrical contact of the replaceable unit from below.
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