US11937507B2
Integrated circuit devices which include a thermoelectric generator which recycles heat generated by operation of an integrated circuit, into electrical energy that is then used to help support the power requirements of that integrated circuit. Roughly described, the device includes an integrated circuit die having an integrated circuit thereon, the integrated circuit having power supply terminals for connection to a primary power source, and a thermoelectric generator structure disposed in sufficient thermal communication with the integrated circuit die so as to derive, from heat generated by the die, a voltage difference across first and second terminals of the thermoelectric generator structure. A powering structure is arranged to help power the integrated circuit, from the voltage difference across the first and second terminals of the thermoelectric generator. The thermoelectric generator can include IC packaging material that is made from thermoelectric semiconductor materials.
US11937503B2
A composition comprising a first compound capable of functioning as a phosphorescent emitter in an organic light emitting device at room temperature is disclosed. The first compound has at least one aromatic ring with at least one substituent R of Formula I In the structure of Formula I, R′ includes at least one fluorine atom; R′ represents mono to a maximum possible number of substitutions, or no substitution; each R2 is a hydrogen or one of a variety of substituents; L is an organic linker or direct bond; any two R1, R2 substituents may be joined or fused together to form a ring; the dashed line of Formula I is a bond to a first aromatic ring of the at least one aromatic ring; and n is an integer from 1 to 10. Organic light emitting devices and consumer products containing the compounds are also disclosed.
US11937501B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer; and at least one of heterocyclic compounds represented by Formulae 1-1 to 1-3, as defined herein.
US11937499B2
Disclosed are an aromatic amine derivative and an organic electroluminescent device including the same. A fluorenyl/silafluorenyl group having an ortho-substituted group is introduced into the structure of the aromatic amine derivative. The aromatic amine derivative may be used as a light-emitting material in a light-emitting layer of an organic electroluminescent device. These novel compounds can provide better device performance.
US11937491B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area having first color subpixels and a transparent area inside the display area, an array layer in the display area on the substrate, a first electrode in the first color subpixels on the array layer, a first emission assisting layer on the first electrode, an emitting material layer in the first color subpixels on the first emission assisting layer, a second emission assisting layer on the emitting material layer, a deposition preventing layer in the transparent area on the second emission assisting layer, a second electrode on the second emission assisting layer, the second electrode selectively disposed in a region where the deposition preventing layer is not disposed, an encapsulating layer on the deposition preventing layer and the second electrode, a polarizing layer in the display area on the encapsulating layer, an auxiliary equipment in the transparent area under the substrate.
US11937484B2
A display device and method of manufacturing same includes: a display panel having a pixel area and a peripheral area adjacent to the pixel area, a light control layer disposed on the display panel and at least partially overlapping the pixel area, a light blocking portion at least partially overlapping the peripheral area, and a protective layer disposed between the light control layer and the light blocking portion.
US11937481B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a white OLED display unit on the base substrate, and further includes: an optical adjustment structure on a light emitting side of the white OLED display unit, where the optical adjustment structure is in a peripheral region of each pixel region. The optical adjustment structure is configured to absorb light in a first wavelength range or convert light in a first wavelength range into light in a second wavelength range.
US11937476B2
A display device comprises a substrate; a circuit array layer comprising pixel drivers, data lines, first dummy lines, and second dummy lines; and a light emitting array layer. The display area comprises middle, first side, and second side regions. The data lines comprise first, second, and third data lines disposed in the middle, first side, and second side regions, respectively. The first dummy lines comprise a first data detour line disposed in the first side region and adjacent to a part of the second data line, and auxiliary lines. The second dummy lines comprise a second data detour line configured to connect the first data detour line to the third data line, and additional lines. The auxiliary lines comprise a bias auxiliary line to which a bias power is applied; and a second power auxiliary line to which a second power is applied.
US11937468B2
There are provided a display unit and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing color mixture in adjacent color pixels, and improving color reproducibility and chromaticity viewing angle. The display unit includes: a drive substrate having a plurality of pixels with a partition therebetween; and a first light shielding film provided on the partition.
US11937455B2
A display device includes a substrate having a first main display area, a second main display area, and a sub-display area positioned between the first main display area and the second main display area; a first driving circuit positioned on the sub-display area of the substrate; a first sub-pixel circuit and a second sub-pixel circuit positioned on respective sides of the first driving circuit in the sub-display area of the substrate; a first sub-light-emitting device connected to the first sub-pixel circuit and overlapping the first driving circuit; and a second sub-light-emitting device connected to the second sub-pixel circuit and overlapping the first driving circuit.
US11937449B2
A sealing structure (200) seals a light emitting unit (140) and includes a first inorganic film (210), a second inorganic film (220), a first resin-containing film (230), and a second resin-containing film (240). The film thickness of the first inorganic film (210) is equal to or greater than 1 nm and equal to or less than 300 nm. The first resin-containing film (230) is in contact with the first inorganic film (210) and includes a first resin. The second inorganic film (220) is positioned on an opposite side of the first inorganic film (210) with the first resin-containing film (230) interposed between the first and second inorganic films. The second resin-containing film (240) is positioned between the first resin-containing film (230) and the second inorganic film (220) and is in contact with the second inorganic film (220). The second resin-containing film (240) includes a second resin.
US11937448B2
An electronic device is provided and includes first region including organic layer in light emitting element; nitride layers over organic layer; first organic insulating layer over organic layer; and second region including nitride layers, outside first region, wherein second region does not include organic layer and first organic insulating layer, wherein nitride layers include first, second and third nitride layers, wherein first nitride layer is between organic layer and first organic insulating layer in first region, wherein second and third nitride layers are over first nitride layer, and wherein second nitride layer is in contact with first organic insulating layer in first region.
US11937447B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an optical film (10) including a light-transmitting base material (11), a hard coat layer (12), and an inorganic layer (13) in this order, wherein the hard coat layer (12) is in contact with the inorganic layer (13), the hard coat layer (12) contains a binder resin (12A) and inorganic particles (12B), the hard coat layer (12) has a film thickness of 1 μm or more, and the hard coat layer (12) has an indentation hardness of 200 MPa or more.
US11937445B2
A display panel and a display device, the display panel includes an encapsulation cover plate and a glass substrate, a light emitting unit and a driving circuit layer are arranged between the encapsulation cover plate and the glass substrate, a conductive layer and an encapsulation material layer are overlaid and arranged between the encapsulation region of the encapsulation cover plate and the glass substrate, the conductive layer is provided with a plurality of openings arranged at intervals, and an orthographic projection of the opening on the encapsulation material layer is separated from a midline between an inner edge and an outer edge of the encapsulation material layer.
US11937433B2
An example of an apparatus includes a plurality of memory cells. At least a portion of the memory cells have a bottom electrode with each bottom electrode being at least partially electrically isolated from remaining ones of the bottom electrodes. At least one resistive interconnect electrically couples two or more of the bottom electrodes. The resistive interconnect is arranged to discharge at least a portion of excess charge from the two or more bottom electrodes. Additional apparatuses and methods of forming the apparatuses are disclosed.
US11937431B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first area and a second area and an active area limited by an isolation layer in the first area and the second area, a p-type gate electrode doped with p-type impurities and including a p-type lower gate layer and a p-type upper gate layer on the p-type lower gate layer with a first gate dielectric layer disposed between the active area and the p-type gate electrode in the first area, and an n-type gate electrode doped with n-type impurities and including an n-type lower gate layer and an n-type upper gate layer on the n-type lower gate layer with a second gate dielectric layer disposed between the active area and the n-type gate electrode in the second area.
US11937427B2
In certain aspects, a first opening extending vertically through a first dielectric deck including a first plurality of interleaved sacrificial layers and dielectric layers above a substrate is formed. A high-k dielectric layer and a channel sacrificial layer free of polysilicon are subsequently formed along a sidewall of the first opening. A second opening extending vertically through a second dielectric deck including a second plurality of interleaved sacrificial layers and dielectric layers on the first dielectric deck is formed to expose the channel sacrificial layer in the first opening. The channel sacrificial layer is removed in the first opening. A memory film and a semiconductor channel are subsequently formed over the high-k dielectric layer along sidewalls of the first and second openings.
US11937426B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, and a dielectric stack over the substrate. The dielectric stack includes a first layer over the substrate and a second layer over the first layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a gate layer including a first portion traversing the second layer and a second portion extending between the first layer and the second layer.
US11937419B2
A semiconductor device and a forming method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a capacitor array and a supporting structure. A plurality of conductive contact plugs which are arranged at intervals are formed on the substrate. The capacitor array includes a plurality of columnar capacitors which are arranged at intervals. Each columnar capacitor is formed on a respective one of the conductive contact plugs. A lower electrode layer of the columnar capacitor is in contact connection with the conductive contact plug. The supporting structure is formed on the substrate at an edge of the capacitor array and surrounds the capacitor array. A spacing between an inner wall and an outer wall of the supporting structure on any cross section parallel to the substrate is greater than an aperture of a capacitor hole of any one of the columnar capacitors on the cross section.
US11937417B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a conductive contact over a semiconductor substrate, and forming a first dielectric layer covering the conductive contact. The method also includes partially removing the first dielectric layer to form an opening exposing a top surface of the conductive contact, and forming a bottom electrode covering sidewalls of the opening and the top surface of the conductive contact. The method further includes depositing a second dielectric layer over the bottom electrode using a first process, and depositing dielectric portions over the second dielectric layer and at top corners of the opening using a second process. The first process has a first step coverage, the second process has a second step coverage, and the second step coverage is smaller than the first step coverage. The method includes forming a top electrode covering the second dielectric layer and the dielectric portions.
US11937413B2
A power electronics module includes at least one first substrate having on a first side one or more first semiconductor dies, the one or more first semiconductor dies and the at least one first substrate providing a higher power part of the power electronics module, at least one second substrate having on a first side one or more second semiconductor dies, the one or more second semiconductor dies and the at least one second substrate providing a lower power part of the power electronics module, and a common frame at least partially encasing the first and second substrates and being a monobloc part, the higher power part being configured for direct liquid cooling and the lower power part being configured for indirect cooling.
US11937411B2
A converter includes a housing; a heat-generating component disposed inside the housing; and a heat-dissipating module disposed on the heat-generating component and having a heat-dissipating member, an inlet adjacently disposed on one side of the heat-dissipating member, and an outlet adjacently disposed on the other side of the heat-dissipating member. The heat-dissipating member includes a plurality of heat-dissipating fins and a plurality of flow paths disposed in a direction from the inlet toward the outlet, and the plurality of flow paths are disposed overlapping with the heat-generating component in the vertical direction. A distance between two outermost heat-dissipating fins in a second direction of the heat-dissipating member, among the plurality of heat-dissipating fins, is greater at a central region between the inlet and the outlet of the heat-dissipating member than at a first region near the outlet of the heat-dissipating.
US11937410B2
A package-type fluid machine includes a compressor unit including a compression portion that compresses a fluid, a motor that drives the compression portion, and a cooling fan that is driven by the motor; a machine chamber in which the compressor unit is disposed; an inverter chamber which is adjacent to the machine chamber and in which an inverter is disposed; a partition wall that partitions off the machine chamber from the inverter chamber and has an opening; and an inverter intake port that is disposed in the inverter chamber to take in a cooling gas. The cooling fan is disposed on a side of the machine chamber, the opening being located on the side. The cooling fan is driven to cause the cooling gas to flow from the inverter intake port to the opening to cool the inverter.
US11937409B2
Provided is an electronic module including a housing case for housing a relay, a heat transfer sheet placed on an inner surface of a bottom plate of the housing case, a terminal provided on one surface of the relay opposing a bottom plate, and a crank portion in which a first flat plate portion electrically connected to the terminal and a second flat plate portion that is in contact with the heat transfer sheet are coupled in a crank shape.
US11937407B2
An electronic component enclosure includes a plurality of wall structures defining outer walls of the enclosure. Each wall structure has an internal fluid channel for circulation of cooling fluid. The enclosure further includes at least one partition structure disposed within the outer walls and having an internal fluid channel in sealed fluid communication with the internal fluid channel of at least one of the plurality of wall structures. The internal fluid channel of at least one of the plurality of wall structures and the internal fluid channel of the at least one partition structure defines a continuous fluid circulation path between a fluid inflow port and a fluid outflow port.
US11937401B2
An electronic rack includes a rack manifold to be coupled to an external cooling fluid source, including a supply rack manifold and a return rack manifold, wherein the rack manifold includes a plurality of pairs of rack connectors disposed thereon. The electronic rack further includes a server chassis including a connector holder having a pair of a supply server connector and a return server connector to be connected with a corresponding pair of rack connectors of the rack manifold. The electronic rack further includes a controller, in response to detecting a leakage of the cooling fluid, configured to cause the supply server connector to disconnect from the supply rack manifold, while maintaining the return server connector connected with the return rack manifold, and to increase a flowrate of the cooling fluid on the return rack manifold to remove the cooling fluid residing within the server chassis.
US11937400B2
A heat dissipation device includes a first heat dissipator, a second heat dissipator, a first tank connected to one side of each of the first heat dissipator and the second heat dissipator in a first direction, and a second tank connected to another side in the first direction. A coolant flows through an inside of the first heat dissipator, the second heat dissipator, the first tank, and the second tank. The first tank includes a tank-side first outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a first cooling device, and a tank-side first inflow port through which the coolant from the first cooling device flows in. The second tank includes a tank-side second outflow port through which the coolant flows out to a second cooling device, and a tank-side second inflow port through which the coolant from the second cooling device flows in.
US11937398B2
A one-way airflow dual fan assembly of dismantling ease, comprising a first installation casing and a second installation casing, the first installation casing is aligned with the second installation casing, a flap is respectively fixed in both the first installation casing and the second installation casing, a cover plate is provided in the flap, connection mechanisms are provided between the cover plate and the flap, the flap is connected with the cover plate via the plurality of connection mechanisms, and the connection mechanisms comprise respectively a flexible connection component and a limiting part. By cooperation of the cover plates and the connection mechanisms, by pulling the cover plates, under limiting actions of the second wedges, the first wedges are pressed, the U-shaped connection blocks deform flexibly until the flexible connection components are released, and the cover plates are released from the flaps, so that the cover plates can be disassembled.
US11937395B2
A disclosed apparatus may include (1) a retractable guide rail movably coupled to a chassis, wherein the retractable guide rail is configured to support a field-replaceable unit when the field-replaceable unit is installed in the chassis, (2) a support bracket coupled to the chassis and aligned with the retractable guide rail within the chassis and (3) a locking bracket movably coupled to the support bracket, wherein the locking bracket is configured to (A) engage the retractable guide rail in an expanded position within the chassis when the field-replaceable unit is not installed in the chassis and (B) disengage the retractable guide rail such that the retractable guide rail moves to a retracted position when the field-replaceable unit is installed in the chassis. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11937388B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a screen body support device, including: a fixing bracket; a movable bracket being rotatably connected with the fixing bracket, in which the movable bracket and the fixing bracket are provided in a non-display area of a flexible display screen; and a driving component being fixedly connected with the movable bracket, in which the driving component is configured to drive the movable bracket to swing in two opposite directions with respect to the fixing bracket, so that the flexible display screen is bent in two opposite directions respectively.
US11937384B2
An electronic device includes a display module including a display unit and a hinge unit coupled to the display unit and configured to be rolled with the display unit, the display unit including a display panel, a flexible circuit board connected to the display panel, and a main circuit board connected to the flexible circuit board, a housing including sidewall portions each extending in a first direction, in which at least one of the sidewall portions includes an accommodation groove to which the main circuit board is inserted, and the sidewall portions are deformable between a closed state of surrounding the display module and an opened state of exposing at least a portion of the display module outside of the housing.
US11937382B2
The present invention relates to a substrate unit and a substrate assembly, and a camera module using the same. The present invention may comprise: a first substrate part having rigidity; a second substrate part stacked on one surface of the first substrate part and having flexibility; a third substrate part extending outwardly from the second substrate part and having flexibility; and a reinforcing part which is disposed at a portion where the edge portions of the first substrate part and the third substrate part meet, the reinforcing part having a recessed portion which is formed by recessing the first substrate part inwardly so as to inhibit interference between the first substrate part and the third substrate part. The present invention is capable of resolving the interference between a rigid PCB and a flexible PCB and the tearing thereof by providing a reinforcing part in a connection portion of the rigid PCB and the flexible PCB.
US11937378B2
A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board a includes preparing an insulating substrate on which a first metal layer is formed, stacking a resist laminate having a plurality of layers on the first metal layer, forming an opening exposing a portion of the first metal layer by patterning the stacked resist laminate having the plurality of layers, forming a second metal layer on the exposed portion of the first metal layer, removing the patterned resist laminate having the plurality of layers, and etching at least another portion of the first metal layer.
US11937375B2
A material sheet is provided having antenna patterns that include first and second coupling portions that are transported toward a mounting position, and an adhesive member that is disposed on the material sheet before reaching the mounting position. At a pickup position, a mounting device picks up an RFIC module including an RFIC chip and first and second terminal electrodes connected to the RFIC chip. At the mounting position, the mounting device mounts the picked-up RFIC module onto the adhesive member on the material sheet so that the first coupling portion and the first terminal electrode face each other and so that the second coupling portion and the second terminal electrode face each other.
US11937365B2
An affixation film 101 for a printed wiring board includes a circuit pattern concealing layer 112, and an adhesive layer 111 put on top of the circuit pattern concealing layer 112. An opposite surface of the circuit pattern concealing layer 112 from the adhesive layer 111 has an Rku of 2.5-3.0.
US11937364B2
A highly heat-dissipating flexible printed circuit board (GFPCB) efficiently emits heat transferred from a heat source such as an LED to the flexible printed circuit board. The highly heat-dissipating flexible printed circuit board comprises: a flexible board layer which is formed in a flexibly bendable thin-film form by bonding a polyimide (PI) film to the lower side of a copper (Cu) film using an adhesive and has a heat element installed on the upper side thereof; and a heat dissipation layer which is formed in a thin-film form by coating any one of graphitic carbon and a graphite powder binder on the upper side of an aluminum (Al) film and is bonded to the lower side of the flexible board layer using a pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) to receive heat generated and transferred from the heat element and emit the heat to the outside.
US11937362B2
A charged particle acceleration device, which eliminates the need for repeating alignment adjustment even in the case of repeating installation of the controllers, is provided, and a method for adjusting the same is provided. A charged particle acceleration device 10A includes: controllers 15,15a,15b,15c configured to control a beam trajectory 12 of charged particles that pass through a duct 11 to be inserted through the controllers 15; and a stage 20 that is supported by a frame 16 fixed to a base and reversibly moves the controllers 15 in a direction of intersecting the beam trajectory 12.
US11937361B1
A cathode emitter assembly includes a cathode tube having a gas feed portion and a plasma outflow portion; an outer annular cathode insert in the plasma outflow portion of the cathode tube; an inner cathode insert in the plasma outflow section of the cathode tube; and an annular plasma emission portion defined between an inner surface of the outer annular cathode insert and an outer surface of the inner cathode insert.
US11937346B2
A first side surface (312) is positioned at a light emitting region (142) side. The first side surface (312) is inclined toward the light emitting region (142) with distance from the first surface (102) of the substrate (100). A second side surface (314) is positioned opposite to the first side surface (312). The second side surface (314) is inclined away from the light emitting region (142) with distance from the first surface (102) of the substrate (100). A first upper surface (316) is positioned between the first side surface (312) and the second side surface (314), and is substantially parallel to the first surface (102) of the substrate (100).
US11937345B2
The present invention relates to a ceramic heater. The ceramic heater of the present invention comprises: a heater plate in which a heating element is disposed and which is made of a ceramic material; a shaft which has a tubular shape with a through-hole and is coupled to the bottom surface of the heater plate and in which a rod for supplying power to the heating element through the through-hole is received; and a continuous or discontinuous air pocket which is provided in a joint with which the heater plate and the shaft come into contact and by which the heater plate and the shaft are coupled to each other, wherein the air pocket is formed along the joining surface of the joint.
US11937343B2
The method includes first defining a reservoir in a housing, the reservoir configured to contain a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation, the non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation being devoid of nicotine and including at least one non-nicotine compound, positioning a heater and a wick in a chamber, the heater being in heating proximity to the wick, second defining at least one first channel, the at least one first channel being configured to communicate the non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation from the reservoir to the wick, and third defining at least one first air passage, the at least one first air passage being configured to allow air to enter the reservoir.
US11937340B2
Handling of UE capability information in a mobile telecommunications network wherein an eNodeB receives information regarding the UE capability information from the UE and stores the information. The eNodeB sends the UE capability information to the EPC, i.e., to an MME, which receives and stores the UE capability information. When the UE transits from idle to active state, does an initial attach, or when a part of the UE capabilities have changed, it sends a message to the eNodeB regarding the update. The eNodeB forwards the message to the MME, which sends a response associated with the previously stored UE capability information to the eNodeB. The eNodeB decides whether the UE capabilities stored in the MME is up-to-date based on the message from the UE and the response from the MME. If the UE holds updated UE capabilities the eNodeB can request updated UE capability information from the UE.
US11937335B2
An user equipment in a wireless communication system including a base station and the user equipment is configured to include: a reception unit configured to receive information for setting a value of a predetermined timer from the base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit an uplink data in a case where the predetermined timer is not activated, wherein the transmission unit activates the predetermined timer in a case where that the value of the predetermined timer is set from the base station and information indicating that there is no uplink data to be transmitted is transmitted to the base station.
US11937331B2
The disclosure relates to methods for improving the DRX operation of a UE by introducing an additional DRX wake-up cycle, which runs in parallel to the short and/or long DRX cycle. The DRX wake-up cycle defines time intervals after which the UE starts monitoring the PDCCH for a wake-up duration of time; the UE does not perform any other operation during the wake-up duration apart from monitoring the PDCCH. The time intervals of the wake-up cycle between the wake-up durations are preferably shorter than the one of the DRX long cycle, and may have the same or a shorter length than the ones of the DRX short cycle. The wake-up duration may be as long as the on-duration of the DRX short/long cycle, or may be preferably much shorter, such as only one or a few subframes.
US11937324B2
Data transmitting/receiving apparatuses and methods and a communication system. The data transmitting method includes: in an inactive state, determining whether to maintain in the inactive state or enter an active state according to indication information of a network device or one or more parameters configured by the network device; and in the inactive state, transmitting data and/or a request message for entering the active state to the network device. Hence, data transmission may be performed in an appropriate state, without needing to restart connection at each time of data transmission; saved resources may be used for the data transmission, and time needed in performing identical data transmission may be reduced.
US11937322B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may establish a sidelink connection with a second UE, where the sidelink connection is associated with a plurality of flows. The first UE may determine, based on monitoring each flow of the plurality of flows, a radio link status of the sidelink connection. The first UE may transmit, based on the determining, a non-access stratum layer message to the second UE based at least on the radio link status of the sidelink connection.
US11937320B2
A method for operating a terminal for radio link management includes: receiving from a first cell a connection reconfiguration message, for configuring carrier aggregation, including configuration information for a second cell; performing beam and radio link monitoring for the first and second cells; when a beam failure for the second cell is detected, performing at least one from among a procedure of reporting the beam failure to the first and second cells, a procedure of requesting the recovery of the beam failure from the first and second cells, and a beam recovery procedure for the second cell; receiving, from the first or second cell, a control message in response to the report of the beam failure, or in response to the beam recovery procedure; and, upon receiving the control message, determining whether the beam recovery procedure is successful.
US11937318B2
A dual-mode mobile device and a method for coordinating calls for the dual-mode mobile device over a first and second connection within a controlled environment is disclosed. The method includes communications between a monitoring server and the dual-mode mobile device over the first connection while the dual-mode mobile device conducts the call over the second connection. The monitoring server transmits control messages to the dual-mode mobile device to control operations of the dual-mode mobile device and establishment of the call and also monitors operations of the dual-mode mobile device as well as the communications transmitted and received by the dual-mode mobile device during the call.
US11937314B2
According to an embodiment, a method of a user equipment (UE) in a communication system supporting an edge computing service using an edge data network including a first server providing, to the UE, first configuration information for application data traffic and a second server exchanging, with the UE, the application data traffic comprises transmitting a service provisioning request to a third server providing second configuration information for a connection with the first server and receiving, from the third server, a service provisioning response including network identification information related to a list of the first server or the second server in response to transmitting the service provisioning request.
US11937311B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a control node may receive a resource management indication from a network node to identify a resource utilization with communications of the network node; determine, based at least in part on the resource management indication, a collision management configuration for the network node; and transmit information associated with the collision management configuration based at least in part on the determination of the collision management configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11937308B2
A contending radio node is configured for attempting contention-based random access. The contending radio node obtains a timing advance sequence that is susceptible to contention. The contending radio node transmits, using the same transmission advancement timing, the timing advance sequence and a contention-resolving identity to a recipient radio node. Responsive to that transmission, the contending radio node receives a response signal that indicates a contention-resolving identity and a timing advance. The contending radio node resolves any contention in its favor when the contention-resolving identity indicated by the response signal corresponds to the contention-resolving identity that the contending radio node transmitted. The contending radio node, responsive to resolving the contention in its favor, adjusts its transmission advancement timing according to the timing advance indicated by the response signal.
US11937301B2
Performing a synchronization to allow a second wireless communication circuit of a wireless device operating in a second wireless communication network to operatively coexist with a first wireless communication network of the wireless device operating in a first wireless communication network in one or more wireless communication channels according to a time division multiplexing (TDM), wherein the method includes determining whether the one or more wireless communication channels are busy comprising determining whether a packet has been detected by the wireless device in the one or more wireless communication channels and/or determining whether the wireless device has sensed energy in the one or more wireless communication channels when one or more back-off counters associated TDM plan is zero; and granting to the second communication network, in response to determining the one or more wireless communication channels are busy, use of the one or more wireless communication channels.
US11937298B2
Systems, devices, and methods for performing coordinated clear channel assessments (CCAs) in a shared radiofrequency band are provided. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a first wireless communication device includes: receiving a control signal indicating a CCA trigger associated with the first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device; performing, based on the CCA trigger, a CCA; transmitting, to the second wireless communication device based on the CCA, a first CCA success signal; receiving, from the second wireless communication device, a second CCA success signal; initiating, based on the first CCA success signal and the second CCA success signal, a channel occupancy time (COT); and amplifying and forwarding a communication in the COT.
US11937265B2
A user equipment (UE) indicates an intent to transmit on sidelink sub-channels using a transmission indication and then monitors receptions of transmission grants transmitted from one or more other devices, such as UEs or base stations, and determines whether or not to proceed with the sidelink transmission on the sub-channels based on the received transmission grants. A device monitors transmission indications transmitted from UEs to determine a UE that can proceed with a sidelink transmission on sub-channels, and transmits a transmission grant corresponding to the UE that can proceed with the sidelink transmission on sub-channels.
US11937259B2
Provided is a base station capable of enhancing signal reception performance. In the base station (100), a control unit (101) generates data signals in unit of fixed length. A transmission unit (107) performs repetitive transmission of a transmission signal including at least one of the data signals in unit of fixed length in a resource that can be set to a plurality of data lengths.
US11937257B2
A user equipment (UE) receives a configuration of a set of parameters for an uplink configured grant for uplink transmission. The UE receives a release or a reactivation of the uplink configured grant. The UE and releases or reactivates transmission occasions of the uplink configured grant that occur after reception of the release or the reactivation by at least a processing time duration.
US11937254B2
Implementations of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. In the method, a terminal device detects first Downlink Control Information (DCI) in a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) search space corresponding to a first carrier. A first information field in the first DCI indicates a second carrier. The terminal device activates or deactivates the second carrier in response to the first DCI.
US11937253B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure provide a method for determining a scheduling parameter, a method for configuring a scheduling parameter, a terminal, and a network-side device. The method for determining a scheduling parameter is applied to a terminal and includes: determining a scheduling offset threshold for current use according to a preset rule when a carrier or BWP on which a PDCCH is located and a carrier or BWP on which a PDSCH scheduled by the PDCCH is located have different numerologies.
US11937237B2
The present disclosure relates to a user device, a base station, a method for data transmission/reception by a user device, and a method for data reception/transmission by a base station. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, receives a parameter defining a rule for assigning to ports respective resources for carrying reference signals, generates, based on a mapping known to the user device and the base station, a set of layer-to-port mapping combinations, and receives, from the base station, control information indicating one of the set of layer-to-port mapping combinations which is to be applied for data transmission and/or reception.
US11937235B2
Aspects relate to dynamically changing the slot format of a slot between half-duplex and sub-band full-duplex and/or to changing flexible symbols within a flexible slot between half-duplex and sub-band full-duplex when a base station is configured to operate in a sub-band full-duplex mode. A slot format indicator (SFI) indicating the slot format of the slot may be signaled, for example, via downlink control information (DCI) mapped to a downlink control channel or medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC-CE) mapped to a downlink data channel. To improve reliability, various SFI boosting mechanisms may further be employed. For example, the base station may apply a higher aggregation level to the SFI, transmit repetitions of the SFI across multiple beams, apply a CRC enhancement and/or MCS enhancement to the downlink control channel carrying the SFI, and/or apply a power boost to the SFI.
US11937228B2
Method and apparatus for switching BWP based on UE feedback. The apparatus identifies a potential change of resources of a carrier based on an event or a condition associated with communication with a base station. The apparatus provides, to the base station, a preferred throughput or BWP as the potential change of resources for the carrier. The apparatus switches to the preferred throughput or BWP for the carrier. The apparatus receives, from the base station, a switch indication including instructions to switch to the preferred throughput or BWP for the carrier. The apparatus selects a preferred throughput or BWP as the potential change of resources.
US11937227B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration indicating a set of occasions configured for sidelink communications for the UE. The sidelink communications may include at least one of sidelink traffic, semi-persistent scheduling traffic, or a combination thereof. The UE may receive a control indication associated with a radio network temporary identifier. The control indication may include a downlink control information. In some examples, the UE may skip a first pre-scheduled occasion of the set of occasions configured for sidelink communications based on the control indication, and may perform sidelink communications during a second pre-scheduled occasion of the set of occasions after skipping the first pre-scheduled occasion.
US11937221B2
Methods, devices, and systems for multi-carrier network operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of performing channel scrambling in a multi-carrier network, wherein the multi-carrier network includes a first component carrier (“CC”) and a second CC between a base station and a user equipment (“UE”) comprises receiving a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (“C-RNTI”) and a cell identification (“ID”) for at least one of the first CC and the second CC; and using the RNTI and the cell ID to perform scrambling of information transmitted on at least one of the first CC and the second CC.
US11937220B2
The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and provides a partial sensing-based resource selection method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining at least one selection slot and at least one sensing slot, the selection slot being after a target moment, and the sensing slot being before the target moment; and determining a candidate resource set from available resources of the selection slot on the basis of the sensing result in the sensing slot, and selecting a transmission resource from the candidate resource set.
US11937217B2
A method for a relay terminal to transmit and receive signals in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a step for transmitting, in a first time region, a UL signal to an upper node through a backhaul link and a DL signal to at least one lower node through an access link; and a step for receiving, in a second time region, a DL signal from the upper node through the backhaul link and a UL signal from the at least one lower node through the access link, wherein different frequency resources are allocated to the UL signal and the DL signal in the same carrier in each of the first time domain and the second time domain.
US11937208B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with comprising a set of monitoring occasions for a reference signal. While the UE is in an inactive mode or an idle mode, a configuration for the set of monitoring occasions may be updated. The UE may be transmitted an indication of the updated set of monitoring occasions while the UE is in the inactive mode or the idle mode. The indication for the updated set of monitoring occasions may be sent via paging or system information messages.
US11937205B2
A base station device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to: execute control for transmitting, when the base station device is started, location information relevant to the base station device to a server device; execute control for receiving, from the server device, setting information relevant to the location information, the setting information being used for setting the base station device; and execute initial setting of the base station device by using the setting information.
US11937190B2
A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.
US11937185B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support a shared transmission power control (TPC) for uplink data and control channels. In a first aspect, a method includes a user equipment (UE) receiving a TPC command in downlink control messages from a serving base station. Each TPC command includes a power correction indicator. The UE may then apply an accumulation of power correction indicators received in the downlink control messages to an adjustment state associated with a transmit power of an of uplink control channel and an uplink data channel. The UE transmits to an uplink receive point, the uplink control or data channel according to the transmit power adjusted by the accumulation of power correction indicators applied to the adjustment state. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11937180B2
Provided are a carrier activation method, apparatus, device and system and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of communications. The method includes: wake-up information is received on a predetermined carrier that is a carrier, configured to transmit the wake-up information, in at least two carriers allocated to User Equipment (UE); and the predetermined carrier and at least one other carrier are activated based on the wake-up information, or, at least two other carriers are activated based on the wake-up information, the other carrier(s) being a carrier(s) other than the predetermined carrier in the at least two carriers. According to the present disclosure, the problem that the UE needs to detect the wake-up information on each carrier and determine whether to activate the carrier based on the wake-up information is solved, and the energy consumption of the UE is reduced and the endurance of the UE is improved.
US11937173B2
A method includes selecting N cells waiting to be camped on from a candidate cell list, decoding a Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) of each of the selected N cells waiting to be camped on, selecting, from at least one cell whose PBCH is successfully decoded, one cell as a cell continuing waiting to be camped on, and when a remaining minimum system information (RMSI) decoding result of the cell continuing waiting to be camped on indicates that the cell continuing waiting to be camped on meets a camping criterion, determining the cell continuing waiting to be camped on as the cell to be camped on.
US11937167B1
Systems, methods, and devices disclosed herein contemplate client updates to traffic filter tables that control delivery of network traffic from an access point to the client over a multi channel wireless network. The client may update the traffic filter table whenever: (i) an application on the client initiates the request; (ii) an application matching a secondary channel requirement in a look-up table is opened or closed; (iii) data characteristics matching the secondary channel requirement in the look-up table are detected or removed; (iv) data usage of the client meets or exceeds a predetermined threshold; (v) data usage of the client falls below a predetermined threshold; and/or (vi) a specified period of time has passed.
US11937163B2
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may send a request to a second BS to configure a backhaul routing path via the second BS to a third BS that has a signaling connection to the first BS. The apparatus may also communicate, with the second BS, a first backhaul adaptation protocol (BAP) configuration associated with the backhaul routing path. The apparatus may also transmit a second BAP configuration to the third BS in association with the communicated first BAP configuration.
US11937161B2
An information processing device associated with a prescribed vehicle receives an emergency message to inform occurrence of a prescribed event, and presents, upon reception of the emergency message, an electronic manual corresponding to the prescribed vehicle to a user.
US11937158B2
An electronic device is configured to receive at least one advertisement (ADV) packet from an external electronic device using the wireless communication circuit. The electronic device is configured to determine whether to upload identification information of the first external electronic device based on at least one of information of a channel through which the at least one ADV packet is received or information of the external electronic device included in the at least one ADV packet. The electronic device is configured to transmit the identification information of the external electronic device and location information of the electronic device to an external server device, in response to a determination to upload the identification information. In addition to the above, various embodiments identified through the disclosure are possible.
US11937157B2
The present invention provides a V2X operation method implemented by a V2X (vehicle-to-X) terminal in a wireless communication system, the method characterized by: determining whether or not V2X message transmission is possible on reserved periodic resources; and, if the V2X message transmission is not possible on the reserved periodic resources, transmitting to another V2X terminal a first scheduling assignment (SA) channel comprising information which indicates that the V2X message transmission is not possible on the reserved periodic resources.
US11937150B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a charging function (125) for handling a subscriber's communication services. The charging function (125) detects that a subscriber's credit account has reached or fallen below a credit threshold when the subscriber has multiple ongoing communication services consuming credit from the credit account. The charging function (125) sends a threshold notification to a UE (101) on which the subscriber has at least one of the multiple ongoing communication services. The charging function (125) determines if a response to the threshold notification has been received with prioritization of one of the multiple ongoing communication services. If a response with prioritization of one communication service has been received, the charging function (125) initiates termination of all ongoing communication services except the prioritized communication service, and provides all available credit to be available for the prioritized communication service.
US11937148B2
A method of indicating UE status includes: determining, at the UE based on at least one of sensor output information of the UE or one or more incoming wireless signals to the UE, an indoor/outdoor status of the UE; and sending an indoor/outdoor indication of the indoor/outdoor status of the UE from the UE to a network entity.
US11937146B2
Techniques are described for filtering location data in a dataset based at least on its representation of the actual location of a user device. In some embodiments, sensor data including location data associated with a user device located in an environment may be used to identify one or more prediction factors. The one or more prediction factors may be associated to embed a user behavior vector of a user based at least on the associations. The user behavior vector may be a representation of an environment class in which the environment may be classified. The location data is associated with the environment class.
US11937136B2
Provided are a method and a device for performing a UE-based handover in a next generation wireless access network. The method of a UE may include receiving, from a source base station, an upper layer signaling including information on UE-based handover command and information on conditions for handover execution; storing a target cell configuration by using the information on conditions for handover execution; and determining whether to perform a handover procedure to a target cell, by determining whether predetermined conditions for handover are satisfied.
US11937134B1
A wireless access node indicates available Radio Access Technology (RAT) types to a User Equipment (UE). The UE selects from the available RAT types and indicates the UE-selected RAT types to the wireless access node. The wireless access node transfers the UE-selected RAT types to a network controller. The network controller selects from the UE-selected RAT types and indicates the network-selected RAT types for the UE to the wireless access node. The wireless access node indicates the network-selected RAT types to the UE. In response, the UE and the wireless access node simultaneously exchange user data using the network-selected RAT types.
US11937131B2
Methods and systems for resume request followed by release and redirect are herein provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a User Equipment for communicating within a telecommunications network comprises: while in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) INACTIVE state, sending, to a base station, a request to resume communication, and, without entering an RRC CONNECED state, receiving, from the base station, an instruction to release and redirect; and in response to receiving the instruction to release and redirect, performing cell selection in a Radio Access Technology and attempting to establish or resume communication with the selected cell.
US11937126B2
The described technology is generally directed towards adaptive spectrum as a service, in which spectrum can be dynamically allocated to adapt to demand for wireless capacity. The demand for wireless capacity can be based on monitoring system state, and/or proactively predicted based on other system state such as time of day. Reallocated spectrum can be monitored for performance, to converge spectrum allocation to a more optimal state. Allocated spectrum can be relocated, increased or decreased, including by the use of citizens band radio service spectrum or other spectrum. Currently allocated spectrum can be adapted into modified allocated spectrum by an application program (xApp) coupled to a radio access network intelligent controller (RIC), a citizens broadband radio service device, a domain proxy service, and/or a user device. A user device can determine and request bandwidth, with spectrum allocated in response.
US11937122B2
Wireless communication systems and methods related to radio link control (RLC) transmissions are provided. A first wireless communication device transmits a sequence of protocol data units (PDUs). The first wireless communication device receives a first reception status report for a first portion of a receiver buffer window used for receiving the sequence of PDUs from a second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device receives a second reception status report for a second portion of the receiver buffer window, the second portion being different from the first portion, from the second wireless communication device.
US11937117B2
A wireless device communicates a transmission capability by determining a number of active transmits chains of the wireless device, determining a maximum number of space-time streams according to the number of active transmit chains, providing a frame with an indication of the maximum number of space-time streams, and transmitting the frame. The wireless devices may provide the indication of the maximum number of space-time streams in an Operating Mode field of High Efficiency Aggregate Control field of the frame. The maximum number of space-time streams may be a maximum number of space-time streams that may be used by the wireless device to respond to a Trigger frame.
US11937111B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a measurement configuration method, a device, and a system, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The measurement configuration method includes obtaining priorities of M pieces of measurement indication information, and measuring, according to the priorities of the M pieces of measurement indication information, a to-be-measured frequency corresponding to target measurement indication information, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US11937110B2
A signal reporting method, a terminal device and a network device for performing signal selection according to the report amount other than layer 1 reference signal receiving power (L1-RSRP), which can improve the quality of the selected signal, so as to improve system performance. The method comprises: the terminal device determines a target report amount in at least one report amount, wherein the at least one report amount is configured by means of measurement configuration information, and the at least one report amount comprises report amounts other than L1-RSRP; the terminal device determines the reported signal according to the measurement result of the target report amount for N signals.
US11937108B2
A wireless network device in a wide area network is disclosed. A radio of the network device receives a plurality of communication signals. The device detects a signal to noise ratio value and/or a noise floor value and determines, for each frequency channel, when one of the detected signal to noise ratio value is less than a signal to noise ratio threshold value for a period of time and/or the detected noise floor value is greater than a noise floor threshold value for the period of time. The device transmits a jamming warning signal when one of the detected signal to noise ratio value for each of the channels is determined to be greater than the signal to noise ratio threshold value for the period of time and/or the detected noise floor value for each channel is greater than the noise floor threshold value for the period of time.
US11937106B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. The apparatus may measure a RSRP of a CRS for each of a plurality of neighboring cells. The apparatus may also calculate an interference strength of each of the plurality of neighboring cells based on the RSRP measurement of the CRS for each of the plurality of neighboring cells. Additionally, the apparatus may compare a PDSCH demodulation performance of the UE based on rate matching for a CRS offset associated with each of the plurality of neighboring cells with the PDSCH demodulation performance of the UE based on skipping the rate matching for the CRS offset. The apparatus may also transmit a request for the rate matching or skipping the rate matching for the CRS offset based on the comparison of the PDSCH demodulation performance of the UE.
US11937104B2
A radio wave environment analyzer includes a memory that holds location information on a radio transmitter disposed in a target area where a moving body is present and location information on a reference point at which a radio wave from the radio transmitter is received, and a processor that obtains (i) a first reception intensity of the radio wave at the reference point when the moving body is present at an initial location and (ii) a plurality of second reception intensities of the radio wave at the reference point respectively corresponding to cases where the moving body is present at a plurality of movement locations. The processor selects one or more locations out of the plurality of movement locations to execute a simulation of a radio wave environment in the target area, based on the first reception intensity and the plurality of second reception intensities.
US11937102B2
Provided is a method and system for optimizing utilization and performance of one or more unlicensed bands in a network (Wi-Fi and Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS)) through a client device application that communicates with a central node deployed on a cloud platform. The method and system collects Radio Frequency (RF) measurements from a plurality of client devices and from a plurality of nearby point of attachments (PoAs) and transmits the collected RF measurements to the cloud platform. An optimal transmission channel/network in the one or more unlicensed bands is then calculated for one or more nearby PoAs using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module based on the RF measurements, which utilizes a Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS), an Automated Frequency Coordinator (AFC) and a Spectrum Access System (SAS) to select the optimal transmission channel/network based on the data-rate result received from the DFS, AFC and SAS.
US11937101B2
System and methods for managing a Wi-Fi network of a plurality of Wi-Fi networks from a cloud-based Network Operations Control (NOC) dashboard include, subsequent to creating an account for a user of the Wi-Fi network, receiving data associated with the Wi-Fi network from the one or more access points; providing a display associated with the Wi-Fi network based on the data, wherein the display comprises a network topology and one or more tabs providing information related to operation of the Wi-Fi network; updating the display based on one or more inputs received, wherein the updating updates one or more of the network topology and the one or more tabs; and performing one or more operations via the NOC dashboard to one of manage, control, and troubleshoot the Wi-Fi network.
US11937099B2
Beamforming for adapting wireless signaling beams in an adaptive and agile manner is contemplated. The beamforming may be characterized by adaptively constructing beam form parameters to provide wireless signaling in a manner that maximizes efficiency and bandwidth according to device positioning relative to a responding base station.
US11937093B2
Methods and systems for simultaneous sharing of spectrum in wireless communications. Base Stations (BSs) of a plurality of mobile network operators in a cell may send downlink signals to their respective connected User Equipments (UEs) through a shared frequency spectrum. Further, the BSs may receive uplink signals from the UEs in the shared frequency spectrum.
US11937092B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11937089B2
A method for remotely bonding a companion device to an implanted medical device to achieve long-term encrypted and authenticated communication channel, that is resilient to companion device failure or compromise and hence mitigates the risk or need for unplanned, revision surgery and/or premature device explanation. Through use of a shared cryptographic key between the two systems, the companion device may request an encrypted challenge number from the implant. Completing the challenge via transmitting an encrypted validation number permits the implanted medical device to bond and perform a new long-term key exchange. The shared cryptographic key can be changed as well, in event of compromise or other adverse event, using a described device firmware update procedure.
US11937086B2
A method and system for wirelessly tracking power tools and related devices to aid with inventory management and to help minimize, prevent, and recover misplaced or stolen tools throughout the job site. The tools and/or batteries include wireless transmitting capabilities (e.g., an ISM unit) to transmit data to a fob, puck repeater, and/or gateway over an ISM network. The gateway is operable to translate and output the ISM communications over a cellular network to a remote monitoring unit, such as a personal computer or smart phone. Additionally, the gateway is further operable to translate and output cellular communications from the remote monitoring unit to ISM communications over the ISM network. A wireless tethering system and method is also disclosed whereby an ISM battery places a power tool in a lock-out or limp mode after the ISM battery remains outside of ISM communications for a prolonged period of time.
US11937083B2
A method for controlling access to wireless communications includes generating an overlay to a portion of an existing wireless network by controlling radio frequency (RF) equipment to establish a defined geographical volume as the overlay; receiving an indication of wireless devices within the volume, the indication including three-dimensional positions of the wireless devices within the boundary; establishing identities for the wireless devices, the identities selected from the group consisting of allowed, unknown, and restricted; generating a private network encompassing at least a portion of the volume; locking and maintaining locked unknown and restricted wireless devices to the processor; and directing allowed wireless devices to access the private network for wireless communications within the volume.
US11937082B1
A secure electric vehicle (EV) charger and system incorporating thereof is provided. One embodiment includes an EV charger. The EV charger includes a processor, a low power short range point-to-point communication system, and a memory containing an authentication software application. The processor is configured by the authentication software application to receive an authentication request from a mobile device via the low power short range point-to-point communication system, send encrypted EV charger access credentials to the mobile device, receive a digital token from the mobile device, verify the digital token, and initiate a charging session based upon a command contained within the digital token. The digital token may be encrypted using a public key and may be self-authenticating without use of an internet connection thus enabling secure charging without the presence of an internet connection.
US11937080B2
A method for updating network access application authentication information applicable to a terminal having an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) that has at least one profile. The method includes receiving, by the terminal, a first message from a remote server, where the first message includes network access application (NAA) authentication parameter update information and a first identifier, updating, by the terminal, authentication information of a profile corresponding to the first identifier based on the NAA authentication parameter update information, and detaching, by the terminal, from a network and re-attaching to the network based on updated authentication information of the profile.
US11937078B2
A mobile device is disclosed. The device includes a communicator, a GPS unit for calculating location information, a memory, a display, and a processor, and the processor is configured to generate movement path information of the mobile device by performing homomorphic encryption of a plurality of pieces of location information stored in the memory, transmit the movement path information to a server apparatus through the communicator, based on operation result data obtained by operating based on the movement path information and comparison target path information being transmitted from the server apparatus, decrypt the operation result data, and output a message notifying whether a route overlaps the comparison target path information based on a decrypted result through the display. Therefore, the route overlap is rapidly and accurately confirmed without invasion of privacy.
US11937058B2
A driver's vehicle sound perception method during the autonomous traveling of a driver sound control system applied to an autonomous vehicle is provided. The method includes determining a mobile device and Bluetooth earphones held by a driver within a cabin, and setting the driver position and face direction for the driver, a driver relative distance for the individual controller, and the sound pressure and cycle of an alert for a failure situation of the individual controller by a DSM controller of the DSM system. The method confirms the utterance position of the alert for the driver by an AVNT controller of the AVNT system, and reproduces the failure situation of the individual controller by a vehicle speaker or the Bluetooth earphones to reproduce the vehicle alert through the left/right Bluetooth earphones in the driver's ears at autonomous Lv.4, freeing the driver from driving.
US11937057B2
A videoconferencing system includes a camera acquiring image data and a microphone array acquiring audio data. Image data is used in conjunction with sound source localization (SSL) data to locate a talker depicted in the image data. SSL processes the audio data and determines SSL pan angle values indicative of an estimated direction of a sound. Columns of pixels in an image are associated with bins. A bin count is incremented for each SSL pan angle value of the audio data that falls within a given bin. A bounding box in the image data is determined that encompasses a face depicted in the image data. A range of pixels is determined for the bounding box, such as extending from a leftmost column to a rightmost column. The bin with the highest bin count that also overlaps a range of pixels for a bounding box is deemed to contain the talker.
US11937046B2
A sound diffuser includes a first annular control member, a second annular control member, and a third annular control member. The first annular control member includes a first communication hole and an annular inclined plate that surrounds the first communication hole and is inclined relative to an axial direction of the first communication hole. The second annular control member includes a second communication hole and an annular inclined plate that surrounds the second communication hole, houses the first annular control member therein, and is inclined relative to an axial direction of the second communication hole. The third annular control member has a plurality of third communication holes and surrounds the second annular control member.
US11937044B2
A sound emission control device comprises a plurality of guides. The guides each include an inlet connected to a branching portion that is configured to oppose a vibrating surface inside an acoustic device, an outlet communicated to the inlet, and a horn-shaped inner wall surrounding a space between the inlet and the outlet. The guides are configured to guide sound that is emitted from the vibrating surface and branched by the branching portion to the outlets that are configured to be communicated to sound emission holes that are provided in the acoustic device and face mutually different directions, respectively.
US11937042B2
Some headphone systems include two ear cups, a headband assembly, an interface system and a control system. Each ear cup may include an ear cup enclosure, an ear pad assembly, a speaker system and a hinge assembly. The hinge assembly may be disposed within the ear cup enclosure such that it is not visible from outside the ear cup. The headband assembly may connect with each of the ear cups via the hinge assembly. The interface system may include at least one interface and a plurality of input source buttons disposed on at least one of the ear cups. Each of the input source buttons may be configured for selecting a source of audio data received via the at least one interface. The control system may be configured for controlling the speaker system to reproduce audio data received via the interface and selected by one of the input source buttons.
US11937035B2
A surveillance pendant assembly for discretely recording audio and video includes a personal electronic device and a pendant that is attachable to a necklace for wearing on a user. A video camera is integrated into the pendant to capture video footage of the user's environment. A microphone is integrated into the pendant to record audio of the user's environment. Each of the video camera and the microphone are in remote communication with the personal electronic device for storing video and audio in the personal electronic device.
US11937033B2
An electronic device comprises: a housing comprising a front plate, a rear plate facing in the opposite direction to the front plate, and a side member surrounding a space between the front plate and the rear plate; a display which is viewed from the outside through the front plate; a first opening formed between an edge of the front plate and the side member; a mid-plate which is arranged between the display and the rear plate and extends from the side member, overlaps the display when viewed from above the display, and includes a second opening adjacent to the first opening; a speaker which is located in a space adjacent to the second opening, between the mid-plate and the rear plate, and includes a diaphragm facing the display; a sound guide structure arranged between the mid-plate and the display, the sound guide structure comprising a grill portion, which is inserted into the first opening and includes a plurality of through holes, and a flange portion which extends from the grill portion to a space between the display and the mid-plate and forms a sound passage between the second opening and the grill portion together with the mid-plate; and a scaling member at least partially surrounding the periphery of the sound guide structure.
US11937020B2
An object inspection system and a method for detecting defects which utilizes a plurality of cameras and lights to capture images of a portion of an object and which uses the captured images to determine the presence of a defect upon a surface, such as surface, of the object and which may communicated the location of the identified defect to an automated defect repair assembly.
US11937019B2
Each of a plurality of co-located inspection camera modules captures raw images of objects passing in front of the co-located inspection camera modules which form part of a quality assurance inspection system. The inspection camera modules have either a different image sensor or lens focal properties and generate different feeds of raw images. The co-located inspection camera modules can be selectively switched amongst to activate the corresponding feed of raw images. The activated feed of raw images is provided to a consuming application or process for quality assurance analysis.
US11937012B2
To reduce increased consumption of the recording capacity of a recording medium to record generated image data, an imaging device includes an imaging element and an image processor that receive subject light through an opening in a housing and generate image data, a recording controller that records the image data generated by the imaging processor onto a memory card, a lens cover movable to a position at which the lens cover covers the opening to restrict the subject light from entering the imaging element, and a determiner that detects a position of the lens cover based on the image data generated by the imaging processor and determines whether the lens cover covers the opening. The recording controller stops recording the image data onto the memory card when the determiner determines that the lens cover covers the opening.
US11937009B2
Provided is an infrared imaging device capable of reducing streak noise by calculating correction coefficients for correcting streak noise from a single image. The infrared imaging device includes: a thermal image generator to generate a single thermal image on the basis of a signal from a thermal image sensor; a correction coefficient calculator to calculate multiple correction coefficients included in a correction equation for converting pixel values of pixels included in the single thermal image into target values in which streak noise is reduced; and a thermal image corrector to correct a thermal image generated by the thermal image generator by using the multiple correction coefficients, wherein the correction coefficient calculator calculates the multiple correction coefficients on the basis of difference between pixel values of pixels arranged in a direction in which the streak noise occurs in the single thermal image.
US11937003B2
According to one embodiment, a solid-state image sensor includes a linear array of pixels, a timing generator that outputs a pulse signal, a plurality of clock drivers that generate each generate a different drive signal based on the pulse signal, an analog shift register that transfers the signal charges in one direction along the linear array by applying the drive signals to the respective transfer blocks. The plurality of drive signals generated by the plurality of clock drivers each have a different phase.
US11936999B2
Power consumption in realizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) is reduced. A solid-state imaging element according to the present technology includes a photoelectric conversion element that photoelectrically converts received light into signal charge corresponding to the amount of received light, a floating diffusion that holds the signal charge obtained by the photoelectric conversion element, a transfer control element that controls transfer of the signal charge from the photoelectric conversion element to the floating diffusion, and a control unit that controls application of a drive voltage to the transfer control element on the basis of a convolution coefficient in a CNN.
US11936996B2
Miniaturization of pixels is facilitated in a solid-state imaging element that detects presence or absence of an address event. The solid-state imaging element includes a plurality of detection pixels and a detection circuit. In the solid-state imaging element including the plurality of detection pixels and the detection circuit, each of the plurality of detection pixels generates a voltage signal according to a logarithmic value of a photocurrent. Furthermore, in the solid-state imaging element including the plurality of detection pixels and the detection circuit, the detection circuit detects whether or not a change amount of a voltage signal of a detection pixel indicated by an input selection signal among the plurality of detection pixels exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US11936992B2
Embodiments relate to a multi-mode demosaicing circuit able to receive and demosaic image data in a different raw image formats, such as Bayer raw image format and Quad Bayer raw image format. The multi-mode demosaicing circuit comprises different circuitry for demosaicing different image formats that access a shared working memory. In addition, the multi-mode demosaicing circuit shares memory with a post-processing and scaling circuit configured to perform subsequent post-processing and/or scaling of the demosaiced image data, in which the operations of the post-processing and scaling circuit are modified based on the original raw image format of the demosaiced image data to use different amounts of the shared memory, to compensate for additional memory utilized by the multi-mode demosaicing circuit when demosaicing certain types of image data.
US11936991B2
An EO/IR optical imaging system comprises collection optics to collect light from a scene into a collimated or near-collimated space. An imaging detector is positioned at the image plane and configured to integrate incident light (radiant flux or photons) over an image frame and readout a sequence of pixelated images at a frame rate, said detector exhibiting a saturation threshold. To prevent saturation of the imaging detector, a MEMS MMA is positioned in the collimated or near-collimated space. A secondary detector (via a pick-off) samples light from the collimated or near-collimated space multiple times per image frame. A controller responsive to the sampled light commands a percentage of the mirrors to re-direct light incident on those mirrors to a light dump and commands the remaining mirrors to re-direct light incident on those mirrors to the imaging detector. Together the mirrors adjust a fraction of light reaching the imaging detector such that the integrated incident light for a given image frame is less than the saturation threshold.
US11936989B2
An illustrative apparatus may perform gaze-based auto-exposure management of image frames. For example, the apparatus may determine, for an image frame within an image frame sequence captured by an image capture system, auto-exposure values for pixel units into which the image frame is divided. The apparatus may then assign weight values to the pixel units based on a gaze direction of a viewer viewing the image frame sequence. Based on the auto-exposure values determined for the pixel units and the weight values assigned to the pixel units, the apparatus may update one or more auto-exposure parameters for use by the image capture system to capture an additional image frame within the image frame sequence. Corresponding apparatuses, systems, and methods for gaze-based auto-exposure management of image frames are also disclosed.
US11936983B1
A camera including a camera enclosure; a fixed optics portion having a prism fixedly coupled to the camera enclosure by a voice coil motor base; a moving sensor portion having an image sensor package coupled to the camera enclosure by a voice coil motor carrier that extends around the image sensor package and is operable to cause a displacement of the image sensor package relative to the fixed optics portion; and a damper coupled to the fixed optics portion or the moving sensor portion to absorb an impact between the fixed optics portion and the moving sensor portion.
US11936978B2
A method, performed by an image-capturing device, for installing the image-capturing device on a network. The image-capturing device operates according to an installation mode in which a limited set of persistent software settings of the image-capturing device can be changed and an installation-mode video stream which is privacy safe is anonymously accessible. The method comprises providing the installation-mode video stream in response to connecting the image-capturing device to the network.
US11936965B2
Operational convenience is to be improved in an inspection nozzle or cleaning nozzle for operation with liquids under high pressure with a coupling section that can be connected to a high-pressure tube. A feed bore, a deflection chamber and at least one communicating bore are operatively connected to the coupling section. A camera recess running concentric to a longitudinal axis is arranged in a camera-receiving portion. A camera module is accommodated releasably connected to an encapsulated camera housing sealed water-tight. Optics and camera electronics are permanently incorporated in camera housing. Case manipulation of the camera module and the camera housing is unnecessary. This is realized in that within the camera housing, a contactless magnetically operable camera switch is arranged effectively connected to the camera electronics via a circuit board on one wall of the camera housing.
US11936964B2
This invention provides a vision system with an exchangeable illumination assembly that allows for increased versatility in the type and configuration of illumination supplied to the system without altering the underlying optics, sensor, vision processor, or the associated housing. The vision system housing includes a front plate that optionally includes a plurality of mounting bases for accepting different types of lenses, and a connector that allows removable interconnection with the illustrative illumination assembly. The illumination assembly includes a cover that is light transmissive. The cover encloses an illumination component that can include a plurality of lighting elements that surround an aperture through which received light rays from the imaged scene pass through to the lens. The arrangement of lighting elements is highly variable and the user can be supplied with an illumination assembly that best suits its needs without need to change the vision system processor, sensor or housing.
US11936963B2
An imaging device according to this disclosure includes: a visible light camera that captures an image of a face of a person to be authenticated; a plurality of infrared light cameras that is provided on a housing with the visible light camera and captures an image of an iris of the person to be authenticated; and an optical filter that is provided on the housing so as to cover a light receiving surface of each of the plurality of infrared light cameras and not to cover a light receiving surface of the visible light camera, and has a pass band in an infrared region and a blocking band in a visible region.
US11936956B2
A system and method for presenting video asset information to a viewer to assist the view in selecting a video asset for viewing. The video assets can be available from a plurality of different video asset sources, such as VOD (video on demand), PVR (personal video recorders) and broadcast (including over the air, cable, and satellite). Images from the video assets are displayed in a uniform manner, along with information about the video assets. The information includes data in a metadata category. The view can select one of the video assets for viewing, but also can navigate using metadata categories such as genre, actors, director etc. This allows a much easier and natural navigating and selection process for viewers.
US11936948B1
In one aspect, an example method in connection with a shared content viewing session in which multiple users are receiving and viewing respective instances of the same media content in a synchronized manner is disclosed. The example method includes (i) detecting that each of the multiple users respectively exhibits a threshold extent of physical reaction around the same time; (ii) responsive to the detecting, for each of the multiple users, generating and/or storing respective visual content representing that user's physical reaction; (iii) generating a visual content composition that includes at least the generated and/or stored visual content for each of the multiple users; and (iv) outputting for presentation, the generated visual content composition.
US11936945B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that improve short content identification in an audio stream through channel change detection and audio block realignment. Example instructions cause one or more processors to form a first audio block from an audio stream, detect whether the first audio block contains a channel change, the first audio block being one of a plurality of audio blocks the accessed audio, determine an offset of time from a beginning of the first audio block to when the channel change occurs in response to the channel change being detected in the first audio block, and create a new audio block aligned to start at the offset of time beyond the beginning of the first audio block using audio information from the audio stream, the new audio block to include a single channel of audio stream data.
US11936938B2
Systems, methods, and media for presenting media content are provided. In some implementations, a system for presenting media content is provided, the system comprising: a hardware processor that is programmed to: establish a connection with a media playback device; respond to a discovery request from a computing device presenting a media content item; establish a persistent communication channel with the computing device over a network in response to a request from the computing device to establish the persistent communication channel; receive identifying information of the media content item being presented by the computing device and identifying information of a source of the media content item being presented by the computing device; request the media content item from the identified source of the media content item as a stream of media content; and cause the media content item to be presented using the media playback device.
US11936937B2
In one general aspect, a method can include detecting at least one indicator of user-initiated interaction with a computing device, obtaining data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, identifying a current state of the computing device, determining that content displayed on a first display device included in the computing device is to be casted to a second display device separate from the computing device based on the at least one indicator of the user-initiated interaction with the computing device, the data related to a demographic of a user of the computing device, and the current state of the computing device, and casting the content displayed on the first display device to the second display device.
US11936932B2
A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
US11936930B2
A data processing method, a server, and a data collection device are provided. The method includes: obtaining, by a server, first network key performance indicator KPI data and performance data of a first set-top box STB, where the first network KPI data is network KPI data of a first video service stream, and the first STB is an STB that receives the first video service stream; and calculating, by the server, first video quality of experience QoE of the first video service stream based on an associated model, the first network KPI data, and the performance data of the first STB, where the associated model is a model obtained through training based on historical data, and the associated model is used by the server to calculate video QoE based on network KPI data and performance data of an STB.
US11936910B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes encoding information of a current node included in an N-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. In the encoding, first information is encoded, the first information indicating a range for one or more referable neighboring nodes among neighboring nodes spatially neighboring the current node, and the current node is encoded with reference to a neighboring node within the range.
US11936906B2
An intra-frame prediction method and device, according to the present invention, enables deriving an intra-frame prediction mode of a current block, determining a pixel line, among a plurality of pixel lines, for the intra-frame prediction of the current block, and carrying out the intra-frame prediction of the current block on the basis of the intra-frame prediction mode and the pixel line. In addition, a first reference pixel of the determined pixel line may be selectively filtered, and a prediction pixel of the current block may be selectively corrected, and thus the accuracy of the intra-frame prediction may be improved.
US11936903B2
A method for video coding includes obtaining a coding block of video data, determining whether a joint coding of motion vector difference (JMVD) is used for predicting the coding block, obtaining, based on determining that the JMVD is used for predicting the coding block, a list of scaling factors and the JMVD from the video bitstream, deriving a predicted scaling factor based on the list of scaling factors, deriving a motion vector difference (MVD) for a reference list based on at least the joint motion vector difference and the predicted scaling factor, and reconstructing the coding block based on the derived MVD.
US11936900B2
Motion vectors (MVs) are used as predictors for prediction of an image for a current coding unit (CU) within a current video frame. The MVs are from a list of motion vector candidates (MVCs), which is generated. The list includes MVs determined from a first or second pattern, each pattern specifying MVC positions. The first MV positions are within a current video frame, while the second MV positions are for a video frame different from the current frame. The MVC list is generated for a current CU with the MV positions being relative to a position of the current CU. In particular, the MVC list is generated in dependence on a size of the current CU and a size of a grid specifying a minimum distance between two MV positions. One or more MVs as specified by the MV positions of said pattern are included into the MVC list.
US11936897B2
Motion vectors of a first reference frame are permitted to point to a plurality of further reference frames. A method of storing the motion vectors comprises, when a block of the first reference frame has two motion vectors (V2A, V2B) initially, selecting one of the two motion vectors, the non-selected motion vector not being stored. The selected motion vector may be scaled. This can reduce the motion vector memory size.
US11936896B2
Motion vectors of a first reference frame are permitted to point to a plurality of further reference frames. A method of storing the motion vectors comprises, when a block of the first reference frame has two motion vectors (V2A, V2B) initially, selecting one of the two motion vectors, the non-selected motion vector not being stored. The selected motion vector may be scaled. This can reduce the motion vector memory size.
US11936894B2
A video decoding method can comprise the steps of: acquiring image information from a bitstream, the image information including a picture header related to a current picture, and the current picture including a plurality of slices; parsing, from the picture header, a first flag indicating whether information necessary for an inter prediction operation is in the picture header and/or a second flag indicating whether information necessary for an intra prediction operation is in the picture header; parsing, from the picture header, the information necessary for the inter prediction operation and/or the information necessary for the intra prediction operation based on the first flag and/or the second flag; and generating prediction samples based on the information necessary for the inter prediction operation and/or the information necessary for the intra prediction operation.
US11936885B2
A method includes: decoding a bitstream and thereby outputting a transform coefficients for each color component of the block, a first flag indicating for each color component whether the block includes a non-zero transform coefficient, and a second flag indicating whether the block has been encoded using a color space transform that transforming a color space of a prediction residual from a color space of the original image to another color space; performing a color space inverse transform for the prediction residual restored from the transform coefficients, when the second flag indicates that the block has been encoded using the color space transform; and determining whether to perform chroma residual scaling for the prediction residual of the chrominance component, based on the first flag of a chrominance component and the second flag, the chroma residual scaling that performs scaling based on a luminance component corresponding to the chrominance component.
US11936879B2
Methods for management of encoding complexity for image and video encoding, for example for algorithms belonging to the JPEG 2000 family of standards, where the encoding process targets a given compressed size (i.e. a total coded length) for the image or for each frame of a video sequence. Described are a set of methods for complexity constrained encoding of HTJ2K code-streams, involving collection of local or global statistics for each sub-band (not for each code-block), generation of forecasts for the statistics of sub-band samples that have not yet been produced by spatial transformation and quantization processes, and the use of this information to generate a global quantization parameter, from which the coarsest bit-plane to generate in each code-block can be deduced. Coded length estimates can be generated in a manner that enables latency and memory to be separately optimized against encoded image quality, while maintaining low computational complexity.
US11936874B2
Devices, systems, and methods for digital video coding, which includes matrix-based intra prediction methods for video coding, are described. In a representative aspect, a method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream representation of the current video block using a matrix based intra prediction (MIP) mode in which a prediction block of the current video block is determined by performing, on previously coded samples of the video, a boundary downsampling operation, followed by a matrix vector multiplication operation, and followed by an upsampling operation, where the upsampling operation is performed, in both a vertical direction and a horizontal direction in a fixed order, on samples obtained from the matrix vector multiplication operation.
US11936870B2
An image encoding/decoding method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The decoding method includes: determining a coding unit by splitting an image; determining a transform unit in the coding unit; determining whether to decode residual data of the transform unit according to a transform skip mode; obtaining a significant subgroup flag about a subgroup in the transform unit; based on the significant subgroup flag indicating that the subgroup includes at least one non-zero significant coefficient and scanning information about coefficients of the subgroup, obtaining a first bin about a significant coefficient flag, a sign flag, a first flag, and a parity flag of a coefficient of a scan position; obtaining the residual data including a coefficient in the subgroup based on the base level and a remainder of an absolute value excluding the base level; and obtaining a reconstruction block of the coding unit, based on the residual data.
US11936867B2
Improved video coding and decoding techniques are described, including techniques to derive quantization step sizes adaptively with quantization step size table templates. Quantization techniques described provide finer-grained control over quantization with a more flexible quantization step size especially at higher degrees of quantization. This may result in improved overall compression quality. Other coding parameters, such as in-loop filtering parameters, may be derived based on the more flexible quantization parameters.
US11936864B2
According to embodiments of the disclosure, fast multi-rate encoding may be performed using machine learning by encoding a lowest quality representation to determine encoding parameters, processing raw data of the video using a neural network to obtain an intermediate output comprising encoding features, augmenting the intermediate output with additional encoding features to form a final tensor, and processing the final tensor with another neural network to obtain a classification output comprising a split or not split decision for an image data block. The classification output may be used to encode a highest quality representation, and then other representations of the video.
US11936859B2
Methods and apparatuses for video processing. In one aspect, filtering is applied after applying a set of offset values to one or more coefficients. The application of an offset value may be based on a determination as to whether the coefficient meets a threshold value.
US11936855B2
A method of video processing is provided to include: deciding a coding mode used for representing a current video block of a video in a coded representation of the video; and coding the current video block into the coded representation according to the coding mode, wherein use of alternative half-pel accuracy filters in addition to a default half-pel accuracy filter for representing motion information is disabled for the current video block due to use of the coding mode.
US11936849B2
A picture coding device includes: a block vector candidate derivation unit that derives block vector candidates of a target block in a target picture from coding information stored in coding information storage memory; a selector that selects a selected block vector from the block vector candidates; and a reference position correction unit that performs a correction regarding a reference block to be referred to by the selected block vector so that a reference position of the reference block is to be corrected to refer to an inside of a referenceable region, in which a decoded sample in the target picture is acquired from decoded picture memory as a prediction value of the target block based on the reference position of the reference block.
US11936845B2
The present disclosure relates to contaminant detection systems and related optical systems and methods. An example contaminant detection system includes an optical coupler configured to couple light into and/or out of an optical element. The contaminant detection system also includes a plurality of light-emitter devices configured to emit emission light toward the optical coupler. The contaminant detection system additionally includes a plurality of detector devices configured to detect at least a portion of the emission light by way of the optical element and the optical coupler. The plurality of detector devices is also configured to provide detector signals indicative of a presence of a contaminant on the optical element.
US11936837B2
An image forming apparatus includes a memory and circuitry. The memory stores a colorimetric value of a gradation correction chart and environmental information each time of acquisition of the colorimetric value. The circuitry predicts an output characteristic of an image formed by the image forming apparatus based on the colorimetric value associated with particular environmental information among the environmental information stored in the memory, the particular environmental information being within a predetermined range with reference to current environmental information, when the image forming apparatus is to output the gradation correction chart. The circuitry adjusts the output characteristic of the image in a case that the predicted output characteristic is lower than a target output characteristic. The circuitry corrects a gradation correction table based on the colorimetric value of the gradation correction chart and the target output characteristic.
US11936830B2
A computer implemented method for embedding a marker in an image or video content including receiving an input image or frame for embedding, determining a binary message to be encoded within said input image or frame comprising bits sequences having an identical number of bits which is superior or equal to two, said binary message comprising at least a header part comprising at least two consecutive bits sequences which are not identical, detecting a region within said input image or frame such that the color within said region is uniform and that said region presents a chosen length and height, associating each possible bits sequence to a corresponding encoding color determined from the color within said uniform region and an encoding rule such that the respective colors are all different from one another, and generating a marker color table in which each element stores an encoding color associated to a bits sequence of the binary message, such that the color table constitutes a color encoding of the binary message, and embedding said marker in said region by appending directionally pixel blocks comprising at least a chosen number of pixels in an appending direction, the pixels within a given pixel block being each colored with the encoding color of an element of the marker color table, each element of the marker color table being associated with at least one pixel block.
US11936828B1
An application distribution device includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions. The instructions cause the processors to obtain a virtual image forming apparatus that emulates a physical image forming apparatus; determine whether an application launched in the virtual image forming apparatus corresponds to an application installed in the physical image forming apparatus; based on the determination, acquire setting information of the application launched in the virtual image forming apparatus, the setting information comprising a setting made for the application launched in the virtual image forming apparatus; obtain an updated application by updating the application based on the acquired setting information; and distribute a program to the physical image forming apparatus, the program comprising instructions executable by the physical image forming apparatus and configured to implement the updated application in the physical image forming apparatus, the updated application based on the acquired setting information.
US11936827B2
An image forming apparatus includes a light transmitting member provided at a reading position set in a conveyance path and an opposite plate opposed thereto, and a document being conveyed passes between this opposite plate and the light transmitting member. On an opposing surface of the opposite plate to the light transmitting member, a low brightness area, for example, like a gray color and a high brightness area, for example, like a white color, having a higher brightness than the low brightness area are formed adjacent to each other in a conveyance direction of the document. Then, an image reader sets a home position of a scanning unit to a first position or a second position corresponding to either the low brightness area or the high brightness area to read the document passing through the reading position.
US11936825B2
An image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, an image former, and a reading device. The conveyor conveys a medium in a conveyance direction. The image former forms an adjustment pattern on one side of the medium conveyed by the conveyor. The reading device downstream from the image former in the conveyance direction reads the adjustment pattern on the one side of the medium conveyed by the conveyor to generate read data. The adjustment pattern includes a first line segment and a second line segment that extend in directions different from each other and each are inclined with respect to the conveyance direction.
US11936824B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image reading device, a holding member that is rod-like, and an image forming device having an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet, and having a wall part having a hole. The image reading device reads an image on a document, is provided on the image forming device, and rotates around a rotation shaft openable and closable with respect to the image forming device. The holding member has one end attached on the image reading device, and holds the image reading device opened with respect to the image forming device when another end of the holding member is inserted into the hole formed in the wall part. The holding member includes a first regulation part that comes into contact with a lower surface of the wall part to regulate detachment of the other end of the holding member from the hole.
US11936813B2
A request for a contact center agent interaction is received from a user device associated with a user. The user device is connected to a virtual waiting room according to a connection mode that is selected from a set that includes a private connection mode. The private connection mode enables the user to observe communications of at least a subset of waiting users of a contact center queue and hides a presence of the user from the waiting users. Responsive to an indication to activate a private session between the user device and an agent device associated with a contact center agent, the user is removed from the virtual waiting room.
US11936812B2
A contact center server receives an input from a customer device as part of a conversation. The contact center server (CCS) identifies at least one of: one or more intents, one or more entities, or one or more entity values from the input. The CCS detects one or more escalation conditions based on the input and pauses the conversation based on the detected one or more escalation conditions. The CCS outputs a conversation transcript and the identified one or more intents, the one or more entities, or the one or more entity values to an agent device. The CCS receives agent-identified-information or agent-modified-information from the agent device. Subsequently, the CCS resumes the conversation by providing a response to the input based on the received agent-identified-information or the agent-modified-information.
US11936808B2
The present disclosure provides, among other things, a method of managing contacts in a contact center, the method including: receiving a text-based communication from a customer of the contact center; analyzing the text-based communication to determine a relevancy associated with the text-based communication; based on the analysis, determining a relevancy level to assign to the text-based communication; tagging the text-based communication with a relevancy tag that identifies the determined relevancy level; updating a priority associated with assigning the text-based communication to an agent of the contact center based on the relevancy tag; assigning the text-based communication to the agent of the contact center; enabling a machine learning process to analyze a database of text-based communications; and updating a data model used to automatically tag text-based communications with relevancy tags based on the analysis performed by the machine learning process.
US11936797B1
A certificate authority service receives a request to issue a short-duration digital certificate usable for authentication of a server of an entity. The request includes a long-duration digital certificate that is not usable for authentication of the server of the entity, the long-duration certificate being usable for validation purposes between the entity and the service. The service determines whether to issue the short-duration digital certificate based on a validity period that is specified in the long-duration digital certificate. Based on the determination, the service issues the short-duration digital certificate that includes a shorter validity period than the long-duration digital certificate. The short-duration digital certificate may enable a client to authenticate the entity and securely communicate with the entity.
US11936793B2
An apparatus includes a network interface and a processor. The network interface receives event data that identifies a content ID and a message authentication code. The content ID identifies a content within a webcast or a virtual event. The processor generates a content hash, at least in part based on the content ID. The network interface transmits a content request and receives the content. The content request identifies the content hash and the message authentication code.
US11936792B2
A computing method for privacy-preserving data analysis is provided, in which the computing method is performed by at least one processor and includes receiving a data analysis request including data-to-be-analyzed from a client, homomorphically encrypting the data-to-be-analyzed using an encryption engine, and uploading the homomorphically encrypted data-to-be-analyzed to a target path of a blockchain, and then, the method includes, based on the request to check analysis result, decrypting an analysis result of the homomorphically encrypted data stored in a designated path of the blockchain by using the encryption engine, and providing the decrypted analysis result to the client, in which the analysis result of the homomorphically encrypted data is data analyzed by a worker linked to the blockchain, and stored in a designated path in association with the target path of the blockchain.
US11936776B2
A unique transaction key (Tk) is established amongst multiple entities using a common hardware security module (HSM) with a common HMAC key (HK) and transaction scheme name (T). The transaction key (Tk) can be used for various cryptographic functions (e.g. encryption, MAC, HMAC, key management) with one or more messages at the transaction or session level.
US11936775B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating an authentication processing service are provided.
US11936763B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can identify a network request as being deferrable and embed data of the deferrable network request within a header of a suitable carrier network request for sending to a remote server. Embodiments of the present invention can receive a carrier network request with embedded data of a deferrable network request within a header of the carrier network request. Embodiments of the present invention can then parse the embedded data from the header into a separate request message for actioning at the server.
US11936762B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for processing a protocol packet. The method includes: when a first member device of a distributed relay (DR) system receives a first protocol packet through a first DR interface, the first member device performs protocol processing based on the first DR interface and the first protocol packet; and the first member device sends, to a second member device of the DR system, a first type packet comprising an interface identifier of the first DR interface and the first protocol packet, so that the second member device determines that the first protocol packet is received through a second DR interface corresponding to the interface identifier, and performs protocol processing based on the second DR interface and the first protocol packet.
US11936756B2
A method for continuously providing an edge computing service to user equipment (UE) by an edge enabler server (EES) of a mobile edge computing (MEC) system is provided, which includes receiving, from a source edge application server (EAS), update information including UE information and source EAS information, wherein the source EAS provides the edge computing service to the UE; retrieving, from an edge configuration server (ECS), target EES information based on the update information; transmitting, to a target EES, the UE information and the EAS information based on the target EES information; receiving, from the target EES, target EAS information; and transferring, to the source EAS, the target EAS information.
US11936750B2
QR codes or the like are used in hardlink applications, by which different users may receive different information in response to a user's interaction with a touchpoint. The content delivered to a particular user in response to a hardlink code or a presented hyperlink may be dependent on the time of the scan, the geographic location of the user, a weather condition at the geographical location, personal information associated with the user, a number of previous scans of the code by prior individuals, and any combination of the these or other variables, which may be determined by an originator of the QR code or other party. User devices may be re-directed to alternate content or network addresses based on one or more programmed conditions.
US11936749B2
Systems and methods are introduced to enable cross-domain discovery. Systems and methods are also introduced to create representations of resources and information discovered from cross-domain discovery.
US11936748B1
Various embodiments of apparatuses and methods for a continuous scanning engine with automatic protocol detection are described. In some embodiments, the continuous scanning engine comprises one or more discovery components and one or more protocol detection components. The discovery components, in some embodiments, send initial packets to a plurality of ports of a plurality of network addresses of a network, receive responses to a least some of the initial packets, asynchronously match the received responses to the sent initial packets, and determine that some ports at some network addresses require further analysis. The protocol inspection components, in some embodiments, attempt to communicate with the ports at the network addresses using a plurality of communication protocols, determine that an attempted communication protocols results in a successful communication, and provides the port, the network address, and the attempted communication protocol that resulted in the successful communication to a database.
US11936744B2
According to one embodiment, a client system includes a system controller and a unit. The unit has a function of acquiring or creating information. And the system controller acquires and manages the information from the unit. The system controller may classify the unit into a section to be managed, and hold the information regarding the section to which the unit belong.
US11936740B2
Methods/systems are provided for extending the capabilities of OPCUA to network devices that are otherwise configured and managed using NETCONF-YANG and SNMP-MIB protocols. The extension of OPCUA allows these devices to be described in network communications in the same manner as MIB or YANG. The systems/methods provide a CUC configured to request a TSN connection on the industrial network, the CUC including an OPCUA model therein. The CUC interacts with and configures an OPCUA based industrial controller connected to the industrial network, and an OPCUA based industrial device connected to the industrial network, to determine TSN parameters required for the TSN connection. The systems/methods further provide a CNC configured to provision the TSN connection on the industrial network upon request by the CUC. In some embodiments, the CNC includes an OPCUA model therein. Alternatively, the CUC may translate the TSN parameters from OPCUA parameters to YANG-MIB parameters for the CNC.
US11936737B2
A notification control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a reception unit that receives movement event information indicating that a movement event of a user has occurred; a schedule presence/absence determination unit that determines whether or not the user has a schedule immediately following or immediately preceding an occurrence time point of the movement event; a message generation unit that generates an advice to be notified to the user on the basis of the determination and the occurrence time point of the movement event; and a presentation unit that presents the generated advice to the user.
US11936735B2
A method for capturing real-time motion data events from a remotely deployed far edge compute node on a remote asset, such as a racing vehicle, allows for real-time motion simulation of a racing experience. In the method, incoming audio and video data are received from the far edge compute mode, along with incoming motion data. The motion data is imbedded within data frames of the audio/video to create distributable content. The content may be distributed via a content distribution service for real-time, livestream experiences in a motion simulator, or for later playback in a motion simulator.
US11936734B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for query-based interest in a simulation are presented. An entity comprising one or more components may be simulated. The entity may be modified to include an interest component indicating, for each component in the one or more components of the entity, a query subscription to an entity database. The query subscription may comprise one or more queries. Each query of the one or more queries may comprise a component value that qualifies another entity for inclusion in a query result, and a frequency for receiving, from the entity database, updates on the query result.
US11936727B2
Systems and methods for multiplexing of a dedicated communication channel for multiple entities, including initiating, at a first entity, a request to share data with a second entity; sharing a portion of an aggregate record for the with the second entity including creating an entity-specific copy; initiating, at the first entity, a request to share data with a third entity; and sharing a portion of the aggregate record with the third entity including creating an entity-specific copy. The portions shared with the second and third entities are dependent on data sharing rules defining shared data, linked data, and entity-specific data that is i) nonsynchronous and ii) provided for display only at the entity associated with the data.
US11936725B2
A method and system may provide offline communications on an aircraft by establishing a mesh network for client devices of airline personnel to communicate peer-to-peer. A first client device executing an airline application on an aircraft determines that the first client device is unable to access an online airline database. The first client device provides, via a short-range communication protocol over a dedicated secure communication channel, a request to open a communication session with a second client device. The request includes identification information for the first client device and an indication of the airline application executing on the first client device. In response to the second client device determining that the first client device has permission to communicate airline data peer-to-peer with the second client device in a mesh network, the first client device receives airline data via the mesh network, and stores a local copy of the airline data.
US11936703B2
A system and method provide media content based on a household when out- of-home. A first request for media content is received that originates from a first IP address and includes a first data element identification that is associated with a first user. A determination is made that the first IP address is associated with a first internet connected household (ICH). The first data element identification is aliased with the first ICH. A second request (that includes the first data element identification) for media content is received that originates from a second IP address that corresponds to a non-household IP address. In response to the second request and the aliasing, media content is retrieved (based on the first ICH) and transmitted to the first user at the second IP address.
US11936700B1
A system for real-time video streaming for a vehicle includes a camera system configured to capture videos of an environment surrounding the vehicle. The system also includes a vehicle communication system configured to communicate with a remote server and a vehicle controller in electrical communication with the camera system and the vehicle communication system. The vehicle controller is programmed to determine a system enablement state. The vehicle controller is further programmed to determine a camera system configuration in response to determining that the system enablement state is a system enabled state. The vehicle controller is further programmed to capture at least one video frame using the camera system based at least in part on the camera system configuration. The vehicle controller is further programmed to transmit the at least one video frame to the remote server using the vehicle communication system.
US11936697B2
A method for social viewing of media content includes transmitting, to multiple users, media content when the multiple users are members of a common group associated with a social media site (i.e., “friends” or the like) while providing, to the users, an interaction region configured to allow the first user and the second user to share comments with each other regarding the media content via an interaction stream.
US11936688B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing simulated phishing attacks using social engineering indicators. One or more failure indicators can be configured in a phishing email template, and each failure indicator can be assigned a description about that failure indicator through use of a markup tag. The phishing email template containing the markup tags corresponding to the failure indicators can be stored and can be used to generate a simulated phishing email in which the one or more markup tags are removed.
US11936686B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure use natural language processing, machine learning and relevant corpora to detect social engineering attacks with a high degree of accuracy. In various embodiments, lexical features, spelling features and topical features are automatically analyzed from a source text and a model is employed to assess the likelihood that the source message is a social engineering attack.
US11936684B2
A user device may receive (e.g., when proximate to the first access device), from an intervening device, device identification data for a first access device. A message may be received from a second access device via the intervening device. The message may include a digital signature generated based at least in part on second access device identification data. The user device may validate the message utilizing the digital signature and a public key. If the message is invalid, the user device may discard the message. If the message is valid, (e.g., unaltered), the user device may determine that the user has not confirmed an intent to interact with the second access device and may terminate a[n] further interaction with the second access device accordingly.
US11936682B2
In an example embodiment, a deep learning algorithm is introduced that operates directly on a raw sequence of user activity in an online network. This allows the system to scalably leverage more of the available signal hidden in the data and stop adversarial attacks more efficiently than other machine-learned models. More particularly, each specific request path is translated into a standardized token that indicates the type of the request (e.g., profile view, search, login, etc.). This eliminates the need for human curation of features. Then, the standardized request paths are standardized to integers based on the frequency of that request path across all users. This allows information about how common a given type of request is to be provided to the machine-learned model. The integer array is the activity sequence that is fed into the deep learning algorithm.
US11936679B2
Systems and methods for risk assessment of a computer network are described. In one embodiment a first static risk score corresponding to a first computing device is computed. A connectivity map corresponding to the first computing device is determined. Communication performed by the first computing device via the connectivity map is analyzed, and a first dynamic risk score corresponding to the first computing device is computed. The first static risk score and the first dynamic risk score are combined to generate a first total risk score for the first computing device. A second total risk score for a second computing device is determined. The first total risk score and the second total risk score are aggregated into an aggregate risk score. A risk assessment of the computer network is determined based on the aggregate risk score.
US11936671B1
A zero trust application enables access to a protected resource from a client device associated with a user. The client device has a browser, and an agent running locally and accessible via a local loopback interface. During an authentication flow, a browser-based script executes in the browser to deliver a challenge to the agent, and to collect a response to that challenge from the agent using a graphics file-based encoding scheme, and to deliver that information to the application for verifying the client device and its security posture. Depending on that security posture, the authentication flow may be permitted to complete. If a failure of the security posture is identified, the user may be permitted during the on-going authentication flow to address that failure and request a re-check of the posture.
US11936665B2
A method for monitoring data transiting via a user equipment is described, as well as a cyber attack detection device, The method includes obtaining a first decision from a first cyber attack detection technique and a second decision from a second cyber attack detection technique, indicating whether the data are associated with attack traffic, obtaining a third decision from a third cyber attack detection technique indicating whether the data are associated with attack traffic, the third technique the first and second decisions and confidence levels assigned to the first and second detection techniques, updating the confidence levels on the basis of the first, second and third decisions, and adapting, triggered on the basis of the obtained first, second and third decisions and of the updated confidence levels, at least one rule applied by the first and/or the second technique.
US11936664B2
Embodiments detect identity attacks by comparing usage of compromised passphrases or other weak credentials in failed sign-in attempts to access restriction conditions. A restriction threshold amount of weak credential failed sign-ins (WCFSI) or a WCFSI increase indicates an identity attack, such as a password spray attack. Going beyond the mere number of failed sign-ins by also considering credential strength allows embodiments to detect attacks sooner than other approaches. An embodiment may also initiate or impose defenses by locking accounts, blocking IP addresses, or requiring additional authentication before access to an account is allowed. Weak credentials may include short passwords, simple passwords, compromised passwords, or wrong usernames, for instance. Password strength testing may be used for attack detection in addition to preventive use on passwords proposed by authorized users. Familiar and unfamiliar traffic source locations may be tracked, as sets or individually.
US11936652B2
Proxied multi-factor authentication using credential and authentication management in scalable data networks is described, including initiating a request by an extension to authenticate a browser to access a data network, the request being associated with an address and transmitted over HTTP, receiving at a proxy browser a first message from the data network in response to the request, the first message comprising authentication data, the authentication data being forwarded to a server in data communication with the proxy browser and the browser, sending a second message from the server to the extension, the second message comprising the authentication data, and transferring authentication data to the data network from the browser and the extension in response to an query from the data network.
US11936647B2
This application relates to an identity verification method performed at a computer device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a biometric feature image from a video acquisition device via an encrypted connection; extracting biometric feature information from the biometric feature image in a local safe area within a running environment of the computer device; encrypting the biometric feature information in the local safe area, to obtain encrypted feature information, and transmitting the encrypted feature information to an application run in a local normal area within the running environment of the computer device; transmitting the encrypted feature information to a verification server through the application via a network connection; and receiving, through the application and via the network connection, an identity verification result returned by the verification server, the identity verification result being obtained after the encrypted feature information is decrypted and verified by the verification server.
US11936643B2
The present disclosure relates to the exchange of information between a message sending device and a message receiving device with message authentication and proposes to reduce the time required for message authentication by pre-computing a message tag, such as a MAC, and subsequently replacing the computation of the MAC when the tag is to be validated (or indeed also on sending) by a table look-up. The approach requires a set of messages and works particularly well for small sets of messages, for example as small as two or three messages, or less than five or ten messages. The approach finds particular application in control networks where control decisions have to be taken quickly and securely, for example in the control of a vehicle, for example an autonomous vehicle, or the control of a smart electricity grid.
US11936634B2
The messages established on a communication path between two nodes are increasingly encrypted. However, the devices present on the communication path may intervene to transport the messages and to read, edit or add data in the messages. It may also be desirable that only “authorized” devices can carry out these actions. In order to intervene on these data, it would be necessary that the devices on the communication path have available all the keys used by the nodes to encrypt and decrypt the data of the messages, which is difficult to envisage. A modification method enables a device, capable of intercepting a data message on a communication path between two nodes, to edit the data under the control of the nodes, while ensuring that a device cannot access the data edited by another device on the path.
US11936630B1
A router includes processing circuitry configured to send a request to a web server to access a website hosted by the web server. Additionally, the processing circuitry is configured identify a pathway between a client device and the web server as well as determine whether the pathway is encrypted or unencrypted. In response to determining that the pathway is unencrypted, the processing circuitry is configured to determine whether an alternative pathway between the client device and the web server via a web host of the web server is available and, in response to determining that the alternative pathway is available, cause the alternative pathway to be established in lieu of the pathway.
US11936629B2
A system and method for creating a secure overlay network on top of the public Internet, optionally by creating an identity-based network in which user identities are the identifiers rather than IP addresses, and whereas only authenticated and authorized users whose identity has been established have visibility and access to the network; establishing fully encrypted and private network segments; providing superior performance through improved protocols and routing; and implementing a decentralized topology that allows any two nodes on it to communicate regardless of each node's location or network settings—as if the two nodes are on the same local area network.
US11936623B2
Systems and methods include obtaining for a tenant a definition of a sub-cloud in a cloud-based system, wherein the cloud-based system includes a plurality of data centers geographically distributed, and wherein the sub-cloud includes a subset of the plurality of data centers; receiving a request, in a cloud system from a user device, to access an application for the tenant, wherein the application is constrained to the sub-cloud, and wherein the user device is remote over the Internet; determining if the user device is permitted to access the application; if the user device is not permitted to access the application, notifying the user device the application does not exist; and if the user device is permitted to access the application, stitching together connections between the sub-cloud, the application, and the user device to provide access to the application.
US11936622B1
A system and method for providing dynamic network traffic policies. The method includes: detecting a cybersecurity risk on a workload deployed in a cloud computing environment, the cloud computing environment having a firewall connected to an untrusted network; and configuring the firewall to filter network traffic to the workload based on the detected cybersecurity risk.
US11936621B2
The present application relates to embodiments for detecting firewall drift. In some embodiments, a first set of firewall rules of a first firewall for a first instance of a distributed application, a second set of firewall rules of a second firewall for a second instance of the distributed application, and a mapping of IP addresses to identifiers of services from amongst a first set of services of the first instance and a second set of services of the second instance may be obtained. First connectivity data and second connectivity data may be generated indicating, for each of IP address associated with the first and second set of firewall rules, a respective port number over which communications between a respective IP address are transmitted, and generating comparison data indicating whether firewall drift is detected based on a comparison of the first connectivity data and the second connectivity data.
US11936614B2
The disclosure discloses a network device, an apparatus, and a network system. The network device receives a reply packet sent by a DHCP service device, and determines a first next-hop address from a plurality of next-hop addresses corresponding to a destination IP address of the reply packet, where the first next-hop address is a first tunnel endpoint IP address of the relay device and is different from a tunnel endpoint IP address of another relay device in a target anycast group to which the relay device belongs, and a communication connection is established between each relay device in the target anycast group and the client. The network device may forward the reply packet to the relay device based on the first next-hop address.
US11936599B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A receiving device and a transmitting device may utilize index modulation for full-duplex operations. The transmitting device, such as a base station or a user equipment (UE), may define blocks of resource elements (REs) for transmissions. The transmitting device may then transmit a power boosted index modulated signal at a data RE location within a resource allocation and may skip transmitting within the remaining REs of the resource allocation. The transmitting device may indicate the number of REs per RE block to the receiving device (e.g., a UE). The receiving device may use this information to perform energy detection for determining which REs within an RE block include the power boosted index modulated transmission and which REs within the RE block are empty REs. In some cases, the receiving device may use the empty REs for performing noise estimation.
US11936597B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method of introducing a new dormant bandwidth part (BWP) and operating the dormant BWP in units of BWPs (bandwidth part-level) is provided.
US11936596B2
A bandwidth part processing method and apparatus is provided. The method includes: responsive to expiration of an inactivity timer corresponding to an active first bandwidth part BWP, determining whether a carrier in which the first BWP is located includes a second BWP in an active state; and responsive to determining that the carrier includes the second BWP in the active state, deactivating the first BWP. According to this method, an unnecessary BWP switch procedure can be avoided.
US11936594B2
A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of the wireless communication includes a communication module, and a processor. The processor generates a preemption indicator indicating a preempted resource. In this case, the resource indicated by the preemption indicator does not include an orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing (OFDM) symbol configured as an uplink (UL) symbol by a radio resource control (RRC) signal. The processor is configured to transmit the preemption indicator to a user equipment of the wireless system based on a predetermined period.
US11936586B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine an asymmetric sequence of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for repeating a message or an asymmetric sequence of spatial relations for repeating the message. The UE may repeat the message according to the asymmetric sequence of TCI states or spatial relations. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11936583B2
Devices, systems and methods for a fifth generation (5G) or new radio (NR) system comprising multiplexing, by a gNodeB (gNB), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and an associated demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a time division multiplexing (TDM) manner; and transmitting, by the gNB, the PBCH by employing a Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) waveform and its associated DMRS.
US11936573B2
A method for performing an uplink transmission to a base station by a user equipment through an unlicensed cell in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: receiving an uplink grant that schedules the uplink transmission in at least one subframe from the base station; and performing the uplink transmission in the at least one subframe using at least one of a first type channel access or a second type channel access. The uplink transmission is performed using the second type channel access when all of the at least one subframe is included in a predetermined interval determined based on a downlink transmission through the unlicensed cell from the base station.
US11936554B2
A system comprises an edge services controller configured to: compute, based on a physical topology of physical links that connect a plurality of network interface cards (NICs) that comprise embedded switches and processing units coupled to the embedded switches, a virtual topology comprising a strict subset of the physical links; and program the virtual topology into the respective processing units of the NICs to cause the processing units of the NICs to send data packets via physical links in the strict subset of the physical links.
US11936522B2
One example process may include enabling a connection between one of a plurality of client devices and one or more servers via one of a plurality of virtual private network servers (VPNs), monitoring connection performance of the connection over a period of time, modifying one or more connection parameters associated with the connection of the one client device based on the monitored connection performance, identifying whether an increase or decrease in a performance of the connection has occurred based on the modified one or more connection parameters, when an increase in performance is identified, storing a current connection status and the modified one or more modified connection parameters in a temporary data file, and transmitting the temporary data file to one or more of the other VPN servers and the plurality of client devices.
US11936519B2
Provided is a server apparatus capable of reducing a workload in a setting process. A server apparatus (10) includes: a registering unit (11) configured to register first address information set in a monitoring apparatus (30) that monitors a wireless base station (20) and VLAN setting information serving as setting information of a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) including the monitoring apparatus (30); a receiving unit (12) configured to receive, from the wireless base station (20), an assignment request for second address information; and a transmitting unit (13) configured to transmit the first address information, the second address information, and the VLAN setting information to the wireless base station (20).
US11936511B2
In some aspects, an apparatus includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive, from a client device, a payload template request and to transmit, to the client device based on the payload template request, a payload template response including a plurality of payload templates. The one or more processors are further configured to receive, from the client device, a management request including a payload corresponding to a payload template of the plurality of payload templates and to transmit, to the client device based on the management request, a management response indicating a result associated with the management request.
US11936492B2
In one embodiment, an architecture for redundant control of wireless devices (e.g., wireless light fixtures, wireless light strips, wireless window shades, or other wireless devices) of a home automation system is provided that uses a combination of WLAN and WPAN communication. During normal operation of the home automation system, control commands generated in response to user input in a control application (app) on a control device (e.g., a remote control, mobile device, or other electronic device) are transmitted via a WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) to a bridge device (e.g., a lamp module or wireless keypad) proximate to the wireless device, which forwards the commands over a WPAN (e.g., BLE) to the wireless device. In the absence of an available WLAN connection (e.g., due to failure, prior to its configuration, etc.), the control device may send control commands via the WPAN (e.g., BLE) directly to the wireless device.
US11936487B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for providing context to users who access video conferences late. This may be accomplished by a system receiving an audio segment of a video conference and generating a subtitle corresponding to the audio segment. The system may determine a summary relating to the audio segment and then display the subtitle, summary, and video conference on a device. The system allows a user, who accesses a video conference late, to quickly and accurately understand the current video conference discussion, improving the user's experience and increasing the productivity of the video conference.
US11936486B2
Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for creating a chatroom according to a condition. The chatroom creation method may include providing an instant messaging service; registering a chatroom creation condition related to a specific account of the instant messaging service; retrieving at least one account of accounts of the instant messaging service that meets the chatroom creation condition; and automatically creating a chatroom of the specific account joined by the retrieved accounts.
US11936480B2
Methods and apparatus for enabling data transmission using HARQ in IEEE 802.11 systems are described. A method is disclosed, performed by a transmitting device, comprising computing a plurality of redundancy frames based on a plurality of data frames, transmitting the plurality of data frames to a receiving device, and transmitting a set of the plurality of redundancy frames to the receiving device determined by the transmitting device in response to receiving acknowledgement. One embodiment includes a method determining failed data frames of the plurality of data frames, requesting a set of the plurality of redundancy frames, and recovering the failed data frame using a decoder employing hard decision inputs. Other embodiments include an apparatus in a receiver device implementing the method of decoding the failed data frames using a decoder employing soft decision inputs.
US11936477B2
An advanced radio apparatus includes a set of antennas; analog circuit; digital circuit; medium access control (MAC) controller; and processor operably connected to the set of antennas, the analog circuit, the digital circuit, and the MAC controller. The processor is configured to decompose wideband waveform signals into a time-frequency waveform based on a sequence of sub-band signals; generate a time-frequency radar waveform based on the decomposed wideband waveform signals; map, based on the time-frequency radar waveform, a constant amplitude zero auto-correlation (CAZAC) sequence into orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) sub-carriers to generate a first radar signal. A transceiver is connected to the processor and configured to transmit, to a target object via a transmit antenna of the set of antennas, the first radar signal and receive, via a receive antenna of the set of antennas, a second signal that is reflected or backscattered from the target object.
US11936468B2
A spatial position-dependent I/Q domain modulation method, dual domain modulation method and multiple access communication method are provided. The methods eliminate the dependence of physical layer secure communication on channel state information, and realize the function that a receiver at an expected position can communicate normally, while an eavesdropper at other positions cannot receive a signal or can only receive a wrong signal. The security capability of a wireless communication system is improved from the spatial dimension. The multiple access communication method can realize the distinguishing of multiple users according to precise spatial position points. Even if a plurality of users are located in the same sector in an angular domain, as long as the spatial positions of these users are different, the method can be used to perform multiple access communication, thereby further improving the spatial multiplexing rate of the system and increasing the system capacity.
US11936463B2
Measures for managing satellite bearer resources of a satellite telecommunications network. A corpus of data based on historical satellite bearer resource allocations is maintained. A machine learning agent is trained with the corpus to determine a plurality of weights for use in directing satellite bearer resource management in the satellite telecommunications network. A satellite bearer resource allocation request is received. A set of features is extracted from a current environment of the satellite telecommunications network. The set of features defines currently allocated satellite bearer resources. On the basis of the determined plurality of weights and the set of features, satellite bearer resources of the satellite telecommunications network are managed to satisfy the request.
US11936462B2
An architecture to reduce or eliminate uplink interference induced by aerial user equipment (UE) when aerial UE is introduced into groups of terrestrial based UE operating in terrestrial fourth generation (4G) long term evolution (LTE), fifth generation (5G) networks. A method can comprise determining a number of terrestrial based user equipment impacted by uplink interference caused by uplink transmissions associated with aerial user equipment, wherein the aerial user equipment and the terrestrial based user equipment are controlled by serving cell equipment; determining an enclosed area that bounds the number of terrestrial based user equipment; and initiating a carrier aggregation process on the aerial user equipment, wherein the carrier aggregation divides the uplink transmissions associated with the aerial user equipment over a group of serving cell equipment included in the enclosed area.
US11936460B2
Exemplary embodiments include methods for receiving one or more physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) using a selectable number of available antennas and receive chains. Embodiments can include receiving a configuration associated with one or more PDCCHs, wherein the configuration includes, for each PDCCH, a search space comprising a plurality of PDCCH candidate. Embodiments can include selecting a first number of antennas and receive chains for PDCCH reception, wherein the first number comprises the minimum number of the available antennas and receive chains needed to meet one or more PDCCH performance metrics. Embodiments can include selecting, for PDCCH reception, either the first number of antennas and receive chains, or a greater second number of antennas and receive chains. Embodiments can include receiving the PDCCH using the selected number of antennas and receive chains, Other embodiments include UEs configured to perform operations corresponding to the exemplary methods.
US11936458B2
A transceiver (570) can include a power amplifier (540). A first antenna port (520) can be coupled to the power amplifier to receive power from the power amplifier. A second antenna port (530) can be coupled to the power amplifier to receive power from the power amplifier. A controller (580) can determine transmit power difference information corresponding to a transmit power difference between transmit power on the first antenna port and transmit power on the second antenna port. The transceiver can transmit the transmit power difference information.
US11936444B2
A method performed by a wireless device functioning as a beamformee station in a wireless network to perform a sounding procedure. The method includes wirelessly receiving a null data packet (NDP) announcement frame from a beamformer station, wherein the NDP announcement frame includes an indication of whether the beamformee station should acknowledge the NDP announcement frame and responsive to determining that the NDP announcement frame includes an indication that the beamformee station should acknowledge the NDP announcement frame, wirelessly transmitting an acknowledgement frame for the NDP announcement frame to the beamformer station.
US11936442B2
A method (1400) performed by a wireless device (200) for multibeam precoder based channel state information, CSI, feedback reporting is provided, A CSI report comprises a first part, CSI Part 1, and a second part, CSI Part 2. The method (1400) comprises generating (1401) the CSI report, wherein the CSI Part 1 comprises an indication of a number of non-zero coefficients, and a payload size of the indication of the number of non-zero coefficients is dependent on a rank restriction of the wireless device. The method also comprising transmitting (1402) the CSI report to a network node, wherein one or more of a payload of the CSI Part 2 and a payload size of the CSI Part 2 is based on the number of non-zero coefficients indicated in the CSI Part 1.
US11936438B2
Provided are an interference finding method and apparatus, a receiving device, a transmitting device and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving measurement configuration information configured by a transmitting device; and performing, according to the measurement configuration information, a receiving measurement on a transmit beam associated with the measurement configuration information, where the receiving measurement includes a received signal strength indicator and/or a channel occupancy.
US11936434B2
Systems and methods for performing signed matrix operations using a linear photonic processor are provided. The linear photonic processor is formed as an array of first amplitude modulators and second amplitude modulators, the first amplitude modulators configured to encode elements of a vector into first optical signals and the second amplitude modulators configured to encode a product between the vector elements and matrix elements into second optical signals. An apparatus may be used to implement a signed value of an output of the linear processor. The linear photonic processor may be configured to perform matrix-vector and/or matrix-matrix operations.
US11936417B2
The present invention relates to a time-division duplex (TDD) antenna apparatus which can reduce signal loss, and thereby minimize the noise figure (NF) of a system and extend uplink coverage of the system, by separating a transmitter circuit from a receiver circuit of the antenna apparatus, and disposing a low noise amplifier (LNA) of the receiver circuit between a reception antenna and a reception filter of the receiver. A time-division duplex antenna apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a transmitter which includes at least one transmission antenna module and transmits a downlink signal through a first path; a receiver which includes at least one reception antenna module and receives an uplink signal through a second path that is separated from the first path without any overlapping portions thereof; and a controller which controls the transmitter and the receiver in a time-division duplex manner.
US11936415B2
An air interface plane (AIP) of a radio frequency (RF) aperture includes: a circuit board having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; and a matrix of tapered elements arranged on the first side of the circuit board and secured to the circuit board, the matrix of tapered elements cooperating to at least one of receive or transmit an over-the-air RF signal. Suitably, each tapered element of the matrix has: a central hub extending along a longitudinal axis from a hub base which is proximate to the first side of the circuit board to an apex of the tapered element which is distal from the first side of the first circuit board; and a plurality of arms extending from the central hub at the apex of the tapered element, each of the plurality of arms including a first portion that projects the arm radially away from the longitudinal axis and a second portion that projects the arm longitudinally toward the first side of the circuit board.
US11936408B2
A matching circuit, a radio frequency front-end power amplification circuit, and a mobile communication device are provided. The matching circuit is configurable for the radio frequency front-end power amplification circuit, including a first impedance matcher, a first bandpass filter, a first wave trap, and a first matching unit. An impedance of the first impedance matcher is a first preset impedance at a first frequency, the first bandpass filter is bridged between a front end of the first impedance matcher and ground, the first bandpass filter enables a signal of the first frequency to pass through, and suppresses at least one of a signal of a second frequency and a signal of third harmonic generation of the first frequency. The second frequency is lower than the first frequency. The first wave trap is bridged between a rear end of the first impedance matcher and the ground.
US11936404B2
A method for storage system data aware compression, the method may include pre-compressing data units received by the storage system, by different pre-compression units to provide different pre-compressed versions of the data units; wherein the different pre-compression schemes are associated with different compression schemes, wherein at least some of the different compression schemes are data type specific compression schemes; calculating entropies of the different pre-compressed versions; and selecting a compression scheme out of the different compression schemes based on the entropies of the different pre-compressed versions.
US11936403B2
Systems and methods are provided for decoding data read from non-volatile storage devices. A method that may include decoding a first codeword read from a storage location of a non-volatile storage device using a first decoder without soft information, determining that the first decoder has failed to decode the first codeword, decoding the first codeword using a second decoder without soft information, determining that the second decoder has succeeded in decoding the first codeword, generating soft information associated with the storage location using decoding information generated by the second decoder and decoding a subsequent codeword from the storage location using the soft information associated with the storage location. The second decoder may be more powerful than the first decoder.
US11936402B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for puncturing Polar-encoded bits. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio node that utilizes a Polar encoder comprising performing Polar encoding of a plurality of bits to provide a plurality of Polar-encoded code bits and puncturing the plurality of Polar-encoded code bits using a hybrid puncturing scheme to provide a plurality of rate-matched Polar-encoded code bits, wherein the hybrid puncturing scheme uses different puncturing patterns for different code rate regions.
US11936399B2
According to some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless transmitter in a wireless communication network comprises: encoding a set of information carrying data bits u of length K with a linear outer code to generate a set of outer parity bits p along with the data bits u; interleaving the set of outer parity bits p and the data bits u using a predetermined interleaving mapping function that depends on the number of data bits K and is operable to distribute some bits of the set of parity bits p in front of some data bits u; and encoding the interleaved bits using a Polar encoder to generate a set of encoded bits x. Various interleaving mapping functions are disclosed.
US11936393B1
Techniques for cooperative timing alignment using synchronization pulses are described. The techniques can include generating, at an integrated circuit device, a timing signal, controlling a local count value based on the timing signal, monitoring a synchronization signal of a system comprising the integrated circuit device, detecting a synchronization pulse in the synchronization signal, and aligning the local count value with an implied count value associated with the synchronization pulse in order to align the local count value with those of other integrated circuit devices of the system.
US11936384B2
A multi-bit flip-flop includes a first bit flip-flop and a second bit flip-flop. The first bit flip-flop includes an input multiplexer that receives a first and second data bits, and outputs one of the first and second data bits as a third data bit; a first transmission circuit; a first latch; a second transmission circuit; and a second latch that outputs a first output data bit. The second bit flip-flop includes an input multiplexer that receives a fourth data bit and the first output data bit, and outputs one of the fourth data bit and the first output data bit as a fifth data bit; a first transmission circuit, a first latch, a second transmission circuit, and a second latch that outputs a second output data bit. The first output data bit is provided from the first bit flip-flop to the second bit flip-flop along an external wire.
US11936375B2
A buffer apparatus, a chip and an electronic device. The apparatus comprises: a voltage adjustment module (10) comprising a first P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (PMOS), wherein the voltage adjustment module (10) is used for receiving an input voltage, using a threshold voltage for the first PMOS to adjust the input voltage, and outputting a driving voltage; and a buffer module (20) electrically connected to the voltage adjustment module (10) and used for receiving an input signal, buffering the input signal under the driving voltage, and outputting a buffered signal. The driving voltage obtained by using the threshold voltage for the first PMOS to adjust the input voltage can compensate for a process corner of the buffer module (20), such that the range of a flip point voltage of the buffer module (20) becomes small and meets process requirements.
US11936366B2
An elastic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, and elastic wave elements on the piezoelectric substrate and including IDT electrodes, respectively. The IDT electrode of a first of the elastic wave elements includes first and second busbars, and the IDT electrode of a second of the elastic wave elements includes third and fourth busbars. The second busbar and the third busbar extend parallel or substantially parallel to each other, and are spaced by a gap in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to an elastic-wave propagating direction. Each of the second and third busbars includes first and second electrode layers at least a portion of which is laminated on the first electrode layer. The second electrode layer of the second busbar is cut in at least one location in a direction crossing the elastic-wave propagating direction.
US11936349B2
The present disclosure provides an audio circuit capable of inhibiting a current when mute is deactivated. An output terminal of a class D amplifier circuit is connected to an electroacoustic conversion element through a low-pass filter. An output node of a bridge circuit is connected to the output terminal. An integrator integrates and outputs, in a non-mute period in which a mute control signal is negated, a difference between an input signal and a feedback signal corresponding to an output signal generated at the output terminal, and outputs a predetermined bias voltage in a mute period in which the mute control signal is asserted. A PWM comparator compares the output of the integrator with a periodic voltage. A driver switches, in the non-mute period, the bridge circuit according to an output of the PWM comparator, and fixes an output of the bridge circuit in the mute period.
US11936347B2
An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) can drive semiconductor devices, such as, radio frequency amplifiers, switches, etc. The ASIC can include a supply and reference voltage generation circuit, a digital core, a clock generator, a plurality of analog-to-digital converters, low and high-speed communications interfaces, drain and gate sensing circuits (that can include one or more current sense amplifiers), and a gate driver circuit. The ASIC can be a low voltage semiconductor integrated circuit.
US11936343B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for Digital Predistortion (DPD) in a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transmitter. In some embodiments, a MIMO transmitter comprises a plurality of antenna branches comprising a respective plurality of power amplifiers coupled to a respective plurality of antenna elements. The MIMO transmitter also includes one or more DPD systems operable to predistort one or more respective groups of input signals to provide one or more respective groups of predistorted input signals for one or more respective groups of antenna branches. Each group of antenna branches comprises at least two of the plurality of antenna branches. In some embodiments, the MIMO transmitter is a massive MIMO transmitter. Embodiments of a per-branch DPD scheme for a MIMO transmitter that uses Iterative Learning Control (ILC) and kernel regression are also disclosed.
US11936339B2
A voltage controlled oscillator includes a series resonant circuit having a resonance frequency and an active voltage driving device coupled to the series resonant circuit. The active voltage driving device provides a driving voltage and has an output negative resistance in an operative voltage range at the resonance frequency. The active voltage driving device includes a cross-coupled differential pair having voltage supply terminals providing the driving voltage. The series resonant circuit is coupled between the voltage supply terminals of the cross-coupled differential pair.
US11936327B2
A hybrid power-generator system includes an engine, an electric generator, first and second rectifiers, first and second DC-DC voltage converters, a DC bus, an inverter, and one or more controllers. The system provides a unique method of joining two power sources such that the relative proportion utilized can be changed to any value seamlessly, such as to avoid daily and/or seasonal variations in utility charges. Since the AC output portion of the circuit is independent of the utility grid, power can be supplied at variable frequencies to motor loads with significant positive impacts in load efficiency. Power increases required by the load(s) that occur rapidly can utilize the electrical grid to assist for the brief transient, allowing the engine, which is maintained at a fixed and wide-open-throttle position, to continue operation and in a more gradual process to resume its blend target for power generation.
US11936326B2
A motor controller comprises a switch circuit, a control unit, and a duty cycle processing unit. The switch circuit is coupled to a motor for driving the motor. The control unit is configured to generate a plurality of control signals to control the switch circuit. The duty cycle processing unit receives a first pulse width modulation signal, where the first pulse width modulation has a first duty cycle. The duty cycle processing unit is configured to judge if the first duty cycle is equal to 0% or 100%. The duty cycle processing unit comprises a duty cycle computing unit, where the duty cycle computing unit is configured to capture the first duty cycle.
US11936315B2
A circuit for controlling a motor that includes control circuitry configured to determine whether a commutation event has occurred for a first sector of a plurality of sectors of a cycle for the motor based on a first selected phase current signal and a second selected phase current signal. In response to a determination that the commutation event has occurred for the first sector, the control circuitry is configured to determine that the motor is operating in a second sector of the plurality of sectors of the cycle for the motor. The control circuitry is further configured to determine a second angle of stator voltage vector for the motor based on the determination that the motor is operating in the second sector and generate the control signal based on the second angle of stator voltage vector for the motor.
US11936311B2
To provide a controller for motor which can reduce a torque ripple up to high frequency, without amplifying unnecessary noise and vibration. A controller for motor estimates an interlinkage flux based on the applied voltage and the detection value of current; estimates an output torque based on the detection value of current and the estimation value of interlinkage flux; extracts a pulsation component from the estimation value of output torque; calculates a voltage command correction value based on the extraction value of pulsation component; calculates a voltage command after superimposing by superimposing the voltage command correction value on the voltage command basic value; and applies voltage to winding based on the voltage command after superimposing.
US11936309B2
A permanent-magnet-synchronous electric motor control device includes: a reference voltage value calculation unit for calculating a reference voltage value; an output voltage value calculation unit for calculating an output voltage value on the basis of a voltage command; a current weakening command calculation unit for calculating a current weakening command on the basis of the reference voltage value and the output voltage value; a voltage command calculation unit for calculating the voltage command on the basis of the current weakening command; and a power converter for supplying power to a permanent-magnet-synchronous electric motor on the basis of the voltage command. The current weakening command calculation unit calculates the current weakening command in which a high-frequency component is amplified on the basis of the difference between the reference voltage value and the output voltage value.
US11936303B2
A power conversion device includes a controller configured to alternately turn on a second upper arm and a second lower arm of a first bridge circuit such that on-times thereof do not overlap each other to increase power stored in a resonance capacitor of the first bridge circuit in a state in which a first leg of the first bridge circuit is turned off when transmitting power from a second bridge circuit to the first bridge circuit and performing step-up operation.
US11936295B2
A charge pump circuit is provided, comprising: a first charge pump having an input terminal for receiving a supply voltage and configured to boost the received supply voltage to provide at an output terminal of the first charge pump a first charge pump voltage; a second charge pump having an input terminal coupled to the output terminal of the first charge pump for receiving the first charge pump voltage and configured to boost the received first charge pump voltage to provide at an output terminal of the second charge pump a second charge pump voltage, and a voltage drop sensing device configured to detect drops in the first charge pump voltage and to deactivate second transistors of bypass units associated to the disabled charge pump stages when a drop in the first charge pump voltage is detected.
US11936291B2
Circuits and methods that more effectively and efficiently solving the charge-balance problem for multi-level converter circuits by establishing a control method that selects an essentially optimal pattern or set of switch states that moves the fly capacitors towards a charge-balance state or maintains the current charge state every time a voltage level at an output node is selected regardless of what switch state or states were used in the past. Accordingly, multi-level converter circuit embodiments of the invention are free to select a different switch state or output voltage level every switching cycle without needing to keep track of any prior switch state or sequence of switch states. Additional benefits include improved transient performance made possible by the novel charge-balance method.
US11936289B2
A vehicle electrical system is equipped with a DC charging connection, a rechargeable battery, a first DC-DC converter and an electrical drive. The first DC-DC converter has a first side. This is connected to a connecting point via a first switch. The first DC-DC converter has a second side to which the electrical drive is connected. The second side is connected to the rechargeable battery via a second switch and via a connecting point or is connected to the rechargeable battery directly. The vehicle electrical system has a second DC-DC converter. This is connected to one side of the first switch.
US11936287B2
A self-driven active clamp circuit applied to a flyback converter having a transformer and a switch has a clamp switch and a resistor. The clamp switch is connected between a first capacitor and a second capacitor in series. Another terminal of the first capacitor is connected to a first terminal of a primary-side winding of the transformer. Another terminal of the second capacitor is connected to a second terminal of the primary-side winding of the transformer and the switch of the flyback converter. A terminal of the resistor is connected to a control terminal of the clamp switch. Another terminal of the resistor is connected to the second terminal of the primary-side winding of the transformer and the switch of the flyback converter.
US11936279B2
Various disclosed embodiments include oil systems, electric motors, and vehicles. In an illustrative embodiment an electrical motor system includes an oil reservoir, a motor, and an oil delivery system. The oil reservoir is configured to hold oil therein. The oil delivery system includes a heat exchanger. The oil delivery system is configured to operate in a low-temperature mode, bypassing the heat exchanger, while the oil temperature is below a first predetermined temperature; operate in a high-temperature mode, directing oil traversing the oil delivery system through the heat exchanger while the oil temperature is above a second predetermined temperature; and operate in an intermediate-temperature mode, partially bypassing the heat exchanger while the oil temperature is between the first predetermined temperature and the second predetermined temperature.
US11936273B2
A stator assembly for a planar electrical motor includes coil conductors arranged in a stator layer, elongated in a first direction and arranged side by side in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The coil conductors are connected to form a three-phase system, with a first forward conductor and first return conductor of the first phase connected in series to the first forward conductor, a second forward conductor and second return conductor of the second phase connected in series with the second forward conductor, and a third forward conductor and third return conductor of the third phase connected in series with the third forward conductor. The three-phase system has first and second opposite sides. The first forward conductor and the first return conductor are electroconductively connected in series by first and second horizontal connecting conductors arranged in the stator layer on the second and first side, respectively.
US11936263B2
A stator assembly and stator for a motor is provided that directly installs in a conductor slot a slot wedge having a width approximately the same as the width of the conductor slot. The slot wedge is limited in three directions, circumferential, radial, and axial, by means of cooperation between a slot wedge pressing ring, a conductor, and a sidewall of the conductor slot, and at the same time, the slot wedge is capable of preventing the conductor from falling out of the conductor slot. In addition, in the stator assembly for a motor disclosed, when the slot wedge is installed, the slot wedge may not only be inserted and installed in the conductor slot along the axial direction, but may also be inserted and installed in the conductor slot along the radial direction, and thus, the installation mode is flexible, which may improve the installation efficiency.
US11936258B2
A method for controlling outputs of electric motors includes the steps of (a) providing an electric motor including a stator winding unit selected from first to fourth winding groups, each of the winding groups having at least a primary winding with a first number of poles and a first rated power, and at least a secondary winding with a second number of poles being the same as or different from the first number of poles and a second rated power being the same as or different from the first rated power; and (b) providing a control device respectively coupled with the electric motor and an external electrical power source for sensing a needed loading state of the electric motor and suppling a required connection relationship between the stator winding unit and the external electrical power source based on the needed loading state sensed by the control device.
US11936257B2
The present disclosure provides a transverse magnetic flux motor having a stator and a rotor. The stator adopts a tooth and yoke separation structure. Multiple stator teeth are arranged at intervals along the circumferential direction of a stator yoke. The stator teeth or the stator yoke are wound with a stator winding. The rotor is provided on one side of the stator near the stator teeth in the axial direction, and has a back iron and multiple permanent magnets arranged in sequence along the circumferential direction. The permanent magnets are magnetized along the axial direction, and the polarities of adjacent permanent magnets are different from one another.
US11936256B2
A flux-mnemonic permanent magnet synchronous machine (FMPMSM) includes: an annular stator having a winding; a rotor disposed concentric with the stator; and a power inverter for dispensing an excitation current and at least one current pulse. The rotor includes: at least two circumferentially magnetized adjustable permanent magnets, each permanent magnet having two poles normal to an air gap between the stator and rotor; and one or more flux adjusters adjacent to one or more magnet poles of the permanent magnets. A polarization ratio of magnetization of at least one of the permanent magnets is adjustable during operation of the FMPMSM by application of the at least one current pulse.
US11936252B2
An exciter comprises a stator armature defining a plurality of circumferentially spaced apart winding slots separated by respective stator teeth. first exciter winding with multiple phases, a second exciter winding with multiple phases. The individual windings of the first and second exciter windings are seated in the winding slots. For each phase of each of the first and second exciter windings there are two leads configured to connect to a generator control unit (GCU).
US11936247B2
A rotor of the present invention includes a rotor core, and a magnet press-fitted into a magnet insertion hole provided in the rotor core, the magnet has a hard magnetic body and a resin layer that is laminated on the hard magnetic body, that is disposed on an outward side of the rotor core in a radial direction and that includes a soft magnetic body, and the resin layer has a groove portion extending in a direction crossing an insertion direction.
US11936242B2
Described is an electrical machine (1) which comprises two end shields (6, 7), a stator (5) which is arranged between the two end shields (6, 7) and has a stator laminated core (11, 11a) and stator windings (12) arranged therein, and a rotor (3) which is arranged in the stator (5) and has a rotor shaft (2) mounted rotatably in the two end shields (6, 7). The electrical machine (1) furthermore has cooling channels (13) arranged fully in the stator laminated core (11, 11a) and edged by the latter. Furthermore described are a gear motor (30) comprising such an electrical machine (1), as well as a vehicle (20) comprising such an electrical machine (1).
US11936241B2
A stator assembly for an electric machine includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion, a stator body inserted into at least the first housing portion, a link for rotatably linking the stator body with the first housing portion, a first attachment for attaching the stator body to the first housing portion, and a second attachment for attaching the two housing portions to one another. The assembly includes an annular seal inserted axially between the stator body and the first attachment as well as between the two housing portions.
US11936237B2
In an uninterruptible power supply apparatus, AC current, which includes a feedback component having a value corresponding to deviation between terminal-to-terminal voltage of a capacitor and reference voltage, and a feed forward component obtained by multiplying load current by a gain, is passed into a converter such that the terminal-to-terminal voltage of the capacitor becomes the reference voltage. The gain is set to a first gain in an inverter power feed mode and a bypass power feed mode, and the gain is set to a second gain smaller than the first gain in a switching period of switching between the inverter power feed mode and the bypass power feed mode, to prevent the terminal-to-terminal voltage of the capacitor from exceeding an upper limit voltage in a lap power feed mode.
US11936234B2
Disclosed is an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system connected to a USB device by a USB cable. The IVI system includes a USB charging unit outputting internal power for low-speed charging, a switch unit outputting external power for high-speed charging, and a micro controller unit determining a USB connector type of a USB device according to a connector identification signal received from the USB device through the USB cable and controlling an operation of the USB charging unit and the switch unit to transfer the internal power or the external power to the USB device through the USB cable according to a result of determining the USB connector type.
US11936232B2
A method and system for AC battery operation. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining, at a battery management unit (BMU) coupled to an AC battery comprising a power converter and a battery that is rechargeable, a bias control voltage that indicates a state of a charge process of the AC battery; and coupling, by a bias control module of the BMU, the bias control voltage to the power converting for communicating the state of the charge process to and from the BMU and the power converter.
US11936222B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved fault detection and mitigation systems, methods, and techniques used in a BMS in an energy storage system (for example, grid energy storage). Embodiments of the present invention may detect battery malfunction in a battery stack and take quick corrective and preventative measures accordingly. Embodiments of the present invention may also provide select redundant components to implement safety techniques described herein.
US11936206B1
Systems and methods are provided for combined inductive power transfer (IPT) and capacitive power transfer (CPT) to reduce power pulsation in dynamic charging of electric vehicles. Aluminum plates provided between transmitter coils inhibit output power drop, the power pulsation can be reduced, and a constant power profile is provided by operation of CPT system when the receiver is between the IPT coils. As the aluminum plates cover the space between coils, the IPT coils can be separated away from each other by a longer distance compared to conventional segmented coils; therefore, a lesser copper can be used which enhances the cost effectiveness of the provided system. As the respective IPT and CPT system are used alternatively, thus the system's output power can be constant, nearly constant, or effectively constant.
US11936199B2
Polyphase wireless power transfer systems are provided. The transfer system may be used for charging hybrid and electric vehicles. The systems are capable of transferring over 50 KW over an air gap of 15 cm. The systems use a rotating magnetic field to transfer power. The system may comprise transmitter coil assembly. The coil assembly may be one or more layers. The system may employ either unipolar or bipolar coils. The transmitter also comprises compensating capacitance connected in series with at least one coil for each phase. A value of the compensating capacitance for each phase is determined such that the transmitter has at least two independently excitable resonant modes at a resonant frequency. The transmitter is compatible with a plurality of different receivers including three-phase, single phase with a circular coil and single phase with DD coils.
US11936198B2
A wireless device is provided and includes a substrate, a first coil and a second coil. The first coil is configured to be wound around a first axis, and the first coil is disposed on the substrate and is configured to operate in a wireless charging mode. The second coil is disposed on the substrate and configured to operate in a wireless communication mode. The wires of the second coil partially overlap the wires of the first coil.
US11936190B1
A system and method for managing and distributing an electrical power system is provided. In one embodiment, the system and method comprise at least one powered device that receives electrical power from an electrical power system utilizing multiple energy sources. Structure and devices are provided within the system to command, regulate, monitor, and transmit power to a device or devices in an efficient, reliable manner based on resource availability, energy cost, and environmental factors. The system selects and manages the resources to optimize the energy output to the device(s) to achieve the specific requirements in resiliency, cost, and the environmental impact of the application.
US11936189B2
A power plant is operable to provide primary frequency control for a grid. The power plant includes a gas turbine operable to power a first generator that is synchronized to the power grid and to produce an exhaust gas, the gas turbine operated at a power level that defines a non-zero first MW margin and including a first control system having a first droop setting, and a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) operable to generate high pressure steam in response to the passage of the exhaust gas through the HRSG. A steam turbine is operable to power a second generator that is synchronized to the power grid, the steam turbine is operated at a power level that defines a non-zero second MW margin and includes a second control system having a second droop setting, the second droop setting set to a value based at least in part on the second MW margin. The first control system calculates the first droop setting based at least in part on the first MW margin, the second droop setting, the second MW margin, and a regional required total droop for the combination of the gas turbine and the steam turbine.
US11936188B2
The invention relates to a hybrid power plant for producing power to the electrical grid, the hybrid power plant comprising a plurality of energy assets; a first renewable power generating unit, such as wind turbine generators, a second renewable power generating unit, such as a plurality of solar power units, and an energy storage unit, such as a battery energy storage system. A power plant controller is arranged to perform a first comparison of an active power reference with an available power from the first and the second renewable power generating units and performing a second comparison of available charging, or discharging, capability of the energy storage unit with said first comparison. In response to this first comparison, set points are distributed to the first and the second renewable power generating units so as to deliver power from the hybrid power plant in accordance with the received active power reference.
US11936186B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for evaluating a degree of frequency regulation urgency of a generator set, a power system and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining a power grid frequency fluctuation trend under a normal operation condition and a power grid frequency fluctuation trend under a fault condition through simulation analysis based on the proportion η of the installed capacity of each of multiple types of generator sets in a regional power grid; obtaining a degree P of frequency regulation participation of each of the multiple types of generator sets based on the power grid frequency fluctuation trends under the normal operation condition and the fault condition; and calculating a degree U of frequency regulation urgency of each of the multiple types of generator sets in a power system based on the degree P of frequency regulation participation of each of the multiple types of generator sets and the proportion η of the installed capacity of a respective type of generator set corresponding to the degree P of frequency regulation participation, and implementing frequency regulation participation of the regional power grid in the power system based on the degree U of frequency regulation urgency.
US11936179B2
A discharge unit is connected to a power pad, a ground pad, and an I/O pad, and can discharge an electrostatic charge when an electrostatic pulse appears on any of the power pad, the ground pad, and the I/O pad. The discharge unit includes a first discharge unit and a second discharge unit, the first discharge unit is connected to the second discharge unit, the power pad, and the I/O pad, and the second discharge unit is connected to the ground pad and the I/O pad. The first discharge unit and/or the second discharge unit can discharge electrostatic charges on different pads, respectively.
US11936170B2
A wire guide device is to be arranged at an end portion of a cable guide, and is internally provided with an insertion hole through which a wire is passed. The wire guide device includes a first divided part and a second divided part that can be combined in a width direction that intersects a direction in which the insertion hole is formed. The first divide part and the second divided part include locking portions that are locked to each other in the combined state, division faces that are opposed to each other in the width direction, and restriction portions (vertical movement restriction portions, and slide restriction portions) that are provided separately from the locking portions and abut against each other to restrict positional shift of the division faces.
US11936161B2
A device for laser projection comprises a first laser diode configured to emit a first linearly polarized laser beam extending along a first polarization axis and a second laser diode configured to emit a second linearly polarized laser beam extending along a second polarization axis that is perpendicular to the first polarization axis. A polarization combiner is configured to combine the first and second linearly polarizing laser beams into a combined laser beam, wherein the combined laser beam comprises one of: (1) circular polarization; and (2) elliptical polarization. A measuring device is configured to measure an intensity of the combined laser beam. A control unit is configured to receive the measured intensity of the combined laser beam and is further configured to adjust an intensity of at least one of: (1) the first laser diode; and (2) the second laser diode.
US11936151B2
Connector assemblies and contacts that can be moisture-resistant, light-weight, space efficient, and can be readily manufactured. The connector assembly can be formed of two or more materials that can be molded together to reduce the chance of leakage at seams between the two materials. One of the two materials can have an affinity for plating materials while the other material can have an aversion to plating materials. The first material can be plated and used as contacts, while the second can resist plating and can be used to separate regions of the first material into two or more contacts.
US11936144B2
A swivel mount assembly for rotational mounting of an electronic device to a mounting structure includes a rotatable body inserted, in part, into an opening in the mounting structure and rotatable about an axis extending through the mounting structure opening. A plate part above the mounting structure has an opening that opens into the mounting structure opening. A sidewall is joined at one end to the plate part and has a side aperture formed therein. A roller is disposed in the opening in the plate part and directs a cable extending through the opening in the mounting structure to further pass through the side aperture. A hold/release mechanism, disposed above the plate part, holds the cable and prevents its movement when the hold/release mechanism is in a first setting, and releases the cable and permits its movement when the hold/release mechanism is in a second setting.
US11936137B2
A connector system includes a male connecter including a male housing defining a recess and a plurality of pins arranged within the recess; and a female connector including a female housing configured to be insertable into the recess of the male housing. The female housing includes: front and back portions; a pair of longitudinal sides that extend from the front portion to the back portion; a planar side that extends from the front portion to the back portion, the planar side connecting first ends of the pair of longitudinal sides; a rounded side that extends from the front portion to the back portion, the rounded side connecting second ends of the pair of longitudinal sides; a front surface defined at the front portion by the pair of longitudinal sides, the planar side, and the rounded side; and a plurality of sockets formed at the front surface.
US11936133B2
The hermetic terminal includes a metal base that is provided with at least one sealing hole, a lead that is inserted in the sealing hole provided on the metal base, an insulating material that hermetically seals the metal base and the lead, and a heat insulating member that is provided to cover at least a partial surface of the hermetic terminal which is located inside a pressure-resistant container after the hermetic terminal is fixed to the pressure-resistant container and comes into contact with refrigerant sealed in the pressure-resistant container.
US11936132B2
A connection system includes a first connector and a second connector configured for establishing one or more electrical connections through a drape. The first connector can include an alignment protrusion and a first piercing element having one or more electrical contacts configured to pierce the drape. The second connector can include an alignment notch, a channel, and a first receptacle configured to receive the first piercing element when inserted therein. The alignment notch can be configured to accept the alignment protrusion when the first connector is aligned with the second connector then disposed over the second connector. The channel can be configured to allow the alignment protrusion to slide along a length of the second connector. The first receptacle can have one or more electrical contacts configured to form at least a first electrical connection of the one or more electrical connections with the first connector.
US11936125B2
An antenna module includes a ground electrode, a fed element, unfed elements, and feed lines. The unfed element is formed in a planar shape and disposed facing the ground electrode. The fed element is formed in a planar shape and disposed between the unfed element and the ground electrode. The unfed element is formed in a planar shape and disposed between the fed element and the ground electrode. The feed lines extend through the unfed element and are used to transfer radio-frequency signals to the fed element.
US11936122B2
An antenna is provided comprising a substrate formed of a dielectric material. The substrate has an upper surface, a lower surface, and one or more side surfaces connecting the upper surface with the lower surface. The antenna further comprises a conductive patch on the upper surface of the substrate; a first conductive strip on one of the one or more side surfaces; and a second conductive strip on one of the one or more side surfaces. The first and second conductive strips are arranged at opposing sides of the conductive patch. The antenna further comprises a ground plane, wherein the first and second conductive strips are galvanically isolated from the conductive patch and galvanically connected to the ground plane.
US11936121B2
An ultra wide band antenna includes: a first antenna body including: a first planar portion; a first tapered side portion; and a first cylinder; and a second antenna body including: a second planar portion; a second tapered side portion; and a second cylinder, and a connecting portion connecting at least one of the first planar portion and the first tapered side portion on a back side of the first antenna body to at least one of the second planar portion and the second tapered side portion on a back side of the second antenna body.
US11936115B2
The disclosure provides an electronic device comprising an antenna module and a wireless communication circuit. The antenna module comprises: a printed circuit board comprising a first surface extending in a first direction and a second surface extending in a second direction opposite the first direction; a first area comprising a first antenna array; a second area comprising a second antenna array and at least partially overlapping the first area; a third area comprising a third antenna array and not overlapping the first area; a fourth area comprising a fourth antenna array and at least partially overlapping the third area; and a ground layer. The wireless communication circuit is electrically connected to the plurality of antenna arrays and transmits and/or receives a signal having a frequency in a range of about 3 GHz to 100 GHz.
US11936114B2
Omni-directional orthogonally-polarized antenna system for MIMO applications are disclosed herein. An example antenna system can have two arrays of horizontally polarized radiating elements, and two arrays of vertically polarized radiating elements, each array having roughly 180-degree radiation pattern, disposed about a central axis in a common horizontal plane, arrays of common polarization separated by 180-degrees, such that MIMO processing of signals to the arrays of common polarization results in a radiation pattern that is substantially constant over 360-degrees in azimuth.
US11936100B2
According to examples, a lens configuration for a head-mounted display (HMD) device may include a base platform made from glass or plastic, an antenna layer deposited onto the base platform, an optical polymer film deposited onto the antenna layer, and a lens layer deposited onto the optical polymer film through a 3D printing technique. The antenna layer may include a transparent antenna embedded into or deposited onto a transparent layer. The lens layer may be 3D printed as multiple partial layers to have a shape that matches a prescription for the lens layer.
US11936095B2
The present disclosure describes antenna mounts. An antenna mount may include a mount plate, a base plate, and at least three support members. The mount plate is configured to be secured to an antenna. The base plate configured to be secured to a mounting structure. The base plate may include one or more apertures, each aperture sized to receive a plurality of cables. Each support member has opposing ends with one end coupled to the base plate and the other end coupled to the mount plate such that the base plate and the mount plate are spaced apart a distance. Antenna mount assemblies and antenna mount transition covers are also provided.
US11936090B2
A waveguide assembly comprising a first waveguide, and a second waveguide designed as a dielectric multimodal waveguide, and a waveguide transition for transmitting an electromagnetic wave between the first waveguide and the second waveguide, the waveguide transition having a dielectric waveguide piece which is between the first waveguide and the second waveguide. The dielectric waveguide piece is capable of guiding a smaller mode number than the second waveguide, at least in a front section, facing the first waveguide.
US11936089B2
A transmission line assembly is configured such that (i) a first target inner layer is one of second to (N−1)-th pattern layers selected therefrom, and (ii) a second target inner layer is another one of the second to (N−1)-th pattern layers selected therefrom; the second to (N−1)-th pattern layers except for the first and second target inner layers are referred to as inner layers. The transmission line assembly includes band-like first and second slits formed through the ground pattern of a corresponding one of the first and second target inner layers to expose a part of one of dielectric layers; the one of the dielectric layers is adjacent to the corresponding one of the first and second target inner layers. Each of the first and second slits has an edge facing the interlayer line, and the edge of each of the first and second slits is concavely curved toward the interlayer line.
US11936088B2
A method of forming a composite material for use as an isolator or circulator in a radiofrequency device comprises providing a low temperature fireable outer material, the low fireable outer material having a garnet or scheelite structure, inserting a high dielectric constant inner material having a dielectric constant above 30 within an aperture in the low temperature fireable outer material, and co-firing the lower temperature fireable outer material and the high dielectric constant inner material together at temperature between 650-900° C. to shrink the low temperature fireable outer material around an outer surface of the high dielectric constant inner material to form an integrated magnetic/dielectric assembly without the use of adhesive or glue.
US11936075B2
Disclosed are a separator for fuel cells capable of minimizing the volume of a system and the use of sealants, and a stack for fuel cells, more particularly, a stack for solid oxide fuel cells, including the same. Specifically, by adding a metal sheet having a specific shape, position and size to the separator, the stress applied to the sealant can be uniformized, and thus the oxidizing agent and fuel can be separated and electrically isolated using only a piece of sealant. Therefore, the stack for fuel cells is characterized in that there is no variation in temperature, reactant concentration, power, or the like between respective unit cells, so delamination and microcracks do not occur, the volume is minimized, and the power density per unit volume is very high.
US11936074B2
A metal air battery electrolyte replenishment system comprised of a base station with docking receptor apparatus and matching docking probe on a flying drone. The probe onboard the drone has a sensor that guides the drone to connect with the electrolyte docking receptor on the base station. The drone uses the probe to obtain fresh electrolyte and simultaneously expel spent electrolyte into the base station while still in flight or during a brief landing. Rapid exchange of the electrolyte allows for extended range and flight time without penalty of onboard electrolyte reconditioning system and its associated weight.
US11936072B2
A liquid injection apparatus (1) includes: a first measuring unit (10a) including a first measuring space (13a) inside a first cylinder (11a) and a first piston (12a) moving in the first measuring space (13a); a second measuring unit (10b) including a second measuring space (13b) inside a second cylinder (11b) and a second piston (12b) moving in a second measuring space (13b); a first dispenser (20a) that injects a liquid (19) into a first vessel (90a); a second dispenser (20b) that injects the liquid into a second vessel (90b); a driving mechanism (30) that operates the first piston and the second piston in synchronization; and a first stroke conversion mechanism (60a) which is disposed between the first piston and the driving mechanism, and independently converts a first stroke of the driving mechanism and transmits the converted first stroke to the first piston to control an amount of movement of the first piston independently of an amount of movement of the second piston.
US11936068B2
A battery is provided. The battery includes a wound electrode body including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween. In an inner circumferential part of the wound electrode body, an insulator is configured to cover at least a partial surface of the separator or a negative electrode collector surface surrounding a first space. The positive electrode or a positive electrode collector is absent in the first space surrounded by the negative electrode collector.
US11936061B2
Provided is power supply device configured for safe discharge to the outside of the power supply device even when gas at high temperature and under high pressure is discharged from a secondary battery cell, power supply device including: a plurality of secondary battery cells each having gas discharge valve for discharging internal gas; and cover part disposed on one surface of battery stack with the plurality of secondary battery cells stacked while covering gas discharge valve of each of the plurality of secondary battery cells. Cover part is provided inside with a gas guide path partitioned to discharge gas discharged from gas discharge valve to the outside of cover part, and the gas guide path includes one or more horizontal gas flow bending portions that bend at least a flow direction of some of the gas in plan view of cover part.
US11936056B2
A battery module, a battery pack, and a vehicle are described in this patent application. In the battery module, a plurality of grooves separated by partition parts are disposed in a module casing, a plurality of jelly rolls of the battery module are embedded in the grooves, and a top cover covers an opening of each groove to seal the groove as an independent mounting cavity. In this way, each groove wall in the module casing and the top cover may be used as a housing for sealing each jelly roll, to avoid a case in which an electrolyte in each jelly roll decomposes and produces gas in a process of using the battery module because the electrolyte is leaked from one jelly roll to another jelly roll.
US11936047B2
Provided is a binder composition for an electrochemical device that can stably disperse a conductive carbon material and that can cause an electrochemical device to display excellent output characteristics and high-voltage cycle characteristics. The binder composition for an electrochemical device contains a polymer including a nitrile group-containing monomer unit and an alkylene structural unit and a group 13 element and satisfies a relationship formula: 0.1≤M/I≤150 (in the formula, I is the iodine value [g/100 g] of the polymer and M is the concentration [ppm] of the group 13 element).
US11936045B2
A negative active material includes a carbon material. The carbon material satisfies the following relationship: 6
US11936044B2
A carbon material for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing a graphite capable of occluding and releasing lithium ions, and having a cumulative pore volume at pore diameters in a range of 0.01 μm to 1 μm of 0.08 mL/g or more, a roundness, as determined by flow-type particle image analysis, of 0.88 or greater, and a pore diameter to particle diameter ratio (PD/d50 (%)) of 1.8 or less, the ratio being given by equation (1A): PD/d50 (%)=mode pore diameter (PD) in a pore diameter range of 0.01 μm to 1 μm in a pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion/volume-based average particle diameter (d50)×100 is provided.
US11936040B2
To provide electrolytic manganese dioxide excellent in low rate characteristics and middle rate characteristics when used as a cathode material for alkaline manganese dry cells, and a method for its production. Electrolytic manganese dioxide of which the apparent density is at least 4.0 g/cm3 and at most 4.3 g/cm3, and the mode particle size is at least 30 μm and at most 100 μm; a method for its production and its application.
US11936038B2
An anode active material for lithium ion batteries includes one or more unaggregated silicon particles having a mass-based chlorine content of from 5 to 200 ppm and a volume-weighted particle size distribution having diameter percentiles d50 of from 0.5 μm to 10.0 μm.
US11936036B2
A positive electrode active material in which a capacity decrease caused by charge and discharge cycles is suppressed is provided. Alternatively, a positive electrode active material having a crystal structure that is unlikely to be broken by repeated charging and discharging is provided. The positive electrode active material contains titanium, nickel, aluminum, magnesium, and fluorine, and includes a region where titanium is unevenly distributed, a region where nickel is unevenly distributed, and a region where magnesium is unevenly distributed in a projection on its surface. Aluminum is preferably unevenly distributed in a surface portion, not in the projection, of the positive electrode active material.
US11936029B2
A vehicular heat management system for individually cooling and heating a plurality of air conditioning regions of a vehicle includes a plurality of refrigerant circulation lines configured to cool and heat the air conditioning regions individually shared by the refrigerant circulation lines. The refrigerant circulation lines are provided with one or more air conditioning units for individually cooling and heating the respective air conditioning regions, and are configured to supply a refrigerant to the corresponding air conditioning units to individually cool and heat the air conditioning regions corresponding to the air conditioning units.
US11936026B2
The present application provides a temperature control component, which includes a first side plate, a second side plate and a first buffer plate. A cavity is formed by the second side plate and the first side plate; the first buffer plate is disposed between the second side plate and the first side plate to divide the cavity into multiple channels, and at least part of the first buffer plate extends obliquely from the first side plate towards the second side plate. The present application also provides a battery pack, which includes the temperature control component described above.
US11936023B2
A battery module (1, 108, 408) including a plurality of heat pipes (30, 31, 130, 131, 430, 460, 531) configured to be thermally connected to a heat reservoir (76, 376), the heat pipes being individually sealed and integrated in an external surface (3, 408B) of the battery module. The heat pipes are configured to be arranged in physical contact with a heat conducting element (302A) for transferring heat to and/or from the battery module.
US11936016B2
Disclosed is a battery cell including an electrode, a housing, a cell interior inside the housing, a temperature sensor, and a heat-conducting part which differs from the electrode, is entirely or partially disposed inside the housing of the battery cell, and is thermally connected to the temperature sensor.
US11936014B2
A battery cell system includes a battery cell defined by an outer housing. One or more sensors are positioned within the outer housing of the battery cell. Each of the one or more sensors configured and adapted to be operatively connected to a battery management system (BMS) to provide data thereto. A method for detecting an mitigating failure modes in a battery cell includes reading a battery cell characteristic with a sensor positioned within an outer housing of the battery cell. The method includes sending the battery cell characteristic to a BMS. The method includes determining whether the battery cell characteristic meets a criteria with the BMS. The method includes signaling a failure mode if the battery cell characteristic does not meet the criteria.
US11936005B2
A power supply device includes a plurality of battery packs, and a plurality of battery controllers having a master-slave configuration and corresponding to the plurality of battery packs in a one-to-one correspondence.
US11936002B2
An electrolyte composition containing (i) at least one aprotic organic solvent; (ii) at least one conducting salt; (iii) at least one silyl ester phosphonate containing the structure of formula (I), wherein T is selected from (Ia) and (Ib); and (iv) optionally one or more additives.
US11936000B2
A solid polymer electrolyte composition and a solid polymer electrolyte are disclosed. More particularly, a solid polymer electrolyte composition and a solid polymer electrolyte formed by photocuring the same are disclosed, including a polymer (A) containing alkylene oxide and having one reactive double bond, a multifunctional cross-linkable polymer (B), and an ionic liquid, wherein the ionic liquid includes an amide-based solvent and a lithium salt.
US11935997B2
Disclosed are a pouch exterior capable of easily mounting an electrode assembly at an accurate position between accommodating parts, having an integrated form to minimize sealing parts contacting the air and to increase a lifetime of a battery, capable of preventing a rupture of the pouch exterior in an assembly process, and capable of increasing an energy density of a cell, a pouch-type secondary battery using the pouch exterior, and a method of manufacturing the pouch-type secondary battery. A pouch exterior for a secondary battery, according to the present disclosure, includes two corresponding accommodating parts configured to mount an electrode assembly therebetween and symmetrically formed at both sides by disposing a protruding part therebetween, and is folded along two folding lines outside a center pan of the protruding part by vertically mounting a side surface of the electrode assembly on the protruding part, such that folded parts surround side edges of the electrode assembly.
US11935996B2
A battery cell assembly, including a rolled cell formed from a first electrode and a second electrode rolled together about a longitudinal axis. The rolled cell includes a primary section in which the first electrode and the second electrode overlap in a radial direction from the longitudinal axis, and a first extension end extending from a first longitudinal end of the primary section and formed from a first edge section of the first electrode. The first edge section includes a first folded portion folded to contact an adjacent portion of the first edge section. The battery cell assembly further includes a first end cap coupled to the rolled cell and contacting the first folded portion.
US11935989B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip may include a first region doped with a first dopant, a second region doped with a second dopant, an active region between the first and second regions, a first contact layer having an electrically conductive material and covering the first region. An insulating layer may cover the first contact layer and include first openings, and the insulating layer may include a second contact layer having an electrically conductive material and covering the insulating layer and the first openings. The first openings may completely penetrate the insulating layer, and the second contact layer may include second openings and/or a third contact layer comprising an electrically conductive material is arranged in the first openings in each case between the second contact layer and the insulating layer.
US11935983B2
Methods and systems for using a photosintering system to sinter one or more paint layers for a paint circuit. In one aspect, a photosintering system includes a photosintering device including a light source and multiple proximity sensors, a data communication link, and one or more processors in data communication with the photosintering device over the data communication link, and is operable to perform the operations of obtaining an image of a sintering area, generating a grid of the sintering area including multiple sub-areas, and for each sub-area of the multiple sub-areas: determine a respective fractional sintering energy for the sub-area, indicate how to position a photosintering device relative to the sub-area, obtain current positional information for the photo sintering device, determining that the current positional, determine an exposure sintering energy for the particular sub-area, and trigger exposure of the exposure sintering energy to the particular sub-area.
US11935976B2
A method of forming PV layers in which, during the curing process, an additional reaction accelerates and improves curing. In a particularly advantageous embodiment, a double layer sequence having a plastic matrix in which continuous metal particles and, in the upper layer, alkaline-solubilised siloxane portions and metal particles are provided, allows, by means of combined definitive curing during the alkaline-solubilisation, the production of a PV layer sequence with which industrial waste heat/long-wave IR radiation can be utilised photovoltaically. The active exploitation of industrial waste heat/heat/body heat offers clear, financially-viable advantages in a great number of fields.
US11935968B2
Capacitor comprising: a first porous semiconductor having an average pore size of between 20 nm and 200 nm and preferably between 40 nm and 100 nm, at least one second electric conductor, wherein the second electric conductor infiltrates the porous structure, and the materials involved are selected such that a potential barrier is formed between the first porous semiconductor and the second conductor, without applying an external voltage, as a result of the diffusion of charge carriers, which is preferably more than 0.5 V, more preferably more than 0.7 V, more preferably more than 1 V, and more preferably still more than 1.4 V, wherein a dielectric layer having a thickness of 1 nm to 10 nm is preferably arranged between the first porous semiconductor and the second electric conductor.
US11935961B2
A semiconductor device capable of measuring a minute current is provided. The semiconductor device includes an operational amplifier and a diode element. An inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and an input terminal of the diode element are electrically connected to a first terminal to which current is input, and an output terminal of the operational amplifier and an output terminal of the diode element are electrically connected to a second terminal from which voltage is output. A diode-connected transistor that includes a metal oxide in a channel formation region is used as the diode element. Since the off-state current of the transistor is extremely low, a minute current can flow between the first terminal and the second terminal. Thus, when voltage is output from the second terminal, a minute current that flows through the first terminal can be estimated from the voltage.
US11935957B2
Semiconductor device structures having gate structures with tunable threshold voltages are provided. Various geometries of device structure can be varied to tune the threshold voltages. In some examples, distances from tops of fins to tops of gate structures can be varied to tune threshold voltages. In some examples, distances from outermost sidewalls of gate structures to respective nearest sidewalls of nearest fins to the respective outermost sidewalls (which respective gate structure overlies the nearest fin) can be varied to tune threshold voltages.
US11935956B2
Embodiments disclosed herein comprise semiconductor devices with two dimensional (2D) semiconductor channels and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a source contact and a drain contact. In an embodiment, a 2D semiconductor channel is between the source contact and the drain contact. In an embodiment, the 2D semiconductor channel is a shell.
US11935948B2
An HEMT 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 is different from the composition of the second III-V compound layer. A third III-V compound layer is disposed on the second III-V compound layer. The first III-V compound layer and the third III-V compound layer are composed of the same group III-V elements. The third III-V compound layer includes a body and numerous finger parts. Each of the finger parts is connected to the body. All finger parts are parallel to each other and do not contact each other. A source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode are disposed on the first III-V compound layer.
US11935946B2
Structures for a silicon-controlled rectifier and methods of forming a structure for a silicon-controlled rectifier. The structure comprises a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer on the semiconductor substrate, and a first well and a second well in the semiconductor substrate beneath the dielectric layer. The first well has a first conductivity type, the second well has a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, and the second well adjoins the first well along a p-n junction. The structure further comprises a first terminal and a second terminal above the dielectric layer, a first connection extending through the dielectric layer from the first terminal to the first well, and a second connection extending through the dielectric layer from the second terminal to the second well.
US11935944B2
The on-state characteristics of a transistor are improved and thus, a semiconductor device capable of high-speed response and high-speed operation is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device showing stable electric characteristics is made. The semiconductor device includes a transistor including a first oxide layer; an oxide semiconductor layer over the first oxide layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer; a second oxide layer over the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer over the second oxide layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer. An end portion of the second oxide layer and an end portion of the gate insulating layer overlap with the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer.
US11935940B2
A method for making a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) may include forming a first superlattice on a substrate defining a collector region therein. The first superlattice may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The method may further include forming a base on the first superlattice, and forming a second superlattice on the base comprising a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion, and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The method may also include forming an emitter on the second superlattice.
US11935938B2
Devices, such as transistors, that use bismuth to create ohmic contacts are provided, as are methods of manufacturing the same. The transistors, such as field-effect transistors, can include one or more two-dimensional materials, and electrical contact areas can be created on the two-dimensional material(s) using bismuth. The bismuth can help to provide energy-barrier free, ohmic contacts, and the resulting devices can have performance levels that rival or exceed state-of-the-art devices that utilize three-dimensional materials, like silicon. The two-dimensional materials can include transition metal dichalcogenides, such as molybdenum disulfide.
US11935936B2
[Object] It is an object of the present invention to provide an aluminum alloy film having excellent bending resistance and heat resistance, and a thin film transistor including the aluminum alloy film. [Solving Means] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, an aluminum alloy film according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: an Al pure metal that includes at least one type of a first additive element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Sc, Mo, Y, Nb, and Ti. A content of the first additive element is 0.01 atomic % or more and 1.0 atomic % or less. Such an aluminum alloy film has excellent bending resistance and excellent heat resistance. Further, also etching can be performed on the aluminum alloy film.
US11935929B2
A stacked device is provided. The stacked device includes a reduced height active device layer, and a plurality of lower source/drain regions in the reduced height active device layer. The stacked device further includes a lower interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the plurality of lower source/drain regions, and a conductive trench spacer in the lower interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, wherein the conductive trench spacer is adjacent to one of the plurality of lower source/drain regions. The stacked device further includes a top active device layer adjacent to the lower interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer, and an upper source/drain section in the top active device layer. The stacked device further includes a shared contact in electrical connection with the upper source/drain section, the conductive trench spacer, and the one of the plurality of lower source/drain regions.
US11935927B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a bipolar transistor with a collector contact and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a lateral bipolar transistor which includes an emitter, a base and a collector; an emitter contact to the emitter; a base contact to the base; and a collector contact to the collector and extending to an underlying substrate underneath the collector.
US11935920B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a first source/drain region; a second source/drain region; an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer over the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region; a first source/drain contact extending through the ILD layer, the first source/drain contact connected to the first source/drain region; a second source/drain contact extending through the ILD layer, the second source/drain contact connected to the second source/drain region; and an isolation feature between the first source/drain contact and the second source/drain contact, the isolation feature including a dielectric liner and a void, the dielectric liner surrounding the void.
US11935917B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate is provided, the substrate at least comprising a conducting layer; a bottom supporting layer and a stacking structure being formed on a top surface of the substrate, the stacking structure including a sacrificial layer and a supporting portion that are sequentially stacked and formed; the stacking structure and the bottom supporting layer are partially etched to expose the conducting layer to form a through hole; the supporting portion of a partial width exposed from a sidewall of the through hole is laterally etched to form an air gap; a protective layer filling the air gap is formed; a lower electrode electrically connected with the conducting layer is formed on the sidewall of the through hole and a sidewall of the protective layer; the sacrificial layer is removed.
US11935912B2
A display apparatus including a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate; a first LED sub-unit, a second LED sub-unit, and a third LED sub-unit; first, second, third, and fourth electrode pads disposed between the TFT substrate and the first LED sub-unit; and connectors connecting the first, second, and third LED sub-units to a respective one of the electrode pads, in which the first, second, and third sub-units are configured to be independently driven; light generated from the first LED sub-unit is emitted to the outside of the display apparatus by passing through the second and third LED sub-units; light generated from the second LED sub-unit is emitted to the outside of the display apparatus by passing through the third LED sub-unit; and at least one of the connectors includes a first portion electrically connecting a first surface of the first LED sub-unit to the second electrode pad.
US11935906B2
An image sensor for securing an area of a photodiode includes a pixel area and a transistor area adjacent to the pixel area. The pixel area may include a photodiode and a floating diffusion area. The transistor area may include transistors extending along an edge of the pixel area. The transistors in the transistor area may include a reset transistor, one or more source follower transistors, and one or more selection transistors, and the reset transistor and one source follower transistor adjacent to the reset transistor may share a common drain area. The source follower transistors and the selection transistors may each share a common source area or a common drain area between two adjacent transistors thereof.
US11935902B2
The display substrate includes: a display area and a bezel area, the display area including a first display area and a second display area; first light emitting devices in the first display area and second light emitting devices in the second display area; first pixel drive circuits in the bezel area and second pixel drive circuits in the second display area, the first pixel drive circuits are connected to the first light emitting devices, and the second pixel drive circuits are connected to the second light emitting devices; and data lines in the second display area, each data line being connected to the first pixel drive circuits and the second pixel drive circuits which are respectively electrically connected to a column of first light emitting devices and a column of second light emitting devices, which are in the same column.
US11935897B2
A display device capable of performing proper display without image signal conversion is provided. In the case of high-resolution display, individual data is supplied to each pixel through a first signal line and a first transistor included in each pixel. In the case of low-resolution display, the same data is supplied to a plurality of pixels through a second signal line and a second transistor electrically connected to the plurality of pixels. When the number of image signals to be displayed is more than one and the image signals support different resolutions, display can be performed without up conversion or down conversion by switching an image signal supply path as described above.
US11935890B2
In a method for forming an integrated semiconductor device, a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over a semiconductor device that includes a first transistor structure, a two-dimensional (2D) material layer is formed over and in contact with the first ILD layer, the 2D material layer is patterned to form a channel layer of a second transistor structure, a source electrode and a drain electrode of the second transistor structure are formed over the patterned 2D material layer and laterally spaced apart from each other, a gate dielectric layer of the second transistor structure is formed over the patterned 2D material layer, the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a gate electrode of the second transistor structure is formed over the gate dielectric layer and laterally between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US11935887B2
Integrated circuit structures having source or drain structures with vertical trenches are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin having a lower fin portion and an upper fin portion. A gate stack is over the upper fin portion of the fin, the gate stack having a first side opposite a second side. A first source or drain structure includes an epitaxial structure embedded in the fin at the first side of the gate stack. A second source or drain structure includes an epitaxial structure embedded in the fin at the second side of the gate stack. The epitaxial structures of the first and second source or drain structures have a vertical trench centered therein. The first and second source or drain structures include silicon and a Group V dopant impurity.
US11935885B2
A device includes standard cells in a layout of an integrated circuit. The standard cells include a first standard cell and a second standard cell disposed next to each other. The first standard cell is configured to operate as an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and includes a first gate and a second gate. The first gate includes a first gate finger and a second gate finger that are arranged over a first active region, for forming a first transistor and a second transistor, respectively. The second gate is separate from the first gate. The second gate includes a third gate finger and a fourth gate finger that are arranged over a second active region, for forming a third transistor and a fourth transistor, respectively. The first transistor and the second transistor are connected in parallel, and the third transistor and the fourth transistor are connected in parallel.
US11935884B2
Overvoltage protection circuits are provided. In some embodiments, an overvoltage protection circuit includes a first diode made of a first semiconductor material having a bandgap width greater than that of silicon. A second diode is included and is electrically cross-coupled with the first diode. The second diode is made of a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material.
US11935866B2
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of conductive pillars between the first and second substrates. The plurality of conductive pillars includes a first conductive pillar having a first width, wherein the first width is substantially uniform along an entire first height of the first conductive pillar, a second conductive pillar having a second width, wherein the second width is substantially uniform along an entire second height of the second conductive pillar, the first width is different from the second width, and the entire first height is equal to the entire second height, and a third conductive pillar having a third width, wherein the third width is substantially uniform along an entire third height of the third conductive pillar, and the third conductive pillar is between the first conductive pillar and the second conductive pillar in the first direction.
US11935858B2
Semiconductor devices including seed structure and method of manufacturing the semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device may include a seed structure on a complex structure. The seed structure may include a first barrier layer, a first seed layer on the first barrier layer, a second barrier layer on the first seed layer, and a second seed layer on the second barrier layer. The second barrier layer may contact a side surface of at least one of the first barrier layer and the first seed layer. An electrode layer may be disposed on the seed structure.
US11935845B2
Disclosed are a semiconductor device, a preparation method therefor and electrical equipment thereof. The semiconductor device includes: a silicon substrate on which an emitter, a gate, and a collector are formed; a bootstrap electrode formed on the silicon substrate; and an insulating layer, formed on the silicon substrate and disposed between the emitter and the bootstrap electrode. A bootstrap capacitor is formed between the emitter and the bootstrap electrode.
US11935839B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer with opposing first and second main surfaces and a first column extending from the first main surface and having a first concentration of a dopant of the first conductivity type. A trench with a sidewall and bottom extends at least partially through the semiconductor layer from the first main surface. A second column between the trench sidewall and the first column has a second concentration of a dopant of a second conductivity type and is formed in the semiconductor layer and extends from the first main surface. A trench oxide layer is in contact with at least the trench sidewall and the trench bottom. A trench nitride layer covers the trench oxide layer at least on the trench sidewall. A dielectric seal material seals the trench proximate the first main surface of the semiconductor layer such that the trench is air-tight.
US11935820B2
An object is to suppress a lift of an external terminal when an external force is applied, thereby improving the reliability of a semiconductor device. A heat radiating plate 10 having on one main surface a circuit area 54 in which a semiconductor element 50 is arranged, a pair of terminals 31 and 32 connected to the semiconductor element 50, a resin housing 20 that covers the circuit area 54 of the heat radiating plate 10 to seal the semiconductor element 50, and has a terminal surface 22 formed on an upper surface, a pair of side surfaces in the longitudinal direction, and a pair of front and rear surfaces in the lateral direction, are included. The resin housing 20 has a pair of bending contact portions 22e and 23e that come into respectively contact with the pair of terminals 31 and 32 to define bending positions of the terminals 31 and 32. The pair of bending contact portions 22e and 23e are formed to have different heights. The pair of terminals 31 and 32 protrude from the resin housing 20 at positions sandwiching the nut accommodating opening 21, and are bent so as to overlap each other on the nut accommodating opening 21.
US11935818B2
A method of producing electronic components including at least one circuit having coupled therewith electrical connections including metallic wire bondable surfaces encased in a packaging, the method including bonding stud bumps, in particular copper stud bumps, at determined areas of said wire bondable surfaces.
US11935814B2
A motor drive device includes: a first inverter including a plurality of first switching elements and connected to a plurality of coils; a second inverter including a plurality of second switching elements and connected to the plurality of coils; a plurality of transfer switching elements connected to the second ends; a capacitor disposed at one side of a casing of a motor; first and second cooling channels disposed at both sides of the capacitor; a plurality of first power modules including some of the plurality of first switching elements and some of the transfer switching elements; and a plurality of second power modules including some of the plurality of second switching elements.
US11935810B2
A microelectronic device and method of making the same including a substrate and at least one expansion layer that adds stress to the substrate when said substrate expands.
US11935803B2
A resin composition that has excellent flux activity, flexibility and storage stability and that is suitable for a pre-applied underfill material is provided. The resin composition contains a compound (A) having a phenolic hydroxy group, a metal ion trapping agent (B) and a radical polymerizable compound (C).
US11935802B2
A package and a method of forming the same are provided. The package includes: a die stack bonded to a carrier, the die stack including a first integrated circuit die, the first integrated circuit die being a farthest integrated circuit die of the die stack from the carrier, a front side of the first integrated circuit die facing the carrier; a die structure bonded to the die stack, the die structure including a second integrated circuit die, a backside of the first integrated circuit die being in physical contact with a backside of the second integrated circuit die, the backside of the first integrated circuit die being opposite the front side of the first integrated circuit die; a heat dissipation structure bonded to the die structure adjacent the die stack; and an encapsulant extending along sidewalls of the die stack and sidewalls of the heat dissipation structure.
US11935795B2
Disclosed is a method for forming a crystalline protective polysilicon layer which does not create defective voids during subsequent processes so as to provide effective protection to devices underneath. In one embodiment, a method for forming a semiconductor device, includes: depositing a protective coating on a first polysilicon layer; forming an epitaxial layer on the protective coating; and depositing a second polysilicon layer over the epitaxial layer, wherein the protective coating comprises a third polysilicon layer, wherein the third polysilicon layer is deposited at a first temperature in a range of 600-700 degree Celsius, and wherein the third polysilicon layer in the protect coating is configured to protect the first polysilicon layer when the second polysilicon layer is etched.
US11935792B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in a substrate, forming a gate dielectric layer on a surface of the trench, forming a lower gate, which partially fills the trench, over the gate dielectric layer, forming a low work function layer over the lower gate, forming a spacer over the low work function layer, etching the low work function layer to be self-aligned with the spacer in order to form vertical gate on both upper edges of the lower gate, and forming an upper gate over the lower gate between inner sidewalls of the vertical gate.
US11935782B2
A method of forming a structure comprises forming a pattern of elongate features extending vertically from a base structure. Conductive material is formed on the elongate features. After completing the forming of the pattern of elongate features, the elongate features, the conductive material, or both is (are) exposed to at least one surface treatment gas. The at least one surface treatment gas comprises at least one species formulated to diminish attractive or cohesive forces at a surface of the conductive material. Apparatus and additional methods are also described.
US11935781B2
An integrated circuit (IC) structure includes a gate structure, a source epitaxial structure, a drain epitaxial structure, a front-side interconnection structure, a backside dielectric layer, and a backside via. The source epitaxial structure and the drain epitaxial structure are respectively on opposite sides of the gate structure. The front-side interconnection structure is on a front-side of the source epitaxial structure and a front-side of the drain epitaxial structure. The backside dielectric layer is on a backside of the source epitaxial structure and a backside of the drain epitaxial structure and has an air gap therein. The backside via extends through the backside dielectric layer to a first one of the source epitaxial structure and the drain epitaxial structure.
US11935776B2
A method for electrostatically clamping an edge ring in a plasma processing chamber with an electrostatic ring clamp with at least one ring backside temperature channel for providing a flow of gas to the edge ring is provided. A vacuum is provided to the at least one ring backside temperature channel Pressure in the backside temperature channel is measured. An electrostatic ring clamping voltage is provided when the pressure in the backside temperature channel reaches a threshold maximum pressure. The vacuum to the backside temperature channel is discontinued. Pressure in the backside temperature channel is measured. If pressure in the backside temperature channel rises faster than a threshold rate, then sealing failure is indicated. If pressure in the backside temperature channel does not rise faster than the threshold rate, a plasma process is continued, using the backside temperature channel to regulate a temperature of the edge ring.
US11935772B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate may include a wet chamber, a dry chamber, a first transfer robot and a shared shutter. The wet chamber may be configured to process the substrate using a chemical. The dry chamber may be adjacent the wet chamber and configured to dry the substrate processed by the wet chamber. The first transfer robot may be configured to transfer the substrate between the wet chamber and the dry chamber. The shared shutter may be between the wet chamber and the dry chamber. A connection opening through which the substrate may be transferred may be formed between the wet chamber and the dry chamber. The shared shutter may be configured to open and close the connection opening.
US11935769B2
The present disclosure provides a chemical supply system, including a chamber, a tubing extending into the chamber, an interlock apparatus, including a fixture for fastening the tubing, and means for determining whether the tubing is fastened by the fixture.
US11935767B2
A temperature control device includes: a top plate that supports a substrate; a base plate connected to the top plate so as to form an internal space with the top plate; a thermoelectric module plate arranged in the internal space; a heat exchange plate that is arranged in the internal space and exchanges heat with the thermoelectric module plate; a first coupling member that couples the top plate and the base plate via the thermoelectric module plate and the heat exchange plate and is fixed to each of the top plate and the base plate; and a second coupling member that couples the top plate and the base plate via the thermoelectric module plate and the heat exchange plate, is fixed to the top plate, and is movable relative to the base plate.
US11935761B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes attaching a first local interconnect component to a first substrate with a first adhesive, forming a first redistribution structure over a first side of the first local interconnect component, and removing the first local interconnect component and the first redistribution structure from the first substrate and attaching the first redistribution structure to a second substrate. The method further includes removing the first adhesive from the first local interconnect component and forming an interconnect structure over a second side of the first local interconnect component and the first encapsulant, the second side being opposite the first side. A first conductive feature of the interconnect structure is physically and electrically coupled to a second conductive feature of the first local interconnect component.
US11935759B2
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) methods and barrier films are disclosed. A method of performing ALD includes placing a substrate proximal an electrode coupled to a power supply, exposing the substrate to an oxygen-containing gas or a nitrogen-containing gas at or below 0.8 Torr, and applying, with the power supply, a voltage to the electrode of at least 700 Volts to induce a plasma state in the oxygen-containing gas or the nitrogen-containing gas proximal the substrate. High quality barrier films can be made with the methods.
US11935758B2
A method for atomic layer etching a metal containing layer is provided. At least a region of a surface of the metal containing layer is modified to form a modified metal containing region by exposing a surface of the metal containing layer to a modification gas, wherein adjacent to the modified metal containing region remains an unmodified metal containing region. The modified metal containing region is selectively removed with respect to the unmodified metal containing region by exposing the surface of the metal containing layer to an inert bombardment plasma generated from an inert gas.
US11935746B2
As deposited, hard mask thin films have internal stress components which are an artifact of the material, thickness, deposition process of the mask layer as well as of the underlying materials and topography. This internal stress can cause distortion and twisting of the mask layer when it is patterned, especially when sub-micron critical dimensions are being patterned. A stress-compensating process is employed to reduce the impact of this internal stress. Heat treatment can be employed to relax the stress, as an example. In another example, a second mask layer with an opposite internal stress component is employed to offset the internal stress component in the hard mask layer.
US11935740B2
A semiconductor device including a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer is formed by forming an inhibitor layer over a semiconductor material. The inhibitor layer includes at least silicon and nitrogen. The semiconductor material is heated in an oxygen-containing ambient which oxidizes the inhibitor layer and forms the first dielectric layer which includes the oxidized inhibitor layer, and oxidizes the semiconductor material to form the second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is thicker than, the first dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer each include at least 90 weight percent silicon dioxide and less than 1 weight percent nitrogen. The first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer may be used to form gate dielectric layers for a first MOS transistor and a second MOS transistor that operates at a higher voltage than the first MOS transistor.
US11935727B2
There is provided a focus ring that is capable of preventing deposits from adhering to a member having a lower temperature in a gap between two members having different temperatures. A focus ring 25 is disposed to surround a peripheral portion of a wafer W in a chamber 11 of a substrate processing apparatus 10. The focus ring 25 includes an inner focus ring 25a and an outer focus ring 25b. Here, the inner focus ring 25a is placed adjacent to the wafer W and configured to be cooled; and the outer focus ring 25b is placed so as to surround the inner focus ring 25a and configured not to be cooled. Further, a block member 25c is provided in a gap between the inner focus ring 25a and the outer focus ring 25b.
US11935721B2
A system includes a multi-beam particle microscope for imaging a 3D sample layer by layer, and a computer system with a multi-tier architecture is disclosed. The multi-tier architecture can allow for an optimized image processing by gradually reducing the amount of parallel processing speed when data exchange between different processing systems and/or of data originating from different detection channels takes place. A method images a 3D sample layer by layer. A computer program product includes a program code for carrying out the method.
US11935717B2
An arrangement for electrically connecting a circuit breaker to a laminated busbar in a switch gear cabinet in which the circuit breaker has at least one terminal to be contacted by a connecting bar and in which the laminated busbar includes at least one conducting layer for conducting electric current which is covered by adjoining insulating layers attached thereto, the arrangement including: a first cylindrical connecting element and a second cylindrical connecting element which are arranged at a distance to each other at the conducting layer and project away from the conducting layer; an electrically conducting distribution bar which is mounted to free end portions of the first and second cylindrical connecting elements; and a terminal member which is mounted to the distribution bar at a center between the first and second cylindrical connecting elements. The terminal member is to be contacted by the connecting bar.
US11935712B2
A control system is designed to control an interrupter. The interrupter is started by a startup current to interrupt a main electric circuit. The startup current flows through an auxiliary electric circuit and has a current valve equal to or greater than a predetermined value. The control system includes a driving unit and a driven unit. The driving unit includes an intermediate electrical path to be connected to the main electric circuit. The driven unit is to be connected to the auxiliary electric circuit. When an abnormal current having a current value equal to or greater than a prescribed value flows through the intermediate electrical path, the driving unit uses, as a drive source for driving the driven unit, the abnormal current flowing through the intermediate electrical path. The driven unit supplies the auxiliary electric circuit with the startup current by being driven by the driving unit.
US11935711B2
A seesaw switch includes a rocker configured to rock by a press operation; a first fulcrum located at least at one end portion in a longitudinal direction of the rocker; a second fulcrum located between the one end portion and another end portion opposite to the one end portion in the longitudinal direction of the rocker; and a main switch disposed on the another end portion opposite to the one end portion at which the first fulcrum is located in the rocker and configured to have contact with the rocker due to rock of the rocker by the press operation, wherein a fulcrum of the rocker is switched between the first fulcrum and the second fulcrum in accordance with an amount of the press operation to the another end portion opposite to the one end portion at which the first fulcrum is located in the longitudinal direction of the rocker.
US11935710B2
A rotary operating device includes a case, a rotating shaft member, an operation member, and a sensor. The case has a cavity having an annular shape with an opening at a top. The rotating shaft member is rotatable with respect to the case. The operation member rotates together with the rotating shaft member. The sensor is disposed within the cavity to detect rotation of the rotating shaft member. The case has an inner peripheral wall. The operation member has an inner cylindrical portion. The rotating shaft member has a peripheral wall that extends downward and along an outer peripheral surface of the inner peripheral wall. A first gap between the inner peripheral wall of the case and the peripheral wall of the rotating shaft member is smaller than a second gap between an inner peripheral surface of the rotating shaft member and the inner cylindrical portion of the operation member.
US11935708B2
The present invention if related to an improved electrolytic capacitor and a method of making the improved electrolytic capacitor. The electrolytic capacitor comprises an anode comprising a dielectric layer on the anode. A first mordant layer is on the dielectric wherein the first mordant layer comprises a mordant compound of Formula A: wherein: R1 and R2 is independently selected from H; cation, linear alkyl, cyclic alkyl or substituted alkyl of 1 to 10 carbons; R3 is selected from —CR4R5R6 wherein R4 represents a hydrogen, an alkyl of 1-20 carbons or an aryl of 6-20 carbons; R4 and R5 can be taken together to represent a cyclic alkyl or substituted cyclic alkyl or (—CR6OP(O)OR1OR2)n; R5 represents an alkyl of 1-20 carbons or an aryl of 6-20 carbons; R4 and R5 can be taken together to represent a cyclic alkyl or substituted cyclic alkyl or (—CR6OP(O)OR1OR2)n; R6 represents a hydrogen, an alkyl of 1-20 carbons or an aryl of 6-20 carbons; and n is an integer from 1 to 20; and a crosslinker. A primary conductive polymer layer is on the first mordant layer.
US11935705B2
The present invention is related to a polymer dispersion comprising first conductive polymer particles having a positive Z-potential and second conductive polymer particles having a negative Z-potential, a method of forming the polymer dispersion, a method of making a capacitor comprising the polymer dispersion and a capacitor comprising the polymer dispersion.
US11935701B2
A capacitor component includes a body including dielectric layers, first and second internal electrodes, laminated in a first direction, facing each other, and first and second cover portions, disposed on outermost portions of the first and second internal electrodes, and first and second external electrodes, respectively disposed on both external surfaces of the body in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, and respectively connected to the first and second internal electrodes. An indentation including a glass is disposed at at least one of boundaries between the first internal electrodes and the first external electrode or one of boundaries between the second internal electrodes and the second external electrode.
US11935691B2
A transformer assembly for electric grids including: an electric transformer including a magnetic core, a first side including one or more first windings enchained with said magnetic core and adapted to be electrically connected to a first grid section and a second side including one or more second windings enchained with said magnetic core and adapted to be electrically connected to a second grid section; a tap changer operatively associated with said electric transformer to vary the number of turns enchained with said magnetic core for said first windings; a control unit to: acquire input data indicative of an electrical connectivity condition of said second grid section with said second windings; determine whether said transformer is in a load condition or in a no-load condition; and, in a no-load condition, command said tap changer to set a maximum available number of turns for said first windings.
US11935689B2
A method for manufacturing a coil component having a coil part with a flat-shaped connection end parts, includes step of physically and electrically connecting ends of the coil part and terminal electrodes, respectively, by thermocompression bonding wherein the ends of the coil part are heated and compressed, thereby deforming the ends of the coil part into the flat-shaped connection end parts and bonding the flat-shaped connection end parts to the terminal electrodes, respectively.
US11935685B2
In an inductor component, a first magnetic layer thickness of the first magnetic layer as a measurement in the normal direction is smaller than a second magnetic layer thickness of the second magnetic layer as a measurement in the normal direction. An inductor wiring thickness of the inductor wiring as a measurement in the normal direction is from larger than 0.5 times a vertical wiring thickness of the vertical wiring as a measurement in the normal direction to smaller than 1.5 times the vertical wiring thickness.
US11935684B2
A coil, such as, by way of example, an inductance communication coil, that includes a conductor including a first portion extending in a first level and a second portion extending in a second level, wherein the conductor includes a third portion located on a different level than that of the second portion, wherein an electrical path of the conductor is such that the second portion is located between the first portion and the third portion.
US11935682B2
A coil component includes a body including magnetic metal powder and an insulating resin, an insulating substrate embedded in the body, a coil portion disposed on at least one side of the insulating substrate the body, and having a lead-out pattern exposed from one of end surfaces of the body opposing each other, an external insulating layer exposing the lead-out pattern while surrounding the body, and including a magnetic ceramic, and an external electrode disposed on the body, and connected to the lead-out pattern.
US11935678B2
An inductive device may be provided, including a first winding layer, a second winding layer arranged over the first winding layer and connected to the first winding layer to form a plurality of turns around a first axis, and a magnetic core arranged vertically between the first winding layer and the second winding layer. The magnetic core may include a portion entirely over the first winding layer and entirely under the second winding layer, where this portion may include a magnetic segment and a non-magnetic segment arranged laterally adjacent to each other along the first axis.
US11935669B2
A method for dispersing conductive particles includes: forming an electric field between a first electrode and a second electrode of an electrostatic adsorption device including the first electrode including a disposition part having electrostatic diffusivity or conductivity on which particles are disposed and the second electrode including an adsorption part having electrostatic diffusivity or conductivity and facing the disposition part, to cause a blend particle in which the conductive particles each having a particle size smaller than a particle size of an intermediate particle are attached to the intermediate particle and which is disposed on the disposition part, to reciprocate between the disposition part and the adsorption part, and to cause the conductive particles to be adsorbed onto the adsorption part.
US11935664B2
A dynamic characteristic analysis method of DET and RELAP5 coupling based on a universal instrumental variable method includes steps of: constructing a DET simulation model of a discrete dynamic event tree and modifying TRIP cards of an input file by adding universal instrumental TRIP variables according to state transition types of DET simulation objects, the universal instrumental TRIP variable being variable type or logical type; setting a simulation time of the RELAP5, controlling a simulation step, and analyzing an output result file of each simulation step of the RELAP5; backtracking the RELAP5 according to state transition types of DET simulation objects. The dynamic characteristic analysis method has advantages of simplifying TRIP setting process and method of DET state transition objects in an input file of the RELAP5 required for the coupling of DET and RELAP5, reducing a modeling complexity and improving a modeling efficiency.
US11935659B2
Methods and systems are described for a computer-implemented complex adaptive systems metrology (CASM) technique for generating universally and mathematically standardized scores that quantify longitudinal evidence for either temporal-interaction scores or temporal-interaction benefit-and-harm scores to determine a quantitative significance estimate of scores for either standardized temporal-interaction scores or the standardized temporal-interaction benefit-and-harm scores.
US11935653B2
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.
US11935650B2
A method for improved cardiac monitoring is disclosed. The method includes receiving image data from an image sensor configured for monitoring edema in a patient. Additional data is received from one or more additional sensors configured to monitor one or more factors related to cardiac activity of the patient. The received image data is fused with the received additional data from the one or more additional sensors to generate fused data set. A cardiac condition for the patient is determined based on the fused data set. A cardiac monitoring computing device and non-transitory medium are also disclosed.
US11935643B2
A computer-implemented system is provided that includes a plurality of endpoint databases employed to store medical images and metadata that describes attributes of the respective medical images. A management and orchestration platform periodically scans the endpoint databases to determine an index of the recently acquired medical images and associated metadata and updates to metadata associated with previously stored medical images. A search engine executes the search function to retrieve at least one of the recently acquired medical images and associated metadata and the recent updates to metadata associated with the previously stored medical images. The platform can also provide project management services and various collaborative, social networking type services. For example, the platform can facilitate collaborative review of medical image data, allowing users to rate and review the medical image data, annotate the medical image data, edit and augment the medical image data, and the like.
US11935638B2
Devices, systems and methods are provided to securely and wirelessly connect a medical device to a controller or smartphone with medical device control app, and to wirelessly connect the controller or smartphone with medical device control app to other devices providing additional integrated disease management (IDM) functions. At least two different wireless communication protocols are used depending on level of security needed, with greater security needed for exchange of medical device control operation commands and related data between the medical device and its controller or smartphone with medical device control app to avoid nefarious or unintended changes in medical device control. Exchanges of historical data or notifications relating to the medical device and requiring less security can be transmitted to the controller and/or the smartphone or other IDM devices using a different and more commonly used wireless communication protocol that may afford less security.
US11935633B1
The present invention relates to a system method of provisioning mobile device security settings to provide authorized users with secure access. The system and method uses a generated, computer-readable authentication code that is read by a mobile device. The authentication code enables an unprovisional mobile device to request security credentials to enable a user of the mobile device to connect to a secured system.
US11935623B2
An apparatus for controlling access to a memory device comprising rows of memory units is provided. The apparatus comprises: an operation monitor configured to track memory operations to the rows of memory units of the memory device; a row hammer counter configured to determining, for each of the rows of memory units, row hammer effects experienced by the row of memory units due to the memory operations to the other rows of memory units of the memory device; a mitigation module configured to initiate, for each of the rows of memory units, row hammer mitigation in case that accumulated row hammer effects experienced by the row of memory units reach a predetermined threshold; and a virtual host module configured to perform the row hammer mitigation targeting a row of memory units in response to the initiation of row hammer mitigation for the row of memory units by the mitigation module.
US11935622B2
A data path architecture and corresponding method of operation are disclosed that permit a first-in-first out (FIFO) buffer to immediately flush data—including potentially invalid initial byte(s)—upon receipt of a high-speed clock signal, and according to which, a delay difference between a data path clock signal and a high-speed clock signal is compensated for at a controller side by, for example, adjusting RE latency to discard/ignore the initially invalid bytes rather than by modifying FIFO depth or varying a number of delay stages in the high-speed clock signal path in order to satisfy the FIFO depth. Because FIFO depth is not used to absorb the clock signal delay difference, there is no need to modify the architecture (e.g., change the depth of a FIFO) to accommodate variation in the clock signal delay difference across different products/product generations, thereby providing high scalability.
US11935610B2
A memory device includes: a memory cell array comprising a plurality of memory cells, the plurality of memory cells comprising a plurality of data memory cells including a first data memory cell and a plurality of backup memory cells including a first backup memory cell; a storage storing an error table configured to record errors in the plurality of data memory cells, the error table including a plurality of error table entries, each error table entry corresponding to one of the plurality of data memory cell and having an address and a failure count; and a controller configured to replace the first data memory cell with the first backup memory cell based on the error table.
US11935608B2
A signal generation circuit includes: a clock module, configured to generate a clock signal based on a flag signal; a control module, configured to generate a control signal according to number of transitions of the clock signal within a fixed time; and a generation module, respectively connected to the clock module and the control module, and configured to receive the clock signal, the control signal, and the flag signal, and to generate a target signal. When the flag signal changes from a first level to a second level, the target signal changes from a third level to a fourth level. After being maintained at the fourth level for a target duration, the target signal changes from the fourth level to the third level. The generation module is further configured to determine the target duration according to the clock signal and the control signal.
US11935607B2
An integrated circuit die includes memory sectors, each memory sector including a memory array. The die includes a voltage regulator with a first transistor driven by an output voltage to thereby generate a gate voltage, the output voltage being generated based upon a difference between a constant current and a leakage current. A selection circuit selectively couples the gate voltage to a selected one of the plurality of memory sectors. A leakage detector circuit drives a second transistor with the output voltage to thereby generate a copy voltage based upon a difference between a variable current and a replica of the constant current, increases the variable current in response to the copy voltage being greater than the gate voltage, and asserts a leakage detection signal in response to the copy voltage being less than the gate voltage, the leakage detection signal indicating excess leakage within the memory array.
US11935600B2
Devices and techniques for programmable atomic operator resource locking are described herein. A request for a programmable atomic operator (PAO) can be received at a memory controller that includes a programmable atomic unit (PAU). Here, the request includes an identifier for the PAO and a memory address. The memory addressed is processed to identify a lock value. A verification can be performed to determine that the lock value indicates that there is no lock corresponding to the memory address. Then, the lock value is set to indicate that there is now a lock corresponding to the memory address and the PAO is invoked based on the identifier for the PAO. In response to completion of the PAO, the lock value is set to indicate that there is no longer a lock corresponding to the memory address.
US11935591B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first wiring line, a second wiring line, a memory cell connected between the first and second wiring lines, including a resistance change memory element having first and second resistance states, and a two-terminal switching element connected in series to the resistance change memory element, and a voltage application circuit which applies a write voltage signal having a first polarity and setting a desired resistance state to the resistance change memory element, to the memory cell, and applies, after the write voltage signal is applied to the memory cell, a second polarity voltage signal having a magnitude that prevents the two-terminal switching element from being set to the on-state, to the memory cell.
US11935583B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a memory array over a base. First sense-amplifier-circuitry is associated with the base and includes sense amplifiers directly under the memory array. Vertically-extending digit lines are associated with the memory array and are coupled with the first sense-amplifier-circuitry. Second sense-amplifier-circuitry is associated with the base and is offset from the first sense-amplifier-circuitry. Control circuitry is configured to selectively couple the digit lines to either a voltage supply terminal or to the second sense-amplifier-circuitry.
US11935582B2
Embodiments provide a method for sense margin detection for a sense amplifier and an electronic device. The method includes: writing first data and second data respectively to a first memory cell and a second memory cell connected to a first bit line, the first memory cell and the second memory cell being respectively connected to a first word line and a second word line adjacent to each other, and the first bit line being connected to a first sense amplifier; performing a reverse write operation on the first memory cell and the second memory cell; performing write operations on memory cells connected to the second bit line; and reading the second memory cell, and determining the preset row precharge time to be a margin value of row precharge time of the first sense amplifier when the first data is not correctly read.
US11935579B2
A protection circuit can be applied in a chip, and include: a first protection unit and a first element to be protected, wherein the first protection unit is configured to receive a first input signal and a control signal, and is configured to output a first output signal, the first element to be protected includes a first P-type transistor, and a gate of the P-type transistor is configured to receive the first output signal. When the chip enters a burn-in test, the first output signal is a high-level signal.
US11935559B2
This magnetic disk device is a 3.5-inch magnetic disk device equipped with magnetic disks formed from an aluminum alloy substrate. The magnetic disks arranged in a stacked manner have a thickness Td of 0.3 mm to 0.6 mm, the number N of magnetic disks involved is 10 to 16, and spacers disposed between the magnetic disks have an outside diameter 2 Rso of 35 mm to 65 mm. The outside diameter 2 Rso (mm) of the spacers satisfies 2 Rso≥−60 Td+70 and 2 Rso≤−0.5 N2−+16.5 N−73.
US11935558B2
A method, according to one embodiment, includes cycling a shorter length of a tape, that is less than an entire length of the tape, a plurality of times to acclimate the shorter length of the tape. An acclimation change amount of the shorter length of the tape is determined. The acclimation change amount is based on a baseline servo band difference (SBD) measured before the cycling and a post cycling SBD measured after the cycling. The method further includes adjusting SBD values from a beginning of the tape (BOT) to an end of the tape (EOT) based on the determined acclimation change amount. A system according to another embodiment includes a processor, and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to perform operations of the foregoing method.
US11935557B2
Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for explaining domain-specific terms detected in a media content stream. The techniques include detecting a speech portion included in an audio signal; determining that the speech portion comprises a domain-specific term; determining an explanatory phrase associated with the domain-specific term; and integrating the explanatory phrase associated with the domain-specific term into playback of the audio signal.
US11935555B2
The present document relates to audio source coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), as well as to digital effect processors, e.g. exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion add brightness to the processed signal, and to time stretchers where a signal duration is prolonged with maintained spectral content. A system and method configured to generate a time stretched and/or frequency transposed signal from an input signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filterbank configured to provide an analysis subband signal from the input signal; wherein the analysis subband signal comprises a plurality of complex valued analysis samples, each having a phase and a magnitude. Furthermore, the system comprises a subband processing unit configured to determine a synthesis subband signal from the analysis subband signal using a subband transposition factor Q and a subband stretch factor S. The subband processing unit performs a block based nonlinear processing wherein the magnitude of samples of the synthesis subband signal are determined from the magnitude of corresponding samples of the analysis subband signal and a predetermined sample of the analysis subband signal. In addition, the system comprises a synthesis filterbank configured to generate the time stretched and/or frequency transposed signal from the synthesis subband signal.
US11935552B2
An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to perform (402; 702; 1204) source separation (201) based on a received audio input to obtain a separated source, to perform onset detection (202) on the separated source to obtain an onset detection signal and to mix (405; 706; 1207) the audio signal with the separated source based on the onset detection signal to obtain an enhanced separated source.
US11935550B1
A system comprising an audio compression device is provided. The audio compression device receives a plurality of pulse code modulated (PCM) samples, performs a quantization of the plurality of the PCM samples, and determines a plurality of time windows for the plurality of quantized PCM samples. The audio compression device further determines a first number of delta bits and a first sample count for a first time window of a plurality of time windows, where the first time window includes a first group of time-domain consecutive samples according to the first sample count. The audio compression device encodes the sample into the first number of delta bits based on a difference from a previous sample to generate a first stream of delta bits, and encodes the first sample count and the first number of delta bits in a corresponding first header for the first time window.
US11935548B2
A multi-channel signal encoding method includes obtaining a multi-channel signal of a current frame; determining an initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame; determining a difference parameter based on the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and multi-channel parameters of previous K frames of the current frame, where the difference parameter represents a difference between the initial multi-channel parameter of the current frame and the multi-channel parameters of the previous K frames, and K is an integer greater than or equal to one; determining a multi-channel parameter of the current frame based on the difference parameter and a characteristic parameter of the current frame; and encoding the multi-channel signal based on the multi-channel parameter of the current frame.
US11935542B2
A hypothesis stitcher for speech recognition of long-form audio provides superior performance, such as higher accuracy and reduced computational cost. An example disclosed operation includes: segmenting the audio stream into a plurality of audio segments; identifying a plurality of speakers within each of the plurality of audio segments; performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) on each of the plurality of audio segments to generate a plurality of short-segment hypotheses; merging at least a portion of the short-segment hypotheses into a first merged hypothesis set; inserting stitching symbols into the first merged hypothesis set, the stitching symbols including a window change (WC) symbol; and consolidating, with a network-based hypothesis stitcher, the first merged hypothesis set into a first consolidated hypothesis. Multiple variations are disclosed, including alignment-based stitchers and serialized stitchers, which may operate as speaker-specific stitchers or multi-speaker stitchers, and may further support multiple options for differing hypothesis configurations.
US11935537B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for selecting a digital assistant from among multiple digital assistants. An embodiment operates by receiving a voice input containing a trigger word at a first voice adapter associated with a digital assistant that generates a first confidence score for the trigger word. The embodiment further receives the voice input at a second voice adapter that generates a second confidence score for the trigger word. The embodiment determines the first confidence score is higher than the second confidence score. The embodiment selects the digital assistant based on the determining.
US11935525B1
Systems and methods for utilizing microphone array information for acoustic modeling are disclosed. Audio data may be received from a device having a microphone array configuration. Microphone configuration data may also be received that indicates the configuration of the microphone array. The microphone configuration data may be utilized as an input vector to an acoustic model, along with the audio data, to generate phoneme data. Additionally, the microphone configuration data may be utilized to train and/or generate acoustic models, select an acoustic model to perform speech recognition with, and/or to improve trigger sound detection.
US11935524B1
Systems and techniques for authentication of impaired voices are described herein. A voice profile may be generated for a user. An audio stream may be received including an authentication voice of the user. It may be determined that the authentication voice does not match a first set of authentication criteria. The audio stream may be compared to a second set of authentication criteria. The user may be authenticated based on the comparison.
US11935523B2
There is provided automatic detection of pronunciation errors in spoken words utilizing a neural network model that is trained for a target phoneme. The target phoneme may be a phoneme in English language. The pronunciation errors may be detected in English words.
US11935521B2
Techniques are described for improving the efficiency of dialog processing by prompting and processing user feedback substantially in real time. A dialog system receives speech input from a user and processes a first portion of the speech input to determine an initial discerned intent. The dialog system causes display of a visual indication of the initial discerned intent. The visual indication of the discerned intent is used to guide the dialog so that the user can correct or confirm the initial discerned intent in a natural fashion. If the initial discerned intent is inaccurate, the user can provide feedback correcting the dialog system, and the dialog system processes a second portion of the speech input to determine a modified discerned intent. Thus, the dialog system can use the feedback to correct misunderstandings on the fly.
US11935510B2
An information processing device includes a first acquisition unit that acquires a sound signal outputted from a mic, an acoustic feature detection unit that detects an acoustic feature based on the sound signal, an identification unit that identifies first discomfort condition information corresponding to a first work type of work performed by a user, among one or more pieces of discomfort condition information specifying discomfort conditions using the acoustic feature and corresponding to one or more work types, based on work type information indicating the first work type, and an output judgment unit that judges whether first masking sound should be outputted or not based on the acoustic feature detected by the acoustic feature detection unit and the first discomfort condition information.
US11935506B2
A device for playing a stringed musical instrument comprises (a) a handle-like member to be gripped by a hand of a user; and ((b) a plectrum holder of a mechanically connectable to the handle-like member. The plectrum holder is configured for releasably clamping a plectrum. The receptacle comprises a resilient receptacle having a cavity for receiving said plectrum therewithin configured for receiving and snugly fitting the plectrum. The holder is resiliently connected to said handle-like member.
US11935503B1
A method includes sensing a plurality of luminance values associated with ambient light from a physical environment. The plurality of luminance values quantifies the ambient light arriving at a see-through display. The method includes obtaining a plurality of semantic values respectively associated with a plurality of portions within image data. The plurality of portions includes a first portion of the image data and a second portion of the image data. The method includes identifying a first one of the plurality of semantic values that satisfies a criterion. The first one of the plurality of semantic values is associated with the first portion of the image data. The method includes mapping, based on a function of a portion of the plurality of luminance values, the image data to predetermined display characteristics of the first portion of the image data within a performance threshold.
US11935501B2
A tiling display apparatus includes a set board configured to generate a control command signal and a plurality of display modules connected to one another through a first interface circuit based on a serial communication scheme, for executing a target operation corresponding to the control command signal, and the first interface circuit is implemented with a bidirectional serial interface having a feedback loop type between adjacent display modules of the plurality of display modules.
US11935500B2
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a method may receive a set of customizable characteristics corresponding to an onscreen display reference point. The onscreen display reference point may be composed based on the set of customizable characteristics. The onscreen display reference point may be stored in nonvolatile memory. The onscreen display reference point may be rendered on a display, wherein the rendering is independent of a video stream.
US11935494B2
The present application provides a television backlight dimming method, apparatus and device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The television backlight dimming method includes: acquiring a minimum horizontal distance between an LED lamp in a reference region and an LED lamp in a non-reference region; and dimming the brightness of each of the LED lamps in the non-reference region according to the brightness of the LED lamp in the reference region, the minimum horizontal distance and a preset distance rule.
US11935493B2
A virtual window device (100), comprising (i) a display (110) arranged in a first plane (A), wherein the display (110) is arranged to provide a first output (120) for rendering a first image of a view through a window (130) onto a virtual planar surface (140) that is oriented parallel to the display (110) along an axis (C), perpendicular to the first plane (A), (ii) a frame (150) projecting from the display (110), and wherein an edge (160) of the frame (150), oppositely arranged the display (110), spans a second plane (B), (iii) a lighting element (170) configured to emit a second output (180) onto the virtual planar surface (140), wherein the lighting element (170) is arranged within the virtual window device (100) at a distance (D) from the second plane (B), along the axis (C), wherein the second output (180) has a directionality, the directionality being one or more of a spatial direction, a beam angle, a beam width, a light output distribution and a diffusivity, and (iv) a unit (190) configured to register a content property of the first image and to control the directionality of the second output (180) as a function of the registered content property of the first image.
US11935489B2
This application provides an electronic device, to reduce a probability that a screen stalling phenomenon. A timing control unit sends one first pulse of a tearing effect signal every a first preset time T1. The timing control unit sends S second pulses of the tearing effect signal when a transceiver unit does not receive an Nth frame of display data within a preset time. The processing unit receives the Nth frame of display data in the (N+1)th frame, and controls, based on the Nth frame of display data, the display to display an Nth frame of image.
US11935485B2
A display device that includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a pixel unit in which a pixel is specified by the scanning line and the data line, in which image data of one line is simultaneously displayed for a plurality of adjacent scanning lines, image data to be simultaneously displayed is made different between an N frame and an (N+1) frame that are temporally consecutive, and the image data is shifted by one line, and the image data of a last scanning line of at least one of the N frame or the (N+1) frame is hidden.
US11935484B2
A display panel includes a plurality of rows of sub-pixels and at least one gate driver circuit that are disposed on a base substrate. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel driver circuit and a light-emitting device coupled to the pixel driver circuit, and a gate driver circuit includes a plurality of shift registers that are cascaded and a plurality of control signal lines. A shift register is coupled to a plurality of pixel driver circuits in at least one row of sub-pixels and at least a part of the plurality of control signal lines, and includes a plurality of first thin film transistors that are divided into a plurality of first thin film transistors. At least one thin film transistor group is located in the display region and distributed between adjacent sub-pixels in a same row of sub-pixels.
US11935480B2
Systems and methods are used to dim an emissive display such as an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display. A dimming level setpoint signal is received. At least one dimming process is selected from four dimming processes based on a magnitude of the dimming level setpoint signal. A first dimming process selects a subrange of pixel illumination levels from a range of pixel illumination levels. A second dimming process adjusts a VCOM voltage for the pixel array. A third dimming process selects between rolling shutter and global shutter. A fourth dimming process selectively utilizes one or more subpixels from an emissive display pixel based on the magnitude of the dimming level setpoint signal. The selected dimming process or processes are applied to the emissive display, there by dimming the display. The display can be an OLED display.
US11935479B1
According to some aspects of the disclosure, an organic light-emitting display device including a display panel including a driving thin film transistor (TFT), comprises a sensing unit configured to perform a sensing operation for external compensation of the display panel, and an analog-digital converter (ADC) configured to perform a conversion operation of converting an analog value held in the sensing unit into a digital value, wherein the sensing unit comprises a basic sensing unit configured to perform a sensing operation on the driving TFT, and a dummy sensing unit configured to perform a sensing operation on changes in a gain and an offset of the ADC, and the basic sensing unit and the dummy sensing unit are in a cascade connection to each other.
US11935475B2
A display device includes a display panel including a light emitting element, a driving transistor for providing a driving current to the light emitting element using a driving voltage, and a plurality of switching transistors for controlling the operation of the driving transistor; a gate driving circuit for supplying a plurality of scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines; an emission driving circuit for supplying a plurality of emission signals to the display panel through a plurality of emission signal lines; a data driving circuit for supplying a data voltage to the display panel; and a timing controller for controlling a leakage suppression voltage to be supplied to the driving transistor in a leakage suppression period after a bias voltage is supplied to the driving transistor in a low speed mode in which the display panel is driven at a lower driving frequency.
US11935472B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel sensing circuit which extends an operation section of an integrator by using an additional signal and allows securing a time required for a stable output of a sensing voltage.
US11935469B2
A pixel circuit array, a display panel, a method for driving a pixel circuit array, and a method for driving a display panel are provided. The pixel circuit array may include: a first signal sensing line (SENSE1) and a second signal sensing line (SENSE2); and N pixel circuits arranged in a column. All of the N pixel circuits are divided into a first group and a second group, each pixel circuit in the first group is coupled to the first signal sensing line (SENSE1), and each pixel circuit in the second group is coupled to the second signal sensing line (SENSE2) different from the first signal sensing line (SENSE1), where N is a positive integer greater than 1.
US11935465B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect the display includes a display panel having first through fourth pixels and a scan driving unit that outputs a scan signal to the display panel. The display also includes a data driving unit that alternately outputs a first data signal for the first pixels and a second data signal for the second pixels to the display panel, alternately outputs a third data signal for the third pixels and a fourth data signal for the fourth pixels to the display panel, and begins outputting the first and third data signals before one horizontal period begins The display further includes a demultiplexing unit that alternately applies the first and second data signals to the first and second pixels and the third and fourth data signals to the third and fourth pixels.
US11935460B2
A shift register and a display panel. The shift register includes an output adjustment module, a trigger write module, and a node adjustment module. A first terminal of the output adjustment module inputs a first clock signal. A second terminal of the output adjustment module inputs a first power signal. The output adjustment module is configured to adjust the shift register to output the first clock signal or the first power signal according to the signal on a first control node and the signal on a second control node of the output adjustment module. The trigger write module is configured to write a trigger signal to the second control node according to the clock signal of the control terminal of the trigger write module. The node adjustment module is configured to adjust the signal on the first control node.
US11935456B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit and pixel driving apparatus technology. In this technology, two LEDs are arranged in parallel and selectively used in a hybrid manner in which a PWM (pulse width modulation) scheme for supplying a ramp voltage as a gate voltage for a transistor arranged within a pixel and for turning off the LEDs at the moment when the gate voltage becomes equal to a threshold voltage and a PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) scheme for determining a starting value of the ramp voltage based on a grayscale value of the pixel are combined.
US11935436B2
A sign mounting for mounting a sign on top of a barrier post that includes a body having an inner side for positioning against a barrier post and an outer side for supporting a sign; and a mounting channel formed on the inner side of the body. The mounting channel allows the sign mounting to be mounted onto and supported by a spline of the barrier post. The mounting channel is open at a lower end and closed at an upper end and has a relatively narrow vertical opening at an inner side extending from the lower end to the upper end for a spline to extend through, and a relatively wider inner portion extending laterally beyond the opening on each side of the vertical opening within which a spline can be positioned. The sign mounting may form part of a mounting kit that includes a barrier post.
US11935425B2
Pronunciation learning processing is performed, in which evaluation scores on pronunciation for respective words are acquired from a pronunciation test that uses multiple words, the acquired evaluation scores are summated for each combination of consecutive pronunciation components in the words, and learning information based on the result of summation is output.
US11935416B1
A process can include obtaining a plurality of data points each associated with a respective edge device of a fleet of edge devices, each respective edge device associated with an edge site location or edge device asset group. The plurality of data points are stored to a fleet map data catalog and a filtering selection for viewing a filtered subset of the fleet map data catalog is received, indicating a selected geographic view area and selected edge device types from a plurality of edge device types. Data points corresponding to the filtered subset are obtained from the fleet map data catalog using the filtering selection. A fleet map GUI view is generated using the data points corresponding to the filtered subset, the fleet map GUI view comprising a converged geographic map of the selected geographic view area, with data points are rendered at corresponding locations within the converged geographic map.
US11935405B2
An Improved Roadway Guidance System provides guidance elements in a roadway as means to guide a vehicle along the roadway, as well as supply important information to the vehicle to enhance the autonomous operation of the vehicle in a safe and efficient manner. The system comprises at least three parts: (1) the use of overlaid roadway “emitter strips” that provide an extended excitation/emission field simultaneous with direct guidance instructions to passing vehicles; (2) the use of a linearly-arranged antenna array system provided on the vehicle and adapted for interaction with the emitter strips for positionally locating the vehicle within a travel lane and providing additional informative data for operation of the vehicle; and (3) the use of a multi-port Receiver Unit that works with the antenna array and the host vehicle's guidance system to optimize autonomous operation of the vehicle.
US11935400B2
Various systems and methods for collecting and generating analytics of data from motor vehicle safety and operation systems are disclosed herein. In one example, various minor vehicle incidents and events such as hard braking, swerving, deceleration, are tracked and correlated to geographic locations. Event data for these incidents may be collected, aggregated, anonymized, and electronically communicated to a processing system for further analysis and identification of problematic roadway and traffic conditions.
US11935386B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program products for alerting a user of a wearable device to adjust the position of the device are provided. An example method includes receiving environment data from a wearable device sensor connected to the wearable device, wherein the wearable device is mountable on an arm of the user such that the wearable device sensor is directed toward a hand of the user. Additionally, the example method determines a position of the wearable device on the arm of the user relative to a calibrating object based at least in part on the captured environment data. Further, the example method alerts the user to adjust the position of the wearable device in an instance in which the position of the wearable device relative to the calibrating object exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11935384B1
The disclosed wearable device systems include several features for alerting and guiding persons who are approaching or near to potentially hazardous or high-risk conditions in their nearby environment. Sensor data from wearable devices (also referred to herein as “wearables”) are used to determine the presence of various unsafe environmental conditions and phenomenon, including dangerous terrain or other unusual conditions. The wearable would be used to warn a person, for example via auditory or haptic-based feedback, if the person is about to encounter an unsafe condition. In particular, the proposed systems can be of great benefit to the visually impaired, those persons with physical disabilities, or persons otherwise vulnerable to particular environmental conditions.
US11935382B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems for configuring a flame detection apparatus using flame detecting components are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may comprise: a controller component and at least one flame detecting component in electronic communication with the controller component. The flame detecting component may be configured to detect infrared radiation associated with a fire in an environment and receive and transmit communication signals. In response to detecting a first infrared control (IR) signal, the flame detecting component may provide an indication of the first IR control signal to the controller component.
US11935375B2
This patent for the utility model of constructive provisions introduced in a remote monitoring and security system built in accordance with patents PI0903795-0 and BR102013011905 9 of the same inventor, applied in the area of public or private security and with the purpose of being an electronic policing station for monitoring and remote security of delimited areas, with chassis (1), internal structure (2) and monitoring set (3) that presents functional and constructive improvements in the conception of a miniaturized set with advantages of greater ease of use. deployment because it is not self-supporting, allowing its attachment to existing structures, such as poles and walls, low manufacturing cost, low maintenance cost, use of several units with the same investment, increasing safety by the greater concentration of posts and maintaining the same level of perception of safety and improved monitoring.
US11935372B2
Provided is a drawer tray provided in a coin handling apparatus storing a coin in a compartment of a drawer. The drawer tray includes: a placement unit where the drawer is placed; and a regulation unit that regulates a placement position of the drawer in the placement unit to a position. The regulation unit regulates the placement position of the drawer to a plurality of positions different from each other by disposition of the regulation unit.
US11935363B2
A described gaming system implements an arrangement wherein, as part of a first base game instance, a gaming device is caused to include, at a first symbol position of a symbol array to be implemented by a gaming device, a first Wild symbol at a first symbol position on a reel of a plurality of reels; and, as part of a second base game instance following the first game instance, a modification of the reel of the plurality of reels is performed to move the first Wild symbol into a second symbol position different than the first symbol position.
US11935344B2
This disclosure relates to the technical field of automobiles and discloses an automobile key programmer applied to an automobile diagnostic instrument, wherein the automobile key programmer includes an activation coil, a first changeover switch, a second changeover switch, an infrared modulation circuit, an amplitude shift keying modulation circuit, and a frequency shift keying modulation circuit; when the first changeover switch is not powered on, the infrared modulation circuit provides a resonant voltage for the activation coil; when the first changeover switch is powered on and the second changeover switch is not powered on, the amplitude shift keying modulation circuit provides a resonant voltage for the activation coil; when both the first changeover switch and the second changeover switch are powered on, the frequency shift keying modulation circuit provides a resonant voltage for the activation coil; only one coil is required in the automobile key programmer to change voltages.
US11935331B2
The systems and methods provide a machine learning model that can exploit long time dependency for time-series sequences, perform end-to-end learning of dimension reduction and clustering, or train on long time-series sequences with low computation complexity. For example, the methods and systems use a novel, unsupervised temporal representation learning model. The model may generate cluster-specific temporal representations for long-history time series sequences and may integrate temporal reconstruction and a clustering objective into a joint end-to-end model.
US11935316B1
Multimodal techniques are described for classifying start pages and document types of an unstructured document image package. To that end, some implementations of the disclosure relate to a method, including: obtaining a document image file including multiple pages and multiple document types; generating, for each page of the multiple pages, using multiple independent trained models, multiple independent predictions, each of the multiple independent predictions indicating: whether or not the page is a first page of a document, or a document type of the multiple document types that the page corresponds to; and generating, for each page of the multiple pages, based on the multiple independent predictions, using a neural network, a final prediction output indicating whether or not the page is the first page of a document, or one of the multiple document types that the page corresponds to.
US11935314B2
In the present disclosure, a candidate area is determined based on a pixel having a specific color included in an input image, and an area is determined to be a processing target from the candidate area based on a pixel having a predetermined color different from the specific color included in the candidate area. Further, a second binary image in which a pixel corresponding to the pixel having the specific color is converted into a white pixel is generated by converting, in a first binary image obtained by the input image being binarized, a pixel that is included in the area determined to be the processing target and corresponds to the pixel having the specific color, into a white pixel.
US11935313B2
Computer servers configured to perform digital image processing are discloses herein. In one embodiment, upon receiving a transcription command, a computer server performs text recognition based on patterns in a digital image to generate digital text data corresponding to the digital image. The computer server can then determine a content format of the digital text data based on the imported digital image and automatically apply the determined content format to the generated digital text data. The digital data can then be inserted into an electronic document.
US11935312B2
A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire an image obtained by imaging an outer surface of each of plural sample containers which contains a sample and in which name information of a subject from whom the sample is collected and subject discrimination information for discriminating plural subjects having the same surname and the same name are given to the outer surface, recognize the name information and the subject discrimination information given to each of the sample containers based on the image, and associate a test result related to the sample contained in each of the sample containers with a test order including the name information and the subject discrimination information, based on a result of the recognition and the test order.
US11935308B2
An object recognition apparatus mounted in a vehicle including a sensor is provided. The apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an object present in a same lane as that of the vehicle by using information from the sensor, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information concerning lights which the object turns on by using the information from the sensor, and a determining unit configured to determine a type of the object based on the information concerning the lights. A condition in which the determination unit determines that the type of the object is a two-wheeled vehicle includes a case in which the object includes not less than two lights arrayed in a vertical direction with respect to the ground surface.
US11935306B2
A data collection apparatus includes a processor and a storage. The processor is configured to: estimate an emotion of a person watching an own vehicle on the basis of an image data of a surrounding environment of the own vehicle; generate emotion data including an estimate of the emotion of the person watching the own vehicle; specify a state of the own vehicle viewed by the person watching the own vehicle; and correlate the emotion data with the specified state of the own vehicle. The storage is configured to be caused by the processor to store the emotion data correlated with the specified state of the own vehicle.
US11935301B2
An information processing method includes obtaining image information including a first image of a first person in a predetermined facility and a second image of a second person in the predetermined facility; classifying each of the first person and the second person as a resident of the facility or a visitor to the facility, the first person being classified as the resident, the second person being classified as the visitor; calculating a distance between the first person and the second person, based on the first image and the second image; determining whether the first person and the second person are having a conversation with each other, based on the calculated distance; measuring, when it is determined that the first person and the second person are having a conversation with each other, a conversation time during which the first person and the second person are having a conversation with each other; and transmitting, when the measured conversation time exceeds a predetermined time, infection notification information indicating that a risk of the first person contracting infectious disease is high to a terminal apparatus.
US11935294B2
This disclosure describes how to identify objects in an augmented reality environment. More specifically, the various systems and methods described herein describe how an augmented reality device can recognize objects within a real world environment, determine where the object is located, and also identify the various surfaces of the object in real time or substantially real time.
US11935291B2
In one example, a mobile device comprises: a physical link; a plurality of image sensors, each image sensor being configured to transmit image data via the physical link; and a controller coupled to the physical link, whereby the physical link, the plurality of image sensors, and the controller form a multi-drop network. The controller is configured to: transmit a control signal to configure image sensing operations at the plurality of image sensors; receive, via the physical link, image data from at least a subset of the plurality of image sensors; combine the image data from the at least a subset of the plurality of image sensors to obtain an extended field of view (FOV); determine information of a surrounding environment of the mobile device captured within the extended FOV; and provide the information to an application to generate content based on the information.
US11935286B2
A method of vertical planar surface detection includes identifying, at an electronic device, a plurality of feature points of an environment proximate the electronic device based on imagery captured at the electronic device and based on received non-visual pose information obtained from non-visual sensors. The electronic device queries the plurality of feature points to identify one or more planar surfaces in the imagery captured at the electronic device. Further, the electronic device computes a plurality of oriented point vectors associated with the one or more planar surfaces. A vertical planar surface is detected based at least in part on one or more of the plurality of oriented point vectors being aligned in a direction perpendicular to gravity within a predetermined threshold.
US11935280B2
A tracking system and method for tracking tools in and nearby a transportation vehicle is provided. The tracking system comprises a vehicle-based detection unit for optically acquiring tool sets in the vehicle loading space from different angles and providing digital image data as well as corresponding range information. An electronic main controller unit is operatively coupled to a communication receiving unit and communicates with the vehicle-based detection unit and a cloud-based computer system of the tracking system. A mobile computing unit includes an optical camera and a LIDAR sensor device and wirelessly communicates with the electronic main controller unit and the cloud-based computer system. The tool detection and tracking is accomplished by combining an image-based detection employing an artificial neural network in the cloud-based computer system and a signal-based detection employing the short-range wireless network communication means.
US11935276B2
In variants, the method for subjective property scoring can include determining an objective score for a subjective characteristic of a property using a model trained using subjective property rankings.
US11935274B2
An iris scanning device that includes a single camera sensor utilized for generating iris scan data is described herein. The iris scanning device includes a selector, a lens, and the camera sensor. The selector is configured to receive a first optical signal representative of a first eye and a second optical signal representative of a second eye. The selector selectively allows a passed optical signal to be optically propagated to the lens and inhibits a blocked optical signal from being optically propagated to the lens during a time period. The passed optical signal is one of the first optical signal or the second optical signal during the time period. The blocked optical signal is a differing one of the first optical signal or the second optical signal during the time period. The lens causes the passed optical signal to be incident on the camera sensor during the time period.
US11935269B2
A point cloud encoding method includes grouping a to-be-coded point cloud group into a plurality of subgroups, where the grouping a to-be-coded point cloud group into a plurality of subgroups includes pre-grouping a plurality of frames of point clouds in the to-be-coded point cloud group to obtain a pre-grouped subgroup, and determining, based on feature information of the pre-grouped subgroup, that the pre-grouped subgroup is one of the plurality of subgroups, where the feature information represents a size of an occupancy map of a point cloud in the pre-grouped subgroup, and encoding a point cloud included in the plurality of subgroups.
US11935264B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for pose estimation using one point correspondence, one line correspondence, and a directional measurement. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining an image corresponding to a physical environment. A first correspondence between a first set of pixels in the image and a spatial point in the physical environment is determined. A second correspondence between a second set of pixels in the image and a spatial line in the physical environment is determined. Pose information is generated as a function of the first correspondence, the second correspondence, and a directional measurement.
US11935261B2
A system for measuring dimensions of film to be applied to a window includes a plurality of removable cards for placement on the window, each of the plurality of removable cards having a plurality of visible correspondence points at pre-defined positions on the respective removable card. The system further includes a mobile device having an image capture device, and the image capture device is configured to capture an image of the window having a set of correspondence points visible in the image. Additionally, the system includes a server configured to receive the image of the window captured by the mobile device and process the image to determine dimensions of a film to be cut for the window based on the set of correspondence points and the pre-defined positions, and processing the image removes perspective distortions in the image. The system is configured to output the dimensions of the film.
US11935260B1
This application provides a method for measuring dimensions to reduce measurement time and improve production efficiency, including: obtaining a first image and a second image of a to-be-measured workpiece, where the first image and the second image are images captured by a first camera and a second camera at different positions respectively; extracting a first corner set of the to-be-measured workpiece from the first image and a second corner set of the to-be-measured workpiece from the second image separately; rectifying position coordinates of the first corner set and position coordinates of the second corner set to obtain a position coordinate value of the first corner set and a position coordinate value of the second corner set in a same coordinate system; and obtaining dimensions of the to-be-measured workpiece based on the position coordinate value of the first corner set and the position coordinate value of the second corner set.
US11935250B2
A method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium with instructions for processing sensor data. In a first step, camera images are taken by a camera. Additionally, 3D-checkpoints are detected by at least one 3D-sensor. Optionally, at least one of the camera images can be segmented. The camera images are then merged with the 3D-checkpoints by a data fusion circuit to form data of a virtual sensor. The resulting data are finally output for further processing.
US11935247B2
A system and method of calibrating moving cameras capturing a sporting event is disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves a broadcast video feed for a sporting event. The broadcast video feed includes a plurality of video frames. The computing system labels, via a neural network, components of a playing surface captured in each video frame. The computing system matches a subset of labeled video frames to a set of templates with various camera perspectives. The computing system fits a playing surface model to the set of labeled video frames that were matched to the set of templates. The computing system identifies camera motion in each video frame using an optical flow model. The computing system generates a homography matrix for each video frame based on the fitted playing surface model and camera motion. The computing system calibrates each camera based on the homography matrix generated for each video frame.
US11935229B2
A method for calculating and reporting image quality properties of an image acquisition device after a subject or object has been scanned consists of a scan quality monitoring system with automated software for receiving scans and radiation dose data from scanners and automated algorithms for analyzing image quality metrics and radiation dose tradeoffs. Image quality assessment methods include algorithms for measuring fundamental imaging characteristics, level and type of image artifacts, and comparisons against large databases of historical data for the scanner and protocols. Image quality reports are further customized to report on expected clinical performance of image detection or measurement tasks.
US11935210B2
A system and method for fisheye image processing can be configured to: receive fisheye image data from at least one fisheye lens camera associated with an autonomous vehicle, the fisheye image data representing at least one fisheye image frame; partition the fisheye image frame into a plurality of image portions representing portions of the fisheye image frame; warp each of the plurality of image portions to map an arc of a camera projected view into a line corresponding to a mapped target view, the mapped target view being generally orthogonal to a line between a camera center and a center of the arc of the camera projected view; combine the plurality of warped image portions to form a combined resulting fisheye image data set representing recovered or distortion-reduced fisheye image data corresponding to the fisheye image frame; generate auto-calibration data representing a correspondence between pixels in the at least one fisheye image frame and corresponding pixels in the combined resulting fisheye image data set; and provide the combined resulting fisheye image data set as an output for other autonomous vehicle subsystems.
US11935209B1
Disclosed is a graphics system and associated methods for dynamic backfilling a point cloud to conceal gaps that appear when zooming into the point cloud. The dynamically backfilling fills a gap with dynamically generated points that continue a texture, contour, pattern, shape, coloring, and/or other commonality of an original set of points from the point cloud that form a single continuous surface with that gap. The system defines a model based on images of an object or scene. The model represents the object or scene at different zoom depths with different dynamically generated points. The system determines that a requested render position exposes a gap in the original set of points. The system fills the gap by using the model to generate points at positions over the gap that continue a shape, form, or structure of a single continuous surface formed by the original set of points.
US11935204B2
Interactive systems using adaptive control software and hardware from known and later developed eyepieces to later developed head-wear to lenses, including implantable, temporarily insertable and contact and related film based types of lenses including thin film transparent elements for housing cameras lenses and projector and functional equivalent processing tools. Simple controls, real-time updates and instant feedback allow implicit optimization of a universal model while managing complexity.
US11935184B2
An ambient lighting engine and an ambient lighting method are disclosed. A base graphics component is transformed into an ambient-lit graphics component based on ambient color values determined along multiple axes in 3D space. The ambient color values can be calculated in real-time. Optionally, the calculated ambient color values can be associated with a location in 3D space and cached for usage at a later time for pixels at or near that same location.
US11935178B2
An apparatus and method are described for utilizing volume proxies. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a volume subdivision module to subdivide a volume into a plurality of partitions, the apparatus to process a first of the partitions and to distribute data associated with each of the other partitions to each of a plurality of nodes; a proxy generation module to compute a first proxy for the first partition, the first proxy to be transmitted to the plurality of nodes; and a ray tracing engine to perform one or more traversal/intersection operations for a current ray or group of rays using the first proxy; if the ray or group of rays interacts with the first proxy, then the ray tracing engine to send the ray(s) to a second node associated with the first proxy or retrieves data related to the interaction from the second node.
US11935172B2
A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for expressing an emotion in a conversation message using a gesture are provided. A message expression method may include: receiving a message that is entered in a message input area of a chatroom; obtaining animation information based on an input applied to the message in the message input area; modifying the message based on the animation information; and displaying the modified message in a chat view area of the chatroom in response to receiving a message send request.
US11935168B1
Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving an audio input including an utterance, determining, based on a speaker profile, an identity of a speaker of the utterance, determining whether the identity of the speaker matches a predetermined identity, and in accordance with a determination that the identity of the speaker matches the predetermined identity selectively adjusting a volume of the utterance relative to a volume of other sound of the audio input and providing an output of the adjusted utterance.
US11935163B1
Prior art digital painting applications create strokes by repeatedly applying a stamp at incremental positions along a path. Such applications led to uniform marks being made by the mark making tool along the stroke as the same process as applied by the software application at each point along the stroke. However, some areas of a painting involve repetitive strokes, which can take a lot of time for the user. Embodiments of the invention provide the user with automated methods and systems that maintain a level of control the user seeks or needs whilst removing the repetitive nature of the area filling thereby saving the user time whilst delivering high quality results. The invention fills the area to be filled to painted with actual, individual strokes, offering the advantages of overlapping strokes and mixing paint for an increased “natural” media look and feel. Additionally, the user is able to either specify parameters for the process in advance or to sculpt/tune the result as the software application paints.
US11935162B2
An imaging system (302) includes an X-ray radiation source (312) configured to emit radiation that traverses an examination region, a detector array (314) configured to detect radiation that traverses an examination region and generate a signal indicative thereof, wherein the detected radiation is for a 3-D pre-scan, and a reconstructor (316) configured to reconstruct the signal to generate a 2-D pre-scan projection image. The imaging system further includes a console (318) wherein a processor thereof is configured to execute 3-D volume planning instructions (328) in memory to display the 2-D pre-scan projection image (402, 602, 802, 1002) and a scan plan or bounding box (404, 604, 804, 1004) for planning a 3-D volume scan of a region/tissue of interest based on a selected protocol for a 3-D volume scan of a region/tissue of interest being planned and receive an input confirming or adjusting the scan plan box to create a 3-D volume scan plan for the 3-D volume scan of the region/tissue of interest.
US11935158B2
A method for performing real-time magnetic resonance (MR) imaging on a subject is disclosed. A prep pulse sequence is applied to the subject to obtain a high-quality special subspace, and a direct linear mapping from k-space training data to subspace coordinates. A live pulse sequence is then applied to the subject. During the live pulse sequence, real-time images are constructed using a fast matrix multiplication procedure on a single instance of the k-space training readout (e.g., a single k-space line or trajectory), which can be acquired at a high temporal rate.
US11935156B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating a virtual view of a scene associated with a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: obtaining image data including a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras of the vehicle; obtaining steering angle data captured by a sensor of the vehicle; detecting, by a processor, a shadow in at least one image of the plurality of images; determining, by the processor, auto-white balance data for each image of the plurality of images; selectively combining, by the processor, the auto-white balance data of the images based on the detected shadow, and the steering angle data; and generating, by the processor, output image data based on the combined auto-white balance data and the image data.
US11935139B2
A computer system that is adapted for: (A) displaying a geographical map on a display screen; (B) displaying a plurality of icons on the geographical map, each of which generally represents the current location of at least one individual; (C) allowing a user to select a group of the icons; and (D) after the user selects the group of icons, providing messaging functionality for allowing the user to send a common message to the respective portable computing devices of at least substantially all of the individuals who correspond to the selected group of icons. In particular embodiments, the system allows the user to send the message by executing a single activity, such as selecting a single button. The system may also be configured to approximate the current location of an individual based on the individual's current travel itinerary.
US11935132B2
The present invention relates to a smart pension management system and a driving method therefor. The smart pension management system comprises: a number-of-accounts calculation unit for calculating the number of pension accounts by using user age information, life expectancy information, and pension indexes; a payment amount determination unit for determining a monthly pension payment by using the number of pension accounts calculated by the number-of-accounts calculation unit; and a payment processing unit for paying, to a user's account, the monthly pension payment determined by the payment amount determination unit, and thus a client can transparently and easily check pension payment details and management situation.
US11935131B2
An insurance audit device, an insurance audit system, an insurance audit method, and a program for appropriately and easily conducting an audit related to cyber insurance are provided. An insurance audit device includes a monitoring result acquisition unit for acquiring a result of monitoring communication of a network in operation from a monitoring device configured to monitor the communication of the network, the network being a target for an audit related to insurance and an insurance audit unit for conducting the audit related to the insurance covering the network based on the result of monitoring in a predetermined period of time.
US11935116B1
Systems and methods for identifying and providing unfulfilled services to a user of a provider institution mobile application are provided. A method includes: identifying an unfulfilled service of the user of the provider institution mobile application based on an indication that the user has a pending service that requires further action on behalf of the user; scanning a digital calendar of a mobile device of the user hosting the provider institution mobile application based on receiving a user input to access the digital calendar; determining an availability of the user based on scanning the digital calendar; identifying a current location of the user during the determined availability; determining a plurality of service locations near the identified current location of the user during the determined availability; and prompting the user to visit an identified service location from the plurality of service locations.
US11935114B2
Disclosed embodiments provide systems and methods for hotels and rental property monitoring and protection. Cameras are oriented in non-private areas near entrances and exits of a property to be monitored. The cameras supply video feeds to a multi-layer analysis system powered by machine learning. The analysis system utilizes machine learning to perform identification of objects including people, animals, and/or other objects, identify moving track and patterns and recognize various behaviors based. Entrances and exits of rental properties are monitored to assess a current occupancy and guest and team behavior. In response to detecting a current occupancy exceeding a specific threshold or any other breach in the house rules and policies, disclosed embodiments can perform various actions including, but not limited to, notifying guests, notifying property managers, and/or other actions as appropriate.
US11935107B2
A system is provided that includes a mobile user device executes an application that receives a selection of a target color of lipstick from a user, and determines and transmit a recipe for generating the target color of the lipstick that is based on a combination of a plurality of separate lipstick ingredients. The system includes a dispensing device configured to receive the transmitted recipe from the mobile user device and dispense each of the plurality of separate lipstick ingredients onto a common dispensing surface such that when the dispensed amounts of each of the plurality of separate lipstick ingredients is blended on the dispensing surface, the target color of the lipstick is achieved. The mobile user device is configured to present at least one candidate color of lipstick to the user that is based on at least a user profile of the user of the smartphone.
US11935106B2
A method and a system for recommending a target garment matching an inputted garment. The method includes: extracting attributes from text description and image of the inputted garment to obtain extracted attributes; querying a knowledge graph using the extracted attributes to obtain matched attributes; retrieving candidate products from a garment pool using the matched attributes; extracting features from the inputted garment and the candidate products; determining the target garment from the candidate products based on grading scores between the features of the inputted garment and the features of the candidate products; and recommending the target garment. The knowledge graph includes nodes corresponding to type of clothes, category of clothes, attribute keys, values of attribute keys, context keys, values of context keys, combination of the values of the attribute keys and the type of clothes, and combination of the value of the attribute keys and the category of clothes.
US11935098B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for request processing for configurable information technology solutions are provided herein. An example method includes obtaining a request that is to be processed based on a current configuration of a system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of items and each item comprises a set of components, each of the components having one of a plurality of types; obtaining component-level information for the plurality of items from multiple data sources; determining the current configuration of the system by applying one or more rules to the component-level information that identify at least one particular one of the types of at least one of the components in each of one or more of the sets and a quantity of the components of the at least one particular type that are in the corresponding set; and processing the request based on the determined current configuration.
US11935087B2
A computer system detects the reception of a first token associated with a first transaction. The computer system determines that a first Payments Reward Identifier (PRI) is associated with the first token by accessing a PRI database. In response to determining that the first PRI is associated with the first token, the computer system accesses the PRI database and determines that the first PRI is associated with a record within the PRI database that corresponds to a first rewards ID (RID). In response to determining that the first PRI is associated with a record within the PRI database that corresponds to the first rewards, the computer system determines a first rewards amount corresponding to the first transaction, and updates a total rewards amount, in a rewards database, corresponding to the determined first RID based on the first rewards amount.
US11935086B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a device includes one or more memories having computer-readable instructions stored therein and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to receive, over a period of time, information regarding transactions conducted in association with a user account; identify a category associated with one or more of the transactions based on the information, wherein identifying yields a number of categories; generate a ranking of the categories based on a transaction parameter; assign a different number of points to corresponding transactions in one or more of the categories based on the ranking, with a highest number of points assigned to the corresponding transactions in at least one category with highest ranking; and apply the corresponding number of points to the user account.
US11935085B1
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for prediction and computation of electronic shopping carts. In an example embodiment, for each interaction between an e-shopper and an e-commerce application, one or more predicted electronic shopping carts that represent a combination of items the e-shopper is likely to purchase are generated based on current items in the e-shopper's electronic shopping cart and recent interactions with the e-shopper. For some or all of the predicted electronic shopping carts (e.g., those with top predicted confidence levels), corresponding shopping cart computations (e.g., identifying application promotions, determining a price total for the items in the predicted shopping cart) are executed and cached prior to the e-shopping adding the predicted items. As such, a page configured to visualize the predicted electronic shopping cart with a value retrieved from the cached shopping cart computations (e.g., price total for the predicted electronic shopping cart) is generated.
US11935081B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for determining a probability of presence for a user of a first device at a second media presentation with a second device. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to determine a first probability of presence based on a first demographic impression, a non-demographic impression, and a shared data item, the first demographic impression logged by a database proprietor for a first device, the shared data item provided by the first device, the first probability of presence indicative of a likelihood that a user of the first device corresponds to the non-demographic impression.
US11935076B2
Computer-implemented user sentiment measurement methods, systems, and computer-readable media are described.
US11935074B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a casino patron engagement system that facilitates engagement among casino employees and casino patrons to engender patron loyalty.
US11935073B1
A method for flagging journal entries within a general ledger is described. A plurality of assessment routines are executed on transaction lines of the journal entries within the general ledger, each assessment routine of the plurality of assessment routines i) being configured to generate a base score for each transaction line, and ii) associated with a corresponding flagging threshold. A composite score is generated for each transaction line using the base scores generated by the plurality of assessment routines. For each journal entry within the general ledger: the journal entry is flagged when one or more base scores for the journal entry exceed the corresponding flagging thresholds of the assessment routines, or when none of the base scores for the journal entry exceed the corresponding flagging thresholds and the composite score exceeds a composite threshold. A report of flagged journal entries is generated.
US11935067B2
A system including: one or more processors; a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors are configured to cause the system to receive primary and secondary user account data. The system generates one or more predictive model systems based on the primary and secondary user account data. The system receives a first input from the primary user corresponding to a first spending limitation for the secondary user. The system identifies a first transaction of the secondary user exceeding the spending limitation and determines using the one or more predictive model systems whether to authorize a spending limitation override. The system automatically authorizes the spending limitation override when the first transaction exceeds the spending limitation by less than a predetermined threshold. The system can also identify and automatically fund recurring transactions with an associated funding account using the one or more predictive model systems.
US11935061B2
A device and a method for detecting a fraudulent financial transaction in an in-vehicle payment may include a processor that detects the fraudulent financial transaction in the in-vehicle payment based on at least one of a vehicle location, the number of vehicle occupants, a state of a communication network, a vehicle speed, whether a fingerprint authentication module is mounted, a state of a battery, a user account, and/or information on the in-vehicle payment when the in-vehicle payment is requested from a vehicle providing an in-vehicle payment function. An effect of strengthening security of the in-vehicle payment by detecting the fraudulent financial transaction in the in-vehicle payment may be provided.
US11935054B2
This application relates to systems and methods for automatically generating fraud strategies. A system may comprise customer computing devices, a database, and retailer computing device(s). The retailer computing device(s) are configured to receive data related to customer transactions, calculate a negative reaction score, negative resolution score, anomaly score, and impact score for at least one value of the received data, determine whether the calculated scores are greater than or equal to respective thresholds, identify a value of the received data as a potentially fraudulent data value when one or more of the calculated scores is greater than or equal to its respective threshold, generate an output comprising a list of potentially fraudulent data value(s) and impact scores, identify area(s) of high impact leaks based on the output, and determine which customer computing devices are executing fraudulent transactions based on the identification of areas of high impact leaks.
US11935050B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein provide automatic expense categorization of transactions or expenditures based on a machine learning (ML) model trained using anonymized transactional data for expenditures that are stored in a public blockchain. The anonymized transactional data for the expenditure and the expense category, may be distributed throughout the blockchain network and recorded in the blockchain. In some implementations, an expenditure may be submitted to the blockchain network for expense categorization. The transactional data for the expenditure may be anonymized to remove confidential and personal identifying information (PII) before it is distributed throughout the blockchain network. Each participating node of the blockchain network may utilize the ML model to identify an expense category for the expenditure. The participating nodes may provide a consensus mechanism in order to arrive at a shared understanding of how to categorize the expenditure.
US11935046B2
Embodiments disclosed are directed to an immutable database in a data processing system for tracking a data state of the data processing system using multiple timelines or temporal sequences representing events occurring in the data processing system. The immutable database may maintain a current temporal sequence representing an existing data state of the data processing system and generate alternate temporal sequences representing an alternate data state of the data processing system. The alternate temporal sequence may be used to test retroactive events that are intended to replace or correct events that occurred in the current temporal sequence.
US11935045B1
A method includes: providing a mobile wallet on a mobile device of a user; generating a customer token regarding the user; generating a device token regarding the mobile device; encrypting and sending the customer token and the device token; receiving a user credential associated with a second institution; accessing information regarding an account of the user at the second institution; automatically provisioning the account to the mobile wallet; providing tokenized account information associated with the provisioned account to the mobile wallet; receiving an input of a login credential associated with the first institution; receiving an indication of an initiation of a mobile wallet transaction; validating and identifying the user based on the received login credential and the customer token; validating the mobile wallet of the mobile device based on the device token; and transferring funds from the provisioned account to a recipient as part of the mobile wallet transaction.
US11935042B2
A method for securing an interblockchain transaction includes receiving, from a first user application, a registration request including a first permissioned blockchain public key and a first permissionless blockchain public key. The method also includes performing, by the processing circuitry, receiving, from a second user application, a second registration request including a second permissioned blockchain public key and a second permissionless blockchain public key. The permissioned blockchain public keys are valid on the permissioned blockchain and the permissionless blockchain public keys are valid on the permissionless public blockchain. In addition, the method includes receiving, from the first user application, a transaction identification, the transaction identification identifying a first transfer transaction executed on the permissionless public blockchain. The transaction identification identifies the first and second permissionless blockchain public keys.
US11935039B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems and computer program products for conducting an online transaction on a website involving sensitive information. Such embodiments provide methods, systems and computer program products to: (a) register at least one entity with a gate keeper module, the registering comprising associating the entity with a subscription level; (b) associate a sub-string of a character string with a unique token so that a direct link does not exist between the unique token and the character string; and (c) during processing of the online transaction: (i) using the unique token for intermediate steps during the processing of the online transaction; and (ii) only accessing the character string in storage memory to complete the online transaction after receiving a request from at least one registered entity associated with a subscription level associated with a privilege to receive the requested sensitive information.
US11935037B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for locking a digital asset. In one implementation, the system may include a first computer node that reads a private data store associated with the first computer node and/or reads a distributed ledger to confirm a digital asset is unlocked and can be transferred from the first computer node. The first computer node cryptographically signs and sends a proposed digital lock to a second computer node. When activated, the digital lock prevents transfer of the digital asset from the first computer node to another computer node that is not the second computer node. The first computer node also reads a distributed ledger to confirm the distributed ledger contains the digital lock in an activated state. The first computer node transfers the digital asset from the first computer node to the second computer node.
US11935035B2
Embodiments may be generally directed to methods, techniques and devices to utilize a contactless card to perform a series of operations.
US11935034B2
A smartwatch device that operates as an ad hoc card reader is provided. The smartwatch device may include hardware and software. The smartwatch device may scan multiple cards. The smartwatch device may capture card data elements from each card. The smartwatch device may receive a transaction amount for each card. The smartwatch device may communicate with a financial institution associated with each card. Each financial institution may transmit an approval request to a device associated with the card. Each device may receive a request to approve the transaction. Each device may approve the request, and the approval may be transmitted to the financial institution. Each financial institution may transmit an approval notification to the smartwatch. Upon receipt of an approval notification for each card, the smartwatch may transmit the captured card data elements and the transaction amount for each card and payee data to a processing entity for transaction processing.
US11935033B2
The present disclosure discloses a proximity-based secure communication system and method for digital transactions. The system comprises: a slave terminal with a near field communication (NFC) radio frequency communication channel, wherein the slave terminal remains in the listening mode in the NFC radio frequency communication channel; and a master electronic device with an NFC radio frequency communication channel. The slave terminal is configured to send an Answer-to-Reset (ATR) to the master electronic device when, by proximity, the slave terminal detects the activation of the NFC radio frequency channel. The slave terminal and the master electronic device exchange Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) commands that represent a digital transaction by means of the NFC radio frequency channel, such that the master electronic device sends request APDU commands to the slave terminal, and the master electronic device receives reply APDU commands from the slave terminal.
US11935016B2
In some examples, methods and systems generate interactive receipts with the option of a dynamic tip amount. The method includes determining at least one tip determinant based at least in part on the payment transaction, wherein the tip determinant is selected from a group of: the merchant; the customer; a payment object presented by the customer towards the payment transaction; a geographical location of a mobile device associated with one of the merchant and the customer; and a category of a merchant's item corresponding to the payment transaction. The method includes obtaining, by a dynamic tip generator, a tipping profile based on a history of tipping behavior associated with the tip determinant and generating, by the dynamic tip generator, at least one dynamic tip amount based at least on the tipping profile, which is presented to the customer.
US11935014B2
A process for the segregation, sterilization, and purification of recycled plastic medical waste with the subsequent production of plastic products made therefrom is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method for the front-end segregation of recycled plastic medical waste into a polypropylene waste stream and a mixed plastic waste stream. These segregated streams are further purified through a processing method that removes contaminating fibrous, metal and other waste products. Polypropylene and mixed plastic streams isolated using these methods yield a homogenous material that can be blended with other materials for the production of raw plastic or for extrusion to form commercial plastic products. A method for tracking regulated and non-regulated medical waste stream production kinetics and chain of custody from discrete waste disposal sites is also disclosed.
US11935009B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for integrating healthcare screening with other identity-based functions. In general, components facilitating healthcare screening interoperate with and/or are integrated into other systems, including facility access, identity, time keeping, payroll, etc. Aspects of the invention include using facial recognition to improve healthcare screening and satisfy governmental regulations. A thermal scanner can include a camera and an InfraRed (IR) camera. The thermal scanner can collect a facial image and derive a temperature for a person (e.g., from an IR image). The thermal scanner can also collect or access previously collected healthcare screening questionnaire answers. The collected temperate and healthcare screening questionnaire answers can be used to control access to the facility. For example, the person can be denied access when the collected temperature exceeds a defined temperate threshold and/or healthcare screening questionnaire answers indicate the person may be sick.
US11935006B2
A permissions management system and a method for managing permissions in a multiplatform environment. A centralized permissions management system is communicably coupled to a gateway service that receives API calls and requests for content from edge devices, such as user devices. The gateway forwards permissions requests to the centralized permissions management system that determines whether a given user identifier is permitted to access content referenced by a given content identifier. In response, the centralized permissions management system returns an authorization response that, in turn, is forwarded to an identified or determined platform which, in response, can serve content and/or service an API call.
US11935002B2
The system and methods described herein allow users to apply for a purchase of a good from multiple providers using provider specific methodologies for generating offers for the product. For example, the system described herein may include a multi-layer architecture that includes interactive micro-services that communicate together in a bi-directional manner to create a normalized process for the purchase of a good, such as commercial goods/products (e.g. a vehicle) or real property. The micro-services may assess prequalification for a loan or financing for a good, followed by determining eligibility of the good for financing, and further followed by calculating pricing details for loans (e.g. for financing purchase of the good) that would be offered for a consumer's particular financial credentials, for each of a plurality of lenders. Prequalification and pricing may be performed on a good by good basis, or for a plurality of goods near or substantially simultaneously.
US11934991B2
In some examples, a computing device sends, to an application on a user device, item information to cause the application to present a user interface including information about items available from a merchant. In response to receiving a user input via the user interface to select an item from the merchant, the computing device determines that a likelihood that the item will be unavailable exceeds a threshold. The computing device sends a communication that causes the application to present a plurality of selectable options to indicate actions to perform when the item is unavailable. The computing device receives a request to place the order for the item, and an indication of the action to perform. In response to receiving a communication from the merchant device indicating that the item is unavailable, the computing device sends an instruction to the merchant device indicating the action to perform.
US11934988B1
The technology relates to a seamless interface between an autonomous vehicle service provider and one or more ridesharing, ride-hailing or delivery partner companies, in order to provide timely, efficient rider or delivery services and support. A partner trip application programming interface (API) provides robust features to the ridesharing or ride-hailing partner companies and also supports delivery of meals, groceries, packages or other cargo. For instance, the API may be employed with delivery partners (e.g., food, package or bulk cargo delivery), and/or for concierge services (e.g., a hotel or medical provider or an e-commerce specialist that coordinates deliveries). The technology supports both ad hoc and scheduled trips. Agents for different partners may schedule trips to or from specific stores or other (geofenced) locations, and observe and manage trips for an entire enterprise. Permissions can be tailored for each agent.
US11934976B2
A method by which a server performs specialist platform control is provided. In order to resolve the aforementioned problem, the control method comprises the steps of: registering the specialist; acquiring specialist information of the registered specialist; computing career information of the specialist on the basis of the acquired specialist information; matching a project corresponding to the specialist on the basis of the career information of the specialist; acquiring project data computed according to the project performance result when the matching project is performed by the specialist; and updating the career information of the specialist on the basis of the project data.
US11934956B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, for training a neural network, wherein the neural network is configured to receive an input data item and to process the input data item to generate a respective score for each label in a predetermined set of multiple labels. The method includes actions of obtaining a set of training data that includes a plurality of training items, wherein each training item is associated with a respective label from the predetermined set of multiple labels; and modifying the training data to generate regularizing training data, comprising: for each training item, determining whether to modify the label associated with the training item, and changing the label associated with the training item to a different label from the predetermined set of labels, and training the neural network on the regularizing data.
US11934939B2
According to a method and apparatus for neural network quantization, a quantized neural network is generated by performing learning of a neural network, obtaining weight differences between an initial weight and an updated weight determined by the learning of each cycle for each of layers in the first neural network, analyzing a statistic of the weight differences for each of the layers, determining one or more layers, from among the layers, to be quantized with a lower-bit precision based on the analyzed statistic, and generating a second neural network by quantizing the determined one or more layers with the lower-bit precision.
US11934938B2
A computer implemented method for training a neural network to capture a structural feature specific to a set of chemical compounds is disclosed. In the method, the computer system reads an expression describing a structure of the chemical compound for each chemical compound in the set and enumerates one or more combinations of a position and a type of a structural element appearing in the expression for each chemical compound in the set. The computer system also generates training data based on the one or more enumerated combinations for each chemical compound in the set. The training data includes one or more values with a length, each of which indicates whether or not a corresponding type of the structural element appears at a corresponding position for each combination. Furthermore, the computer system trains the neural network based on the training data for the set of the chemical compounds.
