US11967859B2
The present invention provides a power factor correction circuit (21, 22), a power factor correction assembly (2) and an on-line uninterruptible power supply including the same. The power factor correction circuit (21) comprises a pulse width modulated rectifier (211, 221) and an isolated DC-DC converter (212, 222), wherein an output of the pulse width modulated rectifier (211, 221) is connected to an input of the isolated DC-DC converter (212, 222). The power factor correction assembly (2) comprises a plurality of power factor correction circuits (21, 22) described above, wherein inputs of pulse width modulated rectifiers (211, 221) in the plurality of power factor correction circuits (21, 22) are connected in series, and outputs of isolated DC-DC converters (212, 222) in the plurality of power factor correction circuits (21, 22) are connected in parallel. The power factor correction assembly (2) of the present invention needs no line-frequency transformer and has the advantages of small size, low cost and improved operation reliability.
US11967853B1
An autonomous underwater vehicle includes a vehicle body controlled by a processor. An anchor joined to a tether is disposed in the vehicle. The vehicle has control surfaces for maneuvering, a propulsion unit, and a turbine. The propulsion unit and turbine generate thrust to propel the vehicle. A power source provides power to the vehicle. The turbine is further joined to a generator. When the processor detects that the power source is below a threshold value, the propulsion unit is stopped, the anchor is deployed, and the control surfaces are operated to move the vehicle in a predetermined trajectory through a fluid stream of the environment restrained by the tether. The fluid stream causes rotation of the turbine and generator to recharge the power source.
US11967843B2
Provided are a battery protection circuit and a lithium battery system. The battery protection circuit includes a switch circuit, a drive control circuit, a reverse connection protection circuit and a power supply circuit. A first input terminal of the reverse connection protection circuit is connected to an output terminal of the power supply circuit. An output terminal of the reverse connection protection circuit is connected to a second input terminal of the drive control circuit. The reverse connection protection circuit is configured to output a reverse connection control signal when the battery is reversely connected to a charger. The drive control circuit is configured to control, according to the reverse connection control signal, the switch circuit to turn off.
US11967841B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an electrical energy store, comprising a storage cell for storing electrical energy and a control unit, wherein a safety switch is provided which is designed to interrupt an electrical line of the electrical energy store, wherein a current flowing through the electrical line is detected and an actuation of the safety switch only occurs if the current is below a predefinable threshold value.
US11967839B2
An electromagnetic connector is disclosed that is configured to form a first magnetic circuit portion comprising multiple coils disposed about a first core member. The electromagnetic connector is configured to mate with a second electromagnetic connector that is configured to form a second magnetic circuit portion comprising a coil disposed about a second core member. When the electromagnetic connector is mated with the second electromagnetic connector, the first core member and the second core member are configured to couple the multiple coils of the electromagnetic connector to the coil of the second electromagnetic connector with a magnetic circuit formed from the first magnetic circuit portion and the second magnetic circuit portion. The magnetic circuit is configured to induce a signal in a first coil of the multiple coils and the coil of the second electromagnetic connector when a second coil of the multiple coils is energized.
US11967833B2
When selectively erasing one sub-block, a control circuit applies, in a first sub-block, a first voltage to bit lines and a source line, and applies a second voltage smaller than the first voltage to the word lines. Then, the control circuit applies a third voltage lower than the first voltage by a certain value to a drain-side select gate line and a source-side select gate line, thereby performing the erase operation in the first sub-block. The control circuit applies, in a second sub-block existing in an identical memory block to the selected sub-block, a fourth voltage substantially identical to the first voltage to the drain side select gate line and the source side select gate line, thereby not performing the erase operation in the second sub-block.
US11967832B2
Systems and methods for wireless power transfer systems are described. A controller of a device can communicate with a power device by a first modulation mode. The controller can detect a failure condition between the controller and the power device. The controller can, in response to the detection of the failure condition, communicate with the power device by a second modulation mode. The first modulation mode can include capacitive modulation and the second modulation mode can include resistive modulation.
US11967830B2
A power transmitter is configured for transmission of wireless power, to a wireless receiver, at extended ranges, including a separation gap greater than 8 millimeters (mm). The power transmitter further includes a coil configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver, the coil formed of wound Litz wire and including at least one layer, the coil defining, at least, a top face. The power transmitter further includes a shielding comprising a ferrite core and defining a cavity, the cavity configured such that the ferrite core substantially surrounds all but the top face of the coil. The power transmitter includes at least one magnet, the at least one magnet configured to attract at least one receiver magnet when a power receiver is proximate to a surface associated with the power transmitter.
US11967828B2
Provided is a method and device for low-carbon integrated energy system scheduling. A specific embodiment of this method comprise: obtaining the energy device information set for each energy device in the virtual power plant; generating the acquisition cost information for each energy device based on an energy device name, energy device parameter information and an energy device number in the energy device information set; generating the energy scheduling objective values and the parameter information of each energy device based on the preset constraint sets and energy acquisition cost information of each energy device; controlling each energy device in the virtual power plant to execute the energy scheduling tasks based on the objective energy device parameter information.
US11967813B2
A pull box for accepting cable in electrical wiring installations includes a main body. The main body includes a first leg, a second leg, and a bridge portion spanning between and interconnecting the first leg and the second leg. The first leg, the second leg, and the bridge portion form a U-shape and define an interior space. The pull box further includes a cover. The cover is movable relative to the housing to transition the pull box between an open state and a closed state. The cover permits access to the interior space when the pull box is in the open state and prevents access to interior space when the pull box is in the closed state.
US11967810B2
A wire harness including: an electric wire; a metal pipe that accommodates the electric wire; and a clamp attached to an outer peripheral surface of the pipe, wherein: the pipe has a first lock formed on the outer peripheral surface of the pipe, and the clamp has a second lock configured to lock to the first lock in an axial direction of the pipe.
US11967808B2
A wire harness including; a wire harness main body including an electric wire and an outer cover enclosing an outer circumference of the electric wire; a route-regulating cover that is attached to an outer circumference of the outer cover and regulates a route of the wire harness main body; and an attachment attached to an outer circumference of a portion in a lengthwise direction of the route-regulating cover.
US11967807B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus (100, 200, 300) for cutting, centering or holding a cable in a stripping head, comprising a first toothed belt wheel (1) and a second toothed belt wheel (2), which are rotatable coaxially and synchronously, but however in an angularly adjustable way with respect to one another, about a rotational axis (X), as well as a tool flange (21) coaxially connected to the first toothed belt wheel (1), in which a central opening (A) is disposed, through which the cable is able to be led or passed, the tool flange 21 comprising one or more movably attached tools (23), whereby the tools (23) are movable in relation to the rotational axis (X) by means of the positioning means (18) connected to the second toothed belt wheel (2), characterized in that the radial distance of the tools (23) to the rotational axis (X) is adjustable through an angular rotation between the first toothed belt wheel (1) and the second toothed belt wheel (2), which are driven by a common drive means (13). Moreover the present invention also relates to a cable-stripping device comprising an apparatus according to the invention.
US11967805B2
A tool for wrapping a formed wire around a cable is provided. The tool includes a handle portion and a head portion. The handle portion has an elongated body and a hand grip portion attached to the elongated body. The head portion has a cover pivotably attached to a base. When the cover is pivoted into contact with the base a cable receiving opening is formed between the cover and the base. The head portion also includes a pusher member extending from the cover or the base into the cable receiving opening. The pusher member is adapted to contact and push strands of a formed wire when the tool is in use.
US11967800B2
The grating layer of a surface emitting laser is divided into a first grating region and a second grating region along a horizontal direction. The second grating region is located at a middle area of the grating layer, while the first grating region is located in an outer peripheral area of the grating layer. Each of the first and second grating regions comprises a plurality of micro-grating structures. The grating period of the micro-grating structures in the first grating region is in accordance with the following mathematical formula: ∧ = m λ 2 ⋆ n eff ; in addition, the grating period of the micro-grating structures in the second grating region is in accordance with the following mathematical formula: ∧ = o λ 2 ⋆ n eff . Wherein ∧ is the length of grating period, λ is the wavelength of the laser light, neff is the equivalent refractive index of semiconductor waveguide, m=1, and o=2. The first grating region is a first-order grating region, and the second grating region is a second-order grating region, so as to form a hybrid grating structure in the grating layer. The surface emitting laser emits laser light perpendicularly from a light-emitting surface defined by the second grating region.
US11967798B2
A VCSEL device includes a substrate and a laser cavity that includes a gain section disposed between first and second reflectors. The VCSEL device is operable to emit light through a first end of the VCSEL device. The VCSEL device includes an anode surface mount contact and a cathode surface mount contact, each which is disposed at a second end of the VCSEL device opposite the first end of the VCSEL device.
US11967795B2
The invention relates to a crimping pliers die (1) comprising two die half units (2, 3). The die half units (2, 3) are guided by a guide (51) relatively to each other over the crimping stroke. Crimping surfaces (40, 41) of the die halves (5) are formed by front surfaces of engaging ribs (37). Preferably, the guide (51) comprises a guiding rod (43) formed by an end-sided thickening (42) of a rib (37) and the guide (51) comprises a guiding recess (50) formed by a guiding recess section (45) which connects two ribs (37) to each other. The crimping pliers die (1) can be used for crimping pliers which can e. g. be used for crimping wire end sleeves.
US11967783B2
A receptacle connector having a stable contact point structure and a rigid structure, and a connector assembly including the same, is provided. The receptacle connector includes a receptacle housing, a plurality of receptacle terminals which are retained and supported in the receptacle housing in a first direction, and one pair of receptacle metal members which are provided on both ends of the receptacle housing in the first direction.
US11967781B2
An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array that radiates at a frequency greater than 10 GHz through a display. The array may include a dielectric resonator antenna having a dielectric column. The dielectric column may have a first surface mounted to a circuit board and a second surface that faces the display. A conductive cap may be formed on the second surface. The conductive cap may allow the dimensions of dielectric column to be reduced while still allowing the dielectric resonator antenna to cover a frequency band of interest. If desired, the phased antenna array may include multiple sets of dielectric resonator antennas for covering different frequency bands. The sets may have different dielectric column heights and/or different conductive cap sizes.
US11967776B2
An antenna system that includes a plurality of lens sets. Each lens set includes a lens and at least one feed element. At least one feed element is aligned with the lens and configured to direct a signal through the lens at a desired direction.
US11967774B2
An antenna array for a high frequency device includes a plurality of antenna elements used for a radar device and arranged in a two-dimensional array in a predetermined area. The plurality of antenna elements includes grouped on-elements and single on-elements with specific distance for grating lobe cancellation, each of them is electrically connected to a phase shifter. The on-elements are arranged such that density of the on-elements at a center portion in the two-dimensional array is high and density of the on-elements at four corners in the two-dimensional array is low.
US11967768B2
A slot array antenna includes a dielectric layer, a power feeding unit, a first coplanar waveguide formed in a conductor layer provided on one surface of the dielectric layer, and a second coplanar waveguide formed in the conductor layer, wherein each of the first coplanar waveguide and the second coplanar waveguide includes a first end part connected to a point to which the power feeding unit is connected or situated in proximity and at least one second end part connected to at least one slot formed in the conductor layer.
US11967767B1
An air interface plane (AIP) of a radio frequency (RF) aperture includes: a circuit board having a first side and a second side opposite the first side; and a matrix of tapered elements arranged on the first side of the circuit board and secured to the circuit board, the matrix of tapered elements cooperating to at least one of receive or transmit an over-the-air RF signal. Suitably, each tapered element of the matrix has: a central hub extending along a longitudinal axis from a hub base which is proximate to the first side of the circuit board to an apex of the tapered element which is distal from the first side of the first circuit board; and a plurality of arms extending from the central hub at the apex of the tapered element, each of the plurality of arms including a first portion that projects the arm radially away from the longitudinal axis and a second portion that projects the arm longitudinally toward the first side of the circuit board.
US11967766B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for configuring and operating an antenna system. In accordance with various embodiments, the disclosed system and methods utilize amplitude tapering of an antenna array to reduce side lobe levels while optimizing main lobe gain. An antenna array is configured to increase a gain differential by reducing side lobe amplitude. The array of radiating elements is arranged to have a majority of elements at the center of the array with fewer elements on the edges.
US11967765B1
An antenna system operates in a hybrid coplanar waveguide and rectangular waveguide mode. A slot array with a conductive layer is disposed on a substrate and defines a coplanar waveguide joining a number of side slots arranged in a line forming the slot array. Another substrate is spaced apart from the substrate and a ground plane is defined thereon. A defined volume waveguide is disposed between the substrates. The array is configured to radiate a radiation pattern in a hybrid mode that results from a combination of the slot array and the defined volume waveguide. The side slots may be elliptical in shape for side lobe level reduction.
US11967764B1
Example embodiments relate to a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) with dual circular polarizations. An example SIW may include a dielectric substrate and a first metallic layer coupled to a top surface of the dielectric substrate with a through-hole extending through the dielectric substrate and the first metallic layer. The SIW also includes a dielectric layer coupled to a top surface of the first metallic layer. A second metallic layer is coupled to a top surface of the dielectric layer. The second metallic layer includes a non-conductive opening, a plurality of feeds with a first end in the non-conductive opening and a second end including a single-ended termination, and an impedance transformer. The SIW also includes a third metallic layer coupled to a bottom of the dielectric substrate, and a set of metallic via-holes proximate the non-conductive opening and coupling the second metallic layer to the third metallic layer.
US11967758B2
A printed circuit board can include a substrate layer, a first metal layer disposed over the substrate layer, a core layer disposed over the first metal layer, and a second metal layer disposed over the core layer, where the core layer defines a closed cavity between the first and second metal layers. Optionally, the cavity is filled with air and operates as an antenna.
US11967755B2
Various base station enclosures and systems are detailed herein. Such systems can include, a radio unit (RU) and a plurality of cellular antennas. A base station cellular enclosure is present that reduces wind drag. The enclosure can include an airfoil enclosure housing that defines a cavity for housing the plurality of antennas and is at least partially covered in dimples to reduce wind drag.
US11967752B2
An antenna module includes a first antenna unit including at least one first patch antenna pattern, at least one first feed via, and at least one first dielectric layer, a second antenna unit including at least one second patch antenna pattern, at least one second feed via, and at least one second dielectric layer, a first connection portion, a first rigid substrate electrically connecting the first connection portion to the first antenna unit and having a first surface on which the first antenna unit is disposed, a base connection portion, a flexible substrate having a first surface on which the first connection portion is disposed and a second surface on which the base connection portion is disposed, and an IC electrically connected to the flexible substrate through the second surface of the flexible substrate or the first rigid substrate.
US11967750B2
A low-cost, small-size Wilkinson-type combiner that suppresses the risk of damaging an isolation resistor due to combination loss is provided. The combiner comprises first and second input terminals to which RF signals are input; an output terminal; a wiring line that combines the RF signals input to the first and second input terminals, and outputs the combined signal to the output terminal; an isolation unit provided between the first and second input terminals and formed by a first isolation resistor, a transformer, and a second isolation resistor connected in series; a detection circuit connected to a secondary coil of the transformer and configured to detect a current flowing in the secondary coil; and a determination circuit that outputs a control signal to block input of RF signals to the first and second input terminals if the current flowing in the isolation unit and detected by the detection circuit is higher than or equal to a prescribed value.
US11967749B2
The present invention relates to a cavity filter and a connecting structure included therein. The cavity filter includes: an RF signal connecting portion spaced apart, by a predetermined distance, from an outer member having an electrode pad provided on a surface thereof; and a terminal portion configured to electrically connect the electrode pad of the outer member and the RF signal connecting portion so as to absorb assembly tolerance existing at the predetermined distance and to prevent disconnection of the electric flow between the electrode pad and the RF signal connecting portion, wherein the terminal portion includes: a first side terminal contacted with the electrode pad; and a second side terminal having a housing space in which a part of the first side terminal is housed, and connected to the RF signal connecting portion, wherein the first side terminal is provided as an elastic deformable body whose part is radially widened or narrowed against an assembly force provided by an assembler. Therefore, the cavity filter can efficiently absorb assembly tolerance which occurs through assembly design, and prevent disconnection of an electric flow, thereby preventing degradation in performance of an antenna device.
US11967736B2
A battery module minimizes damage to internal configurations generated in an assembly process. The battery module includes a cell assembly provided with an electrode lead and a plurality of secondary batteries stacked; a bus bar assembly provided with a bus bar frame located on a front or rear of the cell assembly, and a bus bar mounted on an outer surface of the bus bar frame; and an inner cover provided with a plate portion located on an outer side of the cell assembly, formed in a plate shape and formed with a chamfer on an outer peripheral portion and a coupling portion coupled to one end portion of the body portion of the bus bar frame on a part of the outer peripheral portion of the plate portion.
US11967734B2
An electrode assembly includes a radical unit in which electrodes and separators are alternately stacked, the radical unit having a structure in which one electrode is stacked at the uppermost end. An auxiliary unit is provided with a separation sheet disposed at the uppermost end side of the radical unit. The separation sheet includes a separation part disposed at the uppermost end side of the radical unit and a side surface protection part connected to each of side surfaces of the separation part and folded to contact a side portion of the radical unit to cover the side portion of the radical unit.
US11967733B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator which has high heat resistance and is resistant to the detachment of a heat resistant layer. A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an example embodiment includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes a polyolefin substrate and a heat resistant layer disposed on a side of the substrate. The heat resistant layer includes an aramid resin, and the aramid resin has a ratio (B/A) of 0.94 to 1.14 wherein A is the absorbance at a wavelength of 1318 cm−1 and B is the absorbance at a wavelength of 1650 cm−1 in an infrared absorption spectrum obtained by infrared spectroscopic measurement.
US11967731B2
A separator for an electrochemical device, including: a porous polymer substrate having a plurality of pores; and a porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate, wherein the porous coating layer comprises boehmite particles and a binder polymer, wherein the binder polymer is positioned on at least a part of the surface of the boehmite particles and connects and fixes the boehmite particles with one another. The boehmite particles have an average particle diameter of 2.0 μm to 3.5 μm and a specific surface area of 4.0 m2/g to 4.5 m2/g, and one side of the porous coating layer has a thickness of 2 μm to 10 μm.
US11967720B2
An electrode according to an embodiment contains an electrode mixture layer containing an active material and a conductive assistant. In a logarithmic differential pore volume distribution by a mercury intrusion method, the electrode mixture layer satisfies: a ratio P1/P2 within a range of 2 or more and less than 8, and a ratio S1/S2 within a range of 3 or more and less than 10. P1 is a value of a maximum logarithmic differential pore volume in a pore diameter range of 0.1 μm or more and 1 μm or less. P2 is a value of a logarithmic differential pore volume of a pore diameter of 0.03 μm. S1 is an integrated value in a pore diameter range of 0.1 μm or more and 1 μm or less. S2 is an integrated value in a pore diameter range of more than 0 μm and less than 0.1 μm.
US11967715B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material wherein a volume variation due to charge/discharge is small. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material comprising a silicon clathrate II type crystal phase, and having a composition represented by NaxSi136, wherein 1.98
US11967700B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that has a low initial resistance and an increase in resistance after charging and discharging is suppressed. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active substance layer, which contains a lithium composite oxide having a layered structure. The lithium composite oxide is a porous particle. A surface of the porous particle includes a layer having a rock salt type structure. A thickness of the layer is not less than 5 nm and not more than 80 nm. A void ratio of the porous particle is not less than 15% and not more than 48%. The porous particle contains two or more voids having diameters that are at least 10% of the particle diameter of the porous particle. The surface of the porous particle includes a coating of lithium tungstate.
US11967699B2
A pre-lithiation reaction chamber apparatus including a pre-lithiation reaction vessel which can prevent harmful effects caused by water that may be generated during pre-lithiation is provided. The pre-lithiation reaction vessel includes an electrolyte including a lithium salt, a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium ion-supplying member. Each of the negative electrode for the lithium secondary battery and the lithium ion-supplying member is at least partially in contact with the electrolyte. The pre-lithiation reaction chamber apparatus further includes a water-capturing vessel. The water-capturing vessel includes water-capturing powder, a container configured to receive the water-capturing powder, and a position-changing member configured to change a position of the water-capturing powder in the container.
US11967695B2
An electrode structure including: an electrode; a current collector facing the electrode; an elastic body located between the electrode and the current collector, the elastic body having conductivity; and an electrode fixing member located between the elastic body and the current collector, wherein at least a part of a peripheral edge of the electrode being fixed between the electrode fixing member and the current collector.
US11967691B2
A heat exchanger, in particular battery cooler, having a pipe which has a pipe end portion that is placed at an open end of the pipe and is widened, at least in part, with respect to the non-widened portion of the pipe that is further away from the pipe end portion, a head part that has an opening and a radial outside wall, wherein the non-widened portion of the pipe fits through the opening. The, a seal which is received by the head part in order to be compressed between the pipe and the radial outside wall of the head part, and a tank component which is connected to pipe end portion via the head part. A method for assembling a heat exchanger is also provided.
US11967687B2
A safe discharge method for waste lithium ion batteries includes steps of mixing the waste lithium ion batteries and conductive particles in a discharge chamber to make the waste lithium ion batteries to discharge, calculating an internal resistance of the discharge chamber according to pressurization pressure; calculating a discharge rate of the waste lithium ion batteries; dynamically adjusting the pressurization pressure to keep the discharge rate of the waste lithium ion batteries to be 0.1-3 C; monitoring an internal temperature of the discharge chamber in real time; when the internal temperature is greater than an early warning temperature, reducing the pressurization pressure by 20%-60%; when the internal temperature is greater than a warning temperature, relieving the pressurization pressure to 0 N, reducing the pressurization pressure by 60%-90% after the internal temperature drops below the early warning temperature, and re-compacting to discharge the waste lithium ion batteries.
US11967683B2
A system and method for intelligent battery charging management to improve battery life and charging efficiency of high capacity batteries that may not be deeply discharged on a regular basis may learn driving habits automatically and/or with user input and select an ending state-of-charge (SOC) to limit battery charging to less than maximum capacity based on current and/or anticipated ambient temperature and battery health of life (HOL). An expected vehicle travel distance before the next charge may be learned or determined based on vehicle or user inputs. An ending SOC based on battery temperature, a delta SOC to meet propulsive energy for the expected travel distance, cycling effect (depth of discharge) on battery HOL for a given delta SOC, and/or battery working efficiency may be used to control charging of the vehicle battery.
US11967680B2
A gel polymer electrolyte composition, a secondary battery including the same, and a manufacturing method of a secondary battery are disclosed. Advantages of the disclosed aspects include increasing process efficiency by reducing the curing time of a gel polymer electrolyte while preventing leakage of an electrolyte.
US11967676B2
Provided herein are compositions which are useful as electrolytes and/or catholytes in an electrochemical cell that includes a solid-state separator and a lithium-metal anode.
US11967674B2
An electrochemical device, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator and an electrolyte. The electrolyte includes a nitrile compound, and the mass percentage of the nitrile compound in the electrolyte is A %; the negative electrode includes a current collector, wherein the current collector comprises a first region and a second region; the first region is provided with a negative electrode active substance layer; the second region does not comprise a negative electrode active substance layer; the area of the second region is B % of the surface area of the current collector; and A×B<600.
US11967673B2
A method for the manufacturing of battery packs includes vertically stacking a plurality of battery cells to create a stack of battery cells, applying a compressive force on the stack of battery cells using a plurality of pneumatic cylinders, inserting a first portion of the compressed stack of battery cells into a container prior to releasing any of the plurality of pneumatic cylinders, engaging each of the battery cells of the plurality of battery cells with an end cap of the container, wherein the end cap is configured to maintain a predetermined arrangement of the plurality of battery cells, and releasing the first portion of the stack of battery cells from a first portion of the plurality of pneumatic cylinders while a second portion of the stack of battery cells remains compressed a second portion of the plurality of pneumatic cylinders.
US11967672B1
A device for assembly and disassembly is provided. The device includes a support assembly, a bearing assembly, and a latching assembly. The support assembly includes a first support member and a locking assembly, the locking assembly includes a locking driver and a locking connection structure, and the locking connection structure is configured to support a negative pressure assembly. The latching assembly includes a first connection structure, a second connection structure, and a movable connection structure, wherein the first connection structure is latched with the second connection structure through the movable connection structure. The locking connection structure is separated from the negative pressure assembly while the movable connection structure is latched with the second connection structure, or the locking connection structure is connected to the negative pressure assembly while the movable connection structure is unlatched from the second connection structure.
US11967670B2
A display device includes a first pixel and a second pixel adjacent to each other in a first direction, first voltage wires disposed in the first pixel and the second pixel in a second direction, a second wire disposed along a boundary between the first pixel and the second pixel in the second direction, first electrodes disposed between the first voltage wires and the second wire in the first pixel an the second pixel, a second electrode disposed between and spaced apart from the first electrodes in the first pixel and the second pixel, and light-emitting elements disposed at each of the first pixel and the second pixel and disposed on the first electrodes and the second electrode, wherein the first voltage wires, the first electrodes, and the light-emitting elements are symmetric with respect to the second wire.
US11967662B2
A backside emitter solar cell structure having a heterojunction, and a method and a device for producing the same. A backside intrinsic layer is first formed on the back side of the substrate, then a frontside intrinsic layer and a frontside doping layer are formed on the front side of the substrate, and finally a backside doping layer is formed on the back side of the substrate.
US11967654B2
Distributed maximum power point tracking systems, structures, and processes are provided for power generation structures, such as for but not limited to a solar panel arrays. In an exemplary solar panel string structure, distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) modules are provided, such as integrated into or retrofitted for each solar panel. The DMPPT modules provide panel level control for startup, operation, monitoring, and shutdown, and further provide flexible design and operation for strings of multiple panels. The strings are typically linked in parallel to a combiner box, and then toward and enhanced inverter module, which is typically connected to a power grid. Enhanced inverters are controllable either locally or remotely, wherein system status is readily determined, and operation of one or more sections of the system are readily controlled. The system provides increased operation time, and increased power production and efficiency, over a wide range of operating conditions.
US11967653B2
A high efficiency solar power system combining photovoltaic sources of power (1) can be converted by a base phase DC-DC photovoltaic converter (6) and an altered phase DC-DC photovoltaic converter (8) that have outputs combined through low energy storage combiner circuitry (9). The converters can be synchronously controlled through a synchronous phase control (11) that synchronously operates switches to provide a conversion combined photovoltaic DC output (10). Converters can be provided for individual source conversion or phased operational modes, the latter presenting a combined low photovoltaic energy storage DC-DC photovoltaic converter (15) at string or individual panel levels.
US11967649B2
The semiconductor device includes a first conductor and a second conductor; a first insulator to a third insulator; and a first oxide to a third oxide. The first conductor is disposed to be exposed from a top surface of the first insulator. The first oxide is disposed over the first insulator and the first conductor. A first opening reaching the first conductor is provided in the first oxide. The second oxide is disposed over the first oxide. The second oxide comprises a first region, a second region, and a third region positioned between the first region and the second region. The third oxide is disposed over the second oxide. The second insulator is disposed over the third oxide. The second conductor is disposed over the second insulator. The third insulator is disposed to cover the first region and the second region and to be in contact with the top surface of the first insulator.
US11967647B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming source/drain contact openings extending through at least one dielectric layer to expose source/drain contact regions of source/drain structures. The method further includes forming conductive plugs in the source/drain contact openings. The method further includes depositing a light blocking layer over the conductive plugs and the at least one dielectric layer. The method further includes etching the light blocking layer to expose the conductive plugs. The method further includes directing a laser irradiation to the conductive plugs and the light blocking layer. The laser irradiation is configured to activate dopants in the source/drain contact regions.
US11967643B2
A semiconductor is disclosed that may include: a first drift region; a base region arranged on the first semiconductor layer; a source region arranged on the base region; a main electrode electrically connected to the source region; and a gate electrode structure that penetrates the source region and base region and reaches the first drift region, wherein the gate electrode structure comprises: a gate electrode; and an insulating material that insulates the gate electrode from the first drift region and the base region; and a field plate structure reaching the first drift region deeper than the gate electrode structure, wherein the field plate structure comprises: a field plate; a resistive part that electrically connects the main electrode to the field plate; and an insulating material that insulates the field plate and the resistive part section from the first drift region and the base region.
US11967642B2
A semiconductor structure includes a buffer layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer, a doped compound semiconductor layer, and a composition gradient layer. The buffer layer is disposed on a substrate, the channel layer is disposed on the buffer layer, the barrier layer is disposed on the channel layer, the doped compound semiconductor layer is disposed on the barrier layer, and the composition gradient layer is disposed between the barrier layer and the doped compound semiconductor layer. The barrier layer and the composition gradient layer include a same group III element and a same group V element, and the atomic percentage of the same group III element in the composition gradient layer is gradually increased in the direction from the barrier layer to the doped compound semiconductor layer. A high electron mobility transistor and a fabrication method thereof are also provided.
US11967641B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, first to third nitride regions, and first and second insulating films. The first nitride region includes Alx1Ga1−x1N, and includes first and second partial regions, a third partial region between the first and second partial regions, a fourth partial region between the first and third partial regions, and a fifth partial region between the third and second partial regions. The first nitride region includes first to fifth partial regions. The second nitride region includes Alx2Ga1−x2N, and sixth and seventh partial regions. At least a portion of the third electrode is between the sixth and seventh partial regions. The first insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes first and second insulating regions. The third nitride region includes Alx3Ga1−x3N, and first to seventh portions. The second insulating film includes silicon and oxygen and includes third to seventh insulating regions.
US11967624B2
Abnormal generation of heat of a power MOSFET is detected to improve the reliability of a semiconductor device. As its means, in a power MOSFET having a drain electrode on the side of a back surface of a semiconductor substrate and a source pad on the side of a main surface of the semiconductor substrate, two gate pads electrically connected to a gate pad connected to a gate electrode of the power MOSFET are formed on the side of the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. Further, there is provided a voltmeter connected in parallel with each of two current paths which connect the two gate pads and a gate driver.
US11967623B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising gate stack structures on a substrate, separation structures extending in a first direction on the substrate and separating the gate stack structures, and vertical structures penetrating the gate stack structures. Each gate stack structure includes cell dielectric layers and electrodes including upper electrodes, a barrier layer extending between the electrodes and the cell dielectric layers, a separation dielectric pattern extending in the first direction and penetrating the upper electrodes to separate each upper electrode into pieces that are spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and capping patterns between the separation dielectric pattern and the upper electrodes. The capping patterns are on sidewalls of each upper electrode and spaced apart from each other in a third direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. Each capping pattern is on a sidewall of the barrier layer.
US11967619B2
Laterally-gated transistors and lateral Schottky diodes are disclosed. The FET includes a substrate, source and drain electrodes, channel, a gate electrode structure, and a dielectric layer. The gate electrode structure includes an electrode in contact with the channel and a lateral field plate adjacent to the electrode. The dielectric layer is disposed between the lateral field plate and the channel. The lateral field plate contacts the dielectric layer and to modulate an electric field proximal to the gate electrode proximal to the drain or source electrodes. Also disclosed is a gate electrode structure with lateral field plates symmetrically disposed relative to the gate electrode. Also disclosed in a substrate with dielectric structures buried in the substrate remote from the gate electrode structure. A lateral Schottky diode having an anode structure includes an anode (A), cathodes (C) and lateral field plates located between the anode and the cathodes.
US11967618B2
A crystalline oxide semiconductor film with an enhanced electrical property is provided. By use of a mist CVD apparatus, a crystalline oxide semiconductor film with a corundum structure and a principal plane that is an a-plane or an m-plane was obtained on a crystalline substrate by atomizing a raw-material solution containing a dopant that is an n-type dopant to obtain atomized droplets, carrying the atomized droplets by carrier gas onto the crystalline substrate that is an a-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate or an m-plane corundum-structured crystalline substrate placed in a film-formation chamber, and the atomized droplets were thermally reacted to form the crystalline oxide semiconductor film on the crystalline substrate.
US11967617B2
A nitride semiconductor substrate including a group III nitride semiconductor crystal and having a main surface, wherein a low index crystal plane is (0001) plane curved in a concave spherical shape to the main surface, and the off-angle (θm, θa) at a position (x, y) in the main surface approximated by x representing a coordinate in a direction along <1-100> axis, y is a coordinate in a direction along <11-20> axis, (0, 0) represents a coordinate (x, y) of the center, θm represents a direction component along <1-100> axis in an off-angle of <0001> axis with respect to a normal, θa represents a direction component along <11-20> axis in the off-angle, (M1, A1) represents a rate of change in the off-angle (θm, θa) with respect to the position (x, y) in the main surface, and (M2, A2) represents the off-angle (θm, θa) at the center.
US11967616B2
Disclosed is a vertical silicon carbide power MOSFET with a 4H-SiC substrate of n+-type as drain and a 4H-Si C epilayer of n−-type, epitaxially grown on the 4H-SiC substrate acting as drift region and a source region of p++-type, a well region of p-type, a channel region of p-type and a contact region of n++-type implanted into the drift region and a metal gate insulated from the source and drift region by a gate-oxide. A high mobility layer with a vertical thickness in a range 0.1 nm to 50 nm exemplarily in the range of 0.5 nm to 10 nm is provided at the interface between the 4H-SiC epilayer and the gate-oxide.
US11967609B2
A surface mount component is disclosed including an electrically insulating beam that is thermally conductive. The electrically insulating beam has a first end and a second end that is opposite the first end. The surface mount component includes a thin-film component formed on the electrically insulating beam adjacent the first end of the electrically insulating beam. A heat sink terminal is formed on the electrically insulating beam adjacent a second end of the electrically insulating beam. In some embodiments, the thin-film component has an area power capacity of greater than about 0.17 W/mm2 at about 28 GHz.
US11967607B2
A light emitting device may include first electrodes and second electrodes that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction, light emitting elements electrically connected between adjacent first and second electrodes among the first and the second electrodes, and a third electrode spaced apart from the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The third electrode may be electrically separated from the first electrodes and the second electrodes.
US11967599B2
An array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate provided in the embodiments of the present application includes: a base including a flat portion and a recess portion so that the base includes a concave hole corresponding to the bending area; a semiconductor component layer provided on the base and including a plurality of interlayer insulation layers and a plurality of metal layers, the interlayer insulation layers being not aligned horizontally in the peripheral area and the wire switching area to form a stepped hole including a first hole and a second hole, wherein a third metal layer of the metal layers extends along a sidewall and a bottom of the stepped hole and is electrically connected to a first metal layer of the metal layers.
US11967597B2
An electronic device, including an array substrate, a pad portion disposed on the array substrate, and an integrated circuit disposed on the pad portion and comprising a bump portion. The pad portion includes a first sub-pad unit including a first pad having an inclined shape and a second sub-pad unit including a second pad having an inclined shape. The first pad and the second pad are symmetrically arranged with respect to an imaginary line that divides the pad portion. The pad portion is electrically connected with the bump portion.
US11967596B2
An integrated circuit includes a first-voltage power rail and a second-voltage power rail in a first connection layer, and includes a first-voltage underlayer power rail and a second-voltage underlayer power rail below the first connection layer. Each of the first-voltage and second-voltage power rails extends in a second direction that is perpendicular to a first direction. Each of the first-voltage and second-voltage underlayer power rails extends in the first direction. The integrated circuit includes a first via-connector connecting the first-voltage power rail with the first-voltage underlayer power rail, and a second via-connector connecting the second-voltage power rail with the second-voltage underlayer power rail.
US11967595B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate, a first nanowire, a second nanowire, a first gate insulating layer, a second gate insulating layer, a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first gate insulating layer may be along a periphery of the first nanowire. The second gate insulating layer may be along a periphery of the second nanowire. The first metal layer may be on a top surface of the first gate insulating layer along the periphery of the first nanowire. The first metal layer may have a first crystal grain size. The second metal layer may be on a top surface of the second gate insulating layer along the periphery of the second nanowire. The second metal layer may have a second crystal grain size different from the first crystal grain size.
US11967590B2
A display device includes a substrate including pixels, a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other, light emitting elements disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, an insulation layer disposed on the light emitting elements, a first bank overlapping the first electrode and the second electrode, a first area overlapping the first bank, and a second area excluding the first area, wherein the insulation layer includes an opening exposing the first area.
US11967582B2
A multi-chip device includes a first material within a substrate. The first material has a first coefficient of thermal expansion different than a second coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate. A first chip overlies a first portion of the first material and a first portion of the substrate. A second chip overlies a second portion of the first material and a second portion of the substrate. The first material is between the first portion of the substrate and the second portion of the substrate.
US11967581B2
A package structure includes a lower substrate, substrate connection terminals on the lower substrate, a semiconductor package on the substrate connection terminals, the semiconductor package including a package substrate and a first encapsulant covering the package substrate, first underfills between the lower substrate and the semiconductor package, the first underfills covering corner portions of the semiconductor package, as viewed in a plan view, and covering at least one of the substrate connection terminals, and a second underfill between the lower substrate and the semiconductor package, the second underfill covering a side surface of the semiconductor package in a plan view.
US11967579B2
A method for forming a package structure is provided. The method includes etching a top surface of a substrate to form a cavity. The substrate includes thermal vias directly under a bottom surface of the cavity. The method also includes forming at least one first electronic device in the cavity of the substrate. The first electronic device is thermally coupled to the thermal vias. The method further includes forming an encapsulating material in the cavity, so that the encapsulating material extends along sidewalls of the first electronic device and covers a surface of the first electronic device opposite the bottom surface of the cavity. In Addition, the method includes forming an insulating layer having an RDL structure over the encapsulating material. The RDL structure is electrically connected to the first electronic device.
US11967576B2
Methods of reflowing electrically conductive elements on a wafer may involve directing a laser beam toward a region of a surface of a wafer supported on a film of a film frame to reflow at least one electrically conductive element on the surface of the wafer. In some embodiments, the wafer may be detached from a carrier substrate and be secured to the film frame before laser reflow. Apparatus for performing the methods, and methods of repairing previously reflowed conductive elements on a wafer are also disclosed.
US11967574B2
A memory device including a first structure; and a second structure on the first structure, wherein the first structure includes a first substrate; a peripheral circuit on the first substrate; a first insulating layer covering the first substrate and the peripheral circuit; and a first bonding pad on the first insulating layer, the second structure includes a second substrate; a memory cell array on a first surface of the second substrate; a second insulating layer covering the first surface of the second substrate and the memory cell array; a conductive pattern at least partially recessed from a second surface of the second substrate; and a second bonding pad on the second insulating layer, the first bonding pad is in contact with the second bonding pad, and the conductive pattern is spaced apart from the second insulating layer.
US11967563B2
A Fan-Out package having a main die and a dummy die side-by-side is provided. A molding material is formed along sidewalls of the main die and the dummy die, and a redistribution layer having a plurality of vias and conductive lines is positioned over the main die and the dummy die, where the plurality of vias and the conductive lines are electrically connected to connectors of the main die.
US11967554B2
Semiconductor devices includes a first interlayer insulating layer, a lower interconnection line in the first interlayer insulating layer, an etch stop layer on the first interlayer insulating layer and the lower interconnection line, a second interlayer insulating layer on the etch stop layer, and an upper interconnection line in the second interlayer insulating layer. The upper interconnection line includes a via portion extending through the etch stop layer and contacting the lower interconnection line. The via portion includes a barrier pattern and a conductive pattern. The barrier pattern includes a first barrier layer between the conductive pattern and the second interlayer insulating layer, and a second barrier layer between the conductive pattern and the lower interconnection line. A resistivity of the first barrier layer is greater than that of the second barrier layer. A nitrogen concentration of the first barrier layer is greater than that of the second barrier layer.
US11967552B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor interconnect structure includes forming a via in a dielectric layer, depositing a ruthenium-containing conductive layer over a top surface of the via and a top surface of the dielectric layer, and patterning the ruthenium-containing conductive layer to form a conductive line over the top surface of the via, where a thickness of the conductive line is less than a thickness of the via.
US11967549B2
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution substrate having first and second surfaces opposed to each other, and including an insulation member, a plurality of redistribution layers on different levels in the insulation member, and a redistribution via having a shape narrowing from the second surface toward the first surface in a first direction; a plurality of UBM layers, each including a UBM pad on the first surface of the redistribution substrate, and a UBM via having a shape narrowing in a second direction, opposite to the first direction; and at least one semiconductor chip on the second surface of the redistribution substrate, and having a plurality of contact pads electrically connected to the redistribution layer adjacent to the second surface among the plurality of redistribution layers.
US11967539B2
A heat dissipation sheet includes a first sheet composed of a plurality of first carbon nanotubes, and a second sheet composed of a plurality of second carbon nanotubes, wherein the first sheet and the second sheet are coupled in a stacked state, and the first carbon nanotubes and the second carbon nanotubes are different in an amount of deformation when pressure is applied.
US11967534B2
A technique capable of coping with change in the environment for each of the substrate placing surfaces is provided. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: (a) supplying a gas to a process vessel through branch pipes while substrates are placed on substrate placing surfaces arranged in the process vessel, respectively; (b) detecting at least one among: information of a component corresponding to each of the substrate placing surfaces; and an amount of the gas supplied to each of the branch pipes; (c) determining a state level of each of the substrate placing surfaces based on the detected information; and (d) selecting a substrate placing surface among the substrate placing surfaces to which a substrate subsequently loaded into the process vessel is to be transferred next according to the state level of each of the substrate placing surfaces.
US11967530B2
Provided is a method for producing a GaN layered substrate, comprising the steps of: subjecting a C-plane sapphire substrate 11 having an off-angle of 0.5° to 5° to a high-temperature nitriding treatment at 800° C. to 1,000° C. to carry out a surface treatment of the C-plane sapphire substrate; carrying out epitaxial growth of GaN on the surface of the surface-treated C-plane sapphire substrate 11 to produce a GaN film carrier having a surface of an N polar face; forming an ion implantation region 13ion by carrying out ion implantation on the GaN film 13; laminating and joining a support substrate 12 with the GaN film-side surface of the ion-implanted GaN film carrier; and separating at the ion-implanted region 13ion in the GaN film 13 to transfer a GaN thin film 13a onto the support substrate 12, to produce a GaN layered substrate 10 having, on the support substrate 12, a GaN thin film 13a having a surface of a Ga polar face. A GaN layered substrate having a good crystallinity and a surface of a Ga face is obtained by a single transfer process.
US11967522B2
A method includes depositing an etch stop layer over a first conductive feature, performing a first treatment to amorphize the etch stop layer, depositing a dielectric layer over the etch stop layer, etching the dielectric layer to form an opening, etching-through the etch stop layer to extend the opening into the etch stop layer, and filling the opening with a conductive material to form a second conductive feature.
US11967514B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling a process are provided. An apparatus for controlling a process includes a processor, and a memory for storing a plurality of instructions executed by the processor, in which the plurality of instructions include an instruction for determining deviation tendency of a seating point of a substrate with respect to a seating center point of a substrate support based on a seating point data created by accumulating the seating points of the substrate seated on the substrate support, an instruction for determining an alarm level according to the determined deviation tendency, and an instruction for performing post-processing according to the determined alarm level, in which the seating point data includes a change of the seating point over time.
US11967513B2
Described herein is a technique capable of reducing an amount of moisture in a low temperature region in a substrate processing apparatus provided with a transfer chamber. According to one aspect of the technique, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a process chamber provided with a heater; a load lock chamber; a transfer chamber provided between the process chamber and the load lock chamber and including a first region provided adjacent to the process chamber and a second region provided more adjacent to the load lock chamber than the first region and whose temperature is lower than a temperature of the first region; a detector capable of detecting an amount of moisture in the transfer chamber; and an inert gas supplier capable of supplying an inert gas toward the second region in the transfer chamber.
US11967512B2
Described herein is a technique capable of reducing a thermal damage to a furnace opening structure when processing a substrate at a high temperature. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a reaction tube provided with a furnace opening; heaters provided respectively in a plurality of zones arranged along a tube axis direction; temperature sensors respectively corresponding to the zones; a temperature controller configured to control electric power based on temperature data obtained by the temperature sensors, wherein the temperature controller is configured to, when the substrates are subject to a heat treatment process by the heaters, control the electric power supplied to the heaters such that temperatures of upper heaters about as high as the substrates reach predetermined temperatures, and that a temperature gradient is formed in lower zones lower than the substrates such that a temperature decreases toward the furnace opening.
US11967508B2
The present invention relates to a damper control system and a damper control method for controlling an opening degree of an exhaust damper connected to an exhaust duct. The damper control system (300) includes an exhaust damper (310), a first pressure sensor (311), and a controller (315) configured to control an opening degree of the exhaust damper (310). The controller (315) is configured to switch the opening degree of the exhaust damper (310) to an opening degree smaller than a full opening on condition that a shutter (217) is opened.
US11967505B2
A method for manufacturing a sputtering target with which an oxide semiconductor film with a small amount of defects can be formed is provided. Alternatively, an oxide semiconductor film with a small amount of defects is formed. A method for manufacturing a sputtering target is provided, which includes the steps of: forming a polycrystalline In-M-Zn oxide (M represents a metal chosen among aluminum, titanium, gallium, yttrium, zirconium, lanthanum, cesium, neodymium, and hafnium) powder by mixing, sintering, and grinding indium oxide, an oxide of the metal, and zinc oxide; forming a mixture by mixing the polycrystalline In-M-Zn oxide powder and a zinc oxide powder; forming a compact by compacting the mixture; and sintering the compact.
US11967501B2
Described herein is a technique capable of improving a film uniformity on a surface of a substrate and a film uniformity among a plurality of substrates including the substrate. According to one aspect thereof, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a substrate retainer including: a product wafer support region, an upper dummy wafer support region and a lower dummy wafer support region; a process chamber in which the substrate retainer is accommodated; a first, a second and a third gas supplier; and an exhaust system. Each of the first gas and the third gas supplier includes a vertically extending nozzle with holes, wherein an upper of an uppermost hole and a lower end of a lowermost hole are arranged corresponding to an uppermost and a lowermost dummy wafer, respectively. The second gas supplier includes a nozzle with holes or a slit.
US11967500B2
There is provided a process of forming a film containing a metal element, an additional element different from the metal element and at least one of nitrogen and carbon on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing: (a) supplying a first precursor gas containing the metal element and a second precursor gas containing the additional element to the substrate so that supply periods of the first precursor gas and the second precursor gas at least partially overlap with each other; and (b) supplying a reaction gas containing the at least one of nitrogen and carbon to the substrate.
US11967499B2
There is provided a technique that includes (a) forming a first film having a first thickness on an underlayer by supplying a first process gas not including oxidizing gas to a substrate, wherein the first film contains silicon, carbon, and nitrogen and does not contain oxygen, and the underlayer is exposed on a surface of the substrate and is at least one selected from the group of a conductive metal-element-containing film and a nitride film; and (b) forming a second film having a second thickness larger than the first thickness on the first film by supplying a second process gas including oxidizing gas to the substrate, wherein the second film contains silicon, oxygen, and nitrogen, and wherein in (b), oxygen atoms derived from the oxidizing gas and diffuse from a surface of the first film toward the underlayer are absorbed by the first film and the first film is modified.
US11967493B2
It is difficult for a Cr—Si-based sintered body composed of chromium silicide (CrSi2) and silicon (Si) to have high strength. Provided is a Cr—Si-based sintered body including Cr (chromium) and silicon (Si), in which the crystal structure attributed by X-ray diffraction is composed of chromium silicide (CrSi2) and silicon (Si), a CrSi2 phase is present at 60 wt % or more in a bulk, a density of the sintered body is 95% or more, and an average grain size of the CrSi2 phase is 60 μm or less.
US11967490B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus that includes a process chamber in which at least one substrate is processed; a gas supplier configured to supply a gas; and a buffer structure. The buffer structure includes at least two plasma generation regions in which gas is converted into plasma by a pair of electrodes connected to a high-frequency power supply and an electrode to be grounded, a first gas supply port that supplies a gas generated in a first plasma generation region among the at least two plasma generation regions, and a second gas supply port that supplies a gas generated in a second plasma generation region among the at least two plasma generation regions.
US11967488B2
A system and method for treating a deposition reactor are disclosed. The system and method remove or mitigate formation of residue in a gas-phase reactor used to deposit doped metal films, such as aluminum-doped titanium carbide films or aluminum-doped tantalum carbide films. The method includes a step of exposing a reaction chamber to a treatment reactant that mitigates formation of species that lead to residue formation.
US11967482B2
Deflection of a secondary beam, and astigmatism correction of a primary beam or of the secondary beam are carried out using a multi-pole electromagnetic deflector which deflects the path of the secondary beam toward a detector.
US11967481B2
An x-ray window can include an adhesive layer sandwiched between and providing a hermetic seal between a thin film and a housing. The adhesive layer can include liquid crystal polymer. The liquid crystal polymer can be opaque, gas-tight, made of low atomic number elements, able to withstand high temperature, low outgassing, low leakage, able to relieve stress in the x-ray window thin film, capable of bonding to many different materials, or combinations thereof.
US11967471B2
The present disclosure aims to provide an electrical contact to which a low boiling point metal is added, the electrical contact being able secure both mechanical strength and conductivity at the same time. The electrical contact according to the present disclosure includes a base material made of Cu, particles of a high melting point substance dispersed in the base material, the particles being made of at least one of a high melting point metal or a carbide of the high melting point metal, and Te and Ti dispersed in the base material, wherein, the Te of 3.5 to 14.5 mass % is added where the total is 100 mass %, and Ti/Te is 0.12 to 0.38.
US11967469B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic component that includes a substrate, a planarizing layer covering a surface of the substrate, a first conductive layer formed on the planarizing layer and having a lower electrode, a dielectric film made of a material different from that of the planarizing layer and covering the planarizing layer and first conductive layer, an upper electrode laminated on the lower electrode through the dielectric film, and a first insulating layer covering the first conductive layer, dielectric film, and upper electrode. An outer periphery of the first insulating layer directly contacts the planarizing layer without an intervention of the dielectric film.
US11967466B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, and a first internal electrode and a second internal electrode disposed to be alternately stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; a first external electrode including a first electrode layer, a first conductive layer, and a first metal layer; a second external electrode including a second electrode layer, a second conductive layer, and a second metal layer; and a protective layer disposed on the ceramic body, the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer, wherein a sum of through areas of the through portions disposed on the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer among the protective layers may be 50% or more of a sum of surface areas of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer.
US11967465B2
A film capacitor for positioning at a direct current (DC) terminal at a front end of an inverter having a plurality of switching elements, can include a first member; and a second member surrounding the first member, in which a second dielectric resistance of the second member is higher than a first dielectric resistance of the first member.
US11967457B2
A coil forming apparatus includes: a coil winding jig that winds the belt-shaped coil, the coil winding jig including a plurality of comb-shaped grooves on an outer periphery thereof; a coil conveying mechanism that pivotally conveys the belt-shaped coil along at least a portion of the outer periphery of the coil winding jig; and guide members guide the belt-shaped coil in an arc shape while being in contact with the side ends. The guide members guide the belt-shaped coil so as to be in an arc shape having a diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the coil winding jig in a second half portion of the belt-shaped coil upon pivot conveying, and allow the plurality of straight portions to be inserted into a respective one of the plurality of comb-shaped grooves of the coil winding jig.
US11967451B2
An electronic device has a primary coil 10; a secondary coil 20 disposed to face the primary coil 10; a primary-side electronic element 110 electrically connected to the primary coil 10; and a secondary-side electronic element 210 electrically connected to the secondary coil 20. The primary coil 10 has a primary-side first coil 10a that is provided on another side of the secondary coil 20, and a primary-side second coil 10b that is provided on one side of the primary-side first coil 10a. A connecting part 19 connecting the primary-side first coil 10a and the primary-side second coil 10b is provided and passes through a space of the secondary coil 20.
US11967449B2
A transformer tank for a shell type transformer includes a wall, the wall surrounding a tank interior, a clamping arrangement for exerting a clamping force on a magnetic core of the shell type transformer. The clamping arrangement includes a beam fixed on the wall, and a plunger, the plunger including a first axial end configured to exert the clamping force on the magnetic core. The plunger is movable with respect to the beam along its longitudinal axis and a value of the clamping force is settable depending on the position of the plunger relative to the beam.
US11967442B2
A skin layer of a superconducting tape has a woven mesh structure and is disposed on a surface of a superconducting tape. The skin layer of a superconducting tape solves the problem where a vapor layer generated when a superconductor is in a normal resistive state greatly reduces the efficiency of a heat exchange between the superconductor and liquid nitrogen. Further provided are the superconducting tape and a superconducting coil.
US11967433B1
A method and system for assessing the risk of a cardiac event in a patient which utilizes real-time and historical data from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems is described. A risk of a cardiac event is estimated, in real-time or near-real-time, for a patient who is currently in a hospital emergency department. Batch data for one or more past patients is extracted from EMRs into a machine learning model. Using the machine learning model, a risk level for one or more past patients is calculated. A real-time database is constructed from streams of real-time Health Level 7 (HL7) clinical data, wherein at least one stream of real-time HL7 data is associated with the current patient, and a risk prediction is estimated by joining the calculated risk level for the patient in the machine learning model with the real-time HL7 clinical data from the patient.
US11967427B2
Systems and methods providing compatibility between legacy electronic record systems are disclosed. Appliances are in two-way electronic communication with legacy electronic records systems and a gateway server which is in electronic communication with one of the legacy electronic records systems. Electronic medical records data is converted between legacy formats for the legacy systems and a common format for transmission between the appliances and the gateway server.
US11967416B2
Approaches for analyzing an input image and providing one or more outputs related to the input image are provided. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, an input image may be received and analyzed, using a trained machine learning model, to generate an inference related to the image. Based, at least in part, upon the generated inference, one or more reports related to the inference can be generated and provided for presentation on a user device. A user can interact with the report in a conversational manner with the computer system to generate additional reports or insights related to the input image.
US11967414B2
This application relates to an image recognition model training method, an image recognition method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: obtaining a to-be-recognized image; extracting image feature information of the to-be-recognized image; and obtaining a lesion category recognition result of the to-be-recognized image by using the image feature information of the to-be-recognized image as an input parameter of a preset image recognition model, the image recognition model being trained by using a training image sample set comprising at least one strong-label training image sample, to determine the lesion category recognition result; and the strong-label training image sample representing an image sample having strong-label information, and the strong-label information comprising at least annotation information of a lesion category and a lesion position in the strong-label training image sample. According to the lesion position, image feature information of a specific lesion category may be more accurately positioned, thereby improving reliability and accuracy.
US11967405B2
A process for configuring an account for a desktop application uses a central data processing facility to configure a release for a trading partner, which release includes the preferred method of receiving documents and preferred format for the content; configures an intake download by storing settings for how to export and import documents; configures intake rules to determine how to route received documents; installs a Desktop from the web portal onto a local data processing system; and automatically synchronizing the Desktop to the portal. A process for ensuring the secure delivery of information about a patient sends a verification fax sheet to a fax number of a recipient instructing the recipient to go to a website; validates the recipient after the recipient has visited the website; tests the recipient at the website using questions specific to the patient; and sends the confidential information to the fax number if the recipient passes the test.
US11967399B2
A method and a system for calculating tumor neoantigen burden (TNB) are provided. The method includes: step S1: processing a normal sample and a tumor sample, sequencing a specific region and detecting somatic mutations in the sample; step S2: annotating and filtering the somatic mutations, and translating to obtain mutant peptide sequences of a patient; step S3: filtering the mutant peptide sequences to obtain neopeptide sequences based on a proteome of the normal sample; step S4, performing a human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing analysis based on alignment data of the normal sample to obtain HLA genotypes of the sample; step S5, predicting binding affinities between the neopeptide sequences and the HLA genotypes to obtain specific neoantigens of the sample, and performing a weighted scoring on each of the specific neoantigens and calculating the TNB of the sample.
US11967394B2
Memory arrays employing flying bit lines to increase effective bit line length for supporting higher performance, increased memory density, and related methods. To increase memory density, the memory array has a first memory sub-bank and one or more second memory sub-banks. The first memory sub-bank includes a first bit line(s) for each of its memory column circuits. To avoid the need to extend the length of the first bit lines to be coupled to the second memory bit cells in the second memory sub-bank, each memory sub-bank has its own dedicated first and second bit lines coupling their respective memory bit cells to access circuitry. The second bit lines effectively “fly” independent of the first bit lines of the first memory sub-bank. The first bit lines of the first memory sub-bank do not have to be extended in length to provide bit lines for the second memory sub-bank.
US11967393B2
A semiconductor device includes a clock gating circuit and a control circuit. The clock gating circuit outputs a gated clock signal based on a clock signal. Transitions of the clock signal are output in the gated clock signal in response to a clock enable signal having an enable value and are disabled from being output in the gated clock signal in response to the clock enable signal having a disable value. The control circuit includes a first portion that operates based on the clock signal. The first portion sets the clock enable signal to the disable value in response to a disable control and sets the clock enable signal to the enable value in response to a wakeup control. The control circuit includes a second portion that operates based on the gated clock signal. The second portion provides the disable control to the first portion during an operation.
US11967388B2
Technology is disclosed herein for detecting grown bad blocks in a non-volatile storage system. A stress test may accelerate stressful conditions on the memory cells and thereby provide for early detection of grown bad blocks. The stress test may include applying a program voltage to a selected word line and a stress voltage that is less than a nominal boosting voltage to a word line adjacent one side of the selected word line. The combination of the program voltage and the stress voltage may generate an e-field that is stronger than an e-field that would be generated in a normal program operation, thereby accelerating the stress on the memory cells. The stress test mat further include programming all of the memory cells to a relatively high threshold voltage, which may create additional stress on the memory cells.
US11967378B2
The application discloses an analog content addressable memory (CAM) device, an analog CAM cell and a method for data searching and comparing thereof. The CAM cell includes: a first memory cell and a second memory cell coupled to each other, wherein the analog CAM cell stores analog storage data which is corresponding to a match range, the match range is determined based on first and second threshold voltages of the analog CAM cell; an analog search data is converted into first and second analog search voltages; the first and the second memory cells receive the first and the second analog search voltages; and the analog CAM memory cell generates a memory cell current, or the analog CAM memory cell keeps or discharges a match line voltage on a match line coupled to the analog CAM memory cell.
US11967365B2
Various implementations described herein are related to a device having a memory cell with logic that is configured to store data and passgates that are configured to access the data stored in the logic. The device may include a first number of input-output ports that are time-multiplexed with the passgates so as to increase the first number of input-output ports to a second number of input-output ports that is greater than the first number of input-output ports.
US11967364B2
Described are memory modules that support different error detection and correction (EDC) schemes in both single- and multiple-module memory systems. The memory modules are width configurable and support the different EDC schemes for relatively wide and narrow module data widths. Data buffers on the modules support the half-width and full-width modes, and also support time-division-multiplexing to access additional memory components on each module in support of enhanced EDC.
US11967329B2
An example audio decoding device includes a memory configured to store at least a portion of a coded audio bitstream; and one or more processors configured to: decode, based on the coded audio bitstream, a representation of a soundfield; decode, based on the coded audio bitstream, a syntax element indicating a selection of either a head-related transfer function (HRTF) or a binaural room impulse response (BRIR); and render, using the selected HRTF or BRIR, speaker feeds from the soundfield.
US11967322B2
A server is provided. The server includes a communication circuitry, and at least one processor operatively connected with the communication circuitry. The at least one processor may be configured to, in response to traffic of a plurality of speeches to wake up a voice assistant feature, received within a preset period being a preset value or more, generate a plurality of clusters based on similarities between the plurality of speeches, and determine whether to respond to each of speeches included in each of the plurality of clusters based on similarities between the speeches included in each of the plurality of clusters.
US11967320B2
A process of a voice control method with a cloud server and a terminal device. The voice control method includes: a terminal device receiving voice information; the terminal device querying a control instruction corresponding to the voice information from a local voice database; when the control instruction corresponding to the voice information is not queried in the local voice database, the terminal device uploading the voice information to a cloud server; the cloud server parsing the control instruction corresponding to the voice information; when the control instruction corresponding to the voice information is parsed, the cloud server sending the control instruction to the terminal device; and the terminal device receiving the control instruction, and performing a corresponding operation on the basis of control instruction.
US11967313B2
Disclosed is a system comprising a memory storing a first natural language understanding model. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to: receive a request for generating a second natural language understanding model in a second language different from the first language; translate the first set of utterances into a second set of utterances in the second language; provide a second set of tags or intents to the second set of utterances; provide a user interface for receiving at least one input for modifying from among the second set of utterances or the second set of tags or intents; generate a third set of utterances and a third set of tags or intents on the basis of the input received through the user interface; and establish the second natural language understanding model including the third set of utterances and the third set of tags or intents.
US11967304B2
A sound pick-up device includes an adaptive filter configured to generate, from a reference signal, an estimated noise signal indicating a component of a noise signal contained in an input signal, a noise elimination signal generator configured to generate a noise elimination signal by subtracting the estimated noise signal from the input signal, a filter coefficient update unit configured to update a filter coefficient of the adaptive filter using the noise elimination signal, and a sample position identification unit configured to identify at least one signal sample position among a plurality of signal sample positions from a signal sample position where the noise elimination signal has a maximum absolute value to a signal sample position where the noise elimination signal has an absolute value that is largest at a predetermined order, in which the filter coefficient update unit updates the filter coefficient at the at least one signal sample position.
US11967303B2
A light-powered, electromechanical chime has a striker assembly (3) inside a bell (1). The striker assembly contains a clapper (6) and electronics, including a light collector (7) and a motor (10.) The striker assembly is suspended by a torsion element (2) attached to the shaft (11) of the motor. Light causes the motor to wind the torsion element, then the unwinding torsion element causes the striker assembly to rotate and the clapper to strike the bell.
US11967301B2
A ligature for a woodwind mouthpiece includes a ligature strap with a carbon fiber portion and at least one flexible strap portion attached to and extending from the carbon fiber portion along one of the side edges. The flexible strap portion is folded over to form two layers of flexible strap, and a pair of rods are disposed between the two layers of one of the flexible strap portions. A closure mechanism passes through the flexible strap portion and each rod.
US11967299B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include actions of receiving image data of an image capturing a scene, receiving data describing one or more entities determined from the scene, the one or more entities being determined from the scene, determining one or more actions based on the one or more entities, each action being provided at least partly based on search results from searching the one or more entities, and providing instructions to display an action interface comprising one or more action elements, each action element being to induce execution of a respective action, the action interface being displayed in a viewfinder.
US11967297B2
A color modulation method for a display includes: obtaining a group of original RGB data of a pixel of an image; calling a display look-up-table (LUT) to determine whether a group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data is present in the display LUT; if in, performing color modulation using the group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data; and if not in, using the group of original RGB data, a plurality of groups of selected RGB data, and a group of RGB mapped data corresponding to each group of selected RGB data in combination with a predetermined interpolation algorithm to calculate the group of RGB mapped data corresponding to the group of original RGB data, and then using the obtained group of RGB mapped data to perform the color modulation.
US11967291B1
A display may have a pixel array such as a liquid crystal pixel array. The pixel array may be illuminated by a backlight unit that includes an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The backlight unit may determine the type of content in the image data. The backlight unit may decide to prioritize either mitigating halo or mitigating clipping based on the type of content. The determination of the type of content in the image data may be used to determine the brightness values for the LEDs in the LED array. If the content is determined to be a first type of content, at least one given LED in the LED array may have a different brightness value than if the content is determined to be a second, different type of content. Classifying content in the image data may be useful in optimizing visible artifacts such as visible halo and clipping.
US11967290B2
An electronic display device has a panel that operates in conjunction with a light-emitting diode (LED) backlight. The device “slopes” or gradually ramps a change in brightness of an LED based on a target brightness value of the LED, a current brightness value of the LED, and temperature at the LED. The device also may limit power to the backlight based on an estimated power consumption of a current row of LEDs of the backlight and power consumption of the other rows of LEDs. The device also may determine a reduced voltage to supply to an LED based on a current to supply to the LED to cause the LED to operate. The device also may send an interrupt to the backlight to block updates to the backlight while image content is written to pixels of the panel. The device further compensates for aging of and temperature at an LED.
US11967288B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight driving circuit and a liquid crystal display device. The backlight driving circuit of the present disclosure adds a light emitting control module to control a light emitting device to turn on or off, thereby controlling a backlight to turn on or off, realizing a function of black insertion frame by frame of the backlight of the liquid crystal display device, satisfying a BFI function requirement. In addition, it improves product quality. In addition, the liquid crystal display device of the present disclosure lights up the backlight after a deflection of a liquid crystal layer is stabilized and displays normally, and therefore, a problem of trailing when displaying images can be decreased.
US11967287B2
A column driver integrated circuit (IC) which drives a first group of pixel lines connected to a first group of pixels included in a display panel, and a second group of pixel lines connected to a second group of pixels included in the display panel, the column driver IC including: a master gray scale voltage generation circuit configured to divide a reference voltage to generate tap voltages, and to generate a first low-power mode gray scale voltage based on at least one of the tap voltages; and a first low-power mode amplifier configured to drive the first group of pixel lines based on the first low-power mode gray scale voltage.
US11967286B2
A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, and includes a shift register unit, a first clock signal line, and a second clock signal line in a peripheral region; a first portion and a second portion of a first connection wire of the display substrate are connected to a first gate electrode of a first control transistor of the shift register unit; an orthographic projection of the first portion on the base substrate is on a side of an orthographic projection of an active layer of the first control transistor on the base substrate away from a display region; and an orthographic projection of the second portion on the base substrate is on a side of the orthographic projection of the active layer of the first control transistor on the base substrate close to the display region.
US11967271B2
A display panel including a substrate; a light-emitting element; and a light-shielding layer. The light-emitting element is located at a side of the substrate and includes a primary light-emitting element and an auxiliary light-emitting element. The light-shielding layer is located at a side of the light-emitting element facing away from the substrate and includes a first opening corresponding to the primary light-emitting element. The auxiliary light-emitting element is arranged at a periphery of the primary light-emitting element.
US11967248B2
A method for foreign language learning between a learner and a terminal, based on video or audio containing foreign language, particularly, to a conversation-based foreign language learning method using a speech recognition function and a TTS function of a terminal, a learner learns a foreign language in a way that: the terminal reads a current learning target sentence to the learner to allow the learner to speak the current learning target sentence after the terminal, when speech input by the learner in a speech waiting state of the terminal is the same as the current learning target sentence or belongs to the same category as the current learning target sentence; and the terminal and the learner alternately speak sentences one-by-one when the speech input by the learner is the same as the next sentence of the current learning target sentence or belongs to the same category as the next sentence.
US11967242B2
A traffic control preemption system monitors an operating state of a railroad crossing, without requiring an interface with railroad crossing equipment, and communicates information to a traffic controller of an adjacent signalized roadway intersection to improve vehicular traffic flow at the railroad crossing. The traffic control preemption system is configured to make real time health assessments of preemption system functionality and provide a degree of redundancy and failsafe operation to the traffic control system.
US11967241B2
A platooning control apparatus is based on active collision avoidance control. The apparatus includes: a collision danger determining unit configured to, when a host vehicle is a leading vehicle platooning with one or more following vehicles, determine a collision danger of the host vehicle with a front vehicle, determine whether it is possible for the host vehicle to collide when fully braked when there is a danger of collision of the host vehicle, and determine whether the one or more following vehicles in a platoon collide; a collision avoidance determining unit configured to determine whether it is possible to avoid collision of the host vehicle; a longitudinal deceleration profile generating unit configured to generate a longitudinal deceleration profile of the host vehicle; and a collision avoidance path generating unit configured to generate a transverse path for avoiding collision of the host vehicle.
US11967230B2
A method and system for traffic control includes receiving at a processing unit sensor data of a site on a road network and receiving at the processing unit a V2X communication. Locations of road users are calculated from the sensor data and the V2X communication enabling the detection of connected and non-connected road users. Once connected and non-connected road users are detected at a site, this information can be used to control traffic.
US11967229B1
A traffic monitoring system has a controller and sensors placed in or on roads such that vehicles pass over or near the sensors, thereby casting shadows on the sensors as they pass. The sensors may be configured to detect the shadows, and a controller may be configured to determine any of a variety of information about the passing vehicles based on the detected shadows. For example, the controller may count the number of vehicles that pass, determine a speed of each passing vehicle, and determine a length of each passing vehicle. The sensors can be relatively inexpensive so that a relatively large number of sensors can be used to monitor a large area at a relatively low cost. In some embodiments, solar cells are used to power the sensors, and if desired, the solar cells may be used as the sensors for detecting the shadows of the vehicles being monitored.
US11967228B2
A peccancy monitoring system and a peccancy monitoring method are provided in the present application. The peccancy monitoring system includes: a first camera, configured to monitor whether a peccancy vehicle is present in a designated area and generate alarm message when the peccancy vehicle is present; a control unit, connected to the first camera and configured to trigger the second camera to shoot according to the alarm message; a second camera, connected to the control unit and configured to shoot the peccancy vehicle to acquire a video of the vehicle and an image of the vehicle, here the video of the vehicle is a video containing a license plate of the peccancy vehicle and the image of the vehicle is an image containing the license plate of the peccancy vehicle. By using the technical solutions in the present application, the road can be monitored after the school bus is docked.
US11967227B1
Methods and systems are provided to generate instructions and share video content following an impact event. They include detecting an impact event associated with a vehicle and transmitting a request to at least one video recording device within an area of interest from the vehicle. They further include receiving video content captured within a time period around the impact event from at least one video recording device. Methods and systems are also provided to generate useful information following an impact event including detecting an impact event associated with a vehicle and determining one or more contextual parameters associated with the impact event. They further include generating display content based on the one or more contextual parameters and displaying the generated display content on a screen within the vehicle.
US11967224B2
A method for controlling an external device (6-8, 10) having a wireless communication function (6a-8a, 10a), in which an application is executed on a mobile digital terminal (1), in particular a tablet or smartphone, and sequentially outputs digital content which changes over time by an output unit of the terminal (1), which content, in addition to the data (2a) to be output, contains a number of embedded or linked control commands which are sequentially executed by a respectively associated module (1a, 1e) of the mobile digital terminal when sequentially displaying the content in accordance with flow control (1c) of the mobile digital terminal (1), and in which, when at least one particular control command from the number of control commands is reached, a wireless communication module (1e) of the mobile digital terminal (1) is used to wirelessly control the external device (6-8, 10) in order to cause a function of the external device (6-8, 10) in a substantially synchronous manner with the display of the content or a content section.
US11967194B2
It is provided a method for determining when to trigger positioning of a portable key device used in access control for an electronic lock controlling access to a restricted physical space. The method is performed in a positioning determiner and comprises the steps of: obtaining movement data from a motion sensor of the portable key device, the movement data indicating movement of the portable key device; determining when the movement data indicates a stop in motion of the key device; and triggering positioning of the portable key device when a stop in motion of the key device has been determined.
US11967186B1
A blockchain-based election system includes an owner-controlled blockchain, an election administration server, registrars for authenticating voters and providing instructions for the election, and electronic devices for casting ballots. The administration server interfaces with the blockchain to manage election rules and content. The registrars authenticate each voter's identity and issue ballots to each voter through the blockchain. The voters may cast their ballots using an election polling place device, a wallet app or another electronic device such as a computer. Once cast, the ballots are tabulated and the vote counts revealed using the blockchain. Public key encryption is used to secure each step in the election process. As a result, any authorized person or entity may verify the election results by querying the blockchain.
US11967185B2
An electronic toll collection system (ETCS) terminal may include a communication interface connected to a vehicle network of a vehicle, a card socket configured to accommodate insertion of a payment card, a card integrated circuit (IC) chip configured to store card information of an issued card, and a controller configured to activate, based on a user input received via the communication interface, at least one of the card IC chip or the card socket.
US11967180B1
A dynamic facial expression recognition (FER) method based on a Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory improves a feature extraction effect of an expression video through multi-feature fusion, and deeply learns an imbalanced dynamic expression feature by using the DS theory, multi-branch convolution, and an attention mechanism. Compared with other methods, the dynamic FER method scientifically and effectively reduces an impact of sample imbalance on expression recognition, fully utilizes a spatio-temporal feature to mine potential semantic information of the video expression to perform expression classification, thereby improving reliability and accuracy and meeting a demand for the expression recognition.
US11967177B2
Disclosed herein is a method for managing item recommendation using a degree of association between language units and usage history to manage recommendation of similar items with high probability of purchase, rather than a matching method expressed by keywords, recommendation management, by adding or deleting experience items using a vector model-based reasoning method based on a word-to-word association, in a scheme of planning a novel recognition system through the study of human emotions and tastes, T.P.O (Time, Place, Occasion) and various list-specific characteristics (color, texture, etc.) based on the language used in everyday life in consideration of language units and items preferred or experienced and/or purchased by a user, and of applying machine learning technology and natural language understanding technology.
US11967173B1
A system for biometric enrollment can include a server including a processor configured to receive an uncovered face image of a subject. The processor can generate a first fixed-size representation (FXR) based on the uncovered face image and a covered face image based on the uncovered face image. The processor can generate a second FXR based on the covered face image. The processor can enroll the subject associated with the uncovered face image by storing the first FXR and the second FXR in a data store.
US11967172B2
A device includes a touch-mode biometric sensor having a first side facing toward a user and a second side opposite to the first side, and a display arranged under the touch-mode biometric sensor and adjacent to the second side and configured to display an image in response to a sensing result, associated with a biometric feature of the user, of the touch-mode biometric sensor.
US11967164B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for detecting objects using a multi-detector are disclosed, according to various embodiments. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes defining analysis profiles, where each analysis profile: corresponds to one of a plurality of detectors, and comprises: a unique set of analysis parameters and/or a unique detection algorithm. The method further includes analyzing image data in accordance with the analysis profiles; selecting an optimum analysis result based on confidence scores associated with different analysis results; and detecting objects within the optimum analysis result. According to additional aspects, the analysis parameters may define different subregions of a digital image to be analyzed; a composite analysis result may be generated based on analysis of the different subregions by different detectors; and the optimum analysis result may be based on the composite analysis result.
US11967146B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for normal estimation using a directional measurement, such as a gravity vector. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes identifying planar surfaces in an environment represented by an image. Each planar surface is associated with a respective orientation. A directional vector associated with the environment is determined. A subset of the planar surfaces that have a threshold orientation relative to the directional vector is identified. For each planar surface in the subset of the planar surfaces, a normal vector for the planar surface is determined based on the orientation of the planar surface and the directional vector.
US11967139B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for false detection removal using adversarial masks. The method includes performing object detection on a first image that includes a first region using a detection model determining the detection model incorrectly classified the first region of the first image; generating an adversarial mask based on the first region of the first image and the detection model; obtaining a second image that includes the first region; generating a masked image based on the second image and the adversarial mask; and performing object detection on the masked image including the first region using the detection model.
US11967125B2
The present application relates to an image processing method and system. The method includes: determining an enhanced image of a target object of an input image based on a segmentation algorithm, where the enhanced image of the target object comprises an image in which each pixel classified as the target object is displayed in an enhanced manner; and determining a positioning image of the target object by applying an integral image algorithm to the enhanced image of the target object.
US11967122B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for context aware verification for sensor pipelines. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may include an extensive number of sensors to provide sufficient situational awareness to perception and control systems of the AV. For those systems to operate reliably, the data coming from the different sensors should be checked for integrity. To this end, the systems and methods described herein may use contextual clues to ensure that the data coming from the different the sensors is reliable.
US11967121B2
A difference detection device includes a difference detection unit configured to, based on association among a first image and a second image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space and encoding information of each of the first image and the second image, detect difference between a third image and a fourth image captured at different times and illustrating a substantially identical space, and the encoding information is information acquired from data including the first image encoded and data including the second image encoded, before inverse transform processing is executed in decoding processing executed on each of the first image and the second image.
US11967117B2
A method implemented by a server communicably coupled to at least two devices, each device including camera(s), the devices being present within same real-world environment. The method includes: receiving, from the devices(s), images captured by respective cameras of the devices; identifying one of the devices whose camera has camera parameter(s) better than camera parameter(s) of camera of another of the devices; training neural network using images captured by camera of one of the devices as ground truth material and using images captured by camera of another of the devices as training material; generating correction information to correct images captured by camera of another of the devices using trained neural network; and correcting the images captured by the camera of the another of the device(s) by utilising the correction information at the server, or sending correction information to another of the devices for correcting the images.
US11967116B2
A method for characterizing polarization image information and a method for computing characterization parameters are provided. The method includes: obtaining n polarized subimages of a polarization imaging target, wherein each polarized subimage corresponds to a different polarization angle and n≥3; and computing a parameter matrix [ILP (x, y) INLP(x, y) θ(x, y)] of a polarization cosine characterization equation of all pixel points of the polarization imaging target according to all polarized subimages and the polarization cosine characterization equation of the polarization imaging target. The disclosure obtains a maximum polarization intensity image and a minimum polarization intensity image through computing multiple polarization intensity images, which improves the accuracy of polarization imaging, and the degree of accuracy is much higher than macroscopic accuracy. The disclosure computes polarization cosine characterization parameters through the least squares fitting, which can also effectively reduce the influence of an experimental error on the experimental result.
US11967111B2
Proposed is a multi-view camera-based iterative calibration method for generation of a 3D volumetric model that performs calibration between cameras adjacent in a vertical direction for a plurality of frames, performs calibration while rotating with the results of viewpoints adjacent in the horizontal direction, and creates a virtual viewpoint between each camera pair to repeat calibration. Thus, images of various viewpoints are obtained using a plurality of low-cost commercial color-depth (RGB-D) cameras. By acquiring and performing the calibration of these images at various viewpoints, it is possible to increase the accuracy of calibration, and through this, it is possible to generate a high-quality real-life graphics volumetric model.
US11967110B2
The invention relates to an assembly for calibrating a camera (31) to be calibrated, said assembly comprising: a first positioning base (43) for accommodating a reference camera adapter (40) or for accommodating an adapter (34) for the camera (31) to be calibrated; an auxiliary target (21); the reference camera adapter (40) for accommodating a reference camera housing (11) or the auxiliary target (21); the adapter (34) for accommodating the camera (31) to be calibrated; a second positioning base (41) for accommodating the reference camera housing (11); at least one calibration target (51, 52, 53) arranged such that it can be captured by the reference camera (11) accommodated by the first positioning base (43) or can be captured by the camera (31) to be calibrated; and the reference camera housing (11) for accommodating the reference camera (12, 13); wherein the first positioning base (43) is arranged (position 54) such that a first image captured by the reference camera (12, 13) accommodated in the first positioning base (43) contains the at least one calibration target (51, 52, 53), and wherein the second positioning base (41) is arranged (position 55 or position 56) such that a second image captured by the reference camera (12, 13) accommodated in the second positioning base (41) contains the at least one calibration target (51, 52, 53) and the auxiliary target (21) accommodated in the first positioning base (43).
US11967102B2
Image-based key points detection using a convolutional neural network (CNN) may be impacted if the key points are occluded in the image. Images obtained from additional imaging modalities such as depth and/or thermal images may be used in conjunction with RGB images to reduce or minimize the impact of the occlusion. The additional images may be used to determine adjustment values that are then applied to the weights of the CNN so that the convolution operations may be performed in a modality aware manner to increase the robustness, accuracy, and efficiency of key point detection.
US11967100B2
A navigational system and method for guiding a boat onto a trailer, which comprises at least one marker mounted on the trailer; a camera located on the boat to assist the system with determining a longitudinal axis of the boat, and generating images of at least a front area of the boat and the at least one marker; an image processing unit for 1) receiving and processing the images to determine the at least one marker, 2) estimating the longitudinal axis of the trailer, 3) generating a desired boat trajectory for aligning the longitudinal axis of the boat with the longitudinal axis of the trailer; and 4) periodically generating guidance output commands to the user to assist the user with following the desired boat trajectory and facilitate loading of the boat on the trailer; and an image display for sequentially displaying the generated images of the camera to a user.
US11967098B2
A vehicular trailer angle detection system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle. The system determines, via processing of frames of image data captured by the camera, features of a trailer present rearward of the vehicle and hitched to the vehicle by determining features that have similar position changes between a current frame of image data captured by the camera and a previous frame of image data captured by the camera. Responsive to movement of the trailer relative to the vehicle, and via processing of captured frames of image data, the system tracks determined features over multiple captured frames of image data for different positions of the trailer relative to the vehicle. The system determines angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle based at least in part on tracking of determined features of the trailer over multiple captured frames of image data.
US11967087B2
To track certain difficult facial features during speech such as the corners of the mouth and the teeth, a camera sensor system generates RGB/IR images and the system also uses light intensity change signals from an event driven sensor (EDS), as well as voice analysis. In this way, the camera sensor system enables improved performance tracking (equivalent to using very high-speed camera) at lower bandwidth and power consumption.
US11967079B1
The present subject matter discloses a system and method for detecting Large Vessel Occlusion (LVO) on a Computational Tomography Angiogram (CTA) automatically. the system comprises a vascular-territory-segmentation module, an ICV segmentation module, MCA-LVO classifier and ICA-LVO classifier. The vascular territory segmentation module is configured to receive a set of CTA images and to mark a territory of vascular segments in the ICV region for each slice of the ROI. The ICV segmentation module is configured to process each slice of the ROI. The processed slices of the ROI are combined to develop a CTA image after application of MIP and the developed CTA image is segmented into a Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA) region and an Internal Cerebral Artery (ICA) region. The MCA-LVO and ICA-LVO classifiers determine presence of the LVO on the received MCA and ICA region using Deep Learning techniques and accordingly the presence of the LVO is reported.
US11967077B1
A system and method configured to better identify patient-specific anatomical landmarks, measure anatomical parameters and features, and predict the patient's need for surgery within a predetermined time period. In some embodiments, the system and method is configured to predict the likelihood or risk that a patient will require total hip arthroplasty. In some embodiments, the present invention includes machine learning technology Some embodiments of the present invention include a first ML machine configured to received medical images as inputs and identify anatomical landmarks as outputs; a measurement module to measure joint space width, hip dysplasia angles, and/or leg length differential; and a second ML machine configured to receive the anatomical measurements and patient demographic data as inputs and produce a risk or likelihood that the patient will require surgery within a certain time frame.
US11967076B2
A computing device includes at least one memory, and at least one processor configured to generate, based on first analysis on a pathological slide image, first biomarker expression information, generate, based on a user input for updating at least some of results of the first analysis, second biomarker expression information about the pathological slide image, and control a display device to output a report including medical information about at least some regions included in the pathological slide image, based on at least one of the first biomarker expression information or the second biomarker expression information.
US11967068B2
Embodiments may include novel techniques to improve detection of objects in images, for example, in Digital Breast Tomography and that are applicable to ensembles of detectors. For example, a method may comprise generating a plurality of candidate bounding boxes for each of a plurality of image slices of imaged tissue, each generated candidate bounding box having a probability score, collecting at least some of the generated candidate bounding boxes for each slice, generating a heat map of the filtered candidate bounding boxes and filtering the candidate bounding boxes in the heat map based on a first threshold of values in the heat map, performing Non-Maximum Suppression on the heat map filtered candidate bounding boxes, and outputting at least one bounding box based on the probability score.
US11967065B2
A tissue analysis system may include an ultrasound device to stimulate tissue with ultrasound waves causing the tissue to vibrate and produce a vibration signature, a vibration detector configured to detect the vibration signature, and a signal analysis processor. The signal analysis processor may be configured according to computer-executable instructions for accessing a signature library storing a plurality of vibration signatures each linked to one of a plurality of known tissues having a known identity, comparing the vibration signature of the tissue with the stored vibration signatures of the signature library, determining if a match between the vibration signature of the tissue and a stored vibration signature of the signature library is present and, if the match is present, determining an identity of the tissue based on the known identity of the known tissue having the matching stored vibration signature.
US11967058B2
An image of a portion of a semiconductor die is obtained that shows one or more structures in a first process layer and one or more structures in a second process layer. Using machine learning, a first region is defined on the image that at least partially includes the one or more structures in the first process layer. Also using machine learning, a second region is defined on the image that at least partially includes the one or more structures in the second process layer. An overlay offset between the one or more structures in the first process layer and the one or more structures in the second process layer is calculated using the first region and the second region.
US11967057B2
An autonomous ship bottom inspection method by a ROV(s) based on a ship 3D model in STL format is provided. The ship 3D model is obtained and a surface thereof is spliced by triangular facets. Body 3D coordinate points of the ship 3D model are obtained and then expanded according to a safety distance of ROV and ship to obtain inspection track points of the ROV. The ship 3D model is divided into regions, and the inspection track points in each region are performed with interpolation and smoothing. Smoothed inspection track points of the regions are connected as per a result of the dividing to obtain a ship bottom inspection track, a real-time position of the ROV is obtained, a ship bottom inspection path is generated based on the ship bottom inspection track and the real-time position. The ROV is controlled to move as per the ship bottom inspection path.
US11967053B2
A curve sampling technique for generating transformed digital visual content is leveraged in a digital medium environment. Initially, a curve sampling system obtains digital visual content, e.g., images and videos. The curve sampling system generates transformed digital visual content by transforming one or more pixels of the digital visual content using a lookup table that is derived from samples of a curve taken at evenly spaced intervals along a y-axis of a graph of the curve. Broadly speaking, the curve defines how to transform a visual characteristic of the pixels in order to achieve a desired digital visual content transformation. Additionally, the curve sampling may correspond to one step in a series of steps for transforming colors of digital visual content. Indeed, such transformations may involve multiple curve sampling steps.
US11967051B2
Provided are an image fusion method and apparatus, and a portable terminal. The method comprises: obtaining several aligned images; respectively calculating gradient information of each image; setting a mask image of each image, and generating a target gradient image; performing a gradient operation on the target gradient image, and obtaining a target Laplacian image; performing a deconvolution transform on the Laplacian image, and generating a fused panoramic image. The technical solution generates a Laplacian image by performing gradient information calculations on several images, and then performs a deconvolution transform to generate a fused panoramic image, thereby eliminating image stitching color differences, and implementing a better image fusion effect.
US11967049B2
The present disclosure describes multi-stage image editing techniques to improve detail and accuracy in edited images. An input image including a target region to be edited and an edit parameter specifying a modification to the target region are received. A parsing map of the input image is generated. A latent representation of the parsing map is generated. An edit is applied to the latent representation of the parsing map based on the edit parameter. The edited latent representation is input to a neural network to generate a modified parsing map including the target region with a shape change according to the edit parameter. Based on the input image and the modified parsing map, a masked image corresponding to the shape change is generated. Based on the masked image, a neural network is used to generate an edited image with the modification to the target region.
US11967039B2
Electronic devices are often equipped with a camera for capturing video content and/or a display for displaying video content. However, amateur users often capture video content without regard to composition, framing, or camera movement, resulting in video content that can be jarring or confusing to viewers. There is a need to automate the processing and presentation of video content in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The embodiments described herein provide a method of automatically cropping video content for presentation on a display.
US11967038B2
A system and method for jointly displaying an image and a map is disclosed. The method may including obtaining an image captured by a camera. The image may include a target in a surrounding environment of the camera. The method may further include obtaining a map of the surrounding environment. The map may at least include a location corresponding to the target and a location corresponding to the camera. The method may jointly display the image and the map, wherein a representation of the image is aligned with the location corresponding to the target and the location corresponding to the camera in the map.
US11967036B2
A system for dynamic registration of autonomy using augmented reality can include an augmented reality system, an imaging system, a measuring system, and a computer system. The augmented reality system can be configured to display an augmented representation. The imaging system can be configured to image an anatomical feature of the patient and can generate anatomical imaging data. The measuring system can be configured to measure an anatomical movement of the patient and can generate an anatomical movement data. The computer system can be configured to receive the anatomical imaging and positional data and the anatomical movement data, generate the augmented representation based on the anatomical imaging data, associate the augmented representation with the anatomical movement data, render the augmented representation on the augmented reality system, and selectively update the augmented representation based on the anatomical movement data.
US11967032B2
A computer-implemented method includes capturing visual data of an environment using an image sensor of an electronic device and non-visual data of the environment using one or more non-image sensors of the electronic device. Feature descriptors of one or more objects in the environment are generated using the visual data of the environment and the non-visual data of the environment. A map of the environment is generated using the feature descriptors of the one or more objects. One or more virtual objects are anchored to at least one of the objects using the map. The visual data, the non-visual data, and the map are combined in a digital multimedia container file. The digital multimedia container file is stored on the electronic device or on another electronic device connected to the electronic device.
US11967030B2
A computerized method comprising acquiring an image of a physical environment comprising one or more physical entities, generating a virtual view based on the acquired image, and displaying the virtual view overlaid on the acquired image. The method further comprises receiving user input being indicative of a placement location within the virtual view, and receiving user input for creating a virtual bounding volume within the virtual view. The method further comprises manipulating the virtual bounding volume based on one or more intersections in 3D space between the virtual bounding volume and 3D data corresponding to the one or more physical entities, displaying the manipulated virtual bounding volume, and displaying at least one 3D object model that fits the manipulated virtual bounding volume.
US11967027B2
Described herein are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for a wearable augmented reality system for fitness. The embodiments may include producing an avatar in the field of vision of the wearer, wherein a perceived position of the avatar may be controlled to aid the wearer in fitness training by establishing a controllable pace for the wearer. The embodiments may further include an optical system that produces the avatar such that it may be perceived by the wearer of the wearable augmented reality apparatus as a virtual running partner.
US11967025B2
In some examples, an apparatus for mesh processing includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a first mesh frame with polygons representing a surface of an object, and determining that the first mesh frame is a non manifold type mesh in response to one or more singularity components in the first mesh frame. The processing circuitry converts the first mesh frame to a second mesh frame that is a manifold type mesh. The first mesh frame has first boundary loops that respectively correspond to second boundary loops in the second mesh frame. The processing circuitry detects the second boundary loops in the second mesh frame, and determines the first boundary loops in the first mesh frame according to the second boundary loops in the second mesh frame.
US11967012B2
A method of operation of a texturing/shading unit in a GPU pipeline is used for efficient convolution operations. The method uses texture hardware to collectively fetch all the texels required to calculate properties for a group of output pixels without any duplication. The method then bypasses bilinear filter hardware in the texture hardware and passes the fetched and unfiltered texel data from the texture hardware unit to shader hardware in the texturing/shading unit. The shader hardware uses the fetched texel data to perform a plurality of convolution operations to calculate the properties of each of the output pixel.
US11967011B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and modifying digital animations based on user interactions with a unique user interface portraying a one-dimensional layer motion element and/or elements for generating and utilizing animation path for digital design objects and animation layers. The disclosed system can provide a dynamic one-dimensional layer motion element that adapts to a selected animation layer and portrays selectable animation frames from the animation layer. The disclosed systems can provide options for generating and modifying various frames of the digital animation based on user interactions with the one-dimensional layer motion element, an animation timeline, and/or a corresponding animation canvas. Additionally, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems also generate path animations with complex animation effects based on user selection of animation paths, digital design objects of animation layers, and corresponding selectable path animation feature tools.
US11966995B2
Disclosed are embodiments for facilitating automatic-guided image capturing and presentation. In some embodiments, the method includes capturing an image of an item, removing a background of the image frame, performing manual mask editing, generating an item listing based on the manually edited mask, inferring item information from the image frame and applying the inferred item information to an item listing.
US11966992B1
A system and computer-implemented method of identifying multiple mortgage ready properties. The method includes receiving, via one or more processors, information from a customer approved for a mortgage about preferences for a real estate property and accessing, at a memory coupled to one or more processors, a memory storage location to retrieve a plurality of mortgage ready real estate properties meeting one or more of the customer preferences information. The method further includes transmitting, via the one or more processors, the plurality of real estate properties meeting one or more of the customer preferences information to the customer.
US11966982B2
Methods and systems for automatically mitigating risks of insurance-related events to a property are provided. According to certain aspects, a smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may analyze data received from a plurality of smart devices disposed on, within, or proximate to a property, as well as data received from an insurance provider. If it is determined that an actual or potential risk of property damage exists, the smart home controller or insurance provider remote processor may automatically issue commands to one or more smart devices to take actions that mitigate the risk. The smart home controller may also transmit information about the actual or potential risks and any mitigative actions to an insurance provider. The insurance provider remote processor may interpret the transmitted data to perform insurance activities, such as providing a discount and/or adjusting an insurance premium or policy associated with the property.
US11966981B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for assessing an insured loss, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: S1: building up a database, and conducting model training on big data using a deep learning model or machine learning model to improve a recognition effect; S2: capturing a photo of a roof of a house to be assessed for damage according to needs, and transmitting collected image data to a background; S3: automatically recognizing the image data by the background according to needs, and feeding back a recognition result; S4: marking out a damage point, a suspected damage point, and a non-damage point according to the recognition result; and S5: formulating a loss assessment report using the marked results according to needs. The apparatus, computer device, and storage medium each correspond to the above method.
US11966980B2
Methods and systems for improving vehicular safety by notifying vehicle operators of location-based risks are provided. According to embodiments, a processing server may receive an initial location of a vehicle. Based on location data associated with the initial location, the processing server can determine the risk of an incident. The processing server can generate a notification to communicate to the vehicle operator, and the vehicle operator can assess the risk and take action to mitigate the risk, for example by relocating the vehicle. The processing server can receive updated location data for the vehicle and can determine, based on the updated location data, that the risk has been mitigated.
US11966967B2
Current interfaces for displaying information about items appearing in videos are obtrusive and counterintuitive. They also rely on annotations, or metadata tags, added by hand to the frames in the video, limiting their ability to display information about items in the videos. In contrast, examples of the systems disclosed here use neural networks to identify items appearing on- and off-screen in response to intuitive user voice queries, touchscreen taps, and/or cursor movements. These systems display information about the on- and off-screen items dynamically and unobtrusively to avoid disrupting the viewing experience.
US11966957B2
The present disclosure provides a system for providing personalization for a target website. The system comprises: an artificial intelligence (AI) engine including one or more machine learning algorithm trained models for providing one or more personalization features; and a personalization module configured for integrating the one or more personalization features into the target website, wherein the one or more personalization features are rendered within a popup widget displayed over the target website.
US11966956B2
A system and method for measuring the greenhouse gas emitting activities of a user is described. Data for different sources of greenhouse gas emitting user activities, including electricity usage, motor vehicle usage, food consumption, and flight usage, are gathered, normalized, weighted, and presented. The system and method include providing the user with feedback regarding these activities and rewarding the user for changing these activities to thereby reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
US11966954B2
A system comprising a database and a computing device. The database may be configured to store, sort and retrieve for each of a plurality of users a unique account and comments associated with the unique account. The computing device may be configured to display comments retrieved from the database associated with the unique account, generate an identification code to enable a commenter to add the comments to the unique account and communicate the comments to the database. The comments may comprise positive feedback about the users. The identification code may enable the commenter to add the comments without being one of the users. The comments may be displayed in response to an approval by the user of the unique account. The positive feedback may comprise a personalized message by the commenter about a performance of one of the users.
US11966948B1
Online advertisers may demand compliance with certain standards for the content of emails and other digital content with which its advertisements may be associated. Emails may contain control objects directing users to a web page showing content related to oil change coupons. However, in some systems, methods, and processes, a small variable proportion of users may instead be directed to a different sequence of pages to conduct a compliance check on the contents of the email received by the user. The compliance check sequence of pages may offer the user an incentive to forward the email to a specified email address for subsequent compliance review. Delivery of an incentive may be conditioned on successful receipt of the forwarded email.
US11966944B2
A system and method for processing promotions in connection with digital purchasing. Data associated with a digital purchase request made by a consumer (the data comprising a token, an amount associated with the transaction, a promotional code for each item included in the digital purchase request associated with a promotion, a default transaction amount, and a single default promotional code) is received from a merchant server. The single default promotional code is assigned to all items included in the digital purchase request that are associated with promotions. Using the token, account information associated with the consumer is retrieved from a database. For each promotional code received, promotional information is retrieved. The retrieved promotional information is displayed. The digital purchase request is submitted for processing using the single default promotional code.
US11966942B2
A device may process a message associated with an account to identify a first identifier that identifies a third party. The device may identify a match between the first identifier and transaction information related to an individual associated with the account. The transaction information may include a set of first identifiers that identify a respective set of third parties. The transaction information may facilitate identification of one or more messages that is likely to include account information. The device may tag the message with a second identifier based on the match. The device may receive, from another device, the message based on the message being tagged with the second identifier. The device may process the message to identify the account information related to another account. The device may extract identified account information from the message. The device may perform an action related to extracted account information or the message.
US11966939B1
A computer device and method for processing risk related data to determine one or more insurance products for appliances and other systems located in or on an insured property. Informatic data is received from one or more informatic sensor devices relating to one or more appliances located in or on an insured property. Analysis is performed on the received informatic data to determine one or more insurance products to be recommended for at least one appliance located in or on the insured property. Notification is provided regarding determination of the one or more insurance products for the at least one appliance located in or on the insured property.
US11966936B2
Systems and methods for executing queries on a bitmap index are disclosed. The system may receive a first data stream from a database and generate a bitmap index based on the first data stream. The system may receive an input selection of one or more data conditions from a user device and generate a Boolean expression based on the input selection. The system may query the bitmap index using the Boolean expression and generate a bitmap vector. The system may output a first data subset represented by the generated bitmap vector to a graphical user interface. The bitmap index may include probabilistic entries, and the system may validate the probabilistic entries by receiving a second data stream, identifying one or more entries correlated to the probabilistic entries, determining a divergence between the identified entries and the probabilistic entries, and updating parameters of a classifier model associated with the probabilistic entries.
US11966934B2
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based methods and systems for predicting opportunities for special pricing agreements (SPA) are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving a user input indicating a stock keeping unit (SKU) and a customer name, and accessing an SPA database to determine (i) a customer type, (ii) a customer address, and (iii) any historical SPAs corresponding to the customer. The example method further includes predicting, by utilizing a machine learning (ML) model, a set of SPA opportunities that each have a respective cost and a respective confidence interval and that satisfy a confidence interval threshold. The example method further includes determining a first SPA opportunity corresponding to a highest respective confidence interval, and a second SPA opportunity corresponding to a lowest cost of each SPA opportunity in the set of SPA opportunities; and transmitting a notification of the first and second SPA opportunities for display to a user.
US11966929B2
A system for recognizing a plurality of assets in an environment, determining a brand associated with each of the plurality of assets using a deep neural networking model, and computing a brand visibility and a compliance metric for the brand is provided, The system (i) determines a location of a plurality of assets and type of each of the plurality of assets within the media content, (ii) determines a brand and at least one object from the brand associated with each of the plurality of assets, (iii) determines at least one attribute of the at least one determined object associated with the brand, (v) implements at least one compliance rule to the at least one attribute of the at least one object, (vi) automatically determines a brand visibility and a compliance metric for the brand within the environment based on attention sequence and heatmap corresponding to the media content.
US11966928B2
Various embodiments are provided for intelligent application of operational rules to operational data in a computing environment by a processor. One or more operational rules may be extracted and formalized from a knowledge graph, a domain knowledge, or a combination thereof describing one or more operational policies and conditions. The one or more operational rules may be applied to operational data to identify and filter non-compliant operational data.
US11966927B2
A method for predicting changes in customer demand is provided. The method comprises collecting subscription data for a number of customers at specified time intervals, wherein each customer is subscribed to one of a number of defined bundles of services. Any changes in customer bundle subscriptions during a given time interval are determined along with metrics for defined customer tasks for subscribed services during the given time interval. Multimodal multi-task learning is used to simultaneously model both bundle subscription change events and time-to-event for each bundle subscription change. Using the modeling, types and timing of changes in customer bundle subscriptions are predicted based on customer service activities.
US11966916B2
A second blockchain system receives a first consensus message from a first blockchain system, the first blockchain system includes first nodes that provide services to at least a first account, and the second blockchain system includes second nodes that provide services to at least a second account. The first consensus message indicates a first plurality of the first nodes reaches a consensus for transferring a resource from the first account to the second account. The second blockchain system transfers the resource in the task to the second account. The transferring includes that a node in the second nodes adds the resource to the second account and generates a fourth block that records a completion of a transfer event. A second consensus message is transmitted from the second blockchain system to the first blockchain system in response to a second plurality of the second nodes completing the transfer event.
US11966911B1
A computing system is configured to execute a method of displaying customized graphic content on a user device and includes steps of requesting, from a user of the user device, a selection of customized graphic content to be displayed by the user device with the customized graphic content visually representing an account of the user, reconfiguring the user device and/or a digital transfer software application executable on the user device to cause the customized graphic content selected by the user to be displayed by the user device during execution of the digital transfer software application on the user device, and displaying the customized graphic content on the user device during execution of the digital transfer software application.
US11966901B2
Disclosed is a method for identifying and monitoring a shopping behavior in a user. The method includes capturing images from a depth camera mounted on a shelf unit, identifying a user from the captured image, identifying joints of the identified user by performing a deep neural network (DNN) body joint detection on the captured images; detecting and tracking actions of the identified user over a first time period; tracking an object from the bins over a second time period by associating the object with one or more joints among the identified joints that have entered the bins within the shelf unit, and determining an action of the identified user based at least in part on the associated object with the one or more joints and results from the deep learning identification on the bounding box.
US11966897B2
A method and system for receiving digital artifacts from a management server. The method includes sending a request for a digital artifact from a mobile application to the management server for display within a specific mobile application generated screen, receiving the digital artifact from the management server, and displaying the digital artifact with the specific mobile application generated screen.
US11966890B2
The disclosure provides a bill identification method, device, electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining an image of a bill to be identified; using a pre-trained area identification model to identify a final payment area of the bill in the image; using a pre-trained character identification model to identify the final payment amount in the final payment area. By applying the solution provided by the present disclosure, it is possible to realize automatic identification of the payment amount on the bill, and the efficiency of bill processing is improved.
US11966887B1
The disclosure describes embodiments of systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable storage media that enable network transactions between user accounts belonging to different network transaction platforms and unify user account modifications across user accounts on different network transaction platforms. For instance, the disclosed systems can cause two or more network transaction platforms to transmit and/or receive transactional values from one or more intermediary holding accounts upon receiving network transaction requests between user accounts belonging to the two or more network transaction platforms. In addition, the disclosed system can unify user account data on different network transaction platforms by modifying or updating the user account data (e.g., user attributes) by propagating schematized data messages to the one or more other network transaction platforms with instructions to modify or update the user attributes on other user accounts related to the user account.
US11966885B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and Internet of Things (IoT) systems for predicting maintenance materials of a smart gas pipeline network. The method may be implemented based on a smart gas safety management platform of an Internet of Things (IoT) system for predicting maintenance materials of a smart gas pipeline network. The method may comprise: obtaining a pipeline network feature of a gas pipeline network; predicting fault probabilities of one or more point positions of the gas pipeline network based on the pipeline network feature, the fault probabilities including probabilities of one or more preset fault types of faults occurring at the point positions; and determining demand for the maintenance materials based on the fault probabilities of the one or more point positions.
US11966874B2
A logistics system provides a logistics service utilizing a logistics robot that delivers a package by autonomous traveling. The logistics system includes one or more processors configured to execute a delivery route determination process that determines a delivery route along which the logistics robot delivers the package. When there are a plurality of delivery route candidates from a position of the logistics robot to a delivery destination of the package, the one or more processors select the delivery route from the plurality of delivery route candidates based on at least one of a congestion degree of each of the plurality of delivery route candidates, a time of day, a weather condition, and energy consumption of the logistics robot along each of the plurality of delivery route candidates.
US11966869B2
Techniques for a modeling platform associated with simulating risk models. According to certain aspects, systems and methods include simulating the impact of qualitative assumptions on the risk model. Accordingly, the risk model may include a hierarchical tree formed of component qualitative assumption objects and quantitative assumption objects. Quantitative assumption objects include indications of distribution function parameters associated with the assumption object and qualitative assumption objects include an indication of an impact on a parent quantitative assumption. When simulating the risk model, systems and methods may adjust sampled values quantitative assumption object when a child qualitative assumption object is enabled.
US11966864B2
Aspects described herein may provide determination of a pedestrian route for a user to reach a seating area inside of a venue. Financial transaction data of the user may be reviewed to determine the user purchased one or more tickets to an event at the venue. Information regarding the event or the venue may be determined including seating charts for the venue and whether the tickets are for assigned or unassigned seats. Crowd densities inside and outside of the venue may be determined. The pedestrian route may be determined based on the crowd densities, number of tickets, and type of seating. The route may be updated as conditions change including any change to the crowd densities or change to seating availability. The route may increase a likelihood that the user reaches the seating area prior to a start of the event, and in a less stressful manner.
US11966862B2
A charging stand is a power supply facility that is able to be housed underground. The charging stand includes a light emitting device and a control device. The light emitting device is configured to emit light to a space above the ground. The control device is configured to control the light emitting device. A first light emission mode of the light emitting device for when the charging stand is available and a second light emission mode of the light emitting device for when the charging stand is not available are different.
US11966861B2
An operation planning system that creates an operation plan of a vehicle with a rechargeable battery as a travel energy source includes: a reception unit configured to receive request information including a departure location and a destination from a user; and an operation determining unit configured to determine an operation plan in response to the request information. The operation determining unit is configured to derive a state of charge shortage by which there is a shortage when the vehicle travels in an operation section based on the state of charge of the vehicle and to create the operation plan by allocating a vehicle, which is able to be charged with the derived state of charge shortage until an operation of the vehicle starts, to the operation section.
US11966860B2
Disclosed examples include after a first tuning of hyperparameters in a hyperparameter space, selecting first hyperparameter values for respective ones of the hyperparameters; generating a polygonal shaped failure region in the hyperparameter space based on the first hyperparameter values; setting the first hyperparameter values to failure before a second tuning of the hyperparameters; and selecting second hyperparameter values for the respective ones of the hyperparameters in a second tuning region after the second tuning of the hyperparameters in the second tuning region, the second tuning region separate from the polygonal shaped failure region.
US11966859B2
In order to facilitate the entity resolution and entity activity tracking and indexing, systems and methods include receiving first source records from a first database and second source records from a record database. A candidate set of second source records is determined by a heuristic search in the set of second source records. A candidate pair feature vector associated with each candidate pair of first and second source records is generated. An entity matching machine learning model predicts matching first source records for each candidate second source record based on the respective candidate pair feature vector. An aggregate quantity associated with the matching first source records is aggregated from a quantity associated with each first source record, and a quantity index for each candidate second source record is determined based the aggregate quantities. Each quantity index is displayed to a user.
US11966842B2
Systems and methods to train a cell object detector are described.
US11966841B2
An apparatus for artificial intelligence acceleration is provided. The apparatus includes a storage and compute system having a distributed, redundant key value store for metadata. The storage and compute system having distributed compute resources configurable to access, through a plurality of authorities, data in the solid-state memory, run inference with a deep learning model, generate vectors for the data and store the vectors in the key value store.
US11966834B2
A tunable CMOS circuit comprising a CMOS element and a tunable load. The CMOS element is configured to receive an analogue input signal. The tunable load is connected to the CMOS element and configured to set a switch point of the CMOS element. The CMOS element is configured to output an output current that is largest when the analogue input signal is equal to the switch point. The combination of a CMOS element with a tunable load may also provide a hardware implementation of fuzzy logic. A fuzzy logic gate comprises an input node, a CMOS logic gate, a tunable load, and an output node. The input node is configured to receive an analogue input signal. The CMOS logic gate is connected to the input node. The tunable load is connected to the CMOS logic gate such that the tunable load is provided on a current path connected to the output node. The output node is configured to output an analogue output signal.
US11966832B2
A method includes receiving a first data set comprising embeddings of first and second types, generating a fixed adjacency matrix from the first dataset, and applying a first stochastic binary mask to the fixed adjacency matrix to obtain a first subgraph of the fixed adjacency matrix. The method also includes processing the first subgraph through a first layer of a graph convolutional network (GCN) to obtain a first embedding matrix, and applying a second stochastic binary mask to the fixed adjacency matrix to obtain a second subgraph of the fixed adjacency matrix. The method includes processing the first embedding matrix and the second subgraph through a second layer of the GCN to obtain a second embedding matrix, and then determining a plurality of gradients of a loss function, and modifying the first stochastic binary mask and the second stochastic binary mask using at least one of the plurality of gradients.
US11966820B2
A device may receive log data from application logs associated with applications, service logs associated with services, and server logs associated with server devices. The device may store the log data. The device may perform natural language processing on the log data to convert the log data into event data identifying events associated with categories. The device may process the event data, with a first machine learning model, to identify patterns in the event data and to generate an alert based on the patterns. The device may process the event data, with a second machine learning model, to generate a correlation matrix for the event data and to predict an event based on the correlation matrix. The device may process the event data, with a third machine learning model, to classify the event data based on the categories and to generate a recommendation based on classifying the event data.
US11966819B2
An approach is provided for training classifiers used in machine learning. A corpus of training data is received. One or more clusters of the training data is generated according to features of the training data. The one or more clusters are refined using user-specified rules. One or more classifiers are trained for use in machine learning based upon the refined one or more clusters.
US11966812B2
Scanning systems are disclosed herein. An example scanning system includes a cradle and a barcode scanner. The cradle includes a cradle cavity portion, a cradle controller, a force sensor communicatively coupled therewith, and a first securing feature positioned at or near the cradle cavity portion and being communicatively coupled with the cradle controller. The barcode scanner includes a housing having a scanner housing cavity, an imaging assembly adapted to capture an image of an environment appearing in a field of view (FOV) and being at least partially disposed within the scanner housing cavity, a scanner controller adapted to control operation of the imaging assembly, and a second securing feature. In response to the force sensor sensing vibration exceeding a threshold value and/or the cradle being mounted in a predetermined orientation, the first and second securing features selectively interact to retain the barcode scanner within the cradle cavity portion.
US11966804B2
In some embodiments, an RFID device includes an RFID chip, a first antenna coupled to the RFID chip, and a cardboard substrate. The RFID chip may be at least one of attached to the cardboard substrate at a position and embedded within the cardboard substrate at the position. The cardboard substrate may form at least part of a carton blank configured to cover the RFID chip position with at least one layer of cardboard when the carton blank has been assembled into a closed box.
US11966798B2
A type restriction contextually modifies an existing type descriptor. The type restriction is imposed on a data structure to restrict the values that are assumable by the data structure. The type restriction does not cancel or otherwise override the effect of the existing type descriptor on the data structure. Rather the type restriction may declare that a value of the data structure's type is forbidden for the data structure. Additionally or alternatively, the type restriction may declare that an element count allowable for a data structure's type is forbidden for the data structure. Type restriction allows optionality (where only a singleton value for a data structure is allowed), empty sets (where no value for a data structure is allowed), and multiplicity (where only a limited element count for a data structure) to be injected into a code set independent of data type. Type restriction allows certain optimizations to be performed.
US11966765B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for throttling memory bandwidth accessed by virtual machines (VMs). A technique for dynamically throttling the virtual computer processing units (vCPUs) assigned to a VM (tenant) controls the memory access rate of the VM. When the memory is shared by multiple VMs in a cloud-computing environment, one VM increasing its memory access rate may cause another VM to suffer memory access starvation. This behavior violates the principle of VM isolation in cloud computing. In contrast to conventional systems, a software solution for dynamically throttling the vCPUs may be implemented within a hypervisor and is therefore portable across CPU families and doesn't require specialized server-class CPU capabilities or limit the system configuration.
US11966761B1
In some embodiments, there is provided a method including creating at least one reusable user interface metadata definition for at least one user interface object; storing the at least one reusable user interface metadata definition; creating at least a portion of a user interface page, which includes the at least one user interface object, using the at least one reusable user interface metadata definition; overriding the at least one reusable user interface metadata definition; bundling into a container the least one reusable user interface metadata definition with other metadata definitions; and deploying the container of the at least one reusable user interface metadata definition and the other metadata definitions to a device where a metadata interpreter can generate at least one user interface object associated with the at least one reusable metadata definition. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11966758B2
A system and method for accessing elements of a table in a digital image of the table, including: obtaining the digital image of the table; finding table elements in the digital image based on digital table properties, wherein the table elements define table cells; calculating coordinates of the table cells in the digital image based on the table elements; and accessing content of a selected table cell in the digital image using the coordinates of the selected table element.
US11966740B2
A processor comprising: a register file comprising a group of operand registers for holding data values, each operand register being a fixed number of bits in length for holding a respective data value of that length; and processing logic comprising floating point logic for performing floating point operations on data values in the register file, the floating point logic is configured to process the fixed number of bits in the respective data value according to a floating point format comprising a set of mantissa bits and a set of exponent bits. The processing logic is operable to select between a plurality of different variants of the floating point format, at least some of the variants having a different size sets of mantissa bits and exponent bits relative to one another.
US11966734B2
A method for developing an Android TV hybrid application includes: generating a WebView component in an Android Activity belonging to an Android side of the application; obtaining a WebSettings subclass and using it to configure the WebView component; using Web technologies to develop a Web page belonging to a Web side of the application; using the WebView component to show the Web page; creating a first Java object blended with a JavaScript context in the Android side to define different interfaces, and creating a second Java object to implement the interfaces defined by the first Java object, so that the Web side can call the functions of the Android side; providing a packaged Java class in the Android side to send messages, and providing a packaged JavaScript module in the Web side to process the messages, so that the Android side can feedback the messages to the Web side.
US11966728B2
Disclosed are various examples of intelligent provisioning management. In some examples, device configuration signatures are received for a group of client devices. A user interface shows at least one of a recommended configuration with a recommended set of hardware components, a recommended hardware specification, a recommended set of applications, and a recommended set of firmware based on a superset of firmware identified from the device configuration signatures. A request to configure a client device according to the recommendation is transmitted.
US11966723B2
Computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for managing containerized applications are described. An event associated with a containerized application are described is detected. A collection of files associated with resources for the containerized application and descriptor information for executing a lifecycle operation for the containerized application is received in response to the detected event. An execution of the lifecycle operation associated with the detected event is invoked at a node cluster of a container runtime environment, wherein the execution of the lifecycle operation is based on the collection of files, the descriptor information, and a solution image associated with the containerized application, wherein the solution image is determined based on the descriptor information.
US11966718B2
Placement of bridges connecting CAE tools and virtual ECU simulation tools is facilitated. A virtual developmental environment apparatus includes a processing execution unit and a memory for storing a MILS model including a controller block and a plant block, first setting information, a program for realizing a function in the controller block used in executing simulation of the virtual ECU, and second setting information. The processing execution unit identifies a controller block in the MILS model based on the first setting information, arranges a bridge for connecting the input port and the output port and the I/O port of the virtual ECU to the input port and the output port of the identified controller block, and connects the bridge and the I/O port of the virtual ECU based on the second setting information.
US11966714B2
A circuit of cells used as a memory array and capable of in-memory arithmetic which includes a plurality of signed ternary processing, each signed ternary processing cell includes a first memory cell, adapted to hold a first digital value, a second memory cell, adapted to hold a second digital value, wherein a binary combination of the first digital value and the second digital value establishes a first signed ternary operand, a signed ternary input forming a second signed ternary operand, and a signed ternary output, wherein the signed ternary output represents a signed multiplication of the first signed ternary operand and the second signed ternary operand, a sense circuit adapted to output a subtraction result.
US11966712B2
Provided are a server and a method for providing a multilingual subtitle service using an artificial intelligence learning model, and a method for controlling the server. The server includes: a communication unit configured to perform data communication with either or both of a first user terminal device of a client requesting translation of a content image and a second user terminal device of a worker performing a translation task; a storage configured to store a worker search list based on learned worker information, and an artificial intelligence learning model for performing a worker's task performance evaluation; and a controller configured to input image information on the content image to the artificial intelligence learning model in accordance with a worker recommendation command of the client to acquire a worker list of workers capable of translating the content image, and control the communication unit to transmit the acquired worker list to the first user terminal device. The worker information includes at least one of: profile information on each worker, a subtitle content task-completed by each worker, and task grade information evaluated for each worker.
US11966709B2
Apparatus and methods to decipher and analyze hidden/figurative meanings in communications using contextual analysis are provided. The apparatus and methods may include generating an initial list of slang words and phrases and their corresponding hidden/figurative meanings, searching the Internet for new slang words and phrases, determining the corresponding hidden/figurative meanings of the new slang words and phrases, and contextually analyzing a set of communications for hidden/figurative meaning. The apparatus and methods may include generating an alert if a relevant hidden/figurative meaning is found in the set of communications.
US11966706B2
A dialogue complexity assessment method, system, and computer program product including calculating a complexity utilizing domain-dependent terms and domain-independent terms of a dialogue, where the dialogue includes dialogue data from contact centers of service providers.
US11966702B1
This is a system for sentiment analysis and misinformation detection for text transcriptions of conversations and statement. More particularly, this is a software system that uses neural network, machine learning (ML) models, which have been trained solely on text sourced from the internet, for the classification of the sentiment and risk of misinformation conveyed through a piece of text as it relates to a specified subject matter. Such a system typically is used on digital communication platforms, such as social media sites, to enable the determination of public opinion and perception in order to provide competitive intelligence for decision-making.
US11966698B2
A system and method for automatically tagging customer messages using artificial intelligence models. A server gateway processes the customer messages via an artificial intelligence system featuring artificial intelligence models. The artificial intelligence system analyzes the customer messages to determine the content by tagging words and phrases with industry specific tags (e.g. product feedback, product defects, shipping delays, etc) as well as tags based on sentiment type (e.g., negative, positive, neutral, sarcasm, mixed) and contact type (e.g., delivery person, influencer, postsale, presale). The artificial intelligence system returns the tagged results, which are transmitted by the server gateway to a user computational device or another system for visualization.
US11966696B2
An enterprise data management system with definition quality assessment capabilities for automatically assessing the quality of definitions for terms stored in the enterprise data management system. The system can include a processor programmed to receive a term and a corresponding definition. The processor assess the quality of the definition, including for each of a plurality of quantifiable definition guidelines: deriving feature inputs based on the definition; feeding the feature inputs into a machine learning model corresponding to the definition guideline; and receiving a quality score for the definition guideline from the corresponding machine learning model. An overall quality score is calculated based on the quality score for each of the definition guidelines. The overall quality score and the quality score for each of the plurality of definition guidelines is displayed and if the overall quality score is less than a selected threshold score, a transformation of the definition is recommended.
US11966693B2
An electronic device and a method for editing a resume are provided. The electronic device includes a display, a transceiver, a storage medium, and a processor. The processor receives personal information through the transceiver, and inputs the personal information into a plurality of item templates to generate an item template with personal information and a blank item template without personal information corresponding to the plurality of item templates. The processor displays the plurality of item templates through the display, and receives a first input operation to add a first item template and a second item template in the plurality of item templates to a resume display area to generate a resume. The processor outputs the resume through the transceiver.
US11966681B2
The computer executable instructions include a command that accepts multiple user input through various command options. The command encapsulates and implements multiple original software algorithms that convert trunking design intent, expressed via the command options, into trunks on multiple layers of a process technology node. Once executed, the command generates shapes of trunks of specified topology on specified layers. The command includes a set of options to generate a simple or complex trunking topology. The command accepts topology, set of zones, nets and many other options that the user provides to the command to yield trunks of a desired topology. The topology description is relative; thus, it can easily adjust as design changes. The command together with its options represents trunk creation intent.
US11966672B2
A method and a system for simulating contact and interaction between a support member and a chamber surrounding rock mass are provided in the application. The method includes: obtaining a support scheme of a roadway to be simulated, dividing the roadway to be simulated based on the support scheme to obtain several roadway sections; obtaining physical and mechanical parameters of each rock stratum in each roadway section and an occurrence state of the roadway surrounding rock; constructing particle flow numerical models corresponding to the roadway section; through the particle flow numerical models of every two adjacent roadway sections, obtaining a particle flow meso-structural evolution model of the roadway to be simulated; obtaining meso-mechanical parameters of the roadway to be simulated based on the particle flow numerical models, calibrating the meso-mechanical parameters through the physical and mechanical parameters, establishing the particle flow meso-structural evolution model of the roadway to be simulated.
US11966665B2
The present invention provides a method for designing of a piece of apparel in particular an upper of a shoe, comprising the steps of providing at least one first panel including a plurality of feature points in an essentially two-dimensional configuration, arranging the at least one first panel on a first reference body in a three-dimensional configuration representing the piece of apparel to be designed, generating a first mapping between the two-dimensional configuration of the at least one first panel and the three-dimensional configuration of the at least one first panel using the plurality of feature points and designing the piece of apparel using the first mapping.
US11966664B2
A vehicle includes: a display; an electronic device; a control panel including a plurality of items and configured to receive control information for controlling at least one function performed in the electronic device through at least one of the plurality of items; a communicator configured to perform communication with a server; and a processor. The processor is configured to identify a first item having a same function among the plurality of items of the control panel of the vehicle and a plurality of items of a control panel provided in another vehicle, based on manual guide information of the vehicle and manual guide information of the other vehicle received through the communicator. The processor is configured to control the display to display a control panel image of the vehicle and a control panel image of the other vehicle and to display a same emoticon with respect to the identified first item on each of the control panel image of the vehicle and the control panel image of the other vehicle.
US11966659B2
Techniques for context-based display of content and alert based on distance on a multi-display system are described. For instance, the described techniques can be implemented to determine a device context based on one or more of a first instance of media content displayed on a first display device positioned at a first surface of a client device or an environment in which the client device is positioned. Based on the device context, the described techniques enable output of a second instance of media content via a second display device positioned at a second surface of the client device.
US11966655B2
A method for controlling a projecting system is provided. The method includes: causing a projector projecting a menu screen onto a screen to store definition information defining the menu screen; causing the information processing device to generate update information used to update the definition information; causing the information processing device to transmit the update information to the projector; causing the projector generating an updated definition information, based on the update information; by updating the definition information and causing the projector to generate the menu screen, based on the updated definition information.
US11966654B2
A communication apparatus capable of performing near field communication acquires communication information of a target apparatus through the near field communication, determines whether or not the target apparatus is connected to an access point to which the communication apparatus is connected, on the basis of the communication information, and accepts the target apparatus as a target to which the communication apparatus is to be connected by using a peer-to-peer communication system, when it is determined that the target apparatus is not connected to the access point to which the communication apparatus is connected.
US11966648B1
Provided is an industrial printing system that efficiently performs peer-to-peer distributed processing of production printing by grouping. The storage unit stores capability information indicating capabilities of processability in rasterizing process, printing process, and post-processing process. The group setting unit sets a group that designates an apparatus capable of processing the job based on the capability information stored in the storage unit. The job collection unit collects the job corresponding to the group set by the group setting unit by determining from processing requirement of the job. The processing management unit transmits the job collected by the job collection unit to the apparatus designated in the group and requests processing thereof.
US11966646B1
In a method for selecting a print job and displaying the print job on a second window, the print job includes a digital image to be printed on an image receiving medium by a digital printer having a user interface including a first window representing a waiting room for the print job which is selectable to be printed, and the second window for displaying a virtual representation of the image receiving medium. The method includes displaying a corner indication on the second window, the corner indication indicating a location where a top left corner of the digital image of the print job will be placed on the image receiving medium, and selecting the print job in the first window. Upon selection of the print job in the first window, the corner indication is replaced by a canvas item with a size of a layout of the digital image of the selected print job, and the corner indication is moved to a location on the virtual representation where a next to be selected print job will originate. Upon moving or copying the selected print job from the first window to the second window, the canvas item is replaced by a preview image of the digital image of the selected print job of the same size as the layout.
US11966643B2
A controller is configured to: perform a registration process for again storing connection information in an intermediary server; after the registration process, perform a transition process of changing a state of a device from a first state to a second state, the first state being a state where setting information is stored in a memory and a service is usable by the device, the second state being a state where intermediary server information is stored in the memory and the connection information and the setting information are not stored in the memory; after the transition process, receive, from the intermediary server, the connection information that is stored again; connect to a target server by using the received connection information and again receive the setting information from the target server; and store, in the memory, the setting information that is received again.
US11966635B2
A memory device may include logical units configured to store data, wherein the logical units are identified by corresponding logical unit numbers (LUNs) and are associated with corresponding LUN queue groups. Each LUN queue group may include LUN queues that are each associated with a respective intra-LUN priority level that indicates a priority of a LUN queue within a LUN queue group. The LUN queues are each associated with a respective execution priority level that indicates a priority for execution of commands in a LUN queue across LUN queue groups. A quantity of intra-LUN priority levels may be greater than a quantity of execution priority levels. A LUN scheduler may be configured to select and transfer commands from LUN queue groups to the execution queue group based on intra-LUN priority levels. A command executor may be configured to execute commands from the execution queue group based on execution priority levels.
US11966629B2
A distributed data storage system can be configured with a host connected to a first device and an initialization module that performs a default initialization procedure on the first device in response to detecting the first device has an unknown manufacturing origin. Conducting the default initialization procedure may allow the first device to service data access requests from the host. In response to the connection of a second device to the host and initialization module, a manufacturing origin of the second device is identified with the initialization module before the initialization module customizes the default initialization procedure to a custom procedure that is executed to allow the second device to satisfy a background operation prescribed by the initialization module.
US11966626B2
In one example, a flash storage device includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes non-volatile memory cells organized into blocks. The blocks are switchable between multi-bit mode and single-bit mode for storing data. The blocks in single-bit mode have a lower storage density and a higher write endurance than the blocks in multi-bit mode. The controller is configured to receive a write request from a host, and to determine whether a trigger event has occurred to switch one or more of the blocks from multi-bit mode to single-bit mode. Based on the controller determining that the trigger event has occurred, the controller is further configured to switch the one or more blocks from multi-bit mode to single bit mode, and to store, in single-bit mode, data for the write request in the one or more blocks at the lower data storage density.
US11966611B2
The disclosed technology relates determining a first subset of a plurality drives having a first zone size and a second subset of the plurality of drives having a second zone size different from the first zone size, within a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group. A prevailing zone size between the first zone size and the second zone size is determined. One or more logical zones within the determined first subset of the plurality of drives and the determined second subset of the plurality of drives for a received input-output operation is reserved based on the determined prevailing zone size. The received input-output operation is completed within the reserved one or more logical zones within the determined first subset of the plurality of drives and the determined second subset of the plurality of drives.
US11966598B2
Indices of storage systems are managed. An example method includes: receiving a flush cycle for flushing expired events in a storage system including multiple events in a data stream, determining, based on the flush cycle, a time slice for managing the index of the storage system, creating a slice index node for the time slice in response to determining that the occurrence time of a first event that enters the storage system in the data stream is within the time slice, wherein the slice index node includes an index node of the first event, and adding the slice index node to the index. A corresponding device and a corresponding computer program product are provided. Thus, the index of a large number of events entering the storage system is managed according to the occurrence time of the events, and the storage system can be searched and updated accurately and effectively.
US11966594B2
In certain aspects, a memory system includes at least one memory device and a memory controller coupled to the at least one memory device. The memory controller may be configured to determine a current power consumption value indicating total concurrent power consumption of executing a plurality of memory operations in parallel. The memory controller may also be configured to determine an addon power consumption value indicating additional power consumption of executing a subsequent memory operation. The memory controller may be further configured to determine whether a summation of the current and the addon power consumption values exceeds a predetermined power consumption threshold. After determining that the summation of the current and the addon power consumption values does not exceed the predetermined power consumption threshold, the memory controller may be configured to execute the subsequent memory operation in parallel with the plurality of memory operations.
US11966592B1
Embodiments are directed to in-place erasure code transcoding for distributed file systems. A file system may be divided into a first partition associated with a first erasure code and a second partition second partition is associated with a second erasure code. If the second partition has sufficient storage space to store protection groups further actions may be performed, including: determining block stores in the first partition associated with the protection groups; transcoding contents of the block stores into other block stores based on the second erasure code; storing the other block stores in the second partition; deleting the block stores from the first partition; shifting another portion of the storage space from the first partition to the second partition such that the shifted other portion increases a size of the second partition to provide sufficient storage space for other protection groups; or the like.
US11966586B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a media temperature manager receiving operating temperature measurements for a memory subsystem. The media temperature manager generates an average temperature using the operating temperature measurements. The media temperature manager determines that the average temperature satisfies a first value for a dynamic temperature threshold. The dynamic temperature threshold indicates a temperature at which the memory subsystem throttles media operations. The media temperature manager increases the dynamic temperature threshold to a second value in response to the average temperature satisfying the first value for the dynamic temperature threshold.
US11966581B2
According to one general aspect, a memory management unit (MMU) may be configured to interface with a heterogeneous memory system that comprises a plurality of types of storage mediums. Each type of storage medium may be based upon a respective memory technology and may be associated with performance characteristic(s). The MMU may receive a data access for the heterogeneous memory system. The MMU may also determine at least one of the storage mediums of the heterogeneous memory system to service the data access. The target storage medium may be selected based upon at least one performance characteristic associated with the target storage medium and a quality of service tag that is associated with the virtual machine and that indicates one or more performance characteristics. The MMU may route the data access by the virtual machine to the at least one of the storage mediums.
US11966575B2
An interface may receive user input, wherein two or more interactive shapes are shown on the interface, wherein each interactive shape represents a query of scoring an attribute, and wherein a size parameter of a first of the two or more interactive shapes is indicative of the scoring of the represented attribute. The method comprises retrieving a user selection of one interactive shape of the two or more interactive shapes so that the one interactive shape becomes a selected master shape and the remaining of the two or more interactive shapes becomes non-selected slave shapes, retrieving a user request for increasing or decreasing of the size parameter of the selected master shape, and resealing the size parameter of the non-selected slave shapes such that a sum of the size parameters of the two or more interactive shapes is kept at a constant value.
US11966571B2
Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method comprising aggregating PFAS remediation evaluation data for a plurality of remediation options and for a plurality of predefined criteria; graphically displaying the user modifiable chart comprising the plurality of graphical representations of the aggregated PFAS remediation evaluation data, wherein: each graphical representation depicts data points visually plotted with weights, the plurality of graphical representations for the plurality of predefined criteria are visually ordered according to a rank of the plurality of predefined criteria, and the weights are based on the rank of the plurality of predefined criteria; detecting a first user input modifying the rank of at least one predefined criterion; in accordance with the first user input, automatically updating the weights of the data points; and displaying an updated user modifiable chart comprising the plurality of graphical representations of the aggregated PFAS remediation evaluation data.
US11966565B1
A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product generate a contextual display for a mobile computing device. The method includes identifying a task for the mobile computing device, wherein the task comprises a set of applications on the mobile computing device. The method also includes obtaining application usage data for each application in the set of applications and determining an application context for the task based on the application usage data and the set of applications, wherein the application context includes usage requirements for each application. In addition, the method includes generating a tile view for each application in the set of applications, wherein each tile view is laid out based on the usage requirements. Lastly, the method includes displaying a task view on the mobile computing device, wherein the task view is generated by laying out the tile views based on the usage requirements.
US11966562B2
An approach for automatically generate the Natural Language Interface (NLI) directly from the Graphical User Interface (GUI) code is disclosed. The approach leverages the use of mapping between GUI components to pre-defined NLI components in order to generate the necessary NLI components (e.g., intent example, entities, etc.) from the GUI code representation. The approach can leverage pre-defined patterns in order to generate these intent examples for each kind of NLI components. The created NLI dialog can be used simultaneously with the GUI or as a standalone feature.
US11966561B1
A method includes, responsive to user input, scrolling a plurality of elements visible on a user interface (UI) to scroll out of view, from the UI, one or more first elements of the plurality of elements that were visible in the UI prior to the user input, and to scroll into view, in the UI, one or more second elements that were not visible in the UI prior to the user input. A first media player and a second media player are concurrently visible in the UI responsive to the scrolling. The method further includes, responsive to first playback of a first media item via the first media player having priority over second playback of a second media item via the second media player, preventing the second playback of the second media item during the first playback of the first media item.
US11966557B2
A user interface adjustment method and apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The user interface adjustment method includes: receiving a first touch input on an icon adjustment control in a case that the icon adjustment control is displayed, where the icon adjustment control includes a plurality of adjustment regions, and the plurality of adjustment regions each are associated with a different icon display parameter; determining, in response to the first touch input, a target adjustment region corresponding to the first touch input and a target icon display parameter associated with the target adjustment region; and adjusting a display parameter of a target application icon to the target icon display parameter.
US11966545B2
A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed comprising a panel that defines a touch surface, a plurality of light emitters and detectors arranged along a perimeter of the panel. The light emitters are arranged to emit a respective beam of emitted light that travels above the touch surface, wherein the light detectors are arranged to receive detection light from the emitted light. The plurality of light emitters and detectors are arranged above the touch surface and are connected to a substrate extending in a direction parallel with a normal axis of a plane in which the panel extends. A method of assembling a touch sensing apparatus is also disclosed.
US11966542B2
A touch panel system includes a capacitive touch panel and a controller that controls the touch panel. The touch panel includes drive electrodes and floating island electrodes located on a first substrate and position detection electrodes, pressure detection electrodes, and heat detection electrodes located on a second substrate. The drive electrode overlaps at least part of the heat detection electrode and at least part of the pressure detection electrode, and the floating island electrode overlaps at least part of the position detection electrode in plan view. The controller provides a drive signal to the drive electrodes and the heat detection electrodes and corrects a pressure detection signal obtained from each of the pressure detection electrodes by using a heat detection signal obtained from a change in a coupling capacitance between the pressure detection electrode and the heat detection electrode.
US11966539B2
Disclosed is a method and a device for adjusting a touch capacitance data, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring the touch capacitance data; calculating a variation of a compensation capacitance value required to adjust the touch capacitance data to a target value according to a configured compensation step value; judging whether the touch capacitance data is in a nonlinear range; according to the judgment result, performing a corresponding compensation operation with the variation of the compensation capacitance value. The method enables the touch capacitance data to be automatically adjusted to being close to the target value, thus improving the accuracy of adjusting the touch capacitance data.
US11966534B2
The present disclosure of the disclosure are related to a touch driving circuit and a touch display device, in a touch sensor structure performing a touch sensing based on a mutual-capacitance, as performing a touch sensing based on a self-capacitance and a touch sensing based on the mutual-capacitance, a performance of a touch sensing may be improved. Furthermore, as driving channels of X-touch electrode line of Y-touch electrode line partially in a period performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance, the number of channels driven in each period is reduced and a noise according to a display driving may be reduced when performing a touch sensing based on the self-capacitance.
US11966525B2
A touch device with the FPR function includes a plurality of sensing regions, a plurality of first switch sets, a plurality of first shift register circuits, a plurality of second switch sets, and a plurality of second shift register circuits. The first switch sets are coupled to transmitting electrodes and to transmit a first signal. The first shift register circuits are to control the first switch sets according to a plurality of first reset signals and a plurality of first control signals respectively. The second switch sets are coupled to receiving electrodes and to receive a second signal. The second shift register circuits are to control the second switch sets according to a second reset signal and a plurality of second control signals. The first signal and the second signal are for a touch operation and a FPR operation.
US11966524B2
A touch control system includes: a touch panel; an active pen having a plurality of functions, the functions being used for controlling the active pen or the touch panel and initiated only by at least one voice signal, the active pen including: a voice receiving module configured to receive the at least one voice signal; a voice analyzing module configured to analyze the at least one voice signal to generate a controlling command; and a control module configured to determine that the controlling command is configured to control the active pen or the touch panel; and a touch controller electrically connected to the touch panel and receive, in response to the controlling command being configured to control the touch panel, the controlling command.
US11966523B2
An apparatus for carrying out inputs in an input capturing unit that can be coupled to the apparatus. An operating device has a receiving part and an operating element that is rotatably mounted on the receiving part. The operating element can be rotated by a finger to effect an input. A torque for the rotation of the control element can be adjusted by way of a controllable braking device. In addition, the control element has at least two actuating zones. The resistance to movement for the movability of the operating element can be adjusted depending on from which actuation zone the operating element is actuated and/or which actuation zone was previously activated.
US11966521B2
A battery-operated handheld device including a housing to enclose electrical components and a battery holder. The battery holder including a first battery slot and a second battery slot. The first and second battery slots being sized to hold batteries of different battery sizes. The second battery slot being alongside the first battery slot. The electrical components of the handheld device may be powered by either the first battery inserted into the first battery slot or the second battery inserted into the second battery slot. The battery holder may serve as an adjustable weight distribution mechanism to shift a centre of gravity of the handheld device between a first predetermined centre of gravity associated with the first battery inserted into the first battery slot and a second predetermined centre of gravity associated with the second battery inserted into the second battery slot.
US11966520B1
Computer mice for ambidextrous use are disclosed. An example mouse includes a based and a cover. The base may mount one or more electronic devices for sensing. The cover may be coupled to the base in a first orientation relative to the base in a first mode, may be detached from the base, and may be coupled to the base in a second orientation reverse to the first orientation in a second mode.
US11966518B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to effectuating device arbitration in a multi-device environment using data available from a wearable computing device, such as computerized glasses. The computerized glasses can include a camera, which can be used to provide image data for resolving issues related to device arbitration. In some implementations, a direction that a user is directing their computerized glasses, and/or directing their gaze (as detected by the computerized glasses with prior permission from the user), can be used to prioritize a particular device in a multi-device environment. A detected orientation of the computerized glasses can also be used to determine how to simultaneously allocate content between a graphical display of the computerized glasses and another graphical display of another client device. When content is allocated to the computerized glasses, content-specific gestures can be enabled and actionable at the computerized glasses.
US11966515B2
An exemplary method includes a gesture recognition system determining, based on imagery of a user while the user touchlessly interacts with a user interface of a computer system, a configuration of a plurality of landmarks associated with the user and comparing the configuration of the plurality of landmarks to defined landmark configurations associated with a plurality of defined gestures. Each of the plurality of defined gestures may be associated with a different user input enterable by way of the user interface of the computer system. The method may further include the gesture recognition system selecting, based on the comparing of the configuration of the plurality of landmarks to the defined landmark configurations associated with the plurality of defined gestures, a defined gesture included in the plurality of defined gestures, and directing the computer system to enter a user input that is associated with the defined gesture.
US11966514B2
A tactile presentation device includes a panel, a first supporting member that secures and supports a first end of the panel, a vibration generator disposed at a position facing the first supporting member across a target area to be touched by a user on the panel, and a driving control device that provides the vibration generator with a driving signal. The driving control device makes only the vibration generator vibrate to form a standing wave in an area including the target area between the vibration generator and the first end. A first vibration reflection rate at the first end for a carrier wave from the vibration generator is negative. A second vibration reflection rate for the carrier wave from the vibration generator at a second end of the panel that is opposing to the first end across the vibration generator is greater than the first vibration reflection rate.
US11966508B2
A survey system is provided which includes a surveying instrument capable of making distance and angle measurements of a target attached to a pole, and an eyewear device including an eye sensor configured to detect an eye motion, and an input unit for inputting a command corresponding to an eye motion detected by the eye sensor into the surveying instrument, and capable of displaying an image superimposed on a landscape. Measurement points are displayed on the eyewear device by being synchronized with and superimposed on a landscape of a survey site, and from the eyewear device worn by a worker, according to an eye motion, a command is input into the surveying instrument and distance and angle measurements of the target are made. A worker can perform a work while keeping a posture gripping the pole.
US11966497B2
A portable communication device, method, and system enable temporary access to private user information by a venue communication system. The temporary access to the private information is based on a registration that includes user selectable privacy thresholds and predetermined venue conditions. The temporary access by the venue communication system can be adjusted and limited by the portable communication device. The usage of the private data by the venue communication system may be limited to anonymous analytics and/or extended to non-anonymous analytics and notifications based on user input to the communication device.
US11966495B2
A system and method for managing access to entity identity data are described. The system comprises a communications module; a processor coupled with the communications module; and a memory coupled to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to authenticate a remote device as being associated with an entity; receive, via the communications module and from the remote device, pre-consent data identifying one or more third parties permitted to access entity identity data for the entity; store, in the memory, the pre-consent data in association with the entity; receive, via the communications module and from a digital identity network, a signal representing a request to release the entity identity data to the third party; determine, based on the pre-consent data, that the entity identity data is to be released to the third party; and initiate release of the entity identity data to a computing device associated with the third party.
US11966490B2
An information handling system may receive, from a first sensor of the information handling system, first sensor data. The information handling system may receive, from a second sensor of the information handling system, second sensor data. Based, at least in part, on the first sensor data and the second sensor data, the information handling system may generate a plurality of security profiles for the information handling system. Based, at least in part, on the first sensor data and the second sensor data, the information handling system may apply a security profile of the plurality of security profiles to the information handling system.
US11966482B2
An enterprise security system is improved by managing network flows based on an application type. When a network message having an unknown application type is received at a gateway, firewall, or other network device/service from an endpoint, the endpoint that originated the network message may be queried for identifying information for the source of the network message and the application type may be determined, or the endpoint may periodically communicate application type information to the network device in a heartbeat or other periodic communication or the like. The network message may be managed along with other network traffic according to the application type.
US11966471B2
Secure circuitry detects a latency between when an interrupt occurred and when the interrupt was released in correspondence with handling of the interrupt. The secure circuitry detects an interval between consecutive occurrences of the interrupt. In response to either or both of the latency exceeding a latency limit and the interval exceeding an interval limit, the secure circuitry performs an action.
US11966470B2
A computer-implemented method and a computer system for detecting and preventing distributed data exfiltration attacks. The computer system calculates historical usage statistics for a service, instances of the service, and clients requesting the instances, generates a baseline of normal usage activities for the clients and the instances based on the historical usage statistics, monitors current activities of the clients to build signatures of queries by the clients and signatures of the instances, and correlates the signatures to determine whether a data exfiltration attack is in progress. In response to determining that the data exfiltration attack is in progress, the computer system increases one or more risk scores corresponding to the data exfiltration attack. In response to determining that the one or more risk scores and an overall risk score of the service exceed a predetermined threshold, the computer system generates an alert of the data exfiltration attack.
US11966459B2
Systems and methods include providing virtual certification number (VCN) authorizations to an external entity by receiving a plurality of secure entity global authorizations comprising global VCN authorizations and global primary account number (PAN) authorizations, identifying the global VCN authorizations, identifying a subset of the global VCN authorizations, each of the subset of the global VCN authorizations corresponding to an external entity authorization, comparing the subset of global VCN authorizations to previously provided VCN authorizations, to identify an unsent VCN authorization, storing a transmittable unsent VCN authorization based on the unsent VCN authorization, providing an unsent authorization indication to the external entity, receiving, from the external entity, a request for the unsent VCN authorization based on providing the unsent authorization indication to the external entity, and providing the transmittable unsent VCN authorization to the external entity, based on storing the transmittable unsent VCN authorization and verifying a consent flag.
US11966456B2
A management system includes circuitry to receive an operation request for a specific device of one or more devices from a communication terminal used by a user for who user authentication has been successfully performed by a management system. The one or more devices and the communication terminal are communicating with each other to execute an event managed by the management system. The circuitry stores, in a memory, operation identification information and access information in association with each other. The operation identification information identifies a device operation associated with the operation request. The access information is associated with the user and used to access external storage. The circuitry uploads data acquired by the specific device according to the device operation corresponding to the operation identification information to the external storage using the access information associated with the operation identification information.
US11966455B2
A text partitioning method, a text classifying method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium, wherein the method includes: parsing a content image, to obtain a target text in a text format; according to a line break in the target text, partitioning the target text into a plurality of text sections; and according to a first data-volume threshold, partitioning sequentially the plurality of text sections into a plurality of text-to-be-predicted sets, wherein a data volume of a last one text section in each of the text-to-be-predicted sets is greater than a second data-volume threshold.
US11966454B2
A neural network system implements a model for generating an output image based on a received input image. The model is learned through a training process during which parameters associated with the model are adjusted so as to maximize a difference between a first image predicted using first parameter values of the model and a second image predicted using second parameter values of the model, and to minimize a difference between the second image and a ground truth image. During a first iteration of the training process the first image is predicted and during a second iteration the second image is predicted. The first parameter values are obtained during the first iteration by minimizing a difference between the first image and the ground truth image, and the second parameter values are obtained during the second iteration by maximizing the difference between the first image and the second image.
US11966427B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate keyword-object taxonomy generation and utilization are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a receiver component that can access an input object class. In various aspects, the system can comprise a taxonomy component that can output one or more keyword combinations that are non-redundant and relevant to the input object class, based on querying a keyword-object taxonomy. In various instances, the receiver component can access (and/or be provided with an electronic link to) a set of recorded keyword combinations and a set of recorded object classes respectively corresponding to the set of keyword combinations. In various cases, the taxonomy component can generate the keyword-object taxonomy based on the set of recorded keyword combinations and the set of recorded object classes.
US11966426B2
Systems and methods for querying and obtaining results from an external data source that operates with a different querying language is provided. The system activates a datasource connector of the system. The system receives attributes of a query in a native language of the system, and the datasource connector formats the attributes of the query into a query language statement in a native language of the external source. The datasource connector then makes an application programming interface (API) call to the external source. The API call includes a transmission of the query language statement to the external source, which causes the external source to perform a query using the query language statement. The datasource connector receives results of the query performed at the external source, whereby the results are in a non-tabular format. The datasource connector then reformats the results into a tabular format.
US11966425B2
Systems and methods for improving a search process by providing a visual guided search experience is provided. A networked system determines a location of a user device. A user interface (UI) is presented illustrating a map at a first level view of an area based on the location. The networked system receives, via the UI, a first touch input indicating a zoom selection. In response, the UI shows a second level view of the area that includes a plurality of nodes each representing a point of interest in the area. The second level view is a lower level view than the first level view. The networked system then receives, via the UI, a second touch input selecting a node of the plurality of node. In response to the selecting of the node, navigation information for a selected point of interest corresponding to the selected node is presented.
US11966423B2
A user selects a node that specifies an operation for a dataset. In response, a computer system displays data values for the dataset, in a grid in a data pane. The grid includes a first column and a second column. In the grid, the user edits a first data value in the first column in a first row. The user input changes the first data value to a replacement data value. The computer system identifies a second data value in the second column in the first row, and identifies one or more additional rows in the grid, whose data values for the first column and the second column match the first data value and the second data value. The computer system then updates the data value in the first column for a second row in the grid to the replacement data value.
US11966419B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for scoring and visualizing combined search results, comprising: (a) performing a plurality of individual searches on data objects stored in a database, wherein the data objects are stored in defined fixed data structures; (b) combining the plurality of individual searches into a combined search; (c) determining a weight for each of the individual searches; and (d) obtaining a search result of the combined search, wherein the search result of the combined search comprises scores associated with a subset of the data objects.
US11966418B2
Systems and methods are provided for adaptive data replication. A first data object is stored. One or more first network characteristics of a communication network are detected. A first replication mode is triggered (e.g., a single-master replication mode) based on the one or more first network characteristics of the communication network. The single-master replication may be configured to facilitate real-time synchronizations (e.g., for critical updates). One or more second network characteristics of the communication network are detected. A second replication mode (e.g., a multi-master replication mode) is triggered based on the one or more second network characteristics. The second replication may be configured to facilitate a delayed synchronization (e.g., for non-critical updates) of the first data object and the second data object using the second update file.
US11966417B2
Example caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method identifies multiple files used to process a query and distributes each of the multiple files to a particular execution node to execute the query. Each execution node determines whether the distributed file is stored in the execution node's cache. If the execution node determines that the file is stored in the cache, it processes the query using the cached file. If the file is not stored in the cache, the execution node retrieves the file from a remote storage device, stores the file in the execution node's cache, and processes the query using the file.
US11966416B2
Techniques for triggering pipeline execution based on data change (transaction commit) are described. The pipelines can be used for data ingestion or other specified tasks. These tasks can be operational across account, organization, cloud region, and cloud provider boundaries. The tasks can be triggered by commit post-processing. Gates in the tasks can be set up to reference change data capture information. If the gate is satisfied, tasks can be executed to set up data pipelines.
US11966404B2
Methods and apparatus to facilitate matching of names for same media content are disclosed. Example methods include analyzing first data associated with first media content and, when a program name/identifier and/or episode name/identifier is not identified in the first data, supplementing the data with second data to form third data and processing the third data with respect to fourth data associated with second media content and calculating a composite match score including a program match score and an episode match score based on processing the third data with respect to the fourth data. When the first media content is determined to match the second media content based on the processing of the third data with respect to the fourth data and a comparison of the composite match score to a threshold is satisfied, a normalized media name is generated for the first media content and the second media content.
US11966400B2
Common database architecture to support largescale transactions and node archival on a MaaS platform
A system, including a plurality of node packages, an aggregator database node, and an archival database node, is provided. Each node package includes a subscriber node, an MP node, and a MaaS node. A first MaaS node selects a first set of transaction records from the first MaaS node based on a first data retention threshold and a first storage duration, and transmits the first set of transaction records to the aggregator database node for storage. The first MaaS node further controls a selection of a second set of transaction records from a third set of transaction records stored on the aggregator database node and controls a transmission of the second set of transaction records to the archival database node for storage. The selection of the second set of transaction records is based on a second data retention threshold and a second storage duration.
US11966398B2
A method for storing video data includes, when receiving the I-frame data to be stored, detecting whether the written data exists in the video cache space; when detecting that the written data exists in the video cache space, reading a target writing position of the I-frame data to be stored and determining whether the target writing position is located within a position range corresponding to the written data in the first cache space; when determining the target writing position is located within the position range, writing, based on the target writing position, the I-frame data to be stored to the first cache space for caching and detecting whether the first cache space is full; and when detecting that the first cache space is full, writing all the video data in the video cache space to a memory space of the terminal device for storage and emptying the video cache space.
US11966393B2
A system includes reception of a request to fetch a first dataset, the request including a first identifier associated with the first dataset, determination, in response to the request, of a first signature associated with the first dataset based on the first identifier and on respective identifiers of one or more datasets fetched consecutively with the first dataset, and determination, based on the determined first signature, of whether to update a first link associating a second dataset with the first dataset, the link indicating to prefetch the first dataset in response to a request to fetch the second dataset.
US11966389B2
A method (and structure and computer product) of machine translation for processing input questions includes receiving, in a processor on a computer, an input question presented in a natural language. The input question is preprocessed to find one or more condition values for possible Structured Query Language (SQL) queries. One or more possible SQL queries are enumerated based on the one or more found condition values and a paraphrasing model is used to rank the enumerated SQL queries. The highest ranked SQL query is executed against a relational database to search for a response to the input question.
US11966375B2
The system creates a central UUID index mapping multiple local identifiers of multiple records in multiple databases to an identifier unique across the multiple databases including a first database without a UUID index. The first database includes a record having a first identifier. A second database includes an equivalent record having a second identifier different from the first identifier. The universally unique identifier in the central UUID index represents the first and the second identifier. The system receives a request from the first database to obtain an equivalent record from the second database, where the request includes an identifier of a record in the first database. The system determines that the identifier is a local identifier unique to the first database, based on the central UUID index. The system then converts the local identifier to the universally unique identifier, and sends the universally unique identifier to the first database.
US11966374B2
The present invention discloses a medical clinical data quality analysis system based on big data, which relates to the field of medical big data technologies. The present invention is used to solve the technical problems that multi-link classified acquisition cannot be carried out on medical behaviors, and the quality of clinical data cannot be analyzed and reflected at the front end, middle link, and tail end of management. In the present invention, authenticity data, compliance data, process data and conclusive data are comprehensively acquired in admission, hospitalization, and discharge links of medical clinical data quality management, which is conducive to implementing multi-link classified acquisition of clinical medical behaviors, thereby facilitating subsequent dynamic and orderly quality analysis and control of clinical data.
US11966369B2
A file management device includes a processor configured to: add specific information to a file to be managed, the specific information specifying the file to be managed which is stored in a file system, the specific information being managed in association with a storage location on the file system; and when the file downloaded to an outside of the file system is re-uploaded from an external device to the file system, acquire the specific information added to the file, and specify the storage location on the file system based on the specific information.
US11966367B2
A method includes receiving a system call from an application within a container executing on an operating system, the system call comprising a synchronization operation to synchronize memory of the application to storage. The method further includes determining, by the kernel, whether a system call filtering policy associated with the container indicates that the system call is to be prevented. preventing, by the kernel, performance of the synchronization operation in view of the system call filtering policy.
US11966366B2
Method and systems for creating clinical data files with secured medical information. A clinical data file may be created by converting clinical data to a single format, and the medical information may be entered into corresponding data fields in the clinical data file. The medical information may include treatment professional information, patient personal information, and/or patient image(s). Each of the data fields may be associated with an indicator, where the indicator, when enabled, may be configured to secure at least a portion of the medical information in the corresponding data field. The secured clinical data file may be configured such that, once a pass code is entered, the patient image(s) are modifiable by the addition of modification(s) that are arranged as layer(s) saved separately from the patient image(s).
US11966365B2
A terminal device may, in a case where a first association instruction is acquired, store a first association between a label file and a first database file, and, in a case where a second association instruction is acquired, store a second association between a first object area and a first field name. The terminal device may, in a case where a first print instruction is acquired, create N pieces of first print data and send the N pieces of first print data to a label printer. The terminal device may, in a case where a disassociation instruction is acquired under the state where the first association and the second association are stored, disassociate the first association between the label file and the first database file without disassociating the second association between the first object area and the first field name.
US11966363B2
Disclosed is a new identifier allocation approach for allocating repository object identifiers beyond a maximum number usually allowed for a single repository. The new identifier allocation approach includes an enhanced identifier structure in which a portion usually reserved for a docbase identifier is modified to combine with a partition identifier. The actual docbase identifier is stored in a server configuration file. When the maximum number of object identifiers has been allocated, a new partition is created and a sequence table is updated with a new entry that reflects the new partition. A new repository object identifier is allocated using the docbase identifier combined with the new partition identifier. In this way, more than 4 billion objects per object type can be addressed uniquely within a docbase by creating new partitions. This new approach is very unique and flexible in accommodating both on premises and multi-tenant environments.
US11966354B1
Methods and apparatus for processing signals captured by one or more sensors are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first signal from a control circuit, the first signal including control data associated with the one or more sensors, recovering a fixed frequency clock signal and a control signal from the first signal, generating a spread spectrum clock signal based on the fixed frequency clock signal, receiving a sensor data signal based at least in part on data captured by the one or more sensors, the spread spectrum clock signal, and the control signal, retiming the sensor data signal based at least in part on the spread spectrum clock signal and the fixed frequency clock signal, and generating an output signal based on the retimed sensor data signal.
US11966340B2
To automate time series forecasting machine learning pipeline generation, a data allocation size of time series data may be determined based on one or more characteristics of a time series data set. The time series data may be allocated for use by candidate machine learning pipelines based on the data allocation size. Features for the time series data may be determined and cached by the candidate machine learning pipelines. Predictions of each of the candidate machine learning pipelines using at least the one or more features may be evaluated. A ranked list of machine learning pipelines may be automatically generated from the candidate machine learning pipelines for time series forecasting based upon evaluating predictions of each of the one or more candidate machine learning pipelines.
US11966336B2
Some embodiments provide a program that receives a first set of data and a first greenhouse gas emission value. The program stores, in a cache, the first set of data and the first greenhouse gas emission value. The program receives a second set of data and a second greenhouse gas emission value. The program stores, in the cache, the second set of data and the second greenhouse gas emission value. The program receives a third set of data and a third greenhouse gas emission value. The program determines one of the first and second sets of data to remove from the cache based on the first and second greenhouse gas emission values. The program replaces, in the cache, one of the first and second sets of data and the corresponding first or second greenhouse gas emission value with the third set of data and the third greenhouse gas emission value.
US11966334B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to linear address masking architecture are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes an address generation unit to generate a linear address for a memory access request to a memory, at least one control register comprising a user mode masking bit and a supervisor mode masking bit, a register comprising a current privilege level indication, and a memory management unit to mask out a proper subset of bits inside an address space of the linear address for the memory access request based on the current privilege level indication and either of the user mode masking bit or the supervisor mode masking bit to produce a resultant linear address, and output the resultant linear address.
US11966315B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for advising a user when an energy storage device in a computing system needs charging. State of charge data of the energy storage device can be measured and stored at regular intervals. The historic state of charge data can be queried over a plurality of intervals and a state of charge curve generated that is representative of a user's charging habits over time. The state of charge curve can be used to generate a rate of charge histogram and an acceleration of charge histogram. These can be used to predict when a user will charge next, and whether the energy storage device will have an amount of energy below a predetermined threshold amount before the next predicted charging time. A first device can determine when a second device typically charges and whether the energy storage device in the second device will have an amount of energy below the predetermined threshold amount before the next predicted charge time for the second device. The first device can generate an advice to charge notification to the user on either, or both, devices.
US11966310B1
An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes one or more functional hardware circuits, one or more processor cores, a cause-tree circuit, a memory buffer, and an analysis circuit. The processor cores are to handle events occurring in the functional hardware circuits. The cause-tree circuit includes leaf nodes, middle nodes and a root node. The leaf nodes are to collect the events from the one or more functional hardware circuits. The middle nodes are to coalesce the collected events and to deliver the events to the root node. The memory buffer is to buffer a plurality of the events delivered to the root node, so as to trigger the processor cores to handle the buffered events. The buffer analysis circuit is to analyze a performance of the cause-tree circuit based on the events buffered in the memory buffer.
US11966307B2
Systems and methods for re-aligning data replication configuration of a cross-site storage solution after a failover are provided. According to one embodiment, after a failover, the new primary distributed storage system orchestrates flipping of the data replication configuration of a peered consistency group (CG) to reestablish zero RPO and zero RTO protections for the peered CG. The primary causes the secondary distributed storage system to perform an atomic database operation on its remote configuration database to (i) delete an existing source configuration that identifies the secondary as a source of data replication; and (ii) persist a new destination configuration identifying the secondary as a destination of data replication. Then, the primary performs an atomic database operation on its local configuration database to (i) delete an existing destination configuration identifying the primary as the destination; and (ii) persist a new source configuration identifying the distributed storage system as the source.
US11966306B1
Availability zone and region recovery are described. For an availability zone (AZ), a recovery availability zone (rAZ) may be identified based on available computing capacity of the recovery availability zone and geographic proximity of the availability zone relative to the recovery availability zone. In an instance in which the availability zone is impacted in which at least one of hardware and software of the availability zone is not fully operational, a virtual private cloud (VPC) is generated that establishes a peered connection between the availability zone and the recovery availability zone. A service is executed in the recovery availability zone, permitting any other services executing in the availability zone to invoke the service and become partially or fully operational.
US11966303B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems including memory self-recovery management to correct failures due to soft-error rate events. The self-recovery manager detects a failure of a memory device. The self-recovery manager retrieves a set of register values from the memory device. The self-recovery manager stores the set of register values from the memory device. The self-recovery manager issues a reset command to the memory device, the reset command including generating a re-initialized set of register values. The self-recovery manager compares the set of register values with the re-initialized set of register values. The self-recovery manager triggering a self-recovery attempt using the comparison of the set of register values with the re-initialized set of register values.
US11966302B2
A virtual machine disk image file backup is selected among a plurality of virtual machine disk image file backups stored on a backup storage based on a backup update policy. A version of the selected virtual machine disk image file backup is mounted. Based on the backup update policy, an update to the mounted version of the selected virtual machine disk image file backup is applied without restoring the selected virtual machine disk image file backup. The updated version of the selected virtual machine disk image file backup is stored on the backup storage.
US11966298B2
The present application provides a data backup method and a restoration method for an NVDIMM, an NVDIMM controller and an NVDIMM. The NVDIMM (200) comprises a DRAM (201), a NAND flash memory (202) and an NVDIMM controller (100), the NVDIMM controller (100) controlling the NVDIMM (200) and comprising a DDR controller (101), a NAND flash memory controller (102), a data backup module (103) and a data restoration module (104), the DDR controller (101) using and enabling DBI mechanism. During data backup, the DDR controller (101) reads N-bit DQi and 1-bit DBI from the DRAM (201) and sends the same to the data backup module (103). When DBIi is “1”, the data backup module (103) compares the DQi and DQi-1. If the number of bits of the DQi and the DQi-1 with different values is greater than N/2, then the DQi is inverted and the DBIi is set to “0”, and otherwise the DQi and the DBIi are remained unchanged. When the DBIi is “0”, the DQi and the DBIi are remained unchanged. The data backup module (103) sends the processed DQi and DBIi to the NAND flash memory controller (102), which then writes the processed DQi and DBIi into the NAND flash memory (202).
US11966296B2
A master-slave architecture deployment method based on snapshot includes: restoring a core library corresponding to a MySQL database at any point in snapshot time, where the core library is a virtual library of the MySQL database; querying out at least one piece of configuration information necessary for master-slave configuration of the MySQL database by using the core library as baseline; taking a snapshot on the core library by using a snapshot technology; creating and cloning at least one copy library corresponding to the core library respectively based on the snapshot and the at least one piece of configuration information necessary for master-slave configuration; and configuring a master-slave relationship and a master library and a slave library corresponding to the master-slave relationship for the core library and the at least one copy library. A master-slave architecture deployment device based on snapshot is further provided.
US11966295B2
Various implementations described herein relate to systems and methods for a Solid State Drive (SSD) to manage data in response to a power loss event, including writing data received from a host to a volatile storage of the SSD, detecting the power loss event before the data is written to a non-volatile storage of the SSD, storing the write commands to a non-volatile storage of the SSD, marking at least one storage location of the SSD associated with the write commands as uncorrectable, for example, after the power is restored.
US11966274B2
The technology described herein is directed towards optimizing power consumption of devices, e.g., in a datacenter. A modified (two-tier) genetic algorithm performs a carbon footprint-based optimization in a first tier to determine a candidate range of coefficients for each device type, e.g., servers, switches and storage devices/systems that likely reduce carbon footprint of each device type. In a second tier of the genetic algorithm, those ranges of coefficients are used in conjunction with actual power usage-based carbon footprint scores of individual devices to find respective sets of coefficients that minimize respective objective functions for the servers, the switches and the storage devices. The sets of coefficients can be used for power capping the devices. Device performance constraint-based intelligent selection can be used in one or both tiers to speed up convergence.
US11966272B2
Systems and methods are disclosed, including moving host data stored in volatile memory of the storage system to non-volatile memory of the storage system and transitioning a storage system power status of a unidirectional power state signal interface from an active power status to a low power status.
US11966270B2
There are provided a sensor data collection device, a sensor data collection system, and a method of collecting sensor data capable of reducing a drain of a battery due to standby power. The sensor data collection device includes a power supply, a power supply control circuit configured to control the power supply, a sensor configured to perform sensing to thereby obtain data, a memory configured to store the data obtained by the sensor, and a control circuit configured to control the power supply control circuit, the sensor, and the memory. The power supply control circuit supplies the sensor, the memory, and the control circuit with electrical power supplied by the power supply, and the control circuit makes the transition to any one of a plurality of operating states, and makes the power supply control circuit shut off the electrical power supplied by the power supply after a first operating state is completed and before the transition to a second operating state is made wherein the first operating state and the second operating state are included in the plurality of operating states.
US11966265B2
A cooling assembly for a computer module has a cooling device and a mounting device. The mounting device includes a rod shaped fastening element having a male thread and a stop. The fastening element is nonrotatable and movable along its axis with respect to the cooling device. The fastening element is guided through a first hole in the cooling device and a second hole in the computer module, when the cooling device is mounted on the computer module. The stop prevents the fastening element from sliding through the first and second holes. The mounting device also has an elastic element arranged along the axis of the fastening element that presses or pulls the stop away from the computer module. A nut on the mounting device is engageable with the male thread of the fastening element. The stop and the nut are arranged at opposite sides of the computer module.
US11966259B2
An electronic device includes a foldable housing including a first housing structure and a second housing structure that are foldably connected with each other and that form a recess together and a flexible display located in the recess. The flexible display includes a first part located in the first area of the recess and having a first gap from the first portion of the second housing structure in the unfolded state, the first part including a first peripheral portion facing the first portion of the second housing structure and a second part located in the second area of the recess and having a second gap from the second portion of the second housing structure, the second part including a second peripheral portion facing the second portion of the second housing structure, in which the second gap is smaller than the first gap in the unfolded state.
US11966254B2
A system includes a tool for installing a cable material around a set of elongate members. The tool includes a housing; a cartridge detachably connected to the housing; and a jaw detachably connected to the housing. The cartridge has a length of cable material. The jaw is configured to extend around the set of elongate members to install the length of cable around the set of elongate members. A welding horn is detachably connected to the housing. At least one processor is configured to read a programmable chip. The programmable chip stores a set of parameters for at least one of the cartridge, the jaw, or the welding horn.
US11966248B2
An operation device includes an operating portion to receive a push-in operation, a lessening member to lessen tilt movement of the operating portion associated with the push-in operation, a supporting portion to support the lessening member, a base portion on which the supporting portion is provided, and at least one placement portion that is provided on the base portion, includes a placing surface to place an end portion of the lessening member, and holds the lessening member on the base portion by the placing surface and the supporting portion in a preparation stage for assembling the operating portion to the base portion.
US11966242B2
Method and apparatus for load-based primary regulation in a power system. In one embodiment the method comprises receiving information pertaining to each load of a plurality of loads in a power distribution system; generating, using the information, a plurality of combinations of operating states for the plurality of loads that provides a pseudo-linear response for all the plurality of loads; generating a look up table (LUT) that comprises the plurality of combinations of operating states; and transmitting the LUT to each load of the plurality of loads for use by the plurality of loads in primary regulation.
US11966233B2
A line laser module, including: a module body; a first image capturing assembly, provided at the module body and comprising a first camera, at least one laser emitter and a first image processing module, wherein the at least one laser emitter is provided adjacent to the first camera and configured to emit a line laser with a linear projection toward outside of the module body, the first camera is configured to capture a first environment image containing the line laser, and the first image processing module is configured to acquire obstacle distance information based on the first environment image; and a second image capturing assembly, comprising a second camera and a second image processing module, wherein the second camera is configured to capture a second environment image, and the second image processing module is configured to acquire obstacle type information based on the second environment image.
US11966222B2
An autonomous floor cleaner includes multiple occupiable space sensors for position and/or proximity sensing. Data from the occupiable space sensors can be used determine areas of occupiable space in proximity to the autonomous floor cleaner. Methods for exiting a trapped condition, obstacle avoidance, and path planning are disclosed.
US11966221B2
Provided is a method for delivering goods in collaboration of a plurality of autonomous vehicles including a master vehicle and one or more slave vehicles. The method comprises calculating, by the master vehicle among the plurality of autonomous vehicles, a floor area required for unloading the goods based on a size of the goods, searching and determining, by the master vehicle, a region providing a flat area greater than or equal to the floor area as a goods handing over point, providing, by the master vehicle, position information of the goods handing over point to the one or more slave vehicles so that the one or more slave vehicles are gathered to the goods handing over point, providing, by the master vehicle, the position information of the goods handing over point to an unmanned aerial vehicle so that the unmanned aerial vehicle moves to the goods handing over point, determining, by the master vehicle, a portion of the goods to be supported by each autonomous vehicle based on a size of delivery target goods, moving, by each autonomous vehicle located at the goods handing over point, to a position corresponding to the determined portion, taking over the goods from the unmanned aerial vehicle and loading them together by collaborating with each autonomous vehicle at the moved position, and delivering the loaded goods to a destination by the plurality of autonomous vehicles.
US11966217B2
A real-time control system includes a faulty variable identification technique to implement a data-driven fault detection function that provides an operator with information that enables a higher level of situational awareness of the current and likely future operating conditions of the process plant. The faulty variable identification technique enables an operator to recognize when a process plant component is behaving abnormally to potentially take action, in a current time step, to alleviate the underlying cause of the problem, thus reducing the likelihood of or preventing a stall of the process control system or a failure of the process plant component.
US11966215B2
Systems and methods for assembling structural components are disclosed. The systems and methods consider a sequence, operations of the sequence, and an approach vector in placing structural members (including structural members with pre-attached fasteners) for assembling structural components.
US11966210B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a device management controller including a parts management control part configured to monitor the state of parts constituting the apparatus, a device state monitoring control part configured to monitor integrity of device data obtained from an operation state of the parts constituting the apparatus, and a data matching control part configured to monitor facility data provided from a factory facility to the apparatus. The device management controller is configured to derive information evaluating the operation state of the apparatus based on a plurality of monitoring result data selected from a group consisting of maintenance timing monitoring result data acquired by the parts management control part, device state monitoring result data acquired by the device state monitoring control part, and utility monitoring result data acquired by the data matching control part.
US11966203B2
A system is disclosed, in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure. The system includes a metrology tool configured to acquire one or more measurements of a portion of a sample. The system includes a controller including one or more processors configured to execute program instructions causing the one or more processors to: generate a surface kinetics model output based on a surface kinetics model; determine an expected response of the surface kinetics model output to excitation by polarized light; compare the determined expected response to the one or more measurements; generate one or more metrics based on the comparison between the determined expected response and the one or more measurements of the sample; adjust one or more parameters of the surface kinetics model to generate an adjusted surface kinetics model; and apply the adjusted surface kinetics model to simulate on-sample performance during plasma processing.
US11966198B2
The present invention relates to a spiral spring for a balance wheel made of an alloy of niobium and titanium with an essentially single-phase structure, and the method of manufacture thereof which comprises: a step of producing a blank in a niobium-based alloy consisting of: niobium: balance to 100 wt %, titanium: between 40 and 49 wt %, traces of elements selected from the group consisting of O, H, C, Fe, Ta, N, Ni, Si, Cu, Al, between 0 and 1600 ppm by weight individually, and cumulatively less than 0.3 wt %, a step of type β hardening of said blank at a given diameter, in such a way that the titanium of the niobium-based alloy is essentially in the form of a solid solution with niobium in β phase, the content of titanium in α phase being less than or equal to 10 vol %, at least one deformation step of said alloy alternating with at least one step of heat treatment, the number of steps of heat treatment and of deformation being limited so that the niobium-based alloy obtained retains a structure in which the titanium of the niobium-based alloy is essentially in the form of a solid solution with niobium in β phase, the content of titanium in α phase being less than or equal to 10 vol % and it has an elastic limit greater than or equal to 600 MPa and an elastic modulus less than or equal to 100 GPa, a step of winding to form the spiral spring being carried out before the last heat treatment step.
US11966195B2
A minute-particle trapping device includes: an air duct having a duct space through which air containing minute particles flows; a first filter disposed to block the duct space in the air duct and having a honeycomb structure to trap the minute particles contained in the air; and a second filter disposed in the air duct at a position downstream from the first filter in an air flow direction to block the duct space, the second filter being formed from a nonwoven fabric folded in a wave pattern to trap minute particles contained in the air that has passed through the first filter.
US11966189B2
A gear includes a gear body to be attached to a distal end of a driving shaft in an axial direction of the driving shaft and including teeth each extending obliquely with respect to the axial direction, and a stopping portion included in the gear body and configured in such a manner as to allow the driving shaft to which the gear body is attached to move in a circumferential direction. When the driving shaft moves in the circumferential direction, the stopping portion is enabled to stop the gear body from moving in the axial direction, the stopping portion stopping the gear body by coming into contact with a portion of the driving shaft.
US11966184B2
One aspect is an image forming apparatus including a motor that drives a first member, a second member, a movement member that moves between a first position where the first and second members contact and a second position where the first and second members are separated, and a controller that receives an instruction to start a print job for forming an image on a recording medium, and executes an initial operation for determining a phase of a rotor of the motor in a stopping state of the rotor based on current flowing through a coil of the motor by supplying current to the coil in the stopping state in a state where the movement member is located at the first position, to control the current supplied to the coil to rotate the rotor in the stopping state based on the phase determined in the initial operation.
US11966170B2
A method includes receiving a wafer, measuring a surface topography of the wafer; calculating a topographical variation based on the surface topography measurement performing a single-zone alignment compensation when the topographical variation is less than a predetermined value or performing a multi-zone alignment compensation when the topographical variation is greater than the predetermined value; and performing a wafer alignment according to the single-zone alignment compensation or the multi-zone alignment compensation.
US11966168B2
Methods of measuring variation across multiple instances of a pattern on a substrate or substrates after a step in a device manufacturing process are disclosed. In one arrangement, data representing a set of images is received. Each image represents a different instance of the pattern. The set of images are registered relative to each other to superimpose the instances of the pattern. Variation in the pattern is measured using the registered set of images. The pattern comprises a plurality of pattern elements and the registration comprises applying different weightings to two or more of the plurality of pattern elements. The weightings control the extent to which each pattern element contributes to the registration of the set of images. Each weighting is based on an expected variation of the pattern element to which the weighting is applied.
US11966166B2
A measurement apparatus and method for determining a substrate grid describing a deformation of a substrate prior to exposure of the substrate in a lithographic apparatus configured to fabricate one or more features on the substrate. Position data for a plurality of first features and/or a plurality of second features on the substrate is obtained. Asymmetry data for at least a feature of the plurality of first features and/or the plurality of second features is obtained. The substrate grid based on the position data and the asymmetry data is determined. The substrate grid and asymmetry data are passed to the lithographic apparatus for controlling at least part of an exposure process to fabricate one or more features on the substrate.
US11966165B2
A bottom lens for an immersion exposure tool includes a hydrophobic coating on the sidewalls of the bottom lens. A bottom portion of the bottom lens is not coated with the hydrophobic coating to maintain the optical performance of the bottom lens and to not distort a pattern that is to be transferred to a substrate. The hydrophobic coating may reduce the thermal instability of the bottom lens. This may reduce overlay variation during operation of the immersion exposure tool, which may increase manufacturing yield, decrease device failures, and/or decrease rework and repairs.
US11966159B2
Organometallic solutions have been found to provide high resolution radiation based patterning using thin coatings. The patterning can involve irradiation of the coated surface with a selected pattern and developing the pattern with a developing agent to form the developed image. The patternable coatings may be susceptible to positive-tone patterning or negative-tone patterning based on the use of an organic developing agent or an aqueous acid or base developing agent. The radiation sensitive coatings can comprise a metal oxo/hydroxo network with organic ligands. A precursor solution can comprise an organic liquid and metal polynuclear oxo-hydroxo cations with organic ligands having metal carbon bonds and/or metal carboxylate bonds.
US11966157B2
Imprint apparatus performs, on shot regions of substrate, imprint process for transferring pattern of mold to imprint material arranged on the substrate. The apparatus includes detector for detecting first mark of the substrate and second mark of the mold, and controller configured to control positioning of the detector based on driving amount, held in a storage, by which the detector is to be driven to fit the first mark and the second mark within specific region of field of view of the detector, and correction value held in the storage and used to correct the driving amount. The controller performs alignment between shot region selected from the shot regions and the mold based on output of the detector, and updates the correction value held in the storage based on the output of the detector.
US11966148B2
A telescoping pole comprised of a plurality of tubular sections, one or more electric motors, and a control module. Linear gear arrangements on the tubular sections are engaged with pinions fixed to the next wider tubular sections. Electric motors rotationally drive the pinions, linearly driving the tubular sections, and, thus, causing the telescoping pole to extend or retract. The length of the telescoping pole can be adjusted during audio/video capture. The telescoping pole is operable hand-held, and adjustments can be made using one hand. The telescoping pole may further comprise clamps, an accessory mount, a base mount, and a counterweight.
US11966139B2
Provided is an electrochromic element including: a first electrode; a second electrode apart from and opposite to the first electrode; an electrolyte layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, containing an oxidizable substance or a reducible substance, or both; and at least one of an oxidizable electrochromic layer between the first electrode and the electrolyte layer, containing an oxidizable electrochromic compound, and a reducible electrochromic layer between the second electrode and the electrolyte layer, containing a reducible electrochromic compound, wherein an oxidation potential of the oxidizable substance is nobler than an oxidation potential of the oxidizable electrochromic compound, a reduction potential of the reducible substance is baser than a reduction potential of the reducible electrochromic compound, an oxidation reaction of the oxidizable substance is irreversible, and a reduction reaction of the reducible substance is irreversible.
US11966136B2
A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of terminals, a plurality of wiring lines, metal wiring, a second metal layer, a third metal layer. In a first wiring region, each wiring line is composed of the first metal layer and extends in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. In a second wiring region between the first wiring region and the terminals, the wiring lines include the wiring line composed of the first metal layer and the second metal layer and the wiring line composed of the third metal layer. The metal wiring is provided in a different layer from the first metal layer; and intersects with the wiring lines in the first wiring region and extends in the first direction when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US11966135B2
A display panel, including a pixel array; multiple rows of gate lines; and multiple columns of data lines; the gate lines and the data lines are perpendicular to each other, respectively, and every two gate lines are correspondingly connected to a row of sub-pixels, and each data line is correspondingly connected to two columns of sub-pixels; each row of pixels is correspondingly connected to two gate lines, and any two gate lines are parallel to each other; and there is a preset length difference between two adjacent rows of gate lines. The wiring of the display panel is convenient to be array detected, and improving the production yield of the display panel.
US11966129B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel static electricity protection device (400), a display panel static electricity protection method, and a display device (100), including a detection circuit (401), a discharge circuit (409), and a discharge terminal (411). The detection circuit (401) is connected with a driving chip (301) of a display panel. The discharge circuit (409) is connected with the detection circuit (401) and the driving chip (301). The discharge terminal (411) is connected with the discharge circuit (409) and the detection circuit (401).
US11966122B2
A light control sheet including a first transparent electrode layer, a second transparent electrode layer, a light control layer including a resin layer which is formed between the first and second transparent electrode layers and includes a liquid crystal composition in holes formed in the resin layer, the liquid crystal composition including liquid crystal molecules, and a first alignment layer formed between the first transparent electrode layer and the light control layer such that a haze of the light control layer is increased upon application of a voltage to the first transparent electrode layer. The light control layer includes a first high-density portion and a low-density portion, and the first high-density portion is in contact with the first alignment layer and includes the liquid crystal composition at a density higher than a density of the liquid crystal composition in the low-density portion per unit thickness of the light control layer.
US11966121B2
An electronic window is provided for adjusting light and includes a first panel, a second panel, and an intermediate layer. The first panel includes a first alignment layer. The second panel includes a second alignment layer. The intermediate layer is disposed between the first panel and the second panel. The angle of orientation of the first alignment layer is between 25 degrees and 65 degrees, and the angle of orientation of the second alignment layer is between 115 degrees and 155 degrees.
US11966120B2
A liquid crystal light control element that controls a light absorption state by voltage application, the liquid crystal light control element including: a liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition between a pair of substrates each having an electrode; and a liquid crystal alignment film that is provided on at least one of the substrates and aligns a liquid crystal vertically, wherein the liquid crystal composition contains a liquid crystal and a dichroic dye, the liquid crystal alignment film is obtained from a liquid crystal aligning agent containing a polyimide precursor in which a diamine having a specific side chain is used as a part of the raw material or a polyimide obtained by imidizing the polyimide precursor, and the proportion of the diamine used is 50 to 100 mol % based on the entire diamine component.
US11966112B2
According to an aspect, a detection apparatus includes: an optical sensor including a sensor base member and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that are provided on the sensor base member and each of which is configured to output a signal corresponding to light emitted to the photoelectric conversion element; and a lighting device including a plurality of first light-emitting elements configured to emit first light having a first maximum emission wavelength and a plurality of second light-emitting elements configured to emit second light having a second maximum emission wavelength. Each of the photoelectric conversion elements has responsivity in a wavelength region including a wavelength region of the first light and a wavelength region of the second light.
US11966111B2
An example liquid crystal film for automotive glass comprises a first base layer, a first conductive layer, a microstructured liquid crystal layer, a second conductive layer, a second base layer, wherein the microstructured liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. In one embodiment, the microstructured liquid crystal layer comprises a bottom plate, a partition plate, and a liquid crystal mixture. The partition plate comprises sidewalls vertically arranged on the bottom plate, and the bottom plate is attached to the second conductive layer. The partition plate divides a space between the bottom plate and the first conductive layer into a plurality of polygonal receiving spaces. The liquid crystal mixture is positioned in the plurality of polygonal receiving spaces.
US11966102B2
A spectacle lens includes an optical multilayer film formed on at least one surface of a base. The spectacle lens is formed such that, in a reflectance distribution in a visible region, maximal values appear in a range of wavelengths that are not less than 440 nm and not greater than 460 nm and in a range of wavelengths that are not less than 620 nm and not greater than 640 nm. A blue light ray cutting rate calculated by using a calculation formula described in Japanese Industrial Standards “JIS T7333 Appendix C” is not less than 7% (preferably not less than 8%) in the spectacle lens. A YI value is not greater than 6 in the spectacle lens.
US11966101B2
The present disclosure relates to a mounting tool that makes it possible to sense the position or the orientation of the head in a natural state without impairing the wearing feeling or the appearance. The nose pad of the glasses comes into contact with and fixes the nose, which is the frontal region of the user, an ear hook including an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted and fixed comes into contact with and fixes an ear, the occipital region fixing unit configured integrally with the ear hook comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region while holding the sensor device that detects the position and the orientation of the head of the user, the occipital region upper portion fixing unit comes into contact with and fixes the occipital region, an insertion portion that allows the temple of the glasses to be inserted is provided, and the occipital region upper portion is fixed. The present disclosure can be applied to motion capture.
US11966100B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens including a concave object side surface, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially disposed from an object side toward an image side. The optical imaging system satisfies 0.7
US11966094B2
Sealing assembly for cable ports of a telecommunications closure. The sealing assembly includes a plurality of seal blocks that cooperate with each other to define 3-dimensional labyrinth seals around cables entering the closure through the cable ports. In some examples, the seal blocks cooperate to be self-sealing even without a cable or other structure being present.
US11966083B2
A communication device includes: a switching unit connected to a transmission unit, a reception unit, a transmission port, and a reception port, the switching unit being set in a first state in which the transmission unit and the transmission port are connected and the reception unit and the reception port are connected or a second state in which the transmission unit and the reception port are connected and the reception unit and the transmission port are connected; a monitoring unit configured to monitor a light level of light input from the reception port or the transmission port; and a control unit configured to set the switching unit in the first state or the second state based on the light level monitored by the monitoring unit.
US11966078B2
A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device including a mode converter. The method has the steps of: on a first silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer, manufacturing the optoelectronic device; and either: on a second SOI wafer, manufacturing a mode converter; and bonding the mode converter to the first SOI wafer; or bonding a second SOI wafer to the first SOI wafer to form a combined wafer; and etching a mode converter into the combined wafer.
US11966075B2
There is provided an optical member that can achieve a backlight unit excellent in brightness uniformity. The optical member includes: a light guide plate having an end surface that light from a light source enters, an emitting surface from which the entered light is emitted, and a light extraction pattern arranged on a surface opposite to the emitting surface; and a reflective plate bonded to the light guide plate via a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film. An outer edge of the light guide plate is positioned outside an outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film, and the outer edge of the double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive film is positioned outside an outer edge of the light extraction pattern.
US11966074B2
The present disclosure provides a metal back plate and a manufacturing process thereof, a backlight module and an electronic device. The metal back plate is used for the backlight module. The metal back plate includes a first area and a second area. The grain size of the metal material in the first area is larger than the grain size of the metal material in the second area. The first area is formed with a first opening.
US11966069B2
A display including a display panel and a backlight arranged behind the display panel, with a light guide with edge coupling, wherein the backlight is designed so the light intensity of the backlight is lower in a peripheral region of the display panel than in a central region of the display panel.
US11966068B2
Provided is a structural birefringence-type inorganic wave plate having excellent heat resistance and durability, and a fine pattern. Also provided is a manufacturing method for an inorganic wave plate by which, even in the case of a fine pattern, productivity is high, and a desired phase difference is easily achieved and stably obtained. This inorganic wave plate is obtained by utilizing a selective interaction between a polymer having a repeating unit containing a carbonyl group, and a metallic oxide precursor, the inorganic wave plate having a wire grid structure provided with a transparent substrate, and grid-shaped protruding portions arranged at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of light in a used band on at least one surface of the transparent substrate and extending in a predetermined direction, the main component of the grid-shaped protruding portion being a metallic oxide.
US11966067B2
A display panel and a manufacturing method therefor are disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and corresponding filters. A planarization layer is arranged on the filters. The planarization layer and a transparent filter are made of the same transparent photoresist material. The manufacturing method includes: preparing a filter; and forming a planarization layer on the filter, where preparing a filter includes forming a transparent filter, where the same transparent photoresist material is used in the operation of forming the transparent filter and in the operation of forming the planarization layer on the filter.
US11966055B2
A head mounted display system for displaying image content to a user comprises at least one display configured to be worn by a user to present virtual content to first and second eyes of a user, one or more inwardly facing sensors or camera configured to monitor one or both of the users eye and processing electronics. This head mounted display system is configured such that virtual content activity can be initiated and/or driven from eye inputs such as gaze direction, eyelid motions (e.g., blinking), and/or other eye gestures.
US11966054B2
A display device includes a frame that includes a front portion, temple portions, and a pad portion, and is mounted on head of an observer, and an image display device attached to the frame. The image display device includes an image forming device, and an optical device on which light emitted from the image forming device is incident and from which the light is emitted toward the observer. One end portion of the optical device is fixed to a temple portion side of the front portion. Other end portion of the optical device is on a pad portion side of the front portion. A light shielding member that prevents external light from being incident on the other end portion of the optical device from above the other end portion of the optical device is attached to the pad portion side of the front portion.
US11966053B2
Systems and methods of dispersion compensation in an optical device are disclosed. A holographic optical element may include a set of different holograms in a grating medium. Each hologram in the set may have a corresponding grating vector with a grating frequency and direction. The directions of the grating vectors may vary as a function of the grating frequency. Different holograms in the set may diffract light in a particular direction so that the light emerges from a boundary of the grating medium in a single given direction regardless of wavelength. A prism may be used to couple light into the grating medium. The prism may be formed using materials having dispersion properties that are similar to the dispersion properties of the grating material. The prism may have an input face that receives perpendicular input light. The prism may include multiple portions having different refractive indices.
US11966052B2
An alert system includes a display device, a display control unit, and a target recognition unit. The display control unit: when the number of targets recognized by the target recognition unit is equal to or more than an upper limit number, sets a display range of a surrounding icon as a whole circular area; and in a state where the number of targets is equal to or more than the upper limit number and the display range of the surrounding icon is set as the whole circular area, when the number of targets increases, reduces the size of the surrounding icon.
US11966048B1
A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted support structure. Gaze tracking systems may be supported by the support structure so that the gaze of a user may be monitored. Lenses may be supported by the support structure. Display systems may provide computer-generated images to the user while the user is viewing real-world objects through the lenses. The gaze tracking systems may include image-sensor-based systems such as glint-based systems. A glint-based gaze tracking system may include light-emitting devices that emit light beams that create eye glints on the surface of a user's eyes and may include an image sensor that measures the eye glints to gather information on the user's gaze. A low-power gaze tracking system may be included in the head-mounted device. The low-power gaze tracking system may use light detectors to measure the magnitudes of respective light reflections of the light beams.
US11966046B2
A waveguide arranged as a pupil expander for a display system is disclosed. The waveguide comprises a pair of opposing surfaces arranged to guide a light field therebetween by internal reflection. An input port is arranged to receive light from the display system. A reflective element is arranged to internally reflect the light field. The input port and reflective element are formed on a second surface of the pair of opposing surfaces. An output port is formed on a first surface of the pair of opposing surfaces by a transmissive-reflective element configured to divide the light field at each internal reflection therefrom such that a plurality of replicas of the light field are transmitted out of the waveguide through the output port.
US11966040B2
A lens assembly of a viewing element for an endoscope has lenses and a barrel containing the lenses. The internal surface of the barrel is shaped in accordance with the relative position and size of the lenses and a lens holder encompassing at least a portion of the barrel. The barrel and/or the lens holder are injection-molded and can be variably positioned relative to each other. An optional adhesive layer that reduces or eliminates small particles from the viewing element is positioned on an inner surface of the barrel and/or lens holder and used to remove any internal particulate matter that may otherwise obstruct the field of view.
US11966038B2
The disclosure relates to a viewing optic having a main body and a base that couples to the main body. The base contains a light module for a reticle.
US11966037B2
Disclosed herein are sample dishes for use with microscopes that are simple to mount on a microscope and facilitate easy manipulation of tissue samples disposed thereon during imaging as well as methods of their use. A sample dish comprises an optical interface and, optionally, a support member that holds the optical interface. The optical interface of a sample dish is suitably transparent and planar such that a focal plane of a microscope can reside uniformly at or within a surface of a sample during imaging. In certain embodiments, a support member comprises a dish for holding excess fluid. In certain embodiments, a sample dish comprises separation ribs. In certain embodiments, a sample dish comprises one or more manipulation members (e.g., tabs). In certain embodiments, a sample dish is used with an imaging artifact reducing fluid.
US11966033B2
A system and method of generating white light for a projection system in a compact form factor using laser diodes, a reflection system, and a phosphor target. Light emitted from the laser diodes can be directed towards a region of the phosphor target, where the phosphor target is excited and emits light in a desired spectrum in all directions. Some emitted light is collected by a collection lens. The emitted light collected by the collection lens can be combined with light from the original laser diodes to create white light for use in the projection system. Light emitted in a direction away from the collection lens can be redirected to the collection lens by the reflection system that employs a curved reflector on one side of the phosphor target and a flat reflector on the opposite side of the phosphor target.
US11966030B2
The zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a middle group, and a final group. During zooming, a spacing between the first lens group and the middle group changes, and a spacing between the middle group and the final group changes. During focusing, at least a part of the middle group moves, and the first lens group and the final group remain stationary with respect to an image plane. The zoom lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions about a back focal length, a focal length, and a maximum half angle of view.
US11966029B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The photographing optical lens assembly has a total of six lens elements with refractive power.
US11966017B2
A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes seven lenses, and the seven lenses are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, i.e., a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, and a seventh lens having a negative refractive power. At least one of the first lens to the seventh lens includes a free-form surface. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure can achieve good optical performance and meet the design requirements of being ultra-thin, and having a wide-angle and a large apertures.
US11966013B2
An imaging lens assembly includes six lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point.
US11966012B2
A projection lens projecting an image beam provided by a light valve onto a screen is provided. The projection lens includes first to fourth lenses in order from a screen side to a display side along an optical axis. Each lens has a screen side surface facing the screen side and allowing the image beam to pass, and a display side surface facing the display side and allowing the image beam to pass. The first and third lenses have a negative refractive power, and the second and fourth lenses have a positive refractive power. The projection lens satisfies 2
US11966009B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a method for preparing the same, and a flexible display device, and belongs to the technical field of display. Among them, the display substrate includes: a base substrate; a metal pattern located on the base substrate, and an anti-reflection pattern located on a surface of the metal pattern proximate to the base substrate; in which a material of the anti-reflection pattern includes molybdenum oxide doped with a refractory metal, and a melting point of the refractory metal is greater than a temperature threshold. The technical solution of the present disclosure is capable of reducing the reflection of ambient light by the display substrate.
US11966006B2
A cable detection system for detecting an end of a cable having a plurality of exposed different sections includes an illumination device and a camera. The illumination device emits an illuminating light to the end of the cable. The illumination device simultaneously emits a parallel light and a diffuse light to the end of the cable. The camera captures an image of the end of the cable. The parallel light sharpens a boundary between the different sections of the cable in the image, and the diffuse light clarifies a surface of the different sections in the image.
US11966003B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for detecting a target object via a security post. A plurality of sections are arranged in a vertical direction. Each section is designated to detect the target object in a vertical range by receiving information related to magnetic field from one or more sensors, analyzing the sensed information to extract features characterizing the magnetic field variations in the corresponding vertical range, and determining whether the target object is present in the vertical range based on the extracted features. When the target object is detected by a section, an alarm associated with the section is triggered to indicate the detection. An overall detection result is determined based on the detection result from each of the sections and is displayed on a display screen.
US11966002B2
Downhole drilling characteristic measurement systems for measuring a characteristic of drilling through the earth's subsurface and methods of the same are described. The systems include a downhole tool having an active measurement system, comprising a receiver, a first transmitter, and a second transmitter and a controller in communication with the first transmitter and the second transmitter, the controller configured to control the first transmitter and the second transmitter to transmit a first transmitted signal from the first transmitter and a second transmitted signal from the second transmitter. The receiver is arranged to receive a first received signal from the first transmitted signal and a second received signal from the second transmitted signal. A processor is configured to determine a characteristic of drilling from the first received signal and the second received signal.
US11966000B2
A correlated sparse nodes and mini-streamers system for collecting seismic data includes plural nodes distributed on the ocean bottom, and a mini-streamer spread that includes plural mini-streamers. The plural nodes and the mini-streamer spread are configured to simultaneously collect seismic data from a surveyed subsurface, and wherein a length of the mini-streamers is equal to or less than three times an inline distance between adjacent nodes of the plural nodes.
US11965994B2
An ultrasonic transducer for a measuring instrument includes a housing container with a support plate and a piezoelectric element that is supported by the support plate and has a substantially circular shape. The piezoelectric element includes multiple substantially sector-shaped oscillation parts that are divided by multiple grooves that communicate with each other at the central part and extend radially. The piezoelectric element oscillates in the thickness direction A3 in the first frequency band and in the radial direction A4 in the second frequency band, which is lower than the first frequency band. The ultrasonic transducer is capable of expanding the frequency band suitable for transmitting and receiving ultrasound.
US11965988B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system can emit light toward an environment and detect responsively reflected light to determine a distance to one or more points in the environment. The reflected light can be detected by a plurality of plurality of photodiodes that are reverse-biased using a high voltage. Signals from the plurality of reverse-biased photodiodes can be amplified by respective transistors and applied to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The signal from a particular photodiode can be applied to the ADC by biasing a respective transistor corresponding to the particular photodiode while not biasing transistors corresponding to other photodiodes. The gain of each photodiode/transistor pair can be controlled by adjusting the bias voltage applied to each photodiode using a digital-to-analog converter. The gain of each photodiode/transistor pair can be controlled based on the detected temperature of each photodiode.
US11965986B2
An optical device includes a light receiving element for detecting light reflected and transmitted from a subject; a voltage part for providing a first bias voltage or a second bias voltage to the light receiving element; and a controller for controlling the voltage part so that the second bias voltage provided from the voltage part is synchronized with a light output of a light emitting part to be provided to the light receiving element.
US11965978B2
A calibration pipeline for 6DoF alignment parameters for an autonomous vehicle includes an automated driving controller instructed to receive inertial measurement unit (IMU) poses and final radar poses and determine smoothened IMU poses from the IMU poses and smoothened final radar poses from the final radar poses. The automated driving controller aligns the smoothened IMU poses and the smoothened final radar poses with one another to create a plurality of radar-IMU A, B relative pose pairs. The automated riving controller determines a solution yielding a threshold number of inliers of further filtered radar-IMU A, B relative pose pairs, randomly samples the further filtered radar-IMU A, B relative pose pairs with replacements several times to determine a stream of filtered radar-IMU A, B relative pose pairs, and solves for a solution X for the stream of filtered radar-IMU A, B relative pose pairs.
US11965962B2
Time of Flight (ToF) depth image processing methods are disclosed for resolving corruption of ToF depth images. In ToF depth imaging, the light can travel paths of different lengths before returning to the pixel. Thus, the light hitting the pixel can have travelled different distances, and the distance obtained from an estimation procedure assuming a single distance may be spurious. Systems and methods are disclosed for including a time-of-flight imager and processor which resolves the multiple paths, and outputs the multiple depths at each pixel.
US11965958B2
Some systems include an electromagnetic imaging tool configured to receive electromagnetic radiation, a communication interface, a processor in communication with the electromagnetic imaging tool and the communication interface, and a housing. Systems can include a first sensor head having a first plurality of acoustic sensor elements arranged in a first acoustic sensor array. The communication interface can provide communication between the processor and the sensor head via wired or wireless communication. The communication interface can comprise a docking port in communication with the processor and configured to removably receive a corresponding docking mechanism of the first sensor head. Some systems may include a second sensor head having a second plurality of acoustic sensor elements. The second sensor head may be interchangeably connectable to the communication interface and/or the first sensor head.
US11965952B2
Systems and methods are provided for subway personnel detection. An ultra-wideband (UWB) based detection of objects in subway tunnels may include transmitting UWB signals into an area within a subway tunnel, the area including one or more tracks traversed by trains running in the subway tunnel, receiving UWB signals within the area, and processing received UWB signals to enable detecting objects within the area. The processing may include identifying received UWB signals corresponding to echoes of the transmitted UWB signal transmitted by the detection devices, and detecting based on the echoes of the transmitted UWB signals when an object is present within the area. The object may be assessed, such as to determine when the object represents an intrusion within the area of the subway tunnel.
US11965947B2
In Multiplex MRI image reconstruction, a hardware processor acquires sub-sampled Multiplex MRI data and reconstructs parametric images from the sub-sampled Multiplex MRI data. A machine learning model or deep learning model uses the subsampled Multiplex MRI data as the input and parametric maps calculated from the fully sampled data, or reconstructed fully sample data, as the ground truth. The model learns to reconstruct the parametric maps directly from the subsampled Multiplex MRI data.
US11965943B2
A controllable bias field Bbias is applied to a single total-field OPM to maintain signal lock when an observable magnetic field Bmeas enters the OPM's dead zone. One or more electromagnetic (EM) coils are placed in proximity to the single OPM. Based on either a calibration of the field or a measured signal strength, a current command is calculated and applied to the one or more coils to produce the bias field Bbias to lift the observable magnetic field Bmeas out of the dead zone. The bias level is updated at a rate sufficient to maintain signal lock without interfering with the operation of the OPM. This allows a single OPM to sense the observable magnetic field Bmeas in all directions without having to either re-orient the OPM or to use multiple orthogonally positioned OPMs.
US11965938B2
In leakage detection device, coupling capacitor has a first end connected to a current path of power storage unit connected to load in a state of being insulated from a ground. Voltage output unit generates a periodic voltage that changes periodically, and applies the periodic voltage to a second end of coupling capacitor via impedance element. Voltage output unit measures a voltage at a node between coupling capacitor and impedance element. Leakage determination unit estimates at least one of an upper peak value and a lower peak value at a certain time, calculates a peak-to-peak value between the upper peak value and the lower peak value with virtually aligned time axes, and determines presence or absence of a leakage between a current path of power storage unit and the ground.
US11965936B2
A battery diagnosis apparatus for diagnosing a battery including battery cells, the apparatus according to an embodiment may include a voltage measurer for measuring the voltage of each battery cell during a preset period of time, a voltage variation calculator for calculating an individual voltage variation of each battery cell during the preset period of time, an average voltage variation calculator for calculating an average voltage variation of the battery cells during the preset period of time, and an abnormality detector for determining that a voltage abnormality has occurred in at least one battery cell among the battery cells when a difference between the voltage variation of the at least one battery cell and the average voltage variation of the at least one battery cell is greater than a threshold value.
US11965935B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented method for predicting a modeled state of health of an electrical energy store having at least one electrochemical unit, in particular a battery cell, having the following steps: providing a data-based state of health model trained to assign a modeled state of health to the electrochemical energy store on the basis of characteristics of operating variables of the energy store; providing time characteristics of the operating variables that characterize operation of the electrical energy store; and determining a present or predicted modeled state of health on the basis of the generated characteristics of the operating variables using the state of health model, wherein data gaps in the time characteristics of the operating variables owing to a phase of inactivity are completed based on a characteristic of a temperature of the energy store that is derived from at least one provided ambient condition.
US11965932B2
The disclosure relates to a method for predicting the failure of an elementary relay having a switch for switching a load contact of a load circuit and an excitation coil for actuating the switch. The method may include exciting the excitation coil in order to switch on the load contact; detecting a time characteristic of a contact voltage at the load contact when switching on the load contact; extracting a characteristic feature from the time characteristic of the contact voltage; and monitoring the characteristic feature during operation of the elementary relay.
US11965931B1
A dummy dual in-line memory module (DIMM) testing system based on boundary scan interconnect and a method thereof. A dummy dual in-line memory module functioning normally is used as a test fixture, a dummy dual in-line memory module under test is served as an unit under test (UUT), and the test fixture and the unit under test are inserted into a test device to electrically connect to each other, so that the test access port (TAP) device can perform boundary scan to control the test fixture to test the unit under test through signal pins, and check a test result based on a data signal collected from at least one boundary scan register. Therefore, the effect of improving testing convenience of the dummy DIMM can be achieved.
US11965924B2
A method for preventing ground fault in a three-phase electric transmission line system caused by a line break, includes: providing a programmable relay protection system, including a plurality of relay devices on each line, programmed to include: monitoring of acceptable preset parameter ranges of at least three pairs electric operating conditions, that include at least one high sensitivity instantaneous undercurrent and at least one high sensitivity condition selected from line differential overcurrent and negative sequence instantaneous overcurrent, zero sequence instantaneous overcurrent, and change in instantaneous undercurrent (and combinations thereof); permitting closed circuit operation when all of the lines show that the operating conditions are within the preset acceptable ranges; tripping a circuit breaker on a broken line when that line shows two operating conditions outside the preset parameter ranges; and shutting down power to the broken line before it otherwise causes a ground fault or other short circuit.
US11965900B2
The present disclosure describes a method, a system, and a computer program product of indicating a status of an analytical instrument on a screen of the analytical instrument. In an embodiment, the method, the system, and the computer program product include receiving data from an analytical instrument monitoring a liquid sample, segmenting the received data into data segments for at least two characteristics of at least one of the instrument, the sample, and an operating environment of the instrument, analyzing each of the data segments for the at least two characteristics, retrieving threshold values for the at least two characteristics from a computer data source, calculating at least one status of at least one of the instrument, the sample, and the operating environment, with respect to the analyzed data segments and the threshold values, and displaying the at least one status on a display of the instrument.
US11965891B2
Methods and compositions are described for single cell resolution, quantitative proteomic analysis using high throughput sequencing.
US11965887B2
A method of examining a possibility of a subject having pancreatic cancer, including measuring GPRC5C (G protein-coupled receptor family C group 5 member C) present in an exosome in a specimen collected from the subject.
US11965875B2
The present application relates to a system and a method for effectively screening and assessing agents for tumor immunotherapy, which includes assessment for the effects of target cells, non-target cells, and tumor infiltration. The system and method of the present application can be used to comprehensively and systematically assess the effectiveness and safety of the agent against tumor immune cells.
US11965857B2
A vibrator that is capable of vibrating without using an electrode and has good detection sensitivity is provided. A carbon-based material vibrator for vibration by light irradiation has a biological substance or a substance capable of identifying a biological substance immobilized on the vibrator. The vibrator may not include a counter electrode for applying a voltage to the vibrator. The carbon-based material may be graphite. A thermal conductivity λ1 in a plane direction of the carbon-based material is 100 times or more than a thermal conductivity λ2 in a thickness direction of the carbon-based material.
US11965853B2
An electrochemical sensor incorporates a ferrocenophane which is a compound with at least one bridging group covalently attached to and connecting the two cyclopentadiene rings associated with the same iron atom. This bridging group maybe tetramethylene. As compared to an equivalent sensor with ferrocene, the tolerance of elevated temperature is improved and so is the working life at ambient temperature.
US11965847B2
A method and apparatus are described for a reconfigurable architecture analog front end architecture for electrochemical sensors. In one example, an analog front end includes an electrode driver stage coupled to electrodes of an electrochemical sensor, and measurement channels coupled to the electrode driver stage to receive an electrode signal from the electrodes of the electrochemical sensor and to generate measurement results, the measurement channels configured to switch configurations to perform different measurements.
US11965846B2
A system for detecting contamination in a two-phase immersion cooling system based on temperature differences between component surface temperature and fluid temperature, a previous component surface temperature and a present component surface temperature and a component surface temperature and a component surface temperature threshold value. Large differences between the component surface temperature and the fluid temperature or between the component surface temperature and a previous component surface temperature or a component surface temperature exceeding a component surface temperature threshold value may indicate contaminants in the fluid that are inhibiting the ability for the component to effectively transfer heat to the fluid. A temperature monitoring system may monitor the temperatures and communicate with a service system to apply corrective measures before the residue can cause significant damage to an information handling system.
US11965837B2
There is described a system for determining air content of fresh concrete received in a drum of a concrete mixer. The system generally has a high energy photon source mounted to the drum and emitting high energy photons towards a photon path rotating about a rotation axis as the drum rotates, the photon path is immersed in the fresh concrete during rotation, a photon detector mounted to the drum, the photon detector counting high energy photons received from the photon path; and generating a signal indicative of a number of counted events; a computing device determining an air content value of the fresh concrete based on the generated signal and on reference data; comparing the determined air content value to an air content threshold; and generating an alert based on the comparison to be displayed.
US11965827B2
A hyperspectral imaging method includes: providing time-domain synchronous mid-infrared ultrashort pulse and near-infrared ultrashort pulse as pump light and signal light, respectively; subjecting the signal light to optical time-stretching to broaden a pulse width of the signal light; directing the time-stretched signal light to a target sample to be detected; directing the pump light to a time delayer to adjust the time when the pump light reaches a silicon-based camera; spatially combining the time-stretched signal light from the target sample with the pump light from the time delayer; directing combined light to a silicon-based camera where the signal light is detected through non-degenerate two-photon absorption of the signal light under the action of the pump light to acquire hyperspectral imaging data; and obtaining an image of the target sample based on the hyperspectral imaging data.
US11965807B2
A duct probe (20) for sampling a fluid from a main fluid flow (Fm) in a duct (10) defines an elongated supply channel (21) n elongated discharge channel (22). The supply channel has at least one inflow opening (23) for diverting a partial flow (Fp) from the main fluid flow into the supply channel, and the discharge channel has at least one outflow opening for returning the partial flow from the discharge channel into the main fluid flow after it has passed an environmental sensor (30). The duct probe further comprises at least one compensation opening (26) that connects the supply channel and the discharge channel in a region that is located between their closed and open ends. By the presence of the compensation opening (26), a jet flow (Fj) is created, which acts to reduce a pressure difference between the supply channel and the discharge channel when the duct probe is exposed to the main fluid flow (Fm).
US11965805B2
Sampling device and method for evaluating ecological risk of soil in high geological background area
A sampling device and method for evaluating ecological risk of soil in a high geological background area comprises an impact sampling mechanism, a soil layer stripping mechanism and an auxiliary support frame. The impact sampling mechanism comprises a sampling hopper with a downward opening. A connecting sliding rod is fixedly arranged on the top of the sampling hopper. An upper end of the connecting sliding rod is connected with an impact rod. The impact rod is internally provided with an impact hammer capable of reciprocating along an axis of the impact rod. The soil layer stripping mechanism comprises a stripping sliding cylinder in sliding fit with the connecting sliding rod, and a support disc. A plurality of stripping plates are connected to a lower side edge of the support disc in a sliding fit mode.
US11965803B2
Resonant sensors for environmental health risk detection are disclosed. An adhesive may include at least one meso-scale or micro-scale resonator embedded within a material that comprises at least a portion of the adhesive. The at least one meso-scale or micro-scale resonator may be formed from a composite material. Additionally, the at least one meso-scale or micro-scale resonator may include a plurality of first carbon particles configured to uniquely resonate in response to an electromagnetic ping based at least in part on a concentration level of the first carbon particles within the at least one meso-scale or micro-scale resonator.
US11965792B2
Provided herein is technology relating to weather sensors and particularly, but not exclusively, to devices, methods, and systems related to collecting weather data by measuring bending and compression stresses in a weather sensor device.
US11965791B2
An improved prony brake dynamometer capable of measuring the power of a prime mover's rotating shaft connected to a cylinder brake drum rotating around a newly designed dual quad power stator (DQPS), with hydraulic pressure equalizer plate (HPEP), controlled by an electronic load control system with inline cooling system (ELCS), cooled by a 270-degree water distribution manifold (WDM). The improvements of the DQPS and HPEP result in maximizing the pressure applied by the stator over the entire surface area of the rotor drum, thereby maximizing the coefficient of friction at the kinetic point of energy and increasing load capacity over previous models. The addition of the ELCS increases the number of potential settings of hydraulic pressure, resulting in thousands of power settings, as opposed to previous models using manual load control valves. The WDM cools the dynamometer load absorption unit more efficiently than previous models.
US11965787B2
An example microelectromechanical system (MEMS) force sensor is described herein. The MEMS force sensor can include a sensor die configured to receive an applied force. The sensor die can include a first substrate and a second substrate, where a cavity is formed in the first substrate, and where at least a portion of the second substrate defines a deformable membrane. The MEMS force sensor can also include an etch stop layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a sensing element arranged on a surface of the second substrate. The sensing element can be configured to convert a strain on the surface of the membrane substrate to an analog electrical signal that is proportional to the strain.
US11965784B2
A sensor for measuring the flex of a pole when exposed to one or more forces, the sensor including at least one magnet and Hall Effect sensor combination, wherein the at least one magnet and Hall effect sensor are at a predetermined position relative to one another when there are no forces acting on the pole and which are movable relative to one another when forces act on the pole, such that a signal proportional to the relative movement is generated by the sensor.
US11965782B2
Described herein is a process for correcting an observed color difference between a color at a first gloss and the color at a second gloss different than the first gloss, said process comprising the steps of: (a) determining a first correction caused by a lightness (Y-value) of the color a first gloss; (b) determining a second correction caused by an inclusion of a first surface diffusion in gloss readings; (c) based on the first and second corrections, determining a specular correction caused by a difference in specular reflections from the color at the first gloss and the color at the second gloss; (d) determining tristimulus corrections based on the specular correction; (e) preparing corrected tristimulus values of the color at a second gloss; and (f) producing a paint composition for the color at the second gloss using the corrected tristimulus values.
US11965773B2
A torsion balance is provided which includes a twisting wire and a reflector. The twisting wire is a suspended carbon nanotube. The reflector is hung on the twisting wire. The reflector further includes a film, a first reflecting layer, and a second reflecting layer; and the film includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and the first reflecting layer is located on the first surface and the second reflecting layer is located on the second surface.
US11965772B2
A calibration device is provided for a weighing system that has a tank with a plurality of support legs at a lower part thereof. The calibration device has at least one calibration module, a hydraulic system and a calibration terminal. An upper end of each calibration module is connected to an upper part of a corresponding support leg. A lower end of each calibration module is fixed to a foundation. A hose connects each calibration module to the hydraulic system for applying a force to the tank. The calibration terminal, connected to each calibration module, displays in real-time, the force applied to the tank. The calibration device can greatly improve the production efficiency, and in use, takes only two hours to complete the calibration, which is faster than the test weight and other calibration methods.
US11965769B2
A method, meter and device capable of determining the accuracy, proof, or percent of error of a meter in service. The method is configured to establish one or more baseline flow measurements for the meter, the meter configured to measure a flow through the meter; obtain a current flow measurement for the meter; and determine a proving result in accordance with a comparing of the current flow measurement to the one or more baseline flow measurements.
US11965768B2
A housing assembly for a fluid sensor assembly includes a housing having a first and second sensing volumes. A fluid port attached to the housing has a porous membrane covering first and second fluid apertures. The first sensing volume included a vertically-oriented waveguide and is fluidly coupled to an exterior of the housing through the first fluid aperture, where the first aperture port has an area smaller than an area of a cross section of the waveguide. The second sensing volume is coupled to the exterior of the housing through the second fluid aperture, the second fluid aperture having an area larger than a cross section of the second sensing volume. While the first sensing volume and the second sensing volume are both in fluid communication with an exterior of the housing, the fluid port and porous membrane internally isolate the first sensing volume from the second sensing volume.
US11965762B2
We disclose herein a flow sensor comprising: a first substrate comprising an etched portion, a dielectric region located on a first side of the first substrate, wherein the dielectric region comprises at least one dielectric membrane located over the etched portion of the first substrate, a sensing element located on or within the dielectric membrane, and a second substrate adjoining a second side of the first substrate. The first side of the first substrate and the second side of the first substrate are opposite sides. The first substrate and the second substrate cooperate to form a sensing channel through the flow sensor.
US11965758B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a Brillouin optical sensing device and an optical sensing method capable of reducing introduction costs. The Brillouin optical sensing device according to the present invention includes: a sensing fiber 90 in which a plurality of optical fibers having Brillouin frequency shift characteristics different from each other are arranged in parallel; an optical measuring instrument 11 that launches an optical pulse into at least two of the optical fibers of the sensing fiber 90 to generate Brillouin scattering lights and measures a beat frequency of a beat signal between the Brillouin scattering lights at any position of the sensing fiber 90; and an arithmetic processing unit 12 that acquires a physical quantity of the sensing fiber 90 at said any position based on the beat frequency acquired by the optical measuring instrument 11.
US11965757B2
The electromagnetic induction displacement sensor consists of a transceiver board and an excitation board that may move relative to each other along a measuring path. The transceiver board is arranged with at least one transmitter winding and at least two three-phase receiver windings with different pitches, the number of three-phase receiver windings is one more than that of transmitter windings. Each transmitter winding encircles two three-phase receiver windings with different pitches in the same direction in series, and all receiver windings are in a distributed winding structure. The excitation board is arranged with at least two rows of excitation coils in the shape of short-circuit loop, the number of rows of excitation coils is equal to the number of the three-phase receiver windings on the transceiver board, respectively aligning with corresponding three-phase receiver winding and having the same pitch.
US11965756B2
Implementations relate to a sensor assembly for determining rotation about an axis and linear movement parallel to the axis. The sensor assembly comprises a magnetic structure comprising a north pole radially displaced from the axis and a south pole radially displaced from the axis and opposite to the north pole. The north pole and the south pole of the magnet extend radially into the direction of the axis at an axial end of the sensor assembly. The sensor assembly further comprises at least one sensor element sensitive to magnetic fields radially between the north pole and the south pole.
US11965755B2
A triboelectric sensor comprises a substrate; at least one grid structure disposed in or on the substrate; and at least one electrode for collecting triboelectric charges that are generated by sliding of an object over a surface of the substrate; wherein the at least one grid structure is configured such that motion of the object is detectable from a signal generated by crossing of the object over at least part of the grid structure.
US11965752B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a methods and systems for compensating for changes in the absolute position of locations with respect to the Earth's surface which occur over time due to crustal dynamics. The invention is particularly, although not exclusively, concerned with such compensation in the context of methods using digital map data, for example, methods of localization of a vehicle.
US11965748B2
A transportation system includes: a vehicle hub including a plurality of connection slots. The vehicle hub is configured such that, in response to vehicles being parked respectively in the connection slots, the vehicle hub is connected to interior spaces of the vehicles through the connection slots, the vehicles are categorized by use, and the connection slots are grouped by category such that connection slots grouped together by category, among the connection slots, are disposed adjacent to each other.
US11965740B2
According to some aspects, there is provided a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device wherein one or more components of the MEMS device exhibit attenuated motion relative to one or more other moving components. The MEMS device may comprise a substrate; a proof mass coupled to the substrate and configured to move along a resonator axis; and a first shuttle coupled to the proof mass and comprising one of a drive structure configured to drive the proof mass along the resonator axis or a sense structure configured to move along a second axis substantially perpendicular to the resonator axis in response to motion of the proof mass along the resonator axis, wherein displacement of at least a first portion of the proof mass is attenuated relative to displacement of the first shuttle and/or a second portion of the proof mass.
US11965735B2
A thickness measurement method includes: heating a surface of the measurement object in a dot shape by a heating device; generating a thermal image corresponding to a temperature of the surface of the measurement object by capturing an image of the heated surface of the measurement object at a predetermined time interval by an imaging device; acquiring temperature data indicating temporal changes in temperature at multiple positions on the surface of the measurement object based on the thermal image generated by the imaging device; fitting a solution function indicating a solution of a heat conduction equation corresponding to a point heat source and including a parameter related to the thickness of the measurement object to the temperature data; and calculating the thickness of the measurement object based on a value of the parameter in the fitted solution function.
US11965720B2
Warhead (20) with asymmetric initiation comprising an inner explosive charge and a tubular structure (1) and being connectable to detonator means and target sensor (106) for activating the detonator means, whereby the tubular structure (1) comprises a wall (6) and a central cavity (7) for the inner explosive charge, an outer diameter D0) an inner diameter DI, a wall thickness T=0.5 (DO−DI), a front end (2), a rear end (4), a central axis (10) connecting the front end (2) and the rear end (4), a length L measured parallel to the central axis (10) and an inner surface (8) facing the central cavity (7) and an outer surface (9) and the warhead further comprises a fragmentable material adjacent to the outer surface (9) of the tubular structure (1), whereby the wall (6) comprises a plurality of bores (12) angularly and/or axially spaced from each other and extending from the outer surface (9) in direction to the inner surface (8), the bores (12) are filled with an explosive substance (19), the outer surface (9) of the wall (6) is provided with a plurality of channels (11) and/or a plurality of channels (11) is provided within the wall (9), whereby the plurality of channels (11) connects at least a part of the plurality of the bores (12) and is filled with an explosive substance and the plurality of bores (12) is connected to a detonator by means of an explosive substance provided in the plurality of channels (11).
US11965707B1
A water gun, having a trigger control, provides repeated discharge of metered volume stream of water, uses a sealed chamber containing a refillable reservoir of water pressurized by compressed air. The pressurized water supply is connected to a tubular housing, which transports the stream of water to a second end of the tubular housing to a nozzle assembly. A trigger controlled valve which is connected to a trigger mechanism, having an operator controlled trigger, initiating the flow of the stream. The initiated stream is volumetrically metered and terminated by a shuttle valve, which terminates flow upon reaching a valve seat which decelerates the velocity of the shuttle before it contacts the valve seat, which reduces stress on the seal. A method of sequential resetting is provided to reset the trigger valve, trigger mechanism and shuttle valve, enabling a repeated metered discharge.
US11965684B2
An inverter module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a high voltage circuit unit which generates an inverter control voltage and a motor driving voltage by using a first DC voltage; a high voltage circuit pattern which electrically connects the high voltage circuit unit; a low voltage circuit unit which communicates with an external device by using a second DC voltage having a smaller magnitude than the first DC voltage; and a low voltage circuit pattern which electrically connects the low voltage circuit unit. The high voltage circuit pattern and the low voltage circuit pattern are spaced apart from each other.
US11965680B2
In a heat pump device in which a compressor, a gas cooler, a refrigerant heat exchanger, a refrigerant expansion valve, and an evaporator are connected to configure a refrigerant circulation circuit, the heat pump device includes a buffer tank, one end being connected to the high-pressure side of the refrigerant expansion valve and arranged to store a refrigerant, and a first refrigerant pipe, one end being connected to the high-pressure side of the compressor and the other end connected to the low-pressure side of the evaporator and arranged to exchange heat with the buffer tank. The first refrigerant pipe includes a first control valve arranged between the high-pressure side of the compressor and the buffer tank to control opening and closing of the first refrigerant pipe, and a first flow rate regulator arranged between the buffer tank and the low-pressure side of the evaporator to control the refrigerant flow rate.
US11965675B2
An electric heating device includes at least two hollow profile elements which form a fluid channel for a fluid to be heated and, opposite the fluid channel, a heating chamber which is bounded by opposite contact surfaces against which at least one PTC element abuts in a heat-conducting manner. A scalable and easier to assemble electric heating device is achieved by connecting the hollow profile elements to one another by complementary form-fit segments.
US11965665B2
An air conditioning system includes an air conditioning apparatus, and a controller. The air conditioning apparatus performs air conditioning of an air-conditioning target space. The controller is connectable to a plurality of types of thermostats. The controller performs communication with the thermostat connected thereto. The controller performs a performance determination process for the refrigeration cycle apparatus. The controller performs different performance determination processes according to whether a first type of thermostat is connected thereto unit or whether a second type of thermostat is connected thereto. Alternatively, the air conditioning apparatus changes a method for using information received by the controller from the thermostat according to whether being in a determination processing time over which the performance determination process is performed or in a non-determination processing time over which the performance determination process is not performed.
US11965663B2
A refrigerant leak sensor includes: a first refrigerant sensor element configured to, when powered: measure a first amount of the refrigerant present in air; and generate a first output based on the first amount; a second refrigerant sensor element configured to, when powered: measure a second amount of the refrigerant present in air; and generate a second output based on the second amount; a first selection module configured to: during a first period, apply power the first refrigerant sensor element and not apply power to the second refrigerant sensor element; and during a second period after the first period, apply power to the second refrigerant sensor element and not apply power to the first refrigerant sensor element.
US11965662B2
The present invention relates to a heat exchanger arrangement for use with an air conditioning system of the type comprising a condenser, an expansion device, an evaporator and a compressor connected in a refrigeration circuit filled with refrigerant. The heat exchanger arrangement comprises a collector arrangement for collecting condensate fluid that has condensed on the evaporator as condensate fluid. The heat exchanger arrangement also comprises a first heat exchanger configured for facilitating the transfer of heat from an airflow flowing to the condenser, to condensate received from the evaporator.
US11965661B2
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner may include a case that forms an outer shape of the outdoor unit; a controller that is disposed inside of the case and controls operation of various components of the air conditioner; a heat dissipation member connected to the controller to dissipate heat generated by the controller; and a support member that is coupled with the heat dissipation member to fix a position of the heat dissipation member, and having an insertion hole into which the heat dissipation member is inserted. The heat dissipation member is disposed to face the controller with respect to the support member, and at least a partial area of the heat dissipating member penetrates the insertion hole to prevent damage to a structure that dissipates heat of the controller to the outdoor unit of the air conditioner that is in contact with the controller.
US11965649B1
A mirror capable of emitting lights from multiple angles includes an outer frame defining a middle hole, a mirror body disposed in the middle hole, a first LED light strip, a first annular light guide cover, a light strip frame, and a second LED light strip. The first LED light strip is disposed on an inner wall of the middle hole and disposed on a front end of the mirror body. The first annular light guide cover is disposed on the outer frame and disposed in a light-emitting direction of the first LED light strip. The light strip frame is disposed on a rear of the mirror body. The second LED light strip is disposed on the light strip frame. An annular light transmitting portion is disposed on the mirror body. The second LED light strip is disposed on an inner side of the annular light transmitting portion.
US11965641B2
A twist-lock mounting system for lighting fixtures includes a mounting plate and a canopy cover. The mounting plate that is secured to a junction box includes a plate body, a first wing, and a second wing. The canopy cover that encloses the electrical wire and electrical connections includes a cover body and a track channel. The first wing and the second wing are laterally connected to the plate body. The first wing is diametrically opposed to the second wing about the plate body. The track channel is perimetrically connected around the cover body. The first wing and the second wing are inserted into the track channel via a pair of access gaps and slidably engaged within the track channel. As a result, the track channel and the cover body are able to enclose the plate body, the first wing, and the second wing.
US11965619B2
A method of tube plug installation in a heat exchanger or pressure vessel is provided. The method includes verifying the suitability of a selected tube plug with a specifically identified type of heat exchanger or pressure vessel before installation of the selected tube plug. The step of verifying being performed with a device having an app, software, or user interface and after having entered or accessed data concerning the selected tube plug and entering or accessing data concerning the specifically identified type of heat exchanger or pressure vessel and operating parameters of the specifically identified type of heat exchanger or pressure vessel.
US11965618B1
A method for inhibiting separation of joined pipes including providing within a pipe bell a gasket including rigid segments, each segment having bell teeth configured for engaging the bell and a spigot tooth configured for engaging a pipe spigot seated in the bell. Upon pressurization and over-pressurization of the joint, resulting axial forces exerted on the joint, which can cause pipes to separate, are countered by wedging the segments between the bell and the spigot and rotating each segment so that the thrust forces are directed radially. To prevent radially-directed thrust forces from damaging the joint through over-rotation of the segments, the bell teeth and the spigot tooth are adapted and arranged to maintain the thrust forces load path carried by each segment within a desired angular range relative to the spigot by transferring the load path between adjacent bell teeth whereby the effective length of each segment is increased.
US11965617B2
A method for pressure pipe drilling a pipe comprising an exterior layer and an interior layer, the method comprising internally lining the pipe with a fluid-tight sheath; drilling a first cavity through the exterior layer until exposing the interior layer; injecting a sealant into the first cavity; and drilling a second cavity within the first cavity through the interior layer and the fluid-tight sheath.
US11965606B1
An automatic valve actuation system includes an actuation device, one or more arms operatively coupled to and extending from the actuation device, and a stem adapter attached to a distal end of the one or more arms to operatively couple the one or more arms to a valve stem of a manually-operable valve. Operation of the actuation device rotates the one or more arms and correspondingly rotates the valve stem to open or close the manually-operable valve.
US11965604B2
A synchronous switch valve core with a voltage stabilizing function, comprising: a valve core housing (1), a valve core base (2), a flow regulating module, and a balancing hydraulic module. The flow regulating module is capable of cutting off a cold/hot water path before water enters a pressure balancing module, thus preventing high-temperature water from immersing the valve core, preventing the building of lime scale, protecting the valve core, and extending the service life; moreover, water flow can enter the pressure balancing module only after flowing through the flow regulating module, thus preventing the channeling of hot and cold, and obviating the need to install a check valve at a water intake elbow. By means of an optimized design with respect to the parts of the synchronous switch valve core, the synchronous valve core is transformed from a switch capable only of regulating flow into a switch not only capable of regulating flow but also capable of synchronized switching, and also capable of balancing the pressures within two channels, thus transforming a product equipped with the vale core from a complex channel into a simple channel, and obviating the need for separately providing a balancing module part; a valve body is structurally simple, has a shortened water path, and is inexpensive.
US11965600B2
A mechanical sealing arrangement includes a rotary part, a non-rotary part and a signal processing arrangement. The rotary part includes at least a rotary slide ring and a rotary slide ring carrier, the non-rotary part including at least a non-rotary slide ring and a non-rotary slide ring carrier, and the signal processing arrangement includes at least one sensor for monitoring the operation of the mechanical sealing arrangement. A sensor ring is disposed on the non-rotary slide ring carrier, the sensor ring includes the at least one sensor and a device for transmitting measurement data from the at least one sensor for further processing.
US11965599B2
A brush seal includes an annular plate assembly defining a radially inner diameter having an inner central axis and a radially outer diameter having an outer central axis. The inner central axis and the outer central axis are spaced apart from each other by an offset, such that the radially inner diameter and the radially outer diameter are eccentric with respect to each other. The brush seal further includes a bristle pack. The bristle pack includes a plurality of bristles defining a bristle bore having a bristle bore central axis. The bristle bore central axis is aligned with the inner central axis and the bristle bore central axis is offset from the outer central axis. Moreover, the brush seal is disposed around a rotating component. The bristle bore central axis is aligned with a component axis of the rotating component and the bristle pack engages with the rotating component.
US11965591B2
A lubrication device for a helicopter including: an oil sump in which oil for lubrication is retained; a lubrication pump configured to suck the oil from the oil sump to discharge the oil; and a lubrication passage extending from the lubrication pump to a first lubrication target. The lubrication passage includes: a first supply port that supplies the oil to the first lubrication target; an oil reservoir provided upstream of the first supply port; and an opening provided upstream of the oil reservoir and above the oil reservoir. The first supply port is formed right above the first lubrication target.
US11965583B2
Thrust chain device, includes a thrust chain with a straight portion along an axis and a curved portion, and links hinged on shafts, a chain guide, a driving sprocket with chain interlocking teeth, the sprocket being in contact with the chain via contact surfaces in the shape of an involute of a circle, the contact surfaces belonging to the teeth, a tooth engaging with the chain while defining a line of action having an angle with the shaft of the straight portion of between −10° and 10°, the sprocket in contact with the straight portion and not the curved and is mounted such that it can rotate on a shaft on the side of the chain opposite the curved portion's center of curvature, the contact surfaces including a convex front surface directed towards the straight portion and a rear surface directed towards the curved portion when the tooth is interlocking.
US11965577B1
A centrifugal pendulum absorber includes: a center plate arranged to receive a torque; a first pendulum connected to the center plate; and a second pendulum mass connected to the center plate and circumferentially aligned with the first pendulum mass. The first pendulum mass includes a first circumferential end and a first curved portion disposed at the first circumferential end. The second pendulum mass includes a second circumferential end disposed proximate to the first circumferential end and a second curved portion disposed at the second circumferential end. The first curved portion and the second curved portion are each convex relative to a first circumferential direction from the first circumferential end to the second circumferential end.
US11965575B2
A hysteresis torque generating mechanism includes a first rotor having a slide surface, and a second rotor opposed to the first rotor. The second rotor is configured to slide against the slide surface of the first rotor so as to generate a hysteresis torque. The second rotor includes an initial contact portion and a main friction surface. The initial contact portion is provided to protrude toward the first rotor. The initial contact portion is configured to slide in contact with the slide surface of the first rotor. The main friction surface is configured to slide in contact with the slide surface of the first rotor after abrasion of the initial contact portion.
US11965551B2
A cage of an angular ball bearing includes, with respect to a plurality of balls arranged between an outer member and an inner member, an annular portion positioned on one side in an axial direction of the angular ball bearing, and a plurality of pillar portions provided to extend from the annular portion to the other side in the axial direction. The pillar portions include a first flat surface portion contactable with the balls on one side in a circumferential direction of the angular ball bearing, and a second flat surface portion contactable with the balls on the other side in the circumferential direction and parallel to the first flat surface portion.
US11965550B2
A rolling bearing cage includes axially spaced side rings, cage webs connecting the side rings, cage pockets, and first and second cage ends. The cage webs have rolling element guides projecting radially inwards and the cage pockets are formed between the rolling element guides. The first cage end has a closing element formed by an axial groove at a radial web surface of a cage web that is reinforced relative to the other cage webs and delimits a penultimate cage pocket. The second cage end has a closing element formed by a partial cage web connecting the end portions at the second cage end to one another. The partial cage web is arranged to hook into the axial groove to form a cage lock that secures the second cage end to the first cage end against unintentional loosening in a peripheral direction and in both radial directions.
US11965546B2
A bearing module that supports adjacent ends of coaxial shafts, includes an outer ring having first and second axially adjacent raceways and first and second flanges located at the respective ends. A first group of rolling elements rolls on the first raceway, and a second group of rolling elements rolls on the second raceway. A first cage retains the first group of rolling elements circumferentially spaced apart from one another, and a second cage retains the second group of rolling elements. An axial bearing is retained axially between the first and second groups of rolling elements, and has axial bearing rolling elements that are configured for rolling contact with (a) facing axial side raceways on first and second inner rings supported respectively on the first and second groups of rolling elements, (b) the adjacent ends of the two coaxial shafts, or (c) integral washers of the axial bearing.
US11965545B2
A foil bearing (10) having at least one foil (16, 18), which is arranged and fixed in place inside a bearing bushing (12). In order to simplify the production, in particular assembly, of the foil bearing (10), the bearing bushing (12) has at least two openings (20, 22, 24) offset from each other in the circumferential direction of the bearing bushing (12) or depressions (120, 122, 124) made in the inner lateral surface of the bearing bushing, into which openings or depressions two opposing circumferential end sections (16 a, 16 b, 18 a, 18 b) of the at least one foil (16, 18) engage.
US11965542B2
The invention provides a system for positioning a viewing screen. The system comprises a base body and at least one screen body. The screen body comprises a suspension hook and, on the one hand, is configured to be rigidly connected, at least in one position of the screen body, to the base body and, on the other hand, is configured to fasten a viewing screen thereto. The system further comprises a securing body for releasably securing the rigid connection between the base body and the screen body. The base body comprises a suspension edge. The suspension hook and the suspension edge are configured to suspend the screen body from the suspension edge of the base body via the suspension hook.
US11965540B2
A hand tool for bolts fastening includes a block-shaped jig body, a first bolt hole is disposed in the jig body laterally and a second bolt hole is disposed in the jig body longitudinally, an end of the second bolt hole is in communication with the first bolt hole, the second bolt hole allows a packing bolt to pass through and be screwed, a hemispherical suppression portion is disposed at an end of the packing bolt, the first bolt hole allows a to-be-fastened bolt to be screwed, the suppression portion of the packing bolt is pressed down on a selected position of the bolt, to cause a crest at the selected position to expand outward, so that interference occurs when the bolt is screwed with a bolt hole or a nut, to increase a torque force required to make the bolt come off.
US11965531B2
Disclosed herein are hydraulic actuators and methods for the operation of actuators having variable relative pressure ratios. Further disclosed are methods for designing and/or operating a hydraulic actuator such that the actuator exhibits a variable relative pressure ratio. In certain embodiments, the relative pressure ratio of the hydraulic actuator may be dependent on one or more characteristics (such as, for example, frequency or rate of change) of an oscillating input to the hydraulic actuator.
US11965523B1
A fan apparatus has a housing with an enlarged portion defining at least one air intake and an outlet portion defining an outlet port. The outlet port has a greater width and a lesser height. A blower wheel having a plurality of fan blades is supported in the enlarged portion of the housing for rotation about an axis. A driver is connected to the blower wheel to cause rotation of the blower wheel. A flow straightener assembly is located in the outlet portion of the housing. The flow straightener assembly has first and second fins spaced apart from one another and oriented substantially orthogonal to the axis of the blower wheel. Third and fourth fins are located outside of a respective one of the first and second fins, the third and fourth fins being oriented substantially parallel to the axis of the blower wheel.
US11965522B2
An impeller includes a hub and a plurality of blades. The blades are arranged around the hub, and each blade includes a leading edge, a blade tip, a root portion, a trailing edge, a windward side and a leeward side. The windward side including a first turning point and a second turning point, a first vertical height difference is formed from the blade tip to the first turning point, and a second vertical height difference is formed from the first turning point to the second turning point, and the first vertical height difference is greater than the second vertical height difference. The impeller apparently reduces the noise.
US11965521B2
A fan blade (1) has a front inflow edge (2) and a rear outflow edge (3). The fan blade (1) has an at least partially wavy inflow edge (4) that forms a wave (W) having a specific three-dimensional waveform.
US11965516B1
A compressor system includes a compressor housing including an inlet opening and a diffuser outlet, the compressor housing includes a first recirculation passage extending from the diffuser outlet to a mounting face of the compressor housing. The compressor housing defines a cavity that receives a compressor wheel. An inlet adapter is mounted to the mounting face of the compressor housing and the inlet adapter includes a second recirculation passage in communication with the first recirculation passage in the compressor housing and with a compressor air inlet passage of the inlet adapter. A recirculation valve is mounted to the inlet adapter and is disposed in communication with the second recirculation passage for providing a selective connection of the first recirculation passage to the compressor air inlet passage.
US11965509B2
An internal gear pump or motor includes inner and outer rotors that mesh together. An internal electric motor or generator may include a stator supported by a support element that passes through bearings of the outer rotor and the inner rotor may act as a rotor of the electric motor or generator. With or without the stator, the support element may support bearings of the inner rotor. The support element may be, for example, an eccentric shaft. Fluids may be supplied via the support element, if present, for cooling, lubrication or to flush a working fluid out of portions of the pump or motor, such as bearings. Flushing may also occur via channels in the housing with or without the presence of the support element. Axial faces of one of a pair of adjacent elements, for example the inner rotor and the outer rotor, may include portions for improved axial sealing and wearing in of the other of the pair. Fluid may enter and exit chambers between the inner and outer rotors by radial ports.
US11965505B2
A pump (1) for pumping a working fluid includes an electric motor (3) for actuating the pump and a motor (3) having a stator (31) and a rotor (32) that interact for the actuation of the pump. The rotor (32) is rotatable about an axis of rotation (320). The pump includes an electronic unit (4) for controlling the electric motor (3), a conduit (5) for the delivery of the working fluid downstream of the pump, a line (6) for cooling the electric motor (3), and the electronic unit (4). The cooling line (6) is permanently open and drawing off some of the working fluid processed by the pump. The cooling line (6) includes a first conduit (61) which is developed from a delivery area (22) of the pump.
US11965501B2
A system and technique for determining functionality of a hydraulic system including first and second motors mutually coupled in driving relation with a pump, a sensor generating a signal representative of a monitored condition, and a controller configured to selectively control activation and deactivation of the motors. Fitness detection logic stored in memory of the controller is executable by a processor to: determine, based on the signal while the first motor is activated and second motor is deactivated during a first test interval, whether the monitored condition meets a predefined threshold prior to expiration of the first test interval; determine, based on the signal while the second motor is activated and first motor is deactivated during a second test interval, whether the monitored condition meets the predefined threshold prior to expiration of the second test interval; and generate a readiness signal representative of the determined functionality of the hydraulic system.
US11965500B2
A compressor includes: a cylinder defining a compression space, a piston structure accommodated in the cylinder and including a mount member and a guide member, the guide member being configured to reciprocate inside the compression space of the cylinder in an axial direction to compress a refrigerant gas therein and a magnet frame configured to support a mover, the mover being coupled to the piston structure and configured to move together with the piston structure. The mount member connects the guide member to the magnet frame and the guide member is configured to be rotated with respect to the mount member.
US11965482B2
An approach for adjusting the inclination of a solar panel and the pitch of one or more micro-turbines to maximize power output. The approach predicts wind velocity at a small opening of an inclined solar panel wherein a plurality of micro-turbines is located. The approach predicts solar irradiance striking the inclined solar panel. The approach calculates an optimal solar panel inclination angle and micro-turbine pitch based on maximizing power output. The approach adjusts the solar panel inclination angle and micro-turbine pitch based on the calculation.
US11965477B2
Disclose herein is a hydropower system for deployment in a natural body of water that has a at least one first cylindrical tube member disposed through a concrete block assembly and coupled to a turbine tunnel assembly designed to receive water from a natural body of water via gravitational forces acting on the water. At least one water intake with a vortex breaker is operationally coupled to the cylindrical tube member. At least one turbine generator assembly has a plurality of upwardly angled but non-vertical blade members extending therefrom around a central axis adapted to rotate an electric generator. At least one second cylindrical tube member is coupled to at least one injection hole member to at least one or more of a fault line, an underground water system, and a river system that impart energy to move the water back into the natural water cycle.
US11965476B2
Systems and methods for starting an engine of a hybrid vehicle are described. In one example, the method selects one or more electric machines to start an engine. The method may reference a data structure, such as a matrix or table, and the matrix or table outputs which of the one or more electric machines is applied to start the engine.
US11965471B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle are disclosed. The method comprises acquiring an acceleration of a front wheel and a rear wheel, determining that the front wheel is passing a bump of a road in response to determining that the acceleration of the front wheel is outside an acceleration range and fluctuates in the range wider than the acceleration range within a first maximum time period, determining that the rear wheel is passing the bump in response to determining that the acceleration of the rear wheel is outside the acceleration range and fluctuates in the range wider than the acceleration range within a second maximum time period, and in response to determining that the front wheel has passed the bump and the rear wheel is passing the bump, controlling a drive unit of the vehicle.
US11965458B2
An engine system is provided that includes a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, a flowpath and a flow regulator. The combustor section includes a combustion chamber. The flowpath extends sequentially through the compressor section, the combustor section and the turbine section. The flow regulator is configured to open the flowpath between the compressor section and the combustion chamber during a first mode of operation. The flow regulator is configured to at least substantially close the flowpath between the compressor section and the combustion chamber during a second mode of operation.
US11965432B2
A guide vane ring which is divided into an upper and into a lower guide vane ring half, with an inner ring which is split at least in two, has a substantially U-shaped cross section, and forms a radially outwardly open flow duct which extends in the circumferential direction and is delimited by way of an inner ring bottom wall and two inner ring side walls, and with a multiplicity of vane platforms which receive guide vanes, are arranged along the outer circumference of the inner ring, and have holding webs which in each case project radially inwards, are spaced apart from one another in the axial direction, and engage around the inner ring side walls from the outside, wherein wear elements are inserted into gaps which are present between holding webs and directly adjacently arranged inner ring side walls.
US11965431B2
A turbine is provided with: a turbine wheel configured to rotate about an axis O1; a turbine housing accommodating the turbine wheel and defining an annular nozzle passage on the outer peripheral side of the turbine wheel; and a plurality of low solidity nozzle vanes 6 arranged in the nozzle passage at an interval in the circumferential direction. Circumferentially adjacent low solidity nozzle vanes 6 are disposed at different radial positions in a connection position of each of the low solidity nozzle vanes 6 with a hub-side wall surface of the hub-side wall surface and a shroud-side wall surface which define the nozzle passage.
US11965412B1
A quantitative evaluation method for integrity and damage evolution of a cement sheath in an oil-gas well is provided based on a fractal theory, an image processing technology, structural features and failure mechanisms of a casing-cement sheath-formation combination. The method uses correlations among fractal dimensions of casing-cement sheath interface morphology, cement sheath microscopic pore morphology, particle morphology of an initial blank group, and macroscopic mechanical properties including a radial cementing strength of the cement sheath interface, a tensile strength, and a compressive strength to quantitatively evaluate the integrity of the cement sheath of the blank group. The method further uses correlations among fractal dimensions of the casing-cement sheath interface morphology, cement sheath microscopic pore morphology, particle morphology, crack morphology after an alternating load, and the macroscopic mechanical properties of the cement sheath to quantitatively evaluate a regularity of the damage evolution of the cement sheath of a conditional control group.
US11965409B2
A measured electrical property may be used to control operation of a downhole device, which may be at least partially supported by additional downhole measurements consumed by the downhole device. For example, a downhole device may include an electrical sensor that measures an electrical property of electrical power provided to the downhole device. A processor of the downhole device may convert the measured electrical property to a quantized electrical property and determine a command or control action that corresponds to the quantized electrical property. The command or control action may be implemented to control operation of the downhole device.
US11965401B2
A downhole gas separator fluid mover assembly comprising a fluid mover having an inlet and an outlet, a separation device, a separation chamber, and a flow path separator located downstream of the fluid mover. The fluid mover comprising a centrifugal pump stage with an impeller and a diffuser moves production fluid comprising a high viscosity fluid portion and a gas portion to the separation device. The separation device produces a fluid motion that separates the gas phase from the liquid phase in response to the flow rate of production fluid from the fluid mover. A portion of the high viscosity fluid passes through the gas phase discharge port in response to the over-supply of high viscosity fluid to the liquid discharge port in response to the flow rate of the production fluid through the fluid mover.
US11965398B2
Wear resistant self-lubricating additive manufacturing parts and part features are disclosed in use with oilfield service operations.
US11965396B1
A system includes an electric submersible pump assembly and a control valve assembly. The electric submersible pump assembly transports a fluid in a casing string of a well to a surface location and includes a pump that receives the fluid through a pump intake and vents the fluid through a pump discharge when activated. The electric submersible pump assembly further includes a shaft that is fixed to the pump and extends downhole from the pump. The control valve assembly includes a propeller shaft axially movable along a central axis of the system, a propeller attached to the propeller shaft that pushes the propeller shaft downhole when the pump of the electric submersible pump assembly is active, a shaft coupler that connects the propeller shaft and the shaft of the electric submersible pump assembly, and a stinger that has a conduit for the fluid to flow from the casing string to the pump intake. The stinger includes an entrance for receiving the fluid and an exit for venting the fluid to the pump intake of the electric submersible pump assembly. In addition, the control valve assembly includes a flow tube, connected to the propeller shaft, and a spring. The flow tube includes ports which create fluid communication between the flow tube and the stinger when the ports and the entrance of the stinger are aligned. The spring slides the propeller shaft when the pump of the electric submersible pump assembly is inactive.
US11965394B1
A method of actuating a subsea tree comprising opening a valve assembly by transferring a first volume of fluid into a first chamber and closing the valve assembly from the open position to a shear position via a gas charged valve actuator in response to the transfer of fluid out of the first chamber. Shearing a workstring positioned within an axial bore of the valve assembly with the valve via the gas charged valve actuator. Closing the valve from the shear position to a closed position with one or more gas charged push rods to isolate the wellbore above from the wellbore below the closed valve. The shearing force generated from the gas charged valve actuator is greater than the closing force of the one or more push rods.
US11965391B2
An assembly includes a cone having a tapered outer surface, a slips assembly positioned at least partially around the tapered outer surface of the cone, and a sealing ring positioned at least partially around the tapered outer surface of the cone. The slips assembly directly engages the sealing ring, such that the slips assembly is configured to transmit a setting force to the sealing ring, which moves the sealing ring on the tapered outer surface of the cone and expands the sealing ring radially outward. The assembly includes an anti-seal ring positioned adjacent to the sealing ring and around the cone. The anti-seal ring is driven along the tapered outer surface of the cone by engagement with the sealing ring.
US11965386B2
Present embodiments relate to a riser bolt torque device that is configured to couple a first riser joint to a second riser joint to form a riser of a subsea drilling system. The riser bolt torque device includes a first arm and a second arm, multiple torque tools supported on the first arm and the second arm, and one or more actuators configured to drive the first arm and the second arm to pivot relative to one another from an open configuration to a closed configuration to enable alignment between the multiple torque tools and a flange of the first riser joint.
US11965385B2
A casing running tool is provided, including one or more sensors built into the casing running tool; an electronics housing that includes one or more power sources for powering the one or more sensors; one or more circuit boards for converting sensor data for transmission and transmission means for transmitting sensor data. The one or more sensors sense tool status and operational parameters of the casing running tool. A system is also provided for detection, processing and transmission of one or parameters of tool status and operational status of a casing running tool or associated tools in a casing installation or casing while drilling operation. The system includes a casing running tool; and a processor for receiving sensor data for processing and transmitting processed data in real-time for viewing by an operator. A method is further provided for performing a casing installation or casing while drilling operation.
US11965384B2
A centralizer for use in a wellbore includes a body for disposing around a periphery of a downhole tubular. The body has a plurality of bow springs biased toward an expanded position and a pair of end rings connecting the bow springs. The centralizer further includes an indentation or row of indentation segments formed in a surface of and along each bow spring. The indentations or indentation segments are operable to reduce a stiffness of the centralizer as the bow springs move from the expanded position to a restricted position.
US11965383B1
A downhole shock absorbing sub which includes a tubular main stem extending through a sub housing and a lateral shock absorbing assembly positioned within the sub housing. The lateral shock absorbing assembly includes an activator ring positioned around the main stem, the activator ring including a plurality of wedge inserts positioned around a perimeter of the activator ring. A reaction collar is positioned on each side of the activator ring with the reaction collars including ramp surfaces engaged by the wedge inserts. A spring system is positioned to resist movement of the reaction collars away from the activator ring, whereby lateral movement of the main stem causes the wedge inserts to move the reaction collars against the spring system.
US11965382B2
An insert for a drill bit includes a base portion. In addition, the insert includes a formation engaging portion extending from the base portion. The formation engaging portion has a longitudinal axis and includes a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a first lateral side extending from the first end to the second end, and a second lateral side extending from the first end to the second end, and an elongate crown extending longitudinally from the first end to the second end and laterally from the first lateral side to the second lateral side. The first lateral side comprises a first curved surface having a first radius of curvature in top view of the insert and the second lateral side includes a second curved surface having a second radius of curvature in top view of the insert. The first radius of curvature of the first curved surface is different than the second radius of curvature of the second curved surface.
US11965379B2
A safety gate includes a first column, disposed on a first side of an elevator shaft, a second column, disposed on a second side of the elevator shaft, a first gate panel, and a second gate panel. The first gate panel is coupled to the first column via a first locking hinge. The second gate panel is coupled to the second column via a second locking hinge.
US11965376B2
Disclosed is an assembly and a vehicle and apparatus including the assembly, for maintaining a vehicle door in an open position may include at least one rod member configured to connect at a first end to the door and at a second end to a vehicle frame. A tab may be connected to and extend in at least one direction from the rod member. A plunger may be configured to be anchored in the door and including a pin configured to extend from and retract into the plunger. The pin may be configured to engage the tab when extended and disengage from the tab when retracted.
US11965373B2
A device has at least two components which are movable relative to one another. The first component is equipped with a rotary receptacle and wherein the second component is rotatably received on the rotary receptacle. A third component is coupled to the second component. Two connection units which are movable relative to one another and a controllable braking device are included, wherein the braking device is designed as a controllable rotary brake in order to provide controlled damping of a movement of a door device between a closed position and an open position. The first connection unit is formed on the first component, and the second connection unit is pivotably coupled to the third component. The pivot axis is oriented transversely with respect to an axis of rotation of the second component.
US11965367B2
A motor-vehicle door latch device includes: a main body; a latch that engages with a striker on a vehicle body side when a door is closed, and is capable of moving from an open position to a fully-latched position; a ratchet provided with a pawl that blocks the latch from rotating to an opening direction by respectively engaging with a half-latched engagement portion and a fully-latched engagement portion of the latch; and a third latch lever that engages with a third engagement portion provided on the latch when the latch is in a third latch position between a half-latched position and the open position of the latch so that the third latch lever is capable of blocking the latch from rotating in the opening direction from the third latch position.
US11965356B2
In one form, a cylindrical lockset includes a chassis including a pair of hubs, a pair of drive tubes, a retractor, and a lock control assembly. The lock control assembly has a locked state and an unlocked state. The lock control assembly also has a plurality of movable elements, each having a locking position and an unlocking position. One of the hubs includes a guide channel, and a slider is movably seated in the guide channel. One of the movable elements is associated with the slider, and is configured to move the slider between a lock-indicating position and an unlock-indicating position.
US11965354B2
A device for covering a surface including a substantially rectangular cover (10) having first and second longitudinal edges each provided with a protruding convex bead (12) having a minimum diameter (d), two rails (6) including a groove, the opening (14) of which has a maximum width (Lo), a drum (2) that is able to move above the surface in order to deploy or retrieve the cover, an insertion system (16) for continuous insertion of the convex bead (12) into the groove. The convex head (12) of each longitudinal edge and the groove of the corresponding rail are configured such that, once inserted into the space (14e) by the insertion system, the convex bead occupying the space alone cannot be removed solely by the action of a force (F) applied parallel to the transverse axis (Y) in the direction of the surface to be covered.
US11965350B1
The canopy mounting and support system is a temporary shelter. The canopy mounting and support system includes a plurality of support structures, a tarpaulin, and a plurality of vertically oriented anchor structures. The plurality of support structures secures the tarpaulin to the plurality of vertically oriented anchor structures. The plurality of support structures elevates the tarpaulin above a protected space formed by the canopy mounting and support system.
US11965349B2
A pole cradle is disclosed. The pole cradle including a first leg; a second leg; a third leg positioned between and pivotally connected to the first and second legs by a pivot connector extending through the first, second, and third legs; and wherein the third leg pivots relative to the first and second legs between a first position where the first, second, and third legs lie in plane to form a flat surface and a second position where the first, second, and third legs form a V-shaped receiving section.
US11965332B2
A ceiling panel to be fixed to a ceiling base, the ceiling base having a long shape extending in a first direction and being provided in parallel spaced in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The ceiling panel includes a panel body in a shape of a rectangular flat plate, a magnet provided on a back face side of both end portions of the panel body in the second direction and being attracted to an attracted portion of the ceiling base, a hooked portion provided for a first end portion of the panel body in the first direction, and a hooking portion provided for a second end portion of the panel body in the first direction, the hooking portion hooking on a hooked portion of an adjacent ceiling panel to be provided in the first direction.
US11965330B2
A building system and method of using the same may include a wall assembly including a plurality of expanded metal mesh sheets disposed on either side of at least one welded wire mesh sheet. The wall assembly may be disposed in a keyway defined by a foundation assembly including a plurality of form boards. The foundation assembly may be constructed and arranged for framing out a slab, wall, or structure. The building system may further include a framing assembly including a plurality of vertical supports spaced away from one another and being constructed and arranged to connect to a support header and plurality of spans such that a structure or wall may be formed within the framing assembly. Material, such as concrete, maybe poured between the plurality of expanded metal mesh sheets to form a slab, wall, or structure.
US11965319B2
A work machine includes a vehicle body and a work implement attached to the vehicle body. A system calibrates the work machine by using an external measurement apparatus. The system includes an attitude sensor, a positional sensor attached to the vehicle body, a storage device, an input device and a processor. The attitude sensor outputs attitude data indicative of an attitude of the vehicle body. The storage device stores machine data indicative of a position of the positional sensor in a vehicle body coordinate system. The input device receives an input of calibration data including a position of a predetermined measurement point on the work machine measured by the external measurement apparatus, and a position of the positional sensor measured by the external measurement apparatus. The processor calibrates the machine data based on the calibration data and the attitude data.
US11965308B2
A system and method are provided for evenly distributing the loading of material in a loading container of a transport vehicle (e.g., articulated dump truck) by a work machine (e.g., excavator). At least one sensor mounted on the work machine generates data corresponding to at least a portion of the loading container. The captured data is processed to determine a current profile of material loaded in the loading container, wherein output signals are generated corresponding to a difference between the current profile and a predetermined target profile for the material loaded in the loading container. In certain embodiments, the output signals are used to assist an operator of the work machine with manual loading via an onboard display unit and superposed images associated with the current and/or target profiles. In other embodiments, the output signals automatically control at least part of the loading process.
US11965294B2
Concrete texturing devices for use on an uncured concrete slab. The concrete texturing devices have a device body, one or more drive systems, at least one articulating arm, and at least one texturing structure. Also disclosed are methods of use.
US11965290B2
A refining member comprising a refining body with a refining surface comprising first and second refiner bars separated by first and second refiner grooves, respectively. The first refiner bars extend from a radially inward position to a first radially outward position. The second refiner bars extend to a second radially outward position that is nearer to an outermost part of the refining body than the first radially outward position. The second refiner bars have a longitudinal length from about 0.6 cm to about 10 cm. The first and second refiner bars have a respective first and second maximum height extending upward from a floor of a respective, adjacent first or second refiner groove. The second maximum height is at least 0.35 mm less than the first maximum height. The first refiner bars are adapted to refine wood fibers and the second refiner bars are adapted to break up fiber bundles.
US11965285B2
A method for manufacturing a leather article including a flexible leather includes steps as follows. A leather precursor is provided, wherein the leather precursor includes a polymer material. A release member, the leather precursor and a pressing member are stacked in sequence to form a stacked set, wherein at least one of the release member and the pressing member is formed with a plurality of vents. The stacked set is heated and vacuumized to allow the polymer material to form the flexible leather, such that the leather precursor forms the leather article. The leather article is separated from the release member and the pressing member.
