US11936003B2
A battery includes a wound electrode assembly. The wound electrode assembly has a flat shape. The wound electrode assembly includes a first separator, a positive electrode plate, a second separator, and a negative electrode plate. The first separator, the positive electrode plate, the second separator, and the negative electrode plate are stacked in this order and then wound spirally. In a cross section perpendicular to a winding axis of the wound electrode assembly, the first separator has a first winding start edge inside an innermost circumference of the wound electrode assembly; the second separator has a second winding start edge inside the innermost circumference of the wound electrode assembly; the first winding start edge faces the second winding start edge with the winding axis interposed therebetween; and the first winding start edge is located apart from the second winding start edge.
US11935998B2
A battery device comprises a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery provided with an electric power generating element and a pressing member which presses the electric power generating element in the stacking direction. The electric power generating element comprises: a positive electrode with a positive electrode active material layer of a positive electrode active material on the surface of a positive electrode collector; a negative electrode with a negative electrode active material layer of a negative electrode active material on the surface of a negative electrode collector; and a separator which holds an electrolyte solution. This battery device satisfies (1) 0.1<(T1−T2)/T1×100<5, where T1 is the thickness of the thickest portion of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction, and T2 is the thickness of the thinnest portion of the of the electric power generating element in the stacking direction.
US11935995B2
A light emitting device includes: a package including a first lead, a second lead, and a molded body; and a light emitting element provided on the second lead. The first lead includes a first electrode terminal having a first thickness in a thickness direction, and a first holding portion connected to the first electrode terminal and having a thickness smaller than the first thickness in the thickness direction, the first holding portion having a front surface and a rear surface opposite to the front surface in the thickness direction. The second lead includes a second electrode terminal facing the first electrode terminal in the thickness direction, and a connection electrically connected to the first lead. The molded body holds the first lead and the second lead and covers the front surface and the rear surface of the first holding portion.
US11935994B2
A radiation emitting semiconductor chip may include a radiation emitting surface, an epitaxial semiconductor layer sequence having active regions, and a mounting surface facing the radiation emitting surface. The mounting surface may include a plurality of first and second solderable contact surfaces. Each active region may be suppliable with current with a respective first and second solderable contact surface. The first solderable contact surfaces may be arranged in an inner region of the mounting surface. The second solderable contact surface may be arranged in an edge region of the mounting surface. Furthermore, a radiation emitting semiconductor device and a head lamp having such a semiconductor chip may also be useful.
US11935993B2
A stretchable display device according to present disclosure may include a base substrate, a plurality of first substrates on the base substrate, a plurality of second substrates connecting adjacent first substrates, inorganic insulating layers on the first substrates, an organic insulating layer disposed on the first substrates so as to cover top surfaces and side surfaces of the inorganic insulating layers. The device includes first connection lines disposed on the organic insulating layer on the first substrates and disposed on a second substrate extending in a first direction, second connection lines disposed between the inorganic insulating layers and the organic insulating layer on the first substrates and disposed on a second substrate extending in a second direction, and a step alleviating layer disposed between the second connection lines and the inorganic insulating layers.
US11935990B2
A light emitting diode including a side reflection layer. The light emitting diode includes: a semiconductor stack and a light exit surface having a roughened surface through which light generated from an active layer is emitted; side surfaces defining the light exit surface; and a side reflection layer covering at least part of the side surfaces. The light exit surface is disposed over a first conductivity type semiconductor layer opposite to the ohmic reflection layer, all layers from the active layer to the light exit surface are formed of gallium nitride-based semiconductors, and a distance from the active layer to the light exit surface is 50 μm or more.
US11935975B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods for producing a photovoltaic junction that can include coating a bare junction with a composition. In one embodiment, the composition includes a plurality of quantum dots to create a film; exposing the film to a ligand to create a first layer; coating the first layer with the composition to form a film on the first layer; and exposing the film on the first layer to the ligand to create a second layer.
US11935972B2
Tri-layer semiconductor stacks for patterning features on solar cells, and the resulting solar cells, are described herein. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate. A semiconductor structure is disposed above the substrate. The semiconductor structure includes a P-type semiconductor layer disposed directly on a first semiconductor layer. A third semiconductor layer is disposed directly on the P-type semiconductor layer. An outermost edge of the third semiconductor layer is laterally recessed from an outermost edge of the first semiconductor layer by a width. An outermost edge of the P-type semiconductor layer is sloped from the outermost edge of the third semiconductor layer to the outermost edge of the third semiconductor layer. A conductive contact structure is electrically connected to the semiconductor structure.
US11935970B2
The present invention relates to a method for coating a photovoltaic panel, and a photovoltaic power generating device using same and, more specifically, to a method for coating a photovoltaic panel, and a photovoltaic power generating device using same, wherein the method inhibits various pollutants such as dust and salt from attaching to the surface of a photovoltaic panel so as to increase power generation efficiency. The method for coating a photovoltaic panel, of the present invention, comprises: a water washing step of washing the surface of the photovoltaic panel by, spraying water thereonto; a cleaning liquid applying step of applying a cleaning liquid to the surface of the photovoltaic panel after the water washing step; a rinsing step of spraying washing water after the cleaning liquid applying step so as to remove pollutants and the cleaning liquid on the surface of the photovoltaic panel; and a coating liquid applying step of applying a coating liquid to the surface of the photovoltaic panel after the rinsing step so as to form an anti-stain coating film.
US11935967B2
The purpose of the invention is to form the TFT of the oxide semiconductor, in which influence of variation in mask alignment is suppressed, thus, manufacturing a display device having a TFT of stable characteristics. The concrete measure is as follows. A display device including plural pixels, each of the plural pixels having a thin film transistor (TFT) of an oxide semiconductor comprising: a width of the oxide semiconductor in the channel width direction is wider than a width of the gate electrode in the channel width direction.
US11935966B2
A transistor device includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region spaced apart from each other; a channel layer electrically connected to the first and second source/drain regions; a gate insulator layer; a gate electrode isolated from the channel layer by the gate insulator layer; and a UV-attenuating layer disposed on the channel layer to protect the channel layer from characteristic degradation caused by UV light.
US11935965B2
A display device including a pixel having a memory. The pixel includes at least a display element, a capacitor, an inverter, and a switch. The switch is controlled with a signal held in the capacitor and a signal output from the inverter so that voltage is supplied to the display element. The inverter and the switch can be constituted by transistors with the same polarity. A semiconductor layer included in the pixel may be formed using a light-transmitting material. Moreover, a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a capacitor electrode may be formed using a light-transmitting conductive layer. The pixel is formed using a light-transmitting material in such a manner, whereby the display device can be a transmissive display device while including a pixel having a memory.
US11935959B2
A change in electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device including an interlayer insulating film over a transistor including an oxide semiconductor as a semiconductor film is suppressed. The structure includes a first insulating film which includes a void portion in a step region formed by a source electrode and a drain electrode over the semiconductor film and contains silicon oxide as a component, and a second insulating film containing silicon nitride, which is provided in contact with the first insulating film to cover the void portion in the first insulating film. The structure can prevent the void portion generated in the first insulating film from expanding outward.
US11935952B2
Provided in a semiconductor device including a substrate, an active region upwardly protruding from the substrate, a plurality of active fins upwardly protruding from the active region and extending in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, the plurality of active fins being provided in a second direction that is parallel to the upper surface of the substrate and intersects with the first direction, and an isolation structure provided on the substrate, the isolation structure covering a sidewall of the active region and a lower portion of a sidewall of each of the plurality of active fins, wherein a first sidewall of the active region adjacent to a first active fin among the plurality of active fins has a staircase shape, the first active fin being provided on a first edge of the active region in the second direction.
US11935945B2
Provided is a semiconductor device, comprising: a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface, a lower surface, and a center position equidistant from the upper surface and the lower surface in a depth direction of the semiconductor substrate. An N-type region with an N-type conductivity is provided in the semiconductor substrate such that the N-type region includes the center position of the semiconductor substrate. The N-type region includes an acceptor with a concentration that is a lower concentration than a carrier concentration, and is 0.001 times or more of a carrier concentration at the center position of the semiconductor substrate.
US11935942B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device that includes a first terminal formed on a fin region and having a first spacer. The semiconductor device further includes a second terminal having a hard mask and a second spacer opposing the first spacer. The hard mask and the second spacer are formed using different materials. The semiconductor device also includes a seal layer formed between first and second spacers of the first and second terminals, respectively. The semiconductor device further includes an air gap surrounded by the seal layer, the fin region, and the first and second spacers.
US11935941B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a conductive region, a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer, a gate structure, a low-k spacer, a gate contact, and a conductive region contact. The low-k spacer is formed between a sidewall of the gate structure and the first insulation layer. The gate contact is landed on a top surface of the gate structure. A proximity distance between a sidewall of the gate contact and the conductive region contact along a top surface of the second insulation layer is in a range of from about 4 nm to about 7 nm. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11935934B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device including a capping layer of a reduced thickness and capable of preventing regrowth of an interface layer caused by oxygen injection, and a method for fabricating the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the semiconductor device comprises: an interface layer on a substrate; a high-k layer on the interface layer; a gate electrode on the high-k layer; and a capping layer including a first oxygen barrier layer and a second oxygen barrier layer on the gate electrode.
US11935925B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes the following operations. A first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and a passivation layer are successively formed on a semiconductor substrate. The passivation layer and the second conductive layer are patterned to form a primary gate pattern. A portion of the first conductive layer that is not covered by the primary gate pattern, is exposed. The primary gate pattern is subjected with plasma treatment to form a first protective layer. A dielectric layer is formed. The exposed portion of the first conductive layer is removed to retain a portion of the first conductive layer covered by the primary gate pattern. A second protective layer is formed on a side wall of the exposed portion of the first conductive layer.
US11935922B2
A semiconductor device include: a substrate; a 1st transistor formed above the substrate, the 1st transistor including a 1st channel set of a plurality of 1st nanosheet layers, a 1st gate structure surrounding the 1st nanosheet layers, and 1st and 2nd source/drain regions at both ends of the 1st channel set; and a 2nd transistor formed above the 1st transistor in a vertical direction, the 2nd transistor including a 2nd channel set of a plurality of 2nd nanosheet layers, a 2nd gate structure surrounding the 2nd nanosheet layers, and 3rd and 4th source/drain regions at both ends of the 2nd channel set, wherein the 1st channel set has a greater width than the 2nd channel set, wherein a number of the 1st nanosheet layers is smaller than a number of the 2nd nanosheet layers, and wherein a sum of effective channel widths of the 1st nanosheet layers is substantially equal to a sum of effective channel width of the 2nd nanosheet layers.
US11935904B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a display device, as a voltage line connection pattern electrically connecting a voltage line and a circuit element in a subpixel includes a first voltage line connection pattern, for example, disposed using an active layer and a second voltage line connection pattern, for example, disposed using a metal layer and not disposed in a part area on the first voltage line connection pattern, a damage of an electrode located at a periphery can be prevented or at least reduced when cutting by a laser for a repair. Furthermore, as the voltage line connection pattern which is easily cut and has a low resistance is disposed, a structure can be provided that is capable of responding to various types of repairs such as a disconnection defect of other signal lines.
US11935893B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of standard cells. The plurality of standard cells include a first group of standard cells arranged in a first row extending in a row direction and a second group of standard cells arranged in a second row extending in the row direction. The first group of standard cells and the second group of standard cells are arranged in a column direction. A cell height of the first group of standard cells in the column direction is different from a cell height of the second group of standard cells in the column direction.
US11935881B2
According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of pixels arrayed on the substrate; a plurality of inorganic light-emitting elements that are provided in the pixels, respectively; a transistor provided to a first surface of the substrate and coupled to one of the inorganic light-emitting elements; wiring provided to the first surface of the substrate and coupled to the transistor; and a circular polarization plate provided on a first side of the substrate.
US11935879B2
A transistor package that includes a metal submount; a transistor die mounted on said metal submount; a surface mount IPD component that includes a dielectric substrate; and the dielectric substrate mounted on said metal submount. Additionally, the dielectric substrate includes one of the following: an irregular shape, a non-square shape, and a nonrectangular shape.
US11935876B2
A light-emitting element ink, a display device, and a method of fabricating the display device are provided. The light-emitting element ink includes a light-emitting element solvent, light-emitting elements dispersed in the light-emitting element solvent, each of the light-emitting elements including a plurality of semiconductor layers and an insulating film that surrounds parts of outer surfaces of the semiconductor layers, and a surfactant dispersed in the light-emitting element solvent, the surfactant including a fluorine-based and/or a silicon-based surfactant.
US11935875B2
A power semiconductor module arrangement includes a power electronics substrate comprising a first DC voltage pad, a second DC voltage pad, a first load pad, and a second load pad, first and second transistor dies mounted on the first load pad, third and fourth transistor dies mounted the first DC voltage pad, the first and second transistor dies collectively form a first switch, the third and fourth transistor dies collectively form a second switch, the first and second DC voltage pads are arranged such that a DC supply impedance for a first commutation loop that flows through the first and third transistor dies matches a DC supply impedance for a second commutation loop that flows through the second and fourth transistor dies, and an impedance of a first load connection to the third transistor die is greater than an impedance of a second load connection to the fourth transistor die.
US11935871B2
A semiconductor package including a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a first insulating encapsulation, a dielectric layer structure, a conductor structure and a second insulating encapsulation is provided. The first semiconductor die includes a first semiconductor substrate and a through silicon via (TSV) extending from a first side to a second side of the semiconductor substrate. The second semiconductor die is disposed on the first side of the semiconductor substrate. The first insulating encapsulation on the second semiconductor die encapsulates the first semiconductor die. A terminal of the TSV is coplanar with a surface of the first insulating encapsulation. The dielectric layer structure covers the first semiconductor die and the first insulating encapsulation. The conductor structure extends through the dielectric layer structure and contacts with the through silicon via. The second insulating encapsulation contacts with the second semiconductor die, the first insulting encapsulation, and the dielectric layer structure.
US11935870B2
One aspect of the present disclosure is a manufacturing method for a support piece used in the formation of a dolmen structure in a semiconductor device, including processes of: (A) preparing a laminate film including a base material film, an adhesive layer, and a support piece formation film, for example, including a thermosetting resin layer, in this order; and (B) forming support pieces on a surface of the adhesive layer by singulating the support piece formation film, in which the process (B) includes a process of forming a cut in the support piece formation film partway in a thickness direction, and a process of singulating the support piece formation film in a cooled state by expansion, in this order.
US11935867B2
A semiconductor package comprising a package substrate that extends in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a plurality of logic dies and a memory stack structure on the package substrate, and an interposer substrate mounted in the package substrate. The memory stack structure vertically overlaps the interposer substrate. Each of the logic dies includes a first part that is horizontally offset from the interposer substrate and a second part that vertically overlaps the interposer substrate. The interposer substrate includes an interlayer dielectric layer and a plurality of wiring lines in the interlayer dielectric layer. The memory stack structure is electrically connected to at least one of the logic dies through the wiring lines of the interposer substrate.
US11935863B2
A laser reflow apparatus reflows solder bumps disposed on a side of a semiconductor chip in a workpiece and included in an irradiation range on the workpiece by applying a laser beam to an opposite side of the semiconductor chip. The laser reflow apparatus includes a spatial beam modulation unit including a laser power density setting function to locally set the laser power density in the irradiation range of a laser beam emitted from a laser beam source, and an image focusing unit including an image focusing function to focus the laser beam emitted from the laser beam source and apply the focused laser beam to the irradiation range on the workpiece.
US11935852B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a first insulation layer, a conductive pad, a second insulation layer and a conductive trace. The first insulation layer is formed on the substrate and having a first through hole. The conductive pad is formed on the substrate through the first through hole. The second insulation layer has a first surface and a second through hole, wherein the second through hole extends to the conductive pad from the first surface. The conductive trace has a second surface and is connected to the conductive pad through the second through hole. The entire of the first surface is in the same level, and the entire of the second surface is in the same level.
US11935842B2
Warpage and breakage of integrated circuit substrates is reduced by compensating for the stress imposed on the substrate by thin films formed on a surface of the substrate. Particularly advantageous for substrates having a thickness substantially less than about 150 μm, a stress-tuning layer is formed on a surface of the substrate to substantially offset or balance stress in the substrate which would otherwise cause the substrate to bend. The substrate includes a plurality of bonding pads on a first surface for electrical connection to other component.
US11935840B2
A semiconductor device has a substrate. A first component and second component are disposed over the substrate. The first component includes an antenna. A lid is disposed over the substrate between the first component and second component. An encapsulant is deposited over the substrate and lid. A conductive layer is formed over the encapsulant and in contact with the lid. A first portion of the conductive layer over the first component is removed using laser ablation.
US11935838B2
A method of forming alignment marks includes providing a III-V compound substrate having a device region and an alignment mark region, forming a hardmask layer having a first set of openings on the alignment mark region exposing a first surface portion of the III-V compound substrate and a second set of openings on the device region exposing a second surface portion of the III-V compound substrate, etching the exposed surface of the III-V compound substrate using the hardmask layer as a mask to form a plurality of trenches, and epitaxially regrowing a semiconductor layer in the trenches to form the alignment marks extending to a predetermined height over the processing surface of the III-V compound substrate.
US11935836B2
A semiconductor device includes a bridge and a first integrated circuit. The bridge is free of active devices and includes a first conductive connector. The first integrated circuit includes a substrate and a second conductive connector disposed in a first dielectric layer over the substrate. The second conductive connector is directly bonded to the first conductive connector. The second conductive connector includes conductive pads and first conductive vias and a second conductive via between the conductive pads. The second conductive via is not overlapped with the first conductive vias while the first conductive vias are overlapped with one another. A vertical distance between the second conductive via and the first conductive connector is larger than a vertical distance between each of the first conductive vias and the first conductive connector, and a sidewall of the first dielectric layer is substantially flush with a sidewall of the substrate.
US11935831B2
The present application discloses a method for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a first semiconductor structure; and forming a first connecting structure comprising a first connecting insulating layer on the first semiconductor structure, a plurality of first connecting contacts in the first connecting insulating layer, and a plurality of first supporting contacts in the first connecting insulating layer.
US11935830B2
An integrated circuit includes multiple backside conductive layers disposed over a backside of a substrate. The multiple backside conductive layers each includes conductive segments. The conductive segments in at least one of the backside conductive layers are configured to transmit one or more power signals. The conductive segments of the multiple backside conductive layers cover select areas of the backside of the substrate, thereby leaving other areas of the backside of the substrate exposed.
US11935824B2
An integrated circuit package module includes an integrated circuit package device including a contact element, and a bonding system formed on the integrated circuit package device. The bonding system includes a bonding system substrate and a bonding element formed in the bonding system substrate and conductively coupled to the contact element of the integrated circuit package device. The bonding element includes (a) a conduction component conductively connected to the contact element, the conduction component formed from a first metal having a first melting point, and (b) a bonding component formed from a second metal having a second melting point lower than the first melting point of the first metal.
US11935823B2
A display device includes a metal layer, a boots layer, a passivation layer, and a conductive layer. The boots layer is located below the metal layer. The boots layer is partially overlapped with the metal layer. The passivation layer covers the metal layer and the boots layer. The conductive layer covers the passivation layer and the metal layer. The conductive layer is overlapped with the boots layer along a direction of the orthogonal projection.
US11935812B2
A semiconductor package may include a package substrate, a semiconductor chip on the package substrate, a heat dissipation member on the semiconductor chip, and a first thermal interface material coated on an upper surface of the semiconductor chip to bond the semiconductor chip and the heat dissipation member. The first thermal interface material may include a liquid metal and fine particles disposed inside the liquid metal. The fine particles may have no oxide layer on a surface thereof. A volume percentage of the fine particles in the liquid metal including the fine particles therein may be about 1% to about 5%. A thermal conductivity of the liquid metal including the fine particles therein may be equal to or more than about 40 W/m·K.
US11935801B2
An electronic component built-in wiring board includes a substrate having a cavity, an electronic component accommodated in the cavity of the substrate and having pads on a surface of the component, a coating insulating layer formed on the substrate such that the insulating layer is covering the component and has via holes, via conductors formed in the via holes such that the via conductors are penetrating through the insulating layer, and a resin coating formed between the component and the insulating layer and having through holes such that the through holes are partially exposing the pads in the via holes and that the coating has adhesion to the component that is stronger than adhesion of the insulating layer to the component. The via conductors are formed in the via holes and the through holes such that the via conductors are connected to the pads on the surface of the component.
US11935794B2
A method of forming a semiconductor transistor device. The method comprises forming a channel structure over a substrate and forming a first source/drain structure and a second source/drain structure on opposite sides of the fin structure. The method further comprises forming a gate structure surrounding the fin structure. The method further comprises flipping and partially removing the substrate to form a back-side capping trench while leaving a lower portion of the substrate along upper sidewalls of the first source/drain structure and the second source/drain structure as a protective spacer. The method further comprises forming a back-side dielectric cap in the back-side capping trench.
US11935784B2
A vertical layer stack including a bit-line-level dielectric layer and an etch stop dielectric layer can be formed over an array region. Bit-line trenches are formed through the vertical layer stack. Bit-line-trench fill structures are formed in the bit-line trenches. Each of the bit-line-trench fill structures includes a stack of a bit line and a capping dielectric strip. At least one via-level dielectric layer can be formed over the vertical layer stack. A bit-line-contact via cavity can be formed through the at least one via-level dielectric layer and one of the capping dielectric strips. A bit-line-contact via structure formed in the bit-line-contact via cavity includes a stepped bottom surface including a top surface of one of the bit lines, a sidewall segment of the etch stop dielectric layer, and a segment of a top surface of the etch stop dielectric layer.
US11935780B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes: etching a substrate such that the substrate has a first top surface and a second top surface higher than the first top surface; implanting the first top surface of the substrate by boron to increase a p-type concentration of the first top surface of the substrate; forming a first dielectric layer on the substrate; and forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer.
US11935777B2
A semiconductor device is manufactured using a support base and a filling material formed on the support base. The filling material can be a plurality of protrusions or penetrable film. The protrusions are attached to the support base with an adhesive. The protrusions have a variety of shapes such as square frustum, conical frustum, three-sided pyramid with a flat top, four-sided rectangular body, and elongated square frustum. A semiconductor wafer is disposed over the support base with the filling material extending into openings in the semiconductor wafer. The openings in the semiconductor wafer can have slanted sidewalls, or a more complex shape such as ledges and vertical projections. The filling material may substantially fill the openings in the semiconductor wafer. The protrusions may partially fill the openings in the semiconductor wafer. The protrusions occupy at least a center of the openings in the semiconductor wafer.
US11935764B2
The invention relates to a sawing device for forming saw-cuts into a semiconductor product, including: a carrier for holding the semiconductor product, a saw blade, a first position sensor for determining the position of the semiconductor product held by the carrier, a second position sensor for determining the position of the saw blade, and a control unit configured for controlling the relative movement of the saw blade and the carrier, wherein the sawing device further includes a reference for linking the position of the first position sensor to the position of the second position sensor, wherein the control unit is configured to process, with aid of the reference, the positions determined by the reference sensors into a position of the point on the free surface of the semiconductor product relative to the point on the cutting edge of the saw blade, and, based on this positional information, control the relative movement of the saw blade and the carrier. The invention further relates to a method for forming saw-cuts into a semiconductor product.
US11935763B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a circulation pipe which defines a circulation passage through which a chemical liquid within a chemical-liquid tank is circulated; a supply pipe which guides the chemical liquid from the circulation pipe to a chemical-liquid nozzle; a supply valve which is switched between an open state in which the chemical liquid flowing through the supply pipe toward the chemical-liquid nozzle is passed and a closed state in which the supply of the chemical liquid from the supply pipe to the chemical-liquid nozzle is stopped; a recovery pipe which guides the chemical liquid from a cup to the chemical-liquid tank; and a branch pipe which guides the chemical liquid within the circulation pipe to the recovery pipe.
US11935760B2
A package structure includes a first thermal dissipation structure, a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die. The first thermal dissipation structure includes a semiconductor substrate, conductive vias embedded in the semiconductor substrate, first capacitors electrically connected to the conductive vias, and a thermal transmission structure disposed over the semiconductor substrate and the conductive vias. The first semiconductor die is disposed on the first thermal dissipation structure. The second semiconductor die is disposed on the first semiconductor die opposite to the first thermal dissipation structure.
US11935756B2
A method for patterning a layer increases the density of features formed over an initial patterning layer using a series of self-aligned spacers. A layer to be etched is provided, then an initial sacrificial patterning layer, for example formed using optical lithography, is formed over the layer to be etched. Depending on the embodiment, the patterning layer may be trimmed, then a series of spacer layers formed and etched. The number of spacer layers and their target dimensions depends on the desired increase in feature density. An in-process semiconductor device and electronic system is also described.
US11935754B2
A device includes a first nanostructure; a second nanostructure over the first nanostructure; a high-k gate dielectric around the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure, the high-k gate dielectric having a first portion on a top surface of the first nano structure and a second portion on a bottom surface of the second nanostructure; and a gate electrode over the high-k gate dielectric. The gate electrode comprises: a first work function metal around the first nanostructure and the second nanostructure, the first work function metal filling a region between the first portion of the high-k gate dielectric and the second portion of the high-k gate dielectric; and a tungsten layer over the first work function metal, the tungsten layer being free of fluorine.
US11935750B2
A method for producing a semiconductor device includes forming, on a substrate, a film to be processed. The method further includes forming, on the film to be processed, a first film containing a metallic element and a second film containing at least one of carbon or boron. The method further includes forming an insulating film on the first and second films. The method further includes processing the film to be processed using the first film, the second film, and the insulating film, as a mask.
US11935748B2
A method of fabricating a device is presented. The method includes forming a multilayer stack (101′, 102′, 103′) on a substrate (10′, 100′) which has a principal surface. The multilayer stack includes a supporting layer (102′) formed over the principal surface of the substrate and a photoresist layer (103′) formed on the supporting layer, patterning the multilayer stack to form at least one opening such that the photoresist layer is undercut by the supporting layer and anisotropically dry etching the substrate.
US11935745B2
An epitaxial wafer that includes a silicon wafer and an epitaxial layer on the silicon wafer. The silicon wafer contains hydrogen that has a concentration profile including a first peak and a second peak. A hydrogen peak concentration of the first peak and a hydrogen peak concentration of the second peak are each not less than 1×1017 atoms/cm3.
US11935744B2
A method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device includes the steps of growing a GaN channel layer on an SiC substrate using a vertical MOCVD furnace set at a first temperature using H2 as a carrier gas, and TMG and NH3 as raw materials, holding the SiC substrate having the grown GaN channel layer in the MOCVD furnace set at a second temperature higher than the first temperature using H2 as a carrier gas, the MOCVD furnace being supplied with NH3, and growing an InAlN layer on the GaN channel layer using the MOCVD furnace set at a third temperature lower than the first temperature using N2 as a carrier gas, and TMI, TMA, and NH3 as raw materials.
US11935743B2
A process for producing a monocrystalline layer of diamond or iridium material comprises transferring a monocrystalline seed layer of SrTiO3 material onto a carrier substrate of silicon material, followed by epitaxial growth of the monocrystalline layer of diamond or iridium material.
US11935742B2
There is provided a technique that includes: (a) forming a film formation suppression layer on a surface of a first material of a concave portion of the substrate, by supplying a precursor to the substrate provided with the concave portion on a surface of the substrate to adsorb at least a portion of a molecular structure of molecules constituting the precursor on the surface of the first material of the concave portion, the concave portion having a top surface and a side surface composed of the first material containing a first element and a bottom surface composed of a second material containing a second element; and (b) growing a film on a surface of the second material of the concave portion by supplying a film-forming material to the substrate having the film formation suppression layer formed on the surface of the first material.
US11935738B2
Edge trimming is performed on a wafer while a cleaning liquid is supplied to the center of a face side of the wafer and the wafer is rotated to form a film of the cleaning liquid that covers the face side of the wafer. The film of the cleaning liquid prevents the face side of the wafer from being dried, lowering the probability that swarf will be introduced into devices on the face side of the wafer. In addition, the consumption of the cleaning liquid can be reduced compared with a step of performing edge trimming on the wafer while supplying a curtain of cleaning liquid to the entire face side of the wafer.
US11935736B2
A substrate processing method for removing liquid on a substrate having an uneven pattern formed on a surface of the substrate and drying the substrate. The substrate processing method includes: forming a laminate having a two-layer structure including a first material in a solid state forming a lower layer and a second material in a solid state forming an upper layer, in a concave portion of the pattern; removing the second material from the concave portion by performing at least one of a heating process, a light-emitting process, and a reaction process using gas with respect to the second material to sublimate, decompose, and gas-react the second material; and removing the first material from the concave portion by performing at least one of the heating process, the light-emitting process, and the reaction process using gas with respect to the first material to sublimate, decompose, and gas-react the first material.
US11935726B2
A radio frequency (RF) generator system includes first and second RF power sources, each RF power source applying a respective RF signal and second RF signal to a load. The first RF signal is applied in accordance with the application of the second RF signal. The application of the first RF signal is synchronized to application of the second RF signal. The first RF signal may be amplitude modulated in synchronization with the second RF signal, and the amplitude modulation can include blanking of the first RF signal. A frequency offset may be applied to the first RF signal in synchronization with the second RF signal. A variable actuator associated with the first RF power source may be controlled in accordance with the second RF signal.
US11935698B2
This invention relates to a multilayer ceramic capacitor produced by alternatively stacking the ceramic dielectric layers and internal electrodes mainly comprise base metals. The present dielectric ceramic composition having a main component with a perovskite structure ABO3 formula of: (KxNayLizA1-x-y-z)m(NbuTav)O3 wherein: A, B, x, y, z, u, v, w, m, u, v and w are defined further. The dielectric ceramic composition further contains: a first accessory ingredient composes at least one selected from the rare-earth compounds; a second accessory ingredient composes at least one selected from transition metal compounds; and a third accessory ingredient.
US11935696B2
A capacitor includes a capacitor module including a capacitor device, a first busbar electrically connected with a thermally-sprayed surface of the capacitor device and having a first lead terminal on an exposed side, a second busbar electrically connected with the other thermally-sprayed surface of the capacitor device and having a second lead terminal on an exposed side, and an insulating sheet disposed between the first busbar and the second busbar to insulate an overlap region; a plastic case having a 3D space formed by four sides and a bottom to accommodate the capacitor module and having an open top; a metallic external wall is formed outside one side of the four sides or the bottom of the plastic case; and a filler permeating in a gel or fluid state into the space between the capacitor module and inner walls of the plastic case.
US11935692B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A wireless charging device has a plurality of charging cells provided on a first surface and a processor configured to provide a charging current to a first charging coil in a surface of the wireless charging device, determine that an impedance of a resonant circuit has varied from a threshold or setpoint impedance, and restore the threshold or setpoint impedance by modifying frequency of the charging current. The resonant circuit may include the first charging coil. A method for operating the wireless charging device includes providing a charging current to a first charging coil in a surface of the wireless charging device, determining that an impedance of a resonant circuit has varied from a threshold or setpoint impedance, and restoring the threshold or setpoint impedance by modifying frequency of the charging current. The resonant circuit may include the charging coil.
US11935687B2
A reactor including a coil and a magnetic core, the magnetic core including a first inner core portion, a second inner core portion, a first outer core portion, and a second outer core portion. The reactor includes an inner resin portion and an outer resin portion, and the first outer core portion includes a first inner face that faces the coil, a first outer face on the opposite side to the first inner face, and an outward protruding portion protruding from the first outer face. When viewed from the first outer face side, the outer circumferential contour line of the outward protruding portion is located inside the outer circumferential contour line of the first outer face, and the end face of the outward protruding portion is exposed from the outer resin portion and is flush with the surface of the outer resin portion.
US11935679B2
A coil device includes: a core including a winding core part and a flange part at an axial end part of the winding core part, a coil part including a first wire and a second wire wound around the winding core part, a first terminal electrode, formed on a flange part mounting surface and a lead-out part of the first wire is connected, and a second terminal electrode, formed on the mounting surface of the flange part spaced apart from the first terminal electrode and a lead-out part of the second wire is connected, in which the flange part includes a concave part, recessed from the upper surface of the flange part and from an outer end surface of the flange part in order to have bottoms. The coil device is easy to connect a wire and has excellent bonding strength even when the connecting part becomes the mounting surface.
US11935667B2
A thermionic energy conversion system, preferably including one or more electron collectors, interfacial layers, encapsulation, and/or electron emitters. A method for manufacturing the thermionic energy conversion system. A method of operation for a thermionic energy conversion system, preferably including receiving power, emitting electrons, and receiving the emitted electrons, and optionally including convectively transferring heat.
US11935656B2
Presented are systems and methods for the accurate acquisition of medical measurement data of a body part of patient. To assist in acquiring accurate medical measurement data, an automated diagnostic and treatment system provides instructions to the patient to allow the patient to precisely position a medical instrument in proximity to a target spot of a body part of patient. For a stethoscope examination, the steps may include utilizing object tracking to determine if the patient has moved the stethoscope to a recording site; utilizing DSP processing to confirm that the stethoscope is in operation, utilizing DSP processing to generate a pre-processed audio sample from a recorded audio signal; using machine learning (ML) to determine if a signal of interest (SOI) is present in the pre-processed sample. If SoI is present, using ML to evaluate characteristics in the signal which indicate the presence of abnormalities in the organ being measured.
US11935640B2
An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athlete, and displays, during the performance of the athletic activity session, a representation of the vertical jump height on the display.
US11935635B2
A medical lookup patch, for application to a medical device, includes a substrate having a front, a back, and a perimeter edge defined therebetween. The patch includes an engagement element of a hook-and-loop engagement system on the back of the substrate, for engaging with a complemental engagement element on the medical device. The front of the substrate includes first, second, and third information areas. Brand information is displayed in the first information area, and instructive information is displayed in the second information area. Lookup information is displayed in the third information area and defines a machine-readable code which, when processed by a machine, directs the machine to display human-readable information different from the lookup information.
US11935632B2
Tissue sample management systems include a central network, a medical professional system, and a pathology lab system for processing a tissue sample in a matrix having a sectionable code. At least the pathology lab system includes at least one imaging device, and the central network is configured to process images from the at least one imaging device to identify and record at least the sectionable code of the matrix. Methods for tissue sample processing include providing a matrix having a sectionable code and measurement marks, the matrix for receiving a tissue sample, and identifying the sectionable code from an image taken of the tissue sample in the matrix. Tissue sample-receiving matrices include a sectionable alphanumeric code or bar code, a tissue sample receptacle, and measurement marks formed along a sidewall thereof. The matrices include one or more proteins and one or more lipids.
US11935627B2
Introduced here is an approach to further refining an initial set of target locations that can serve as inputs to machine learning mechanisms. These target locations may refer to unique molecular positions in a reference human genome and/or mutations thereof that are diagnostically relevant for a given cancer type. The system can implement a refinement mechanism to account for unnecessary or problematic data, such as consecutive/overlapping patterns, non-uniform read counts, insufficient data quality, internal processing noises, and/or insufficient data counts.
US11935626B2
The disclosure provides methods to assemble genomes of eukaryotic or prokaryotic organisms. The disclosure further provides methods for haplotype phasing and meta-genomics assemblies.
US11935625B2
A computer-implemented method for processing and/or analyzing nucleic acid sequencing data comprises receiving a first data input and a second data input. The first data input comprises untargeted sequencing data generated from a first nucleic acid sample obtained from a subject. The second data input comprises target-specific sequencing data generated from a second nucleic acid sample obtained from the subject. Next, with the aid of a computer processor, the first data input and the second data input are combined to produce a combined data set. Next, an output derived from the combined data set is generated. The output is indicative of the presence or absence of one or more polymorphisms of the first nucleic acid sample and/or the second nucleic acid sample.
US11935617B2
Methods, systems, and devices for non-destructive pattern identification at a memory device are described. A memory device may perform pattern identification within the memory device and output a flag indicating whether a first data pattern matches with a second data pattern. The memory device may access one or more memory cells, via a word line, and latch the second data pattern of the memory cells to a sense amplifier. The memory device may deactivate the word line, which may result in isolating the memory cells from potential destruction of data. The memory device may write a first data pattern to the sense amplifier and compare the first data pattern and second data pattern at the sense amplifier. The memory device may output a signal indicating whether the data patterns match.
US11935615B2
A sample and hold scheme for temperature measurements for non-volatile memory can enable significant reduction in temperature readout latency. In one example thermometer circuits are enabled at a refresh rate to cause the temperature to be sensed and latched at regular intervals. By performing the temperature readings in the background at a refresh rate instead of on-demand, the temperature is available to service commands with almost no latency.
US11935613B2
A device and method are presented. Largest and smallest successful values of a receive clock delay and a transmit clock delay are determined. A first set of parameters for an SPI coupled to a DDR flash memory are set, including the largest successful values of the transmit clock delay and the receive clock delay, and a first value of a RD cycle. A second set of parameters for the SPI are set, including the smallest successful value of the transmit clock delay and receive clock delay, and a second value of the RD cycle. One of the first and second sets of parameters is selected based on whether the first or second set of parameters results in successfully reading from the DDR flash memory over a larger range of operating temperatures. The SPI is programmed using the selected one of the first and second sets of parameters.
US11935609B2
Embodiments described herein provide a linked XOR flash data protection scheme for data storage devices. In particular, the embodiments described herein provide a data storage controller with a memory space efficient XOR-based flash data protection/recovery algorithm with minimal flash block space overhead and support of recovery from full plane failure with neighbor planes disturb (NPD) in a single word line. Additionally, the embodiments described herein provide a reduced flash block space dedicated for XOR parity buffers storage by a factor of a number of planes per die without losing the capability to recover from NPD.
US11935605B2
The present application discloses a method for preparing a semiconductor device including an electronic fuse control circuit. The method includes providing a chip including an electronic fuse control circuit, wherein the electronic fuse control circuit includes a program voltage pad, a fuse element, a latch, a plurality of resistor selection pads, and a plurality of bonding option units. The method further includes providing a substrate including a first voltage bonding pad and a plurality of second voltage bonding pads, disposing the chip on the substrate, bonding the first voltage bonding pad to the program voltage pad, and bonding at least one of the plurality of second voltage bonding pads to at least one of the plurality of resistor selection pads.
US11935592B2
A resistive memory device includes a resistive cell connected between a first bit line and a first source line, a reference cell including a reference resistor and connected between a second bit line and a second source line, and a write driver connected to the first bit line or the first source line, connected to the second bit line or the second source line. The write driver includes a comparator configured to compare previous data written in the resistive cell with the target data by comparing a voltage of the first source line with a voltage of the second source line or comparing a voltage of the first bit line with a voltage of the second bit line, and determine whether the target data is written in the resistive cell after comparing the previous data with the target data.
US11935588B2
A memory device according to the present invention may comprise: a memory cell array in which memory cells of a latch structure are connected in matrix form to word lines and bit line pairs composed of bit lines and inverted bit lines; and a driving circuit which, during an ON period in which the word lines activate first memory cells connected to the corresponding word lines, continuously programs or reads n (n is a natural number of 2 or more) second memory cells among the first memory cells through n first bit line pairs.
US11935587B2
A static random access memory (SRAM) has one or more arrays of memory cells, each array of memory cells activated in columns by a wordline. The activated column of memory cells asserts output data onto a plurality of bitlines coupled to output drivers. The SRAM includes a wordline controller generating a variable wordline signal pulse width which may be reduced sufficiently to introduce memory read errors. Each of a high error rate, medium error rate, low error rate, and a nearly error-free rate is associated with a pulse width value generated by the wordline controller. A power consumption tradeoff exists between the wordline signal pulse width and consumed SRAM power. The wordline controller is thereby able to associate a wordline signal pulse width with an associated error rate for performing tasks which are insensitive to a high error rate or a medium error rate, which are specific to certain neural network training and inference using various NN data types.
US11935585B2
An apparatus includes a control circuit and a plurality of non-volatile memory cells arranged in a plane of a memory die. The plane includes a first word line including a first word line portion coupled to a corresponding first group of the non-volatile memory cells, and a second word line including a second word line portion coupled to a corresponding second group of the non-volatile memory cells, the second word line different from the first word line. The control circuit is configured to apply a first voltage to the first word line portion and apply a second voltage to the second word line portion to concurrently read the first group of the non-volatile memory cells and the second group of the non-volatile memory cells. The first group of the non-volatile memory cells and the second group of the non-volatile memory cells each store less than a page of data.
US11935580B2
One implementation described herein is related to a device having memory with sense amplifiers and precharge blocks arranged in an array with a first side and a second side. The first side has first sense amplifiers and first precharge blocks coupled together with first bitlines, and the second side has second sense amplifiers and second precharge blocks coupled together with second bitlines. The device has a first delay block coupled to the first precharge blocks in the first side of the array, and the first delay block delays precharge of the first bitlines with a first precharge burst in a multi-burst precharge event. The device has a second delay block coupled to the second precharge blocks in the second side of the array, and the second delay block delays precharge of the second bitlines with a second precharge burst in the multi-burst precharge event.
US11935575B1
An example apparatus having a heterogenous memory system includes a first sensor layer, of a plurality of stacked sensor layers, including an array of pixels; and one or more semiconductor layers of the plurality of stacked sensor layers located beneath the first sensor layer, the one or more semiconductor layers configured to process pixel data output by the array of pixels, the one or more semiconductor layers including a first memory to store most significant bits (“MSBs”) of data involved in the processing of the pixel data; a second memory to store least significant bits (“LSBs”) of the data; and wherein the first memory has a lower bit error rate (“BER”) than the second memory.
US11935568B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording device includes a magnetic head and a controller. The magnetic head includes first and second magnetic poles, a magnetic element provided between the first magnetic pole and the second magnetic pole, first and second terminals electrically connected to one end and another end of the magnetic element, respectively, and a coil. The controller is electrically connected to the magnetic element and the coil, and performs a recording operation. In the recording operation, the controller supplies a recording current to the coil while applying an element voltage between the first and second terminals. When the applied voltage is changed while the recording current is supplied, a differential resistance of the magnetic element becomes a first differential resistance peak when the applied voltage is a first voltage, and becomes a second differential resistance peak when the applied voltage is a second voltage.
US11935554B2
A method for adjusting the clarity of an audio output in a changing environment, including: receiving a content signal; applying a customized gain to the content signal; and outputting the content signal with the customized gain to at least one speaker for transduction to an acoustic signal, wherein the customized gain is applied on a per frequency bin basis such that frequencies of a lesser magnitude are enhanced with respect to frequencies of a greater magnitude and an intelligibility of the acoustic signal is set approximately at a desired level, wherein the customized gain is determined according to at least one of a gain applied to the content signal, a bandwidth of the content signal, and a content type encoded by the content signal.
US11935546B2
Audio streaming devices, systems, and methods may employ adaptive differential pulse code modulation (ADPCM) techniques providing for optimum performance even while ensuring robustness against transmission errors. One illustrative device includes: a difference element that produces a sequence of prediction error values by subtracting predicted values from audio samples; a scaling element that produces scaled error values by dividing each prediction error by a corresponding envelope estimate; a quantizer that operates on the scaled error values to produce quantized error values; a multiplier that uses the corresponding envelope estimates to produce reconstructed error values; a predictor that produces the next audio sample values based on the reconstructed error values; and an envelope estimator. The envelope estimator includes: an updater that applies a dynamic gain to the reconstructed error values to produce update values; and an integrator that combines each of the update values with the corresponding envelope estimate to produce a subsequent envelope estimate.
US11935539B1
A voice support server is used to provide voice control functionality to a third party application that does not natively support voice control functions. The voice support server implements a domain specific to the third party application that maintains a domain-specific language model (DLM) reflecting the functionality of the third party application. The DLM comprises a plurality of intent patterns corresponding to different commands and their possible variations that may be issued by the user, and maps each intent pattern to a corresponding action to be performed by the third party application. Received audio data is analyzed to determine one or more user utterances, which are transcribed and compared to the intent patterns of the DLM to identify an intent corresponding to the user utterance. The voice control module may then transmit instructions to the third party application to perform the action corresponding to the identified intent.
US11935534B2
A system and method for voice control of a media playback device is disclosed. The method includes receiving an instruction of a voice command, converting the voice command to text, transmitting the text command to the playback device, and having the playback device execute the command. An instruction may include a command to play a set of audio tracks, and the media playback device plays the set of audio tracks upon receiving the instruction.
US11935531B2
Apparatus and methods for leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to assess a sentiment of an utterance expressed by a user during an interaction between an interactive response system and the user is provided. The methods may include a natural language processor processing the utterance to output an utterance intent. The methods may also include a signal extractor processing the utterance, the utterance intent and previous utterance data to output utterance signals. The methods may additionally include an utterance sentiment classifier using a hierarchy of rules to extract, from a database, a label, the extracting being based on the utterance signals. The methods may further include a sequential neural network classifier using a trained algorithm to process the label and a sequence of historical labels to output a sentiment score.
US11935519B2
Implementations can receive, at a computing device, audio data corresponding to a spoken utterance of a user, process the audio data to generate, for one or more parts of the spoken utterance, a plurality of speech hypotheses, select a given one of the speech hypotheses, cause the given one of the speech hypotheses to be incorporated as a portion of a transcription associated with the software application, and store the plurality of speech hypotheses. In some implementations, the plurality of speech hypotheses can be loaded at an additional computing device when the transcription is accessed at the additional computing device. In additional or alternative implementations, the plurality of speech hypotheses can be loaded into memory of the computing device when the software application is reactivated and/or when a subsequent dialog session associated with the transcription is initiated.
US11935513B2
For example, a controller of an Active Acoustic Control (AAC) system may be configured to process input information, the input information including AAC configuration information corresponding to a configuration of AAC in a sound control zone; a plurality of noise inputs representing acoustic noise at a plurality of noise sensing locations; and a plurality of residual-noise inputs representing acoustic residual-noise at a plurality of residual-noise sensing locations within the sound control zone. For example, the controller may determine a sound control pattern to control sound within the sound control zone based on the AAC configuration information, the plurality of noise inputs, and the plurality of residual-noise inputs. For example, the controller may output the sound control pattern to a plurality of acoustic transducers.
US11935512B2
Aspects of the subject technology provide for generation of a self-voice signal by an electronic device that is operating in an active noise cancellation mode. In this way, during a phone call, a video conference, or while listening to audio content, a user of the electronic device may benefit from active cancellation of ambient noise while still being able to hear their own voice when they speak. In various implementations described herein, the concurrent self-voice and automatic noise cancellation features are facilitated by accelerometer-based control of sidetone and/or active noise cancellation operations.
US11935508B2
The present document relates to audio coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), and to digital effect processors, e.g. so-called exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion adds brightness to the processed signal. In particular, a system configured to generate a high frequency component of a signal from a low frequency component of the signal is described. The system may comprise an analysis filter bank (501) configured to provide a set of analysis subband signals from the low frequency component of the signal; wherein the set of analysis subband signals comprises at least two analysis subband signals; wherein the analysis filter bank (501) has a frequency resolution of Δf. The system further comprises a nonlinear processing unit (502) configured to determine a set of synthesis subband signals from the set of analysis subband signals using a transposition order P; wherein the set of synthesis subband signals comprises a portion of the set of analysis subband signals phase shifted by an amount derived from the transposition order P; and a synthesis filter bank (504) configured to generate the high frequency component of the signal from the set of synthesis subband signals; wherein the synthesis filter bank (504) has a frequency resolution of FΔf; with F being a resolution factor, with F≥1; wherein the transposition order P is different from the resolution factor F.
US11935507B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems that operate to provide interactive streaming content identification and processing are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a classifier to determine an audio characteristic value representative of an audio characteristic in audio; a transition detector to detect a transition between a first category and a second category by comparing the audio characteristic value to a threshold value among a set of threshold values, the set of threshold values corresponding to the first category and the second category; and a context manager to control a device to switch from a first fingerprinting algorithm to a second fingerprinting algorithm different than the first fingerprinting algorithm, responsive to the detected transition between the first category and the second category.
US11935495B2
Methods are described for driving an electro-optic display having a plurality of display pixels. Each of the display pixels is associated with a display transistor. The method includes the following steps in order. A first voltage is applied to a first display transistor associated with a first display pixel of the plurality of display pixels. The first voltage is applied during at least one frame of a driving waveform. A second voltage is applied to the first display transistor associated with the first display pixel. The second voltage has a non-zero amplitude less than the first voltage and is applied during the last frame of the driving waveform. The amplitude of the second voltage is based on a voltage offset value and a sum of remnant voltages each frame of the driving waveform contributes to the first display pixel when the first voltage is applied to the first display transistor.
US11935491B2
A display device comprises a display panel including a plurality of sub-pixels defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; and an auxiliary ground voltage line disposed between two adjacent data lines of the plurality of data lines.
US11935487B2
A substrate assembly includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The substrate assembly includes a first conductive portion disposed on the first surface, and a second conductive portion disposed on the second surface. The substrate assembly includes a connective portion that is at least partially disposed in the substrate and penetrates from the first surface to the second surface. The first conductive portion is electrically connected to the second conductive portion through the connective portion. The substrate assembly includes a processing unit disposed on the first surface, and an electronic element disposed on the second surface. The first conductive portion, the second conductive portion and the connective portion are overlapped with either of the processing unit or the electronic element, and the other of the processing unit or the electronic element is electrically connected to the first conductive portion.
US11935486B2
The present disclosure provides a display device including a display panel and a scan signal generator configured to generate a (1-1)th scan signal and a (1-2)th scan signal to be supplied to a first horizontal line of the display panel and a (2-1)th scan signal and a (2-2)th scan signal to be supplied to a second horizontal line of the display panel, wherein the scan signal generator includes a switch circuit, and an output circuit.
US11935478B2
The OLED voltage of a selected pixel is extracted from the pixel produced when the pixel is programmed so that the pixel current is a function of the OLED voltage. One method for extracting the OLED voltage is to first program the pixel in a way that the current is not a function of OLED voltage, and then in a way that the current is a function of OLED voltage. During the latter stage, the programming voltage is changed so that the pixel current is the same as the pixel current when the pixel was programmed in a way that the current was not a function of OLED voltage. The difference in the two programming voltages is then used to extract the OLED voltage.
US11935468B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a plurality of driving circuits, wherein each of the driving circuits includes: a first sub-circuit, respectively coupled to a gate signal terminal, a data signal terminal and a light-emitting power source terminal, and configured to store a drive voltage based on a voltage at the data signal terminal when the gate signal terminal receives a gate drive signal, and output a drive current to a light-emitting device based on the stored drive voltage under power supply provided by the light-emitting power source terminal; and a second sub-circuit, configured to regulate an equivalent resistance value of the second sub-circuit in an output path through which the drive current is output to the light-emitting device, based on a voltage division control signal received by the voltage division control signal terminal.
US11935466B2
A method for adjusting a gamma curve, a device for adjusting a gamma curve, and a display device. The method for adjusting a gamma curve includes that: a reference duty cycle of a light-emitting control signal is determined according to a duty cycle of the light-emitting control signal at a preset refresh rate; a third refresh rate is determined according to the light-emitting control signal at a first refresh rate, the light-emitting control signal at a second refresh rate and the reference duty cycle, where the third refresh rate is between the first refresh rate and the second refresh rate, and the duty cycle of the light-emitting control signal at the third refresh rate is equal to the reference duty cycle; and the gamma curve is adjusted according to the third refresh rate.
US11935462B2
The present application relates to an electronic device comprising: a display unit, a display driver circuit and a circuit element. The display driver circuit is coupled to the display unit. The circuit element is placed under a display area of the display unit. The circuit element receives a dynamic refresh signal generated by the display driver circuit. The dynamic refresh signal contains a refresh rate information of the display unit. Thereby, the problem that the interference between the display pixels and the circuit element under the display unit cannot be avoided when the refresh rate changes is solved.
US11935457B1
A method of driving a display panel includes: driving a plurality of sub-pixels of a plurality of sub-pixel groups to display in a plurality of frames. In each of the sub-pixel groups in each frame, a number of the sub-pixels with high gray-scale data compensation status and the positive polarity is equal to a number of the sub-pixels with the high gray-scale data compensation status and the negative polarity, a ratio of a number of the sub-pixels with the high gray-scale data compensation status to a number of the sub-pixels with low gray-scale data compensation status is 1:m, where m is an integer greater than 1.
US11935455B2
An object of the present invention is to provide the image display system, the image display device, the image display method and the computer program that can enhance usability when changing a luminance setting value. The image processing unit is configured to set a gradation characteristic of the image data to be displayed on the image display unit to a first gradation characteristic and simultaneously switch a luminance setting value from a first luminance setting value to a second luminance setting value when the image display system accepts a request to change the luminance setting value of the image display unit from the first luminance setting value to the second luminance setting value, and then switch the gradation characteristic of the image data to be displayed on the image display unit to a second gradation characteristic.
US11935452B2
An electronic circuit for operating with a display panel including touch sensors and fingerprint sensors is provided. The electronic circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit, a third circuit, a first switch circuit and a control circuit. The first circuit generates display driving signals for driving the display panel. The second circuit receives fingerprint sensing signals from the fingerprint sensors. The third circuit determines a touch information according to touch sensing signals from the touch sensors. The first switch circuit includes a plurality of first switch units, each of the first switch units includes a first switch element and a second switch element. The control circuit controls the first switch circuit to transmit the display driving signals in a first time interval, controls the first switch circuit to transmit the fingerprint sensing signals in a second time interval, and controls the third circuit to receive the fingerprint sensing signals in a third time interval.
US11935451B2
Provided is a display device for providing a constant brightness for each area by including an area sensing part configured to determine a position value of an input image in the display device, and determine an area range according to the position value to output an area value, a gradation value determining part configured to output a first gradation value corresponding to a brightness of the input image according to the area value, a control part configured to output a corrected gradation value corresponding to the first gradation value, and a display part configured to display a corrected image having the corrected brightness corresponding to the corrected gradation value.
US11935444B2
A detection circuit, a driving circuit, and a display panel and a driving method therefor are provided. The detection circuit includes an acquisition circuit and a processing circuit. The acquisition circuit includes a test transistor and an energy storage element, where, for the test transistor, a control end is configured to be coupled to the data signal terminal, a first end is configured to be written with a detection signal, and a second end is coupled to the energy storage element; and a structural characteristic of the test transistor is identical to a structural characteristic of the driving transistor. The processing circuit is coupled to the second end of the test transistor, and configured to detect a voltage at the second end of the test transistor as a detection voltage and regulate the data signal according to the detection voltage.
US11935438B2
A bend limiting device includes a flexible support film and limiting chains. The limiting chains are disposed on the flexible support film. Each of the limiting chains includes limiting blocks. Each of the limiting blocks includes limiting structures. One of the limiting structures of one of the limiting blocks is connected to one of the limiting structures of another one of the limiting blocks. When the bend limiting device is bent, two connected limiting structures of two adjacent limiting blocks limit a minimum value of an included angle formed between the two adjacent limiting blocks, so a radius of curvature of each of the limiting chains is limited to be greater than a preset value without being excessively bent. The bent limiting device protects a flexible display panel of a flexible display device from being improperly bent, so as to extend a lifespan of the flexible display device.
US11935432B2
A mechanical trigger device comprises a reset screw configured to re-assemble the mechanical trigger device. The resettable screw may be disposed in a slot in a housing of the mechanical trigger device and coupled to a firing pin disposed within the housing. The reset screw may be configured to translate the firing pin within the housing and re-engage a sear after use of the mechanical trigger device.
US11935427B2
A driver training system includes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) including a processor and a memory communicably coupled to the processor and storing a UAV control module including computer-readable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to control operation of a driver training interface operably connected to the UAV to communicate driving instruction information in a manner configured to be perceptible by a human driver in a driver training vehicle following behind the UAV.
US11935418B2
A method for visualizing an effect of wind on an aircraft travel comprising the steps determining at least one wind speed and wind direction for a predefined airspace, identifying a predefined travel route of at least one selected aircraft within the predefined airspace, calculating at least one reference distance flown by the selected aircraft along a route segment of the travel route in a predefined reference time interval, wherein the calculating uses at least one air speed of the selected aircraft at the route segment, the determined wind speed and the determined wind direction, and optionally at least one altitude, visualizing the predefined travel route or the route segment and indicating said reference distance on the visualized predefined travel route or route segment.
US11935415B2
A method for assisting an occupant exiting a vehicle includes: receiving opening data describing an imminent opening of a door of the vehicle; receiving object data describing positions and speeds of objects in the vehicle environment; determining a time-to-collision between the opening of the door and a possible collision of a first object with the door, based on the opening data and the object data; outputting an urgent warning signal if the time-to-collision falls below a predetermined minimum duration; using the object data to check whether the first object is followed by a second object; classifying the second object as a first following object if a time-gap between the first object and the second object is below a predetermined limit; and outputting a warning signal after the output of the urgent warning signal in the event that the second object is classified as the first following object.
US11935412B2
An information supply method causes a computer of a terminal device equipped with a camera and mounted in a mobile object to execute: a process of acquiring an image; a process of determining an alert level for an operator of the mobile object is a first alert level or a second alert level that is a level lower than the first alert level based on a surrounding situation of the mobile object obtained from the image; and a process of displaying information appropriate to the alert level on a display provided on a casing in which the camera of the terminal device is provided in accordance with a result of the determination.
US11935411B2
A parking control device performs parking control such that a vehicle is parked in a reserved parking area in an automatic valet parking lot including a plurality of parking areas. When the vehicle arrives at the automatic valet parking lot before an entrance time for the reserved parking area, the parking control device determines whether the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the reserved parking area is not available, the parking control device determines whether a temporary parking area which is an area other than the reserved parking area is available. When it is determined that the temporary parking area is available, the parking control device performs parking control such that the vehicle is parked in the temporary parking area.
US11935408B2
A method is disclosed. A data set including: (a) identifiers of a set of incidents occurring within a defined geographic region to which at least one service provider responded during a first time period and (b) address data identifying a location within the geographic region of each said incident of the set is retrieved over a network. An instruction to generate a heat map of the incidents occurring within the geographic region during the first time period is received from a user via a user interface generated to a display device. In response to the instruction to generate the heat map, the address data is converted to GPS data. A heat map of an aerial view of the geographic region based on the GPS data is generated. The heat map is displayed to the display device in a user interface.
US11935394B1
A doorbell system includes a doorbell located within a wireless local area network (WLAN) and communicatively connected to a wireless wide area network (WAN), a number of user devices communicatively connected to the WAN, and a controller. The doorbell includes an activation element and a monitoring element. The controller is configured to receive an indication of a user engaging the activation element of the doorbell and to select at least one of the user devices for display of an alert based on a priority status of the user devices. The system may alter or update the priority status of the user devices based on a user-dependent parameter of the priority devices, such as the users' schedules, sleep status, geo-location, or status as a caregiver.
US11935387B2
A monitoring apparatus includes a rigid structure, at least one sensor supported by the structure that is configured to detect a level of liquid or a presence of moisture in a vicinity of the structure, and a housing supported by the structure. A transmitter and a controller are located within the housing. The controller is in electrical communication with the at least one sensor and the wireless transmitter, and the controller is configured to cause the transmitter to transmit measurement data received from the at least one sensor to a remote device.
US11935385B1
Methods for anomaly detection using dictionary based projection (DBP), and system for implementing such methods. In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving input data including a plurality n of multidimensional data points (MDDPs) with dimension m, applying DBP iteratively to the input data to construct a dictionary D, receiving a newly arrived MDDP (NAMDDP), calculating a score S associated with the NAMDDP as a distance of the NAMDDP from dictionary D, and classifying the NAMDDP as normal or as an anomaly based on score S, wherein classification of the NAMDDP as an anomaly is indicative of detection of an unknown undesirable event.
US11935383B2
A method of notifying personnel in an operating room of a potential hazard comprising, at a computing system: capturing at least one image of the operating room by at least one camera that can detect light outside of a visible spectrum; determining that at least one potential hazard is in the operating room based on analysis of the at least one image; and in response to determining that the at least one potential hazard is in the operating room, generating at least one notification for notifying the personnel in the operating room that there is the at least one potential hazard in the operating room.
US11935377B1
An apparatus comprising an interface and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data corresponding to a monitored area. The processor may be coupled to the interface and may be configured to (i) process the pixel data arranged as video frames, (ii) perform computer vision operations to detect an object in the video frames, (iii) extract characteristics about the object detected, (iv) generate a three-dimensional (3D) map of the object utilizing the pixel data corresponding to the object, (v) determine whether the object is within a three-dimensional (3D) virtual security zone based on the 3D map of the object, and (vi) generate a trigger signal in response to all or a portion of the object being within the 3D virtual security zone. The 3D virtual security zone is generally determined by a user during a setup procedure.
US11935374B2
In some implementations, a system for verifying items in a retail environment includes a physical shopping cart including a first set of sensors, and an automated checkout station including a second, different set of sensors. The physical shopping cart receives item verification data for verifying an item, detects the item as it enters the physical shopping cart, and performs a primary verification of the item. The automated checkout station obtains a virtual shopping cart that corresponds to the physical shopping cart. The virtual shopping cart includes a list of items that have been placed in the physical shopping cart, and a verification status of each item. The second, different set of sensors generate station sensor data that represents the physical shopping cart and the items in the physical shopping cart. A secondary verification of the physical shopping cart and its contents is performed by the automated checkout station.
US11935373B2
An image acquisition unit (11) acquires a recognition processing image. A recognition unit (12) recognizes a product in the recognition processing image based on an estimation model. A registration unit (13) registers a result of the recognition in recognized product information. An output unit (14) outputs a result of the recognition. A correction reception unit (16) receives an input for correcting a result of the recognition. A correction unit (17) changes a result of the recognition to a result of the recognition after a correction, and also stores correction information in which a result of the recognition after a correction and the recognition processing image are associated with each other. A learning unit (18) performs relearning by using the recognition processing image stored as the correction information and updates the estimation model, when a number of the recognition processing image stored exceeds a predetermined value.
US11935366B2
Providing, hosting, and playing a bingo game associated with real or virtual events occurring independently, which may be randomly occurring or skill-based, real or virtual events occurring in real-time, such as those occurring in sporting events or one or more video games being played by one or more players, which may be human players playing or a computer player using artificial intelligence.
US11935354B2
A communication device includes a communicator controller. The communication controller configured to cause a communicator to communicate with a terminal device in a first mode or a second mode, in which the first mode is a mode in which communication conditions are better than in the second mode, and, when the communication controller has acquired permission information indicating that communication in the first mode is permitted according to completion of processing of a first procedure different from a second procedure required for communication in the second mode in response to a request from the terminal device, the communication controller causes the communicator to communicate with a terminal device associated with the permission information in the first mode.
US11935349B2
Techniques for managing access to a physical area are provided. In one technique, first data is extracted from a digital file. Based on identification data within the first data, a database is searched. A data item in the database is identified that matches the identification data. The first data is associated with the data item. After associating the first data with the data item, code data is generated. Encoded data that encodes the code data is then generated. The encoded data is sent over a computer network to a mobile device, or an account, of a user that is associated with the data item.
US11935341B2
A data storage device in a mobile body defines a normal world and a secure world and stores a data acquired in the mobile body using a blockchain. The data storage device includes: a normal storage processing unit that stores an acquired data in a storage area of the normal world; a block generator that generates a new block including a hash value based on a last block coupled at last to the blockchain, and a hash value based on the acquired data; and a secure storage processing unit that stores a hash value based on the new block as a block hash value in a storage area of the secure world.
US11935329B2
The system of the present disclosure comprises: an acquisition means for acquiring a video image of an online session between a first user and a second user; a face recognition means for recognizing at least a face image of the first user and the second user included in the video image for each predetermined frame; a voice recognition means for recognizing at least the voice of the subject included in the video image; an evaluation means for calculating an evaluation value from a plurality of viewpoints based on both the recognized face image and the voice; and a determination means for determining the degree of match of the second user to the first user based on the evaluation values.
US11935328B2
Iris image pick-up devices have the same field of view and are disposed at mutually different positions. An overall image pick-up device performs image pick-up over a wide field of view. A guiding device guides a subject. An illumination device illuminates the subject with light. The controller controls, using an image from the overall image pick-up device, at least one of reading out an image from the iris image pick-up devices, presenting at least of an image and a sound through the guiding device, or providing illumination with light from the illumination device.
US11935321B2
A processor-implemented anti-spoofing method includes: extracting an input embedding vector from input biometric information; obtaining a fake embedding vector of a predetermined fake model based on fake biometric information; obtaining either one or both of a real embedding vector of a predetermined real model and an enrolled embedding vector of an enrollment model the enrollment model being generated based on biometric information of an enrolled user; determining a confidence value of the input embedding vector based on the fake embedding vector and either one or both of the real embedding vector and the enrolled embedding vector; and determining whether the input biometric information is forged, based on the confidence value.
US11935319B2
A method of evaluating a dielectric structure, comprising the steps of a) changing a potential difference between each sensing structure in a first set of sensing structures and each sensing structure in a second set of sensing structures, and to providing, for each sensing structure in the first set of sensing structures, a sensing signal indicative of a strength of a capacitive coupling between each sensing structure in the second set of sensing structures and the sensing structure in the first set of sensing structures; b) assign other sensing structures to the first set of sensing structures and the second set of sensing structures; c) performing step a) and step b) until a respective sensing signal has been provided for each sensing structure in the plurality of sensing structures; and d) providing an evaluation result based on the respective sensing signals.
US11935318B2
A mail processing system utilizes a conveyor to shingle or de-shingle mailpieces as they move through the processing system and utilizes belts to move the mailpieces. A first shingling conveyor moves a first mailpiece to overlap with a second mailpiece to create shingled mailpieces. A second shingling conveyor moves a first mailpiece away from a second mailpiece to de-shingle them to create singulated mailpieces. A camera takes images of the mailpieces in the conveyor and image analysis software is used to determine dimensional aspects of the mailpieces that are used to control the belt speeds to move mailpieces with respect to each other. A mail processing system may include a mail processing station that scans addresses, applies postage and/or weighs the mailpieces. Mail may be de-shingled prior to being weighed and then re-shingled for subsequent processing, or mail may be shingled prior to passing through a scale if weighing is not necessary.
US11935317B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an information processing apparatus that is capable of generating information about contents of a written work more accurately than conventionally possible. The information processing apparatus includes a determination device, a selector, and a generator. The determination device determines whether a first object and a first property that are mentioned in a first electronic document and that are estimated to be in an association relationship are in accordance with a definition of the association relationship between an object and a property. In a case where the first object and the first property are determined to be not in accordance with the definition, the selector selects, instead of the first object, a second object that is in the association relationship with the first property. The generator generates relationship information indicating that the first electronic document is related to the second object.
US11935311B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for detecting components of an array of biological, chemical, or physical entities. In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for detecting an array of biological, chemical, or physical entities, comprising: (a) using one or more light sensing devices, acquiring pixel information from sites in an array, wherein the sites comprise biological, chemical, or physical entities that produce light; (b) processing the pixel information to identify a set of regions of interest (ROIs) corresponding to the sites in the array that produce the light; (c) classifying the pixel information for the ROIs into a categorical classification from among a plurality of distinct categorical classifications, thereby producing a plurality of pixel classifications; and (d) identifying one or more components of the array of biological, chemical, or physical entities based at least in part on the plurality of pixel classifications.
US11935310B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to managing a vehicular micro cloud. A method may include determining join/leave protocols for a vehicular micro cloud and transmitting the join/leave protocols to a local vehicle in a vicinity of the vehicular micro cloud prior to the local vehicle joining the vehicular micro cloud. The join/leave protocols can define at least: 1) a procedure for the local vehicle to join the vehicular micro cloud and contribute computing resources to a collaborative micro cloud task, and 2) a protocol for handing an incomplete task when the local vehicle leaves the vehicular micro cloud.
US11935309B2
This document discloses methods of training a classifier to identify traffic signal states in images captured be a vehicle. The vehicle can then use the identified states when making movement decisions when traveling in an environment. The system determines that a traffic signal is within a field of view of the camera (i.e., within an image). The system also receives a signal with signal phase and timing data for the traffic signal. The system processes the images to identify an image that includes the traffic signal. The system analyzes the signal data to determine a state of the traffic signal at the time of image capture, labels the image with a label of determined state, and passes the image and a label to a classifier in order to train the classifier.
US11935304B2
A calibration system includes: a storage unit that stores a reference trajectory of a mobile body in an image of a predetermined traffic environment photographed by an imaging sensor and a reference position in the image; an acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of the images of the traffic environment that are sequentially photographed; a generation unit that generates an estimated trajectory of the mobile body based on position information of the mobile body detected from the plurality of the images; a calculation unit that calculates an amount of positional deviation of the imaging sensor based on the reference trajectory and the estimated trajectory; a correction unit that corrects the reference position by using the amount of positional deviation; and an update unit that updates a position transformation model for transforming a two-dimensional position in the image into a three-dimensional position by using the corrected reference position.
US11935302B2
In some aspects, a method for object re-identification may include obtaining a first set of images from a first camera, and a second set of images from at least one second camera; determining a first set of features based on the first set of images, the first set of features lying in a first feature space; and determining a second set of features based on the second set of images, the second set of features lying in a second feature space. The method may additionally include determining a first feature projection matrix and a second feature projection matrix that respectively map the first set of features and the second set of features to a shared feature space; and determining a common dictionary based on the shared feature space.
US11935300B2
In various embodiments, a match cutting application automatically generates candidate match cuts. In some embodiments, the match cutting application detects shot sequences within one or more video sequences, deduplicates the shot sequences, computes an encoding of each shot sequence after the deduplication, and compares the encodings associated with pairs of shot sequences using a distance metric to identify pairs of shot sequences that can be cut together to generate candidate match cuts. In addition, the match cutting application can apply an approximation technique, such as an approximate nearest neighbor search technique, to identify intermediate pairs of shot sequences prior to comparing encodings associated with the intermediate pairs of shot sequences.
US11935295B2
A method for processing a video stream includes obtaining frame data of a current frame of the video stream, determining frame difference data based on a comparison of the frame data of the current frame and scene cache data for a previous frame of the video stream, the scene cache data being stored in a scene cache for the video stream, determining, based on the frame difference data, regions of the video stream to be re-sampled at a higher resolution than the frame data, obtaining re-sampling data for the determined regions, updating the scene cache data based on the obtained frame data and the re-sampling data, and providing the re-sampling data to a processor to update an analysis scene cache for the video stream.
US11935293B2
A method for providing device support to a user using an augmented reality (AR) interface includes establishing, by a computer system, a real-time communication session streaming audio and video between (i) a local application executing on a local user device and (ii) a remote application executing a remote user device. The method further includes transmitting, via the real-time communication session, images depicting equipment captured by the local application. Annotations to the images are received from the remote application. Each annotation is anchored to user-selected positions on the equipment. The annotations are presented on the remote user device overlaid on the equipment at the user-selected positions. The real-time communication session is used to transmit audio or video instructional information related to the equipment and referencing the annotations. The computing system stores a new session record that includes the images, the annotations, and the audio or video instructional information.
US11935292B2
In a method or system in which an imaging element views navigation elements for e.g. navigation, the navigating elements may not be positioned optimally. Positions may exist in which the same angles exist from the imaging element to the same or similar navigating elements, whereby the positions are not unique. Navigation elements may then be repositioned, added or removed to make the positions unique.
US11935288B2
The systems and methods herein provide improved methodologies for visualization on a user's display of sensor data (e.g., 2D and 3D information obtained from or derived from sensors) for objects, components, or features of interest in a scene. The previously acquired sensor data is processable for concurrent display of objects/features/scene or location visualizations to a user during their real-time navigation of a scene camera during a variety of user visualization activities. Sensor data can be acquired via the operation of vehicles configured with one or more sensors, such as unmanned aerial vehicles, or from other methodologies, or from any other suitable sensor data acquisition activities. Objects etc. for which acquired sensor data can be visualized by a user on a display includes buildings, parts of buildings, and infrastructure elements, among other things. The improved display of information to a user for visualization and information generation therefrom provides significant benefits over prior art display methodologies and exhibits notable utility for user activities such as, inspection, condition assessment, performance assessment, insurance applications, construction, inventorying, building information modeling, asset management and the like. Information derivable from the methodologies herein can be used for machine learning libraries and digital twin processes.
US11935275B2
An image processing method includes: extracting, based on pixel values of a plurality of pixels of an image obtained, a plurality of first current pixels having pixel values included in a first color range including a specific color range that defines a specific color, from the plurality of pixels; excluding, in second region different from a first region including a center region of the image, (i) a low saturation pixel from the plurality of first current pixels when the number of low saturation pixels is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and (ii) a high saturation pixel, which has a pixel value included in a high saturation range, from the plurality of first current pixels when the number of high saturation pixels is greater than or equal to a second threshold value; and outputting a plurality of second current pixels obtained as a result of the excluding.
US11935263B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine an orientation of a three-dimensional (3D) model with respect to a global reference direction. For example, an example process may include obtaining an image from an image sensor, determining an orientation of the image sensor with respect to the direction of a celestial element, determining an orientation of the image sensor with respect to a global reference direction based on the orientation of the image sensor with respect to the direction of the celestial element and a relationship between the direction of the celestial element and the global reference direction, obtaining a 3D model of the physical environment, determining an orientation of the image sensor with respect to the 3D model, and determining an orientation of the 3D model with respect to the global reference direction.
US11935253B2
A method for automatically splitting visual sensor data comprising consecutive images, the method being executed by at least one processor of a host computer, the method comprising: a) assigning a scene number to each image, wherein a scene comprises a plurality of images taken in a single environment, wherein assigning a scene number to each image is performed based on a comparison between consecutive images; b) determining an accumulated effort for the images in each scene, wherein the accumulated effort is determined based on the number of objects in the images of the scene, wherein the number of objects is determined using one or more neural networks for object detection; and c) creating packages of images, wherein the images with the same scene number are assigned to the same package unless the accumulated effort of the images in the package surpasses a package threshold.
US11935252B2
A system and method to collect feedback data from a patient wearing an interface such as a mask when using a respiratory pressure therapy device such as a CPAP device. The system includes a storage device including a facial image of the patient. An interface in communication with the respiratory pressure therapy device collect operational data from when the patient uses the interface. A patient interface collects subjective patient input data from the patient in relation to the patient interface. An analysis module correlates a characteristic of the interface with the facial image data, operational data and subjective patient input data.
US11935234B2
A computer obtains a chest X-ray image, detects boundary lines in the chest X-ray image using a model constructed through machine learning, sets a third lung area including at least one of a first lung area or a second lung area, extracts a vascular index indicating at least one of thickness or density of at least one pulmonary blood vessel present in an area included in the third lung area, determines whether the area included in the third lung area is in an abnormal state on a basis of the vascular index and a reference index based on indices extracted in advance from an area in chest X-ray images in a normal state corresponding to the area included in the third lung area, and outputs, if determining that the area included in the third lung area is in an abnormal state, information indicating a result of the determination.
US11935232B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a final progression score characterizing a likelihood that a state of a medical condition affecting eye tissue will progress to a target state in a future interval of time. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining: (i) an input image of eye tissue captured using an imaging modality, and (ii) a segmentation map of the eye tissue in the input image into a plurality of tissue types; providing the input image to each of one or more first classification neural networks to obtain a respective first progression score from each first classification neural network; providing the segmentation map to each of one or more second classification neural networks to obtain a respective second progression score from each second classification neural network; and generating the final progression score based on the first and second progression scores.
US11935226B2
An image processing apparatus includes first, second, and third acquisition units, a setting unit, a calculation unit, and a processing unit. The first acquisition unit acquires information regarding a setting for inspecting an image. The second acquisition unit acquires first data that is data of a reference image representing a target print result. The third acquisition unit acquires second data that is data of a printed image to be inspected. The setting unit sets a comparison area including a pixel of interest in each of the reference image and the printed image based on the information and the first data. The pixels of interest correspond to an identical pixel position. The calculation unit calculates a density difference between the comparison areas based on the first data and the second data. The processing unit inspects the printed image based on the first data, the second data, and the density difference.
US11935225B2
According to one embodiment, a processing device performs at least determination processing of determining a state of a weld by using a first image of at least a portion of a weld pool. The state includes a first state, and a second state that is more unstable than the first state. The determination processing determines the weld to be in the second state when ripples exist in the weld pool. The processing device corrects a condition of the weld when the weld is determined to be in the second state. The processing device does not correct the condition of the weld when the weld is determined to be in the first state.
US11935223B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, system and/or mobile device for authenticating security features, the mobile device for authenticating security features includes at least one sensor for detecting security features, a memory having stored thereon computer readable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to receive a target image of a product to be authenticated, the product including at least one security feature, identify the product to be authenticated based on the target image and product information stored in a product database, obtain sensor configuration information for the at least one sensor associated with the at least one security feature of the product based on the identified product, examine the at least one security feature of the product with the at least one sensor based on the obtained sensor configuration information, and authenticate the product based on results from the examination.
US11935222B2
There are provided a system and a method of automatic tire inspection, the method comprising: obtaining at least one image capturing a wheel of a vehicle; segmenting the at least one image into image segments including a tire image segment corresponding to a tire of the wheel; straightening the tire image segment from a curved shape to a straight shape, giving rise to a straight tire segment; identifying text marked on the tire from the straight tire segment, comprising: detecting locations of a plurality of text portions on the straight tire segment, and recognizing text content for each of the text portions; and analyzing the recognized text content based on one or more predefined rules indicative of association between text content of different text portions at given relative locations, giving rise to a text analysis result indicative of condition of the tire.
US11935215B2
A method of visualization, characterization, and detection of objects within an image by applying a local micro-contrast convergence algorithm to a first image to produce a second image that is different from the first image, wherein all like objects converge into similar patterns or colors in the second image.
US11935202B2
Systems and methods described herein allow a customer to employ AR/VR software to generate virtual representations of physical spaces (e.g., house) and sub-spaces (e.g., living room) to preview virtual objects situated in AR/VR virtual environments. A commerce system (or mobile app associated with the commerce system) may generate virtualized environments representing a physical space (e.g., house, apartment) and regions (e.g., living room, kitchen) based on source images uploaded to or otherwise captured by the commerce system. The end-user may operate the software on a client device and interacts with VR or AR presentations of the virtual environment using a voice-based interface recognized by the software. For example, the end-user may say the name of room (region) or an object and the system retrieves data of the identified room or an appropriate room, such as virtual representations of furniture or objects situated in the room.
US11935201B2
An information handling system operating an HMD device may include a video display device to display application images or a fiducial image when the HMD device is worn by a user; the HMD device including: a display device in the HMD device to present to a user an XR (XR) image of a surrounding XR environment; a pass-through camera to detect the fiducial image displayed by the video display device; and an HMD processor to receive data from an HMD wearing sensor indicating that the user is wearing the HMD device and execute computer readable program code to display an XR environment to the user including an XR image version of the application images presented to the user via the video display device; wherein detection of the fiducial image triggers an API with the XR image version of the video display application images via the video display device.
US11935200B2
A method for displaying infrastructure information on a multi-focal plane augmented reality display of a vehicle includes receiving infrastructure data. The infrastructure data includes information about a location of at least one infrastructure along a route of the vehicle. The method further includes receiving vehicle-location data. The vehicle-location data includes information about a location of the vehicle. The method further includes determining a position of the vehicle relative to the location of the least one infrastructure using the infrastructure data and the vehicle-location data. The method further includes transmitting a command signal to the multi-focal plane augmented reality display to display a virtual image showing the infrastructure information of the infrastructure on the multi-focal plane augmented reality display.
US11935198B2
A virtual mailbox is established for a first user based on a virtual mailbox definition specified by the first user. A message directed to the first user is received from a first device associated with a second user. A location within a real-world environment of the first user corresponding to the virtual mailbox is identified. A marker associated with the virtual mailbox is detected within the real-world environment of the first user. Based on detecting the marker, the second device presents the message overlaid on the real-world environment at the location corresponding to the virtual mailbox.
US11935197B2
An AR system that leverages a pre-generated 3D model of the world to improve rendering of 3D graphics content for AR views of a scene, for example an AR view of the world in front of a moving vehicle. By leveraging the pre-generated 3D model, the AR system may use a variety of techniques to enhance the rendering capabilities of the system. The AR system may obtain pre-generated 3D data (e.g., 3D tiles) from a remote source (e.g., cloud-based storage), and may use this pre-generated 3D data (e.g., a combination of 3D mesh, textures, and other geometry information) to augment local data (e.g., a point cloud of data collected by vehicle sensors) to determine much more information about a scene, including information about occluded or distant regions of the scene, than is available from the local data.
US11935191B2
A data processing method for an analogue modelling experiment of a hypergravity geological structure includes steps of: performing two-dimensional photographing and three-dimensional elevation scanning with an analogue modelling experiment device with a curved model surface for the hypergravity geological structure, so as to collect initial elevation data and initial velocity field data; and correcting the initial elevation data and the initial velocity field data to obtain corrected elevation data and corrected velocity field data. The data processing method can realize orthographic correction and three-dimensional projection transformation of initial elevation data, as well as orthographic correction and two-dimensional projection transformation of initial velocity field data, which can more realistically and objectively reflect the experimental phenomenon, which is conducive to truly expressing the experimental results and facilitates the analogy analysis with the actual geological prototype.
US11935186B2
A modeling method and apparatus based on point cloud data, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided, and relate to the field of three-dimensional panoramic technologies. The modeling method based on point cloud data includes: obtaining three-dimensional point cloud information collected by a point cloud collection device from a scanned target, a first time information, first rotation position information of an electric motor, and a second time information; determining second rotation position information based on the first time information and the second time information; and obtaining position information of the scanned target based on the three-dimensional point cloud information and the second rotation position information, to construct a three-dimensional panoramic model corresponding to the scanned target.
US11935179B2
A fully-connected neural network may be configured for execution by a processor as a fully-fused neural network by limiting slow global memory accesses to reading and writing inputs to and outputs from the fully-connected neural network. The computational cost of fully-connected neural networks scale quadratically with its width, whereas its memory traffic scales linearly. Modern graphics processing units typically have much greater computational throughput compared with memory bandwidth, so that for narrow, fully-connected neural networks, the linear memory traffic is the bottleneck. The key to improving performance of the fully-connected neural network is to minimize traffic to slow “global” memory (off-chip memory and high-level caches) and to fully utilize fast on-chip memory (low-level caches, “shared” memory, and registers), which is achieved by the fully-fused approach. A real-time neural radiance caching technique for path-traced global illumination is implemented using the fully-fused neural network for caching scattered radiance components of global illumination.
US11935175B2
There is described a method of shading a group of pixels in a fragment shader in a raster graphics pipeline. At least one first pilot pixel of the group of pixels is shaded under a first precision. At least one second pilot pixel of the group of pixels is shaded under a second precision. An error value representing a difference between the first and second pilot pixels is calculated. At least one other pixel of the group of pixels is shaded under the first precision if the error value is greater than an error threshold. The at least one other pixel is shaded under the second precision if the error value is smaller than the error threshold.
US11935173B2
Provided are a method and device for providing interactive virtual reality content capable of increasing user immersion by naturally connecting an idle image to a branched image. The method includes providing an idle image including options, wherein an actor in the idle image performs a standby operation, while the actor performs the standby operation, receiving a user selection for an option, providing a connection image, and providing a corresponding branched image according to the selection of the user, wherein a portion of the actor in the connection image is processed by computer graphics, and the actor performs a connection operation so that a first posture of the actor at a time point at which the selection is received is smoothly connected to a second posture of the actor at a start time point of the branched image.
US11935169B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for an augmented reality display using an actual image of the item. Additionally, the present disclosure provides for a proportionally dimensioned representation of the item in the augmented reality display. In some aspects, a beacon/tag/sensor-based approach may be used. In some aspects, a marker-based approach may be used.
US11935165B2
A method for proactively creating an image product includes capturing an image of an object in a first environment by a device, storing a library of personalized products each characterized by a product type, automatically recognizing the object in the image as having a product type associated with the library of personalized products, automatically creating a design for the personalized product of the product type using personalized content, automatically displaying the design of the personalized product of the product type incorporating the selected photo in the first environment on the device, and manufacturing a physical product based on the design of the personalized product.
US11935164B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method and system for improvements to emotional and behavioral interfaces. In an example, a first group of color-coded regions is displayed representing emotions and behaviors for data collected from one or more participants using an input method. Correspondences are determined within the first group of color-coded regions. Individual ones of the first group of color-coded regions are provided with a first portion of pixels in a first color associated with a value in the data based in part on the correspondences. A second portion of pixels is provided with a second color associated with a neutral indication. Changes to the data over discrete or random intervals of time are determined as modifying the correspondences. A dynamical change is applied to the first portion of pixels and the second portion of pixels to update the display of the first group of color-coded regions.
US11935159B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for medical imaging. The method may include: move, by a motion controller, a phantom along an axis of a scanner to a plurality of phantom positions; acquire, by a scanner of the imaging device, a first set of PET data relating to the phantom at the plurality of phantom positions; and store the first set of PET data as an electrical file. The length of an axis of the phantom may be shorter than the length of an axis of the scanner, and at least one of the plurality of phantom positions may be inside a bore of the scanner.
US11935146B2
Systems and methods to provide sharing of benefits amongst a group of users are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate a presentation of an agreement interface for the users to define and/or join group agreements; generate, based on the group agreements, sets of instructions for implementation of the group agreements; transmit the sets of instructions to a decentralized ledger server; receive and executing the transmitted sets of instructions to record the group agreements on the blockchain as smart contracts; record transactions pertaining to the digital assets; responsive to recording the transactions, increase the group account balances by a portion of the earned gains resultant from the recorded transactions; and responsive to an occurrence of at least one of the trigger events specified for the first group agreement, allocate a portion of the group account balance to the group of users.
US11935143B2
A structure repair method selection system includes a repair evaluation unit that obtains an evaluation score for a structure after repair, a database that has data of a captured image of the structure and the evaluation score, an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of a target structure to be repaired, a damage detection unit that detects damage from the captured image, a similar damage extraction unit that extracts similar damage similar to the damage by using the database, and a repair method presentation unit that presents, based on the evaluation score, repair methods used for the similar damage. Also provided are a repair method selection method that uses the structure repair method selection system, and a repair method selection server.
US11935141B2
A computer-implemented system and methods for electoral and legislative consensus building via a social network provide decision support to assist network users define their legislative priorities and set common legislative agendas. Users include individuals intending to vote (“voters”), lawmakers, electoral candidates, political parties, and others. Decision-assisting Artificial Intelligence, machine learning technology, a corpus of data in the domain of elections and legislation, and database of user stories, generate legislative priorities for user fact-checking, evaluating, debating, and voting to include in common agendas. The network connects voters within and across election districts and national boundaries to build consensus around legislative agendas with cross national scope. The network assists voters form online voting blocs, political parties, and electoral coalitions to elect lawmakers to enact their agendas, by attracting electoral support from voters across partisan lines. Users can provide legislative mandates to lawmakers by conducting petition drives, referendums, initiatives, and informal recall votes.
US11935138B2
A recycling kiosk for recycling and financial remuneration for submission of an electronic device such as a mobile phone is disclosed herein. The recycling kiosk includes electrical connectors and an inspection area with an upper chamber, a lower chamber, a transparent plate and at least one camera in order to perform a visual analysis and an electrical analysis of the electronic device for determination of a value of the electronic device. The recycling kiosk also includes a processor and a display for user interaction.
US11935136B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for extracting information from a transaction description. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that may include one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations consistent with the disclosed embodiments. In one embodiment, the operations may include receiving a transaction description. The operations may also include identifying known location information corresponding to the transaction description and determining whether information from the transaction description corresponds to the identified known location information. The operations may further include removing location information from the transaction description based on the determination. In another aspect, the operations may also include extracting additional location information from the transaction description that is not associated with the known location information.
US11935135B2
A method may include executing a baseline classifier on unreviewed transaction features of an unreviewed transaction record to obtain a baseline account identifier, and executing a comparison model on (i) an unreviewed transaction vector of the unreviewed transaction record and (ii) reviewed transaction vectors to obtain comparison scores. The reviewed transaction vectors may correspond to reviewed transaction records each having a user-approved account identifier. The method may further include selecting, using the comparison scores, a reviewed transaction record. The reviewed transaction record may correspond to a comparison score. The comparison score may correspond to a user-approved account identifier of the reviewed transaction record. The method may further include selecting, using the comparison score, one of the baseline account identifier and the user-approved account identifier to obtain a selected account identifier, and presenting the selected account identifier for the unreviewed transaction record.
US11935129B2
A method for automatically determining injury treatment relation to a motor vehicle accident comprises obtaining a plurality of images of a damaged motor vehicle, vehicle data describing the motor vehicle, occupant data describing an occupant who occupied the motor vehicle during the motor vehicle accident, and injury data from an electronic insurance claim associated with the motor vehicle accident, the injury data specifying an injury to the occupant; determining a delta velocity value for the damaged motor vehicle by applying a first machine learning model to the set of images of the damaged motor vehicle and the vehicle data; determining an injury severity score by applying a second machine learning model to the delta velocity value for the damaged motor vehicle, the vehicle data, and the occupant data; and automatically adjudicating the electronic insurance claim.
US11935117B1
Risk assessment can be performed in many contexts including in lending. A set of metrics can be received and derived from data associated with a party, such as a third-party retailer or dealer, with respect to performance of an activity. A subset of metrics can be identified that exceed a threshold of acceptable performance. Weights can be applied to at least the subset of metrics that captures significance of corresponding metrics. A single weighted score can be computed from aggregation of the weighted subset of metrics, and a third party can be classified based on comparison of the weighted score to a predetermined threshold.
US11935108B1
A management system operates in conjunction with an automotive dealership to improve customer engagement with the automotive dealership. The management system creates customer profiles of the automotive dealership systems' customers using features of the customers obtained via various sources. The management system assigns a customer category to a customer based on the features included in the customer profile and may generate a customized recommendation of a product and/or service for the customer to purchase at the dealership based at least in part on the customer category.
US11935099B2
An adaptive collaborative platform applies various machine learning techniques to correlate potential purchasers with high-value articles of property that may be of interest. Attributes, characteristics, preferences, and the like of a potential purchaser are scored against attributes and features of articles. The platform learns from interaction by the agents and the potential purchasers and adapts to become more attuned to the desires and lifestyle of purchasers and to gain more and more pertinent information from the listing agents regarding high-value articles, so as to ultimately to arrive at a better match between a high value article for sale and a likely purchaser.
US11935093B1
An example operation includes one or more of receiving an opt-in request to display information on a display of a vehicle configured to be viewed from outside of the vehicle, authenticating the request to allow displaying information on the display, determining information associated with the vehicle to be displayed on the display, determining misuse of the information displayed on the display based on a notification from another vehicle, and flagging the misuse.
US11935092B2
Example methods, apparatuses, and systems are presented that allows a user to make a secure purchase online, directly through accessing an online advertisement and without being redirected to multiple, cumbersome webpages to process different pieces of information to complete the transaction, while still leveraging existing e-commerce entities, such as existing payment platforms and existing ad/content networks. The present system includes a commerce ads engine (CA engine) that interfaces with the user through an app associated with the CA engine, a tokenization platform for authentication of the user, and a merchant providing relevant offer and check out information about a product being advertised in an online ad. The present system integrates new information embedded into online advertisements that interfaces with the CA engine and allows for the user to reliably provide authentication while purchasing the desired product, and without accessing or being redirected to multiple websites as is conventionally done.
US11935090B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing cash back to a customer from a linked ATM after a purchase transaction are described herein. A customer initiates the transactions using a payment check. A cash back amount is determined and an authentication passcode is created. Cash back information is then transmitted to the linked ATM. The cash back information includes the cash back amount and the authentication passcode. The authentication passcode is then provided to the customer. A cash back transaction is then authenticated using the authentication passcode, and the customer is provided with the cash back amount from the linked ATM.
US11935078B2
Aspects described herein may provide an interface and/or search functionality for a dealership to determine vehicles a customer is most likely to purchase. A recommender system may generate vehicle recommendations for a dealership to sell to a customer based on customer information, vehicle information, and dealership information. Machine learning may be used to generate the recommendations. The recommendations may be based on the vehicle preferences of a customer.
US11935072B1
The present invention relates to a method for streamlining baggage screening across modes of transportation. The method includes scanning a baggage item at an airport by a first security authority (FSA) and uploading scanned baggage imagery and license plate identification to a secure cloud storage system managed by a second screening authority (SSA). The SSA generates a screening manifest from the license plate identification, which lists additional modes of transportation requiring different screening rules. The SSA reanalyzes the stored baggage imagery according to these rules, determines compliance, and creates a baggage authorization record. Based on the compliance result, represented by an indicium affixed to the baggage, a trusted custody handler can directly deliver the baggage to the next mode of transportation without additional screening, or direct it for further physical screening if non-compliant. This system improves efficiency and security in multi-modal transportation networks.
US11935059B2
Described herein are techniques and systems directed to using context data provided by supplemental devices to reduce false declines during transaction authorization. In some embodiments, upon a transaction being declined based on a level of risk associated with the transaction, a service provider may obtain context data from a number of supplemental devices associated with a user, resource provider, location, or other suitable factor. This context data may then be assessed by the service provider to determine a degree to which the context data supports that the user conducting the transaction is the owner of the account used to conduct the transaction. The level of risk may then be adjusted based on that degree and the adjusted level of risk is used to determine whether to approve or decline the transaction.
US11935057B2
A station device in a biometric pre-identification system uses identity to perform one or more actions. Identities are determined (such as via a backend) using biometric information. A biometric pre-identification device obtains biometric information and/or a digital representation thereof from a person approaching the station device. The biometric pre-identification device transmits such to the station device, facilitating the station to begin and/or perform various actions. The station device begins or performs the actions using the identity determined based on the biometric information before the person arrives at the station device.
US11935047B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information corresponding to the transaction may be received. The degree to which the transaction metadata is tested may be based on a predicted time of receipt of the authorization information. The transaction metadata and authorization information may be correlated. A computing device may determine whether to authorize the financial transaction based on the authorization information and the correlated transaction metadata. All or portions of the transaction metadata may be provided to one or more users after the transaction has been authorized or denied.
US11935038B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for the direct sharing and use of transaction data separately from transaction authorization processes. Transaction metadata associated with a transaction may be received and validated. Authorization information corresponding to the transaction may be received. The degree to which the transaction metadata is tested may be based on a predicted time of receipt of the authorization information. The transaction metadata and authorization information may be correlated. A computing device may determine whether to authorize the financial transaction based on the authorization information and the correlated transaction metadata. All or portions of the transaction metadata may be provided to one or more users after the transaction has been authorized or denied.
US11935036B2
Systems, as described herein, may use smart contracts and distributed ledgers in distributed networks to determine points earned by consumer and settle points for merchants. Distributed ledgers in the distributed network may be used to store transactions executed by merchant digital wallets and consumer digital wallet. Smart contracts in distributed networks may be used to maintain point balances associated with the consumer digital wallets and the merchant digital wallets of the consumer, determine points earned by consumer digital wallets, settle points for merchant digital wallets, and send messages to consumer digital wallets regarding expiring points. Systems, as described herein, may also send individualized recommendations of goods and services to the consumer digital wallets.
US11935032B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for conducting a transaction while in proximity of a local retail network operated by a retail point of sale comprising: a) receiving an identification signal related to one or more media identifiers associated with a media control device and from a user mobile device, wherein the user mobile device is connected to a first network; b) transmitting data to the user mobile device to render a media control interface on the user mobile device; c) receiving one or more instruction signals from the user mobile device, wherein the one or more instruction signals are related to one or more outputs of one or more media devices in proximity to the user mobile device; d) transmitting the one or more instruction signals to a media control device, such that the media control device instructs the one or more media devices to generate the one or more outputs; e) disabling a connection between the user mobile device and the media control device based upon occurrence of a pre-determined condition.
US11935030B2
A method, device, and system for conducting trusted payment transactions including establishing a trust relationship between a first mobile computing device and a second mobile computing device. The first mobile computing device may initiate a payment transaction with a point-of-sale device, communicate with the second mobile communication device to retrieve payment information from the second mobile communication device, and complete the payment transaction with the point-of-sale device using the payment information. The second mobile computing device is configured to verify the user and identity of the first mobile computing device prior to providing the payment information. Communications between the mobile computing devices may be encrypted using pre-determined encryption techniques.
US11935028B1
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving transaction data for a transaction that is to be executed by a computer-implemented person-to-person (P2P) payment system, the transaction data including a unique account identifier uniquely identifying an account of a first user among a plurality of accounts of the first user, and an amount to be transferred to the account from a second user, processing the transaction data to execute the transaction, and transmitting notifications to each of the first user and the second user, the notifications providing information regarding the transaction.
US11935025B2
The disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that perform a real-time delegated approval of initiated data exchanges by network-connected devices. For example, an apparatus determines determine a value of a parameter that characterizes an exchange of data and a first data type involved in the data exchange, and generates and transmits a first signal to a communications device associated with a second data type available for use in the data exchange and associated with the first data type. The apparatus receives, from the communications device, a second signal that includes information indicative of an approval of the second data type for use in the data exchange, and in response to the received approval, the apparatus performs the data exchange using the second data type and in accordance with the parameter value.
US11935024B1
Systems and methods for generation and aggregation of point-of-sale account data and generation of a marketplace platform are disclosed. Transaction information may be utilized to value one or more businesses, and those valuations may be presented to potential buyers in a generated marketplace platform. A remote system may facilitate a sales agreement between a buying merchant and a seller merchant by, for example, transferring funds from a remote system account to the selling merchant's account and accepting repayment from the buying merchant over time. Merging of transaction information and/or user accounts pursuant to the sales agreement may also be performed.
US11935018B1
Systems and methods for digital integration of financial features between a user and a service provider is provided. For example, if a user device is registered with the service provider, the user device may receive an electronic notification (e.g., calendar entry) related to outstanding account operations. The user device may be able to complete the outstanding account operations by accessing the electronic notification and embedded financial information.
US11935013B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media are provided. One example method includes establishing a connection with a vehicle over a wireless network, and associating the vehicle to a user account of an online service, wherein a vehicle type for the vehicle is identified in the user account. The method further includes receiving vehicle data for vehicle status information. The vehicle status information is for one or more vehicle systems of the vehicle. The method includes accessing one or more databases that include diagnostics data for the vehicle type and crowd sourced data for the vehicle type. The method includes processing the vehicle data that is received against the diagnostics data and the crowed sourced data. The processing is configured to select an alert from among a plurality of possible alerts. The crowd sourced data is configured to influence a confidence level for selecting the alert. The method includes sending a notification of the alert to the user account. The notification includes a recommended solution for handling the alert.
US11935011B2
A notification system and method that allows a user to be placed on a waiting list, disclosing only the personal information the user chooses to disclose, and receive updates or other information relating to his status on the waiting list through a personal communication device. A timekeeping system and method generates time in and time out record entries based upon a display code presented the personal communication device. A form data aggregation system and method consolidates inputted information from multiple applications on the personal communication device.
US11935008B2
Determining cohesion of healthcare groups and clinics based on billed claims. A method includes determining a target office billing identifier associated with one or more of a healthcare group or a healthcare clinic and determining a practitioner billing a carrier claim comprising the target office billing identifier. The method includes identifying a plurality of carrier claims billed by the practitioner over a time period. The method includes calculating a proportion of the plurality of carrier claims that comprise the target office billing identifier.
US11935005B2
A network-based communication fulfillment system includes a communication resource allocation server configured to receive a request for a communication service from a business user, wherein the communication service includes electronic communications and physical mailing pieces to be sent to recipients, an intelligent communication design server that can automatically create designs for the electronic communications and the physical mailing pieces, a communication server that can transmit the electronic communications to the recipients, and one or more product fulfillment centers that can print and finish the physical mailing pieces to be mailed to the recipients.
US11934999B2
The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.
US11934997B2
The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.
US11934996B2
The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.
US11934995B1
Techniques for predicting a manufacturer and/or contents of a received package are described herein. Images of a package may be received from cameras. A visual vector for the package in a vector space of package attributes may be generated using the images. Physical attributes of the package may be received. A subset of candidate packages may be determined by comparing the physical attributes of a plurality of historically received packages to the physical attributes of the package. A ranking of the subset of candidate packages may be determined by identifying a distance in the vector space of the package attributes between a vector for the subset of candidate packages and the visual vector for the package. An identifier associated with a particular package of the ranked subset of candidate packages may be obtained. Data for the particular package may be retrieved from a database using the identifier.
US11934994B2
According to the present invention, a load receiving vehicle is provided. The load receiving vehicle comprises a storage unit usable as a receiving place of a delivery article; a lock control unit capable of controlling lock and unlock of a door of the storage unit; and a communication unit, wherein if the communication unit receives delivery schedule information representing a delivery schedule to the load receiving vehicle, information based on the delivery schedule information is provided to a driver.
US11934992B2
Disclosed herein is a cross-dock management system comprises: a plurality of movable platforms configured to hold one or more pallets or parcels; at least one barcode or RFID tag positioned on each of said movable platforms, pallets, or parcels, wherein the barcode readers are configured to read the barcodes and RFID readers are configured to read the RFID tags. The data scanned by the barcode readers and RFID readers is stored in a local warehouse database and is used to determine an optimized placement and load for each movable platform in the warehouse.
US11934986B2
Provided are an index value calculator to calculate an index value obtained by quantifying a degree of status for evaluation items, a teamwork evaluator to evaluate a teamwork based on the index value, a support content determiner to select target persons to be supported including the members of the team based on the evaluation result of the teamwork and determine support contents in accordance with the target persons to be supported, and a presentation information generator to generate presentation information for presenting the determined support contents for each of the output devices corresponding to the selected target persons to be supported, and the teamwork evaluator evaluates the teamwork using an evaluation logic configured by combining logical formulas for comparing a threshold value set for evaluation items with the calculated index value.
US11934983B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for maintaining a plurality of issues, each issue having an associated rank value, the rank values of the plurality of issues defining an order of the plurality of issues. The method comprises receiving a rank operation request to change the rank of a subject issue; determining relevant issues to the rank operation request; and attempting to acquire locks on each of the relevant issues. In response to successfully acquiring locks on each of the relevant issues a new rank value for the subject issue is calculated and saved.
US11934960B2
A system and method includes generating approximate distributions for distinct classes of data samples; computing a first partial Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence and a second partial JS divergence based on the approximate distribution of the disparity affected class of data samples with reference to the approximate distribution of the control class of data samples; computing a disparity divergence based on the first partial JS divergence and the second partial JS divergence; generating a distribution-matching term based on the disparity divergence, wherein the distribution-matching term mitigates an inferential disparity between the control class of data samples and the disparity affected class of data samples during a training of an unconstrained artificial neural network; constructing a disparity-constrained loss function based on augmenting a target loss function with the distribution-matching term; and transforming the unconstrained ANN to a disparity-constrained ANN based on a training of the unconstrained ANN using the disparity-constrained loss function.
US11934953B2
An image detection apparatus includes: a display outputting an image; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: detect, by using a neural network, an additional information area in a first image output on the display; obtain style information of the additional information area from the additional information area; and detect, in a second image output on the display, an additional information area having style information different from the style information by using a model that has learned an additional information area having new style information generated based on the style information.
US11934951B2
A control apparatus for performing predetermined control for a predetermined system using reinforcement learning detects an event in a life cycle of the predetermined system and, in response to the detection of the event, set an exploration parameter specified in accordance with the detected event as a value for adjusting a ratio of exploration in the reinforcement learning. The control apparatus executes the predetermined control using the reinforcement learning in accordance with the set exploration parameter. When a first event is detected, the control apparatus sets the exploration parameter so that makes the ratio of the exploration set during a first period after the first event is smaller than the ratio of the exploration set during a second period before the first event is detected.
US11934945B2
Techniques in advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency, such as accuracy of learning, accuracy of prediction, speed of learning, performance of learning, and energy efficiency of learning. An array of processing elements performs flow-based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element has a respective compute element and a respective routing element. Each compute element has processing resources and memory resources. Each router enables communication via wavelets with at least nearest neighbors in a 2D mesh. Stochastic gradient descent, mini-batch gradient descent, and continuous propagation gradient descent are techniques usable to train weights of a neural network modeled by the processing elements. Reverse checkpoint is usable to reduce memory usage during the training.
US11934928B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for using decision trees for machine-learning when data is missing from a data set. A first attribute for splitting a plurality of records is identified. Then, the plurality of records are split into a first subset of records and a second subset of records. The first subset of records can include each of the plurality of records where a value is present for the first attribute and the second subset of records comprising each of the plurality of records where the value is absent for the first attribute. Finally, a node can be added to a decision tree that reflects the split of the plurality of records into the first subset of records and the second subset of records.
US11934922B2
A computer system, product, and method are provided. The computer system includes an artificial intelligence (AI) platform operatively coupled to a processor. The AI platform includes tools in the form of a machine learning model (MLM) manager, a metric manager, and a training manager. The MLM manager accesses a plurality of pre-trained source MLMs, and inputs a plurality of data objects of a test dataset into each of the source MLMs. The test dataset includes the plurality of data objects associated with respective labels. For each source MLM, associated labels are generated from the inputted data objects and a similarity metric is calculated. The MLM manager selects a base MLM to be used for transfer learning from the plurality of source MLMs based upon the calculated similarity metric. The training manager trains the selected base MLM with a target dataset for the target domain.
US11934906B2
A hybrid transaction card reader system includes a hybrid transaction card reader and a device for protecting the hybrid reader. The hybrid transaction card reader includes a magnetic strip reader and a chip reader. The device for protecting the hybrid reader includes an upper protective printed circuit and a lower protective printed circuit. The hybrid reader further includes a lateral protective printed circuit which includes a superposition of unitary printed circuits, the plane of superposition of the unitary printed circuits being parallel to the plane of the upper protective printed circuit and to the plane of the lower protective printed circuit.
US11934905B2
A method can include obtaining contact data corresponding to a set of contacts of an authorization card. The contact data can indicate a set of engaged contacts among the set of contacts. The method can include obtaining activation data corresponding to a set of predetermined engaged contacts among the set of contacts. The method can include determining, by comparing the contact data to the activation data, that the set of engaged contacts matches the set of predetermined engaged contacts. The method can include changing, in response to the determining, a state of the authorization card from an inactive state to an active state. The method can include permitting, in response to the changing the state, an electronic transfer of authorization data from the authorization card.
US11934898B2
A system for managing a content management system (CMS), including, a plurality of servers for hosting the CMS, the CMS is accessed via a web editor that is executed on a client browser and provides access to functionality of the CMS for defining a content project, the web editor further provides access to an APP marketplace, the APP marketplace providing access to a plurality of APPS which can be added to the content project for use via the web editor; a server-side web editor configured to receive data indicating selection to add an APP to the content project, wherein responsive to launching editing of the content project in the web editor, then the APP is launched in accordance with an application framework that causes assignment of an identity to the APP for making content management API calls to the CMS for creating and editing structured content of the content project.
US11934895B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to intervening notifications provided by an application for mitigating computationally wasteful application launching behavior that is exhibited by some users. A state of a module of a target application can be identified by emulating user inputs previously provided by the user to the target application. In this way, the state of the module can be determined without visibly launching the target application. When the state of the module is determined to satisfy criteria for providing a notification to the user, the application can render a notification for the user. The application can provide intervening notifications for a variety of different target applications in order to reduce a frequency at which the user launches and closes applications to check for variations in target application content.
US11934892B2
Systems and methods for global account identifier translation. Embodiments described herein include a service provider system configured to receive API calls that include an initial identifier, which may be issued by the service provider system and/or associated with a third-party entity. The service provider system may use the initial identifier from the API call to obtain a primary identifier associated with an account. The primary identifier is then used to service the API call to obtain an API call result. The API call result may be transmitted to the device from which the API call was received.
US11934887B1
The present disclosure discloses a distributed model compilation system. A master node of the system determines the logic calculation graph of the model based on model information, divides the logic calculation graph into multiple logic calculation sub-graphs, generates a distributing message for each logic calculation sub-graph, and then transmits the distributing message to a slave node. Each of the slave nodes allocates a local computing resource to compile the logic calculation sub-graph based on the received distributing message, and transmits compilation completion information to the master node. The master node determines the completion of model compilation based on the compilation completion information returned by each slave node, and executes the target work based on the compiled model.
US11934883B2
The present invention is directed to a computer cluster arrangement and a method for operation of the introduced computer cluster arrangement. The computer cluster arrangement comprises computation nodes CN, which dynamically outsource specific computation tasks to boosters B. Therefore, an assignment technique of boosters B to computation nodes CN is introduced. The assignment takes dynamically place at runtime. The present invention finds application in high performance cluster technology.
US11934865B2
The present disclosure improves usability and stability of a control system while suppressing resource consumption. A control controller according to the present disclosure divides, using partitioning, function groups for which control is ongoing and function groups to be updated, and updates, in accordance with conditions, only the function groups to be updated, thereby updating the required control functions while continuing appropriate control processes.
US11934862B1
Virtual computer systems (virtual machines) have become increasingly common with the evolution of virtualization technology, cloud computing, etc. However, as a virtual machine and its associated guest operating system seek to execute and/or access a page of memory through synchronous processes execution of the virtual processor associated with the virtual processing is blocked until the page of memory is locked and available. Accordingly, time is wasted on calls waiting for physical page availability thereby reducing utilization of the host machine and virtual machine respectively. To address this an asynchronous virtual machine environment is established allowing the virtual machine or physical machine to handle additional operations whilst waiting for physical page availability.
US11934847B2
An interactive user interface for receiving and displaying data is described. The interactive user interface may display data sets from a plurality of external applications and/or data sources. Received data sets may be compiled to form an interactive graphical unit, also called a “card,” that may be displayed in a format based upon that of the native external application of the received data sets. Cards may be grouped with other cards. A card may include a link which allows users to access the native external application of the card to make any desired modifications or changes.
US11934832B2
This application discloses example synchronization instruction insertion methods and example apparatuses. One example method includes obtaining a first program block comprising one or more statements, where each of the one or more statements includes one or more function instructions. A first function instruction and a second function instruction between which data dependency exists in the first program block can then be determined. A synchronization instruction pair between a first statement including the first function instruction and a second statement including the second function instruction can then be inserted.
US11934830B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a new instruction for performing data-ready memory access operations. In one example, a system includes circuits to fetch, decode, and execute an instruction that includes an opcode, at least one memory location identifier identifying at least one data element, a register identifier, a data readiness indicator identifying at least one data access condition, and a data readiness mask, wherein the execution circuit is to, for each data element of the at least one data element, determine whether a memory request for the data element satisfies the at least one data access condition identified by the data readiness indicator, and in response to determining that the memory request for the data element does not satisfy the at least one data access condition: generate a prefetch request for the data element, and set a value in a corresponding data element position of the data readiness mask to indicate that the memory request for the data element does not satisfy the at least one data access condition.
US11934828B1
A method for accessing stored entities (SEs) that are stored in a storage unit of a storage system, the method may include determining in a cyclic manner, by each compute node (CN) of a group of compute nodes, CN SEs budgets to be used in a cycle, based on a shared storage space that stores performance requests of Ces of the group.
US11934825B2
A simulation system that includes a simulation accelerator that uses parallel processing to accelerate the simulation of register transfer level codes (RTLs) while minimizing memory access latency is disclosed. The accelerator has an array of parallel computing resources. The simulation accelerator receives compiled RTLs in which the components of the design are mapped to instructions. The instructions are divided into groups, in which instructions belonging to a same group are logically independent of each other. The simulation accelerator fetches instructions and data for processing by the parallel computing resources for one group of instructions at a time.
US11934823B2
An electronic control system for vehicle includes a center device that manages a program update of a vehicle, and a vehicular master device that is communicable with the center device. The center device, responsive to a user giving approval for program update by using a device not being a possession owned by the user, receives approval information of the user, and stores and manages the approval information in association with vehicle information of the user. The center device transmits the approval information to the user's vehicle side. When the vehicular master device receives the approval information, the vehicular master device performs rewriting of the program.
US11934815B2
Code translation is an evolving field and due to advancements in the infrastructure and compute power. The existing methods for code translation are time and effort intensive. A method and system for translation of codes based on the semantic similarity have been provided. A machine learning model is developed, that understands and encapsulates the semantics of the code in the source side and translates the semantic equivalent code which is more maintainable and efficient compared to one to one translation. The system is configured to group a plurality of statements present in the source code together into blocks of code and comprehend the semantics of the block. The system is also trained to understand syntactically different but semantically similar statements. While understanding the semantics of the block and translating, the unused/duplicate code etc. gets eliminated. The translated code is better architected and native to the target environment.
US11934814B2
A method of porting a first application, corresponding to a third-party development tool, into a second application, corresponding to a sub-application that depends on a parent application to run, is performed by an electronic device. The device transforms the first application from a first project mechanism into a second project mechanism. The device converts a design resource in the transformed first application from a first resource format into a second resource format. The device exports the design resource to a development tool of the sub-application. The device converts a code resource in the transformed first application from a first programming language into a second programming language. The device exports the code resource to the development tool of the sub-application. The device also performs secondary development on the design resource and the code resource in the development tool of the sub-application.
US11934811B2
Container image building using dependency container images. First dependency information that identifies a first set of dependencies necessary to generate a first application container image is accessed. A dependency container image index that identifies dependencies contained in one or more dependency container images is accessed. A first dependency container image of the one or more dependency container images is selected based on the dependency container image index and the first dependency information. The first dependency container image lacks at least one dependency identified in the first set of dependencies. A new dependency container image is generated using the first dependency container image and the at least one dependency. A new entry is stored in the dependency container image index that identifies the new dependency container image and each dependency contained in the new dependency container image.
US11934797B2
A processor to facilitate execution of a single-precision floating point operation on an operand is disclosed. The processor includes one or more execution units, each having a plurality of floating point units to execute one or more instructions to perform the single-precision floating point operation on the operand, including performing a floating point operation on an exponent component of the operand; and performing a floating point operation on a mantissa component of the operand, comprising dividing the mantissa component into a first sub-component and a second sub-component, determining a result of the floating point operation for the first sub-component and determining a result of the floating point operation for the second sub-component, and returning a result of the floating point operation.
US11934795B2
A target set of texts, for training and/or evaluating a text classification model, is augmented using insertions into a base text within the original target set. In an embodiment, an expanded text, including the base text and an insertion word, must satisfy one or more inclusion criteria in order to be added to the target set. The inclusion criteria may require that the expanded text constitutes a successful attack on the classification model, the expanded text has a satisfactory perplexity score, and/or the expanded text is verified as being valid. In an embodiment, if a number of expanded texts added into the target set is below a threshold number, insertions are made into an expanded text (which was generated based on the base text). Inclusion criteria are evaluated against the doubly-expanded text to determine whether to add the doubly-expanded text to the target set.
US11934790B2
Provided are a semantic classification method and apparatus, a neural network training method and apparatus and a storage medium. The semantic classification method includes: inputting a first remark relating to a first object; extracting a first common representation vector for representing a common representation in the first remark by processing the first remark using a common representation extractor; extracting a first single representation vector for representing a single representation in the first remark by processing the first remark using a first representation extractor; obtaining a first representation vector by splicing the first common representation vector and the first single representation vector; and obtaining a semantic classification of the first remark by processing the first representation vector using a first semantic classifier; where the common representation includes an intention representation which is used to remark on both the first object and a second object, the second object is an associated remarked object different from the first object, and the single representation in the first remark includes an intention representation which is only used to remark on the first object.
US11934788B2
Embodiments of this disclosure include an encoding method and apparatus. The encoding may include obtaining a target paragraph and a context sentence of the target paragraph, and inputting the target paragraph and the context sentence into a memory encoding model. The encoding may further include obtaining an original vector set and a memory vector set in the input layer and obtaining a first target sentence matrix of the original vector set in the memory layer according to the original vector set and the memory vector set. The encoding may further include obtaining a paragraph vector of the target paragraph in the output layer according to the first target sentence matrix and performing processing based on the paragraph vector.
US11934787B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer program products, and computer systems for improving intent determination in a messaging dialog manager system. The computer-implemented method for improving intent determination in a messaging dialog manager system may include one or more processors configured for receiving first agent entry data corresponding to a first agent communicating in a messaging dialog interface, determining that the first agent entry data expects a response that is within a first response domain, determining that a first user entry entered in the messaging dialog interface is not within the first response domain. Further, the computer-implemented may include identifying a second agent configured with a second response domain that includes the first user entry and transmitting the first user entry to the second agent to facilitate a seamless transition of an established communicational flow between the first agent and a first user.
US11934783B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to natural language processing. Techniques can include receiving input text, extracting, from the input text, at least one modifier and aspect pair, receiving data from a knowledgebase, based on the at least one modifier and aspect pair and commonsense data, generate one or more premise embeddings, convert the input text into tokens, generating at least one vector for one or more of the tokens based on an analysis of the tokens, combine the at least one vector with the one or more premise embeddings to create at least one combined vector, and analyze the at least one combined vector wherein the analysis generates an output indicative of a feature of the input text.
US11934782B2
A question answering system includes: a neural network tokenizer module configured to determine a token representation of a question to be answered and token representations of candidate paragraphs of a present reasoning path for the question, respectively; a neural network module configured to: transform the token representation of the question and the token representations of the candidate paragraphs of the present reasoning path into vector representations; and append a first variable to the vector representations to produce a second variable; a search module configured to: select the candidate paragraphs from a knowledge database to extend a present reasoning path based on lexical relevance of the candidate paragraphs to the question; and selectively add ones of the candidate paragraphs to the present reasoning path; and an answer inference network module configured to selectively determine an answer to the question based on multiple different portions of the present reasoning path.
US11934778B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing sentiment analysis of content. In order to determine the overall sentiment of content, a request is received by a sentiment analyzer, which then identifies a content identification number and retrieves comments associated with the content identification number. The sentiment analyzer pre-processes the comments, which includes removing all personal identifying information from the comments. The sentiment analyzer sends the pre-processed comments to a natural language processing service, and in turn, receives sentiment indications corresponding to the comments provided. Based on the sentiment scores, the sentiment analyzer generates a sentiment analysis and displays the sentiment analysis in the graphical user interface generated by the sentiment analyzer.
US11934777B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for generating content based on format-specific screenplay parsing techniques. The techniques generate and present content by generating new dynamic content structures to generate content segments for output on electronic devices. In one disclosed technique, a first instance of a first character name is identified from the screenplay document. A first set of character data following the first instance of the first character name from the screenplay document and preceding an instance of a second character name from the screenplay document is then identified. Upon identification of the first set of character data, a content structure including an object is generated. The object includes attribute table entries based on the first set of character data. A content segment is generated for output based on the content structure (e.g., a 3D animation of the first character interacting within a scene).
US11934776B2
The quality of user experience (UX) of an information visualization depends on multiple diverse aspects. These include qualitative, quantitative, and contextual parameters that are unmeasurable and incomparable. Hence, measuring the UX of a visualization is challenging. The disclosure herein relates to a system and method that collects, processes, and analyzes a multiple diverse parameters to measure and profile the UX of a visualization. To accomplish this, the system collects data regarding the usage, effectiveness, and user perception of the visualization. The system creates a quantitative and comparable version of all these parameters to measure holistically the UX of the visualization. This involves quantifying qualitative values, considering context by objectively computing the complexity of charts, complexity based benchmarking, summarizing individual parameters into hedonic and pragmatic scores, plotting the visualization on a scatter chart, dividing the scatter chart based on low-high hedonic and pragmatic scores, labeling each section and labeling the visualization.
US11934771B2
The present invention concerns a method for transforming an unstructured set of data representing a standardized form to a structured set of data. The method comprises a processing phase comprising the steps of determining a plurality of data blocks in the unstructured set of data using learning parameters determined using a plurality of samples, each data block corresponding to a visual pattern on the standardized form and being categorized to a known class, of processing data in each data block and of forming a structured set of data using the processed data from each data block, according to the class of this block.
US11934768B1
An electronic document associated with users of a collaborative document platform is identified. The electronic document is associated with an approval data structure including entries that correspond to approval requests. A portion of an approval data structure is included within the content of the electronic document for presentation to a first user. A first user updates a first entry of the portion of the approval data structure included within the content of the electronic is detected. The update to the first entry corresponds to a first approval request for a second user to approve a portion of the electronic document. A first notification is transmitted to a second client device associated with the second user. The first notification indicates the first approval request. The approval data structure is updated to include data of the first entry.
US11934762B2
Systems and methods disclosed are generally related to masklessly developing connections between a chip-group and a design connection point on a substrate. In placement of the chip-group on the substrate, according to certain embodiments the chip-group may be dispositioned relative to an expected position per a substrate layout design, causing a connection misalignment with the design connection point. According to certain embodiments, a machine learning (ML) model is trained on historical and simulated pixel models of chip-group connections and design connection points. Upon determining the chip-group misalignment by a metrology measurement, the trained ML model determines a pixel model to connect the misaligned chip-group, and causes the pixel model to be exposed to a substrate with a digital lithography tool, thereby connecting the dispositioned chip-group to the design connection point.
US11934749B2
Disclosed is a method of efficiently generating a computer-generated forces (CGF) entity that includes a simulated external vehicle within an interactive computer simulation that is displayed within an interactive simulation environment by an interactive computer simulation station. The method entails creating an array of state-space model structures having initially unknown parameters that, once known, will define a linearized approximation of a non-linear model of the simulated external vehicle, generating frequency response matrices by exciting each input-output relationship of the non-linear model of the simulated external vehicle at a plurality of trim conditions using very short Gaussian pulses, wherein the frequency response matrices define a plurality of linear equations, calculating the parameters by solving the linear equations of the frequency response matrices to thereby provide an array of state-space models that defines the linearized approximation of the non-linear model, and using the array of state-space models to generate the CGF entity.
US11934747B2
To provide a simulation apparatus capable of simulating the performance of a vehicle according to the battery to be mounted. A simulation apparatus (100) includes a battery performance acquisition unit (111) that acquires performance information of a battery that can be mounted on a vehicle, a vehicle information acquisition unit (112) that acquires vehicle information of the vehicle, and a simulation unit (113) that simulates vehicle performance of the vehicle and battery characteristics of the battery based on the performance information of the battery and the vehicle information.
US11934746B2
An information generation device generating a test case being a simulation model for reproducing a road traffic condition in an area on a road including a target point, the information generation device including: a first storage unit that stores moving-object information being information regarding a moving object existing in the area; a determination unit that determines whether or not an incident in which the moving object existing in the area shows a behavior that leads to occurrence of an accident has occurred, on the basis of the moving-object information; an extraction unit that extracts, as target information, moving-object information in a target period being a predetermined time period including a time point at which the incident occurred; and a generation unit that generates the test case upon occurrence of the incident on the basis of the target information.
US11934744B2
Systems and methods for customizing a building floor plan are provided. In one embodiment, a method for customizing a building floor plan comprises: at an electronic device with a display: receiving a request to modify one or more building components of a base plan associated with a building; in response to receiving the request to modify the one or more building components, determining whether the request to modify the one or more building components satisfy one or more compliance requirements; in accordance with a determination that the request to modify the one or more building components satisfy one or more compliance requirements: displaying, on the display, an updated base plan incorporating the request to modify the one or more building components; and in accordance with a determination that the request to modify the one or more building components is non-compliant, not updating of the base plan in accordance with the requested modification.
US11934743B2
The invention discloses a toric mirror surface shape measurement method. The measurement method is as follows: first, according to the parameter information of the toric mirror to be measured, using three-dimensional modeling software, establish a CAD model of the toric mirror to be measured and then import the CAD model into the three-coordinate machine software, based on the three-coordinate machine to measure and construct the geometric characteristics of the solid toric mirror, establish the workpiece coordinate system, which is consistent with the CAD model coordinate system. Finally, use the three-coordinate machine to perform scanning measurements to the solid toric mirror and compare the scanning result with the theoretical value to obtain the measurement result data. The measurement method of the present invention is based on the three-coordinate measurement technology and has the advantages of strong operability and high measurement accuracy.
US11934736B2
A wireless conferencing system for wirelessly connecting a computerized device with a display device includes at least a data transmitter. The data transmitter includes a transmitter self-powered unit, a data transmission module electrically powered by the transmitter self-powered unit, and a computer interface communicatively lined to the data transmission module, wherein when the computer interface is configured for detachably connecting to the computerized device, the data transmission module is powered and ready for wirelessly transmitting data from the computerized device to the display device without consuming power of the computerized device.
US11934727B2
Provided is a production method including a reception step of receiving a plurality of matters, a display step of displaying a list of the received matters, and a production step of producing a finished product by executing processing that includes a plurality of processes corresponding to the received matters, in which the production step executes processing of the matter of which the priority level is high, before executing unexecuted processing of the matter of which the priority level is low.
US11934725B2
A control device includes a memory configured to store variable data including a plurality of page images each including a variable region where an image is variable for each page and a non-variable region including the same image irrespective of the page and a display processing section configured to cause a display device to display a printing preview screen for the variable data. The display processing section causes the display device to display the printing preview screen that displays one or a plurality of row images in which the plurality of page images are arranged in a row in a first direction corresponding to the width direction of a printing medium.
US11934721B1
Provided is an industrial printing system that performs peer-to-peer distributed processing of variable content in variable printing for production printing. A variable attribute generating unit generates variable attribute information having content information that is variable content information of variable data for variable printing. A variable analyzing unit analyzes the content information of the variable attribute information generated by the variable attribute generating unit and determines other print server capable of processing the variable content of the variable data. A processing management unit that requests the other print server determined to be capable of processing by the variable analyzing unit to process the variable content.
US11934718B2
There is provided a printing apparatus including: a printing section; a first USB port; a second USB port; and a control section, and the control section is configured to set a state where the printing apparatus operates as a USB device when an device coupled to a USB port is a USB host, set a state where the printing apparatus operates as a USB host when the device coupled to the USB port is a USB device, set a state of supplying a first power amount of energy to the device coupled to the USB port, set a state of supplying a second power amount of energy, which is greater than the first power amount, to the device coupled to the USB port, and perform setting for giving priority to at least one of the states over another state when the printing section is not performing printing.
US11934716B2
A print system includes at least one multi-function peripheral (MFP) and an administration server that communicates with the MFP via a network. The administration server accepts user-identification information and an instruction to acquire an audit log of an operating user of the MFP, the instruction specifying the operating user as an audit target. In a case where an assigned group of a user corresponding to the user-identification information and an assigned group of the operating user as the audit target match or correspond to each other, the administration server transmits the instruction to the MFP. The MFP stores the audit log and the operating user of the MFP in association with each other, and transmits the audit log of the operating user specified in the received instruction to the server.
US11934711B2
An information processing device includes: an image data input unit accepting an input of image data; a viewing condition setting acceptance unit accepting a setting of a first viewing condition and a second viewing condition; a color conversion unit converting the image data into first output image data adjusted to an appearance under the first viewing condition, based on a first profile including first spectral information corresponding to the first viewing condition, and converting the image data into second output image data adjusted to an appearance under the second viewing condition, based on a second profile including second spectral information corresponding to the second viewing condition; and a display information generation unit generating display information representing a display screen including the first output image and the second output image, based on the first output image data and the second output image data.
US11934699B2
A computer-implemented method for unoptimized tape drive read detection is disclosed. The computer-implemented includes determining whether a read order of a trio of related files is consistent with an order in which the trio of related files are stored on a magnetic tape media. The computer-implemented method further includes generating an unoptimized tape drive read warning in response to determining that the read order of the trio of related files is inconsistent with the order in which the trio of related files are stored on the magnetic tape media.
US11934696B2
A method for meeting quality of service (QoS) requirements in a flash controller that includes one or more instruction queues and a neural network engine. A configuration file for a QoS neural network is loaded into the neural network engine. A current command is received at the instruction queue(s). Feature values corresponding to commands in the instruction queue(s) are identified and are loaded into the neural network engine. A neural network operation of the QoS neural network is performed using as input the identified feature values to predict latency of the current command. The predicted latency is compared to a first latency threshold. When the predicted latency exceeds the first latency threshold one or more of the commands in the instruction queue(s) are modified. The commands are not modified when the predicted latency does not exceed the latency threshold. A next command in the instruction queue(s) is then performed.
US11934694B2
A method of a memory device, a storage system, and a memory device are provided. The method includes receiving a set of entries, where the set of entries includes a first entry from a source queue and addressed to a first destination and a second entry addressed to a second destination, determining to add a third entry associated with the first entry and addressed to the first destination to the set of entries, selecting one of the first entry and the third entry as a restock entry and the other of the first entry and the third entry as a pass-through entry, sending the restock entry to the source queue, and sending the second entry and the pass-through entry to a serial link connected to the first destination and the second destination.
US11934687B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a multi-disk drive comprising a plurality of media surfaces and a plurality of heads, wherein a head of the plurality of heads is configured to be actuated over each surface of the plurality of media surfaces. The multi-disk drive further comprises control circuitry configured to write data to a first media surface of the plurality of media surfaces using a first head of the plurality of heads, and after all of an available memory of the first media surface has been filled, write data to a second media surface of the plurality of media surfaces using a second head of the plurality of heads. The control circuitry is further configured to permanently disable write access to one or more media surfaces of the plurality of media surfaces, while continuing to permit read access to the plurality of media surfaces.
US11934686B2
A set of host data items is received for programming to the memory subsystem. The set of host data items is programmed to a first region of the memory subsystem that includes one or more memory devices. A determination is made that a sequence at which the set of host data items are programmed across memory devices of the first region does not correspond to a target sequence associated with accessing the set of host data items via the first region. The target sequence corresponds to a sequence that enables a host data items programmed to the memory sub-system to be accessed in parallel. The set of host data items is copied from the first region to a second region of the memory subsystem. A sequence at which the set of host data items is copied to memory devices of the second region corresponds to the target sequence.
US11934681B2
Managing storage device evacuation that includes a plurality of storage devices, including: detecting, by the storage system, an occurrence of a storage device evacuation event associated with a source storage device within a write group, wherein the write group is a subset of storage devices storing a data set; responsive to detecting the occurrence of the storage device evacuation event, identifying, by the storage system, a target storage device for receiving data stored on the source storage device; and migrating, by the storage system, the data stored on the source storage device to the target storage device.
US11934676B2
A method is described, which includes receiving, by a memory subsystem controller from a host system, a host read memory command that references a set of logical block addresses associated with a set of transfer units of a memory device. The controller converts the set of logical block addresses to a set of physical block addresses for the set of transfer units; generates a set of device read memory commands based on the physical block addresses, wherein each device read memory command references at least one physical block address; and generates a first aggregated device read memory command based on a first device read memory command and a second read memory command in response to determining that the first device read memory command is associated with the second device read memory command. The controller thereafter transmits the first aggregated device read memory command to the memory device.
US11934655B2
A system for storing multiple petabytes of raw log data from cloud-based source data buckets into internal partitioned data storage in a data lake is provided. The system is configured to: deploy a log partitioner cluster comprising a plurality of log partitioner service instances for storing the raw log data in a partitioned manner; associate one or more of the source data buckets to each of a plurality of deployed log partitioner service instances by providing associated configuration metadata from a configuration service; fetch, via the log partitioner cluster, raw log data from associated source data buckets based on the associated configuration metadata, wherein the associated configuration metadata provides instructions for use by a log partitioner service instance to onboard raw log data; and place fetched raw log data, via the log partitioner cluster, in the internal partitioned log storage in accordance with the associated configuration metadata.
US11934652B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a display panel including a touch sensor, and a processor configured to: based on receiving a touch input signal for an area of the display panel from the touch sensor, control the display panel to display a touch trajectory corresponding to the touch input signal in the area, and based on touch context information including speed information corresponding to the touch input signal, determine whether to display a subsequent trajectory of the displayed touch trajectory.
US11934648B2
A permission setting method and apparatus and an electronic device belong to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: displaying a first control on a desktop; receiving a first input to the first control and a first icon by a user; and setting a first function permission for a first application program in response to the first input, where the first application program is an application program indicated by the first icon, and the first function permission is a function permission in a plurality of function permissions associated with the first control. The method may be applied to a scenario of performing quick management on a function permission of an application program.
US11934640B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface associated with a first record label. In some embodiments, the user interface includes one or more representations of artists associated with the first record label and one or more representations of content items, and does not include representations of content or artists not associated with the first record label. In some embodiments, in response to a selection of a representation of a first artist, the electronic device displays a user interface of the content playback application associated with the first artist, which includes one or more representations of content associated with the first artist, but not one or more representations of content associated with the second artist. In some embodiments, in response to a selection of a representation of a first content item, the electronic device initiates a process to access the first content item via the content playback application.
US11934639B2
There is provided an adaptive interface providing apparatus which has a manipulation unit for receiving a request from a user and provides an interface to be displayed on the manipulation unit that comprises a proficiency index calculating unit configured to calculate a proficiency index of the user based on a manipulation log of the user; and an interface providing unit configured to generate an interface suitable for the user based on a manipulation log of each user and the proficiency index and to display the interface on the manipulation unit.
US11934638B2
A command display method includes a method of displaying a plurality of commands in a computer including a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the plurality of commands in a window on a display screen, the plurality of commands having a plurality of layers. The display method includes detecting the vertical or horizontal size of the window; determining the form of a display of each of the plurality of layers in response to the detected size; and controlling a display of the commands in each of the plurality of layers in response to the determined form and an instruction from an operator. At least one of the plurality of layers is controlled to be displayed as a detailed display in an area inside the window. The detailed display is a display of a layer that is at a lower level than the layer whose display form changes.
US11934634B2
A method and system for assessing a machine learning model providing a prediction as to the disease state of a patient from a 2D or 3D image of the patient or a sample obtained therefrom. The machine learning model produces a prediction of the disease state from the image. The method involves presenting on a display of a workstation the image of the patient or a sample obtained therefrom along with a risk score or classification associated with the prediction. The image is further augmented with high-lighting to indicate one or more regions in the image which affected the prediction produced by the machine learning model. Tools are provided by which the user may highlight one or more regions of the image which the user deems to be suspicious for the disease state. Inference is performed on the user-highlighted areas by the machine learning model. The results of the inference are presented to the user via the display.
US11934628B2
A head-worn device system includes one or more cameras, one or more display devices and one or more processors. The system also includes a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the system to generate a virtual object, generate a virtual object collider for the virtual object, determine a conic collider for the virtual object, provide the virtual object to a user, detect a landmark on the user's hand in the real-world, generate a landmark collider for the landmark, and determine a selection of the first virtual object by the user based on detecting a collision between the landmark collider with the conic collider and with the virtual object collider.
US11934623B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, an information presentation apparatus for displaying information on a display device including a display area corresponding to a visual field range of a user includes: a first storage medium that stores presentation information including content information representing a presentation content and attribute information of the content information; a detection unit that detects a gaze point within the visual field range of the user; and a presentation control unit that determines a presentation position of the content information within the visual field range of the user in accordance with the attribute information stored together with the content information to be presented and the detected gaze point and cause the content information to be displayed at a position corresponding to the determined presentation position within the display area of the display device.
US11934619B2
A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; an input sensing substrate on the display panel; a flexible circuit film coupled to one side of an upper surface of the input sensing substrate; a step compensation film spaced apart from the flexible circuit film on the upper surface of the input sensing substrate; and an anti-reflection film on the flexible circuit film and the step compensation film, wherein the step compensation film comprises: a compensation layer on the upper surface of the input sensing substrate, and an overcoat layer between the compensation layer and the input sensing substrate.
US11934616B2
A method for controlling an image display system includes detecting a position to which a pointing element is pointing on a fourth image, identifying first coordinates in a coordinate system of the fourth image, the first coordinates represent the position in the fourth image, acquiring first information representing resolution of a second image and second information representing a position of a third image relative to the second image on an image supplier, converting the first coordinates into second coordinates in a coordinate system of a first image, which represent a position in the first image, based on the first information and the second information, and transmitting the second coordinates to the image supplier and carrying out a process based on the second coordinates when the image supplier receives the second coordinates from a display apparatus.
US11934613B1
A method for generating an adaptive user interface may include, generating a graphical user interface for presentation to a user at an automated banking machine that includes a touch screen display and a currency note dispenser. The automated banking machine may include a sensor that senses information indicating a physical disposition of the user relative to the automated banking machine. The method may include adjusting the placement of the menu options on the touch screen display based on the information regarding the physical disposition of the user relative to the automated banking machine.
US11934611B2
A detecting device includes a plurality of first electrodes arrayed in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction in a detection region, an electrode drive circuit configured to supply a drive signal to the first electrodes, a detection circuit configured to detect a detection signal received from the first electrodes, and a coupling circuit configured to couple part of the first electrodes to the detection circuit as a detection electrode and couple the first electrodes disposed side by side with the detection electrode in at least the first direction and the second direction to the electrode drive circuit as a drive electrode in a first detection period.
US11934608B2
A touch screen display is operable to operate in a first mode during a first temporal period based on activating exactly one set of drive-sense circuits of a plurality of sets of drive-sense circuits to generate a corresponding one set of sensed signals during the first temporal period, and processing the corresponding one set of sensed signals to generate first proximal interaction data for the first temporal period. The touch screen display is operable to operate in a second mode during a second temporal period after the first temporal period based on activating more than one set of drive-sense circuits of the plurality of sets of drive-sense circuits to generate a corresponding more than one set of sensed signals during the second temporal period, and processing the set of sensed signals to generate second proximal interaction data for the second temporal period.
US11934605B1
A touch panel and a touch display panel are provided. The touch panel includes a base substrate, a first touch sub-electrode, a second touch sub-electrode, and a bridge. The bridge includes a first sub-bridge and a second sub-bridge. The first sub-bridge has a first edge and a second edge, the first edge includes a first linear sub-edge and a second linear sub-edge directly connected to each other, and the second edge includes a third linear sub-edge and a fourth linear sub-edge directly connected to each other. An included angle between the first linear sub-edge and the second linear sub-edge is a first included angle α1, an included angle between the third linear sub-edge and the fourth linear sub-edge is a second included angle α2, and at least one of the first included angle α1 and the second included angle α2 is an obtuse angle.
US11934604B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to a touch display device, as a plurality of first line parts disposed on a first sensor layer and a plurality of second line parts disposed on a second sensor layer are alternated to make a touch line, at least a portion of different touch lines can be disposed to be overlapped each other, thus a plurality of touch lines can be disposed while reducing or minimizing a reduction of an aperture ratio or a transmittance of a subpixel due to an arrangement of the touch line. Accordingly, a touch sensitivity can be enhanced by further disposing touch electrodes, or the touch display device having a large area with many channels can be implemented easily by further disposing touch lines.
US11934602B2
Electronic device and operation method of electronic device for supporting one handed operation mode
An electronic device according to the disclosure may include: a display including a first area and a second area; a first sensor and a second sensor disposed oppositely on at least a part of or an adjacent side surface corresponding to the first area and the second area of the display, each of the first sensor and the second sensor configured to detect a grip; and a processor operatively connected to the display, the first sensor, and the second sensor, wherein the processor is configured to: detect a grip based on a sensor value change of one of the first sensor or the second sensor, receive a touch input sensed in at least a partial area of one of the first area or the second area of the display corresponding to the sensor among the first sensor or the second sensor detecting the grip, and convert into a touch input targeting an entire area of the display including the first area and the second area.
US11934601B2
A touch display device includes a first horizontal electrode including a plurality of first electrode parts spaced apart from one another in a horizontal direction and a plurality of first bridge parts connecting the plurality of first electrode parts; a second horizontal electrode including a plurality of second electrode parts spaced apart from the first horizontal electrode in a vertical direction and spaced apart from one another in the horizontal direction and a plurality of second bridge parts connecting the plurality of second electrode parts; a third horizontal electrode including a plurality of third electrode parts spaced apart from the second horizontal electrode in the vertical direction and spaced apart from one another in the horizontal direction and a plurality of third bridge parts connecting the plurality of third electrode parts; a first horizontal touch line electrically connected to the first horizontal electrode and disposed to extend in the vertical direction; a second horizontal touch line electrically connected to the second horizontal electrode and disposed to extend in the vertical direction; and a third horizontal touch line electrically connected to the third horizontal electrode and disposed to extend in the vertical direction; a plurality of first separation electrodes; a plurality of second separation electrodes; a first vertical touch line; and a second vertical touch line.
US11934597B2
A method for operating an input device. An input element of the input device is manually operated to perform an input into a computer device operatively connected to the input device. Mobility of the input element can be selectively delayed, blocked, and enabled by a controllable magneto-rheological braking device. The mobility of the input element is selectively adjusted by the computer device at least as a function of at least one input condition stored in the computer device. The input device may be a computer mouse.
US11934589B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a mouse device (102) through pressure detection, and further proposes a corresponding mouse device (102). Pressure detected between the mouse device (102) and an operation surface (104) may be obtained. An operating state corresponding to the pressure may be determined. The mouse device (102) may be configured to the operating state.
US11934588B1
A method includes, at a controller, sensing a magnitude of a first force applied to the thumbstick in a substantially downward direction relative to a top portion of the housing while the thumbstick is in the stationary default position, and a magnitude of a second force applied to the thumbstick in the substantially downward direction relative to the top portion of the housing while the thumbstick is in a position other than the stationary default position. The method includes receiving the magnitude of the first and the second force, and determining whether the magnitude of the first force or the second force satisfies a predefined force value. The method further includes providing haptic feedback to the user in response to a determination that the magnitude of the first force or the second force satisfies the predefined force value.
US11934579B2
An example system includes a strap, a display, a plurality of haptic devices, and a notification engine to cause activation of a haptic device in response to a virtual event that exceeds the view boundary. In an example, instructions may cause a processor to map a relative location of a virtual event to a corresponding location on a strap of an electronic device and cause activation of a haptic device at the corresponding location on the strap in response to a determination that the relative location of the virtual event exceeds a view boundary. In an example method for providing a virtual reality session, a virtual event is determined to correspond to an informational notification, a haptic device is identified to correspond to a location of the virtual event, and activation of the haptic device in an informational notification mode is synchronized with the virtual event.
US11934576B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method includes measuring brain activity for a target frequency and a second harmonic frequency based on a default value of display parameters for a plurality of icons, determining whether a strength of the target frequency and the second harmonic frequency are below a threshold level, and modifying one or more display parameters in response to the strength of the target frequency and the second harmonic frequency being below the threshold level.
US11934564B2
A secret share value [q] of a quotient q of a/p is obtained through secure computation using a secret share value [a] and a modulus p and [a/d0]=[(a+qp)/d0]−[q]p/d0, . . . , [a/dn−1]=[(a+qp)/dn−1]−[q]p/dn−1 are obtained and output through secure computation using secret share values [a] and [q], divisors d0, . . . , dn−1, and a modulus p. Here, [μ] is a secret share value of μ, a is a real number, n is an integer equal to or greater than 2, d0, . . . , dn−1 are divisors of real numbers, p is a modulus of a positive integer, and q is a quotient of a positive integer.
US11934550B2
Provided is a process including: obtaining criteria to select plain-text values in a lower-trust database; selecting, based on the criteria, a first plain-text value; in response, determining a first reference value; storing the first plain-text value in a higher-trust database in a second entry identified by the first reference value; storing the first reference value in the first entry of the lower-trust database; selecting another instance of the first plain-text value stored requested to be stored in a third entry in the lower-trust database; and in response, storing the first reference value in the third entry.
US11934549B2
One or more implementations of the present specification provide an invoice access method and apparatus based on a blockchain, and an electronic device. The method includes: generating first ciphertext data by encrypting plaintext data of the target invoice based on a first key corresponding to an invoice issuer; generating second ciphertext data by encrypting the plaintext data of the target invoice based on a second key corresponding to an invoice receiver; adding the first ciphertext data and an user identifier of the invoice issuer to the blockchain as related to one another; and adding the second ciphertext data and an user identifier of the invoice receiver to the blockchain as related to one another.
US11934547B2
A method for access control, the method may include (a) receiving, by a file server, an access request for allowing a user to access a file system entity, the user is identified by a first file system protocol (FSP) user identifier, (b) converting the first FSP user identifier to a first access control user identifier (ACUI) of the user, the first ACUI represents a combination of the user and the first FSP, (c) searching, within an access control data structure (ACUI), for a relevant access control rule associated with a member of a multiprotocol set of ACUIs of the user, wherein the multiprotocol set includes the first ACUI of the user and at least one other ACUI of the user that represents at least one combination of the user and at least one other FSP, and (d) responding to the access request based on the relevant access control rule, when finding the relevant access control.
US11934540B2
Systems, methods, and corresponding non-transitory computer readable media describe a proposed system adapted as a platform governing the loading of data in a multiparty secure computing environment. In the multiparty secure computing environment described herein, multiple parties are able to load their secure information into a data warehouse having specific secure processing adaptations that limit both access and interactions with data stored thereon.
US11934538B2
In general, this disclosure describes techniques for replacing target cryptographic primitives in executable binary files with other, potentially more secure, cryptographic primitives. In some examples, a computing system for augmenting cryptographic executables includes a locator to determine if an executable program in an executable binary file includes a target cryptographic primitive. The computing system can include a patch generator to generate patch instructions in response to a determination by the locator that the executable program includes the target cryptographic primitive. The patch instructions cause the executable program to execute a replacement cryptographic primitive instead of the target cryptographic primitive. A rewriter engine of the computing system can modify, based on the patch instructions, the executable program to generate a modified executable binary file.
US11934537B1
A first processing device obtains a first copy of software from a repository, the first copy including first computer instructions and first data for indicating a running state of a device. A validation request is sent, which includes a seed, an algorithm identifier, a number of random numbers to generate, and a nonce. The first processing device generates the number of first random numbers using the seed and an algorithm corresponding to the algorithm identifier, and maps the first random numbers to memory blocks, each of which includes a respective first computer instruction of the first copy or the first data. A first hash is calculated from contents of the mapped memory blocks and the nonce. A second hash, calculated using information included in the validation request and a software copy on a second processing device, is received. An action is automatically performed when the hashes do not match.
US11934519B2
A method and system for mitigating against side channel attacks (SCA) that exploit speculative store-to-load forwarding is described. The method comprises conditioning store-to-load forwarding on the memory dependence predictor (MDP) being trained for that load instruction. Training involves identifying situations in which store-to-load forwarding could have been performed, but wasn't, and obversely, identifying situations in which store-to-load forwarding was performed but resulted in an error.
US11934518B2
A verification apparatus acquires a source code for multiparty computation, while changing a combination of options settable to a multiparty computation compiler, compiles the source code for each combination of options to generate a plurality of multiparty computation executable codes, selects at least one multiparty computation executable code from the plurality of multiparty computation executable codes as a verification code and provides the at least one verification code to a verification environment of multiparty computation, generates an evaluation index with respect to an execution result of at least one verification code in the verification environment, and selects at least one recommended code from the plurality of multiparty computation executable codes, based on the evaluation index corresponding to at least one verification code and outputs the selected recommended code.
US11934517B2
Systems and methods of defending against stack-based cybersecurity attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in buffer overflows. The embodiments disclosed herein propose hijacking program flow in a program binary by insert call checking CFI code before calling a target. Examples of a target can be a function within the program binary, a register, or a memory location. If the call target is a valid call target (e.g., included in a global list of addresses), normal program flow resumes and the program flow is transferred to the target. On the contrary, if the call target is not a valid call target (e.g., not included in a global list of addresses), the program binary is deliberately crashed.
US11934509B2
The method disclosed herein provides for performing user authentication and maintaining user authentication and access to a first device based on the user maintaining control of the first device. The continued control may be based on determining the user's continued possession of the first device, or determining an acceptable proximity of the user to the first device. The proximity of the user may be determined using a second device associated with the user, or sensors associated with the first device.
US11934507B2
A method for project-oriented authentication of a device in a control system for a technical installation as part of an engineering project, wherein the control system includes at least one local registration service, at least one software inventory and a certification center, where information by the at least one local registration service with respect to what communication protocols and/or applications are supported by the device and/or are active is ascertained during authentication of the device within the control system, a project-oriented device certificate is requested from the first hierarchy of the certification center by the local registration service, and the project-oriented device certificate is deposited in an inventory element, associated with the engineering project, of the software inventory of the control system, the device certificates being issuable by the first hierarchy of the certification center have a unique project identifier.
US11934505B2
An information content viewing method includes displaying, by a terminal, a first lock screen or keeps in a screen-off state, and displaying, by the terminal, a second lock screen after receiving first information, where the second lock screen displays a first control, and the first control prompts that content of the first information is hidden, receiving, by the terminal, a first operation of a user on a touchscreen, and collecting and verifying, by the terminal, fingerprint information of the user based on the first operation and displaying, by the terminal, a third lock screen after the verification on the fingerprint information succeeds, where the third lock screen displays the first control, and the first control displays the content of the first information.
US11934500B2
A system performs identification system enrollment and validation and/or authentication. In some examples, the system receives a digital representation of a biometric for a person from a device, biographic information for the person, and monitoring of capture of the biometric and determines whether the biometric is genuine. In others, the system obtains data from a network search using the biometric and the information, generates a comparison of the biometric and the information to the data from the network search, and uses the comparison to determine whether the person is who the person asserts. In still others, the system performs a number of identity checks using the information and the biometric, weights certainty and risk of each of the number of identity checks, and determines whether to approve the person for identification system enrollment using an aggregation of the identity checks.
US11934498B2
A method and an electronic device for training a classifier to identify a user of the electronic device are provided. The method comprises: receiving training key stroke data associated with the user, a given portion of the training key stroke data having been generated in response to the user inputting a respective symbol of a predetermined text into the electronic device, by interacting with a given key of the plurality of keys; determining, based on the given portion of the training key stroke data, a plurality of time intervals associated with the user; determining most stable ones of the plurality of time intervals for inclusion thereof in a training set of data; training, based on the training set of data, the classifier to determine if the predetermined text inputted into the electronic device in future has been inputted by the user.
US11934497B2
A software and/or hardware facility that can be used by content owners to assert ownership of content so that copyright friendly websites and services can take action against copyright piracy effectively, efficiently and is scalable is disclosed. The facility makes available to all content owners watermarking/fingerprinting technology so an identifier (e.g., a unique code) can be embedded in the content (e.g., video/audio portion of each video content asset). The facility utilizes blockchain technology to add information related to each unique identifier in a database and allows an authorized user (e.g., the owner) to update the information through a blockchain transaction.
US11934495B2
A device for automatically identifying anti-analysis techniques by using the signature extraction, includes an extraction unit which extracts a DEX file and an ELF file from an application file after unpacking the application file, which is in an APK format and includes compressed execution code to be executed on Android, a detection unit which receives the acquired signature classified according to types of the signature, analytically compares the input signature with the signature stored in a database, and detects the signature used in anti-analysis techniques, and a determination unit which determines according to the detected signature what anti-analysis technique is applied to the application. According to the present invention, it is possible to enable an appropriate and quick response to damages due to malicious applications by shortening the time required for analysis and automatically recognizing the application to which the anti-analysis technique is applied.
US11934489B2
A computer-implemented method for predicting a cropland data layer (CDL) for a current year includes: retrieving a first set of records from a historical CDL database, where the first set corresponds to sampled areas of a region taken over a period for a number of years; retrieving a second set of records from a historical imagery database, where the second set corresponds to the sampled areas of the region, the period, and the number of years; employing the second set as inputs to train a deep learning network to generate the first set; retrieving a third set of records from a current imagery database, where the third set corresponds to a prescribed region, and where the third set corresponds to the time period and the current year; and using the third set as inputs and executing the trained deep learning network to generate a predicted CDL for the current year.
US11934477B2
A method for presenting an interactive video to a user. The method includes providing an application layer including at least one first user interface (UI) element, providing a video player layer including at least one second UI element, the video player layer being integrated in the application layer and configured to present the interactive video to the user, receiving a first user interaction associated with the at least one first UI element, and dynamically modifying the interactive video and/or the at least one second UI element included in the video player layer based on the first user interaction.
US11934468B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for controlling content distribution. The methods and systems receive an original search query and expand the original search query by adding one or more neutral words to create an expanded search query. The methods and systems automatically classify the original search query using the expanded search query in an accurate manner and use the classification to control content distribution.
US11934456B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a unified knowledge graph. In one example, a method includes receiving entity data from a data source comprising a plurality of entities; forming a plurality of type-specific groups of entity data based on the received entity data; for each respective type-specific group of entity data of the plurality of type-specific groups of entity data; disambiguating the entity data within the respective type-specific group of entity data; creating a plurality of entity relationships based on the disambiguated entity data; and exporting the plurality of entity relationships to a type-specific subgraph; and forming a unified knowledge graph based on a plurality of type-specific subgraphs, wherein each type-specific subgraph of the plurality of type-specific subgraphs is associated with a single type-specific group of entity data of the plurality of type-specific groups of entity data.
US11934451B2
Media unit retrieval methods, systems and computer program products are provided that allow a user to search for an item by iteratively presenting media units such as images representing items to the user and receiving user input consisting of selections of the presented media units (including possibly the empty selection). Features, or attributes, a user is interested in, for example semantic features, are inferred from the interaction and media units are retrieved for presentation based on similarity with user-selected media units, through sampling of a probability distribution describing the intent or interests, or combinations of approaches. Accordingly, the user-experience is akin to a conversation about what the user is looking for. Retrieval may be based on both selected and unselected media units and the selection may comprise making a selection with a single action. Further, a database of media units can capture similarity relationships for efficient media unit retrieval.
US11934441B2
An ontology topic is selected and a pretrained predictive language model is primed to create a predictive primed model based on one or more ontological rules corresponding to the selected ontology topic. Using the predictive primed model, natural language text is generated based on the ontology topic and guidance of a prediction steering component. The predictive primed model is guided in selecting text that is predicted to be appropriate for the ontology topic and the generated natural language text. The generated natural language text is processed to generate extracted ontology rules and the extracted ontology rules are compared to one or more rules of an ontology rule database that correspond to the ontology topic. A check is performed to determine if a performance of the ontology extractor is acceptable.
US11934436B2
A computer extracts from contact records that each include a contact identifier, a group identifier for each group with which the contact has had an interaction, and interaction information that indicates a number of interactions and a timing of a most recent interaction. The contact data records are processed to generate a contact profile record for each contact including group metric values and a corresponding value for each group metric value based on an interaction history of groups the contact has interacted with. An interaction analytics databases stores a set of contact profile records and group profile records for groups that include metric values associated with the group and an interaction history. They are processed with at least thousands of the contact profile records to determine group-contact compatibility factors. A compatibility parameter is generated and communicated for each of at least thousands of contacts based on the group-contact compatibility parameters.
US11934433B2
Methods and systems for generating a search expression. The system begins with an empty search expression, and iteratively expands the search expression until some terminating condition is reached.
US11934430B2
A method comprises receiving, by an elevation application communicatively coupled to a geospatial database, a request comprising a start location and an end location from a workstation, wherein the geospatial database stores elevation data describing ground elevations and clutter elevations at a plurality of different geographic locations, segmenting, by the elevation application, a path between the start location and the end location into a plurality of segments having an incremental distance, for each of the plurality of segments, constructing a segment vector comprising the ground elevation and clutter elevation of the segment, and constructing an elevation data structure comprising the segment vector for each of the plurality of segments.
US11934424B1
A method and apparatus are provided for avoiding target database constraint violations in a database replication system. The database replication system includes a source database and a target database, wherein target database transactions automatically abort due to constraint violations. Each database has one or more tables and at least one of the target database tables has one or more constraints. The database replication system replicates source database transactions. For each target database transaction corresponding to a replicated source database transaction, changes made at the source database are replicated to the target database. When it is detected that a replicated change causes a constraint violation as a result of one or more of the target database tables having one or more constraints, the applying of the database change to the target database of the database change is deferred and the database change is posted to an electronic list. Replicated changes that do not cause a constraint violation are immediately applied to the target database. This process is repeated for all of the changes within the replicated source database transaction. The database changes on the electronic list are iterated through by applying the database changes on the electronic list that no longer cause a constraint violation to the target database and removing the applied database changes from the electronic list, and by deferring again the applying of the database changes on the electronic list that still cause a constraint violation and maintaining the deferred database changes on the electronic list. A commit is performed for the target database transaction corresponding to the replicated source database transaction when a commit operation is detected in the replicated source database transaction, and when no database changes remain on the electronic list for the replicated source database transaction. The deferring process avoids the target database transactions automatically aborting due to constraint violations.
US11934416B2
Disclosed herein is a method implemented by a task mining engine. The task mining engine is stored as processor executable code on a memory. The processor executable code is executed by a processor that is communicatively coupled to the memory. The method includes receiving recorded tasks identifying user activity with respect to a computing environment and clustering the recorded user tasks into steps by processing and scoring each recorded user task. The method also includes extracting step sequences that identify similar combinations or repeated combinations of the steps to mimic the user activity.
US11934415B2
In order to facilitate dynamic graphing of entity networks based on activity, systems and methods include a processor receiving entity-specific data records and a plurality of entity-related activity records for a plurality of entities, where each entity-specific activity record includes activity data regarding at least one activity associated with an entity. The processor generates graph nodes for an entity activity graph based on the plurality of entity-specific data records, where each graph node of the plurality of graph nodes represents the particular entity and then generating an activity data structure, including the graph nodes and edges between the graph nodes, where the edges represent characteristics of the activities between graph nodes based on the entity-related activity record.
US11934410B2
A computer-implemented system and method for planning recurring events is provided. Event objects for events are stored in a database. A trigger notifying the beginning of an event is received and an event object representing the event is generated in response to the trigger. An event class is associated with a set of parameters and is assigned to the event object. A set of activity data is created for the event object and each activity data includes structured and unstructured data describing an event activity occurred during the event. At least one event object is retrieved from the database as a model and the parameter values of the model event object are displayed. At least one of the parameter values of the model event object is modified and the modification is reflected against other parameter values of the model event object that are dependent on the modified parameter value.
US11934406B2
A system includes hardware processors and a non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the hardware processors, causes the hardware processors to perform actions including receiving an input data set related to digital content, where the input data set includes a plurality of input entries. The actions also include matching one or more input words of each input entry of the plurality of input entries to one or more baseline words of one or more baseline entries of a baseline data set and generating an output data set including a plurality of output entries. Each respective input entry corresponds to a respective output entry of the plurality of output entries, and each respective output entry includes a baseline entry of the one or more baseline entries having a highest probability of matching the respective input entry and additional data associated with the respective input entry.
US11934398B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for optimizing selection of a cached execution plan to use in processing a parametric query. For example, systems described herein involve training a plan selection model that makes use of machine learning to identify an execution plan from a set of pre-selected execution plans based on predicted cost of executing a query instance in accordance with the selected execution plan (e.g., relative to predicted costs of executing the query instance using other pre-selected execution plans). This application describes features related to lowering costs associated with selecting the execution plan in a way that will continue to be more accurate overtime based on training and refining the plan selection model.
US11934395B2
A method of efficiently extracting large data sets from a database may include receiving a first result set from a first query executed on one or more data sources. The one or more data sources may use a first schema when the first query was executed. The method may also include receiving a second result set from a second query executed on the one or more data sources. The one or more data sources may use a second schema when the second query was executed. The method may further include generating a view that combines the first result set and the second result set. The view may resolve differences between the first schema and the second schema.
US11934385B2
Disclosed is a method for storing data from a remote device in a blockchain database, the method, performed by a network node 112, including: receiving a message from the remote device, accessing the message through a control plane, obtaining data included in the message by the remote device, generating a data record including obtained data, and storing generated data record to a blockchain database. Also disclosed is are network node and a computer readable medium.
US11934373B2
The present invention refers to the field of transactional data management. The invention provides a transactional semantic concurrency control system for managing a database, wherein the system comprises a data store engine which is adapted to manage the database comprising value rows, and each value row comprising a primary key uniquely identifying each row, at least one semantic column and a commit timestamp; wherein the data store engine is further adapted to manage operation rows, which are rows comprising a primary key, at least one operation to be applied over at least one semantic column of a value row identified by the primary key, and a commit timestamp; store the value rows and the operation rows; generate an operation row when it receives an operation that inserts, updates, upserts, and/or deletes a row of the database with the commit timestamp of the operation; and apply the operations of at least one operation row when a trigger condition is satisfied.
US11934369B2
A system may include a nested probabilistic data structure that contains nested tables, each table having electronic records associated with different hash functions. A data analytics engine may receive information about a detected action, including action characteristics. In response to the detected action, insertions are executed into the nested probabilistic data structure at multiple levels based on the action characteristics (each insertion incrementing an entry in the data structure selected using the hash functions). The engine then continues to monitor for detected actions. Upon receipt of a query associated with the monitored action (including a query type), a key and level of nesting associated with the query is determined based on the query type. The hash functions are executed on the determined key to retrieve a value from each electronic record in an appropriate nested table, and a minimum of the retrieved values is output in response to the query.
US11934366B2
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a common data model management unit that manages information indicating a common data model corresponding to a plurality of modules in common; a unique data model management unit that manages information indicating a unique data model corresponding to at least one of the modules; and a common management unit that manages a version of a module corresponding to the common data model managed by the common data model management unit, a version of a module corresponding to the unique data model managed by the unique data model management unit, and a version of a module corresponding to a newly installed data model, and verifies compatibility of the versions.
US11934362B2
Embodiments for enabling granular migration of data with high efficiency. A defined metadata element, a tag, is assigned to each file, and then tag filtering is used to direct the data to the proper location. Files with different tags can be selected for transfer, and such a group of tags is referred to as a tag set. Embodiments can be used with a defined backup system file migration process, such as present in the Data Domain File System. By using snapshots, incoming new data (ingested file) is allowed to continue while the migration is in process and maintaining data consistency at the same time. This is achieved by performing operations on B+ Tree snapshots in conjunction with tag filtering on keys present in the leaf pages of these structures. This method is efficient became it makes a single pass walk of a B+ Tree in contrast with previous methods that look up files one-by-one via their pathname.
US11934356B2
A client machine writes to and reads from a virtual disk on a remote storage platform. Metadata is generated and stored in replicas on different metadata nodes of the storage platform. A modified log-structured merge tree is used to store and compact string-sorted tables of metadata. During file storage and compaction, a consistent file identification scheme is used across all metadata nodes. A fingerprint file is calculated for each SST (metadata) file on disk that includes hash values corresponding to regions of the SST file. To synchronize, the fingerprint files of two SST files are compared, and if any hash values are missing from a fingerprint file, then the key-value-timestamp triples corresponding to these missing hash values are sent to the SST file that is missing them. The SST file is compacted with the missing triples to create a new version of the SST file. The synchronization is bi-directional.
US11934355B2
A system and method for providing a distributed measurement system. The system performs operations that include receiving, via a user interface of a user device, a request from a requestor to access a data file of a project. The project includes a plurality of data files including the data file, and at least one of the one or more data files is generated based at least in part on measurement data output from a measurement device. Based on determining that the requestor has permission to access the data file, one or more editing options are provided for editing the data file. The one or more editing options vary based at least in part on one or both of a characteristic of the user device and a characteristic of the data file. The data file is edited in response to receiving an editing request.
US11934354B2
A method for pre-processing files that can improve file compression rates of existing general-purpose lossless file compression algorithms, particularly for files on which traditional algorithms perform poorly. The elementary cellular automata (CA) pre-processing technique involves finding an optimal CA state that can be used to transform an original file into a format (i.e., an intermediary file) that is more amenable to compression than the original file format. This technique is applicable to multiple file types and may be used to enhance multiple compression algorithms. Evaluation on generated files, as well as samples selected from online text repositories, finds that the CA pre-processing technique improves compression rates by up to 4% and shows promising results for assisting in compressing data that typically induce worst-case behavior in standard compression algorithms.
US11934333B2
A peripheral device includes a host interface and processing circuitry. The host interface is configured to communicate with a host over a peripheral bus. The processing circuitry is configured to expose on the peripheral bus a peripheral-bus device that communicates with the host using a bus storage protocol, to receive, using the exposed peripheral-bus device, Input/Output (I/O) transactions that are issued by the host, and to complete the I/O transactions for the host in accordance with a network storage protocol, by running at least part of a host-side protocol stack of the network storage protocol.
US11934322B1
A system comprises a storage system comprising one or more storage devices and a storage controller operatively coupled to the storage system, the storage controller comprising a processing device, the processing device to receive first raw data from a first tenant of the storage system to a first non-volatile memory express (NVMe) input/output (I/O) queue of the storage system. The processing device further to determine that the first NVMe I/O queue corresponds to a first key, wherein the first key corresponds to the first tenant. The processing device further to encrypt the first raw data using the first key to generate first encrypted data. The processing device further to store the first encrypted data on the storage system.
US11934317B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for memory management are described. For example, these may include a first memory level including memory pages in a memory array, a second memory level including a cache, a pre-fetch buffer, or both, and a memory controller that determines state information associated with a memory page in the memory array targeted by a memory access request. The state information may include a first parameter indicative of a current activation state of the memory page and a second parameter indicative of statistical likelihood (e.g., confidence) that a subsequent memory access request will target the memory page. The memory controller may disable storage of data associated with the memory page in the second memory level when the first parameter associated with the memory page indicates that the memory page is activated and the second parameter associated with the memory page is greater than or equal to a threshold.
US11934305B2
According to an embodiment, when receiving a read request designating a logical address range of a particular size or more from a host, a first circuit issues a plurality of first sub-commands, each of which is a sub-command for each first data unit, in order of logical addresses. A second circuit respectively adds serial numbers corresponding to the plurality of first sub-commands in the order of issuance. A plurality of third circuits respectively executes processing of specifying locations of the first data unit based on management information for the plurality of first sub-commands in a distributed manner. A fifth circuit reorders the plurality of first sub-commands in the logical address order based on the serial numbers after the processing by the plurality of third circuits. A sixth circuit executes a read operation on a first memory based on the plurality of first sub-commands reordered in the order of logical addresses.
US11934294B2
Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for generating and debugging bytecode for a rule including embedded debug functions. One or more predefined breakpoints are included in the embedded debug functions. When a breakpoint is reached, an execution state for the rule is stored including one or more local variables for the rule. Execution may be resumed by retrieving the stored execution state.
US11934292B2
Provided are a sampling object determination method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The sampling object determination method includes: determining a sampling number through a sampling proportion and a total number of users of an application; determining at least one version in order of versions of the application from high to low, where a sum of a number of users of the at least one version is greater than or equal to the sampling number; and determining the sampling number of users in the users of the at least one version as sampling objects.
US11934279B2
A prefetch mechanism stores data in the memory allocated in a remote passive (remote) node in a High Availability active-passive node pair. A read-ahead cache that can host different parts of a file is created on both the active and the passive nodes. The system improves the performance of sequential restores by using memory available on a passive node to supplement the local (active node) memory to hold the prefetched data for the common case of large sequential restores. This extra memory overcomes issues when a current prefetch fails to keep up with the target restore performance. Filesystem redirection is thus accomplished by servicing an I/O request by sending it another node that itself caches the data.
US11934272B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processor to execute software processes, a memory system to store data for access by the at least one processor, and checkpointing circuitry to trigger saving, to the memory system, of checkpoints of context state associated with at least one software process executed by the at least one processor. The saving of checkpoints is a background process performed by the checkpointing circuitry in the background of execution of the software processes by the at least one processor.
US11934271B2
There are provided a memory system and an operating method thereof. A memory system includes: a plurality of storage regions, each including a plurality of memory cells; and a controller configured to provide a plurality of read retry sets, determine an applying order of the plurality of read retry sets based on characteristics of a read error occurred in a first storage region among the plurality of storage regions, and apply at least one of the read retry sets, based on the applying order, for a read retry operation performed on the first storage region.
US11934268B2
An example apparatus includes a media management superblock component configured to determine that a quantity of blocks of a superblock of a non-volatile memory array are bad blocks; compare the quantity of bad blocks to a bad block criteria; and write host data to the superblock with the quantity of bad blocks in response to the quantity of bad blocks meeting the bad block criteria. The use of the superblock with a particular quantity of bad block minimizes yield loss for non-use of partial superblocks.
US11934260B2
A method may include detecting, by a computing device based on a problem signature, that a system has experienced a problem that is associated with the problem signature, wherein the problem signature comprises a specification of a pattern of events indicative of the particular problem experienced by at least one other system; determining that the particular problem violates an operational policy of the system; and deploying, without user intervention, one or more corrective measures that modify the system to resolve the problem.
US11934251B2
A memory controller couples to a data fabric clock domain, and to a physical layer interface circuit PHY clock domain. A first interface circuit adapts transfers between the data fabric clock domain (FCLK) and the memory controllers clock domain, and a second interface circuit couples the memory controller to the PHY clock domain. A power controller responds to a power state change request by sending commands to the second interface circuit to change parameters of a memory system and to update a set of timing parameters of the memory controller according to a selected power state of a plurality of power states. The power controller further responds to a request to synchronize with a new frequency on the FCLK domain by changing a set of timing parameters of the clock interface circuit without changing the set of timing parameters of the memory system or the selected power state.
US11934250B2
The present disclosure, which relates to a technology for controlling power of a display device, allows reducing power consumption by driving circuits for a display operation and circuits for a touch sensing operation with low power depending on a display operation or a touch sensing operation of a display panel.
US11934245B2
A method is disclosed to estimate energy consumed by a component in a microcontroller during operation including identifying “event” activities, where the energy consumed by the component may be determined by the number of events executed by the component, and “duration” activities, where the energy consumed may be determined by the duration of time required to execute of the activity, and determining the energy consumed by the component based on the number of events/duration of time and an energy coefficient which corresponds to the amount of energy consumed by the component to execute the activity, under given operating conditions. In an embodiment, data transfers at a bus interface may represent event activities. Apparatus to estimate the energy consumed is disclosed including bus monitors to receive signals representing data transfers at a bus interface and provide signals indicating the number of data transfers executed.
US11934242B2
Provided, in one aspect, is a data center. The data center, in this aspect, includes a data center enclosure, the data center enclosure designed for a given supply of power (Ps). The data center, according to this aspect, further includes N independent coolable clusters of data center racks located within the data center enclosure, wherein N is at least two, and further wherein the N independent coolable clusters each have an ostensible power demand (Pos) approximately equal to Ps/N, and each of the N independent coolable clusters has a respective actual power demand (Pac) adjustable at, above or below the ostensible power demand (Pos).
US11934226B2
Provided is a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability and unlikely to have image distortion at the folding portion of the display after repeated folding, as well as a mobile device equipped therewith. The foldable display contains a surface protection film and a polarizer. The surface protection film is composed of a polyester film, and the angle made by the slow axis of the polyester film with the absorption axis of the polarizer is 10 to 80°. The polyester film has a refractive index in the bending direction of 1.590 to 1.620, a refractive index in the direction of a folding portion of 1.670 to 1.700, a refractive index in the thickness direction of 1.520 or less, and a density of 1.380 g/cm3 or more, wherein the bending direction refers to a direction orthogonal to the folding portion of the polyester film to be folded.
US11934200B2
A mobile robot may include a traveling unit configured to move a main body; a memory configured to store trajectory information of a moving path corresponding to the movement of the main body; a communication unit configured to communicate with another mobile robot that emits a signal; and a controller configured to recognize the location of the another mobile robot based on the signal, and control the another mobile robot to follow a moving path corresponding to the stored trajectory information based on the recognized location. In addition, the controller may control the moving of the another mobile robot to remove at least part of the stored trajectory information, and allow the another mobile robot to follow a moving path corresponding to the remaining trajectory information in response to whether the moving path corresponding to next trajectory information to be followed by the another mobile robot satisfies a specified condition.
US11934196B1
A lawn vehicle network includes a charging station having a visual identifier, a lawn vehicle having a battery, a blade system, a drive system whose output effects lawn vehicle forward movement, a processor board connected to both systems, the processor board capable of processing image data and sending commands to both systems, and a vision assembly connected to the processor board and able to transmit image data to the processor board, and the processor board, having received the image data, able to, if the image data represent a first object, maintain the drive system's output at the time of that determination, if the image data represent a second object, change the drive system's output at the time of that determination, and if the image data represent the visual identifier, maintain the drive system's output or send a shutoff command to the vision assembly at the time of that determination.
US11934195B2
A charging control system includes a lawn mower that includes a battery and performs a lawn mowing work while traveling autonomously, and a charging station for charging the battery. The lawn mower includes a superimposing unit for superimposing, on a charging current, a current indicating period information for defining a shutoff period of supply power to be supplied from the charging station. The charging station includes a current detector for detecting the charging current, an information acquisition unit for acquiring period information based on a detection result of the current detector, a switch for shutting off the supply power, and a shutoff controller for controlling the operation of the switch. The shutoff controller releases the shutoff of supply of power to the lawn mower based on the period information acquired by the information acquisition unit. Therefore, the power consumption of the lawn mower can be reduced.
US11934192B2
This description provides an autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle that is capable determining a route between a start point and an end point in a site and navigating over the route. The sensors collect any or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data to detect an obstacle between two locations within the site. Based on the collected data and identified obstacles, the excavation vehicle generates unobstructed routes circumventing the obstacles, obstructed routes traveling through the obstacles, and instructions for removing certain modifiable obstacles. The excavation vehicle determines and selects the shortest route of the unobstructed and obstructed route and navigates over the selected path to move within the site.
US11934191B2
Methods and systems for predictive control of an autonomous vehicle are described. Predictions of lane centeredness and road angle are generated based on data collected by sensors on the autonomous vehicle and are combined to determine a state of the vehicle that are then used to generate vehicle actions for steering control and speed control of the autonomous vehicle.
US11934188B2
The invention relates to a method, to a device, and to a computer-readable storage medium with instructions for monitoring the movement of a transportation device. In one embodiment, first, information about the trajectory of the transportation device is received by a mobile device. The trajectory is then displayed on a display unit of the mobile device in the form of an augmented reality representation. In response thereto, an input of the user of the mobile device for influencing the trajectory is detected. Finally, information is transmitted to the transportation device on the basis of the input of the user.
US11934185B2
Systems and methods for safety-enabled control by: establishing a wireless communication channel with a plurality of remote control units via the wireless interface device; in response to establishing the wireless communication channels, operating a system-under-control in a supervised mode based on input received from at least one of the plurality of remote control units; in response to a mode switch command received from a first remote control unit of the plurality of remote control units, providing the other remote control units with a request for a mode switch confirmation; and, in response to confirming receipt of a safety-rated input from an autonomous control system and receipt of a mode switch confirmation from each of the other remote control units, operating the system-under-control in an autonomous mode based on input received from the autonomous control system.
US11934184B2
A method for machine monitoring including causing a first sensor to acquire at least a first non-stationary signal from at least one machine operating in a non-stationary manner during at least one operational time frame, causing a second sensor to acquire at least a second non-stationary signal from the at least one machine during the operational time frame, fusing a first non-stationary output provided by the first sensor with a second non-stationary output provided by the second sensor, extracting at least one feature from the fused output, analyzing the at least one feature to ascertain a state of health of the at least one machine and performing at least one operation on the at least one machine based on the state of health as found by the analyzing.
US11934182B2
A method for computer-supported simulation of operation of a machine working in an automated manner, the machine being controllable during real operation via software on a programmable logic controller, wherein simulated control of the machine via software on a simulation computer is performed based on a predefined execution pattern, where the temporal execution sequence of processes executed by the software code and starting time points of processes are defined based on a virtual time and the execution time point of each process is set to zero in the virtual time in the predefined execution pattern, and during the simulation, the next process, which follows an ended process according to the execution sequence, is not started until a process in the real time of the simulation computer has ended, and where the virtual time is set to the starting time point of this next process when the next process is started.
US11934159B2
A controller has improved closed-loop step testing of a dynamic process of an industrial processing plant. The controller performs economic optimization relaxation on process variables, such that operating range of the variables (MVs and CVs) during the testing are not skewed by variations in optimization cost factors. The controller employs computer-implemented methods and systems that receive a user-defined giveaway tolerance representing an allowable range between a current process variable value and a target process variable value. In response to the variables not meeting the giveaway tolerance, embodiments adjust the MPC controller configuration to drive the variables inside the tolerance, while relaxing optimization of the variables already meeting the giveaway tolerance. Using the adjusted configuration, embodiments calculate a new set of targets and generate a dynamic move plan from the new target. Embodiments add perturbation signals for the testing to the move plan in accordance with the adjusted configuration.
US11934158B2
A method of providing operating parameters of an automation device via a configuration system comprising: detection of a pre-selection of the automation device via a user interface of the configuration system; detection of a target value of a first operating parameter of the automation device via the user interface; calculation of a limit value of a second operating parameter of the automation device in dependence on the target value of the first operating parameter, wherein the dependence of the second operating parameter on the first operating parameter is calculated using a device model of the automation device; and output of the limit value of the second operating parameter via the user interface of the configuration system.
US11934155B2
A slotted timer teaches time in a simple manner to those having difficulty understanding the concept of time. The timer rotates a shaft which rotates a colored disk attached to the shaft. The initial position of the colored disk is manually set by an operator using a card residing in a slot extending across the top of the timer. The card may illustrate an activity to be completed in a time period set by the operator. Different cards may be used to indicate different activities.
US11934154B2
A timepiece includes three types of decorative plates. A first type of decorative plate includes numbers from 1 to 12 indicative of time in hours and is rotatable around a central axis of the time piece. A second type of decorative plate includes a plurality of second type of plate pieces collectively rotatable relative to the first type of decorative plate and each rotatable around its respective axis. The third type of decorative plate includes a plurality of third type of plate pieces collectively rotatable relative to the central axis of the timepiece and each movable radially with respect to the central axis of the timepiece.
US11934132B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form an image on an image bearer based on a prescribed image-forming condition, and circuitry to change the prescribed image-forming condition and correct image-density unevenness in an image-width direction orthogonal to an image conveyance direction of the image bearer. In the image forming apparatus, the circuitry calculates a corrective value of the prescribed image-forming condition for each one of positions in the image-width direction, based on unevenness-in-density corrective values for the multiple positions in the image-width direction and relational values indicating a relation between the multiple unevenness-in-density corrective values and the corrective value of the prescribed image-forming condition, and the circuitry corrects the image-density unevenness in the image-width direction based on the corrective value of the prescribed image-forming condition. In the image forming apparatus, the multiple relational values correspond to portions in the image-width direction.
US11934131B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit includes a photosensitive member; a charging unit configured to uniformly charge the photosensitive member; an exposure unit configured to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member by scanning the charged photosensitive member with laser light; and a developing device configured to develop the electrostatic latent image to form an image on the photosensitive member, a reading unit configured to read a test image, which is formed by the image forming unit, for detecting image density of the image, and a controller configured to: control the image forming unit to form the test image; detect periodic fluctuation of the image density based on a detection result of the test image which is acquired by controlling the reading unit to read the test image; and correct an image forming condition to suppress the detected fluctuation.
US11934127B2
A fixation device according to an embodiment may include: an annular belt including an elastic layer with a thickness of more than 300 μm; and a counter member opposed to an outer peripheral surface of the annular belt to form a nip region with the annular belt. A ratio (A/B) of a first hardness value (A) to a second hardness value (B) of the outer peripheral surface of the annular belt is 0.566 or more, where the first hardness value is measured, in hardness measurement using a hardness meter, at a time when a passage time, which is a time it takes for a certain point of the outer peripheral surface to pass through the nip region, has just passed from the start of the hardness measurement, and the second hardness value is measured at a time when the measured value of the hardness meter has just been saturated.
US11934120B2
An image forming apparatus includes a heating rotary member and a pressing rotary member. The pressing rotary member and the heating rotary member form a fixing nip portion and are configured to apply heat and pressure to a toner image carried on a recording medium at the fixing nip portion, thereby fix the toner image onto the recording medium. The image forming apparatus further includes a winding roller configured to wind up a web used to collect toner that is not fixed to the recording medium, a motor configured to rotate the winding roller, a contact member configured to contact an outside surface of the web wound around the winding roller, a variable resistor disposed so as to be able to change a resistance in accordance with a position of the contact member, and a control unit configured to control an amount of rotation of the motor.
US11934110B2
A developing roll has a metal core, an elastic layer, and a surface layer. A value X is 65.6 N/mm3 or more and a value Y is 229 μm or more. The value X is P1/(D1×A)−P2/(D2×A). P1 is the load to displace the roll 100 μm when a metal probe is pressed against the roll. D1 is the displacement of the roll caused by the probe under the load P1. A is the area of the probe. P2 is the load to displace a material roll by 100 μm when the probe presses against the material roll with the core and the elastic layer and without the surface layer. D2 is the displacement of the material roll caused by the probe under the load P2. The value Y is the displacement of the roll when the probe pierces the surface layer.
US11934106B2
An optical proximity correction (OPC) device and method is provided. The OPC device includes an analysis unit, a reverse pattern addition unit, a first OPC unit, a second OPC unit and an output unit. The analysis unit is configured to analyze a defect pattern from a photomask layout. The reverse pattern addition unit is configured to provide a reverse pattern within the defect pattern. The first OPC unit is configured to perform a first OPC procedure on whole of the photomask layout. The second OPC unit is configured to perform a second OPC procedure on the defect pattern of the photomask layout to enhance an exposure tolerance window. The output unit is configured to output the photomask layout which is corrected.
US11934105B2
A catoptric system having a reference axis and first, second, and third reflectors. The first reflector contains a pattern-source carrying a substantially one-dimensional pattern. A combination of the second and third reflectors is configured to form an optical image of the pattern, with a demagnification coefficient N>1 in extreme UV light, and with only two beams of light that have originated at the first reflector as a result of irradiation of the first reflector with light incident upon it. An exposure apparatus employing the catoptric system and method of device manufacturing with the use of the exposure apparatus.
US11934095B2
A method of managing a critical dimension error includes (i) defining, in a photomask, N openings having a width, where N is a natural number, (ii) using graphs for each of the N openings, each of the graphs being obtained by setting locations through an opening of the N openings as a first axis and an intensity of transmitting light as a second axis, obtaining ILSi proportional to an inclination of a tangent to a graph of the graphs at a location corresponding to an edge of an opening and Ii which is an intensity of transmitting light at the location, where i is a natural number from 1 to N, (iii) obtaining, with respect to each of the N openings, a real width CDi of the openings, and (iv) when I a v e = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N I i , CD a v e = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N CD i and ILS a v e = 1 N ∑ i = 1 N ILS i , obtaining AIMEEFi which is an aerial image mask error enhancement factor with respect to each of the N openings according to an equation below: AIMEEF i = - 2 I i - I a v e ( C D i - C D a v e ) · ILS a v e · I a v e . [ Equation ]
US11934091B1
A photolithography mask (10) is provided, said photolithography mask (10) including a plate (15) or an empty frame matrix, a surface of the plate (15) or empty frame matrix including an array of micro-pixels (20), wherein each micro-pixel (20) is independently controllable using an on-board micro-controller (25) in such a manner that a pattern can be generated with the array of micro-pixels (20).
US11934086B2
A method and device for adjusting a projected image are provided. In the method, a distance between a mobile terminal and a projection screen is acquired (S102); and at least one of a display area or a display orientation of a projected image on the projection screen is adjusted at least according to the distance between the mobile terminal and the projection screen (S104). Through the method and the device, a problem in a related art that the projected image can only be adjusted manually by a user is solved, and a viewing angle is adjusted to an optimal viewing angle for viewing a projected image in real time according to a distance with respect to a user, thereby protecting the eyesight of the user and improving user experience.
US11934069B2
An optical element includes, sequentially from a viewing surface side toward a back surface side: a viewing-surface-side polarizer; a retarder; and a back-surface-side polarizer, a transmission axis of the viewing-surface-side polarizer and a transmission axis of the back-surface-side polarizer being parallel to each other, the optical element having an average angle θ between an angle θ1 and an angle θ2 of greater than 0° and smaller than 90°, wherein the angle θ1 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the back surface with the surface close to the back surface; and the angle θ2 represents an angle formed by an optical axis of the retarder on a surface close to the viewing surface with the surface close to the viewing surface.
US11934064B2
A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; a plurality of light sources configured to emit light; and a substrate including a plurality of dimming blocks arranged in rows and columns, wherein each of the plurality of dimming blocks includes at least four light sources from among the plurality of light sources, and the least four light sources are connected in series with each other and arranged in rows and columns on a first surface of the substrate, the substrate includes a plurality of holes extending from the first surface of the substrate to a second surface of the substrate, the first surface of the substrate and the second surface of the substrate are electrically connected through the plurality of holes, and each of the plurality of holes is in a region surrounded by the at least four light sources of each respective dimming block of the plurality of dimming blocks.
US11934061B2
A performance of a display apparatus is improved. A display apparatus includes a glass plate, a display panel facing the glass plate, a frame housing a part of the glass plate and a part of the display panel, and a light source module housed in the frame. The glass plate has a side surface. The display panel includes a first substrate facing the glass plate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The light source module is disposed at a position facing the side surface of the glass plate.
US11934046B2
A laser protection eyewear lens includes a lens substrate comprising an embedded wavelength filter having a first filter function, and a multi-layer dielectric filter applied to at least one of an inside and an outside surface of the lens substrate that comprises a second filter function having at least one center wavelength and bandwidth. The first filter function of the embedded wavelength filter and the second filter function of the multilayer dielectric filter produce a combined filter function that attenuates light reflecting off the multi-layer dielectric filter.
US11934039B2
A surgical loupes head strap is disclosed. The surgical loupes head strap may include a first monofilament and a second monofilament coupled by at least one sleeve. The surgical loupes head strap may further include a first coupler with a first hole and a second hole, where the first hole is configured to surround and couple to a first end of the first monofilament, and the second hole is configured to surround and couple to at least a portion of a first surgical loupes headgear temple. The surgical loupes head strap may further include a second coupler with a first hole and a second hole, where the first hole is configured to surround and couple to a first end of the second monofilament, and the second hole is configured to surround and couple to at least a portion of a second surgical loupes headgear temple.
US11934027B2
An optical system affixed to an electronic apparatus is provided, including a first optical module, a second optical module, and a third optical module. The first optical module is configured to adjust the moving direction of a first light from a first moving direction to a second moving direction, wherein the first moving direction is not parallel to the second moving direction. The second optical module is configured to receive the first light moving in the second moving direction. The first light reaches the third optical module via the first optical module and the second optical module in sequence. The third optical module includes a first photoelectric converter configured to transform the first light into a first image signal.
US11934025B2
A fiber optic assembly is provided including a support substrate having a substantially planar surface, a signal-fiber array supported on the planar surface of the support substrate. The signal-fiber array including a plurality of optical fibers and an adhesive disposed on the plurality of optical fibers and the support substrate. Each of the optical fibers is spaced from adjacent optical fibers of the plurality of optical fibers at a precise pitch.
US11934020B2
An optoelectronic module and optoelectronic connector assemblies can be used for releasable connection of a laser source to the module from a location exterior to the module. The construction of the optoelectronic connector assemblies is such that both in connection and disconnection, the electrical contacts are broken before the optical contacts so that the laser may power down before the optical connection is broken. The optoelectronic connection assemblies have blind mating features. Some versions are free of any latching or mechanical interconnection of the optoelectronic connector assemblies to each other. A spring has a construction which permits it to be received onto a cable by lateral movement of the spring.
US11934012B2
An optical adjustment apparatus includes a measurement-light irradiation part that has a plurality of second optical fibers and emits, with timings different from each other, a plurality of lights having a single wavelength via the second optical fibers, an optical fiber block that holds exit-side end portions of the first and second optical fibers, a light detection part that receives and detects a plurality of reflected lights via the second optical fibers, a tilt calculation part that compares, with each other, variations with time of intensities of the respective reflected lights and calculates a tilt of the optical fiber block relative to the optical substrate, and a distance calculation part that calculates an inter-end surface distance between the optical substrate and the optical fiber block, based on a variation with time of an intensity of at least one reflected light.
US11934009B2
A reinforcing sleeve for collectively reinforcing spliced portions of a plurality of optical fiber core wires disposed side by side includes a heat-shrinkable tube, a heat-meltable member, a tension member, and so on. The tension member and the heat-meltable member are inserted into the heat-shrinkable member. A thick portion is provided at a substantially center portion of a width direction of the heat-meltable member. Thus, on a cross section perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the heat-meltable member, an amount of the heat-meltable member at proximity of the center portion of the width direction of the heat-meltable member is greater than an amount of the heat-meltable member at proximity of the end portions of the width direction of the heat-meltable member. This forms a flow of the heat-meltable member from the center portion toward the end portions in the width direction at the time of melting the heat-meltable member.
US11933998B2
A film stack includes an oriented first layer including polyvinyl alcohol disposed on an oriented second layer including naphthalene dicarboxylate containing copolyester resin. The oriented second layer has in-plane birefringence Δnxy<0.02.
US11933995B1
An optical diffuser includes optically anisotropic molecules arranged in a predefined configuration such that the optical diffuser diffuses first light having a first polarization and transmits second light having a second polarization that is different from the first polarization upon receiving the second light. In addition to polarization selectivity, the optical diffuser may also exhibit wavelength selectivity and/or incident angle selectivity. A method of diffusing light using the optical diffuser and a method of making the optical diffuser are also disclosed.
US11933994B2
A system for aperture extension and programmable optical depth modulation via a field evolving cavity includes at least one field evolving cavity (FEC) unit, at least one aperture unit, a plurality of cavity gates, and a plurality of aperture gates. The plurality of cavity gates is optically integrated into the at least one FEC unit. The plurality of aperture gates is optically integrated into the at least one aperture unit. At least one optical path traverses between at least one desired cavity gate from the plurality of cavity gates and at least one desired aperture gate from the plurality of aperture gates. The at least one FEC unit is configured to generate a desired image depth by adjusting a length of the at least one optical path.
US11933992B2
A liquid lens can tilt a fluid interface, such as for optical image stabilization or off-axis focus. Tilting the interface can cause coma aberration or other dynamic wavefront error. The liquid lens can be driven to reduce the coma aberration or other dynamic wavefront error. For example, input shaped signals can be used. In some cases, the signals can be overdriven and/or underdriven, which can increase response time, and/or encourage settling of the interface.
US11933989B2
A headband device is provided. The headband device includes a first knob, a first transmission mechanism, a vertical adjustment mechanism and a vertical headband. The first knob is rotated around a first axis. The first transmission mechanism is connected to the first knob, wherein the first transmission mechanism is rotated by the first knob around a second axis, wherein the first axis is perpendicular to the second axis. The vertical adjustment mechanism is adapted to be connected to the first transmission mechanism, wherein the vertical adjustment mechanism is rotated by the first transmission mechanism and is rotated around the second axis. The vertical headband is connected to the vertical adjustment mechanism, wherein the vertical headband is moved by the vertical adjustment mechanism and the tightness of the vertical headband is adjustable.
US11933985B2
A method for producing light-guide optical elements (LOEs) (16, 18, 56, 58) each having a set of mutually-parallel partially-reflecting surfaces (17) located between, and oriented non-parallel to, a pair of major external surfaces, and at least one region (30a, 30b, 30c) without partially-reflecting surfaces. The method includes bonding together parallel-faced plates (4) at interfaces to form a stack (42) of plates with partially-reflecting coatings between them. The stack is cut and polished to form a boundary plane (48, 48a, 48b) intersecting the interfaces, and a block (50, 50a, 50b) of transparent material is bonded to the stack. The resulting precursor structure (52, 52′) is sliced along parallel planes to form slices, each containing a part of the stack for the active region of the LOE and a part of the block.
US11933970B1
An apparatus, comprising two or more scan modules, each scan module having one or more laser sources that generate one or more laser beams and a beam deflector that deflects the two or more laser beams. A fluorescent emissive sheet (FES) receives the one or more laser beams deflected by the beam deflectors of the one or more scan modules and emits light of longer wavelength than that of the one or more laser beams at portions of the FES that are struck by the one or more laser beams. An optically transmissive viewing window coupled to a podium wherein the light of longer wavelength than that of the one or more laser beams is projected onto the viewing window.
US11933969B2
An optical engine module including at least two laser sources, collimators, a light combining lens group, an aperture, a beam shaping lens group, a MEMS scanning module, and a beam expansion lens group is provided. The at least two laser sources respectively generate at least two laser beams with different wavelengths. The collimators respectively collimate the at least two laser beams to generate at least two collimated beams. The light combining lens group combines the at least two collimated beams into a combined beam. The aperture filters stray beams of the combined beam. The beam shaping lens group shapes the combined beam to generate a shaped beam with a perfect circle. The MEMS scanning module reflects the shaped beam and scans in horizontal and vertical directions to form a scanning beam. The beam expansion lens group expands the scanning beam into an expanded beam having a predetermined area.
US11933967B2
A distally-actuated scanning mirror includes: a mirror block with reflective surface on one side; torsional hinges with proximal ends rigidly attached to the mirror block, and with distal ends attached to flexural structures configured to transform translational motion of the piezoelectric elements into rotational motion of the distal ends of the hinges; and piezoelectric elements providing such translational motion. The distally-actuated scanning mirror also includes flexural structures made of separate flexures attached to the opposite surfaces of the distal ends of the hinges, which flexural structures have defined thinned-down flexural points. Portions of the distally-actuated scanning mirror may be 3D printed and/or fabricated by silicon MEMS technology. The mirror is fabricated from a Silicon-on-Insulator wafer, having a relatively thick (e.g., 380 um) handle layer, and a relatively thin e.g., 50 um), where photolithography with backside-alignment allows separate patterning of these two layers.
US11933965B2
A light path adjustment mechanism includes a support, a carrier, an optical plate member and a plurality of actuators. The carrier is disposed on the support and connected to the support via a first elastic member and a second elastic member. The carrier includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a third side and a fourth side opposite the third side, and each of the third side and the fourth side is located between the first side and the second side. The actuators are disposed on at most three sides of the first side, the second side, the third side and the fourth side, and the actuators are disposed at least on the first side and the third side.
US11933961B2
A stereoscopic vision endoscope objective optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a rear-side lens group having a positive refractive power. The rear-side lens group includes a first rear group and a second rear group. The first lens group and the second lens group are disposed so that an optical axis of the second lens group coincides with an optical axis of the first lens group. The optical axis of the first lens group is located between an optical axis of the first rear group and an optical axis of the second rear group. Each of the first rear group and the second rear group includes a first sub group, an aperture stop, and a second sub group, and the first sub group includes a negative lens.
US11933960B2
A microscope system includes: at least one microscope component with electrically adjustable component parameters; a controller for generating electrical signals and transmitting the electrical signals to the at least one microscope component to set the electrically adjustable component parameters; and a computer having at least one display unit, the computer generating an input unit having a graphical user interface on the at least one display unit, at least three setting parameters being adjustable by the graphical user interface. The input unit has an input pointer that is positionable in an input area so as to set a respective value for the at least three setting parameters. A coordinate axis is defined in the input area for each of the at least three setting parameters, with at least one coordinate axis not being perpendicular to another coordinate axis. Values of the at least three setting parameters are determined by the coordinates.
US11933959B2
A system for generating a series of reducing intensity laser pulses from an ultrafast pulsed laser source. The reducing intensity series of pulses is equally temporally spaced between pulses from the laser source. The repeating series of reducing intensity laser pulses is fed to a microscope for imaging. The microscope is capable of detecting the fluorescence from a sample generated by each pulse in the series. The data is processed using knowledge of the pulse intensity, location on the test sample, and amount of fluorescence measured to create an increased dynamic range of the image relative to what can be obtained in a normal two-photon imaging system.
US11933955B2
A method of evaluating quality of graphene using a confocal laser scanning microscope, the method comprising steps of: irradiating with laser light a graphene layer formed on a catalyst layer; detecting a signal of light reflected from the graphene layer; forming a planar image of the graphene layer using the detected optical signal; and analyzing a contrast between graphene and the catalyst layer in the planar image, wherein the graphene layer is continuously formed on the catalyst layer by a roll-to-roll process.
US11933952B2
A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side, a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, a positive third lens group, a negative fourth lens group, and a positive fifth lens group. The first lens group consists of, in order from the object side, a first A lens group that does not move during focusing, a first B lens group that moves during focusing, and a first C lens group that does not move during focusing. During zooming, the first lens group and the fifth lens group do not move, and the second lens group, the third lens group, and the fourth lens group move. The fourth lens group includes a stop. The zoom lens satisfies a predetermined conditional expression.
US11933940B1
Systems and methods are described herein for manufacturing high-index, low-absorption materials for use in visible light optical metasurfaces. Methods of manufacturing or forming hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H), silicon-rich nitride (SRN), and hydrogenated silicon-rich nitride (SRN:H) are described herein that exhibit high indices of refraction and low extinction coefficients for visible wavelengths of optical radiation. Optical metasurfaces, including optical metalenses and waveguide couplers, are described herein that utilize the a-Si:H, SRN, and/or SRN:H materials.
US11933935B2
A method may include obtaining, using a gamma-ray detector, first acquired gamma-ray data regarding a first core sample. The first acquired gamma-ray data may correspond to various sensor steps. The method may further include determining a sensitivity map based on the first acquired gamma-ray data. The method may further include obtaining, using the gamma-ray detector, second acquired gamma-ray data regarding a second core sample at the sensor steps. The method further includes generating a gamma-ray log using the sensitivity map and a gamma-ray inversion process.
US11933920B2
One example method involves obtaining a plurality of scans of a field-of-view (FOV) of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device disposed inside a housing. Obtaining each scan of the plurality of scans comprises: transmitting, through a plurality of sections of the housing, a plurality of light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device in different directions toward the housing; and detecting a plurality of returning light pulses comprising reflected portions of the transmitted plurality of light pulses that are reflected back toward the LIDAR device. The method also involves detecting an obstruction that at least partially occludes the LIDAR device from scanning the FOV through the housing based on the plurality of scans.
US11933919B2
Systems and methods for synthesis of a modulated RF signal using a variety of modulation schemes are described. An embodiment includes a direct frequency synthesizer with frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) modulation that includes: a high speed BAW resonator that generates a frequency signal; a BAW oscillator that receives the frequency signal and generates an output BAW clock signal (BAW CLK); a frequency and phase estimation circuit that receives a reference clock signal from a reference clock (REF CLK) and the BAW CLK and generates a frequency error and a phase error; a frequency chirp generator that receives chirp parameters, a chirp sync signal and generates a nominal frequency control word (FCW); and a high speed digital to analog converter (HS DAC) that receives the BAW CLK and the codeword and outputs an analog signal.
US11933911B2
This document describes techniques for enabling radar system calibration with bistatic sidelobe compensation. Radar signals reflect off of a flat plate that changes orientation (e.g., elevation and/or azimuth angle) and position relative to a mounting position of a specific radar sensor being calibrated. For each radar sensor, measurements may be obtained across a range of translational positions of the flat plate. Highly accurate calibration errors are determined for each radar sensor this way. By calibrating radar systems repositioning the target during the data collection in this way, the prominence of any bistatic sidelobes appearing in measurements may be reduced or prevented, which may enable less-complex and more-accurate calibration of each unique radar system installation. An indication of each calibration error may be output for use in individually adjusting the mounting position of each specific radar sensor within a radar system.
US11933902B2
Determining classification(s) for object(s) in an environment of autonomous vehicle, and controlling the vehicle based on the determined classification(s). For example, autonomous steering, acceleration, and/or deceleration of the vehicle can be controlled based on determined pose(s) and/or classification(s) for objects in the environment. The control can be based on the pose(s) and/or classification(s) directly, and/or based on movement parameter(s), for the object(s), determined based on the pose(s) and/or classification(s). In many implementations, pose(s) and/or classification(s) of environmental object(s) are determined based on data from a phase coherent Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) component of the vehicle, such as a phase coherent LIDAR monopulse component and/or a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) LIDAR component.
US11933900B2
A recognition device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first detection result from a LIDAR that detects a target present in a traveling direction of a vehicle and to acquire a second detection result from a camera disposed so that the detection range overlaps that of the LIDAR, and a recognition unit configured to recognize a target present around the vehicle on the basis of the first detection result and the second detection result, in which the recognition unit executes exclusion processing of excluding a target, that satisfies all of a first condition indicating that a target is present within a predetermined distance from the vehicle, a second condition indicating that a target is detected by the LIDAR and is not detected by the camera, and a third condition indicating that a width of a target is equal to or less than a predetermined value and a detection duration thereof is equal to or less than a predetermined time, from a result of recognition recognized as a target present around the vehicle.
US11933898B2
A system and method of adjusting a field of view in an imaging system includes transmitting light across a transmission optical path and defining a field of view encompassing both uniform and spatially tenuous target objects within the transmitted light. A sensor within a return optical path of reflected light from at least a portion of one of the target objects allows a data processing computer to compile an image from a series of data outputs from the sensor. The image is analyzed to determine a region of interest within the image and by dynamically adjusting the light source, the computer is configured to change the field of view of the light source such that the image includes a higher resolution and/or signal intensity for the region of interest. The region of interest may include at least one spatially tenuous target object.
US11933896B2
In an optical distance measuring apparatus, a light source irradiates a target object with a light pulse having a first pulse width. A light receiver outputs a pulse signal that represents reflection light from the target object being incident on the light receiver, and has a second pulse width that is larger than or equal to the first pulse width. A histogram generator records, every predetermined period, a frequency representing the number of outputted pulse signals to thereby generate a histogram. A peak detector detects, from the histogram, an edge point of a peak figure included in the histogram. A distance calculator subtracts, from a time indicative of the edge point of the peak figure, a time length of the second pulse width to thereby calculate a target time, and calculates a distance to the target object as a function of the calculated target time.
US11933877B2
A system and method for locating radio-frequency identification tags within a predetermined area. The method can incorporate sub-threshold superposition response mapping techniques, alone, or in combination with other methods for locating radio-frequency identification tags such as but not limited to time differential on arrival (TDOA), frequency domain phase difference on arrival (FD-PDOA), and radio signal strength indication (RSSI). The system can include a plurality of antennas dispersed in a predefined area; one or more radio-frequency identification tags; a radio-frequency transceiver in communication with said antennas; a phase modulator coupled to the ra-dio-frequency transceiver; and a system controller in communication with said transceiver and said phase modulator. Calibration techniques can be employed to map con-structive interference zones for improved accuracy.
US11933863B2
The application provides a method for measuring a shortest distance between capacitances and a method for evaluating a capacitance manufacture procedure. The method for measuring the shortest distance between the capacitances includes: obtaining a distance between tangent lines of adjacent surfaces of two adjacent capacitances, and taking the distance between the tangent lines of the adjacent surfaces of the two adjacent capacitances as the shortest distance between two capacitances. The tangent lines of the adjacent surfaces of the two adjacent capacitances have a same direction, and the direction of the tangent lines is perpendicular to a preset arrangement direction of the capacitances.
US11933862B2
A Protective Earth (PE) loss detection method for charging an electrical vehicle is provided. The electrical vehicle comprises an Electrical Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE), a charging connector, and/or a charging cable comprising at least a Proximity Pilot (PP) line for a PP signal, a Control Pilot (CP) line for a CP signal and a PE line for a PE signal. The method comprises detecting interruption of the PE line by observing a change of the PP signal.
US11933853B2
A battery management system and method are provided, where the battery management system includes a monitoring IC including at least one channel for simultaneously measuring voltages of a battery cell, a busbar connected to the battery cell, and an auxiliary channel configured to measure a reverse voltage of the busbar, wherein the monitoring IC is configured to determine a voltage of the battery cell using a channel voltage measured through the at least one channel and the reverse voltage.
US11933843B2
An Automated Dynamic low voltage monitoring (LVM) based Low-Power (ADLLP) debug capability for a system-on-chip (SoC) as well as the open/closed-chassis platform for faster TTM (Time to Market) of the final platform or system. ADLLP Debug is achieved by detection of the probe connection between a target system (e.g., SoC) and debug host system. A user can dynamically override the power, clocks and LVM for intellectual property (IP) blocks not part of the debug trace by instructing a Power Management Controller (PMC) via the Inter Processor Communication (IPC) mailbox (or any other suitable mailbox driver) to set the registers in a Target Firmware (TFW) based on the probe and debug use-case.
US11933837B2
In various examples, an inspection jig includes a plate-shaped insulating member having a recess; a first board having a first electrode; and a conducting wire electrically connected to a contact terminal. The insulating member is provided with a through hole penetrating a bottom portion of the recess. One end portion of the conducting wire is disposed in the through hole. The other end of the conducting wire is connected to the first electrode.
US11933834B2
A method of detecting self-clearing, sub-cycle faults comprises sensing a current condition and a voltage condition at a location along a power cable. The sensed conditions are relayed to an analyzing device, the analyzing device including a current peak detector. The presence of a measured current value is determined. If the measured current value is greater than a current threshold value, a faulted circuit indicator (FCI) analysis is performed to determine the presence or absence of an FCI fault. If an FCI fault is absent, an incipient fault analysis is performed, wherein the RMS current values before and after a threshold event are compared and the voltage total harmonic distortion (THD) before and after the event are compared. If the two current values are within a first predetermined percentage and the THD values differ by a second predetermined percentage, then an incipient fault is reported. If either the two current values are not within the first predetermined percentage or the THD values do not differ by at least the second predetermined percentage,
US11933821B2
Systems and methods for operating and calibrating electrical parameter measurement devices are provided herein. The devices may include a current sensor that includes a plurality of magnetic field sensors positioned around a measurement area that receive a current carrying conductor under test. The sensor may include a plurality of concentric rings of magnetic field sensors that provide accurate measurements that ignore magnetic fields from conductors or other components outside of the measurement area. The sensors may be used to determine the position of a conductor under test, and such information may be used to produce accurate measurements by accounting for the conductor's position. A calibration system may also be provided that is operative to generate calibration data that is subsequently used to provide more accurate measurements. The calibration data may include one or more lookup tables, coefficients for one or more mathematical formulas, or other types of data.
US11933819B2
A signal processing device is described, with a signal input for receiving an input signal, a first trigger unit generating a trigger signal based upon a first trigger event in the input signal and an acquisition memory for acquiring the input signal at least based upon the trigger signal so as to provide an acquired signal. The signal processing device also comprises a second trigger unit connected to the acquisition memory. The second trigger unit is adapted to process the acquired signal according to a second trigger. The second trigger unit is adapted as a zone trigger unit applying a zone trigger. Further, a method of applying a zone trigger is described.
US11933817B2
A probe card device and a transmission structure are provided. The transmission structure includes a supporting layer, a plurality of metal conductors spaced apart from each other and slantingly inserted into the supporting layer, and an insulating resilient layer formed on the supporting layer. Each of the metal conductors includes a positioning segment held in the supporting layer, a connecting segment and an embedded segment respectively extending from two ends of the positioning segment, and an exposed segment extending from the embedded segment. Each of the embedded segments is embedded and fixed in the insulating resilient layer, and each of the exposed segments protrudes from the insulating resilient layer. When any one of the exposed segments is pressed by an external force, the insulating resilient layer is configured to absorb the external force through the corresponding embedded segment so as to have a deformation providing a stroke distance.
US11933816B2
This disclosure relates generally to test equipment, apparatuses, and systems for a device under test, such as, but not limited to, a semiconductor device. More specifically, this disclosure relates to test equipment, apparatuses, and systems that are portable for use in atypical testing environments.
US11933810B2
The present disclosure is directed to a detection structure for a vertical-axis resonant accelerometer. The detection structure includes an inertial mass suspended above a substrate and having a window provided therewithin and traversing it throughout a thickness thereof. The inertial mass is coupled to a main anchorage, arranged in the window and integral with the substrate, through a first and a second anchoring elastic element of a torsional type. The detection structure also includes at least a first resonant element having longitudinal extension, coupled between the first elastic element and a first constraint element arranged in the window. The first constraint element is suspended above the substrate, to which it is fixedly coupled through a first auxiliary anchoring element which extends below the first resonant element with longitudinal extension and is integrally coupled between the first constraint element and the main anchorage.
US11933796B2
Provided are a quality control method, a quality control system, a management apparatus, an analyzer, and a quality control abnormality determination method in which measurement results of both a quality control substance and a specimen are sufficiently utilized to improve the quality of quality control. The quality control method used in a management apparatus which is connected via a network to an analyzer installed in each of a plurality of facilities includes obtaining, from an analyzer in each facility via a network, first quality control information obtained by measuring an artificially generated quality control substance, and second quality control information obtained by measuring a plurality of specimens by the analyzer in each facility; and outputting information concerning quality control of an analyzer in at least one facility, based on the obtained first quality control information and second quality control information.
US11933795B2
A continuous sample introduction method is provided. The method includes controlling a current sample holder advancing mechanism to perform an advancing operation according to a sample introduction trigger signal, so that the current sample holder advancing mechanism moves in a direction from an initial position to a limiting position, and during the movement, a pushing portion of the current sample holder advancing mechanism is capable of abutting against a side wall of a sample holder in a current sample loading device; controlling the current sample holder advancing mechanism to perform a returning operation when the current sample holder advancing mechanism moves to the limiting position, and during the movement, the pushing portion is capable of avoiding contacting with the sample holder; and the current sample holder advancing mechanism automatically repeats the advancing operation and the returning operation when the current sample holder advancing mechanism moves to the initial position.
US11933794B2
A method of detecting Factor VIII level in a subject, particularly in a subject in need of treatment with at least one Factor Xa inhibitor. The method comprises (a) selecting at least one subject in need of treatment with at least one Factor Xa inhibitor; and (b) detecting Factor VIII level in a sample obtained from the at least one subject with the aim to determine an appropriate dosage of the at least one Factor Xa inhibitor. Preferably, the method comprises a further step of administering at least one Factor Xa inhibitor to the subject.
US11933788B1
Determining a state of a fungal spore includes defining types of fluorescent biomolecules of interest within the spore. Color characteristics of fluorescent light corresponding to excitement of the fluorescent biomolecules of interest under UV light are stored. Air including the fungal spore is directed to a collection cartridge and trapped. The spore is illuminated with light including UV light. A color image of the spore is captured and analyzed to estimate concentrations of the fluorescent biomolecule of interest. The state of the spore is determined from the estimated concentrations.
US11933782B2
Detector systems are described, based on a primary binding compound and a secondary binding compound used in combination with a support to detect a target in a sample. The detection systems include a liquid medium hosting a first binding compound specific to a target, the first binding compound comprising a label; and a solid medium hosting a second binding compound specific to the target, the second binding compound being different from and non-competitive with respect to the first binding compound.
US11933779B2
A body fluid testing device having an improved illumination, includes: a test unit including: a sample part having a sheet portion, with body fluid of a user applied onto a first surface thereof; an illumination part having a light source for providing light to the sample part; a battery for supplying power to the illumination part; and a casing receiving a lens group for magnifying the body fluid applied onto the sheet portion; and a user terminal configured such that a camera takes an image of the sample part magnified by the lens group, prior to analyzing the image by the user terminal.
US11933775B2
Inventions include methods and systems for evaluation of agriculture sites and execution of actions for improving various site parameters in a sustainable manner. In embodiments, a method for characterization and improvement of an agricultural site includes: receiving a set of agriculture samples from an agriculture site or in association with an agricultural process; generating sample data upon processing the set of samples with a set of sample processing operations; generating a set of features upon performing a set of transformation operations upon the set of data streams; returning an analysis characterizing a status of the agriculture site in relation to at least one perturbation, upon processing the set of features; and executing an action for at least one of maintaining and improving the agriculture site, based upon the analysis. The inventions implement features associated with composition, network properties, and emergent properties as biomarkers for characterizing statuses of sites under analysis.
US11933773B2
Embodiments relate generally to a gas detector test fixture (102) that recycles test gas, which can then be reused. A portable gas detector test fixture (102), comprises a test chamber (104), a processor (134), a docking connector (132) communicatively coupled to the processor (134), an output device (138) communicatively coupled to the processor (134), a memory (136) communicatively coupled to the processor (134), and an application (137) stored in the memory (136) that, when executed by the processor (134), is configured to conduct a bump test on a portable gas detector (106) plugged into the docking connector (132) and to output the bump test result to the output device (138). The test fixture (102) further comprises an inflow line (124) configured to connect to a test gas supply line (120) of a test gas container (118), where the inflow line (124) is coupled to the test chamber (104), and an outflow line (130) configured to connect to a test gas return line (126) of the test gas container (118), where the outflow line (130) is coupled to the test chamber (104).
US11933767B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for the characterization of a potential microtexture region (MTR) of a sample, component, or the like. The methods may include determining a threshold width of spatial correlation coefficient and/or a threshold spatial correlation coefficient slope for an actual MTR, characterizing a potential MTR as an actual MTR or a defect, characterizing an actual MTR as an acceptable MTR or not, and/or characterizing various components with potential MTRs as defective or not. The characterization may include calculating a width of spatial correlation coefficient and/or a spatial correlation coefficient slope of the potential MTR and comparing the width of spatial correlation coefficient to a threshold width of spatial correlation coefficient and/or comparing the spatial correlation coefficient slope to a threshold spatial correlation coefficient slope for the potential MTR to be characterized as an actual MTR or a defect (crack).
US11933765B2
Transmit-Receive Longitudinal (TRL) probes can be used for the inspection of noisy material, such as austenitic materials. By using various techniques, an inspection area is not constrained by a wedge design of an ultrasonic probe and the benefits of using a linear probe array (rather than a matrix) are maintained. Volumetric or TFM-like imaging on austenitic materials using a linear transmit array and a linear receive array that are out of plane with one another (a TRL configuration) and not in the main imaging place can simplify the inspection and analysis of such materials. For each scan position, an ultrasound probe can acquire acoustic imaging data. Then, a processor can then combine acquisitions from adjacent scan positions to create an imaging result using synthetic aperture focusing technique (SAFT) principles to recreate a focalization in a passive axis of the probe.
US11933758B2
Methods and systems for monitoring microbial activity and microbial communication in an environment are disclosed. Exemplary methods include measuring a high impedance voltage between a reference electrode and one or more measurement electrodes to monitor microbial activity. Microorganisms form a biofilm that attaches to at least one of the one or more inert measurement electrodes and that allows for measuring the microbial activity, characterizing the environment, and/or monitoring microbial communication in the environment.
US11933757B2
A gas sensor is equipped with a housing, an insulator retained by an inner periphery of the housing, a sensing device having a front end portion protruding from a front end surface of the insulator, and a protective cover which covers a front end portion of the sensing device. A pump electrode and a sensor electrode are disposed in a front end portion of the solid electrolyte body. The pump electrode is exposed to a measurement gas and regulates the concentration of oxygen in the measurement gas. The sensor electrode is exposed to the measurement gas and measures the concentration of a given gas component in the measurement gas after being regulated in concentration of oxygen by the pump electrode. A base end portion of the sensor electrode in a lengthwise direction is located closer to a base end side of the gas sensor than a front end surface of the housing is. This minimizes a variation in temperature of the sensor electrode and enhances the accuracy in measuring the concentration of the given gas component.
US11933755B2
Provided is an electrochemical aptasensor for detecting di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP) with high sensitivity. The electrochemical aptasensor according to the present invention has a low detection limit concentration by improving sensitivity by sensor surface modification using a nano composite and gold nanoflowers, and has high practical applicability of a sensor by monitoring a trace amount of DEHP migrating from a real plastic product by a simple measurement method.
US11933752B2
A gas sensor includes: a gas-sensitive body layer disposed above a substrate and including a metal oxide layer; a first electrode on the gas-sensitive body layer; and a second electrode on the gas-sensitive body layer, being apart from the first electrode by a gap. The gas-sensitive body layer has a resistance change characteristic that reversibly transitions to a high-resistance state and a low-resistance state on basis of a voltage applied across the first electrode and the second electrode. At least a part of the gas-sensitive body layer is exposed to the gap. The gas-sensitive body layer has a resistance that decreases when gas containing a hydrogen atom is in contact with the second electrode.
US11933742B2
An inspection device includes: an electromagnetic wave irradiator that irradiates, with a predetermined electromagnetic wave from a first film side, the package that is conveyed along a predetermined direction and that has the spaces at a plurality of positions in a width direction; an imaging device that is disposed opposed to the electromagnetic wave irradiator across the package, includes an electromagnetic wave detector including a plurality of detection elements that is arrayed along the width direction and that detects the electromagnetic wave radiated from the electromagnetic wave irradiator and transmitted through the package, and sequentially outputs an obtained electromagnetic wave transmission image every time the package is conveyed by a predetermined amount; and an image processing device that processes an image signal output from the imaging device.
US11933727B2
A computer-implemented system for determining an analyte in milk is provided. The system first causes irradiation of the sample with light in a plurality of discrete spectral bands. The spectral bands can be selected based on phenomenon of specific analytes. The irradiation causes a fluorescent response in the milk, which is received by light sensors and converted into digitized spectral data. The digitized spectral data is then transmitted to a machine learning system which can determine the concentration of analytes and produce an output indicative of said concentration.
US11933721B2
A method for spectroscopically detecting a chemical in a gas sample includes illuminating the gas sample with ultraviolet light and photolyzing a first chemical in the gas sample to generate a photolyzed gas sample and spectroscopically detecting a second chemical in the photolyzed gas sample. The second chemical has an optical absorption range within a respective optical absorption range of the first chemical.
US11933720B2
The disclosure provides an apparatus, a device, and methods for improving optical analysis of a thin layer of a sample between two plates, particularly for multiple wavelengths.
US11933715B2
A test sample of a vulcanized rubber material is placed under a preset placement condition in a fixing frame in a test tank having a predetermined ozone concentration, and digital image data is acquired by capturing at a fixed point, over time, with at least one camera device, images of a surface of the test sample that has been placed in the test tank; and determining a change in a surface state of the test sample between a plurality of points in time by analyzing, with a computation device, the image data that has been acquired. Such evaluation method for evaluating ozone deterioration of a vulcanized rubber material can accurately determine a change over time in ozone deterioration while reducing working man-hours.
US11933705B2
An objective is to provide a fluid handling device capable of reliably generating a dispersion liquid in which a liquid droplet containing a sample is dispersed in a dispersion medium. The fluid handling device achieving the objective includes: a sample channel; a dispersion medium channel; a dispersion liquid generation part connected to the sample channel and the dispersion medium channel, and configured to divide the sample by the dispersion medium to generate a dispersion liquid in which a liquid droplet of the sample is dispersed in the dispersion medium; and a dispersion liquid channel connected to the dispersion liquid generation part, in which Y≤0.0436X−1.2563 is satisfied, where X denotes a contact angle [°] between a portion of an inner wall of the dispersion liquid channel and water, and Y denotes a viscosity [mPa·s] of the sample measured at 25° C. by a falling-ball viscometer.
US11933700B2
The present invention provides an analytical system comprising a sample management module. A pressure delivery assembly is configured to compress and deform a mixing chamber containing a sample preparation, and simultaneously open a plug of the mixing chamber to release the sample preparation. The system can be manufactured as a sample box combinable to a detector box, and is particularly convenient for patients to use at home, for example, screening colorectal cancer with their fecal sample.
US11933693B1
A drop test system includes support members offset from each other and having corresponding tracks, a lifting rod bridging the support members and having rod ends adapted to engage with the tracks to move along the tracks, and a pair of spiral cams adapted to rotate in unison and positioned to engage with and reciprocally lift and drop the lifting rod as the spiral cams rotate. The spiral cams each have a perimeter shape that includes an abrupt section and a curved section that connects to opposing ends of the abrupt section with a smooth curvature. The lifting rod is adapted to ride on the perimeter shape of the spiral cams and gradually lift and drop a unit under test (UUT) as the spiral cams rotate.
US11933692B2
Systems, methods and apparatuses for inspecting a tank containing a flammable fluid are provided. The system includes a vehicle having a propeller, a latch mechanism, a pressure switch, and an inspection device. The system includes a control unit in communication with the propeller, the latch mechanism, and the inspection device, and electrically connected to the pressure switch. The control unit powers on responsive to the pressure switch detecting an ambient pressure greater than a minimum threshold. The control unit receives, from the latch mechanism, an indication of a state of the latch mechanism. The control unit determines that the cable used to lower the vehicle into the tank containing the flammable fluid is detached from the vehicle. The control unit commands the propeller to move the vehicle through the flammable fluid. The control unit determines a quality metric of a portion of the tank.
US11933687B2
A device for detecting a rail load fits into a bore of a rail and includes a sensor that generates a load signal under an action of the rail load caused when rail vehicles with wheels travel on the rail and the wheels exert a load onto the rail. The load signal is a measure for the rail load. The sensor includes at least one piezoelectric sensor element that generates electric polarization charges as the load signal.
US11933683B2
A strain gauge includes a resistor formed of a doped silicon material, a conductive shield, and an isolation element disposed between the resistor and the conductive shield. The isolation element electrically isolates the resistor from the conductive shield.
US11933682B2
A pressure sensitive sensor includes: a first conductive member formed into a long shape, the first conductive member having conductivity and elasticity; a second conductive member internally including a long space to arrange the first conductive member, the second conductive member having conductivity and elasticity; and an insulating member having an insulating property and elasticity, the insulating member holding the first conductive member to separate the first conductive member from the second conductive member, the insulating member being movable relative to one or both of the first conductive member and the second conductive member.
US11933679B2
A transducer assembly includes a mounting base, a collar, a magnet, and a Hall effect sensor. The collar defines a bore. One of the magnet and the Hall effect sensor is disposed within the bore and attached to the mounting base. The other of the magnet and the Hall effect sensor is attached to the collar. The Hall effect sensor is spaced from the magnet and is configured to detect movement of at least a portion of the collar relative to the mounting base.
US11933677B2
A temperature detecting material comprises a first material containing a first temperature indicating material and a second material containing a second temperature indicating material, wherein the first temperature indicating material and the second temperature indicating material contain a leuco dye, a color developing agent, and a decoloring agent, and have a hysteresis characteristic in their color density-temperature curves, wherein the first temperature indicating material has a color developing temperature in a temperature increase process lower than a decoloring temperature in the temperature increase process, and turns to a non-crystalline state and is kept in a decoloring state when cooled down below the color developing temperature in the temperature increase process with a predetermined cooling speed or more after melting, wherein the second temperature indicating material, a color developing temperature is lower than a decoloring temperature in the temperature increase process, and wherein the color developing temperature in the temperature increase process is lower than the decoloring temperature in the temperature increase process and the color developing temperature is lower than the color developing temperature in the temperature increase process.
US11933673B2
A heat source detection device is a heat source detection device that detects a heat source on the earth using observation data of a radiometer provided in a geostationary satellite and includes: a calculation unit that calculates a heat source proportion value indicating a proportion of a wavelength distribution due to the heat source included in the observation data to the observation data by curve fitting using Planck's law; and a determination unit that determines presence or absence of the heat source according to the heat source proportion value calculated by the calculation unit.
US11933668B2
A sampling assembly is described. The sampling assembly comprises an input, a light source unit, at least one deflector unit, and a light receiver. The input is configured to receive an electrical input signal. The light source unit is configured to generate and output a light beam in the direction of the deflector unit. The light source unit is configured to adapt an intensity of the light beam based on an amplitude of the input signal. The deflector unit is configured to obtain a deflection command signal. The deflector unit further is configured to deflect the light beam into at least one spatial direction based on the deflection command signal. The light receiver comprises at least two photosensitive pixels. The light receiver is configured to receive the light beam via at least one of the at least two photosensitive pixels, and the light receiver is configured to convert received light into an electrical output signal. Further, a testing instrument is described.
US11933660B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to detect and/or classify a vehicle occupant, such as a passenger seated within the cockpit of a vehicle. An occupant classification system includes an occupant weight sensor, an occupant presence sensor, and a logic device configured to communicate with the occupant weight sensor and the occupant presence sensor. The logic device is configured to receive occupant weight sensor signals from the occupant weight sensor and occupant presence sensor signals from the occupant presence sensor, determine an estimated occupant weight and an occupant presence response based, at least in part, on the occupant weight sensor signals and the occupant presence sensor signals, and determine an occupant classification status corresponding to the passenger seat based, at least in part, on the estimated occupant weight and/or the occupant presence response.
US11933658B2
A metering device for granular material, such as seed or fertilizer, is arranged to deliver the granular material in adjustable quantities, where the metering device includes a metering housing, a drivable metering wheel arranged in the metering housing, and a movable shut-off valve, where the metering housing includes a metering cover that can be moved to different positions and a lock that is associated with the metering cover. The position of the shut-off valve can prevent the lock from being actuated so that the metering cover cannot be opened.
US11933651B2
A seeding system includes a commodity tank configured to store a commodity, the commodity tank having an outlet. A meter has a meter inlet at the outlet of the commodity tank, a meter outlet, and a metering device between the meter inlet and the meter outlet. A manifold has a commodity inlet at the meter outlet, a first shoot having a first air inlet and a first manifold outlet, and a second shoot having a second air inlet and a second manifold outlet. A valve is positioned upstream of the first and second air inlets and configured to selectively direct an airflow to the first air inlet and to selectively direct the airflow to the second air inlet. Each of the first shoot and the second shoot are in selective communication with the commodity inlet to receive the commodity therefrom.
US11933645B2
Methods and apparatus to determine a position of a rotatable shaft of a motor are disclosed. An example apparatus to determine a position of a rotatable shaft of a motor includes a sensor printed circuit board (PCB) structured to be mounted to a motor, the sensor PCB including a plurality of capacitive sensors, the plurality of capacitive sensors having respective ones of a plurality of capacitances that independently change as a conductor moves relative to the sensor PCB in conjunction with a rotatable shaft of the motor during an operation of the motor, and a controller electrically coupled to the sensor PCB, the controller configured to determine a position of the rotatable shaft based on the plurality of capacitances.
US11933642B2
A two-wire displacement sensor device includes an LC oscillation circuit including a coil whose inductance changes in accordance with a displacement amount of an object and an oscillation unit provided with capacitors and amplifying elements; and an interface unit serving as a signal output unit and a power supply input unit. The interface unit includes a constant current circuit that outputs at least two current values.
US11933640B2
A magnetic linear position detector includes a stator and a mover that is movable along a first direction with respect to the stator. One of the stator and the mover includes a magnetic detector, and the other of the stator and the mover includes a magnet. The magnet has a first face facing the magnetic detector, and the first face is provided alternately with N poles and S poles along the first direction. The magnet includes a first region and a second region provided on each side of the first region along the first direction. In the first region, a length along a second direction perpendicular to the first face is constant. In the second region, a length along the second direction is different from the length in the first region.
US11933631B2
A server includes a probe data acquiring unit acquiring a probe data item of each of vehicles traveling on a road, the probe data items include, as shape point sequences, sequences of shape points of marking lines; a grouping unit categorizing shape point sequences of marking lines into plural groups for the respective vehicles, each group including one or more shape point sequences for a corresponding one of the vehicles; a center point sequence generating unit generating, based on the one or more shape point sequences included in each group, a center point sequence for each marking line to thereby remove, from the shape point sequences of the marking lines, information which is dependent on traveling states of the vehicles; and a map data generating unit identifying the center point sequence for each marking line as a corresponding marking line on a map to thereby generate map data.
US11933624B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to processing remotely captured sensor data. A computing platform having at least one processor, a communication interface, and memory may receive, via the communication interface, from a user computing device, sensor data captured by the user computing device using one or more sensors built into the user computing device. Subsequently, the computing platform may analyze the sensor data received from the user computing device by executing one or more data processing modules. Then, the computing platform may generate trip record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the trip record data in a trip record database. In addition, the computing platform may generate user record data based on analyzing the sensor data received from the user computing device and may store the user record data in a user record database.
US11933619B2
In an approach for recommending a safe path for people to navigate an environment, a processor generates a contact graph for a user in a group of users in an area, based on a pre-defined distance measurement between the user and another user in a same timestamp during a pre-defined time period. A processor builds a profile for the user based on the contact graph, the profile including a probability model corresponding to the contact graph to estimate an infection probability for the user. A processor calculates an initial route for the user from a first location to a second location in the area. A processor analyzes an infection risk for the user based on the profile and other users within a pre-defined distance to the user in the initial route. A processor updates the initial route based on the analysis to minimize the risk to be infected.
US11933613B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ground control point assignment and determination. One of the methods includes receiving information describing a flight plan for the UAV to implement, the flight plan identifying one or more waypoints associated with geographic locations assigned as ground control points. A first waypoint identified in the flight plan is traveled to, and an action to designate a surface at the associated geographic location is designated as a ground control point. Location information associated with the designated surface is stored. The stored location information is provided to an outside system for storage.
US11933608B2
A method for identifying three entangled photons includes generating a set of first, second, and third entangled photons correlated in time and interfering the first and second entangled photons based on a difference between a first optical path from an output of an optical source that generates the first entangled photon to a first optical input to an interferometric beam splitter and a second optical path from an output of the optical source that generates the second entangled photon to a second input of the interferometric beam splitter. A first electrical signal is generated in response to detection of a first photon generated by the interfering of the first and second entangled photons. A second electrical signal is generated in response to detection of a second photon generated by the interfering of the first and second entangled photons. A third electrical signal is generated in response to detection of the third entangled photon. The first photon coincidence is determined from the first, second and their electrical signals, thereby identifying three entangled photons.
US11933605B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe estimating/measuring core-cladding concentricity error in optical fibers. In sharp contrast to the prior art, our inventive method is based on measuring a seemingly unrelated property of fibers called guided acoustic wave Brillouin scattering (GAWBS). As we shall show and describe, by analyzing this GAWBS property we advantageously determine what level of CCCE is exhibited by the optical fiber.
US11933602B2
A vehicle state detection system includes an vehicle positioning unit, an object detection unit, and an evaluation unit. The vehicle positioning unit has a rotatable platform and a platform position detection unit. The object detection unit includes two individual detection systems which each have a detection area. A positioning unit defines a positional relation of the individual detection systems to one another. The two individual detection systems detect object data of object points of the vehicle and provide the object data the evaluation unit. The evaluation unit includes respective evaluation modules for each of the at least two individual detection systems, an overall evaluation module and a generation module.
US11933600B2
An extended length of optical fiber having an offset core with an inscribed Bragg grating is used a distributed sensor in combination with an optical frequency domain reflectometer (OFDR) to enable measurement small-scale (e.g., sub-millimeter) contortions and forces as applied to the fiber. The offset core may be disposed in a spiral configuration around the central axis of the optical fiber to improve the spatial resolution of the measurement. A reference surface exhibit a predetermined texture (in the form of a series of corrugations, for example, that may be periodic or aperiodic, as long as known a priori) is disposed adjacent to a longitudinal portion of the sensor fiber. The application of a force to the combination of the plate and the fiber creates a local strain in the grating formed along the offset core of the fiber that results in a shift in the Bragg wavelength of the grating. Using ODFR measurement techniques, an analysis of the Bragg wavelength shift allows for a high resolution force measurement to be obtained.
US11933592B2
A casing for an ammunition cartridge comprises a sleeve portion and a base portion. The casing may be two-piece, where the base portion is secured to the sleeve portion by means of a nipple having a flared end. The base portion comprises a cannelure that extends lengthwise from a flange. The cannelure, which is preferably curved, is deeper than a conventional cannelure and thus the casing weight is reduced. The cannelure has a step that is adjacent the flange, for limiting inward travel of the lip of a hook of the bolt of a firearm. Alternatively, a casing may be a one-piece casing, wherein the base and sleeve are integral.
US11933590B2
A method for manufacturing a housing enclosing a pyrotechnic charge and an installation for implementing this method includes inserting a pyrotechnic charge into a charging volume laterally delimited by a rigid cylindrical charging wall and into a lower part by a first element of the housing to be obtained; positioning a second element of the housing to be obtained of cylindrical shape above the inserted pyrotechnic charge and in the extension of the cylindrical charging wall. The second element has a lateral cylindrical wall of the same shape and diameter as the cylindrical charging wall and is able to cooperate with the first element, and jointly translating the second element and the cylindrical charging wall relative to the first element such as to make the second element cooperate with the first element and form the housing enclosing the pyrotechnic charge.
US11933589B2
According to some embodiments, a holding device for a detonation initiation system is disclosed. The holding device includes an initiator holder having a longitudinal internal cavity. The longitudinal internal cavity is configured to retain an initiator and an electrical cable in electrical contact with the initiator. The holding device further includes a plurality of retention fingers configured for retaining a shaped charge adjacent the initiator. The plurality of retention fingers define a shaped charge receiving portion that may be configured to receive shaped charges of different shapes. The holder may be formed from a thermoplastic material.
US11933586B1
A vector control composite system and methods for producing a vector control strategy capable of blocking mosquito host-seeking cues for reducing the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. The vector control composite system comprises a substrate coated with a composition further comprising nanoparticles functionalized to block thermal, vibrational, or gray body energy emission of an emitter, thus interfering with mosquito infrared receptor functions for host-seeking. The vector control composite system may comprise a base substrate coated with an IR ceramic coating having an insulation component, a multispectral signature mitigation component, an IR anti-reflective component, whereby the multispectral signature mitigation component and IR anti-reflective component contain functionalized nanoparticles. Embodiments of the vector control composite system may be incorporated in various textiles used as nets, garments, tents, and equipment.
US11933583B2
A firearm mounting plate assembly is provided. The firearm mounting plate assembly includes a firearm slide with a first side, a second side, and a top side. A recess defined by a first slide wall, a second slide wall, and a recess base surface is disposed on the firearm slide top side. The recess includes a rib, a slot, and an ejector projection. The firearm mounting plate assembly includes a mounting plate with a top surface, a bottom surface, a front side, and a rear side. An ejector notch and a channel is disposed along the bottom surface. The mounting plate includes a stud, and one or more bosses. The mounting plate is configured to secure within the recess of the firearm slide.
US11933582B1
A firearm assembly is configured to have a consistent ride height. The firearm assembly has a holster insert further having a lower opening surrounded by a light rest. A fastener opening is arranged through the holster insert. A holster is joined to the holster insert with a screw and nut through the fastener opening and locating peg. A light is arranged in the holster and immediately adjacent to the light rest. A firearm has an accessory rail which joins the light to the firearm. The light against the light rest holds the firearm at a consistent ride height in the holster.
US11933558B2
The techniques described herein relate to methods and apparatus for firearm safety mechanisms, visual safety indicators, and related techniques. A firearm includes a handle comprising one or more buttons disposed at least partially within a surface of the handle, such that the one or more buttons can be in contact with an operator's hand when the operator grasps the handle; a safety mechanism in mechanical communication with the trigger. The safety mechanism comprises: a first position that blocks actuation of the trigger; and a second position that does not block actuation of the trigger; and at least one processor configured to: upon determining an input code matches a stored code, transmits a signal to the safety mechanism to change the safety mechanism from the first position to the second position so that the firearm can be fired by the operator.
US11933555B2
A heat dissipation device may be formed having at least one isotropic thermally conductive section (uniformly high thermal conductivity in all directions) and at least one anisotropic thermally conductive section (high thermal conductivity in at least one direction and low thermal conductivity in at least one other direction). The heat dissipation device may be thermally coupled to a plurality of integrated circuit devices such that at least a portion of the isotropic thermally conductive section(s) and/or the anisotropic thermally conductive section(s) is positioned over at least one integrated circuit device. The isotropic thermally conductive section(s) allows heat spreading/removal from hotspots or areas with high-power density and the anisotropic thermally conductive section(s) transfers heat away from the at least one integrated circuit device predominately in a single direction with minimum conduction resistance in areas with uniform power density distribution, while reducing heat transfer in the other directions, thereby reducing thermal cross-talk.
US11933554B2
A heat exchanger includes a body defining a flow channel, and a pin extending across the flow channel, the pin including an at least partially non-cylindrical shape. The pin can be a double helix pin including two spiral branches defining a double helix shape. The two branches can include a uniform winding radius. The two branches include a non-uniform winding radius. The non-uniform winding radius can include a base radius and a midpoint radius, wherein the midpoint radius is smaller than the base radius. The two branches can be joined together by one or more cross-members.
US11933549B2
A high-performance thermal interface comprising a nanowire array disposed between a bottom metal layer and a top metal layer in which each nanowire is coated with a 3D fuzzy graphene layer. The thermal interface can be used by bonding it to the surfaces of adjoining substrates using layers of solder.
US11933547B2
A plate heat exchanger (1) includes a stack of plate elements (2), each plate element (2) being of a double wall construction having a first heat transfer plate (10) and a second heat transfer plate (20), each having a central heat exchanging portion (40) provided with surface patterns (45) adapted for a surface pattern (45) of first heat transfer plate (10) of one plate element (2) to contact a surface pattern (45) of a second heat transfer plate (20) of a neighbouring plate element (2) forming a first flow path (A) for a first fluid at the one side and second flow path for a second fluid (B) at the second side of a plate element (2), where the plate elements (2) are formed with openings (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) in opening areas (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d), wherein a first heat transfer plate (10) in an opening area (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d) is formed with a closed projection (50) projecting in a first direction, and in the same opening area (30a, 30b, 30c, 30d) is formed with an open projection (65) formed on a second direction being opposite to the first direction, such that the closed (50) and open (65) projections together defines a first leak cavity (70).
US11933534B2
A refrigerator is provided. The refrigerator includes: a body having a storage compartment; a door pivotally coupled to the body to open and close the storage compartment; a planar heater including first heating wires arranged to surround an edge of the door and second heating wires arranged on only one portion of the edge; a sensor configured to measure at least one of temperature and humidity outside the refrigerator; and a processor configured to control driving of at least one of the first heating wires and the second heating wires based on a measured value of the sensor.
US11933521B2
A hot water supply device includes a combustion part, a combustion fan, a heat exchange part, a water supply part, a hot water discharge part, and a control part. In the hot water supply device, in a pre-purge step of a heating operation, the presence or absence of a disturbance factor is determined based on rotational responsiveness and deviation of the combustion fan with respect to a scavenging rotation speed. When there is no disturbance factor, in an ignition step, detection of a failure sign is performed based on responsiveness and deviation of the combustion fan with respect to an ignition rotation speed.
US11933517B2
A regulating flap reduction gear for an electrically driven regulating flap for regulating a gas or liquid volume flow includes two parallel bearing plates between which gear parts are rotatably arranged. A plurality of spacers keep the two bearing plates at a distance from one another. The plurality of spacers are designed as tabs of one, first bearing plate, which are bent by 90° from the plane of the first bearing plate and have at least one lateral projection. The tabs are inserted with their free tab ends into plug-in openings of the other second bearing plate until their at least one lateral projection rests against the second bearing plate.
US11933506B2
Operating heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems using occupancy sensing are described herein. One device includes instructions which cause a processor to receive building information including information defining a plurality of spaces of a building, occupancy sensing system information describing a location of each of a plurality of occupancy sensing system fixtures with respect to a representation of the building, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system information describing a relationship between the plurality of spaces and a plurality of HVAC devices installed in the building, create a mapping between a space of the plurality of spaces, a fixture of the plurality of fixtures, and an HVAC device of the plurality of HVAC devices based on the building information, and modify an operation of the HVAC device based on the mapping and responsive to a determination of occupancy in the space by the fixture.
US11933502B2
A cooking appliance includes a self-closing user control for a cooking element that is capable of automatically returning to an off position whenever it is released by a user in a portion of the movable range of positions for the self-closing user control, yet also is capable of maintaining its position in another portion of the movable range of positions for the self-closing user control.
US11933493B2
A tool includes a barrel, a guiding wire, and an electrically conductive member. The barrel is made of electrically conductive material. The guiding wire is disposed in the barrel. The barrel and the guiding wire are directly or indirectly connected to two opposite electrodes of a power source. The electrically conductive member is connected to an outer periphery of the guiding wire and is electrically connected to the guiding wire. The electrically conductive member is disposed between the barrel and the guiding wire and is spaced from the barrel. When the power source is activated, an electric arc is generated between the electrically conductive member and the barrel.
US11933485B2
A hermetically sealed LED light is provided that includes a ceramic base with a plurality of LEDs and a metal cap soldered thereto and a channel for introducing an electrical, optical, or mechanical component.
US11933481B2
A site light including a body, a power system with an AC input and battery terminal, and a telescopic arm assembly supported by the body, where the telescopic arm includes a first end fixed relative to the body and a second end opposite and movable with respect to the first end. The site light also includes a light assembly in operable communication with the power system and coupled to and movable together with the second end of the telescopic arm, where the light assembly is operable in a first light mode in which the light assembly outputs approximately 13,000 lumens of light, and a second light mode in which the light assembly outputs approximately 20,000 lumens of light.
US11933479B1
A light fixture apparatus with at least one multi-color light emitting diode (LED) cluster. Each LED cluster preferably includes four differently colored LEDs, or four different color-correlated temperature LEDs, in a single optic defining a foursquare array. A cluster thus arranged thereby promotes thorough mixing of the differing wavelengths of light emitted by the cluster. Further, a plurality of such clusters may be arranged so to enhance or optimize color mixing amongst the plurality of clusters. A series of LED clusters may be situated linearly along a suitable substrate in a luminaire for emitting visible light.
US11933472B2
A lighting device for a motor vehicle having a light source, a light guide with an entrance surface, and a hologram disposed on or in the light guide. The lighting device is configured such that light emanating from the light source enters the entrance surface of the light guide and interacts with the hologram so that an image stored in the hologram is reconstructed and is visible to an observer of the lighting device. The light guide has a first exit surface and a second exit surface. The lighting device is configured such that light that has interacted with the hologram exits through the first exit surface and that light that has not interacted with the hologram exits through the second exit surface.
US11933471B1
A vehicle lighting assembly includes a primary lens and a light source on a first side of the primary lens. The light source is configured to emit light through the primary lens. A light blade is on an opposite, second side of the primary lens. A secondary lens covers a portion of the light blade. A vehicle lighting method includes emitting light from a light source, directing the light through a primary lens, directing the light from the primary lens through a light blade, and directing the light from the light blade through a secondary lens.
US11933465B2
A lighting device (10) for vehicle headlamps, comprising: —at least one light source (50), —a light guide (200) comprising an end section (210) with a light entry surface, —a light guide adapter (300) configured to secure the end section (210) and to hold the light entry surface in a position with regard to the light source (50), the light guide adapter (300) comprises a base-section (310) and a securing-section (320), and —a support frame (400), on which the light guide adapter (300) is mounted, wherein the securing-section (320) comprises a first engaging-element (320a), the base-section (310) comprises a first fastening-opening (311), the support frame (400) comprises a mounting-opening (410) for the securing-section (320) of the light guide adapter (300) and a second fastening-opening (411), wherein the mounting-opening (410) having a second engaging-element (410a) corresponding to the first engaging-element (320a), wherein the light guide adapter (300) can be brought into an end position (P2) by inserting the securing-section (320) into the mounting-opening (410), such that the first engaging-element (320a) engages with the second engaging-element (410a), wherein the first fastening-opening (311) and the second fastening-opening (411) are overlapped, so that the first and second fastening-opening (311, 411) can receive a fastening-element (110).
US11933463B2
A lightbox is disclosed herein, comprising a lower panel, a back panel connected to the lower panel and extending upward from the lower panel, wherein the back panel is coated in a reflective material, an inner lens connected to the lower panel and extending upward from the lower panel, the inner lens being adjacent the back panel, a first cavity at least partially defined by the back panel and the inner lens, an outer lens connected to the lower panel and extending upward from the lower panel, the outer lens being adjacent the inner lens and opposite the back panel, and a first LED adjacent the lower panel and oriented to emit a light away from the lower panel and into the first cavity.
US11933462B2
The invention provides a light generating device (1000) comprising (i) n laser light sources (10), (ii) focusing optics (20), and (iii) a luminescent body (200), wherein: (A) the n laser light sources (10) are configured to generate laser light source light (11); wherein the focusing optics (20) are configured to focus the laser light source light (11) into a focused beam (21) of laser light source light (11); wherein n≥2; (B) the luminescent body (200) comprises a luminescent material (210), wherein the luminescent body (200) is configured in a light receiving relationship with the n laser light sources (10), wherein the luminescent material (210) is configured to convert at least part of the laser light source light (11) into luminescent material light (211); (C) the n laser light sources (10) and focusing optics (20) are configured to provide in an operational mode light spots (300) of laser light source light (11) on the luminescent body (200); wherein k sets of light spots (300) each have an individually selected number of m light spots (300), wherein two or more of the light spots (300) within each set have a partial overlap, wherein 2≤m≤n and 1≤k
US11933455B2
A pressurized gas tank comprises at least two cylinders and a rail capable of fluidly connecting the at least two cylinders. At least one cylinder includes a base for connection to the rail. The rail includes at least one reception area of a shape substantially complementary to a shape of the base. The base has a shape substantially revolutionary about a first axis and comprises a number at least equal to n of angularly equidistant tapped holes. The at least one reception area comprises a number equal to n of ports, in the form of an arc of a circle, angularly equidistant, of width substantially equal, by greater value, to a diameter of a tapped hole and of angular extent substantially equal to 360°/n.
US11933454B2
A fluid permeable heater assembly for an aerosol-generating system includes a cap and a substantially flat electrically conductive and fluid permeable heating element. The cap includes a hollow body with a first cap opening and a second cap opening. The first cap opening is opposite to the second cap opening. The heating element is configured to vaporise aerosol-forming substrate. The heating element is mounted on the cap, such that the heating element extends across the first cap opening. A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system includes the heater assembly, a liquid storage portion, a mouth piece, and a retainer.
US11933450B2
A support system for a display device includes a first arm configured to extend from a support surface. A second arm is rotatably connected to the first arm. The second arm has a range of movement relative to the first arm. A ring housing is rotatably connected to the second arm. A tilt ring is moveably connected to the ring housing and configured to connect to a display. An adjustment mechanism is configured to move the tilt ring relative to the ring housing to modify the frictional engagement of the tilt ring and the ring housing.
US11933447B2
A system for transporting and installing a cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) liner to line existing pipe includes a chassis, a bed supported by the chassis and wheels mounted on the chassis for supporting the chassis as it is moved over the road. A container supported by the chassis has a first compartment and a second compartment. A refrigeration system supported by the chassis is operable to keep the first compartment cooled to a temperature at which resin carried within the liner does not prematurely cure. The second compartment contains a powered feeder that can pull liner from the first compartment through a port and feed it out of the container for installation. A method is also disclosed.
US11933437B2
A hose clamp for connecting, for example, a hose to a pipe nipple, wherein the hose clamp is made of a clamping band 10 comprising band sections which overlap one another in the closed state of the hose clamp and on which hooks 12, 19 are arranged for closing the hose clamp, and a tightening device 15 arranged in the outer band section for tightening the hose clamp around an object to be clamped, wherein the tightening device comprises two outwardly protruding legs and a bar connecting the legs, wherein at least one corrugated bead 21 extending between the edges of the clamping band and parallel to them is formed on the inner band section of the clamping band, so that at least a part of the corrugated bead is located below the tightening device in the closed state of the clamping band.
US11933432B2
A device for making plumbing connections is provided. The device includes a first compression nut, a second compression nut, a sleeve fitting body between the first compression nut and the second compression nut, a first ferrule between the first compression nut and the sleeve fitting body, and a second ferrule between the sleeve fitting body and the second compression nut. The first compression nut has a first narrow portion and a first threaded portion, the first narrow portion having a first internal cavity with a first diameter. The second compression nut has a second narrow portion and a second threaded portion, the second narrow portion having a second internal cavity with a second diameter. The sleeve fitting body has a threaded portion that respectively correspond to the first and second threaded portions, and a first cavity portion having the first diameter, and a second cavity portion having the second diameter.
US11933427B2
A fluid management assembly and a thermal management system. The fluid management assembly has a first chamber and a first valve core located in the first chamber. The fluid management assembly has a throttle chamber. The first valve core has a conduction channel. The first chamber can communicate with other portions by means of a throttle channel or the conduction channel.
US11933426B1
A valve, such as a ball valve, can include a noise attenuation assembly to control fluid expansion through the valve and provide noise abatement. The valve can include a valve body and a valve stem and the noise attenuation assembly can include a flow control body and a trim body. The flow control body can be coupled to the valve stem and the flow control body can be configured to selectively permit fluid flow through the valve body in an axial direction. The trim body can include a plurality of channels to control fluid expansion during fluid flow through the valve body. The trim body can be engaged with the flow control body at first and second mounting structures of the flow control body to secure the trim within a fluid pathway of the flow control body.
US11933423B2
A method for determining a switching point of a solenoid valve. A solenoid coil is energized to raise a solenoid armature to unblock a flow opening. For a signal profile characteristic of a current profile in the solenoid coil, multiple periods each different from one another and each having the same predefined temporal length are determined. Within each period, a minimal and a maximal value of the signal profile and associated points in time are ascertained and a product of a difference between the maximal and minimal value and a difference between the associated points in time are ascertained. On the basis of the points in time of the minimal and maximal value of that period, which corresponds to a maximal value of the product, the switching point is determined.
US11933415B2
A valve assembly can include a housing having multiple longitudinally spaced apart ports, a sleeve longitudinally displaceable in the housing, and at least one deflector ring configured to block flow through an annular space formed between the housing and an outer surface of the sleeve. The deflector ring is positioned longitudinally between an adjacent pair of the ports. Another valve assembly can include a housing having a port, a sleeve longitudinally displaceable in the housing, and a nozzle having an orifice in communication with the port. The nozzle is secured to the housing.
US11933407B2
To provide a long-life compression ring without an increase in the outer peripheral abrasion near the gap regardless of the ring material or the presence or absence of the outer peripheral hard coating, in an annular compression ring having a pair of gap faces opposed to each other to form a free gap and a nominal diameter d1 equal to an inner diameter of a cylinder to which the compression ring is attached to along with a piston, a self tangential force is 5N to 50N, and a radius of curvature R1 and the nominal diameter d1 satisfy a relationship: −0.01≤(2R1−d1)/d1<0.002 where the radius of curvature R1 is that of outer peripheral arcs of gap end portions in a free shape state before the compression ring is attached to the cylinder, and the gap end portions are defined in ranges between the gap faces and positions where a center angle from a midpoint of the free gap is 35°.
US11933406B2
One aspect of this disclosure is directed to a steering system comprising a housing in which a steering rack is movably arranged and extends out of the housing on at least one side of the housing, the steering rack being connected with a tie rod via a ball joint, wherein the connection is covered by a protective bellows defining a central axis and the bellows further comprising a first end defining a first opening around the central axis, a second end defining a second opening around the central axis, and several annular folds arranged along the central axis between the first end and second end, and wherein the bellows comprises a plurality of skirts arranged along the central axis and extending away from the bellows. Another aspect of this disclosure is directed to a protective bellows defining a central axis and comprising a first end defining a first opening around the central axis, a second end defining a second opening around the central axis, and several annular folds arranged along the central axis between the first end and second end, and the bellows comprises a plurality of skirts arranged along the central axis.
US11933397B2
Methods and systems are provided for an actuation system for a driveline shifting member in a transmission system of a vehicle. In one example, a system may include an actuator coupled to a lever arm via one or more parallel axis gears, and a shaft connecting the lever arm to a driveline shifting member, the lever arm driven via a rolling element housed within a slot in the lever arm aligned with a center of a parallel axis gear of the one or more parallel axis gears.
US11933386B2
A radial-type anti-backlash nut for use upon linear actuator leadscrews uses a separate housing resting upon the actuator's main nut. The anti-backlash action is a multi-finger collet and spring setup located inside the housing. The collet tapers radially inward toward tips of the fingers at a specified taper angle. The whole interior length of an internal thread of the collet engages an external thread of the leadscrew. The housing is a pre-load nut with an internal tapered surface that mates with the collet fingers with substantially the same taper angle. The pre-load nut, when screwed onto external threads of the adjustment nut, both compresses a load spring and applies radially inward adjustable load force to the collet fingers against the leadscrew. Three tolerances adjust load: the taper angle of the main nut's collet fingers, the spring load's compression, and the collet finger mismatch with respect to the lead screw.
US11933369B1
A clutch device includes a pressure plate movable toward or away from a clutch center and rotatable with respect to the clutch center. The pressure plate includes a flange extending radially outward from an outer circumferential edge of a body, pressure-side fitting teeth projecting in a first direction from a front surface of the flange, holding input-side rotating plates and output-side rotating plates, and circumferentially arranged, and a flange-side recessed portion recessed in the first direction from a back surface of the flange. As seen in an axial direction of an output shaft, the flange-side recessed portion at least partially overlaps one of the pressure-side fitting teeth.
US11933366B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of method for detecting degradation of a connecting rod big end bearing within an internal combustion engine including a crankshaft and an exhaust manifold included on a vehicle. A method includes providing an electronic control unit connected with the engine, a first set of sensors for detecting crankshaft acceleration connected located adjacent the crankshaft, a second set of sensors for detecting engine exhaust manifold pressure located adjacent the engine exhaust manifold, and a display component and an auditory component connected with the electronic control unit. The display component and/or the auditory component is activated when the first set of sensors detects diminished crankshaft acceleration during a power stroke compared to prior acceleration of the crankshaft during a power stroke and the second set of sensors detects exhaust manifold pressure that does not vary statistically significantly from expected exhaust manifold pressure.
US11933362B2
For replacing in particular a used main bearing of a wind turbine, a bearing housing is first pulled axially off the main bearing along a rotor shaft, then the used main bearing is divided and disassembled. A new main bearing is assembled around the rotor shaft and the original bearing housing is pushed axially back onto the main bearing. During the replacement of the main bearing, the rotor shaft is supported on a machine carrier by means of a holding device, wherein the holding device is arranged at least partially in the region between a bearing seat and a hub-side end region of the rotor shaft.
US11933351B2
The present application provides a hinge, a flexible display panel, and an electronic device, the electronic device includes a flexible display panel, the flexible display panel comprises a flexible display panel body and a hinge, the hinge comprises a first transmission member, a second transmission member, a third transmission member, and a fourth transmission member to form a four-link structure, such that a first rotating mechanism and a second rotating mechanism may achieve an effect of bilateral synchronous rotation.
US11933350B2
A joint for a composite frame includes a first composite rod, a first shell abutting the first composite rod, a second shell abutting the first composite rod and disposed opposite the first shell relative to the first composite rod. The first and second shells are joined together such that composite rod is fixed therebetween. A method of forming joints of composite frame includes forming a composite frame by interconnecting a plurality of composite rods formed by an Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) manufacturing method around a mandrel, applying a first shell to the plurality of composite rods at a first location where composite rods are interconnected, applying a second shell at the first location opposite the first shell relative to the composite rods, and joining the first and second shells together with the composite rods at the first location disposed between the first and second shells.
US11933347B2
Examples of rivet-type fastener are described. The rivet-type fastener may further include a fastener pin. The fastener pin includes a planar head portion and a shaft longitudinally extending from the head portion. The fastener pin may further include a cantilevered snap element at a distal end of the shaft. A portion of the cantilevered snap element is flexibly moveable with respect to the axis of shaft. The rivet-type fastener comprises a fastener body which in turn comprises a collared portion with a central opening. A plurality of elongated portions extend orthogonally from the collared portion, wherein the elongated portions are radially positioned about the central axis and about the edges of the central opening.
US11933338B2
The present disclosure relates to a bicycle pannier mounting arrangement for mounting a bicycle pannier to a bicycle. The bicycle pannier mounting arrangement includes a locking device for locking the bicycle pannier to an element of the bicycle. The locking device includes a first hook member and a second hook member. The first hook member includes an inner seat surface configured to enclose a portion of the element of the bicycle. The second hook member is pivotally connected about a pivot axis by a pivotal connection with respect to the first hook member such that the second hook member can be pivoted between an open position and a retaining position. The second hook member includes a retaining portion for retaining the element of the bicycle and a lever arm portion connected to the retaining portion and extending beyond an outer peripheral surface of the first hook member.
