US11328288B2
The present invention relates to a system and a method for authenticating an electronic money using a smart card and a communication terminal. The present invention provides a system and a method for authenticating an electronic money, wherein the system comprises a smart card and a communication terminal. The smart card takes biometric signature from a user as an input, transmits recognition completion information to the communication terminal when the biometric signature inputted by the user matches the stored biometric signature, receives an update command from the communication terminal, updates the amount of stored balance data, and transmits an update completion message to the communication terminal. The communication terminal is connected to the smart card in a wired or wireless manner, and transmits the update command to the smart card upon receipt of the recognition completion information.
US11328284B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media are described for using a vehicle as a payment device. Various aspects may include receiving a selection of a stored financial card or financial account at a vehicle head unit. The selected financial card or financial account may be transmitted to a point-of-sale (POS) terminal for making a payment by transmitting a tokenized card number to the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted over a very short-range communication link to ensure that the transmission is secure. For example, electronic circuitry may be attached to the exterior of the vehicle, where the electronic circuitry may be within a threshold distance (e.g. one inch, three inches, six inches, one foot, three feet, etc.) of the POS terminal. The tokenized card number may be transmitted from the vehicle head unit to the electronic circuitry and then to the POS terminal.
US11328282B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for identifying goods of intelligent shopping cart. The method comprises: reading bar code information of a to-be-purchased goods and obtaining corresponding prestored goods information; continuously detecting and obtaining a total goods weight mn+1 in the shopping cart, and comparing the total goods weight mn+1 with a total goods weight mn acquired after a previous purchasing action is completed, to obtain a variation mΔ of the total goods weight. According to the method of the present disclosure, when a customer puts a goods in the shopping cart in the shopping course, the correct goods is automatically identified and recorded in a shopping list, then the customer can directly settle the account after completing the shopping, accordingly a lot of time for the customers to wait for the settlement is saved.
US11328258B2
A method includes receiving, at a service provider, each of multiple email messages from an email system of a company after the email system determines that each email message includes travel information associated with business travel of an employee of the company, wherein the company is a client or customer of the service provider. The method also includes parsing and filtering, by the service provider, each email message to obtain the travel information. The method also includes storing, by the service provider, the travel information in a data repository. The method also includes generating, by the service provider, one or more user or data interfaces associated with the travel information, wherein the one or more user or data interfaces are arranged as a travel information dashboard accessible to the company.
US11328236B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display control unit that displays diagrams representing contents corresponding to a schedule of a user based on information indicating the schedule.
US11328232B2
A method of facilitating a match between an employer with at least one job opening and job seekers is provided. The employer has a set of position preferences related to the job opening. The job seekers have suitability data, resumes, etc., that are provided to the employer. The suitability data includes normalized assessment data. The method includes the steps of: determining a position quotient based on the position preferences; deriving a performance quotient for each job seeker, the performance quotient including normalized assessment data; comparing each the performance quotient to the position quotient; and ranking each the job seeker based on the comparison of the performance quotient to the position quotient.
US11328230B2
A power source provides power (e.g., electrical power) to a powered object. The object is identified and the amount of power consumed by the object is measured. Information representing the object identity and the amount of power consumed by the object is transmitted to a remote server. Proximity between a device and the object may be determined, in response to which the device may obtain the information representing the object identity and the amount of power consumed by the object, and transmit such information to the remote server, in addition to information representing an identity of a user of the device.
US11328221B2
A method of text classification includes generating a text embedding vector representing a text sample and applying weights of a regression layer to the text embedding vector to generate a first data model output vector. The method also includes generating a plurality of prototype embedding vectors associated with a respective classification labels and comparing the plurality of prototype embedding vectors to the text embedding vector to generate a second data model output vector. The method further includes assigning a particular classification label to the text sample based on the first data model output vector, the second data model output vector, and one or more weighting values.
US11328217B2
A noise reduction and smart ticketing application for social media-based communication systems may identify social media-based communications from users who are attempting to engage with a brand or entity on a social media platform as actionable, and distinguish other communications as noise. The noise reduction and smart ticketing system may use machine learning to determine which social media communications are actionable for a given company or other organization, and generates tickets for actionable communications. Actionable communications may include, but are not limited to, technical support issues, inquiries about a product release date, grievances, incidents, suggestions to improve service, critiques of company policies, etc. Non-actionable communications (i.e., “noise”) may include, but are not limited to, suggestions to other users, promotions, coupons, offers, marketing campaigns, affiliate marketing, statements that a user is attending an event, etc.
US11328214B2
A method and associated systems provide real-time response to a request received from a real-time system like a self-driving vehicle or a device that communicates interactively with its environment. The response is selected from a set of candidate feasible responses by a group of computerized agents that each sort the feasible responses in order of that agent's specific preferences, based on that agent's particular priorities or expertise. The agents then reconcile their differences through an iterative procedure. During each iteration, each agent decides whether to retain its current preferences or to adopt the preferences of another agent. This decision is made by determining which preferences are most similar to that agent's own initial preferences, and by which preferences would be most useful in helping to achieve that agent's particular goals. When the agents reach consensus, the group's most-preferred response is returned quickly enough to provide real-time, interactive response.
US11328212B1
A method for predicting demographic information for a common user that is associated with a plurality of unresolved identifiers. An unresolved identifier defines a context in which a client device accesses one or more online systems, the context not determined to be associated with a specific user. The method comprises identifying a set of unresolved identifiers, and identifying information describing one or more access events associated with each unresolved identifier. For each pair of unresolved identifiers, a similarity score for the pair is determined based on the identified information. Responsive to the similarity score exceeding a threshold similarity score, the pair of unresolved identifiers is clustered, the clustering indicating a prediction that the pair of unresolved identifiers are associated with a common user. Predicted demographic information is determined for each unresolved identifier in the cluster. Based on predicted demographic information determined for each unresolved identifier in the cluster, aggregate demographic information is determined for the common user.
US11328211B2
A method for classifying a gesture made in proximity to a touch interface. A system receives data related to the position and/or movement of hand. The data is delimited by identifying a variable length window of touch frames. The variable length window of touch frames is selected to include touch frames indicative of feature data. The variable length window of touch frames is classified based upon classifications learned by the classifying module to identify gestures.
US11328207B2
Techniques in advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, energy efficiency, and cost. In a first embodiment, a scaled array of processing elements is implementable with varying dimensions of the processing elements to enable varying price/performance systems. In a second embodiment, an array of clusters communicates via high-speed serial channels. The array and the channels are implemented on a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). Each cluster comprises respective processing and memory elements. Each cluster is implemented via a plurality of 3D-stacked dice, 2.5D-stacked dice, or both in a Ball Grid Array (BGA). A processing portion of the cluster is implemented via one or more Processing Element (PE) dice of the stacked dice. A memory portion of the cluster is implemented via one or more High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) dice of the stacked dice.
US11328200B2
The invention relates to a passive transponder having at least one coil, the transponder having an electrically conductive shield which covers the windings of the coil from both sides. A central region of the coil around which the windings are wound is not covered by the shield. In the surfaces, in which the shield covers the windings, the shield has at least one discontinuity by which a current flow in the shield can be prevented.
US11328191B2
A card encoding system comprises a belt to receive an encodable card on a first surface of the belt; a contactless encoding module including an encoding antenna, wherein the encoding antenna is positioned opposite a second surface of the belt; and a belt drive controller configured to rotate a drive roller to move the belt to position the encodable card for encoding using the encoding antenna.
US11328190B2
A controller of an editing device executes displaying, on a display unit, an input area image corresponding to an input area in which the characters are arranged by overlapping the input area image on a medium image showing the printing medium, changing a size of the input area image displayed in the displaying, using first method or second method, according to a first instruction for changing the size of the input area, the first method being changing the size of the input area by setting a portion of the medium image corresponding to the non-light-transmitting area as a maximum range, the second method being changing the size of the input area by setting the entire medium image as a maximum range, and switching between the first method and the second method as a first switching.
US11328186B2
A method and an electronic device are disclosed. The method includes obtaining an image, obtaining information of the image, obtaining content information of content included in the image, obtaining related information which relates to the image based on at least one of the information of the image and the content information, and classifying the image into at least one category based on a plurality of defined information/data elements and a relation among the information/data elements and metadata of the image.
US11328185B2
A system and method for performing speckle correlation flow cytometry (SCFC). By subtracting out the stationary background when shining light through a sample (e.g., a vessel within a biological tissue), light only scattered by the desired targets (e.g., cells) can be captured and different types of targets (e.g., cells) can be distinguished by the autocorrelation of the speckle pattern. In this way, the targets (e.g., cells) can be classified and counted based on the features of their speckle correlations. The technique can be applied not only for noninvasive, label-free, in vivo CTC counting but also for counting other types of blood cells such as white blood cells or red blood cells.
US11328178B2
A computer-implemented method of associating an annotation with an object in an image, comprising generating a dictionary including first vectors that associate terms of the annotation with concepts, classifying the image to generate a second vector based on classified objects and associated confidence scores for the classified objects, selecting a term of the terms associated with one of the first vectors having a shortest determined distance to the second vector, identifying a non-salient region of the image, and rendering the annotation associated with the selected term at the non-salient region.
US11328176B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to determine a plurality of initial image processing programs and to add the initial image processing programs to an image processing program group, extract at least two image processing programs from the image processing program group, generate a candidate of a next-generation image processing program from the extracted image processing programs, based on genetic programming, calculate a fitness of the candidate of the next-generation image processing program, using a learning data item including an input image and a target processing result, and determine the next-generation image processing program or update the image processing program group based on the calculated fitness, wherein the processor is configured to determine, as some of the initial image processing programs, at least some of first image processing programs included in the image processing program group upon previous determination of a next-generation image processing program.
US11328175B2
A method and apparatus for facilitating training of agents is disclosed. Raw transcripts representing textual form of interactions between the agents and customers of the enterprise are transformed to generate transformed transcripts. An interaction summary is generated in relation to each transformed transcript. A plurality of intent-based interaction clusters are derived using the interaction summary generated in relation to each transformed transcript. The plurality of interactions are classified based on the plurality of intent-based interaction clusters and an interaction flow map is generated for each intent-based interaction cluster based on the interactions classified into the respective intent-based interaction cluster. The generated interaction flow map is capable of facilitating training of agents for interacting with the customers of the enterprise.
US11328172B2
A sketch-based image retrieval method, device and system, to improve accuracy of image searching from a scene sketch image. For example, the image retrieval method, device and system can be used to retrieve a target scene image from a collection of stored images in a storage (i.e., an image collection). The image retrieval method includes: segmenting the scene sketch image using an image segmentation module into semantic object-level instances, and fine-grained features are obtained for each object instance, generating an attribute graph which integrates the fine-grained features for each semantic object instance detected from the query scene sketch image, generating a feature graph by using a graph encoder module from the attribute graph, and computing a similarity or distance between the feature graphs of the query scene sketch image and the scene images in the image collection by a graph matching module and the most similar scene images are returned.
US11328171B2
The present disclosure relates to an image retrieval method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining an image group including a query image and at least one candidate image; calculating an intermediate similarity between any two images in the image group; performing multi-scale feature fusion based on the intermediate similarity between the any two images to obtain a final similarity between the query image and each candidate image; and determining a target image corresponding to the query image from each candidate image based on the final similarity. The present disclosure can improve precision and robustness of image retrieval.
US11328160B2
A video condensation & recognition method and a system thereof are used to detect objects in input frames, derive a 3D object trajectory from which one or multiple 2D trajectories with object tubes are extracted, and catch a time position that refers to non-overlapping condition of object tubes for rearrangement of several continuous object tubes and creation of a condensed video. The generated condensed video can be adjusted by the user in the range of longest detected object tube to the generated condensed video length that is very beneficial for video analysis process. Moreover, a searched attribute of an object in a condensed video is classified for the filtering process which is able to display an object correlated with a distinct searched attribute on the condensed video.
US11328157B2
A method and system for authoring a three-dimensional (3D) presentation can involve dividing a scene into a grid of equals-sized segments or non-equally sized segments, wherein one or more 360-degree cameras record the scene from a center of each segment, and a size of the each segment is proportional to a complexity of an environment captured in the scene. One or more objects can be created within the scene for a user interaction with a 3D presentation of the scene in the context of a video stream. A logical center of the object(s) can be used as a center point for recording a 360-degree video by the one or more 360-degree cameras for use as a low fidelity background video when the user interacts with the 3D presentation of the scene. The 3D presentation can be based on a 3D model.
US11328155B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods for labeling objects displayed by an augmented reality display system used to assist in the operation of mobile structures. Such an augmented reality display system includes a logic device configured to communicate with navigational sensors and imaging modules coupled to a mobile structure, where the navigational sensors are configured to provide navigational data associated with the mobile structure and the imaging module is configured to image a scene from a position on the mobile structure. The logic device is configured to detect an object in the scene, determine a heading reliability associated with the detected object based, at least in part, on the navigational data, and render an integrated model of the scene on a display, where the integrated model is configured to indicate the determined heading reliability associated with the detected object.
US11328149B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose an optical image capturing unit, an optical image capturing system, and an electronic device. The optical image capturing unit includes: a micro lens; a light shielding layer disposed under the micro lens, where the light shielding layer is provided with a window; and a photosensor disposed under the light shielding layer, where the micro lens is configured to converge an optical signal from above the micro lens to the window, and the optical signal is transmitted to the photosensor via the window. Technical solutions of embodiments of the present application could enhance performance of an optical image capturing product.
US11328146B2
Systems and methods for physical cable route tracing are provided. In one embodiment, a cable comprises: one or more of either electrical conductors or optical fibers; a cable sheath around the one or more of either electrical conductors or optical fibers; and a pattern of cable tracing facilitation markings located on an exterior of the cable sheath; wherein the cable tracing facilitation markings comprise either: a visually varying pattern that gradually changes along a length of the cable sheath; or a series of coded markings of an ordered sequence pattern.
US11328145B2
An apparatus and method for updating features on an image scanning apparatus has a client computing device capture and decode an image of a first symbol that encodes data that identifies the image scanning apparatus, request a server to enable a feature on the image scanning apparatus, receive activation data from the server to enable the feature, and generate an image of a second symbol on a display of the client computing device that encodes the activation data. The image scanning apparatus captures and decodes an image of the second symbol, and uses the decoded activation data to enable a feature resident on the image scanning apparatus or to request a download of the feature from the client computing device if the feature is not resident on the image scanning apparatus. The client computing device downloads the feature from the server, and uploads the feature to the image scanning apparatus.
US11328144B2
A system may include a plurality of stations that implement a workflow process. The workflow process may include reading a barcode in connection with at least some of the plurality of stations. The barcode may be attached to an item that is moved between the plurality of stations during the workflow process. The system may additionally include a plurality of devices. Each of the plurality of devices may be located at one of the plurality of stations. At least some of the plurality of devices may include barcode reading capability. The system may additionally include process management code stored in memory on at least some of the plurality of devices. The process management code may be executable by one or more processors on the plurality of devices to determine auxiliary data corresponding to the workflow process and send the auxiliary data to a server.
US11328143B1
An automated system can be used for tracking facade elements such as panels, glazing, or related structures, such as to help facilitate processing (e.g., fabrication) of such elements. Such a system can also facilitate management of other aspects of a life-cycle of a facade element, such as including one or more of design management or field monitoring. Such a system can include generating a unique identifier that is specific to a particular article, such as a panel or frame member, for example. Such a unique identifier can be used to track the article through the fabrication process.
US11328133B2
The present disclosure provides a translation processing method, a translation processing device, and a device. The first speech signal of the first language is obtained, and the speech feature vector of the first speech signal is extracted based on the preset algorithm. Further, the speech feature vector is input into the pre-trained end-to-end translation model for conversion from the first language speech to the second language text for processing, and the text information of the second language corresponding to the first speech signal is obtained. Moreover, speech synthesis is performed on the text information of the second language, and the corresponding second speech signal is obtained and played.
US11328125B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for a text classification using multi-task learning executed by a server, the method includes: a step of generating text classification learning data by executing a pre-processing process on raw data collected through a network; a step of learning a category classification in a first classification system preset through a first text classification model using the text classification learning data as an input; a step of learning a category classification in a second classification system preset through a second text classification model using the text classification learning data as an input; and a step of classifying the category in the second classification system by inputting text data received from a user terminal into the second text classification model.
US11328116B2
A method and system for identifying potential collaborators for a document may include determining a lifecycle stage of a document, determining a subject matter of the document based at least in part on content of the document. The method and system identify one or more potential collaborators to contribute to the document based at least in part on the subject matter of the document, a lifecycle stage of the document, or collaborator-specific information associated with each of the one or more potential collaborators. The method and system may also include providing data relating to the one or more potential collaborators for display.
US11328114B2
Implementations include a batch-optimized render and fetch architecture. An example method performed by the architecture includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page and initializing a virtual clock and a task list for rendering the web page. The virtual clock stands still when a request for an embedded item is outstanding and when a task is ready to run. The method may also include generating a rendering result for the web page when the virtual clock matches a run time for a stop task in the task list, and providing the rendering result to the batch process. Another example method includes receiving a request from a batch process to render a web page, identifying an embedded item in the web page, and determining, based on a rewrite rule, that the embedded item has content that is duplicative of content for a previously fetched embedded item.
US11328101B2
The present disclosure relates to a data processing method for blueprint design, a product lifecycle management (PLM) widget and a computation device. The method comprises: receiving by a PLM widget a first acquisition request from a blueprint design program; in response to the first acquisition request, acquiring by the PLM widget a design check file corresponding to blueprint information of a current blueprint in the blueprint design program from a PLM program, the design check file being used to prompt a user to check design compliance of the current blueprint; and transmitting by the PLM widget the design check file to the blueprint design program.
US11328099B2
There is provided a thermal model creation device capable of creating a highly accurate thermal model. A constraint-condition setting means 72 sets constraint conditions of parameters in the thermal model. A parameter determination means 73 determines all unknown values of parameters in the thermal model under the constraint conditions.
US11328092B2
Data processing systems for processing and managing data subject access in a distributed environment
In particular embodiments, a data subject request processing system may be configured to utilize one or more local storage nodes in order to process a data subject access request on behalf of a data subject. In particular embodiments, the one or more local storage nodes may be local to the data subject making the request (e.g., in the same country as the data subject, in the same jurisdiction, in the same geographic area, etc.). The system may, for example, be configured to: (1) receive a data subject access request from a data subject (e.g., via a web form); (2) identify a suitable local storage node based at least in part on the request and/or the data subject; (3) route the data subject access request to the identified local storage node; and (4) process the data subject access request at the identified local storage node.
US11328089B2
An approach is disclosed that enforces a privacy legal framework filesystem along with an operating system (OS) to enforce the privacy legal framework. An access of a datum in a selected file in the filesystem includes accessing a metadata associated with the selected file where the metadata includes a privacy state and an owner consent-based access policy. The owner consent-based access policy is enforced by the OS via special-purpose support requiring usage of the metadata to access the selected file.
US11328088B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed for trust based access to records via encrypted protocol communications with an authentication system. An example system is configured to authorize and provide selective and secured access to sensitive medical information according to one or more trusted relationships. The system is configured to receive a request for access to a patient's health record from an outside entity. Authentication information associated with the outside entity is determined. Whether the outside entity is authorized to access the requested data is determined. The determination is based on existence of a trust relationship being established between the outside entity and the patient, the trust relationship established by an action of the patient or a patient's representative. Access to the patient's health record is enabled based on a positive determination.
US11328087B1
Systems and methods for implementing a secure and efficient cryptographic protocol for analyzing data objects while providing assurances of data privacy and security. A data object may be obfuscated and provided for analysis (e.g., to a data analytics service) without necessarily providing access to the (e.g., plaintext) data object. For example, a first computing entity and second computing entity may agree upon a function or circuit that performs a certain type of computational task, such as comparing a first data set controlled by the first computing entity and a second data set controlled by the second computing entity. An event-driven function may be invoked by the event-driven compute service in response to detecting satisfaction of a condition as part of monitoring alerts that are generated as a result of the output of the computational task described above.
US11328085B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein securely provide confidential information associated with a user during an active voice call conducted using the user's mobile device. The confidential information may be provided by generating the information in spoken form and inserting the spoken information into an audio stream of the voice call. For example, a customer may be on a phone call with a customer agent. The customer agent may ask the customer for a credit card number in order to process a financial transaction. The customer may select the credit card number via an application executing on the customer's mobile phone. The application may cause the credit card number to be spoken out loud during the voice call. A voice sample of the spoken credit card number in inserted into the audio stream of the voice call and is therefore, audible to the customer and the customer agent without being overheard by a third party.
US11328082B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data processing are described. Some database systems may support differential privacy for encrypted data. For example, a database may store user data as ciphertext. A system may receive a statistical query for the user data and may identify a relevant differential privacy mechanism. The system may transform the query to operate on encrypted data while including a noisification function based on the mechanism. The system may execute the transformed query at the database, involving adding noise to the query result according to the noisification function without decrypting the data. For example, the system may leverage homomorphic encryption techniques to inject the noise while the data remains encrypted. The database may return the noisified, encrypted query results, which the system may decrypt for statistical analysis. By applying differential privacy on the encrypted data, the system may avoid exposing any private user information throughout the process.
US11328078B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure provide an apparatus for protecting information. According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an apparatus for monitoring a database includes a transceiver, and a processor operatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor may be configured to acquire a query used in access of the database from the database through the transceiver, replace a first code, included in the acquired query, for query checking to a predefined text, convert the text to a second code for query checking, and output information on validity of the acquired query on the basis of a comparison result of the first code and the second code.
US11328070B2
The present technology relates to a signal processing device, and a signal processing method for enabling reduction of a processing load while ensuring safety. The signal processing device includes a control unit that acquires designation information indicating a designated portion to be encrypted in output data and an encryption processing unit that encrypts the designated portion indicated by the designation information in the output data using a key. Furthermore, the designated portion indicated by the designation information is changed with time. The present technology can be applied to an in-vehicle camera.
US11328068B1
A method of determining a level of potential risk associated with a potential vulnerability identified in a software application. The method includes generating simulated loss events, determining a plurality of impacts for the simulated loss events, determining the level of potential risk based on the plurality of impacts, and providing a graphical user interface based on the level of potential risk.
US11328063B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to intercept a process, store execution profiling for the process if the process involves a privileged resource or a privileged operation, and analyze the code involved in each stack frame to determine malicious activity. If the process does not involve a privileged resource or a privileged operation, then the process is not analyzed.
US11328050B2
Trusted agents operating within a trusted execution environment (TEE) of a client computing device are configured with complex computational puzzles (e.g., hash functions or other proof of work puzzles) for a remote service to solve before the trusted agent executes an operation. The trusted agent may have a policy that the puzzle is associated with, in which the policy defines a statistically defined time period over which puzzles are solved. The statistically defined time period is effectuated through parameters which control a complexity of the puzzle. Malware or bad actors that attempt to misuse the trusted agent are throttled until the remote service solves the puzzle, which is configured with a level of complexity that takes the statistically defined time period.
US11328030B2
An apparatus includes a network interface and one or more processors. The network interface is configured to receive a request from a client device. The request includes a universal resource locator (URL). The one or more processors are configured, responsive to receiving the request, to identify a design template based on the URL, to generate a design based on the design template, and to generate design data by parsing the URL. The one or more processors are also configured to send, via the network interface, the design and the design data to the client device to cause display of an updated version of the design by applying the design data to the design. The one or more processors are further configured to receive the updated version of the design via the network interface from the client device.
US11328029B2
Methods and systems for generating search results are disclosed. In some examples, one or more keywords are extracted from one or more stored reviews associated with a merchant offering. A first extracted keyword is associated with a stored listing of the merchant offering. The first extracted keyword may be absent from the stored listing. In response to a search query that includes the first keyword, a set of search results is provided, where the set of search results includes the listing associated with the first keyword.
US11328026B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-source data analytics system, data manager, and related methods. The multi-source data analytics are measured and used to generate an overall performance indicator. In some examples, the overall performance indicator relates to digital content items available on a digital media platform. The digital media platform obtains relevant data from multiple sources (or channels) and calculates the overall performance indicator so as to account for one or a combination of promotional bias of at least some data sources, user visits (or interactions/views), user engagement, user recirculation, or user acquisition and retention (e.g., subscriber acquisition and retention) for one or more of the multiple data sources. The overall performance indicator may be used by a data manager to locate content on the digital media platform for more effective interaction among other uses.
US11328024B2
A data analysis device is configured to include an arithmetic operation device that determines whether or not each point data in the point data group of the existing clusters is a core of the cluster using a predetermined algorithm and calculates a predetermined re-verification determination data, recalculates an initial condition value of the clustering based on the re-verification determination data, specifies re-verification point data which is the point data that becomes no longer the core or becomes a new core by adding the point data, from the point data group to which the addition was made, based on the updated initial condition value obtained by the recalculation, and performs predetermined clustering processing in accordance with the re-verification point data.
US11328023B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for managing and generating types of requisitions via user interfaces. A method may include generating a user interface wizard comprising one or more questions associated with respective requisition types to generate corresponding requisitions in response to receiving a request to create a requisition, and in response to detecting at least one answer to at least one of the questions, automatically identifying one or more associated requisition types and corresponding job classifications presented in a requisition type user interface for selection in order to create a respective requisition.
US11328020B2
A method and system is disclosed that provides search with improved discoverability within an online gaming platform.
US11328018B2
System and method for state dependency based task execution and natural language response generation
A system for state dependency-based task execution and natural language response generation is disclosed. The system includes an input request acquisition subsystem to obtain a plurality of natural language input requests from one or more sources through at least one information capturing medium; a state definition subsystem to determine a plurality of states for a plurality of obtained natural language input requests; a state dependency definition subsystem to create a list of a plurality of determined states required to generate a dependency order, to analyse a generated dependency order of the plurality of determined states, to generate a dynamic working procedure to generate a temporary natural language response; a state based response generation subsystem to generate a structured natural language response dynamically upon successful execution of the dynamic working procedure.
US11328017B2
The present teaching relates to generating a conversational agent. In one example, a plurality of input utterances may be received from a developer. A paraphrase model is obtained. The paraphrase model is generated based on machine translation. For each of the plurality of input utterances, one or more paraphrases of the input utterance are generated based on the paraphrase model. For each of the plurality of input utterances, at least one of the one or more paraphrases is selected based on an instruction from the developer to generate selected paraphrases. The conversational agent is generated based on the plurality of input utterances and the selected paraphrases.
US11328014B2
At least one aspect of the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of extracting media segments based on fingerprint matching. The method can include receiving a media stream comprising a plurality of frames and generating a plurality of fingerprints corresponding to each frames. The method can receive a target timestamp and determine a target fingerprint from the plurality that corresponds to the target timestamp. The method can retrieve candidate fingerprints, each of the candidate fingerprints corresponding to a frame in a candidate media stream. The method can compare the target fingerprint to the candidate fingerprints to determine a matching candidate fingerprint. The method can match fingerprints that correspond to media frames before and after the target fingerprint to determine the upper and lower bounds of a segment of interest. The method can extract the segment of interest based on the bounds and provide it to a respective party.
US11328006B2
The following units are included: a word search unit searching a database for each of words included in an input word pair; a word vector extracting unit extracting a word vector corresponding to each of the searched words from a word vector database; a character vector converting unit converting characters included in the word pair into a character vector; a feature amount acquiring unit acquiring a feature amount by combining the extracted word vector of each of the words and the character vector generated by converting the characters; and an estimation unit estimating a semantic relation between the words from the acquired feature amount.
US11328000B1
Example embodiments may flatten structured data (e.g., extensible markup language (XML)) to two tables, a lineage table and an attribute table. The lineage table describes hierarchical relationships in the structured data and values of respective elements. The attribute table contains a normalized list of attributes in the structured data. Together the lineage and attribute tables comprise data that could enable recreation of the structured data without any loss of data. In some examples, the tables may be compressed. The flattening of the structured data into two tables, and optional compression of the tables, provides for efficient access and querying of the data. Example embodiments may provide automated and/or processing of additional structured data, ongoing over time, even if the expected hierarchy of the data changes over time.
US11327982B1
In a computerized information retrieval system: executing a search based on a query, to retrieve a set of tables ranked according to their relevancy to the query, wherein each of the tables includes one or more columns; selecting, from the retrieved tables, a predefined number of highest-ranking tables; scoring each column in the highest-ranking tables using a link analysis algorithm, and selecting, from the scored columns, a predefined number of highest-scoring columns; scoring terms contained within each of the highest-scoring columns, and selecting, from the scored terms, a predefined number of highest-scoring terms; re-ranking the highest-ranking tables by using the highest-scoring terms as pseudo relevance feedback that expands the query; and providing, as a response to the query, at least one of: the re-ranked tables, ordered according to the re-ranking, and data contained in at least one of the re-ranked tables, wherein the data are ordered according to the re-ranking.
US11327978B2
A method and apparatus are provided for recommending concepts from a first concept set in response to user selection of a first concept Ci by performing a natural language processing (NLP) analysis comparison of vector representations of user concepts contained in written content authored by the user and candidate concepts in a first concept set to determine a similarity measure for each candidate concept, and to select therefrom one or more of the candidate concepts for display as recommended concepts which are related to the user concepts contained in written content authored by the user based on the similarity measure between each candidate concept and each user concept.
US11327967B2
In some embodiments, a system is provided, comprising: memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to: submit a first database query; receive a runtime to execute the first database query using a plan selected by a query optimizer; receive runtimes to execute the first database query using a plurality of test plans; determine, based on the runtimes, a metric indicative of the effectiveness of the query optimizer; and cause the metric indicative of the effectiveness of the query optimizer to be presented to a user.
US11327964B2
Techniques are described for constructing a query associated with different data sources. In one example, a method includes identifying a particular data source associated with at least one entity. Obtain a set of data source information defining each entities and a set of metadata associated with the particular data source. Then, provide at least a portion of the defined entities for selection associated with the query builder framework for presentation. In response to identifying a selection of a particular entity, the query builder UI provides for presentation a set of attributes associated with the particular selected entity for selection. In response to identifying a selection of a subset of the presented set of attributes, construct a query based on the particular selected entity and the selected subset of the presented set of attributes in a specified query format associated with the custom adapter associated with the particular data source.
US11327963B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method comprises processing clauses included in an original SQL query to add each clause to either a set of caching clauses or a set of non-caching clauses and determining whether a subscription should be created. In response to determining the subscription should be created, the method comprises creating the subscription by generating a first stage SQL query based on the set of caching clauses, causing execution of the first stage SQL query to obtain a set of first stage query results from a database; and storing the set of first stage query results in a cache.
US11327961B2
A system includes reception of a first instruction at a first system to effect a first change to a hierarchy data model, storage of a first record including first values specifying the first change in a local memory of the first system, reception of a second instruction to effect a second change to the hierarchy data model, storage of a second record including second values specifying the second change in the local memory of the first computer system, reception of an instruction to save the changed hierarchy data model, and, in response to the instruction, transmit the first record and the second record to a second system. The first record and the second record are received and merged to generate a third record including third values specifying a third change to the hierarchy data model, and a query language statement is generated to effect the third change to the hierarchy data model based on the third record.
US11327955B1
A method is provided for performing transaction processing in a system that includes a plurality of nodes. Each of the nodes include a processor, an application executing in the processor, and an instance of a database used by the application. Each node executes transactions. At least two of the nodes are selected to receive the same request to process a transaction, and the processor at each of the at least two nodes executes the same request to process a transaction. Each of the at least two nodes replicates the steps and operations of the transactions to one or more other nodes in the system. The processor at the one or more other nodes compares the replicated steps and operations of the transactions that were received from each of the at least two nodes and executes one or more remediation actions when the result of the comparison indicates that the replicated steps and operations of the replicated transactions do not match each other.
US11327954B2
A data processing method comprises receiving a request to perform a prior period adjustment (PPA) for a tenant in which data values applicable to a time period earlier than a current time period will be modified, in response to the request, identifying a working subset of data from tenant data in the production database and copying the working subset to a calculation database separate from the production database, performing the PPA, using the working subset in the calculation database, to result in creating and storing a plurality of result data, receiving, while performing the PPA, an additional request using the tenant data in the production database, performing the additional request using the tenant data in the production database while performing the PPA and updating the replay log, after completing the PPA and using the replay log, transferring the plurality of results to the production database.
US11327952B2
A metric data stream for a plurality of metrics may be retrieved from a database system. Each metric may measure a respective computing characteristic. The metric data stream may include a plurality of values for each of a sequence of time intervals. Each value may correspond with a respective one of the metrics. A plurality of metric correlation matrices may be determined for the metrics, each of which is associated with a respective time period in the metric data stream. A subset of comparison metric correlation matrices may be selected from the plurality of metric correlation metric matrices. A designated anomaly score may be determined for a designated time period by comparing a designated metric correlation matrix associated with the designated time period with the selected subset of comparison metric correlation metric matrices.
US11327946B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving, by the centralized sub-system, change data representing a change to an electronic document stored in the centralized sub-system, the change data identifying a user that submitted the change, transmitting, by the centralized sub-system, the change to the decentralized sub-system, recording, by the decentralized sub-system, the change in a change log recorded in a blockchain that is maintained within the decentralized sub-system, the blockchain being stored in multiple nodes of the decentralized sub-system, and editing, by the centralized sub-system, the electronic document based on the change to provide an edited electronic document that is stored in the centralized sub-system.
US11327945B2
A method and device for storing high-concurrency data. The method comprises: receiving high-concurrency data sent from a plurality of clients (110); pushing the high-concurrency data into a primary data queue, and responding to a corresponding client (120); consuming the high-concurrency data in the primary data queue by using multithreading (130); fragmenting the high-concurrency data according to the number of local queues (140); pushing the fragmented high-concurrency data into the local queues (150); and consuming the high-concurrency data in the local queues and storing the high-concurrency data in a database (160). By means of data asynchronous storage, high-concurrency data is temporarily stored in the primary data queue and the local queues, thereby alleviating pressure on the database, avoiding the problem of a database crash in the case of a high-concurrency storage, and improving the efficiency of storing high-concurrency data.
US11327940B2
A system and method for supporting tuple record interlinking in one or more tuple space/coordinated namespace (CNS) extended memory storage systems. A system-wide CNS provides for efficient storing and communicating of data generated by local processes running at the nodes, and coordinated to generate a union/intersection of multiple CNS where tuple records are interlinked in multiple CNS hashtables, and/or share tuple data between two sets of processes that are part of different CNSs. Local node processes further generate multi-key tuples where two or more tuple records are interlinked within the same CNS hash table, thereby permitting a look up of the tuple data by either tuple name/keys. A CNS controller further provides a tuple iterator for a key-value storage in a CNS system that adds more links between tuples enables creation of iterator structures such as linked list or trees etc. of “different” tuples in a tuple database.
US11327936B1
A system and method may be provided for compiling digital images of an individual in a database across a network with multiple user accounts. An image may be uploaded to a computer and stored at an image network storage location. A portrait may be detected in the image. The portrait may include a face. A facial recognition template containing facial recognition parameters related to the individual may be created based on the at least one portrait detected in the at least one image. The facial recognition template may be stored at an identification data network storage location, wherein the facial recognition template is associated with a user account associated with the individual. The facial recognition template may be accessed for comparison of the facial recognition parameters related to the individual with a set of unrecognized facial images. Images containing the set of unrecognized facial images may be accessed.
US11327924B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for archiving data sets in a volume in a primary storage in a volume image copy of the volume in a secondary storage. A volume image in the secondary storage is created comprising a copy of the volume in the primary storage. For each of a plurality of data sets in the volume, data set level archive operations are performed comprising, determining from metadata for the data set whether an archival policy criteria is satisfied, requesting an exclusive lock to the data set, and in response to obtaining the exclusive lock and determining that the archival policy is satisfied, updating a directory for the data set to indicate that the data set is archived in the volume image.
US11327923B2
A functional unit for a data processor comprises an input register to store a variable X; a first circuit, having an input connected to the input register and an output, to generate a value eX on its output; a second circuit, having an input connected to the input register and an output, to generate an output which is a value (tan h(X/2)+1)/2 on its output; a comparator, having an input connected to the input register and an output, to generate a line on its output based on a comparison between X and a constant; and a selector to select between inputs connected to the outputs of the first circuit and the second circuit, in response to the output of the comparator, and provide an output representing a value sigmoid(X).
US11327922B2
The systems and methods for bus ownership in a system power management interface (SPMI) bus may include two or more masters on the SPMI bus, and bus ownership may be passed between masters. The current owner of the bus is responsible for providing a clock signal on the clock line of the SPMI bus. To avoid problems caused by ringing of the clock signal being sent on a conductor that exceeds the SPMI specification, the original master (from whom bus ownership is being transferred) holds the clock line of the SPMI bus at a logical low for a clock delay value that is based on conductor length.
US11327916B1
In one embodiment, a method for enumerating logical identifiers for a plurality of backplanes of an information handling system includes: generating, by each of the plurality of backplanes, inventory information indicating a plurality of backplane attributes; sending, by each of the plurality of backplanes, the inventory information to a baseboard management controller; receiving, by the baseboard management controller, the inventory information from each of the plurality of backplanes; determining, by the baseboard management controller, a backplane topology of the information handling system based on the inventory information, the backplane topology indicating a backplane location for each of the plurality of backplanes; generating, by the baseboard management controller, a logical backplane identifier for each of the plurality of backplanes based on the backplane topology; and assigning, by the baseboard management controller, the logical backplane identifier to each of the plurality of backplanes.
US11327915B2
A register bank of a channel of a direct memory access circuit is initialized. Transfer cycles are executed as configured by the register bank, and updates are made to the registers from a memory. At each transfer cycle, an operation is performed in accordance with a first field of the register bank to either: carry on the execution or generate a first signal and suspend the execution. In response to each reception of the first signal by a central processing unit, an operation is performed to either: generate a second signal or modify the content of the register band and/or record into the memory a first item representative of a next update of the register bank. A second signal is then generated.
US11327913B1
Groups of signal conductors within a configurable communication system are managed by respective, dedicated media controllers implement a configurable number of independent communication channels through coordinated action so that signal conductors need not be multiplexed to/from multiple controllers and no media controllers or input/output driver circuits therein need be disabled in any configuration.
US11327910B2
Disclosed are systems, computer-readable mediums, and methods for managing input/output operations within a system including at least one client and a storage system. A processor receives information regarding allocated input-output operations (IOPS) associated with a client accessing a storage system storing client data. The information includes a number of allocated total IOPS, a number of allocated read IOPS, and a number of allocated write IOPS. The processor also receives a requested number of write IOPS associated with the at least one client's request to write to the storage system. The processor determines a target write IOPS based on the number of allocated total IOPS, the number of allocated write IOPS and the requested number of write IOPS, and executes the determined target write IOPS within the first time period.
US11327904B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving security of protected values in a memory. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving a write request indicating at least an item and a write value to write into the memory, determining whether a protected items list (PIL) indicates that the item is protected. The method includes replacing the write value of the write request with a protected value from the PIL that corresponds with the item when the item is listed in the PIL as being protected. The method further includes executing the write request to the memory.
US11327901B2
A modular dynamically allocated capacity storage system (MODACS) is provided and includes a housing and a control module. The housing includes source terminals, switches, cells, and sensing module. The source terminals supplying power at a first voltage potential to a first plurality of loads and power at a second voltage potential to a second plurality of loads. The cells are configured to supply power to each of the source terminals based on states of the switches. The sensing modules are configured to determine parameters of each of the cells and generate corresponding status signals. The control module is configured to receive a power request signal, and based on the power request signal and the parameters of each of the cells, determine a connected configuration for the cells relative to each other and the plurality of source terminals and set states of the switches according to the connected configuration.
US11327898B2
Systems and methods for a unified, cloud-managed platform for controlling enterprise network security are provided. According to one embodiment, a network of an enterprise is protected by a cloud-managed platform. An underlying architecture of the cloud-managed platform is abstracted by providing a portal through which modifications to security policies are expressed as business requirements of the enterprise. The security policies are automatically enforced regardless of location or endpoint. A policy digest, including information regarding the modifications and formatted according to a predefined format, generated and locally queued by the portal is retrieved. Security enforcement systems associated with the cloud-managed platform are configured to control communications to and from the network according to the security policies by generating API calls to the security enforcement systems and agents running on endpoints associated with the network are configured to control endpoint-to-endpoint connections according to the security policies based on the policy digest.
US11327895B1
Processing requests may include: receiving a write request from a host at a first node of a system; and servicing the write comprising assigning, by the first node, a sequence identifier to the write request, wherein the sequence identifier is included in a subsequence of identifiers only assignable by the first node, performing in parallel a first operation that stores first data written by the write request in a cache, a second operation that stores a descriptor for the write request in the cache, and a third operation that sends the descriptor (including the sequence identifier) to a peer node of the system; determining by the first node that the first, second and third operations have successfully completed; and responsive to determining the first, second and third operations have successfully completed, sending an acknowledgement from the first node to a host indicating successful completion of the write request.
US11327881B2
Technologies for media management for providing column data layouts for clustered data include a device having a column-addressable memory and circuitry connected to the memory. The circuitry is configured to store a data cluster of a logical matrix in the column-addressable memory with a column-based format and to read a logical column of the data cluster from the column-addressable memory with a column read operation. Reading the logical column may include reading logical column data diagonally from the column-address memory, including reading from the data cluster and a duplicate copy of the data cluster. Reading the logical column may include reading from multiple complementary logical columns. Reading the logical column may include reading logical column data diagonally with a modulo counter. The column data may bread from a partition of the column-address memory selected based on the logical column number. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11327880B2
Techniques for serverless performance testing of applications are provided. A user can indicate an application to test within a serverless computing framework. The user can specify parameters for testing the application. A performance test execution file can be generated based on the indicated application and the specified testing parameters. Serverless functions for implementing the testing of the application can be generated based on the performance test execution file. The serverless functions can be executed to implement the testing of the application code on a cloud-based computing resource. Test outputs can be generated and stored for review and analysis in real-time during the testing and after the testing is concluded.
US11327843B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for managing data storage. A first log structured array stores data in a storage device. A second log structured array in the storage device stores metadata for the data in the first log structured array, wherein the second log structured array storing the metadata for the first log structured data storage system is nested within the first log structured array, and wherein the first and second log structured arrays comprise separate instances of log structured arrays. Address space is allocated in the second log structured array for metadata when the allocation of address space is required for metadata for data stored in the first log structured array.
US11327836B1
Some examples herein provide for protection of data on a data path in a memory system in an integrated circuit. In an example, an integrated circuit includes a bit checker circuit, an Error Correcting Code (ECC) encoder circuit, an ECC decoder circuit, and a check bit generation circuit. The bit checker circuit is configured to check write data based on write-path check bit(s). The ECC encoder circuit is configured to generate a write encoded ECC value based on the write data. The write encoded ECC value is to be written to the memory with the write data. The ECC decoder circuit is configured to decode a read encoded ECC value and check read data based on the read encoded ECC value. The read encoded ECC value and read data are read from the memory. The check bit generation circuit is configured to generate read-path check bit(s) from the read data.
US11327832B2
Methods, systems, and devices for bit and signal level mapping are described to enable a memory device to transmit or receive a multi-symbol signal that includes more than two (2) physical levels. Some cyclic redundancy check (CRC) calculations generate one or more bits of CRC output per symbol of an associated signal and the output are transmitted via a multi-symbol signal by converting one or more CRC output bit to a physical level of the signal. The conversion, or mapping, process is performed such that the physical levels of the signal avoid a transition between a highest physical level and lowest physical level. For example, a modulation scheme or mapping process is configured to map different values of CRC output bits to different physical levels, where the different physical levels are separated by one other physical level associated with the signal or the modulation scheme.
US11327830B2
A semiconductor device includes a master circuit which outputs a first write request signal for requesting to write data, a bus which receives the data and the first write request signal, a bus control unit which is arranged on the bus, generates an error detection code for the data and generates a second write request signal which includes second address information corresponding to first address information included in the first write request signal and memory controllers which each write the data into a storage area of an address designated by the first write request signal and writes the error detection code into a storage area of an address designated by the second write request signal in the storage areas of memories.
US11327822B2
Techniques are disclosed for monitoring operation of and/or interaction with a website to detect events (“frustration events”). In at least one embodiment, a detection system is disclosed that can monitor a website for the same or unrelated interaction and operation to detect events that affect the performance of a website, while contributing to the frustration of user interaction with the website. The detection system can monitor interaction with and/or operation of one or more documents of a website. Interactions with a website, operations of the website, or a combination thereof, may be assessed with respect to a threshold defining an event. One or more criteria (e.g., a time period) of the event may be assessed for the interactions and operations. Event data may be generated for the event(s) that occur, and the event data may be sent to a host system to adjust operation of the website.
US11327820B2
A pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein achieve a method and system for providing a network-based northbound application programming interface. The method includes receiving, by an API provider, a request for invoking one or more service APIs from one or more API invoker clients. The method includes utilizing, by the API provider, a CAPIF core function residing at a first domain to provide the one or more service APIs. The method includes providing, by the API provider, the one or more service APIs to the one or more API invoker clients through the CAPIF core function, wherein the API provider comprises one or more service APIs, an API exposing function, an API publishing function and an API management function.
US11327815B1
Some embodiments provide a method for distributing a set of parameters associated with policies for authorizing Application Programming Interface (API) calls to an application. For a previously stored hierarchical first document that comprises a first set of elements in a first hierarchical structure, the method receives a hierarchical update second document that comprises a second set of elements in a second hierarchical structure corresponding to the first hierarchical structure, wherein at least a subset of elements in the first and the second documents correspond to the set of parameters for evaluating API calls. The method receives a first set of hash values for elements of the first document that are not specified in the second document, and generates a second set of hash values for a set of elements specified in the second document. The method generates an overall hash for the second document by using the received first set of hash values and the generated second set of hash values. The method uses the overall hash to validate a signature from an entity that is authorized to specify the set of parameters.
US11327810B2
A virtual machine's (VM's) usage of a resource over a first time period may be monitored to determine a load pattern for the VM. A time series analysis of the load pattern may be performed to generate a predictive resource usage model, the predictive resource usage model indicating one or more predicted variations in the usage of the resource by the VM over a second time period. A predicted resource usage of the VM at a future time that is within the second time period may be determined based, at least in part, on the predictive resource usage model. An amount of the resource to allocate to the VM at a current time may be determined based, at least in part, on the predicted resource usage of the VM at the future time and the actual resource usage of the VM at the current time.
US11327808B2
A system and method for decentralized data processing includes receiving, by a first data processing unit of a data processing unit array, a user request and sending, by the first data processing unit, the user request to at least one of other data processing units of the data processing unit array. Each of the first data processing unit and the other data processing units include a dedicated non-volatile memory. The system and method also include receiving, by the first data processing unit, a code of execution results from each of the other data processing units that execute the user request, combining, by the first data processing unit, the code of execution results from the each of the other data processing units that execute the user request, and responding, by the first data processing unit, to the user request by transmitting the combined code of execution results.
US11327805B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically negotiating at least one network service provided by at least one network to at least one computing device. In use, for at least one network service provided by at least one network communicatively coupled to at least one computing device, a required element is determined. A service request is formed based on the required element. The service request is communicated to at least one negotiating device separate from the at least one computing device, the at least one negotiating device associated with at least one of a managing computing device of the at least one network or a second negotiating device. A service proposal, including a proposed element, is received from the at least one negotiating device. The service proposal is evaluated based on the required element.
US11327801B2
Techniques are provided for adaptive resource allocation for workloads with initial condition setting. One method comprises obtaining a dataset comprising data from previous executions of a workload, wherein the data comprises a plurality of different resource allocations and parameterizations of the workload; determining an initial allocation of an amount of a resource for the workload based on a regression model characterizing a behavior of the workload, the data, a predefined service metric and a characterization of a target infrastructure; and initiating an application of the determined initial allocation of the amount of the resource for the workload. A performance of one or more of the plurality of workloads can be evaluated based on a percentage of time within a predefined error range. The regression model can be updated and/or replaced over time with new data for additional executions of the at least one workload.
US11327796B2
A method for deploying a task includes deploying the task in the supercomputer; executing the task; at the end of the execution of the task, detecting at least one link which is not allocated to any task, and setting each detected link in an inactive state, wherein the link requires a power consumption less than the power consumption required by a link associated with at least one task.
US11327795B1
Techniques are disclosed for efficient utilization worker threads in a workflow-as-a-service (WFaaS) environment. A client device may request a workflow for execution by the client device. The client device may receive the requested workflow and initialize a set of worker threads to execute the workflow and a set of heartbeater threads to monitor the set of worker threads. Upon receiving an indication of a processing delay, the client device may capture the state of the workflow, suspend execution of the workflow, and store the workflow in a temporary queue. While the processing delay persists, the client device may use the set of worker threads to execute other tasks. When the processing delay terminates, the client device may resume execution of the workflow.
US11327793B2
Systems and methods for processing hierarchical tasks in a garbage collection mechanism are provided. The method includes determining chunks in a task queue. Each chunk is a group of child tasks created after processing one task. The method includes popping, by an owner thread, tasks from a top side of the task queue pointed at by a chunk in a first in first out (FIFO) pop. The method also includes stealing, by a thief thread, tasks from a chunk in an opposite side of the task queue.
US11327789B2
In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus, having: a data interface to communicatively couple to a storage pool having a plurality of disks; a virtual machine manager including a processor; and a storage coprocessor (SCP) to: create a read queue and write queue for the disks in the storage pool; receive an input/output (IO) operation from a virtual machine, the IO operation directed to a storage address located on a disk in the storage pool; and add the IO operation to the queue for the disk.
US11327788B2
Exemplary embodiments include a method for scheduling multiple batches of concurrent jobs. The method includes: scheduling a plurality of batches where each batch has a plurality of jobs; identifying one or more dependencies via a configuration file, wherein the configuration file manages dependencies for each of the jobs of each batch; monitoring the one or more jobs; identifying and reporting one or more errors; and resolving the one or more errors by modifying one or more of hardware performance, CPU usage, memory consumption, database performance and/or other metrics to optimize system resource usage.
US11327787B2
Techniques for linking managed object (MO) operations and lifecycle operations associated with VNFs (Virtual Network Functions) are discussed. In various actions, MO operations can trigger associated lifecycle operations, or lifecycle operations can trigger associated MO operations. In some aspects, MO instance creation by an EM (Element Manager) can trigger associated VNF instantiation by a VNFM (VNF Manager), or vice versa. In the same or other aspects, MO instance deletion by an EM can trigger termination of an associated VNF by a VNFM, or vice versa.
US11327786B2
Virtual processors are mappable to a number of physical processors. An interrupt distributor is responsible for distributing interrupt requests to a subset of the physical processors. An interface communicates with further interrupt distributors responsible for other physical processors. In response to an interrupt request to be handled by a target virtual processor, the interrupt distributor determines, based on cached virtual processor mapping information, whether to route the interrupt request to one of the subset of physical processors or to one of the further interrupt distributors. When a rejection response is received in response to an interrupt request routed to one of the further interrupt distributors, an update of the cached virtual processing mapping information is requested based on shared virtual processor mapping information, and a resent interrupt request is sent to a further interrupt distributor determined based on the shared virtual processor mapping information.
US11327771B1
A device architecture includes a spatially reconfigurable array of processors, such as configurable units of a CGRA, having spare elements, and a parameter store on the device which stores parameters that tag one or more elements as unusable. Technologies are described which change the pattern of placement of configuration data, in dependence on the tagged elements. As a result, a spatially reconfigurable array having unusable elements can be repaired.
US11327770B2
An access device includes a memory controller coupled to a memory device and configured to access the memory device. The memory controller is further configured to perform a test procedure on the memory device to obtain a test result, write a boot code index, which indicates a predetermined address for storing predetermined system data of the memory device and a copy rule adopted for generating one or more duplicates of the predetermined system data, in the memory device, establish system data of the memory device according to the test result, write the system data into the predetermined address as the predetermined system data, and write the system data in one or more memory blocks of the memory device as the duplicates of the predetermined system data according to the copy rule.
US11327760B2
A method for grouping computer instructions includes receiving a set of computer instructions, grouping the set of computer instructions by register dependencies, identifying a plurality of single-definition-use flow (SDF) bundles based on a burstization criteria and a chaining criteria; and based on the SDF bundles, transforming the set of computer instructions. The transformation may include splitting one of the set of computer instructions and setting a burst parameter for the one of the set of computer instruction. The transformation may include grouping a plurality of the set of computer instructions and replacing a pair of register file accesses with a pair of temporary register accesses.
US11327758B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process. The process includes storing each of a plurality of generation instructions in a storage area for each of assembly instructions, the generation instructions instructing the generation of instruction sequences of a first instruction set, each instruction sequence of the first instruction set executing a processing equivalent to each assembly instruction of a second instruction set, identifying a first register that is not used by any of the assembly instructions corresponding to the plurality of generation instructions by referring to the storage area, determining a second register of the first instruction set corresponding to the first register as a temporary register in each of the instruction sequences, and generating the instruction sequence that uses the temporary register.
US11327752B2
A data processing apparatus, a method of operating a data processing apparatus, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and an instruction are provided. The instruction specifies a first source register, a second source register, and an index. In response to the instruction control signals are generated, causing processing circuitry to perform a data processing operation with respect to each data group in the first source register and the second source register to generate respective result data groups forming a result of the data processing operation. Each of the first source register and the second source register has a size which is an integer multiple at least twice a predefined size of the data group, and each data group comprises a plurality of data elements. The operands of the data processing operation for each data group are a selected data element identified in the data group of the first source register by the index and each data element in the data group of the second source register. A technique for element-by-vector operation which is readily scalable as the register width grows.
US11327751B2
In a distributed processing system having multiple processing nodes including alive nodes and dead nodes, a method is provided for collecting an object from the alive nodes. The method includes maintaining a separate count value for each of remote nodes at which the object is remotely-referenced. The method further includes collecting the object for garbage collection when the separate count value for all of the remotes nodes is zero. The method also includes adding at least one per node sending counter responsive to a remote reference of the object being sent from a first remote node to a particular one of the remote nodes. The at least one per node sending counter is added at the first remote node to count a number of remote-references of the object being sent to the particular one of the remote nodes.
US11327749B2
A system of one or more computers that are configured to generate documentation for microservice-based applications is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, usage information relating to actual usage by one or more users of a plurality of microservices, features extracted from user story information in a backlog tracker, and a call-context graph including information identifying calling functions and called functions in the plurality of microservices are used to generate data that is provided to a natural language generator, which uses the information to automatically generate documentation for the microservice based application.
US11327745B2
The present disclosure provides a management method for software versions which prevents falsification of information under management. In the management method, a first management apparatus among management apparatuses receives transaction data from an apparatus connected through a network to the first management apparatus, the transaction data including first information on a first version of software, second information on a second version of the software subjected to version upgrade from the first version by a software developer, identification information of the software developer, and an electronic signature. The first management apparatus validates legitimacy of the transaction data using the electronic signature included in the transaction data received. When the transaction data is legitimate, the management apparatuses store the transaction data in distributed ledgers.
US11327742B2
Software lifecycle management includes, searching, using a processor, historical development data including prior development tasks for a software system. The searching is performed according to a current development task for the software system. A determination is made as to whether the current development task has an affinity with a selected prior development task implemented within the software system. A recommendation is provided for the current development task based upon the selected prior development task.
US11327741B2
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including a first holding section configured to hold a first patch file, a second holding section configured to hold a first hash value of each data block in a second patch file including a plurality of data blocks each having a predetermined block size, a hash value calculating section configured to calculate a first hash value of data corresponding to the block size in the first patch file, and a comparing section configured to compare the first hash value calculated by the hash value calculating section with the first hash value of each data block held in the second holding section, as a first-stage comparison process.
US11327739B2
Method and apparatus for improving runtime performance after application update in electronic device
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for improving runtime performance when an application installed in an electronic device is updated. An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a communication circuit configured to perform radio communication; at least one processor operatively connected to the communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: detect updating of an application; obtain an update file for updating the application based on detecting updating of the application; obtain first information previously recorded in association with the application and second information related to the update file of the application while installing the application; and produce, based on matching performed between the first information and the second information, a new profile to be used in the application after the updating.
US11327735B2
Various systems and methods for enabling derivation and distribution of an attestation manifest for a software update image are described. In an example, these systems and methods include orchestration functions and communications, providing functionality and components for a software update process which also provides verification and attestation among multiple devices and operators.
US11327731B2
Systems and methods for aggregating a dependency structure based on application logging data, application metadata, customer intent and journey, organizational structure, and operational support information. The method includes receiving data using an application programming interface. The method further includes, for each user, determining a start point and an end point corresponding to user activity on a networked system. The method also includes, for each user, determining a task based on the start point and end point corresponding to the user activity. The method further includes, for each user, determining operations data corresponding to the user activity. The method also includes, for each user, determining a dependency structure based on the task and the operations data. The method also includes aggregating the dependency structure, the task, and the operations data into a visualization. The method further includes generating for display the visualization on a user device.
US11327729B2
Techniques for generating user interfaces (UIs) for field devices on a host device are described. A field device driver installed on the host device transmits a request for UI configuration to a field device. The field device includes a plurality of sets of UI parameters associated with configuration of the UI. The field device is configured to select a set of UI parameters from the plurality of sets of UI parameters based on application information provided to the field device. The field device driver receives the set of UI parameters from the field device in response to the request. Based on the set of UI parameters, the host device configures and generates the UI.
US11327728B2
Flexible yet efficient “find” operations search source code for matches to a general pattern after a developer provides an example string that matches the pattern, without requiring the developer to write a regular expression or script that will implement the desired pattern. Example-driven find-replace functionality uses regular expressions or other pattern match codes, and scripts or other transforms, which are synthesized automatically from examples provided by a developer. This technology allows the developer to focus on workflow inside an integrated development environment instead of breaking focus to search for external documentation, or unfortunately foregoing the flexibility and power of regular expressions and scripts. Synthesizer outputs may be directly or indirectly ranked through user feedback, allowing their refinement. Find match generality may be controlled, e.g., by specifying regex star positions or star counts. Entry of guiding examples may be assisted by autocompletion. Performance criteria are also described.
US11327726B2
A workflow engine tool is disclosed that enables scientists and engineers to programmatically author workflows (e.g., a directed acyclic graph, “DAG”) with nearly no overhead, using a simpler script that needs almost no modifications for portability among multiple different workflow engines. This permits users to focus on the business logic of the project, avoiding the distracting tedious overhead related to workflow management (such as uploading modules, drawing edges, setting parameters, and other tasks). The workflow engine tool provides an abstraction layer on top of workflow engines, introducing a binding function that converts a programming language function (e.g., a normal python function) into a workflow module definition. The workflow engine tool infers module instances and induces edge dependencies automatically by inferring from a programming language script to build a DAG.
US11327713B2
A computation unit comprises a floating point input having X bits including a sign bit, an E bit exponent and an M bit mantissa. A first circuit is operatively coupled to receive X-N bits of the input, including e1 bits of the exponent and ml bits of the mantissa, where e1≤E, and m1≤M, to output values over a first domain of the input. A second circuit is operatively coupled to receive X-K bits of the input, including e2 bits of the exponent, e2
US11327712B2
An apparatus includes a receiver, a shared information unit, a transmitter, a voice recognition unit, and an application execution unit. The receiver is configured to receive a voice signal and information from a second apparatus. The shared information unit is configured to create shared information shared by both the apparatus and the second apparatus based on the information received from the second apparatus. The transmitter is configured to transmit the shared information to the second apparatus. The voice recognition unit is configured to analyze the voice signal. The application execution unit is configured to execute an application based on a result generated by the voice recognition unit.
US11327711B2
Examples are disclosed herein that are related to providing extended functionalities on-demand to an audio-based wearable device. One example provides a wearable computing device including an acoustic receiver configured to receive speech inputs, a speaker configured to present audio outputs, a communications subsystem configured to connect to an external device, a logic subsystem configured to execute instructions, and a storage subsystem having instructions executable by the logic subsystem to execute a program, connect to the external device via a wireless communications protocol, conduct an audio-based interaction of the program via the speech inputs received at the acoustic receiver and the audio outputs provided by the speaker, upon reaching a screen-based interaction of the program, notify a user via the speaker to interact with the external device, and provide image data to the external device for presentation via a screen of the external device.
US11327702B2
An information processing apparatus provided with a communication unit can communicate with an external apparatus that provides a predetermined function. The information processing apparatus performs: controlling a screen that is displayed on a display unit; transmitting a request signal for requesting the external apparatus for authentication information; and requesting use of the predetermined function provided by the external apparatus. When the request signal is received by the external apparatus, the external apparatus transitions to a state for accepting a predetermined operation. The information processing apparatus requests for use of the predetermined function based on receiving the authentication information that is output when the predetermined operation is accepted by the external apparatus, while a password input screen corresponding to the predetermined function of the external apparatus is not displayed on the display unit.
US11327689B1
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and memory such that the processing module, when operable within the computing device based on the operational instructions, is configured to perform various operations. A computing device receives a data access request for an encoded data slice (EDS) associated with a data object. The computing device compares a slice name of the data access request with slice names stored within RAM. When the data access request slice name compares unfavorably with those stored slice names, the computing device transmits an empty data access response that includes no EDS to the other computing device without needing to access a hard disk drive (HDD) that stores EDSs. Alternatively, the computing device transmits a data access response that includes the EDS.
US11327686B2
An apparatus and method for processing sensitive data. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program is configured to, in an unprotected data area, read sensitive data from a storage device and transmit the same to a protected data area using the sensitive-data storage endpoint of the protected data area; to, in the protected data area, process the sensitive data using at least one endpoint when a command for a sensitive-data service requested by a client device is received from the unprotected data area; and to, in the unprotected data area, transmit the result of processing the sensitive data to the client device.
US11327684B2
A storage system and method for host memory access are provided. In one embodiment, a storage system is configured to receive a write command from a host that is recognized by the storage system as a read host memory command and receive a read command from the host that is recognized by the storage system as a write host memory command. This provides a communication channel that allows the storage system to access the host memory. The storage system can use the host memory as a backup write cache and/or to stream data of different types stored in different areas of the host memory. Hibernation can be avoided, and timeout delays can be ignored. Other embodiments are provided.
US11327682B2
Examples of systems and method described herein provide for the processing of image codes (e.g., a binary embedding) at a memory system including a Hamming processing unit. Such images codes may generated by various endpoint computing devices, such as Internet of Things (IoT) computing devices, Such devices can generate a Hamming processing request, having an image code of the image, to compare that representation of the image to other images (e.g., in an image dataset) to identify a match or a set of neural network results. Advantageously, examples described herein may be used in neural networks to facilitate the processing of datasets, so as to increase the rate and amount of processing of such datasets. For example, comparisons of image codes can be performed “closer” to the memory devices, e.g., at a processing unit having memory devices.
US11327679B2
A method is used for bitmap-based synchronous replication in a data protection system. The method includes, upon re-establishing communication with a first storage node, requesting, by a second storage node, a first bitmap from the first storage node. The method includes determining, by the second storage node, a set of data blocks to change on the first storage node based on the first bitmap and a second bitmap on the second storage node. The method also includes sending, by the second storage node to the first storage node, the set of data blocks.
US11327663B2
An illustrative live synchronization feature uses file system block-level backup copies, snapshot techniques, change tracking, and volume-level granularity to ensure the integrity of destination volumes. Two protection mechanisms guard the destination data and ensure consistency from one live sync restore to the next. First, an inter-job software snapshot captures the destination volume image after each restore. The snapshot is created at the very end of each live sync restore and is reverted at the beginning of the next live sync restore. A second and more granular protection mechanism uses intra-job block monitoring to detect, and later to reverse, changes that the snapshots cannot capture. This second mechanism acts as a mini-block-level restore nested inside another block-level restore. This dual approach ensures that each incremental live sync restore finds the destination volume with a guaranteed pristine image identical to where the preceding live sync restore left it.
US11327659B2
A memory system may include: a plurality of memory dies suitable for storing data therein; a buffer including a plurality of clusters each suitable for buffering data to be outputted to an external device; and a controller coupled to the plurality of memory dies through a plurality of channels, and suitable for: checking control information corresponding to valid clusters among the plurality of clusters, each valid cluster currently buffering data, deciding an operation margin for performing a pairing operation by calculating data processing time associated with the valid clusters based on the control information, and performing the pairing operation during the operation margin.
US11327654B2
A method for a baseboard management controller mounting a folder with KVM includes following steps. A first size of a to-be-mounted folder is calculated. A second size of a mirror image file corresponding to the to-be-mounted folder is calculated based on the first size. A default storage path is allocated for the mirror image file, and it is obtained a remaining storage capacity of a disk where the default storage path is located. If the remaining storage capacity is less than the second size, a prompt dialog box, for selecting a user storage path for the mirror image file, is displayed to the user. If the remaining storage capacity of the disk where the default storage path or the user storage path is located is greater than the second size, the to-be-mounted folder is mounted to a server.
US11327653B2
A storage system for continuing I/O without affecting drive box addition to a host computer includes: a plurality of drive boxes for connecting to a computer device that transmits commands for data reads or writes; and a storage controller connected to the drive boxes. A first drive box provides a first storage region to the computer device. The storage controller manages correspondence between the first storage region and a physical storage region of the drives constituting the first storage region. The first drive box receives a command for the first storage region from the computer device and transfers the command to the storage controller. The storage controller generates a data transfer command including a data storage destination based on the address management table, and transfers the command to the first drive box. The first drive box then transfers the data transfer command to the second drive box.
US11327652B2
A keyboard is described that determines, using a first decoder and based on a selection of keys of a graphical keyboard, text. Responsive to determining that a characteristic of the text satisfies a threshold, a model of the keyboard identifies the target language of the text, and determines whether the target language is different than a language associated with the first decoder. If the target language of the text is not different than the language associated with the first decoder, the keyboard outputs, for display, an indication of first candidate words determined by the first decoder from the text. If the target language of the text is different: the keyboard enables a second decoder, where a language associated with the second decoder matches the target language of the text, and outputs, for display, an indication of second candidate words determined by the second decoder from the text.
US11327649B1
Described herein are techniques for rendering additional keys on a display of an electronic device based on one or more characteristics of a user's selection of another key. After rendering the additional keys, the user may thereafter select one of the additional keys now available and rendered on the display.
US11327646B2
A method for modifying visual aspects of a keyboard in response to a user typing on the keyboard. The method includes one or more computer processors receiving a first character input to an input device. The method further includes determining a plurality of words that begin with the first received character. The method further includes ranking the determined plurality of words. The method further includes selecting a word from among the ranked plurality of words based on a first set of criteria. The method further includes determining a sequence of one or more characters after the received first character that correspond to the selected word. The method further includes modifying one or more respective characteristics of input elements of the input device that correspond to the sequence of characters of the selected word.
US11327645B2
Systems and methods for preloading an amount of content based on user scrolling are disclosed. A body of content may be presented that takes up a certain amount of display space within a graphical user interface. Scroll information characterizing user scrolling within the graphical user interface may be obtained. A portion of the body of content outside a field of view of the graphical user interface may be determined based on the scroll information.
US11327634B2
Context-specific user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, provide, inter alia, indications of time and, optionally, a variety of additional information. A user interface screen including a current time indicator and a first platter is displayed. The first platter is at a first position, is associated with a first application, and displays a first set of information obtained from the first application. The first set of information relates to a first temporal context of the current day. In response to detecting a user input, the first platter is displayed at a second position and a second platter is displayed at the first position. The second platter is associated with a second application and displays a second set of information obtained from the second application. The second set of information relates to a second temporal context of the current day.
US11327632B2
The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a browser, and electronic devices for providing website navigation icons. The method includes providing a website navigation icon; and through the website navigation icon, providing a service offered within the website that is navigated by the website navigation icon. According to the method, apparatus, browser, and electronic devices provided in the present disclosure, the user experience may be improved.
US11327630B1
Devices, methods, systems, and media are described for selecting virtual objects for user interaction in an extended reality environment. Distant virtual objects are brought closer to the user within a virtual 3D space to situate the selected virtual object in virtual proximity to the user's hand for direct manipulation. A virtual object is selected by the user based on movements of the user's hand and/or head that are correlated or associated with an intent to select a specific virtual object within the virtual 3D space. As the user's hand moves in a way that is consistent with this intent, the virtual object is brought closer to the user's hand within the virtual 3D space. To predict the user's intent, hand and head trajectory data may be compared to a library of kinematic trajectory templates to identify a best-matched trajectory template.
US11327629B2
Systems and methods are described that enable augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or other content to be associated with precise geo-spatial locations in a physical environment. A model of a physical environment is accessed and a three dimensional mesh definition comprising a plurality of mesh cells is received where the mesh is associated with the physical environment. A given mesh cell is associated with a logical address. Augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or other content may be associated with a given mesh cell. Tracking data corresponding to movement of a user in the physical environment is received. The tracking data may be compared with mesh cell locations to identify matching mesh cells. Addresses associated with the matching mesh cells are used to identify associated content. The identified associated augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or other content may be rendered using an augmented reality, virtual reality, or other rendering device.
US11327621B2
A transparent conductive multilayer body includes a cured resin layer, a first transparent conductive layer, and a second transparent conductive layer sequentially laminated on at least one surface of a polymer film. The first transparent conductive layer is a crystalline transparent conductive layer free of an organic component. The second transparent conductive layer contains alkoxysilane, and at least one kind of fine particles A formed of conductive fine particles of metal oxide or metal having an average primary particle diameter of 100 nm or less.
US11327611B2
A touch substrate, a manufacturing and driving method thereof and a touch display device are provided. The touch substrate includes: a base substrate and a force sensor being located on the base substrate and including at least one force sensing unit, the force sensing unit including a plurality of extension parts and at least one connection part, the plurality of extension parts extending along a first direction X, the plurality of extension parts being sequentially connected by the at least one connection part. The touch substrate can increase the change in resistance caused by the touch force so as to facilitate detection of the change in touch force by the detection chip.
US11327608B2
An operation detection method of detecting an operation of a pointing element with respect to an operation surface includes converting first and second taken image obtained by imaging the operation surface into first and second converted taken image calibrated with respect to the operation surface respectively, determining whether or not the pointing element contacts with the operation surface and is in a resting state based on the first and second converted taken image, selecting the first and second converted taken image at when it was determined that the pointing element contacts and to be in the resting state as first and second reference image, calculating a first difference in position between the pointing element in the first reference image and the pointing element in the first converted taken image, calculating a second difference in position between the pointing element in the second reference image selected and the pointing element in the second converted taken image, and determining whether or not the pointing element separated from the operation surface based on the first difference and the second difference.
US11327607B1
A touch detection circuit and a touch detection method are provided. The touch circuit coupled to touch areas of touch panel includes a touch controller and a detection circuit. The touch controller performs a touch detection on the touch areas sequentially. The detection circuit transmits a first detection signal to a boundary area of the touch areas which are not touch detected to receive a first feedback signal. The detection circuit transmits a second detection signal to a corresponding central area of the touch areas which are not touch detected to receive a second feedback signal. The touch controller compares the first feedback signal and the second feedback signal to generate a capacitance variation between the boundary area and the corresponding central area.
US11327605B1
A processing system for an input device comprises sensor circuitry. The sensor circuitry is configured to operate sensor electrodes for input sensing during a first sensing frame. During a first period of the first sensing frame the sensor circuitry is configured to drive a first portion of the sensor electrodes with a sensing signal, drive a second portion of the sensor electrodes with a guarding signal, and drive a third portion of the sensor electrodes with a reference signal. The guarding signal and the sensing signal have at least one characteristic in common selected from the group consisting of amplitude, phase and frequency. The third portion of the sensor electrodes overlaps a first gate line of a display panel selected for updating during the first period.
US11327603B2
Disclosed are a single-channel multi-region motion sensor and a method of operating the same. The single-channel multi-region motion includes: a first resonant circuit; at least one first electrode electrically connected to the first resonant circuit; a second resonant circuit; at least one second electrode electrically connected to the second resonant circuit; and a detection circuit configured to receive a first electric signal formed on the first resonant circuit and the at least one first electrode and a second electric signal formed on the second resonant circuit and the at least one second electrode. The detection circuit detects a difference between the first resonant frequency of the first electric signal and the second resonant frequency of the second electric signal, and detects the proximity of a conductor or the location of a touch attributable to a user motion.
US11327585B1
Disclosed is an adaptive stylus receiver to adaptively determine presence of narrowband interference. The receiver comprises an analog-to-digital converter to digitize an incoming digitally modulated (DM) signal at a predetermined sampling frequency, a digital band pass filter configured to receive digitized DM signal and to generate a first set of frequencies from the digitized DM signal, and a frequency detection logic to adaptively determine presence of narrowband interference in a first set of frequencies, the frequency detection logic configured to estimate frequency components from the first set of frequencies, provide a first set of coefficients to a narrowband notch filter, binning of coefficients for frequencies below a threshold value, adaptively estimate narrowband notch filter coefficients by binning and provide estimated narrowband notch filter coefficients to the narrowband notch filter to suppress the narrow band interference from the first set of frequencies.
US11327584B2
An integrated circuit includes a first terminal that is connected to a first end of a first capacitor, the first capacitor being included in a resonant circuit, a second terminal that is connected to a second end of the first capacitor, a plurality of second capacitors connected in parallel between the first and second terminals, and a control circuit which, in operation, changes a capacitance of each of the second capacitors. An electronic pen includes the integrated circuit and a first capacitor having a capacitance that varies based on pressure applied to a nib of the electronic pen.
US11327576B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an information request unit, in a case in which a predetermined trigger signal is detected in a first sensor, requesting second detection information based on a signal detected in a second sensor located at a different position from that of the first sensor, a local communication unit receiving the second detection information, and a processing determination unit determining processing to be executed based on first detection information based on a signal detected in the first sensor and the second detection information. Power consumption can be further suppressed in an information processing apparatus in which sensors are provided at different positions.
US11327574B2
A method for controlling play of a multimedia file, the method is applied to a terminal device including a first screen and a second screen, and includes: receiving a bending input by a user to a target screen, the bending input being used to trigger changing of a folding angle between the first screen and the second screen; and adjusting a play parameter of a target multimedia file in response to the bending input. The target screen is the first screen or the second screen, and the play parameter includes at least one of play progress or play speed.
US11327563B2
Described are various embodiments of a light field testing device, adjusted pixel rendering method and computer-readable medium therefor, and testing system and method using same. In one embodiment, a light field device, system or computer-implemented method is provided to dynamically adjust user perception, via a light field display, of at least one testing optotype in accordance with a vision-based test, while also providing test administrative guidance via the light field display.
US11327561B1
An apparatus for image viewing and eye tracking in virtual or mixed reality systems that includes two or more display panels (e.g., a top display panel and a bottom display panel) for each eye with left and right prisms located between the display panels and the user's eyes. S- and P-polarizing filters are located between the display panels and first and second surfaces of the prism. For each eye, the polarized light from the top and bottom display panels is redirected by a respective prism to form exit pupils for top and bottom images at a plane at or near the eye. At least one eye-tracking camera is located in front of each prism and between the top and bottom display panels so that the cameras have a direct or near-direct view of the user's eyes through the eyepieces.
US11327555B2
A method of operating an application processor including a central processing unit (CPU) with at least one core and a memory interface includes measuring, during a first period, a core active cycle of a period in which the at least one core performs an operation to execute instructions and a core idle cycle of a period in which the at least one core is in an idle state, generating information about a memory access stall cycle of a period in which the at least one core accesses the memory interface in the core active cycle, correcting the core active cycle using the information about the memory access stall cycle to calculate a load on the at least one core using the corrected core active cycle, and performing a DVFS operation on the at least one core using the calculated load on the at least one core.
US11327554B2
Methods and articles of manufacture for hosting a safety critical application on an uncontrolled data processing device are provided. Various combinations of installation, functional, host integrity, coexistence, interoperability, power management, and environment checks are performed at various times to determine if the safety critical application operates properly on the device. The operation of the SCA on the UDPD may be controlled accordingly.
US11327552B1
Processor-based systems employing local dynamic power management based on controlling performance and operating power consumption, and related methods. The processor-based system is configured to locally manage its power consumption by dynamically adjusting operating frequency and/or operating voltage of power supplied to the processor-based system. The processor-based system includes a power control circuit that is aware of the overall power budget for the processor-based system. The control processor in the processor-based system can dynamically increase the voltage level of the power supplied to the processor-based system and/or the operating frequency if the consumed power is lower than the power budget. The power control circuit can also dynamically decrease the operating frequency and/or the voltage level of the power supplied to the processor-based system if the consumed power is higher than the power budget.
US11327551B2
Methods and apparatus for using characterized devices such as memories. In one embodiment, characterized memories are associated with a range of performances over a range of operational parameters. The characterized memories can be used in conjunction with a solution density function to optimize memory searching. In one exemplary embodiment, a cryptocurrency miner can utilize characterized memories to generate memory hard proof-of-work (POW). The results may be further validated against general compute memories; such that only valid solutions are broadcasted to the mining community. In one embodiment, the validation mechanism is implemented for a plurality of searching apparatus in parallel to provide a more distributed and efficient approach. Various other applications for characterized memories are also described in greater detail herein (e.g., blockchain, social media, machine learning, probabilistic applications and other error-tolerant applications).
US11327548B2
An information processing apparatus includes: an imaging unit having an image sensor to detect a plurality of pieces of pixel information, the imaging unit being configured to generate an image made up of the plurality of pieces of pixel information detected by the image sensor; an image processor to detect whether a user is present or not in a predetermined detection range, based on an image made up of a plurality of pieces of pixel information detected by the image sensor; and an operation control unit to, when the image processor detects the user in the predetermined range, cancel a standby state where a part of the system functions stops. In the standby state, the imaging unit increases at least one of resolution and a frame rate in a stepwise manner to detect the plurality of pieces of pixel information.
US11327538B2
An electronic apparatus having a hole area and a controlling method of are provided. More particularly, an electronic apparatus having a hole area which may enlarge an image or application screen through analysis and a method for controlling a hole area of an electronic apparatus are provided. Some embodiments provide an electronic apparatus having a hole area, capable of analyzing an edge (or edge of an application screen) of an image and displaying on one of an entire area or a main area and a method for controlling a hole area of the electronic apparatus. In addition to above, various exemplary embodiments are available.
US11327533B2
The preset disclosure relates to a flexible display screen and an electronic device. The flexible display screen includes: a display screen body having a flat position and a bendable position; and a support plate disposed on a non-display surface of the display screen body; wherein the support plate comprises a flat plate and a bending portion; the flat plate is located at the flat position, and configured to support the display screen body; the bending portion is located at the bendable position and bent to fit the bendable position of the display screen body, and includes a plurality of deformation holes spaced from each other.
US11327532B2
A foldable display panel comprises a first display area, a second display area, a third display area, a first folding area, and a second folding area. The first folding area is configured to connect the first display area and the second display area. The second folding area is configured to connect the third display area and the second display area. When the first folding area is in a folded state, the first display area is located directly above the second display area. When the second folding area is in a folded state, the third display area is located directly below the second display area. A first sub-pixel of the first display area, and both a second sub-pixel of the second display area and a third sub-pixel of the third display area, each corresponding to the first sub-pixel, constitute a single pixel unit of the combined display panel.
US11327525B1
An apparatus including a serial clock routing pipeline including a first set of clock inputs and a clock output; a first set of clock generators including a first set of clock outputs coupled to the first set of clock inputs of the serial clock routing pipeline, respectively; and a first clock monitoring unit including a first clock input coupled to the clock output of the serial clock routing pipeline, and a first status output to provide information concerning one or more of the first set of clock generators. The apparatus may further include a set of phase locked loops (PLLs) coupled to the set of clock generators, respectively; the set of PLLs also coupled to the clock monitoring unit.
US11327519B2
A manual controller for controlling a machine comprises a mounting platform and a control lever. The control lever is mounted in a joint on the mounting platform so that it can pivot about an axis. A position sensor detects the deflection of the control lever and generates a signal corresponding to the deflection. An evaluation and processing unit processes the signal from the position sensor and controls the machine according to the deflection. A return mechanism returns the control lever back to a starting position.
US11327518B2
A system for controlling energy consumption. The system may incorporate devices configured on a floor map, a monitor that detects energy consumption by each device, a heat map shown on the floor map, a processor, and a user interface having a display connected to the processor. The heat map may indicate energy consumption in various areas of the floor plan. The floor map with the heat map may be a screen on the display. The energy consumption by each of the devices from the monitor may be calculated by the processor in time that each device is active and in a power rating of the respective device. The energy consumption by each of the devices may be converted by the processor into cost. From a screen, a user may define a virtual and dynamic zone to optimize and control the energy consumption.
US11327513B1
Apparatus for managing pressure events in protective casings and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first body including a pressure inlet port, a pressure outlet port, and a groove defined in a wall of the first body. The example apparatus includes a gasket at least partially disposed in the groove. The example apparatus includes a second body removably coupled to the first body. The first body and the second body define a housing. An edge of the second body is to extend over the wall of the first body. The edge includes a lip. A portion of the lip includes a notch defined therein to enable a portion of the gasket to extrude from the groove in response to a pressure event in the housing.
US11327512B1
A hydraulic lockout lever failure detection system preferably includes a first analog sensor, a second analog sensor, at least one electronic control module (ECU) and a solenoid valve. The voltage output level of the first and second analog sensors is monitored by the ECU. The solenoid valve controls the flow of hydraulic fluid to operate an excavator or other equipment. The operation of the solenoid valve is controlled by the ECU. However, a second ECU may be used to control the operation of the solenoid valve. A hydraulic lockout lever causes the first and second analog sensors to output either a low voltage to indicate a closed position, or to indicate an open position to the ECU. If the first and second analog sensors output a voltage that is above a low set value or above a high set value, a fault is detected.
US11327511B2
A system and method for cleaning of heat exchanger tubes including an assembly, an indexer and a communication device provided with specialized software and programming. The indexer includes orthogonally arranged first and second arms. A trolley and sensors are provided on the indexer arms. One or more lances are provided on the trolley to deliver water jets into the openings. Sensors measure displacement as the trolley is moved relative to the heat exchanger's face plate. An operator controls the system from a distance away using the communication device. During setup, the pattern of the face plate is learned and mapped utilizing information from the sensors as one of the inputs. This information is utilized to help navigate the face plate during a subsequent cleaning operation. A kit for retrofitting existing X-Y indexers is also disclosed.
US11327507B2
Aspects of the technology relate to exception handling for a vehicle. For instance, a current trajectory for the vehicle and sensor data corresponding to one or more objects may be received. Based on the received sensor data, projected trajectories of the one or more objects may be determined. Potential collisions with the one or more objects may be determined based on the projected trajectories and the current trajectory. One of the potential collisions that is earliest in time may be identified. Based on the one of the potential collisions, a safety-time-horizon (STH) may be identified. When a runtime exception occurs, before performing a precautionary maneuver to avoid a collision, waiting no longer than the STH for the runtime exception to resolve.
US11327497B2
Devices, systems, and methods related to autonomous transportation vehicle operation may include image augmentation arrangements for training and/or evaluating autonomous operations. Such augmentations may include artificial impressions of driving conditions which can prompt recovery operations.
US11327495B2
A vehicle control system includes: a terminal including an input/output unit and configured to be carried by a user; and a control device configured to perform wireless communication with the terminal and to execute autonomous parking processing to move a vehicle to a parking position and to park the vehicle at the parking position, wherein the control device includes a vehicle position identifying unit configured to detect a position of the vehicle, and an action plan unit configured to set a reference position where the user is deemed to hold the terminal outside the vehicle without moving and to compute a traveling route of the vehicle from an alighting position where the user alights from the vehicle to the parking position such that a condition that a distance from the reference position to the vehicle does not exceed a prescribed value is satisfied.
US11327489B2
A shared memory message system for communication between modules configured to perform a function related to controlling a vehicle in a computer system on the vehicle. The system may include a plurality of modules each representative as a node, the plurality of modules collectively representative as a plurality of nodes, each node a publisher node and/or a subscriber node, a topic registry having message storage location information, message buffers configured to store published messages, and a communication bus coupled to the topic registry, the message buffers, and the plurality of nodes. The communication bus is configured such that publisher node messages are stored in a message buffer and associated storage location information is stored in the topic registry without going through the kernel of the computer system, and such that subscriber nodes can read messages from a message buffer without going through the computer system kernel.
US11327487B2
A touch panel of an automatic driving vehicle includes a SLOW DOWN button. An operator is able to operate the SLOW DOWN button while the vehicle is running in the automatic driving mode to apply different deceleration controls using a first operation, or a long press, and a second operation, or a short press. For example, when a long press is applied, the automatic driving vehicle completes deceleration at time t4, or a time immediately after time t3 at which the long press operation is completed. In contrast, when a short press is applied, the automatic driving vehicle completes deceleration after the elapse of a relatively long period after completion of the short press.
US11327484B2
The vehicle driving system capable of performing control of switching between automatic driving by a vehicle and manual driving by a driver, includes: a temperature monitoring section configured to monitor a temperature of an automatic driving ECU which controls the automatic driving; and a control section configured to control, on the basis of the temperature of the automatic driving ECU, an operation for prompting the driver to perform the switching to the manual driving during the automatic driving.
US11327482B2
Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and a central office. The apparatus includes a communication module for communication with a central office and a computation module for controlling the communication module. The computation module receives a partial task of a distributed data processing from the central office, computes the partial task of the distributed data processing to obtain a result of the partial task, and provides the result of the partial task for the central office.
US11327481B2
This communication system has a transmitter and a receiver for repeatedly transmitting a frame of steering signal having a plurality of channels. The transmitter stores an identification data of a control parameter of a specific operation object in a first empty channel within one frame and stores a characteristic data of the control parameter of the specific operation object in a second empty channel to transmit along with steering data of other channels. Since the identification data and the characteristic data are transmitted at the same time along with the control data, the control parameters can be changed during steering of the operation object. Since the characteristic data and the identification data are transmitted in the same frame as a pair, when at least the one frame is received, the setting of the control parameter can be changed.
US11327476B2
A computer implemented method includes turning off a sensor, receiving fall curve data from the sensor, and comparing the received fall curve data to a set of fall curve signatures to identify the sensor or a sensor fault.
US11327471B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a system and method for automatically updating a multi-hierarchal representation of the system when building and tracking an automation engineering environment, wherein navigation schemes that automatically search for and connect to engineering objects based on predefined relations in multi-dimensional hierarchies are defined within an engineering object of the automation project in order to react to changes within a multi-disciplinary automation project, where the engineering object also includes an intelligent extraction port that automatically extracts predefined property data from a source engineering object when the source engineering object is connected to the engineering object.
US11327464B2
A method of manufacturing a collimator (134) on a three-dimensional printer (510) includes obtaining design specifications (536) for the collimator, the design specifications including a channel perimeter pattern and an overall collimator thickness, determining a first quantity of deposit layer permutation types based on the channel perimeter pattern, determining a respective second quantity of permutation layer elements (310, 320, 330) for each respective one of the deposit layer permutations, generating respective sets of sequences for each respective one of the deposit layer permutations, the number of sets equal to the respective second quantity for the corresponding deposit layer permutations, assembling the respective sets of sequences into a three-dimensional print file (538), providing the three-dimensional file to the three-dimensional printer, and manufacturing the collimator by depositing additive layers of material based on contents of the three-dimensional file. A system for implementing the method and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are also disclosed.
US11327442B2
The system (10) for fixing a timepiece movement (2) to a watch case (30) element (3) comprises at least one clamp (1), in particular at least two clamps, preferably three clamps or four clamps, which is intended to come into contact firstly with the movement and secondly with the watch case element, the at least one clamp being made of a superelastic alloy and/or of a shape memory alloy, particularly of a nickel-titanium alloy such as Nitinol.
US11327430B2
An image forming apparatus includes an electric board extending to a first direction and a second direction, a board accommodating portion cover the electric board, a recording medium accommodating portion to cover a recording medium and a connecting portion. The recording medium accommodating portion is arranged side by side with the board accommodating portion in the first direction. The connecting portion is arranged to overlap with the board accommodating portion and the recording medium accommodating portion as seen in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, and connects the board accommodating portion and the recording medium accommodating portion. The board accommodating portion and the recording medium accommodating portion are directly fixed to the connecting portion, respectively.
US11327428B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus that together with being able to suppress rotation unevenness is capable of preventing unexpected downtime due to a broken belt. A guide member guides the swing of a swing gear on an arc that connects a first position where the swing gear is engaged with an idle gear, and a second position where the swing gear is not engaged with the idle gear. A transmission cutoff mechanism cuts off transmission of a drive force transmitted to a driven pulley via a belt to a driven shaft when a motor rotates in the reverse direction. A control unit, in a case where rotation unevenness meets a condition, causes the swing gear to swing to the first position by reverse rotation of the motor, which causes the drive force to be transmitted to the driven shaft.
US11327427B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, an image reading unit, and a control unit. The fixing device includes a heating elements arranged in a main scanning direction, a band-shaped thin film which slides on the surface of the heating element while in contact with the heating element, and a rotatable body configured to press against a surface of the thin film to cause the thin film to rotate. The fixing device heats the heating elements when an inspection sheet is passed through the fixing device, the inspection sheet having plural images formed by using a decolorable developer, each of the images having an image density that differs in a sub-scanning direction of the image forming apparatus. The image reading unit reads an image of the heated inspection sheet and the control unit determines an operative state of each heating element based on the read image.
US11327424B2
A fixing device includes: a rotary body; a pressure body; a frame supporting the rotary body; and a pressure varying mechanism for providing a nip pressure to a nip region formed between the rotary body and the pressure body. The pressure varying mechanism includes a first spring and a second spring for urging one of the rotary body and the pressure body. The first spring applies a first urging force, and the second spring applies a second urging force acting in an opposite direction from the first urging force. The pressure varying mechanism can vary the nip pressure between a first nip pressure and a second nip pressure smaller than the first nip pressure. The nip pressure becomes the first nip pressure while only the first urging force is applied, and becomes the second nip pressure while both of the first urging force and the second urging force are applied.
US11327408B2
In one embodiment, a writing data generating method is for generating writing data used in a multi charged particle beam writing apparatus. The method includes calculating, for a figure containing a curve and a straight line included in design data, a plurality of control points representing the curve and a plurality of vertices of the curve and straight line, and expressing a position of each of the control points and vertices as a displacement from an adjacent control point or vertex to generate the writing data.
US11327406B2
A method for estimating a parameter across a region on a substrate, the region being divided into a plurality of sub-regions, the method including: obtaining values of the parameter for at least two sub-regions out of the plurality of sub-regions; and estimating the parameter for a position on the region by evaluation of a function having said values of the parameter as input values, wherein the function: a) has piecewise defined base functions, wherein a single base function is defined across a sub-region; and b) is continuous between one or more adjacent sub-regions of the at least two sub-regions within the region.
US11327405B2
In a method of manufacturing a photo mask for lithography, circuit pattern data are acquired. A pattern density, which is a total pattern area per predetermined area, is calculated from the circuit pattern data. Dummy pattern data for areas having pattern density less than a threshold density are generated. Mask drawing data is generated from the circuit pattern data and the dummy pattern data. By using an electron beam from an electron beam lithography apparatus, patterns are drawn according to the mask drawing data on a resist layer formed on a mask blank substrate. The drawn resist layer is developed using a developing solution. Dummy patterns included in the dummy pattern data are not printed as a photo mask pattern when the resist layer is exposed with the electron beam and is developed.
US11327403B2
An illumination optical system for projection lithography includes a pupil facet mirror having pupil facets. For at least some of the pupil facets which are designed as selectively reflecting pupil facets, the selectively reflecting pupil facet has a reflective coating for the illumination light, wherein a first coating area on a first part of the selectively reflecting pupil facet has a first reflectivity, a second coating area on a second part of the selectively reflecting pupil facet has a second reflectivity, the first coating area is different from the second coating area, and the first reflectivity is different from the second reflectivity. In combination or as an alternative, for at least some of the pupil facets which are designed as broadbands reflecting pupil facets, the broadband reflecting facets have a broadband reflective coating for the illumination light.
US11327401B2
A display substrate, a method for preparing the same and a display device are provided. The method for preparing the display substrate includes: providing a base substrate, in which the base substrate includes a first region and a second region; forming a first structure in the first region using a first mask and a first photoresist; forming a functional material layer at a side, which is away from the base substrate, of the first structure; and patterning the functional material layer using a second mask and the first mask to form a functional layer in the second region.
US11327400B2
A pattern having a good balance of sensitivity, resolution and LWR is formed by providing a resist film comprising a base resin comprising recurring units having a C4-C6 tertiary alkoxy or alkoxycarbonyl group as an acid labile group and recurring units capable of generating a backbone-bound acid upon exposure, exposing the resist film to radiation, optionally post-exposure baking the resist film at a low temperature of 30-70° C., and developing the film.
US11327395B2
A method for fabricating a phase shift mask includes preparing a transmissive substrate on which a first mask region and a second mask region surrounding the first mask region are defined. In the first mask region, main patterns are formed having a first pitch in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the main patterns has a first area. In at least one row, assist patterns are formed at the first pitch to surround the main patterns. Each of the assist patterns has a second area less than the first area. In the second mask region, dummy patterns are formed in a plurality of rows. The dummy patterns surround the assist patterns at the first pitch. Each of the dummy patterns has a third area greater than the first area.
US11327392B2
A light source device of the present disclosure includes a light emitting device that outputs a first light having a first wavelength in a first polarization direction, a first optical element having a first area and a second area, a second optical element into which the first light reflected by the first area is entered, converting the first light into a circularly-polarized second light having the first wavelength, and a diffuser element into which the second light is entered. The second light entering the second optical element is converted into a third light having the first wavelength in a second polarization direction, the third light is transmitted through the first area, the second light is transmitted through the second area, and a fourth light output from the diffuser element and entered into the first area and the second area is transmitted through the first area and the second area.
US11327389B2
A method of controlling an image projection system that includes a plurality of projectors including a first projector and a second projector having a lens shift function, and that includes an imaging device, includes: projecting, by the first projector, a first pattern having a first color tone; projecting, by the second projector, a second pattern having a second color tone; generating, by the imaging device, a captured image obtained by capturing a composite image including the first and second pattern; determining, by the first projector, whether an area of an overlapping portion of the second pattern in the captured image is equal to or larger than a predetermined ratio; and causing, by the first projector, the second projector to perform lens shift by the lens shift function of the second projector such that the second pattern overlaps the first pattern, when the area is less than the predetermined ratio.
US11327386B1
An all-optical optical parametric oscillator includes a laser module, a temperature control module, a plurality of filters and a beam splitter arranged in sequence. A bulk material or waveguide material is arranged in the temperature control module. Both ends of the bulk material are provided with a first OPO cavity mirror M1′ and a second OPO cavity mirror M2′. Each of the first OPO cavity mirror M1′ and the second OPO cavity mirror M2′ is coated with a high-reflectivity film with respect to an OPO signal light and an OPO idler light, and coated with a high-transmittance film with respect to an OPO pump light, a poling fundamental frequency light and a poling frequency doubled light. The temperature of the material is changed by changing the temperature of the temperature control module to realize temperature tuning of wavelength λs of the OPO signal light and wavelength λi of the OPO idler light.
US11327380B2
An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes, a base substrate, a thin film transistor layer, a first passivation layer, a quantum dot layer, a color filter layer, a planarization layer and a metal wire grid polarizing layer that are sequentially disposed on the base substrate. The quantum dot layer is located in a display region of the array substrate, and an orthographic projection of the color filter layer on the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of the color filter layer on the base substrate.
US11327374B2
A display device includes a first direction, a plurality of pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, at least one scanning signal line connected to the plurality of pixels, a scanning signal line driving circuit connected to the scanning line, the scanning signal line driving circuit includes a switch for outputting a signal to the scanning signal line, a first power supply line for providing a first voltage to the switch, a second power supply line for providing a second voltage smaller than the first voltage to the switch, and the switch is provided between the first power supply line and the second power supply line, a line width of the second power supply line is 4 times the line width of the first power supply line or more and 40 times the line width of the first power supply line or less.
US11327357B2
A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes in the following order from a viewing surface side a first polarizer, a first positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 80 nm or greater and 100 nm or smaller, a first substrate, a second positive A plate having an in-plane retardation of 120 nm or greater and 155 nm or smaller, a horizontally aligned liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a viewing angle compensation layer, and a second polarizer. The device further includes between the first polarizer and the first positive A plate a positive C plate having a thickness retardation of 30 nm or greater and 80 nm or smaller.
US11327343B2
An electro-optically active device comprising: a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate including a silicon base layer, a buried oxide (BOX) layer on top of the silicon base layer, a silicon on insulator (SOI) layer on top of the BOX layer, and a substrate cavity which extends through the SOI layer, the BOX layer and into the silicon base layer, such that a base of the substrate cavity is formed by a portion of the silicon base layer; an electro-optically active waveguide including an electro-optically active stack within the substrate cavity; and a buffer region within the substrate cavity beneath the electro-optically active waveguide, the buffer region comprising a layer of Ge and a layer of GaAs.
US11327337B2
A mode-switchable backlight and mode-switchable display employ a first planar backlight to emit broad-angle emitted light during a first mode and a second planar backlight to emit directional emitted light during a second mode. The second planar backlight includes a plate light guide and an array of multibeam elements configured to scatter out guided light from the light guide during a second mode as the directional emitted light including a plurality of directional light beams having principal angular directions corresponding to view directions of a multiview image. The mode-switchable display further includes a light valve array configured to modulate the broad-angle emitted light to provide a two-dimensional image during the first mode and to modulate the directional emitted light to provide a multiview image during the second mode.
US11327330B2
Various embodiments provide for the implementation of volumetric diffractive optics equivalent functionality via cascaded planar elements. To illustrate the principle, a design 3D diffractive optics and implement a two-layer continuous phase-only design on a single spatial light modulator (SLM) with a folded system. The system provides dynamic and efficient multiplexing capability. Numerical and experimental results show this approach improves system performance such as diffraction efficiency, spatial/spectral selectivity, and number of multiplexing functions relative to 2D devices while providing dynamic large space-bandwidth relative to current static volume diffractive optics. The limitations and capabilities of dynamic 3D diffractive optics are discussed.
US11327309B2
A virtual image display apparatus includes a display device (image forming unit), a lens configured to refract imaging light from the display device, a first mirror member configured to reflect imaging light that passed through the lens, a second mirror member being a refractive reflective optical member configured to reflect the imaging light reflected by the first mirror member, and a third mirror member of a transmissive type configured to reflect the imaging light reflected by the second mirror member toward a position of an exit pupil. The refractive reflective optical member includes, across a refractive member, a refractive surface and a mirror surface. The lens and the refractive reflective optical member are integrated as a composite member.
US11327302B2
Secure monitoring of the field of view of remotely located operators comprises capturing video and data signals representing a series of images including the forward field of view of the operator and the operator's ocular movement and may also include rearward and other operator fields of view. The images are transmitted to an operator microprocessor which, in turn, transmits the signals to a centrally located server where the signals are processed and the resulting information saved in files dedicated to respective operators.
US11327297B2
Provided is a generation method for a programmable analog fringe pattern with an extended depth of field. A laser emits a laser beam. After focusing and collimation thereof with a collimating lens, a collimated Gaussian laser beam meeting requirements is obtained. The laser beam is reflected by a mirror once, passes through a round diaphragm and is incident on a MEMS scanning mirror. The beam is reflected by the MEMS scanning mirror to the surface of a tested object. The laser is controlled by a sinusoidal current signal generated by a drive board so as to sinusoidally modulate the brightness of the laser beam. The MEMS scanning mirror is stimulated by a drive signal generated by the drive board to turn two-dimensionally, so as to drive the laser beam to perform scanning, thus generating a fringe pattern image.
US11327295B2
A MEMS device is formed in a die of semiconductor material having a cavity defined therein and having an anchorage portion. A tiltable structure is elastically suspended over the cavity and has a main extension in a horizontal plane. First and second supporting arms extend between the anchorage portion and opposite sides of the tiltable structure. First and second resonant piezoelectric actuation structures are intended to be biased to thereby cause rotation of the tiltable structure about a rotation axis. The first supporting arm is formed by first and second torsion springs, which are rigid to movements out of the horizontal plane and compliant to torsion about the rotation axis and are coupled together at a constraint region. The first and second resonant piezoelectric actuation structures extend between the anchorage portion and the constraint structure, on first and second sides of the first supporting arm.
US11327293B2
A wavelength conversion device includes a driver, a substrate and a support. The support is disposed between the driver and the substrate. The support is connected to the substrate and the driver. The driver drives the support and the substrate to rotate about a central axis. The support includes at least one through hole. The invention also provides a projection device including a light source system, the aforementioned wavelength conversion device, a light valve, and a projection lens.
US11327289B2
The invention relates to a telescope optics for a telescopic observational instrument having an objective lens, having a prism erecting system and having an eyepiece lens, wherein an image of an object generated by the objective lens is located between the prism erecting system and the eyepiece lens, and wherein the objective lens, in an order starting from the object side, comprises a first lens group G1 with a positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 with a negative refractive power and a third lens group G3, and wherein the second lens group G2 is adjustable in parallel to an optical axis for focusing, and wherein at least one lens with a negative refractive power of the third lens group G3 is adjustable perpendicularly to the optical axis for changing the position of the image, and wherein the third lens group G3 has a negative refractive power.
US11327284B2
A microscope system includes a light sheet microscopic functional unit that illuminates and images a sample in a first operating state with a light sheet-like illumination light distribution, and a scanning microscopic functional unit that illuminates and images the sample in a second operating state with a point-like illumination light distribution. A first scanning element uniaxially scans the sample, in the first operating state, with the light sheet-like illumination light distribution, and uniaxially scans the sample, in the second operating state, with the point-like illumination light distribution. A second scanning element uniaxially scans the sample, in the second operating state, with the point-like illumination light distribution, such that, in the second operating state, the second scanning element generates together with the first scanning element a biaxial scanning of the sample with the point-like illumination light distribution. A controller is configured to switch between the first and second operating states.
US11327275B2
A photographing lens assembly includes five lens elements, 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 and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The second lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region. The third lens element has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein two surfaces thereof are both aspheric. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. At least one surface of the lens elements has at least one inflection point.
US11327271B2
A lens driving apparatus includes a holder, a metal cover, a carrier, a sensing magnet, a printed circuit board, a position sensor, a coil and at least one driving magnet. The metal cover is coupled with the holder and has an opening. The carrier is assembled to a lens assembly having an optical axis, wherein the carrier is disposed in the metal cover and is movable along a direction parallel to the optical axis. The sensing magnet is coupled with the carrier. The printed circuit board is disposed near to one of the four lateral sides of the holder. The position sensor is disposed on the printed circuit board and corresponds to the sensing magnet. The coil is disposed on an outer surface of the carrier. One of the driving magnet is disposed in the metal cover and corresponds to the coil.
US11327267B2
Provided is a lens module, including a lens barrel, a lens group and a light-shading plate. The lens group at least comprises a first lens and a second lens. The light-shading plate is sandwiched between the first lens and the second lens. The first lens includes a first optical portion, and a first peripheral portion, which includes a first planar surface extending from an outer edge of the first peripheral portion, a recess portion connected to the first planar surface, and a second planar surface connected to the recess portion. The light-shading plate includes a third planar surface partially attached to the first planar surface, a protruding portion protruding from the third planar surface, and a fourth planar surface extending from the protruding portion towards the optical axis. The protruding portion is attached to the recess portion, and the second planar surface and the fourth planar surface are spaced apart.
US11327249B2
A fiber optic ferrule and a guide pin clamp allows for changing guide pins in the field. The guide pin clamp has a forward clamp portion, a rearward clamp portion configured to engage the biasing spring and a guide pin retaining plate. The forward clamp portion and the rearward clamp portion move relative to one another to also move guide pin retaining plate from a first position to a second position to allow for the removal or insertion of guide pins.
US11327246B2
An optical fiber connector, comprising a main shaft, a connecting piece, and a lock cap. The main shaft comprises a head end and a tail end that is away from the head end. A through hole extending from the head end to the tail end is disposed in the main shaft. The connecting piece is fixedly connected to the head end and partially accommodated in the through hole. The lock cap includes a sealing portion and a connection portion that is connected to a side of the sealing portion. The sealing portion is rotationally connected to an outer side of the head end. The connection portion is located on a side that is of the head end and that is away from the tail end.
US11327244B2
A unitary optical ferrule is molded to include one or more elements for receiving and securing one or more optical waveguides one or more elements for affecting one or more characteristics of light from the optical waveguide while propagating the light within the ferrule. The optical ferrule also includes one or more first alignment features and one or more second alignment features that, when the ferrule is mated with a mating ferrule, each controls alignment of the ferrule with the mating ferrule along three mechanical degrees of freedom. The surface of the optical ferrule can be divided along the thickness axis into a first section and an opposing second section, wherein the first section of the surface includes the receiving and securing elements, the light affecting elements, and the first alignment features and the second section of the surface includes the second alignment features.
US11327234B2
An optical semiconductor device includes a first optical coupler including a first input port and a second input port, a first optical branching device including a first output port and a second output port, a second optical coupler including a third input port and a fourth input port, a second optical branching device including a third output port and an fourth output port, a first single mode waveguide configured to connect the second input port and the first output port, a second single mode waveguide configured to connect the second output port and the third input port, a third single mode waveguide configured to connect the fourth input port and the third output port, and a fourth single mode waveguide configured to connect the fourth output port and the first input port.
US11327232B2
A light polarizing element include: a first port waveguide; two second port waveguides; and a multi-mode interference waveguide optically connected to the first port waveguide and the two second port waveguides, the multi-mode interference waveguide having at least one slit formed therein, the at least one slit having a shape that enables the multi-mode interference wave guide to give different effective refractive indexes to respective mutually orthogonal polarized light waves input from the first port waveguide, thereby separating the mutually orthogonal polarized light waves, and that enables the separated mutually orthogonal polarized light waves to be output from the respective two second port waveguides.
US11327231B2
An assembly includes: first and second fiber optic cables, each of the first and second fiber optic cables including an exposed portion of an optical fiber and an overlying jacket, wherein the optical fiber of the first fiber optic cable is fusion spliced to the optical fiber of the second fiber optic cable to form a splice area; a splice protector that surrounds the splice area of the first and second fiber optic cables; a flexible tube that encircles the splice protector, the exposed portions of the first and second fiber optic cables, and end portions of the jackets of the first and second fiber optic cables, wherein the splice protector, the exposed portions of optical fibers of the first and second fiber optic cables reside in a lumen of the flexible tube; first and second adhesive barriers positioned between an inner surface of the flexible tube and the end portions of the first and second fiber optic cables, respectively; and an outer sleeve that circumferentially overlies the flexible tube and portions of the jackets of the first and second fiber optic cables.
US11327223B2
A multimode optical fiber having a core region. The core region includes silica, has an outer radius r1, and has a maximum relative refractive index of about 1.5% or less. Additionally, the multimode optical fiber is configured to have an effective bandwidth of about 4.7 GHz-Km or greater for an excited portion of the core region that has a diameter greater than 50 microns, the effective bandwidth being at a wavelength that is within a range of between about 800 and about 1370 nm.
US11327221B2
A floor lighting assembly includes a luminous composite sheet and a light transmissive carpet. The luminous composite sheet has a top side, a bottom side, and an edge extending from the top side to the bottom side. The light sources are arranged in a row and are configured to emit light into the light guide film through the edge. The light transmissive carpet is disposed above the top side of the light guide film. The light transmissive carpet includes a backing structure and a pile mounted to and extending from the backing structure. The light guide film is configured to spread and redirect the light that is received therein through the edge for emitting the light through the top side of the light guide film such that some of the light is transmitted through the light transmissive carpet.
US11327215B2
The present disclosure provides a collimating backlight module, a preparation method thereof and a display device. The method for preparing the collimating backlight module includes: providing a light guide plate; forming a protective layer on a light emitting side of the light guide plate, where the protective layer simultaneously covers a light emitting area and a non-light emitting area of the light emitting side, a hollow area is formed on the protective layer, to expose the light emitting area of the light guide plate; and forming a light taking grating on the light emitting area of the light guide plate.
US11327207B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a prism film, a backlight module, and a display device. The prism film includes a substrate and a plurality of prisms on a surface of the substrate, each of the plurality of prisms having a triangular cross section, and having a first optical surface, a second optical surface, and a third optical surface that are perpendicular to the triangular cross section, wherein the first optical surface is parallel to the surface of the substrate, the first optical surface and the second optical surface form a first bottom angle, the first optical surface and the third optical surface form a second bottom angle, and at least one of the first bottom angle and the second bottom angle of the plurality of prisms gradually changes.
US11327192B2
A method can include receiving data acquired via survey equipment disposed in an environment; analyzing at least a portion of the data via an iterative adaptive approach that implements matching pursuit to generate analysis results; and identifying at least one feature in the environment based at least in part on a portion of the analysis results.
US11327189B2
The invention provides a method of detecting a seismic event, which comprises acquiring (110) a digital signal x characteristic of a signal measured by at least one seismic sensor, and calculating (130) a time-frequency distribution for at least one section of a given duration of said signal, in a given frequency band. For each frequency of said frequency band, the calculated time-frequency distribution is normalized. The method also comprises calculating (150) the moving average of the normalized time-frequency distribution ZD, in said frequency band and in a time window, given reference L, centered on the time n; and detecting (160) a seismic event when the average exceeds a predefined threshold value. The invention also provides a corresponding detection system.
US11327188B2
A computer-implemented method can include the following. Seismic vibratory waves through the Earth along a selected vector path are received. An initial value is selected for a first arrival for each of the seismic vibratory waves. Initial values are determined for travel times and velocities of the seismic vibratory waves. Reversed signs of amplitudes of the seismic vibratory waves are determined and corrected. Time intervals are determined based on the initial values of the travel times. Time windowing and filtering in a frequency domain are performed. Final values are determined for first arrivals and travel times for each of the seismic vibratory waves based on the time windowing and filtering. Final values are determined for velocities of the seismic vibratory waves.
US11327182B2
A method and corresponding device for detecting correction information for an antenna for receiving data of a satellite of a satellite navigation system includes the steps of determining first distance information of the antenna relative to a satellite of a satellite navigation system, capturing position information and orientation information of the antenna on the basis of sensor information, determining second distance information of the antenna relative to the satellite on the basis of the position information captured using sensor information, detecting a deviation of the first distance information from the second distance information, determining correction information on the basis of the detected deviation, and storing, in a data memory, the correction information regarding the orientation information captured by the sensor information. The correction information can be used in particular for correcting an angle-dependent phase center offset.
US11327175B2
A method for determining a substitute distance between a location and a substitute impact point of a projectile in a horizontal plane common with the location, the method determining a target distance between the location and a target arranged on a sight line, and the method determining an elevation angle formed by the sight line with the horizontal plane, wherein an equivalent horizontal distance is calculated as a substitute distance by correcting the target distance with at least one correction coefficient dependent on the elevation angle.
US11327171B2
A computer-implemented method executed by one or more satellites for assessing crop development by using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is presented. The method includes generating SAR images from scanning fields including crops, monitoring grown of the crops within the fields during a predetermined time period, and estimating a height of the crops during the predetermined time period by using interferometric information from one or more of the SAR images and tracking change in height and growth rates. The method further includes differentiating between crops in different fields by monitoring changes in the height of the crops during an entire growing season.
US11327137B2
The present disclosure relates to a 1D partial Fourier parallel magnetic resonance imaging method with a deep convolutional network and belongs to the technical field of magnetic resonance imaging. The method includes steps of: creating a sample set and a sample label set for training; constructing an initial deep convolutional network model; inputting a training sample of the sample set to the initial deep convolutional network model for forward process, comparing an output result of the forward process with an expected result in the sample label set, and performing training with a gradient descent method until a parameter of each layer which enables consistency between the output result and the expected result to be maximum is obtained; creating an optimal deep convolutional network model by using the obtained parameter of the each layer; and inputting a multi-coil undersampled image sampled online to the optimal deep convolutional network model, performing the forward process on the optimal deep convolutional network model, and outputting a reconstructed single-channel full-sampled image. The present disclosure can well remove the noise of the reconstructed image, reconstruct a magnetic resonance image with a better visual effect, and has high practical value.
US11327135B2
A computer-implemented method for using machine learning to suppress fat in acquired MR images includes receiving multi-echo images from an anatomical area of interest acquired using an MRI system. A first subset of the multi-echo images is acquired prior to application of contrast to the anatomical area of interest and a second subset of the multi-echo images is acquired after application of contrast to the anatomical area of interest. Next, data is generated including water images, fat images, and effective R*2 maps from the multi-echo images. The water images, the fat images, and the effective R*2 maps are used to create synthetic fat suppressed images. A neural network is trained to use the multi-echo images as input and the synthetic fat suppressed images as ground truth. A plurality of components of the neural network are saved to allow later deployment of the neural network on a computing system.
US11327129B2
In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes: an RF coil configured to receive a magnetic resonance signal from an object and include a first wireless antenna with horizontal polarization; a main body provided with a bore and configured to apply an RF pulse to an object, the bore being a space in which the object is placed during imaging; and at least one second wireless antenna configured to perform wireless communication between the RF coil and the main body via the first wireless antenna, one of the at least one second wireless antenna being disposed at an uppermost portion in an outer periphery of an opening edge of the bore.
US11327122B2
A voltage detection integrated circuit may include: a voltage detection circuit electrically connected to a plurality of cells to detect a cell voltage of a corresponding one of the plurality of cells; a plurality of cell balancing switches configured to conduct or block a flow of a balancing current of a corresponding cell among the plurality of cells; a temperature sensor configured to detect an internal temperature of the voltage detection integrated circuit; and a controller configured to differently select a number of cell balancing switches that are simultaneously turned on depending on the internal temperature, and to turn on the selected switches, when the internal temperature is below a first threshold value.
US11327117B2
An apparatus is provided for measuring the power of electrolytes at different positions of a flow battery by switching six-way valves without reconnecting channels. With the measurements at the positions, weighting is processed to obtain power corresponding to charging statuses for determining accurate power. The charging and discharging of voltage and current of the battery are controlled for constant operations with high efficiency. Consequently, the efficiency of power conversion is improved; energy consumption is reduced; and the battery is always run within a safe power-range for avoiding accidents or damages to the battery. In addition, the present invention is further applicable to a device monitoring the features of a battery unit. The six-way valves online monitor the power at center positions by switching. The values measured at different positions are aimed at the abnormality of the battery unit for processing adjustment or offline replacement to maintain best operation performance.
US11327108B2
An automatic testing system includes a platform; a carrier fixed on a surface of the platform for carrying a device under test (DUT); a function test module for testing functions of the DUT; and a shifting module for shifting the function test module.
US11327092B2
Methods and systems for subsurface imaging of nanostructures buried inside a plate shaped substrate are provided. An ultrasonic generator at a side face of the substrate is used to couple ultrasound waves (W) into an interior of the substrate. The interior has or forms a waveguide for propagating the ultrasound waves (W) in a direction (X) along a length of the substrate transverse to the side face. The nanostructures are imaged using an AFM tip to measure an effect (E) at the top surface caused by direct or indirect interaction of the ultrasound waves (W) with the buried nanostructures.
US11327090B2
In example implementations, a method is provided. The method may be executed by a processor of a fluid dispensing apparatus. The method includes dispensing a fluid onto a surface from a dispenser during an alignment procedure. The surface is ejected for alignment verification. The surface is then received for re-execution of the alignment procedure after the alignment verification. The dispenser is re-used to dispense fluid onto the surface during re-execution of the alignment procedure.
US11327089B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an automatic analysis device capable of determining, through a simple processing, whether or not idle aspirate has occurred. The automatic analysis device according to the present invention determines whether or not idle aspirate has occurred, by calculating a parameter which specifies whether or not the length of a portion of a path through which the sample passes inside a dispensing probe is shorter than that during normal aspirate, the portion being actually filled with a sample (see FIG. 4).
US11327086B2
A sample measuring method of optically measuring a sample housed in a container in a sample measurement device, the method including: loading the container such that the container is shielded from light; starting to read information regarding a measurement to be performed on the sample in response to the loading the container; and measuring the sample based on the read information.
US11327085B2
A method for rapid and quantitative determination of sildenafil in cocktail includes the exemplary steps of: Step 1, assigning a Raman spectrum of sildenafil; Step 2, weighing and dissolving a sildenafil standard in methanol to obtain a 1,000 mg/L sildenafil standard solution, and mixing cocktails with the sildenafil standard solution, to prepare test solutions; Step 3, mixing 100 μL each of test solutions with 500 μL of surface enhancer OTR 202 to acquire Raman spectra; and Step 4, establishing a linear regression model, with a formula of y=4035.1 x+503.26, where y is the content of sildenafil in cocktail, in mg/L, and x is intensity of Raman characteristic peaks at 1584 cm−1. Rapid determination of sildenafil by SERS is feasible and reliable, serving as a novel, rapid, and accurate method for quantitative determination of sildenafil in cocktail. The method meets the requirements of analysis and detection of sildenafil in other alcoholic beverages.
US11327083B2
Improved methods and systems for diagnosing and for treating Cushing's syndrome and Cushing's Disease are provided herein, including methods and systems for concurrently treating Cushing's syndrome and differentially diagnosing Cushing's Disease from Ectopic Cushing's Syndrome in a patient with an established diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. Treatment methods can use glucocorticoid receptor antagonists (GRAs), which differentially affect the ratio of cortisol to ACTH levels in patients having Cushing's Disease versus patients having Ectopic Cushing's Syndrome. Methods for concurrently treating and differentially diagnosing Cushing's Disease from Ectopic Cushing's Syndrome include obtaining baseline cortisol and ACTH levels of a patient, treating the patient with a GRA according to a protocol that would typically substantially elevate cortisol levels, obtaining post-treatment cortisol and ACTH levels of the patient, determining a differential relationship between baseline cortisol and ACTH levels and post-treatment cortisol and ACTH levels and providing a positive diagnosis based on the differential relationship.
US11327064B2
A monitoring system for monitoring a process includes a housing with a viewing panel. The viewing panel includes a view port. An emitter generates light and illuminates an observation zone of the process. A detector is disposed within the housing and is configured to detect light entering the housing through the view port and create a plurality of images of the process in the observation zone. A thermal regulation system is configured to generate heat in the vicinity of the viewing panel of the housing so as to increase the temperature of at least the view port above ambient temperature.
US11327061B2
A method for testing a plurality of sensor devices, a panel and a sensor component are disclosed. In an embodiment a method includes providing the plurality of sensor devices, each sensor device including a sensor element configured to sense an ambient condition, a heating element to heat the sensor element, connection terminals for a supply voltage and at least one connection terminal for a sense signal indicative of a state of the sensor element, providing a panel including a plurality of groups of connection pads, the connection pads of each one of the groups configured to be connected to the connection terminals of one of the sensor devices, mounting the sensor devices to the groups of connection pads, applying a supply voltage to the sensor devices and concurrently heating the heating elements of the sensor devices to an elevated temperature and calibrating the sensor devices at least one after another.
US11327053B2
A system for non-destructively inspecting tubes is provided. The system may include a tank filled with a fluid, e.g., water. The tank may define an axial passage within it for tube insertion, and the tank may include an opening to the axial passage. A transducer probe may be disposed inside the tank and oriented toward the opening to the axial passage. The system may also include a movable seal including a chamber, configured to move axially in the axial passage, and a membrane positioned in the opening of the tank. During inspection, an acoustic pathway may be provided between the transducer probe and the tube, the pathway including fluid in the tank, the membrane, and fluid in the chamber.
US11327050B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for mechanical failure monitoring, detection, and classification in electronic assemblies. In some embodiments, a mechanical monitoring apparatus may include: a fixture to receive an electronic assembly; an acoustic sensor; and a computing device communicatively coupled to the acoustic sensor, wherein the acoustic sensor is to detect an acoustic emission waveform generated by a mechanical failure of the electronic assembly during testing.
US11327041B2
Provided are devices and methods for a rapid, non-perturbative and energy-efficient technique for pH sensing based on a flexible graphene electrode. This technique does not require the application of gate voltage or source-drain bias, and demonstrates fast pH-characterization with precision. The disclosed technology is suitable for in vivo monitoring of tumor-induced pH variation in tissues and detection of pH changes as required in a DNA sequencing system.
US11327034B2
A measurement device for estimating thermal characteristics includes a heat generating source unit that has heat sensors for detecting heat radiating toward a measurement sample unit, and that heats the measurement sample unit, the measurement sample unit, and a heat cooling source unit that has heat sensors for detecting heat radiating from the measurement sample unit, and that cools the measurement sample unit, wherein those units are sequentially stacked, the measurement sample unit has a three-layer structure consisting of an object to be measured for estimating thermal characteristics, and heat conducting materials that sandwich the object, the heat conducting materials are adhered to the heat generating source unit and the heat cooling source unit one another through a heat-transfer promoting agent therebetween, the object to be measured for estimating thermal characteristics and the heat conducting materials are adhered to one another through physical contact, chemical contact, and/or chemical bond contact.
US11327031B2
A photon counting X-ray CT apparatus according to an embodiment includes: data acquiring circuitry, and processing circuitry. The data acquiring circuitry is configured to allocate energy measured by signals output from a photon counting detector in response to incidence of X-ray photons to any of a plurality of first energy bins so as to acquire a first data group as count data of each of the first energy bins. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a plurality of second energy bins obtained by grouping the first energy bins in accordance with a decomposition target material that is a material to be decomposed in a imaging region, allocate the first data group to any of the second energy bins so as to generate a second data group, and use the second data group to generate an image representing a distribution of the decomposition target material.
US11327029B2
The X-ray imaging device (100) is provided with an X-ray source (1), a plurality of gratings, a moving mechanism (8), and an image processing unit (6). The image processing unit (6) is configured to generate a phase-contrast image (16) by associating a pixel value in each pixel of a subject (T) in a plurality of subject images (10) with phase values of a Moire fringe (30) at each pixel and aligning the pixel of the subject of the same position in the plurality of subject images.
US11327018B2
An image reconstruction method includes capturing a reference image of the specimen and capturing a set of original images based on the reference image. The method includes generating a set of analyzed images based on the set of original images by determining an intensity distribution for each pixel of each original image of the set of original images and combining the intensity distribution at each pixel location across the set of original images into an intermediate image. The method includes, identifying an object in the intermediate image. In response to identifying the object in the intermediate image, determining an intensity value of the object in each original image of the set of original images and generating an improved image of the object based on the determined intensity value of the object. The method includes generating a final image including the improved image of the object and displaying the final image.
US11327014B2
A system in an embodiment can comprise an optical assembly, an surface-plasmon-resonance (SPR) light source, and an SPR camera. The optical assembly can comprise a hemispherical prism comprising a top surface configured to support a SPR sensor; and a high numerical aperture (NA) lens located distal from the top surface of the hemispherical prism. The SPR light source can be configured to emit a light beam for SPR imaging. The SPR camera can be configured to capture an SPR image. The SPR sensor further can comprise a surface configured to contact a sample. The high NA lens can be configured to refract the light beam toward the hemispherical prism. The hemispherical prism can be configured to collimate the light beam, as refracted by the high NA lens, toward the SPR sensor. The high NA lens further can be configured to receive and refract the light beam toward the SPR camera, after the light beam is reflected by the surface of the SPR sensor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11327008B2
A gas measurement system as disclosed can include a coherent light source, which emits a light beam; a detector; a beam path formed between the light source) and the detector; and a gas cell arranged in the beam path such that the detector receives light transmitted through the gas cell. The gas cell can include a porous ceramic and have an optical path length which is a multiple of the actual layer thickness of the gas cell. A optical element can be arranged in the beam path between the light source and the gas cell with the light beam emitted by the light being widened and unfocussed as the light beam enters the gas cell.
US11327000B2
An example system is configured to detect saturation levels of a target, such as a core sample of a reservoir, using magnetic fields generated by hydrophilic magnetic nanoparticles within the target. The target contains both a hydrocarbon, such as oil or gas, and a mixture comprised of water and the hydrophilic magnetic nanoparticles. The system includes magnetic field detectors for spatial distribution across a dimension of the target. The magnetic field detectors are configured to detect a magnetic field associated with the hydrophilic magnetic nanoparticles. A data processing system is configured—for example, programmed—to determine a saturation profile of the target based on the magnetic field.
US11326990B2
A pretreating apparatus includes a transferring mechanism configured to transfer a storing container storing an unpretreated sample or a pretreated sample, a pretreating portion having a port in which the storing container storing the sample is installed by the transferring mechanism, configured to pretreat the sample in the storing container installed in the port, and a diluting portion configured to suck a predetermined amount of the pretreated sample from the storing container and supply the sample and a diluent to an empty storing container to dilute the sample.
US11326988B2
A sensor module includes a sensor that detects a first component, a first flow channel to supply a sample fluid to the sensor, and a second flow channel to supply a reference fluid to the sensor. The reference fluid includes a second component different from the first component included in the sample fluid. The second flow channel includes a first filter that reduces the amount of the first component in the reference fluid.
US11326986B2
The disclosure provides an excitation device capable of suppressing resonance during excitation and reducing the size in a vertical direction. An excitation device (1) includes front and rear mounting plates (5 and 6) having openings (5g and 6g); a base plate (8) arranged below the mounting plates (5 and 6), slope parts (3) to which the mounting plates (5 and 6) and the base plate (8) are fixed; a first roller (17) and a second roller (16) located below the openings (5g and 6g); a hydraulic actuator (12) having a hydraulic cylinder (12a) that excites the second roller (16) in a front-rear direction of a wheel (W); and a bracket (12c) having a lower end fixed to the base plate (8) and an upper end fixed to the mounting plates (5 and 6), and supporting the hydraulic cylinder (12a).
US11326985B2
An inertial regulation active suspension system based on posture deviation of a vehicle and a control method thereof are provided. The system comprises a vehicle body, an inertial measurement unit, an electronic control unit, a servo controller group, a plurality of wheels, suspension servo actuating cylinders respectively corresponding to the wheels, and displacement sensors for measuring a stroke of the suspension servo actuating cylinders. The electronic control unit reads posture parameters of the vehicle body measured by the inertial measurement unit, and calculates a deviation between the postures of the vehicle body at a current moment and at a previous moment, and then outputs posture control parameters to the servo controller group. The servo controller group controls extension and retraction of each of the suspension servo actuating cylinders according to the posture control parameters and displacement feedback values of the displacement sensors.
US11326981B2
Optical fiber characteristics measuring apparatus and optical fiber characteristics measuring method
An optical fiber characteristics measuring apparatus includes: a light source that outputs frequency-modulated continuous wave of light; a first optical branching unit that branches the continuous light into pump light and reference light; a second optical branching unit that outputs backscattered light generated by making the pump light incident from one end of an optical fiber to be measured, wherein the backscattered light is Brillouin scattering in the optical fiber; a detector that detects interference light of the backscattered light and the reference light; a measuring unit that measures characteristics of the optical fiber by using a detection signal output from the detector; and a controller that controls the light source to change modulation frequency of the continuous light in units of one period or half a period of a modulation period corresponding to the modulation frequency.
US11326975B2
A method of sensing leaking gas includes controlling the height of a gas injection port in the liquid away from the liquid surface to guide the leaking gas into the liquid through the gas injection port to generate bubbles, and detecting the flow rate of the bubbles generated in the liquid to improve the sensing accuracy of leaking gas.
US11326963B2
An isolated signal transmission device includes a resistor element and a heat flow sensor. The resistor element generates heat as a result of a current based on an inputted signal being applied to the resistor element. The heat flow sensor is provided such as to be electrically isolated from the resistor element. The heat flow sensor detects an amount of heat flowing to the heat flow sensor itself when the resistor element generates heat. The heat flow sensor outputs a signal based on the detected amount of heat.
US11326959B2
A sensor device includes: a rod member including an axially extending gas passage into which fluid flows; a sheath pipe thinner than the gas passage, inserted in the gas passage with a distal end thereof being located inside the gas passage, and configured to detect a temperature of the fluid; an insert configured to fix a proximal end of the sheath pipe; and retention members configured to retain the distal end of the sheath pipe.
US11326958B2
An electric machine includes a protective isolation module which is accommodated in a machine housing. The protective isolation module includes an input interface which is electrically connected to a temperature sensor to receive an electrical sensor signal generated by the temperature sensor as a measure of a machine temperature of the electric machine, an output interface which is galvanically isolated from the input interface to realize a secure electrical protective isolation of the output interface from a voltage flashover of a machine winding in the sensor power circuit, and a supply interface, via which the protective isolation module can be supplied with electrical energy from a power supply for the electric machine. An electronic control system receives an output signal that replicates the sensor signal via the output interface for evaluation in the electronic control system.
US11326951B2
Disclosed is a method for organizing a substantially uniform system of colorimetry comprising the steps of (i) taking a pseudoinverse of a matrix containing intensity values for an existing non-uniform color-matching functions; (ii) optionally normalizing the pseudoinverse matrix from step (i); (iii) empirically determining an opponency transformation matrix based on a plurality of substantially uniformly spaced color standards; (iv) transforming the matrix from step (ii) to a color opponency color coordinate utilizing the opponency transformation matrix from step (iii) to obtain a Red-Green, Yellow-Blue and Lightness (RG, YB and LT) color matching functions; and (v) transforming the RG, YB and LT color matching functions from step (iv) non-linearly to color matching functions that produce colors recognizable as being uniform by human vision; wherein after step (v) the existing non-uniform color matching functions are transformed into substantially uniform color matching functions.
US11326948B2
A method for generating an electromagnetic signal is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: An image having pixels is at least one of received and generated, wherein each one of the pixels has one of at least two different pixel values. At least one of a spectrogram of an electromagnetic signal and characteristic parameters of the electromagnetic signal is determined based on at least one of the image and the pixel values. The electromagnetic signal is generated based on at least one of the spectrogram and the characteristic parameters.
US11326944B2
Systems for spectroscopy are provided. Exemplary systems include: an enclosure; a tunable laser disposed in the enclosure; an opening on a surface of the enclosure; a beam splitter disposed in the enclosure, the beam splitter being optically coupled to the tunable laser and the opening; a sensor, a sensing surface of the sensor having a filter disposed thereon; and electronics coupled to the tunable laser and the sensor, the electronics including a processor, memory, and a battery.
US11326938B2
Disclosed is a bio illuminance measuring apparatus including a circadian lambda filter passing external light along according to a circadian rhythm sensitivity curve, a visual lambda filter passing the external light along according to a visual sensitivity curve, a photo sensing portion sensing and converting the external light, which has passed through the circadian lambda filter, into a circadian wavelength signal and sensing and converting the external light, which has passed through the visual lambda filter, into a visual wavelength signal, and an illuminance calculating portion which calculates a ratio between the circadian wavelength signal and the visual wavelength signal, calculates a circadian action factor by applying the ratio between the circadian wavelength signal and the visual wavelength signal to a circadian action function which varies according to the visual wavelength signal, and calculates a bio illuminance value of the external light on the basis of the circadian action factor.
US11326934B1
An apparatus includes a platform or other accessory that is supported by one or more piezoelectric transducers. As items are placed on or removed from the accessory, the piezoelectric transducer generates an electric charge that is representative of a change in weight. An amplifier receives the charge and provides output voltage that can be sampled to determine a weight value. In one implementation the platform may be supported by a transducer assembly comprising a frame and a pair of piezoelectric transducers on opposite sides of the frame. Signals from the pair may be used to compensate for environmental effects on the assembly, such as changes in temperature. The piezoelectric transducers and associated circuitry are extremely energy efficient, consuming little electrical power during operation.
US11326931B2
A mobile and modular device with movable walls for the dynamic weighing of a bovine animal includes an identification module having a support structure, a processing module, a solar panel, an antenna and an identifier; and a weighing module including a base, a pair of side walls, a weighing platform, a pair of load cells and an amplifier and transmission box. The processing module, the identifier, the solar panel and the antenna are associated on the support structure. The weighing platform, the pair of load cells and the amplifier and transmission box are associated on the base in a fixed way. Each one of the pair of side walls contains a fixed portion and a mobile portion; and each one of the lower ends of the fixed portion contains a mechanism, which is associated to the base in a mobile way, through a first distal end and a second distal end.
US11326929B2
A separated solids monitoring system comprising a pressurised solids accumulator for receiving separated process solids, a weighing platform located inside the accumulator and arranged to carry process solids as they settle in the accumulator, a force transducer located inside the pressurised accumulator and mechanically coupled to the weighing platform to provide a weight signal which is a measure of gravitational force on the weighing platform, and mechanically based pressure compensation means integrated within the force transducer, and arranged substantially to compensate and remove a force offset in the weight signal due to the pressure of fluids in the solids accumulator thereby allowing a fuller measurement range of the force transducer to be used and substantially dedicated to indicating a mass of solids on the weighing platform.
US11326927B2
An optical probe that measures the level of a liquid in a tank includes a transparent and refracting optical waveguide for receiving an injection of a collimated light beam. The optical waveguide internally reflects the collimated light beam according to a total reflection regime in any part of the optical waveguide located in a gaseous medium and refracts the collimated light beam according to a refraction regime in any part of the optical waveguide immersed in a liquid medium. The optical waveguide switches from the total reflection regime to the refraction regime at the interface between the gaseous medium and the liquid medium, and mirrors are arranged around said optical waveguide and reverse the path of a light beam collimated and refracted by the optical waveguide, the optical path covered by the collimated light beam representing the level of the liquid in the tank.
US11326916B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a coil holder of a magnetic inductive flowmeter by injection molding, wherein the coil holder has two coil cores cast in a plastic casting, which two coil cores each have a first longitudinal axis, the method comprising: providing and positioning of a mold with a cast volume and the two coil cores, wherein each coil core has two end faces and a lateral surface, wherein the lateral surface has a central region and two outer regions bounding the central region, wherein the cast volume completely bounds the central regions in a coil region, wherein the outer regions and the end faces are outside of the cast volume; filling the cast volume with a plastic; allowing the plastic to harden; and removing the mold from the plastic casting, wherein the cast volume is continuous.
US11326915B2
A flow meter includes a cylindrical body having an exterior surface and an interior surface defining an inner diameter of the cylindrical body. The cylindrical body also includes an outlet end and an inlet end. The inlet end is shaped and dimensioned for selective attachment to an inlet pipe or hose having an inner diameter that is small than the inner diameter of the cylindrical body. The flow meter also includes a gauge tap formed within the cylindrical body, the gauge tap being positioned adjacent the outlet end of the cylindrical body at a position between the outlet end and the inlet end. A pressure gauge is secured within the gauge tap for measuring the pressure within the cylindrical body and ultimately the flow of fluid through the cylindrical body. A nozzle is attached at the outlet end of the cylindrical body and at least one nozzle insert is provided for selective attachment to the nozzle so as reduce the size of the outlet in order to extend the normal range of the flow meter.
US11326914B2
The flow rate measurement method includes: measuring a first pressure of a gas filled in a first flow path connected to a flow rate controller and a second flow path connected to the first flow path; supplying a gas to the first and second flow paths via the flow rate controller and measuring a second pressure and a temperature of the gas filled in the first and second flow paths; after the gas is exhausted from the second flow path, measuring a third pressure of the gas filled in the second flow path; measuring a fourth pressure of the gas filled in the first and second flow paths; and calculating an amount of the gas supplied to the first and second flow paths via the flow rate controller, based on the first, second, third, and fourth pressures and the temperature.
US11326912B2
A pointer device for an indicator instrument, in particular for a vehicle, is provided with a light-guide body defined by a single piece, which, in use, receives light from a light source and has a hub and a pointer radially protruding from the hub; the hub has a surface covered by a shield and a light transmission portion, which, on the opposite side, ends with at least one light emission area; the device is provided with a cap defined by a single piece, which is separate from said light-guide body and has an intermediate portion and a lateral portion arranged in an inner and outer radial position, respectively, relative to the light transmission portion; the cap has at least one through opening aligned with the light emission area and connection portions extending radially and joining the intermediate portion to the lateral portion.
US11326907B2
A circuit and method for capacitance detection, a touch chip, and an electronic device are provided. The circuit includes a control module, a driving module, an offsetting module, and a charge transfer module, the driving module being configured to positively charge a capacitor to be detected through a first charging branch circuit, or negatively charge the capacitor to be detected through a second charging branch circuit under the control of the control module; the offsetting module being configured to offset base capacitance of the capacitor to be detected through a first offsetting branch circuit under the control of the control module, or offset the base capacitance of the capacitor to be detected through a second offsetting branch circuit under the control of the control module; the charge transfer module being configured to transfer a charge on the capacitor to be detected to generate an output voltage.
US11326897B2
A cellular telephony device operatives to receive map data via a cellular network map data, and causes a region of a map having one or more selectable map elements to be displayed in a display in accordance with the map data. The cellular telephony device then causes selectable map element information to be displayed in the display in response to detecting a selection of one of the selectable map elements. In response to detecting a selection of the selectable map element information, the cellular telephony device sends, to a private network file server via the cellular network, a request for an electronic file document associated with the selectable map element information. The cellular telephony device then receives, via the cellular network, the file contents information corresponding to the request for the electronic file document, and causes at least a portion of the electronic file document to be displayed in the display.
US11326891B2
Disclosed is a method for providing images to a vehicle and an electronic device therefor. An image providing method according to an embodiment includes operations of: acquiring a peripheral environment image of a second route based on a user input, where the second route is different from a traveling route of a vehicle communicating with an electronic device; acquiring vehicle-related information of the vehicle that includes information regarding the traveling route of the vehicle, information regarding a traveling state of a vehicle, and/or information regarding an environment of a vehicle; and generating a virtual peripheral environment image that reflects a traveling situation of a vehicle by converting a peripheral environment image of a second route based on vehicle-related information. Various other embodiments inferable from the disclosure are also possible.
US11326890B2
An information processing apparatus provided with a communicator that receives request data which is a request relating to a change in a traveling route of a vehicle from a first user among two or more users traveling in the same vehicle and a processor that executes determining incentives to be granted to second users accompanying the change in the traveling route, wherein the second users are a part of or all of the two or more users excluding the first user, presenting incentive information on the determined incentives and inquiries about whether or not to accept the change in the traveling route to the second users and creating granting data for granting the determined incentives to the second users when the second users accept the change in the traveling route.
US11326889B2
It is an aspect of the present disclosure to provide a driver assistance system and control method thereof in which perform a data association of various data to be collected, thereby matching a plurality of features and performing precise position measurement.
US11326887B2
Embodiments are provided that include receiving sensor data from a sensor positioned at a plurality of positions in an environment. The environment includes a plurality of landmarks. The embodiments also include determining, based on the sensor data, a subset of the plurality of landmarks detected at each of the plurality of positions. The embodiments further include determining, based on the subset of the plurality of landmarks detected at each of the plurality of positions, a detection frequency of each landmark. The embodiments additionally include determining, based on the determined detection frequency of each landmark, a localization viability metric associated with each landmark. The embodiments still further include providing for display, via a user interface, a map of the environment. The map includes an indication of the localization viability metric associated with each landmark.
US11326882B2
A vibrator device includes a vibrator element, and a support substrate configured to support the vibrator element. The vibrator element includes a drive arm provided with a drive signal electrode and a drive constant-potential electrode, and a detection arm provided with a detection signal electrode and a detection constant-potential electrode. The support substrate includes a base, and a drive signal interconnection electrically coupled to the drive signal electrode, a drive constant-potential interconnection electrically coupled to the drive constant-potential electrode, and a detection signal interconnection electrically coupled to the detection signal electrode all provided to the base, and the drive arm includes a first surface located at the support substrate side, and a second surface located at an opposite side to the first surface. Further, the drive constant-potential electrode is disposed on the first surface, and the drive signal electrode is disposed on the second surface.
US11326881B2
A vibrator device includes a vibrator having a first and second electrode, and a circuit device having a drive circuit adapted to drive the vibrator, and an output circuit adapted to output a monitor signal corresponding to a vibration characteristic of the vibrator while driven by the drive circuit. The circuit device includes a first terminal electrically connected to the first electrode, and from which an output signal from the drive circuit to the vibrator is output, a second terminal electrically connected to the second electrode, and to which an input signal from the vibrator to the drive circuit is input, a third terminal electrically separated from the first electrode and the second electrode, and a monitor terminal from which the monitor signal is output. The vibrator is supported on an active surface side of the circuit device using conductive bumps respectively to the first, second, and third terminal.
US11326871B2
A height detection apparatus successively changes the brightness of white light from a first level to a second level in accordance with a position of a Z stage and captures an image of interference light while moving a two-beam interference objective lens relative to a paste film in an optical axis direction, detects, as a focus position, a position of the Z stage where the intensity of interference light is highest in a period during which the brightness of white light is set to the first or second level, for each pixel of the captured image, and obtains the height of the paste film based on a detection result.
US11326870B2
Systems and methods for imaging based on multiple cross-sectional images acquired at different angles are disclosed. According to an aspect, multiple cross-sectional images of an object are acquired at different angles. The method also includes registering the acquired cross-sectional images. Further, the method includes reconstructing an enhanced resolution image of the object based on the registered images. As a result of registering the images, a distortion map is generated that is coregistered with the high-resolution image. The method also includes displaying an image of the object based on the enhanced resolution image and the distortion map.
US11326862B2
An aerodynamic braking device for a payload casing intended to be ejected from a projectile on its trajectory including at least one parachute connected to the casing by hangers, the parachute and the parachute hangers being housed in a sleeve. The sleeve is wound around an axis of winding perpendicular to its longitudinal direction and attached to a cylindrical housing the axis of which is parallel to the axis of winding, which housing is itself secured to a shell base that closes off the projectile, the hangers being connected to the casing by an extension cable which is wound around the axis of the housing and attached thereto by at least three peripheral break lines which are uniformly angularly distributed.
US11326857B2
An eyewear lens coupling system and methods can be used during assembly of an eyewear. The system and methods may advantageously decrease optical distortion of the lens during assembly and use and/or may also advantageously increase retention of the lens to the eyewear frame to improve the overall quality of the eyewear.
US11326856B2
A safety storage system includes a safety case with case body and a case lid; a lock bag with a bag portion made from a cut-resistant material and a cable guide; and a cable lock, including a lock body, a lock cable, and a key; such that the lock cable protrudes through the cable guide to attach the cable lock to the lock bag; such that the safety case with the handgun inside can be locked inside the lock bag with the cable lock, whereby the handgun is safely stored in the safety storage system. Additionally, the safety storage system can be secured in position with the lock cable attached to a mounting structure with the lock bag closed and the safety case with the handgun inside locked in the interior of the lock bag, thereby preventing access to and theft of the handgun.
US11326852B2
A hinge joint includes first and second hinge leaves pivotably mounted on a hinge pin, where the hinge joint is operable between open and closed positions. The hinge joint has a locking mechanism that prevents opening the hinge joint from a closed position until the locking mechanism is moved to the unlocked position. In one example, the locking mechanism includes a plunger retained in the hinge pin. When the plunger is depressed, one or more protrusions can move from a blocking position to a non-blocking position. In some embodiments, the locking mechanism must be moved to the unlocked position prior to opening the hinge joint. The locking mechanism may be used alone or in combination with engagement structures between the first and second hinge leaves. The hinge joint can be part of a folding rifle stock assembly or other hinged assembly.
US11326849B2
Provided is a firearm noise suppressor having a baffle chamber unit with at least one dimpled recess on an outer surface thereof. An identification band with identifying indicia thereon is placed on the baffle chamber unit over the at least one dimpled recess, and an area of the band is deformed into the dimpled recess to prevent the removal of the band without a machining process.
US11326845B2
A bullpup shotgun which ejects shells from the bottom of its action has a reciprocable cover which, when in a closed position, overlies the breech end of the shotgun's barrel. When in an open position, the cover is in spaced relation to the barrel breech end, allowing access to the shotgun's action to clear an ammunition feed malfunction. The cover is mounted on a butt stock, and the butt stock may be movable relatively to the shotgun's receiver to effect motion of the cover between the open and closed positions.
US11326833B2
A refrigerator appliance having one or more sliding shelves. The sliding shelf may slide along one or more tracks. The sliding shelf may include one or more shelf plates. The one or more tracks may be adjustable.
US11326831B2
A household appliance apparatus, in particular a household refrigeration appliance apparatus, has at least one flow separating unit which is provided for separating at least two airflows. In order to provide improved properties with regard to a ventilation of heat-generating freestanding household appliance components, the flow separating unit is provided for mounting on an outer wall of a freestanding household appliance.
US11326821B2
A refrigeration system includes an evaporator within which a refrigerant absorbs heat, a gas cooler/condenser within which the refrigerant rejects heat, a compressor operable to circulate the refrigerant between the evaporator and the gas cooler/condenser, a high pressure valve operable to control a pressure of the refrigerant at an outlet of the gas cooler/condenser, and a controller. The controller is configured to automatically generate a setpoint for a measured or calculated variable of the refrigeration system based on a measured temperature of the refrigerant at the outlet of the gas cooler/condenser. The setpoint is generated using a stored relationship between the measured temperature and a maximum estimated coefficient of performance (COP) that can be achieved at the measured temperature. The controller is configured to operate the high pressure valve to drive the measured or calculated variable toward the setpoint.
US11326816B2
A thermal expansion valve includes a power head and a valve body. The power head and the valve body are fixedly arranged. The power head includes a power head cover, a power head seat, and a membrane. The membrane includes a membrane recess and a corrugated portion. The membrane recess is located at the center position of the membrane. The corrugated portion is located at the peripheral position of the membrane recess. The membrane recess is recessed away from the power head cover. The valve body comprises a top portion. The top portion is provided with an opening. At least a part of the power head is extended into the opening. With an axial direction of the valve body as a projection direction, a projection of the power head towards the top portion falls on the top portion.
US11326806B2
A duct type air conditioning apparatus is provided with a blowing portion including a first cabinet in which a blower assembly is installed and a heat exchanging portion including a second cabinet in which a heat exchanger is installed. The air conditioning apparatus includes a partition panel arranged between the first and second cabinets and connected to facing sides of the first and second cabinet, and first and second link members separably fastened along an upper end and a lower end of the partition panel to keep an airtight seal in a connection portion between the first and second cabinets.
US11326800B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for performing air quality maintenance. An example method include receiving an air quality dataset and generating a quality tendency projection based upon the air quality dataset that includes a quality rate of change. In an instance in which the quality tendency projection exceeds a prediction threshold and the quality rate of change exceeds a pollutant rate increase threshold, the method performs performing air degradation analysis. In an instance in which the quality tendency projection exceeds a warning threshold and the quality rate of change exceeds a pollutant rate decrease threshold, the method performs ventilation analysis.
US11326796B2
Techniques are described for generating power from airflow powered smart vents associated with security and automation systems. One method includes monitoring a rate of airflow through an air vent in a centralized heating and cooling system, generating, at a sensor at the air vent, power based at least in part on the rate of airflow through the air vent, storing the generated power in the sensor at the air vent, providing the stored power to one or more motors associated with the sensor at the air vent, and utilizing the stored power to perform communication between the sensor at the air vent and a control panel of the home automation system, wherein the control panel is located at a location different from a location of the sensor.
US11326791B2
A method for continuously removing a particular type of gas molecules (“gas molecules”) from a gas stream includes selecting a liquid having an affinity for the gas molecules to be removed, and providing the selected liquid to each of a first and second mat, each mat formed from a plurality of fibers having the ability to retain the selected liquid within longitudinally extending channels having longitudinally extending openings against moving into the space between the individual fibers, the mats in fluid communication therebetween with the selected liquid. The method includes directing the gas stream through a portion of the first mat into contact with the selected liquid along the longitudinally extending openings whereby the selected liquid absorbs the gas molecules, and directing a second gas through a portion of the second mat so that the gas molecules, absorbed by and disbursed throughout the selected liquid, are stripped and carried away.
US11326788B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor unit, a heat medium relay unit, and an indoor unit. The outdoor unit is installed in an outdoor space, which is a space outside a building including an air-conditioned space. The heat medium relay unit is installed in the outdoor space, and includes a housing that accommodates an intermediate heat exchanger. The indoor unit includes a load heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between air and a heat medium. The housing is installed to the outer wall of the building.
US11326778B2
A system for use with a fired vessel of production/separators or dehydration equipment that includes a metal box, a main burner, a pilot burner, and a flame arrestor. The main burner and the pilot burner extend through the metal box and the first flame arrestor is connected to the metal box.
US11326776B1
A gas burner may include a burner body, a first gas orifice, a second gas orifice, a mixed outlet nozzle, an injet body, a gas supply line, a secondary gas line, and a flow sensor. The first gas orifice may be directed towards a plurality of naturally aspirated flame ports. The second gas orifice may be spaced apart from the first gas orifice. The mixed outlet nozzle may be downstream from the second gas orifice and directed towards a plurality of forced induction flame ports. The injet body may define an air passage and a mixing chamber downstream from the air passage. The gas supply line may be mounted on the injet body. The secondary gas line may extend in fluid parallel to the first gas orifice. The flow sensor may be positioned in fluid communication with the secondary gas line to detect a flow rate of gaseous fuel therethrough.
US11326775B2
A fuel injector providing a flow of fuel having a variable swirl and/or variable effective area is disclosed. The fuel injector may have a nozzle defining a mixing chamber having an outlet proximate a centerline of the mixing chamber, a first fuel line in fluid communication with the mixing chamber and a second fuel line in fluid communication with the mixing chamber. The first fuel line may terminate in a tangential fuel inlet positioned tangential to the centerline of the nozzle, while the second fuel line may terminate in a radial fuel inlet positioned radial to the centerline of the nozzle.
US11326771B2
This disclosure relates to a light-emitting fan includes a fan frame, an impeller, and a light-emitting component. The fan frame includes a base, a first ring, and a second ring. The first ring is disposed on the base. The second ring is disposed on the first ring. The first ring is located between the base and the second ring, and the first ring and the second ring together form an accommodating space. The impeller is located in the accommodating space and rotatably disposed on the base. The light-emitting component is located in the first ring or the second ring. One of the first ring and the second ring is made of light-permeable plastic, the other one is made of light-impermeable plastic, and light from the light-emitting component is emitted through the first or second ring.
US11326768B2
An apparatus including a display surface for presenting an image of a user; a light emitting portion for using light to convey semantic information to the user; a sensor for measuring the position of the user relative to the light emitting portion; and a control unit to control the light emitting portion based on the measured position of the user relative to the light emitting portion so as to minimize an effect of the light conveying the semantic information provided by the light emitting portion on the presented image of the user.
US11326766B2
An LED light with a shift switch related to the technical field of LED lights includes a diffuser, a light body, and a light head sequentially connected from top to bottom. A driving power board and an LED light source board are provided in the light body. A position hole is provided on a side wall of the light body. The driving power board is provided with the shift switch, and the shift switch is provided with a shift handle which passes through the position hole. According to the present application, the effects of reducing the difficulty of modification and replacement and improving the convenience of using the LED light are achieved by controlling the color temperature, the timing or the light intensity of the LED light by multiple positions of the shift switch.
US11326764B1
A reflected light projection device is provided, comprising a projection light source assembly, a light source fixing plate for fixing the projection light source assembly, a rotatable reflector cup, a dust-proof light-transmitting sheet, and a motor driving the reflector cup to rotate. The dust-proof light-transmitting sheet, the reflector cup, the light source fixing plate, and the projection light source assembly are sequentially stacked and arranged on the motor, and the projection light source assembly, the light source fixing plate, and the reflector cup are respectively provided with a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening through which the motor passes, and a light emitted by the projection light source assembly directly irradiates the reflector cup that rotates under a drive of the motor, and the light is reflected by the reflector cup and then projected to a surface of an external medium through the dust-proof light-transmitting sheet.
US11326756B1
A vehicle LED lamp having a housing with a front lens of lens elements, a circuit board with LEDs, each providing light of one of three different colors, in which each LED is positioned with respect to a different one of the lens elements. A controller for operating the LEDs of a first color to indicate one or more of brake application (stop), activation of headlights, or turn signal, a second color to indicate reverse vehicle motion, and a third color to provide visual warning signals of one of solid on or flashing patterns. The LEDs of each of the different colors are positioned along the circuit board to substantially enable an entirety of the front lens to provide illumination from the lamp in each of the first, second, and third colors by the controller actuating those ones of the LEDs of the first, second, and third colors, respectively.
US11326754B2
An illumination apparatus for a motor vehicle includes a light source for emitting light of a first mixed color, said light source containing one or more laser diodes for generating monochromatic light and a first conversion element for converting the monochromatic light into the light of the first mixed color. The illumination apparatus also includes a first optical device which images the light source as a real image in an intermediate image plane, and a second optical device which generates a predefined light distribution from the real image in the intermediate image plane. A second conversion element is provided at the site of the real image in the intermediate image plane in order to convert the light of the first mixed color into light of a second mixed color.
US11326753B2
A lamp for an automobile and an automobile including the same include first and second modules that generate light to emit the light to the outside and are spaced apart from each other, respectively including a first light source unit and a second light source unit that include a plurality of light sources which generate light and are provided in a horizontal direction. The light generated from the plurality of light sources provided in each of the first light source unit and the second light source unit is emitted to the outside to produce a plurality of beam patterns, and thus a first beam pattern group and a second beam pattern group are produced. A portion of the plurality of beam patterns constituting the second beam pattern group are produced in at least a portion of a region between the plurality of beam patterns constituting the first beam pattern group.
US11326746B2
A lighting device (5) is disclosed. The lighting device (5) comprises a plurality of light-emitting filaments (10), wherein each of the light-emitting filaments (10) comprises a plurality of solid-state light sources mounted on a carrier along a longitudinal axis of the light-emitting filament (10). The light-emitting filaments (10) are arranged in a planar configuration, and the lighting device (5) has a main direction of illumination (I) perpendicularly away from a plane (P) defined by the planar configuration. The longitudinal axes (L1, L2) of at least two light-emitting filaments (10) are non-parallel to each other. A luminaire comprising the lighting device is also disclosed. The lighting device (5) can be produced in a cost-efficient manner.
US11326744B2
A LED bulb apparatus has a bulb shell, a head cap, a driver circuit and at least one light strip. The bulb shell has a light passing shell and a bottom portion. A head cap has a neck portion, a first electrode and a second electrode. The neck portion of the head cap is connected to the bottom portion of the bulb shell forming a container space. A fluorescent layer covers the multiple LED modules. The driving current is transmitted via at least one of the top end and the bottom end of the light strip to the LED modules. The substrate has a light transmittance less than 50%.
US11326743B2
A LED light apparatus includes a substrate, LED modules, a driver circuit, a fluorescent layer, a connector and a light passing shell. The LED modules are mounted on the substrate. The fluorescent layer covers the driver circuit and the LED modules. The connector has a first end electrically connecting to the driver circuit. The light passing shell encapsulates the substrate, the plurality of first LED modules, the driver circuit, the first fluorescent layer and at least a part of the connector. The connector has a second end connecting to an external power source.
US11326738B2
The present invention provides a mounting bracket having a plate having a first surface and a second surface and a centrally oriented slot extending through the plate, the centrally oriented slot having a first slot section having a first width positioned in the first surface, the centrally oriented slot having a second slot section having a second width positioned in the second surface, the first width being wider than the second width, a carriage component, the carriage component having a first portion that abuts a second portion, the first portion having the first width, the second portion having the second width, the first portion slidably received in the first slot section, the second portion slidably received in the second slot section.
US11326737B2
A robot includes a multi-articular arm and a base including a body. The body has a first supported surface and a second supported surface opposite to the first supported surface. A first bracket and a second bracket are connectable to the first supported surface or to the second supported surface to connect the body to the floor surface or the wall surface. Each of the body, the first bracket, and the second bracket has a mounting member such that the base is mounted on the floor surface when the first bracket is connected to the first supported surface and the second bracket is connected to the second supported surface, and such that the base is mounted on the wall surface when the first bracket is connected to the second supported surface and the second bracket is connected to the first supported surface.
US11326733B2
A system of pipe insulating sleeves includes a series of elastomeric foam insulating sleeves that are capable of opening up to, and beyond, 180 degrees, to accommodate and capture an undersink pipe. The disclosed system may include a number of different sleeves that are capable of coupling to one another at respective couplers so as to form the system. The sleeves may include fastening mechanisms to retain the sleeves in the closed configuration while capturing the pipe, so as to create a smooth, streamlined appearance that is aesthetically pleasing. Also disclosed is a method of installing the sleeves. The sleeves are made of an elastomeric foam material that has heat insulating properties, and which may also have antibacterial and antimicrobial properties that make it particularly advantageous for use in undersink pipe insulating.
US11326732B2
An underground pipe repair device is for a joint between a service pipe and a branch pipe. The underground pipe repair device may include a T-shaped joint liner having a base portion extending laterally in the service pipe, and an arm portion extending vertically into the branch pipe, the base portion including a first base surface facing the service pipe, and a second base surface opposite the first base surface. The underground pipe repair device may include an annular body aligned with an opening for the branch pipe and coupled to the second base surface of the T-shaped joint liner. The annular body may have a physical characteristic to be detected by a robot device within the service pipe.
US11326726B2
Fluid connection device, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes a female nozzle having an internal fluid flow passage, and being configured to receive a male nozzle. A sensor senses that the male nozzle is received within the female nozzle, and an electrical plug electrically connects the sensor to an electrical power source. The sensor includes a flexible, electrically conductive dome located within the female nozzle. In a first position, the dome has a generally curved shape. When the male nozzle is inserted into the female nozzle, the male nozzle presses the dome to deform the dome into a second position. In the second position, the dome has a generally flattened shape and provides an electrical connection between two terminals connected to the electrical.
US11326716B2
A subplate mounted valve is disclosed having an open position and a closed position. The valve includes at least one pilot pressure intake port, a plurality of functional fluid ports, a spool movable between the open position and the closed position, and spring biasing the spool to either the open position or the closed position. To reduce water hammer due to quickly opening or quickly closing the valve, a flow regulation assembly is positioned at the pilot pressure intake port and has a chamber with a larger inlet channel at the intake position and transitioning to a smaller channel at the outlet position such that fluid flow at the intake port is reduced, thereby slowing the transition between the open position and the closed position and the transition between the closed position and the open position.
US11326713B2
A fluid control device comprising including a body having an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid flow path between the inlet and the outlet, a seat, and a control element that is coupled to a stem. The control element and the stem are movable relative to a longitudinal axis and biased toward a closed position, in which the control element engages the seat. An actuator assembly is operatively coupled to the stem and includes a planetary gear transmission mechanism configured to receive a first rotational velocity and to deliver a second rotational velocity different than the first rotational velocity. A shaft has a first end coupled to the transmission mechanism and a second end coupled to valve stem. The second rotational velocity is transmitted to the valve stem to move the control element between the closed position and an open position.
US11326712B2
A valve assembly includes an actuator adapted to drive movement of a valve member between an open position and a closed position. The valve assembly also includes a bonnet coupled to the actuator and a valve body coupled to the bonnet, the bonnet arranged between at least a portion of the actuator and the valve body. The valve assembly further includes a quick connector adapted to couple the bonnet to the valve body. The quick connector includes a plurality of bonnet lugs separated by a plurality of spaces, the plurality of bonnet lugs extending radially outward from an axis. The quick connector also includes a plurality of valve body lugs configured to interact with the plurality of bonnet lugs, the plurality of bonnet lugs being arranged to axially align with the plurality of valve body lugs to block axial movement of the bonnet with respect to the valve body.
US11326687B1
An axle assembly having an electric motor module that may be operatively connected to a planetary gear set. A lubricant catching ring may be mounted to a planet gear carrier of the planetary gear set. A deflector may deflect lubricant through a lubricant opening in a wall of a shift mechanism housing.
US11326681B2
An elastic gear wheel for a harmonic drive has a cylinder portion with tooth, and a flange which is integrally designed with the cylinder portion. The flange has recesses for fastening, and through-apertures for fastening.
US11326679B2
A locking differential assembly (10) includes a differential case (12). A lock ring (40) is selectably engagable with a first side gear (18, 20) to selectably prevent the first side gear (18, 20) and a second side gear (18, 20) from rotating relative to the differential case (12). A plunger (30) is translatable along a plunger axis (55) through a bore (68) in the differential case (12). The plunger (30) is to be in contact with the lock ring (40) at least when the lock ring (40) is engaged with the first side gear (18, 20). A position of the plunger (30) relative to the differential case (12) along the plunger axis (55) is indicative of an engagement status of the lock ring (40). A non-contacting sensor is connected to the differential case (12) and located a fixed, predetermined distance from the differential case (12). The sensor is to detect a proximity of the plunger (30) to the sensor and to output an electrically detectable signal indicative of the engagement status of the lock ring (40).
US11326659B2
A braking device for a vehicle capable of resulting in an increased driving comfort is provided. The braking device may have a brake disc of a disc brake for rotating about a rotation axis, in which the disc may have a disc body. The disc body may have a braking band having opposite braking surfaces and at least one connection portion for connecting the disc to a connection device of a vehicle associable with the braking device. The braking band defines an axial direction parallel to the rotation axis of the brake disc, a radial direction orthogonal to the axial direction and a tangential or circumferential direction orthogonal both to the axial direction and to the radial direction. The connection portion is connected to the braking band by connecting elements, the connecting elements being a plurality of elements equally spaced apart in circumferential direction.
US11326654B2
A friction engagement element control system is provided, which includes a friction engagement element including friction plates, which are an input-side friction plate and an output-side friction plate, and an actuation system configured to engage the input-side friction plate with the output-side friction plate with a pushing force, the friction plates having a characteristic in which a friction coefficient thereof decreases as a rotational difference between the friction plates increases. The device includes a controller configured to control the pushing force so that the negative slope characteristic becomes a positive slope characteristic in which a frictional force of the friction engagement element decreases as the rotational difference decreases, when engaging the friction engagement element.
US11326653B2
A clutch hub which is engaged with the clutch plates in an outer circumference is a press-molding article made from one steel sheet. In its inner circumferential surface, plural oil grooves for cooling the clutch plates, which are extended to a shaft direction and have a space in a circumferential direction. Each of dams as a press-molding portion extending to radial inward is formed at an end portion of each of the oil groove. The dams include an upright front surface and a back surface, and the bottom surfaces and both side surfaces of the oil grooves are integrated with the dams at the front surface side and the back surface side.
US11326647B1
There are disclosed apparatuses and methods for removal of a shaft bearing from a gate crossing mechanism. A bearing support includes support apertures and is positioned about the shaft bearing. A bearing ring includes ring apertures. A bearing tool includes keys in which each key has a shape allowing insertion through a ring aperture and a support aperture. The bearing tool shifts each key inward toward the shaft bearing. The bearing ring is rotated in a circular direction relative to the keys. The bearing tool withdraws the shaft bearing from the bearing support.
US11326639B1
Range taking shear bolts and bolt installation (drive) tools are described herein, which are configured for use with a variety of range taking connectors and conductors.
US11326637B2
A fastener has a generally cylindrical shank and a driver at a first end of the shank. The shank has a thread having a first side and a second side opposed to the first side. The first and second sides form a compound angle between the shank and an apex where the first and second sides meet. The compound angle is formed by a body portion extending along the first and second sides from the shank to an intersection, and a crest portion extending along the first and second sides from the intersection to the apex. The first and second sides in the body portion form a body angle with respect to each other, and the first and second sides in the crest portion form a crest angle with respect to each other. The crest angle is greater than the body angle.
US11326635B2
A bicycle handlebar stem includes a body having a connection portion and a top clamp respectively formed on two ends thereof. The body includes a space defined therein, and an opening communicates with the space and outside of the body. A bottom member has a tongue extending inserted into the opening and the space. A bottom clamp is formed to the bottom member and includes an upward portion extending upwardly and toward the downward portion of the top clamp. A passage is defined between the top clamp, the bottom clamp and the body so as to receive a handlebar. A connection member extends through the body and the tongue to connect the bottom member to the body. Two fasteners extend through the underside of the bottom clamp and are connected to the top clamp.
US11326633B2
A joint structure includes: a first steel plate; a second steel plate disposed along the first steel plate; a laser welding part that joins together a joint face part, which configures a first part of the first steel plate, and the second steel plate from one side in a plate thickness direction of the first steel plate and the second steel plate; and a fastening member that is screwed into, and fastens together, the second steel plate and a general face part from the one side in the plate thickness direction, the general face part configuring a second part of the first steel plate, being provided adjacent to the joint face part, and being disposed so as to be spaced apart from the second steel plate at the one side in the plate thickness direction.
US11326628B2
An actuator system for controlling a control surface of an aircraft, which includes a control structure which defines the control surface and the control structure has an axis of rotation about which the control structure can rotate relative to the aircraft. A first actuator assembly has a first actuator arm and a second actuator assembly has a second actuator arm. The first actuator assembly and the second actuator assembly are spaced apart from one another along the axis of rotation. The first actuator arm is connected to a first band member and the first band member is connected to the control structure on a first side of the axis of rotation and the second actuator arm is connected to a second band member and the second band member is connected to the control structure on a second opposing side of the axis of rotation.
US11326623B2
A fan noise-lowering structure includes a fan frame and a connection section. The fan frame has a bottom side and a circumferential wall. The circumferential wall defines an airflow passage. Two ends of the airflow passage respectively have an inlet and an outlet. The connection section is disposed on inner side or outer side of the circumferential wall. The connection section has an internal passage. Two ends of the internal passage respectively have an inlet end and an outlet end. The outlet end is disposed on the inner side of the circumferential wall in connection with the airflow passage near the inlet. The inlet end is disposed on the bottom side in flush with the outlet. The connection section serves to guide the high-pressure air at the outlet to jet to the inlet so as to achieve multiple noise-lowering effects.
US11326617B2
A boost compressor assembly may comprise an outer annular structure and a plurality of blades. Each blade in the plurality of blades may be moveably coupled to the outer annular structure. The plurality of blades may be configured to deploy in response to the boost compressor assembly rotating. The plurality of blades may be configured to retract when the boost compressor assembly stops rotating.
US11326614B2
An automatic fluid pump includes a pump body having a liquid channel and a mounting channel, the liquid channel having an inlet and an outlet and connected to a suction pipe and a delivery hose, respectively. A motor fan is disposed at a lower end of the suction pipe. A power controller is coupled to the pump body and circuit-connected to a battery, a terminal plate, and a switch. A valve case is coupled to the mounting channel in the form of a hopper formed at a lower end thereof with an inclined portion having an air hole. A valve case cap is coupled to the valve case. A main check valve is disposed on a lower surface of the valve case cap to open/close the through-holes. An auxiliary check valve is vertically moved up and down between the mounting channel and the air hole to open/close the air hole.
US11326611B1
The present disclosure discloses a portable mobile fan, comprising a fan body and fixing devices, the fan body comprises a fan shell, a windshield cover, an impeller, a motor, a circuit board and a switch button; which has large air output, has a fan body with relative position changed by adjusting fixing brackets, can be fixed on different objects, and has strong practicability.
US11326605B2
A rotary compressor includes: a shell forming an internal space; a driving motor disposed in the internal space of the shell; a rotary shaft connected to the driving motor; a lower cylinder having a lower chamber for compressing a refrigerant and a lower roller disposed inside the lower chamber; an upper cylinder disposed on an upper side of the lower cylinder and having an upper chamber for compressing a refrigerant and an upper roller disposed inside the upper chamber; a muffler disposed on the upper side of the upper cylinder and receiving a refrigerant compressed in the upper chamber; and an intermediate plate disposed between the upper cylinder and the lower cylinder and having a rotary shaft hole through which the rotary shaft is disposed. The intermediate plate includes an opening formed around the rotary shaft hole and guiding a refrigerant compressed in the lower chamber to the muffler.
US11326604B2
A multi-stage positive displacement vacuum pump and a method of differentially pumping multiple vacuum chambers using such a pump is disclosed. The pump comprises a housing for housing at least one rotor mounted for rotation on a corresponding at least one shaft and for pumping gas through the multiple stages for output through an exhaust. The housing comprises a first inlet configured to admit gas to an inlet stage of said vacuum pump, and a further inlet configured to admit gas to an intermediate stage of said vacuum pump. The pump is configured such that gas admitted through each of the first and further inlets is pumped together as a combined gas flow by at least one stage of said vacuum pump downstream of said intermediate stage.
US11326596B2
A rotary screw compressor includes a compressor assembly and a drive motor assembly. The compressor assembly includes a compressor housing, a first screw rotor and a second screw rotor installed in the compressor housing and engaged with each other. An end of the first screw rotor is an engaging end. The drive motor assembly includes a motor housing, a motor rotor, a motor stator and a centering bushing installed in the motor housing, and the motor stator installed on an outer side of the motor rotor and capable of driving the motor rotor to rotate, and the centering bushing is passed and connected to the inner circumference of the motor rotor and has an end sheathed on the engaging end, so that the motor rotor can drive the first screw rotor to rotate through the centering bushing and the engaging end.
US11326592B2
A method for operating a hydraulic consumer on an electrically actuated control valve includes providing the valve with an open valve position for establishing a connection between a valve inlet and a pilot line for influencing a pivot angle set on an axial piston pump and a system pressure which is present at the valve inlet and dependent on the pivot angle. Data regarding the current system pressure and the current pivot angle are detected and communicated to a control unit. The method includes determining an incorrect setting of the control valve if the control unit detects that a delivery volume flow of the axial piston pump is smaller than a value to be expected based on valve position, or the control unit detects that the system pressure present at the valve inlet is at a maximum without a delivery volume flow flowing in the direction of the hydraulic consumer.
US11326590B2
A variable displacement pump for supplying fluid to a system is described. Controlling the variable displacement pump is determined based upon inputs from a fluidic pressure sensor and an accelerometer, and includes determining a desired fluidic pressure and monitoring, via the fluidic pressure sensor, an actual fluidic pressure. A pressure error term is determined based upon a difference between the actual fluidic pressure and the desired fluidic pressure. A time-integrated pressure error term is determined based upon the pressure error term, and a g-force is determined based upon an input signal from the accelerometer. The variable displacement pump is controlled in response to the time-integrated pressure error term when the g-force is greater than a threshold g-force.
US11326589B2
An apparatus includes a linear motor and a fluid pump functionally connected to the linear motor. A fluid inlet of the fluid pump is in fluid communication with a fluid source. A fluid outlet of the fluid pump in fluid communication with a well. A pressure sensor is in fluid communication with the well. A controller is functionally coupled to the linear motor and the pressure sensor, wherein the controller is configured to operate the fluid pump to maintain a selected pressure in the well.
US11326581B2
A wind turbine, in particular an offshore wind turbine includes at least one hollow structural element, at least one cable inlet arranged in a bottom region of the hollow structural element. A first platform is arranged inside the hollow structural element, above the bottom region. At least one flow opening is arranged in the shell surface of the hollow structural element and penetrating the shell surface. At least one active control element is flow-connected to the flow opening to affect a media exchange between the interior of the hollow structural element and the exterior of the hollow structural element.
US11326580B2
A system for controlling a generator rotor locking pin, comprising a fixed locking pin and a rotor formed with a locking hole, and further comprising a detection reference component synchronously rotating with the rotor and formed with a detection hole, the detection hole radially corresponding to the locking hole; an optical quantity detection component fixed with respect to the rotor; and a control component configured to output a first control instruction to a rotor driving component according to a position signal of the detection hole obtained by the optical quantity detection component. The detection hole is used as an object to be detected, so that the circumferential relative position relationship of the locking hole with respect to the locking pin can be accurately determined, to output the first control instruction to the rotor driving component, thereby accurately centering the locking pin and the locking hole along with the rotation of the rotor. Moreover, in addition to obtaining an accurate centering precision, this solution greatly increases the centering efficiency. On this basis, the present invention further provides a method for controlling a generator rotor locking pin.
US11326577B2
A fluid turbine apparatus includes a fixed structure and a rotating structure supported by the fixed structure. The rotating structure includes a central shaft, and at least two wings connected to the central shaft. Each of the wings includes a wing frame, at least one door and a respective at least one door stopper. Each of the doors pivots relative to the respective wing frame between closed and open positions. In use, the door located at one side of the central shaft facing a flow of fluid is in the closed position with fluid force transferred to the door, while the door located at the opposite side of the shaft is in the open position with fluid passing through the respective wing frame. The fluid force creates a torque that rotates the central shaft. Apparatuses can extract power from wind or water current.
US11326573B1
The present application provides a spark plug testing tool for a spark plug assembly of a gas turbine engine combustor. The spark plug testing tool may include a dielectric tube attached to the spark plug assembly and a first support bracket to support the spark plug assembly and the dielectric tube therein such that the spark plug assembly remains electrically connected to the gas turbine engine combustor during testing.
US11326566B2
An engine including a fuel tank, a carburetor, a speed control lever, and a transport valve. The carburetor includes a throttle valve movable between a first throttle position and a second throttle position. The speed control lever is coupled to the throttle valve and is movable between a first position corresponding to the first throttle position and a second position corresponding to the second throttle position. The transport valve is fluidly coupled between the fuel tank and the carburetor, and includes a valve element moveable between an open valve position allowing fuel flow between the fuel tank and the carburetor, and a closed valve position preventing fuel flow between the fuel tank and the carburetor. Movement of the speed control lever to the second position moves the valve element to the closed valve position to stop fluid flow between the fuel tank and the carburetor.
US11326558B2
Methods and systems are provided for conducting an evaporative emissions test on a fuel system and an emissions control system in a vehicle. In one example, in response to an indication that a vehicle parking condition may result in the isolation of the fuel system from the emissions control system via the unintentional closing of fuel tank valves, a vehicle's active suspension system may be employed in order to level the vehicle a determined amount such that the fuel system isolation issues may be mitigated prior to an evaporative emissions test procedure. In this way, the entire fuel system and emissions control system may be diagnosed for potential undesired emissions, and potential violations of regulatory requirements for evaporative emissions testing may be reduced.
US11326552B2
An exhaust nozzle of a gas turbine engine includes: a nozzle wall, a centerbody arranged in a flow channel, and two struts connecting the centerbody to the wall. One of the struts is connected to the wall by a coupling arrangement that includes two first brackets and a third bracket, the brackets being spaced in an axial direction and being connected either directly to the wall or to a sliding element that is arranged in a displaceable manner in the wall. The brackets each have a first, highest stiffness in a first direction and smaller stiffnesses in a second and third direction. The brackets are oriented such that with the two first brackets, the first direction is aligned with a circumferential direction of the nozzle and that with the third bracket, the first direction is aligned with the axial direction of the nozzle.
US11326542B2
A method of monitoring the usage of an internal combustion engine comprises performing an engine monitoring routine using a local monitoring device attached to an internal combustion engine. The engine monitoring routine includes generating data representative of a plurality of vibrations of an internal combustion engine using a vibration sensor of the local monitoring device, processing the generated data to determine a first value representative of a firing frequency of the internal combustion engine, generating an aggregated summary based on the first value and transmitting the aggregated summary and identification data for the local monitoring device to a remote application. The remote application processes the transmitted aggregated summary based on the identification data to determine engine speed usage data.
US11326534B2
Using machine learning for cylinder misfire detection in a dynamic firing level modulation controlled internal combustion engine is described. In a classification embodiment, cylinder misfires are differentiated from intentional skips based on a measured exhaust manifold pressure. In a regressive model embodiment, the measured exhaust manifold pressure is compared to a predicted exhaust manifold pressure generated by neural network in response to one or more inputs indicative of the operation of the vehicle. Based on the comparison, a prediction is made if a misfire has occurred or not. In yet other alternative embodiment, angular crank acceleration is used as well for misfire detection.
US11326533B2
A method for exhaust temperature management in a multiple-cylinder, reciprocating-piston engine, comprising sensing a low temperature condition of the exhaust and implementing an increased heat output engine cycle pattern for the engine based on the sensed low temperature condition. The increased heat output engine cycle pattern comprises deactivating fuel injection to a first cylinder of the engine, the first cylinder comprising a piston reciprocating between top-dead-center and bottom-dead-center. Also, activating engine braking mode on the first cylinder by opening one or more valves when the piston is away from bottom-dead-center during a compression stroke. A second cylinder of the engine is fired in a combustion mode while the first cylinder is in engine braking mode.
US11326530B2
A temperature acquisition apparatus for an internal combustion engine is configured to acquire a temperature of a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The apparatus includes: an electronic control unit having a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to perform: acquiring an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine; calculating a cumulative intake air amount based on the intake air amount; and acquiring a temperature of the internal combustion engine based on the cumulative intake air amount.
US11326524B2
A ring gear (114) for an epicyclic or planetary reduction gear (110) of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, said ring gear extending about an axis and comprising first and second coaxial annular elements (114a, 114b) and comprising, respectively, two inner annular toothing sets (150) of different orientation, said first and second annular elements further comprising, respectively, first and second radially outer annular flanges (114ab, 114bb) for attaching said first and second elements to each other, characterised in that one of said first and second flanges comprises, at its outer periphery, a cylindrical centring rim (164) configured to cooperate with the outer periphery of the other of said first and second flanges.
US11326518B2
A combustor panel arrangement for a gas turbine engine. The combustor panel arrangement includes a first combustor panel that has a first edge. A second combustor panel has a second edge facing the first edge. A first plurality of effusion holes extend through the first edge towards the second edge along a corresponding one of a first plurality of flow paths. A second plurality of effusion holes extend through the second edge along a corresponding one of a second plurality flow paths towards the first edge. The first plurality of flow paths and the second plurality of flow paths are non-intersecting.
US11326512B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft comprises an engine core comprising a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor, wherein a compressor exit temperature is defined as an average temperature of airflow at the exit from the compressor; and a fan located upstream of the engine core, the fan comprising a plurality of fan blades extending from a hub, each fan blade having a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein a fan rotor entry temperature is defined as an average temperature of airflow across the leading edge of each fan blade at cruise conditions and a fan tip rotor exit temperature is defined as an average temperature of airflow across a radially outer portion of each fan blade at the trailing edge at cruise conditions. A core to fan tip temperature rise ratio is in the range from 2.845 to 3.8.
US11326508B2
An engine control apparatus includes an ignition control section and an injection control section. When the partial compression ignition combustion is carried out, the ignition control section causes an ignition plug to carry out: main ignition in which a spark is generated in a late period of a compression stroke or an initial period of a expansion stroke to initiate the SI combustion; and preceding ignition in which the spark is generated at earlier timing than the main ignition. Also, when the partial compression ignition combustion is carried out, the injection control section causes the injector to inject fuel at such timing that the fuel exists in a cylinder at an earlier time point than the preceding ignition. The energy of the preceding ignition is set to be higher when the in-cylinder pressure specified by the in-cylinder pressure specification section is high than when the in-cylinder pressure is low.
US11326504B2
A system including a cooling fan, an actuator with an actuator temperature sensor, and a controller is disclosed. The controller may be configured to receive temperature data from the actuator temperature sensor. The temperature data may include information relating to an actuator temperature of the actuator. The controller may be configured to compare the actuator temperature with a temperature threshold associated with the actuator, and control the cooling fan to adjust the actuator temperature based on determining that the actuator temperature satisfies the temperature threshold.
US11326495B2
Methods and systems for operating an engine that includes a controller and a NOx sensor are described. In one example, output of the NOx sensor is selectively made available to software modules within the controller when an offset in NOx sensor output is not expected. If the offset in NOx sensor output is expected, the NOx sensor output may not be made available to the software modules.
US11326492B2
The present disclosure relates to a hydrocarbon dosing system to control dosing of diesel fuel into an exhaust upstream of a vehicle's oxidation catalyst (VOC). The system 100 includes separate inlets (102,104) to allow inflow of a first fluid and the second fluid into the system, and an outlet 116. The first fluid configured to facilitate purging of the second fluid into the VOC through the outlet 116. The system 100 incorporates multiple valves (106, 108, 112) and pressure sensor 114 to control dosing and purging of the fluids. The system 100 provides an intrinsic non-return valve mechanism to restrict the flow of the first fluid into a fluid path of the second fluid, and vice versa. The system 100 provides intrinsic pressure relief mechanism for controlled release of pressure from system 100. The system 100 includes additional optional check valves 208 and filter screens 206 for redundancy purposes.
US11326487B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine that is supplied with lubricating oil via an oil circuit. A measurement value of the total base number and/or a measurement value of the oxidation of lubricating oil currently used in the oil circuit for the lubrication is detected. Dependent on the established measurement value of the total base number and/or dependent on the established measurement value of the oxidation an exchange oil quantity for the oil circuit is determined. Currently used lubricating oil to an extent corresponding to the exchange oil quantity is removed from the oil circuit and new lubricating oil to an extent corresponding to the exchange oil quantity is supplied to the oil circuit.
US11326483B2
A check valve for controlling the flow of a fluid into a variable camshaft timing phaser.
US11326476B1
A system for coupling a shroud to a case associated with a gas turbine engine and a gas turbine engine including such a system includes the case defining a bore and the shroud retained within the case. The shroud defines a pocket. The system includes a pin received through the bore and at least partially positioned within the pocket. The pin has a perimeter. The system includes a load spreader including a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side is interconnected to the second side by a flexible portion. The first side, the second side and the flexible portion are received about a portion of the perimeter of the pin, and the load spreader is configured to transmit at least one of an axial point load and a circumferential point load from the pin over a surface of the shroud.
US11326475B2
A turbocharger includes a compressor housing, a turbine housing, a bearing housing, a variable nozzle unit, and a fixing member. The variable nozzle unit includes a first plate, a second plate, a plurality of nozzle vanes, and an attitude changing mechanism. The fixing member includes an engagement portion that is engaged with at least one of the first plate and the second plate, a through shaft portion shaped to extend through the bearing housing toward the compressor housing, and a fixing portion that fixes an end portion of the through shaft portion on the compressor housing side to the hearing housing.
US11326470B2
A ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component and method of fabrication including a plurality of counterflow elongated functional features. The CMC component includes a plurality of longitudinally extending ceramic matrix composite plies forming a densified body and a plurality of elongated functional features formed therein the densified body. Each of the plurality of functional features is configured longitudinally extending and in alignment with the plurality of ceramic matrix composite plies. Each of the plurality of elongated functional features includes an inlet configured in cross-ply configuration. The plurality of elongated functional features are configured to provide a flow of fluid from a fluid source to an exterior of the ceramic matrix composite component. The plurality of functional features are configured in alternating flow configuration.
US11326457B2
A blade includes an airfoil portion including a pressure surface and a suction surface each extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge along a spanwise direction, and at least one communication hole extending m the airfoil portion and having a first and a second opening end opening to the pressure and suction surface, respectively. The first opening end is located on a first cross-section perpendicular to the spanwise direction at a first position in the spanwise direction, the second opening end is located on a second cross-section perpendicular to the spanwise direction at a second position in the spanwise direction, and a dimensionless blade chord length position of the first opening end with respect to the leading edge on the first cross-section is larger than a dimensionless blade chord length position of the second opening end with respect to the leading edge on the second cross-section.
US11326454B2
A rotor has a rotor body having: a flange with a circumferential array of discontiguous apertures; and a surface spaced apart from the flange. One or more rotor balance weight assemblies each have a weight and a fastener. The weight has: a passageway having a first end and a second end; an internal thread along the passageway; and a boss at the first end of the passageway. The boss is in a respective one of the apertures. The fastener has: a shank having a first end and a second end and an external thread engaged to the passageway internal thread; an engagement feature at the shank first end for engagement by a tool to turn the fastener; and a head at the second end contacts the surface.
US11326450B2
The embodiments of the invention provide an intelligent prediction method and apparatus for reservoir sensitivity, belonging to the technical field of reservoir sensitivity prediction. The method includes: acquiring a reservoir sensitivity influence factor item related to a reservoir sensitivity result to be predicted and numerical values of corresponding reservoir sensitivity influence factors; determining a corresponding type of database according to the reservoir sensitivity influence factor item; determining whether numerical values of reservoir sensitivity influence factors corresponding to core parameters in the numerical values of the reservoir sensitivity influence factors include a first upper boundary value or a first lower boundary value; and using, according to whether the first upper boundary value or the first lower boundary value is included, different intelligent sensitivity prediction models to calculate the reservoir sensitivity result to be predicted.
US11326438B2
Certain aspects and features relate to a system that selects an output value for controlling a drilling tool using dynamic force analysis coupled to fluid effects as part of a model that estimates projected torque and drag. A drilling model according to aspects and features of the present disclosure takes into account pipe axial elasticity as it relates to dynamic, time-based, force analysis and couples this relationship with drilling fluid effects over time. In some examples, a system calculates at least one dynamic sideforce and at least one dynamic, hydraulic force for each interval of time. An equilibrium solution for an output value using the dynamic sideforce and dynamic, hydraulic force for each time interval can be applied to the drilling tool for each time interval during drilling operations.
US11326424B2
A bumper spring assembly having a one piece mandrel including an integral head piece is further configured with a cage assembly retained on the mandrel with a cage nut locked to the mandrel to obviate the need for pins, set screws, and the like, to provide a more robust assembly. In two embodiments the cage nut is locked to the mandrel in a swaging operation. Improved flow of fluids through and around the bumper spring assembly are also provided.
US11326414B1
A hydraulic jar includes a tubular housing having central bore and an exterior. The housing includes a passage from the central bore to the exterior. A mandrel is axially movable within the housing, forming an annular space between the mandrel and the housing that includes a timing fluid. The mandrel includes an interior axial space that permits the flow of a drilling fluid. A timing device is fixed to the mandrel in the annular space. A trigger is capable of blocking the flow of drilling fluid through the axial space in the mandrel, and the mandrel moves axially in the housing when the trigger engages the mandrel. The timing device causes the mandrel to move at a first speed and at a second speed to create the impulse. The drilling fluid exits the central bore through the opening after the mandrel moves past the opening.
US11326398B2
The present disclosure provides a portable seafloor drill rig for a submersible for multi-point core drilling, including a power head, a reduction gear box, an emergency jettison device, a drilling tool, and a temperature and pressure-retaining device. a water supply connector and the power head are arrange on a top plate of the reduction gear box. An output shaft of the power head is connected to an input shaft of the reduction gear box, and an output shaft of the reduction gear box is provided with a central hole, which is in communication with a water inlet hole of the water supply connector. An output shaft of the reduction gear box is connected to the emergency jettison device, and the temperature and pressure-retaining device can perform temperature and pressure-retaining storage of the core drilled by the drilling tool.
US11326396B2
A desired range of lift force to raise a window shade is used to select the window shade hardware such as, for example, the optimal LAM. A desired lift force may be 5 pounds for ADA compliance. However, if the user wants to exert less effort to lift the window shade, the user may request an increased lift force of 6 or 7 pounds. Therefore, if a lift force range between 3-8.5 pounds is desired, the system selects the optimal LAM to maintain and guarantee that the lift force required to operate the shades will not exceed the desired range of between 3-8.5 pounds.
US11326395B2
A retractable screen device for a framed opening employing a frame track fastened to each side support of the framed opening; the frame track forming a compartment for receipt of a guide rail with a decompression gasket positioned between the frame track and the guide rail. A screen mounted on a horizontally disposed rotatable shaft secured to a header of the opening has laterally opposed side edges with an elongated flexible protrusion secured along the length of each side edge. The guide rail receives and guides the screen protrusion along a longitudinal direction, and the decompression gasket allows the guide rail to traverse the frame track side walls to permit the screen to flex while maintaining a consistent tension on the screen. Vertical tension adjustment is provided by use of a biasing member coupled to the center axle that activates when the screen is deployed.
US11326386B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a controller, a system, a method and a vehicle, to receive one or more user inputs from one or more user input units; receive one or more vehicle condition inputs from one or more vehicle condition sensor units; determine if an open position of a aperture member of a vehicle is likely to cause buffeting; select an optimisation strategy from a plurality of optimisation strategies in dependence on the one or more user inputs and/or the one or more vehicle condition inputs, wherein each of the plurality of optimisation strategy comprises different instructions to determine one or more positions for at least one aperture member; and generate an output for the one or more aperture member positioning units to move at least one aperture member based on the selected optimisation strategy.
US11326381B2
A window regulator includes a guide rail provided along an ascending/descending direction of a window glass of a vehicle, a carrier plate that slides on the guide rail and travels together with the window glass, cables that pull the carrier plate, a drum on which the cables are partially wound, a motor rotationally driving the drum, and a drum housing provided at a lower end of the guide rail and having a housing space for housing the drum, wherein the drum housing has a wall section provided on an outer side of the drum that is housed in the housing space, and a contact surface of the drum housing coming into contact with the carrier plate is provided at a lower position than an upper end of the wall section in a vertical direction that the window glass travels when the window glass is fully opened.
US11326376B2
A roof support system includes a support member configured to be mounted between a roof panel and a frame of an enclosure. The support member is movable to an extended position that supports the roof panel in an open position. A cam lock mechanism is operatively connected to the support member for releasably locking the support member in the extended position. In the extended position, a pin of the support member is received within a slot of the cam lock mechanism such that engagement of the pin with a closed end of the slot prevents the support member from moving from the extended position toward a retracted position. The cam lock mechanism includes a cam configured to rotate to a locking position that at least partially blocks an open end of the slot such that the pin of the support member is prevented from backing out of the slot.
US11326375B2
A handle for a motor vehicle opening, equipped with an ultra-high-frequency antenna having a device for transmitting and receiving a signal at a predetermined wavelength, with a device for detecting the approach of and/or contact by a user, with a printed circuit board and with at least one connecting cable intended for electrically connecting the printed circuit board to an electronic control unit. The at least one connecting cable has a section either projecting from the remainder of the at least one connecting cable or surrounded by an electromagnetically insulating coating coaxial with the at least one connecting cable, a length of the projecting section or a length of the coaxial coating being equal to one quarter of said predetermined wavelength with a tolerance of +/−20%.
US11326357B2
A floor element for forming a floor covering, the floor element comprising a decorative layer comprising a brittle material, and a resin material that permeates a lower surface of the decorative layer.
US11326353B2
A set of panels including first and second panels. The first and second panels respectively include first and second edges. The first edge includes a locking strip with a locking element configured to cooperate with a locking groove at the second edge for locking the first edge to the second edge. The locking element includes a first locking surface at a first angle from a plane parallel to the first panel surface and the locking groove includes a second locking surface at a second angle from a plane parallel to the third panel surface. The first angle is different from the second angle such that the first locking surface converges towards the second locking surface at a cooperation part in a locked position. The first locking surface cooperates with the second locking surface at the cooperation part.
US11326347B2
An anchor system for fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) material having an outer casing including a linear inner profile portion; and a non-linear inner profile portion, both on an inner surface of the outer casing. The anchor further having a wedge configured to be housed by the inner profile of the outer casing, the wedge including: a linear outer profile portion configured to mate with the linear inner profile portion of the outer casing; a non-linear outer profile portion configured to mate with the non-linear inner portion of the outer casing, both on the outer surface of the wedge; and an inner gap formed in the wedge and configured to receive the FRP material.
US11326343B2
A concrete block includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth planar faces. The first and second faces are generally parallel, and the distance between the first and second faces define a thickness of the first block; the third and fourth faces are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the first and second faces; the fifth face is perpendicular to the first, second, third, and fourth faces; the sixth face: extends perpendicular to the third face; extends toward the fourth face and ends at a non-planar remainder section; is parallel to the fifth face; is contained in a plane that intersects a plane containing the third face; and a distance from the intersection to the remainder section is at least as long as the thickness of the first block; and the remainder section extends between the sixth face and the fourth face and has a shape such that when a second block of the same construction as the first block has its remainder section engaged against the remainder section of first block, the remainder sections of the first and second blocks mate.
US11326340B2
A steel tube supporting construction structure for beam transfer floor in high-rise building and a construction method therefor are provided. The construction structure includes an upper beam formwork, a lower beam formwork, and a stand. The lower beam formwork is provided with a first column formwork on a top wall thereof, the upper beam formwork is detachably provided with a second column formwork on the bottom wall thereof. The second column formwork is detachably provided with a bottom formwork on a lower end of the second column formwork. The second column formwork is provided with a connecting member respectively on an upper end and a lower end thereof for connecting with the upper beam formwork, the lower beam formwork and the bottom formwork. The first column formwork and the second column formwork are each detachably provided with an upright barrel formwork in the vertical direction.
US11326333B2
A flush toilet according to an embodiment includes a bowl part, a rim part, a water spout port, and a water storage part. The bowl part receives waste. The rim part is formed on a top of the bowl part. The water spout port spouts a washing water from one side of the bowl part in leftward and rightward directions. The water storage part is formed on a bottom of the bowl part. The bowl part includes a guide part that causes the washing water to swirl from the one side to another side that is opposite to the one side and causes the washing water that swirls to the another side to flow into a back side of the water storage part.
US11326328B2
A tubeless sprayer assembly includes a base that is coupled to a support surface. The base has a fluid port is integrated therein. The fluid port is fluidly coupled to a fluid source wherein the fluid port is configured to receive a fluid from the fluid source. A canister is positionable in the base. The canister is in fluid communication with the fluid port when the canister is positioned in the base to fill the canister with the fluid. A pumping unit is coupled to the canister. The pumping unit pumps the fluid outwardly from the canister when the pumping unit is turned on to facilitate the fluid to be sprayed without a connection to the fluid source.
US11326323B2
A dirt contouring and grading device final grading of a soil bed prior to sodding includes a vehicle, which in turn comprises a frame, a plurality of wheels, and a propulsion unit so that the vehicle is self-propelled. A deck that is engaged to the frame has a drum engaged thereto. The drum is operationally coupled to an actuator that is powered to selectively effect axial rotation of the drum against a surface upon which the vehicle is positioned. A first biaser is powered to selectively raise, lower, and angle the deck relative to the frame to create flat sections, gentle hills, and mounds in a soil bed. A second biaser is powered to selectively effect longitudinal rotation of the drum relative to the deck to direct excess soil selectively to one side or the other of the vehicle.
US11326321B2
Height-adjustable fixtures for buried tubulars and methods of adjusting the height-adjustable fixtures. The height-adjustable fixtures include a frame and a plurality of slot nuts. The frame has an upper frame surface, a lower frame surface, a flange that defines a plurality of slots, and a central opening that extends between the upper frame surface and the lower frame surface. The central opening is sized to provide access to a buried tubular conduit of the buried tubular. Each slot nut is shaped to be received within a corresponding slot. In some examples, each slot nut defines a lower nut surface, an upper nut surface, and a neck region positioned between the lower nut surface and the upper nut surface. In some examples, when each slot nut is received within the corresponding slot, the lower nut surface is recessed within the corresponding slot.
US11326320B2
In a general aspect, a method is presented for manufacturing support structures for offshore wind turbines. In some implementations, the method includes constructing a plurality of modular sections that assemble to define the support structure. One or more of the plurality of modular sections are configured to anchor to an underwater floor. At least one of the plurality of modular sections is constructed by operations that include forming a wall along a perimeter to bound a volume, filling the volume with a castable material, and hardening the castable material. In some instances, forming the wall includes depositing layers of printable material successively on top of each other. The method also includes joining the plurality of modular sections to assemble the support structure.
US11326307B2
The present invention concerns a process for the preparation of flocculated filler particles, wherein at least two aqueous suspensions of at least one filler material and at least one flocculating additive are combined.
US11326305B2
A fibrous body accumulating device includes: a drum having an opening for releasing a material containing fibers and rotating around a central axis; and a first dispersion member disposed in the drum and at a position unevenly distributed vertically below the central axis, and dispersing the material in the drum. Preferably, the fibrous body accumulating device further includes a second dispersion member disposed in the drum and at a position unevenly distributed vertically above the central axis, and dispersing the material in the drum.
US11326299B2
A household appliance is disclosed that may perform a useful cycle of operation on an item. The household appliance may include a treating chamber for accommodating the item during the performance of the useful cycle, and a body enclosing the treating chamber. The body may include a front side, an underside, a first delimiting surface and a second delimiting surface, wherein the first and second delimiting surfaces forms a recess between the underside and the front side. The first delimiting surface may be essentially parallel to the underside of the body. The household appliance may further include a communication module configured to wirelessly transmit and/or receive data. The communication module may be arranged at the first delimiting surface.
US11326298B2
A system and method for washing items with water includes a water inlet and a container for receiving the items to be washed. The system comprises a water purification apparatus for purifying water introduced through said water inlet to produce purified water. The water purification apparatus comprises at least one filter for filtering off particulate solids, a reverse osmosis device, and at least one deionizing filter. The system further comprises a reservoir for storing purified water produced by the water purification apparatus, said reservoir being connected to said water purification apparatus and said container, so that the items are washable inside the container with the purified water.
US11326294B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet having an introduction/discharge opening, a drawer configured so as to be discharged from the cabinet through the introduction/discharge opening, a through-hole formed in an upper surface of the drawer, a tub that is located inside the drawer and that defines a space that is configured to receive water, an introduction aperture formed in an upper surface of the tub, the introduction aperture being located under the through-hole, a drum rotatably provided inside the tub for receiving laundry supplied to the introduction aperture, a door that is configured to open and close the introduction aperture, the door being coupled to one of the drawer or the tub, and a door sensing unit that is configured to determine whether the door is opened during a state in which the drawer is inserted into the cabinet.
US11326290B2
Article of footwear with upper having stitched polymer thread pattern and methods of making the same
An upper for an article of footwear, the upper including a base layer defining a least a portion of the upper and polymer threads stitched to the base layer. The polymer threads may include a core composed of a first material and a coating composed of a second material, where the melting point of the first material is higher than the melting point of the second material. The polymer threads may be bonded to the base layer by the coating of the polymer threads. The polymer threads may include one or more polymer thread sets stitched in pattern(s) on area(s) of an outer surface of the base layer to provide targeted characteristics to area(s) on the upper. In some embodiments, the polymer threads may be bonded to the base layer with heat and/or pressure.
US11326289B2
A tufting machine (100) comprises a needle bar (10) shiftable in a needle bar longitudinal direction (L), a plurality of needles (12) being provided on the needle bar (10) following each other in the needle bar longitudinal direction (L), each needle (12) being individually selectable for carrying out a stitch and thereby generating a pile on a backing fabric, further comprising such a yarn threading that, on the needle bar (10), groups (G) of the needles (12) following each other in the needle bar longitudinal direction (L) and comprising a predetermined number of needles (12) are generated, the needles (12) of each group (G) having yarns of different properties threaded therethrough, the number of yarns of different properties associated with each group (G) being less than the number of needles (12) within each group (G), such that, within each group (G), at least two needles (12) have yarns of the same property threaded therethrough.
US11326284B2
Provided is a double-needle lockstitch sewing machine that can easily sew a fabric rolled into a tubular shape by two rows of lockstitch. The double-needle lockstitch sewing machine includes: a pair of needles (9) that reciprocates in an up-down direction; a pair of loop catchers (40) that is arranged respectively corresponding to the pair of needles (9) and that catch loops of needle threads formed by the needles (9) by rotating about hook shafts (41) extending in the up-down direction; a lower shaft (20) that is disposed in front of the needles (9) and the loop catchers (40) in the cloth feeding direction and extends in the left-right direction and that rotates in conjunction with a main shaft (10) that drives the needles (9); and connecting shafts (30) that extend in the cloth feeding direction and are connected to the lower shaft (20) and the hook shafts (41) in a power transmittable manner to rotate. The loop catchers (40) are rotationally driven in conjunction with an up and down movement of the needles (9) as a rotational power of the lower shaft (20) is transmitted to the hook shafts (41) via the connecting shafts (30). Thus, it is possible to easily sew a tubular article with two rows of lockstitch seams.
US11326273B2
A device for producing a tubular single crystal comprises a crucible, a heating means, a die disposed in the crucible, having an annular slit, and a pulling-up means. The upper surface of the die includes an upward slope that increases in height from the annular slit to an inner diameter side and an outer diameter side, respectively, progressing away from the annular slit, wherein the maximum height of the slope on the inner diameter side (H1) is greater than the maximum height of the slope on the outer diameter side (H2) and the difference (H1−H2) is 0.1 mm or more and less than 7.5 mm.
US11326267B2
An electrochemistry device, in particular an electrolysis device, in particular a polymer electrolyte membrane electrolysis device, has at least one cell unit, which includes at least one first electrochemical cell and at least one second electrochemical cell, and has at least one fluid supply unit for supplying the cell unit with at least one fluid, in particular with water, which at least one fluid supply unit includes at least one first fluid supply path extending at least section-wise through the first electrochemical cell, and at least one second fluid supply path extending at least section-wise through the second electrochemical cell, the fluid supply unit is designed in such a way that, in at least one normal operating state, a volume flow of the fluid through the first electrochemical cell and through the second electrochemical cell is at least substantially identical.
US11326263B2
The present disclosure relates to nanocomposites of CuO/Cu2O and continuous flow solar reactors. The nanocomposites can be utilized as a photocatalyst and can be incorporated into photoelectrochemical devices. The described devices, systems, and methods can be used for converting CO2 into one or more alcohols and other small organics with the use of solar energy and electricity. Other embodiments are described.
US11326259B2
A method of improving corrosion and mar resistance of steel components by creating a black magnetite finish, with a medium temperature process, prior to application of a phosphate layer coating.
US11326254B2
An apparatus and method for protecting a gas container interior, where an inlet and exhaust manifold include a port assembly attachable to a port of the gas container is provided, the gas container interior is exposed to sequential self-saturating surface reactions by sequential inlet of reactive gases via the port assembly and the port into the gas container interior, and reaction residue is pumped via the port and the port assembly out from the gas container.
US11326251B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparing surface-active onion-like carbon nanospheres based on vapor deposition, comprising: directly preparing high-surface-activity onion-like carbon nanospheres formed by coating ferroferric oxide nano-particles on an onion-like graphitized shell by taking liquid small organic molecule alkane n-dodecane as a carbon source to perform chemical vapor deposition at high temperature of 650˜700° C. in an inert carrier gas environment with existence of a ferrocene catalyst. An onion-like carbon nanosphere product prepared according to the present invention has good surface activity and thermal stability, is wide in practicability, and can be widely applied to the fields of adsorbing materials, energy storage materials, catalytic materials, medical materials and the like.
US11326235B2
A hot rolled steel sheet according to an aspect of the present invention has a predetermined chemical composition, and a metallographic structure in which martensite is the major structure, wherein an average length of grains in an L direction parallel to a rolling direction is 0.2 μm or more and 5.0 μm or less, an average length of grains in a C direction parallel to a transverse direction is 0.1 μm or more and 5.0 μm or less, the ratio of the average length in the C direction to the average length in the L direction is 0.2 or more and 5.0 or less, and the tensile strength is 1180 MPa or more.
US11326223B2
The present invention enables quick cooling of steam-treated objects and thus reduces the manufacturing time of steam-treated products such as black coated steel sheets. The present invention provides a method for manufacturing steam-treated products, which involves a steam treatment step that introduces steam into a closed container (10) containing a treatment object (1) and brings the treatment object (1) into contact with the steam, and a treated object cooling step that cools the object (1) treated with steam in the steam treatment step, wherein said treated object cooling step introduces coolant gas into said closed container (10), brings said treated object (1) into contact with the coolant gas, and discharges the introduced coolant gas from said closed container (10).
US11326222B2
The austenitic stainless steel containing niobium according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: 16 to 26 wt. % of chromium (Cr), 8 to 22 wt. % of nickel (Ni), 0.02 to 0.1 wt. % of carbon (C), 0.2 to 1 wt. % of niobium (Nb), 0.015 to 0.025 wt. % of titanium (Ti), 0.004 to 0.01 wt. % of nitrogen (N), and 0.5 to 2 wt. % of manganese (Mn), wherein the austenitic stainless steel containing niobium has an austenitic matrix structure, a fine niobium carbide and a fine titanium nitride are precipitated in the austenitic matrix structure, and the fine niobium carbide is uniformly dispersed in the austenitic matrix structure.
US11326220B2
A method for producing a machine component excellent in pitting resistance characteristics and toughness includes a carburizing step, performed on a steel material containing 0.13-0.30% C and 0.90-2.00% Cr in mass % and at least one of Si, Mn, Ni, Mo, Nb, V, Ti, B, Al, and N, balance Fe and unavoidable impurities; heating the material to 850-1030° C. to attain carbon concentration in a surface of 0.8-1.5%; cooling the material at an average rate of 5° C./sec or lower from a temperature higher than the Acm point of a surface layer to a cooling end temperature that is at least 50° C. lower than the A1 point to cause the surface layer to have a pearlite or bainite structure with dispersion; spheroidizing annealing at a temperature not higher than the Acm point at the surface layer; heating the material to not higher than the Acm point at the surface layer; and performing tempering.
US11326219B2
Provided are: a grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet exhibiting excellent coating film adhesion and excellent magnetic characteristics; and a method for producing this grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet. This grain-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet is provided with a ceramic coating film arranged on a steel sheet, and an oxide insulating tension coating film arranged on the ceramic coating film. The ceramic coating film contains a nitride and an oxide; the nitride contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cr, Ti, Zr, Mo, Nb, Si, Al, Ta, Hf, W and Y; and the oxide has a corundum crystal structure. The Young's modulus of the ceramic coating film as determined by a nanoindentation method is 230 GPa or more; the average film thickness of the ceramic coating film is from 0.01 μm to 0.30 μm (inclusive); and the tension of the oxide insulating tension coating film is 10 MPa or more.
US11326218B2
The invention relates to a cooling device (100) for cooling at least one element (150, 151) passing through said device, comprising a metal block (115), having a first side and a second side, and comprising a cooling channel (130) for cyrogenic gas. The at least one element (150, 151) can be guided along the sides of the first side of the metal block (115), the cooling channel (130) is at least partially in heat conductive connection with the second side of the metal block (115), and the cooling channel (130) has an attachment (131) on a first end for the entry of cryogenic gas and an attachment on a second end for the exit of cryogenic gas. The invention also comprises a hardening device having such a cooling device (100) and a method for cooling at least one element (150, 151) passing through said device.
US11326212B2
The disclosure provides a method of identifying a subject as having B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) such as testing a sample from a subject for a mutation in one or more biomarkers. Also described are methods for classifying or monitoring a subject having, or suspected of having, B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma comprising testing the sample for a mutation in one or more biomarkers.
US11326209B2
The present invention relates to a cell based genomic Recorded Accumulative Memory (geRAM) system (also referred to herein as Genomically Encoded Memory (GEM)) for recoding data (i.e., changes in nucleic acid sequences in cellular DNA in response to physical and/or chemical signal(s)) from the cellular environment.
US11326206B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods and systems for quantifying target sequences and identifying target sequence variants.
US11326205B2
The invention relates to a method for the duplication of nucleic acids by means of a polymerase chain reaction, in the case of which a cycle consisting of the steps of denaturing, annealing and elongation is repeatedly performed. In one embodiment, in at least one passage of the cycle, the quotient of the duration of effect tA and the reaction volume Vr irradiated by the energy source is less than 1 seconds per microliter. In another embodiment, in at least one passage of the cycle, the ratio of the duration of effect (tA) and the duration of the PCR cycle (tc) is less than 20%. In certain embodiments, the yield (g) of nucleic acids at the end of at least one of the passages of the cycle is less than 80% of the nucleic acids present at the start of the passage.
US11326201B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for removing a non-target RNA from an RNA sample, including: performing reverse transcription on an RNA sample by using a reverse transcription primer, and removing an RNA template, to obtain a non-target first-strand cDNA and a target first-strand cDNA; hybridizing the non-target first-strand cDNA with a specific probe to obtain a non-target first-strand cDNA-probe complex; and digesting the non-target first-strand cDNA-probe complex by using a duplex-specific nuclease to obtain the target first-strand cDNA. The non-target first-strand cDNA-probe complex can be further extended to obtain a double-stranded DNA region that can be completely digested by the duplex-specific nuclease, then the duplex-specific nuclease is added for digestion. The present disclosure provides for simplicity, flexibility, and low costs, and can eliminate the impact of the non-target RNA on the downstream experiments, thereby having great and profound significance for research in the field of transcriptomics and RNA sequencing.
US11326200B2
A method of preparing a sample may include depositing an aqueous solution comprising copies of a primer into a layer of hydrophobic liquid on a substrate with a thermal inkjet device. A sample may include: a substrate; a layer of hydrophobic liquid on the substrate, the layer of hydrophobic liquid comprising a plurality of droplets of aqueous solution distributed in the layer, wherein the plurality of droplets contain: primers; a polymerase enzyme; deoxynucleotide triphosphates (dNTPs); and a target sequence for replication; and a cover, the cover contacting and covering the layer of hydrophobic liquid.
US11326199B2
A method for amplification in a microfluidic assay, includes binding an analyte to a transport element, wherein the transport element includes a particle and a first antibody element and the analyte is bound to the first antibody element; moving the transport element with the analyte towards a tracer storage site including tracer elements which includes a first binder element, a label element and a second antibody element; binding the analyte to the second antibody element; moving the transport element with the analyte and the tracer element towards a tracer transport site including second binder elements; binding the first binder element with a second binder element; moving the transport element with the analyte towards the tracer storage site so that the analyte is detached from the second antibody element of the tracer element while the first binder element remains bound to the second binder element.
US11326197B2
Systems and methods for the detection of one or more target molecules emitted from microbial sources are described. The systems and methods may include a molecularly imprinted polymer film; a strain sensitive surface, wherein the molecularly imprinted polymer film comprises a polymer host with one or more binding sites for one or more target molecules. The molecularly imprinted polymer film may be coated upon the strain sensitive surface.
US11326194B2
The present invention provides a method for producing dietary fiber that has a mild sweet taste by reducing sugars and provides by-products having high added values, and dietary fiber produced by the method. The dietary fiber may be produced by including: liquefying roasted dextrin; and adding enzymes including α-amylase, β-amylase, and maltogenic amylase to the liquefied roasted dextrin, and saccharifying the same.
US11326191B2
A process for the preparation of bio-based malonic acid and crystalline calcium malonate is provided. The calcium malonate is highly pure and provides a source of malonic acid made from a renewable carbon source rather than existing processes which rely on the use of petroleum-based products. The calcium malonate provides an improved source of malonic acid, which is important to many industrial processes.
US11326178B2
The invention relates to nucleic acids encoding a p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase and to inhibitory nucleic acids adapted to inhibit the expression and/or translation of a p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase RNA. Inhibition of p-coumaroyl-CoA:monolignol transferase in plants improves the incorporation of monolignol ferulates into the lignin of plants, giving rise to plant biomass that is more easily processed into useful products such as paper and biofuels.
US11326164B2
This invention generally relates to a group of novel chemical compositions and their use for formulating RNA- and/or DNA-based medicine drugs/vaccines into stable compound complexes useful for both in-vitro and in-vivo delivery. Particularly, the present invention teaches the synthesis of a group of novel trimethylglycyl chemicals and their use for formulating cosmetic, therapeutic- and/or pharmaceutical-grade nucleic acid compositions, including but not limited microRNA precursors (pre-miRNA/miRNA), small hairpin RNAs (shRNA), short interfering RNAs (siRNA), ribozymes, antisense oligonucleotides, RNA-DNA hybrids and DNA-based vectors/vaccines, with or without modification, into delivery complexes, which can then be absorbed by cells in vivo, ex vivo and/or in vitro through an active mechanism of endocytosis via acetylcoline receptors for releasing the therapeutic and pharmaceutical effects of the formulated nucleic acid compositions.
US11326163B2
Disclosed is a phosphorylation inhibitor of SMAD2/3 protein or a therapeutic agent for fibrosis which contains as an active ingredient, a nucleic acid that suppresses NEK6 (NIMA-related serine/threonine kinase 6) gene expression.
US11326162B2
Thermostable Cas9 nucleases. The present invention relates to the field of genetic engineering and more particularly to nucleic acid editing and genome modification. The present invention provides an isolated Cas protein or polypeptide fragment thereof having an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a sequence of at least 77% identity therewith. The Cas protein or polypeptide is capable of binding, cleaving, marking or modifying a double stranded target polynucleotide at a temperature in the range 20° C. and 100° C. inclusive. The invention further provides isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the Cas9 nucleases, expression vectors and host cells. The invention also provides PAM sequences recognized by the Cas protein or polypeptide, The Cas9 nucleases disclosed herein provide novel tools for genetic engineering in general, in particular at elevated temperatures and are of particular value in the genetic manipulation of thermophilic organisms; particularly microorganisms.
US11326161B2
This invention provides methods of altering a cell including providing the cell with a nucleic acid sequence encoding a Cas1 protein and/or a Cas2 protein of a CRISPR adaptation system, providing the cell with a CRISPR array nucleic acid sequence including a leader sequence and at least one repeat sequence, wherein the cell expresses the Cas1 protein and/or the Cas2 protein and wherein the CRISPR array nucleic acid sequence is within genomic DNA of the cell or on a plasmid. Also provided are methods and systems for nucleic acid storage and in vivo molecular recordings of events into a cell.
US11326158B2
Provided are methods and compositions for enriching cfDNA fragments from a biological fluid sample. A biological fluid sample, such as a urine sample, is collected and, in certain examples, pretreated before enrichment of the cfDNA. For the pretreatment, the sample is centrifuged to remove large cells and large cellular debris. As part of the pretreatment, the sample is also cleared of additional large cellular debris and excess volume by subjecting the sample to anion exchange chromatography and eluting bound DNA. Following any pretreatment of the sample, different concentrations an alcoholic solution are used—along with a mixture of DNA-binding particles and a chaotropic agent—to enrich the sample with cfDNA fragments having different sizes. For example, a biological sample can be enriched with small cfDNA fragments less than about 100 base pairs in length or large cfDNA fragments greater than about 100 base pairs in length.
US11326155B2
Rapid, animal protein free, chromatographic processes and systems for obtaining high potency, high yield botulinum neurotoxin for research, therapeutic and cosmetic use.
US11326148B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides for in vitro methods of inducing differentiation of human stem cells into neural crest, cranial placode or non-neuro ectoderm precursors, and cells generated by such methods. The presently disclosed subject matter also provides for uses of such cells for treating neurodegenerative and pituitary disorders.
US11326147B2
A redirected Treg cell is endowed with specificity toward a selected target antigen or ligand. The cell contains a chimeric receptor polypeptide that is expressed in a single, continuous chain, with an extracellular recognition region displayed on the surface of the cell, a transmembrane region and an intracellular signaling region. The extracellular recognition region is specific for the selected target antigen or ligand. The intracellular signaling region includes a combination of T-cell signaling polypeptide moieties, which combination, upon binding of the extracellular recognition region to the selected target antigen or ligand, triggers activation of the redirected Treg cells to cause suppression of T-cell mediated immunity. Such redirected Treg cells may be used to suppress undesired activity of T effector cells thereby mediating an immune or inflammatory response. They are particularly useful in treating T effector cell-mediated diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, transplant rejection and GVH disease.
US11326146B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising low sugar media, the methods of using these compositions to reduce trauma and stress on processed animal sperm, the resulting sperm and embryo products, and the methods of use of these products to increase the quality, quantity and viability of progeny and improved rates of births in animals.
US11326138B2
Provided herein is a tissue culture device and a method of forming a tissue culture device. The tissue culture device includes a microfluidic layer including at least one hydrophobic microchannel and a reservoir portion over the at least one hydrophobic microchannel, the reservoir portion including an opening aligned with the at least one hydrophobic microchannel. The method of forming a tissue culture device includes providing a microfluidic layer mold, a reservoir layer mold, and a removable lid mold, filling each of the molds with a device material, curing the device material within the molds, removing the cured device material from the molds to provide a microfluidic layer, a reservoir layer, and a removable lid, and bonding the microfluidic layer to the reservoir layer. A method of culturing tissue with the tissue culture device is also provided herein.
US11326134B2
The present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-base beverage suitable for consumption by a subject with Coeliac's disease. In particular, the present invention relates to methods of producing a food or malt-based beverage with low levels of hordeins. Also provided are barley plants which produce grain that can be used in the methods of the invention.
US11326133B2
A laundry detergent composition comprising an anti-redeposition agent, a surfactant, and optionally a builder, wherein the anti-redeposition agent is a polymer comprising polymerized units of: (a) from 5 to 40 wt % of at least one nitrogen-containing ethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one pKa value from 6 to 11.5, and (b) from 60 to 95 wt % of at least one ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer.
US11326130B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides having hexosaminidase activity, and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US11326126B2
Disclosed are fragrance accords each containing (i) at least 7 wt % of one or more Class 1 fragrance ingredients, (ii) 5 to 85 wt % of one or more Class 2 fragrance ingredients, and (iii) 0 to 80 wt % of one or more Class 3 fragrance ingredients. The Classes 1, 2, and 3 fragrance ingredients are defined by experimental velocity. Also disclosed are delivery systems and consumer products containing such a fragrance accord.
US11326121B2
Lubricating compositions are described, the lubricating compositions comprising a base oil component and an additive component, wherein the additive component comprises a non-silicone anti-foaming agent.
US11326112B1
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for treating a hydrocarbon feedstream having nitrogen-containing compounds and polynuclear aromatic compounds includes contacting the hydrocarbon feedstream with an adsorbent material; introducing the adsorbent-treated hydrocarbon feedstream to a hydrocracking reaction unit to produce a hydrocracked effluent stream; introducing a naphtha stream to a catalytic reforming unit to produce a reformate stream; introducing the reformate stream to an aromatic recovery complex to produce a light reformate stream, a BTX stream, and an aromatic bottoms stream; and introducing the aromatic bottoms stream to the used adsorbent to release at least a portion of the nitrogen-containing compounds and polynuclear compounds.
US11326107B2
It has been discovered that the efficiency of asphalt blow stills (reactor columns) can be improved by filling the blow still with various types of packing material, such as metal or glass spheres (or other rigid materials). The packing material acts to reduce air bubble size and improve the dispersion of the air bubbles throughout the asphalt. This increases the total surface area per unit volume of the air bubbles and promotes a faster processing time. The packing material also increases the contact time between the air bubbles and the asphalt which further results in improved efficiency and reduced blow times. This is beneficial because faster processing times can be achieved resulting in more efficient use of equipment, higher levels of productivity, lower energy requirements, cost savings, reduced blow loss, and reduced thermal history to which the asphalt is exposed.
US11326105B2
The present invention relates to a dispersant derived from anhydride functionalized polyester derived from carboxylic acid functionalized polyester. The anhydride functionalized polyester is then reacted with a multi-amine species forming amide and salt bonds. The technology allows lower reaction temperatures when the multi-amine species is present. The lower reaction temperature allows the use of a broader selection of polyester repeat units.
US11326104B2
A process for preparing a flame retardant composition, the process comprising: adding to a container at least one flame retardant salt, a nitrogen-containing compound, and optionally water; and mixing the contents of the container to give a dispersed mixture or dissolved solution comprising the flame retardant composition; wherein the at least one flame retardant salt comprises an ammonium salt of phosphoric acid; wherein the ammonium salt of phosphoric acid comprises water soluble ammonium polyphosphate (APP); wherein the water soluble ammonium polyphosphate has a total nitrogen as N from about 5 to about 15 weight percent, and a total phosphorus as P2O5 from about 30 to about 40 weight percent, based on the total weight of the ammonium polyphosphate (APP).
US11326103B2
To provide a liquid crystal display device that has a high off-response speed and a good balance between drive voltage and transmittance, is stable over time, and also has a high voltage holding ratio. A liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer containing a polymer network (A) and a liquid crystal composition (B) is disposed between two substrates having an electrode on at least one side thereof and having transparent properties on at least one side thereof, and the loss factor (tan δ) (loss modulus/storage modulus) of the liquid crystal layer calculated from the storage modulus (Pa) and the loss modulus (Pa) in a sinusoidal vibration measured with a rheometer at 25° C. and at a measurement frequency of 1 Hz ranges from 0.1 to 1.
US11326097B2
Provided are a method for manufacturing a perovskite nanocrystal particle light-emitter where an organic ligand is substituted, a light-emitter manufactured thereby, and a light emitting device using the same. A method for manufacturing an organic-inorganic-hybrid perovskite nanocrystal particle light-emitter where an organic ligand is substituted may comprise the steps of: preparing a solution including an organic-inorganic-hybrid perovskite nanocrystal particle light-emitter, wherein the organic-inorganic-hybrid perovskite nanocrystal particle light-emitter comprises an organic-inorganic-hybrid perovskite nanocrystal structure and a plurality of first organic ligands surrounding the organic-inorganic-hybrid perovskite nanocrystal structure; and adding, to the solution, a second organic ligand which is shorter than the first organic ligands or includes a phenyl group or a fluorine group, thereby substitutes the first organic ligands with the second organic ligand. Thus, since energy transfer or charge injection into the nanocrystal structure increases through ligand substitution, it is possible to further increase light emitting efficiency and increase durability and stability by means of a hydrophobic ligand.
US11326095B2
Barium titanium particles, a method of preparing the same, and a display panel are disclosed. The method includes steps of mixing a barium source precursor and a titanium source precursor with an alkaline solution to obtain a to-be-reacted mixture solution, wherein the barium source precursor is selected from barium enoate; and reacting the to-be-reacted mixture solution under a first condition for a first time, and then isolating and purifying to obtain the barium titanium particles.
US11326094B2
The invention belongs to the technical field of electrochromic devices, particularly relates to a novel electrochromic film material, and further discloses an electrochromic film device prepared by the novel electrochromic film material. According to the electrochromic film device provided by the invention, the electrochromic film material is prepared by taking a high adhesive-property composition and a redox-type liquid-state electrochromic composition as raw materials for the first time, and the redox-type liquid-state electrochromic composition is dispersed and cured between conductive substrates by a curing reaction of the high adhesive-property composition. After a test, electrochromic response time of the electrochromic film device prepared by the invention is between 7-11 seconds, number of cycles is between 14-160,000 times, and color difference b value is between −20 and +30. It has a high color changing speed, long service life and stable performance, with a maximum cycle life reaching 160,000 times, and has good application performance.
US11326084B2
A cold storage material composition is provided allowing for temperature maintenance of a temperature control target article in various control temperature ranges in a range of −75° C. to −55° C. and being capable of solidifying within a given period of time and (ii) a technique of using the cold storage material composition. Also provided is a cold storage material composition including calcium ions, chloride ions, bromide ions, and ammonium ions in respectively specific amounts, relative to 100 mol of water, and having a melting temperature in a range of −75° C. to −55° C.
US11326080B2
A method of using a self-stick insulation. The method includes providing a piece of insulation product with an adhesive coating. The adhesive coating includes polystyrene-maleic anhydride (SMA) and/or polyacrylic acid (PAA); an alcohol amine; and at least one of a polyvinyl alcohol and a starch. The adhesive coating is then activated with liquid water. Once the adhesive coating is active, the insulation product is attached to a surface with the adhesive coating.
US11326073B1
The present invention provides: a composition which has a low viscosity, a high refractive index when being cured, and in which the precipitation of crystals is suppressed for a long time when stored at a low temperature; and a paint comprising the same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a composition which includes: a (meth)acrylate represented by general formula (1); and a compound represented by general formula (2), wherein the mass percentage of the content of the (meth)acrylate to the content of the compound represented by general formula (2) is 60:40 to 90:10 (exclusive of 60:40 and 90:10).
US11326067B2
Herein is described a method of providing a printed label. The method comprises: providing a printed label substrate having disposed thereon an electrostatically printed ink; applying a radiation curable overcoat composition to the printed ink, wherein the radiation curable overcoat composition comprises: radiation curable monomers and/or oligomers; a photoinitiator; and an organosilane having at least one hydrolysable group. Printed labels and an ink and overcoat set are also described herein.
US11326060B2
The invention relates generally to liquid-repellent coatings, and in particular, to porous liquid-repellent coatings, a method of preparing the porous liquid-repellent coatings, and a method of characterizing a porous surface for the liquid-repellent coatings. The invention further relates to a porous liquid-repellent coating comprising a porous layer of a transition metal oxide and/or hydroxide and a layer of a liquid-repellent compound deposited onto the porous layer of the transition metal oxide and/or hydroxide, wherein the porous layer of the transition metal oxide and/or hydroxide is comprised of a plurality of surface pores of varying angles with an average angle that is re-entrant.
US11326056B2
One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide a radiation curable organosilicon resin composition which offers a cured product having a sufficient gas barrier property and which further has workability enough for use in spin coating or inkjetting. The present invention provides a radiation curable organosilicon resin composition comprising 100 parts by mass of (A) a (meth)acryloyloxy group-containing organosilane represented by the formula (1) which has a (meth)acryloyloxy group or a monovalent organic group having 4 to 25 carbon atoms and having one, two, or three of said (meth)acryloyloxy group, and 1 to 50 parts by mass of (B) a photopolymerization initiator.
US11326052B2
A biodegradable plastic composition is used to manufacture a biodegradable plastic. The biodegradable plastic composition includes a biodegradable polyester, a polysaccharide, and a modifier. The modifier is used to compound the polysaccharide and the biodegradable polyester to obtain a biodegradable plastic. The biodegradable plastic has a tensile strength greater than 3 MPa and an elongation greater than 81%.
US11326050B2
Provided are a method of preparing a graft copolymer, a graft copolymer, and a thermoplastic resin molded article including the graft copolymer, the method including: 1) preparing a seed by adding one or more selected from the group consisting of an alkyl (meth)acrylate-based monomer, an aromatic vinyl-based monomer, and a vinyl cyan-based monomer and performing polymerization; 2) in the presence of the seed, preparing a core by adding an alkyl (meth)acrylate-based monomer and performing polymerization; and 3) in the presence of the core, preparing a shell by adding an aromatic vinyl-based monomer and a vinyl cyan-based monomer and performing polymerization, wherein the method further includes adding an alkyl acrylate-based polymer. When the alkyl acrylate-based polymer is included in a graft copolymer, a graft copolymer and a thermoplastic resin molded article excellent in weather resistance, fluidity, mechanical properties, and appearance quality can be provided.
US11326043B2
This invention provides a composition comprising a natural rubber, a polybutadiene rubber and an ethylene/α-olefin copolymer and/or ethylene/α-olefin multiblock copolymer. The invention also provides for methods of making the composition, and articles prepared from the composition.
US11326034B2
A manufacturing method for a polytetrafluoroethylene formed product according to an aspect of the invention is a manufacturing method for a polytetrafluoroethylene formed product, the method including a step of irradiating a forming material containing a polytetrafluoroethylene as a principal component with ionizing radiation, wherein the polytetrafluoroethylene has a melt viscosity at 380° C. of not greater than 7×105 Pa·s.
US11326027B2
A method for producing a hydroxyl-functionalized polysiloxane having secondary or tertiary hydroxyl groups, said method comprising the steps of: i) reacting a hydroxyalkyl allyl ether having a secondary or tertiary alcohol group with a siloxane under anhydrous conditions and under transition metal catalysis, said hydroxylalkyl allyl ether conforming to Formula (I) wherein n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, preferably 0; m is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, preferably 1; spacer group A is constituted by a covalent bond or a C1-C20 alkylene group; R1 is hydrogen, a C1-C8 alkyl group, a C3-C10 cycloalkyl group, a C6-C18 aryl group or an aralkyl group; Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, R2, R3, R4 and R5 may be the same or different and each is independently selected from hydrogen, a C1-C8 alkyl group, a C6-C18 aryl group or a C6-C18 aralkyl group, with the proviso that at least one of R3 and R4 is not hydrogen; and said siloxane conforming to Formula (II) wherein m is 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, preferably 1; R6, R7, R8 and R9 may be the same or different and each represent a C1-C8 alkyl group, a C3-C10 cycloalkyl group, a C6-C18 aryl group or a C6-C18 aralkyl group; and ii) in the presence of the reaction product of step i), performing a ring opening polymerization of at least one cyclic siloxane monomer.
US11326025B2
The present invention relates to a polyamideimide copolymer and a colorless and transparent polyamideimide copolymer film. The polyamideimide copolymer according to the present invention enables to provide a polyamideimide film having improved UV shielding function while exhibiting excellent scratch resistance and mechanical properties.
US11326022B2
In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to multi-arm polymers that comprise a core, a plurality of polymer segments having a first end that is covalently attached to the core and a second end comprising a moiety that comprises a reactive group, wherein the polymer segments comprise one or more free-radical-polymerizable monomers. In some aspects, systems are provided that comprise a first composition comprising such a multi-arm polymer and a second composition comprising a multifunctional compound that comprises functional groups that are reactive with the reactive groups of the multi-arm polymer. In some aspects, systems are provided that comprise crosslinked reaction products of such a multi-arm polymer and such a multifunctional compound.
US11326020B2
The present invention is a composition of an agent for treating a precursor of a three-dimensional object for removing a support material from a precursor of the three-dimensional object containing a three-dimensional object and the support material, the composition containing water and a water-soluble compound having a solubility parameter (SP value) calculated by using the Fedors' method of 8 (cal/cm3)1/2 to 13 (cal/cm3)1/2. The present invention can provide a composition of an agent for treating a precursor of a three-dimensional object that is capable of removing the support material quickly and a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional object using the composition of an agent for treating a precursor of a three-dimensional object by a fused deposition modeling system.
US11326012B2
The present invention relates to a composition for producing a polymer, comprising: a) from 20 to 60% by weight, based on the entire composition, of at least one monomer; and b) from 30 to 60% by weight, based on the entire composition, of at least one branched pre-polymer, wherein the composition is liquid at room temperature and under normal pressure; use of the composition, a method for producing a polymer using the composition, as well as an electrically dimmable glazing that encloses the polymer.
US11326009B2
The present invention provides a dispersion composition from which a curable composition having excellent developability can be obtained and in which generation of precipitates under a low temperature environment is suppressed. In addition, the present invention provides a curable composition, a light-shielding film obtained by curing the curable composition, a color filter containing a cured film obtained by curing the curable composition, a solid-state imaging device and an image display device, a resin, and a method for manufacturing a cured film. The dispersion composition of the present invention contains a colorant and a resin, in which the resin contains a structural unit A having a polymer chain and a structural unit B having an acid group, and the polymer chain contains 2 or more structural units GF, and the structural unit GF is selected from the group consisting of a structural unit composed of an oxyalkylene group and a structural unit composed of an oxyalkylene carbonyl group.
US11325996B2
A method comprising contacting a silica support with a titanium-containing solution to form a titanated silica support, wherein the titanium-containing solution comprises a titanium compound, a solvent, and an amino acid. Also disclosed are olefin polymerization catalysts and pre-catalyst compositions thereof and methods of preparing olefin polymerization catalysts and pre-catalyst compositions thereof.
US11325993B2
Provided are a chemical polymerization initiator including (a) a thiourea compound, (b) a peroxyester, (c) a divalent copper compound, and (d) an aryl borate compound, an adhesive composition, an adhesive composition kit, a dental material, and a dental material kit each using the chemical polymerization initiator, and a method of storing the adhesive composition.
US11325986B2
The present invention relates a heteropolysaccharide characterized in that it is substantially composed of the monosaccharides glucose and galactose and rhamnose and N-acetylgalactosamine and a process for the production thereof. The invention further relates to a bacterium capable of producing said heteropolysaccharide and to the use of the heteropolysaccharide and the bacterium for improving the texture of fermented milk products.
US11325984B2
The present invention relates to methods for separating target cells from non-target cells using immunorosettes and magnetic particles. The method involves contacting a sample containing target cells and secondary targets such as erythrocytes with an antibody composition which allows immunorosettes of the target cells and the secondary targets to form. The sample is subsequently contacted with a second antibody composition which allows the binding of magnetic particles to the formed immunorosettes and free secondary targets. The immunorosettes and secondary targets labeled with magnetic particles are separated from non-target cells using a magnetic field. The antibody composition optionally contains bifunctional antibodies or tetrameric antibody complexes.
US11325982B2
The present invention relates to bispecific or multi-specific antibody molecules with two or more paratopes. At least one paratope is Fv or scFv, while the other paratope is in a mono-valent or bivalent Fab. These novel molecules also have an Fc moiety that allows extended half-life in vivo.
US11325970B2
A modified IgG antibody binds and neutralizes TGFβ1 selectively and with high affinity and avidity. The modified IgG antibody comprises four polypeptide chains and may comprise modifications to the elbow regions of the polypeptide chains. The modified IgG antibody may comprise the same VH and VL domains or CDR regions as metelimumab. The modified IgG antibody is useful in therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
US11325940B2
Chemical entities that are novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of cancer are described.
US11325937B2
The present invention discloses a glycoside compound represented by Formula III, and a preparation method, a composition, use and an intermediate thereof. The glycoside compound provided in the present invention has simple preparation method, can significantly increase the expression of VEGF-A mRNA, and is effective in promoting the angiogenesis. This provides a reliable guarantee for the development of drugs with pro-angiogenic activity for treating cerebral infarction cerebral stroke, myocardial infarction, and ischemic microcirculatory disturbance of lower limbs.
US11325922B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of crisaborole of formula (I): by preparing intermediates of formulas (II) and (III):
US11325920B2
The present disclosure includes novel compounds useful as antimicrobial agents. The present disclosure further includes methods useful. The present disclosure further includes compositions and methods for treating or preventing a bacterial infection. The present disclosure further includes compositions and methods useful for preventing or reducing the growth or proliferation of microorganisms.
US11325912B2
A method of regio-selectively synthesizing an imidazo-pyrimidine compound of formulae (XXa) or (XXb) comprising a step of coupling a first compound of formula XX-P1a or XX-P1b with a second compound of formula XX-P2 This annulation reaction between β-ethoxy acrylamides and phosphorylated aminoimidazoles to furnish imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidin-amines relies on steering effects from endocyclic and exocyclic phosphorylated aminoimidazoles. The reaction furnishes either 2-amino or 4-amino constitutional isomers of imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines with good yields and ranges of 90:10-99:1 regio-selectivity. The reaction is useful in the synthesis of various tracer molecules used in the study of neurological conditions such as where R3 and R4 together with the imidazole ring atoms to which they are bonded form a phenyl ring and the products are substituted benzimidazopyrimidines. The reaction can be generalized to form imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines substituted at either of their 2- and 4-positions by alkoxy or thioalkyl groups.
US11325908B2
The present invention provides compounds useful as inhibitors of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMKII), compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US11325907B2
Disclosed are a crystal form of 1H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridine-2(3H)-one compound and a preparation process therefor, and use of the crystal form in the manufacture of a medicament for treating a disease associated with PDE4 receptor.
US11325905B2
There is described herein imidopiperidine compounds as inhibitors of human polynucleotide kinase phosphatase.
US11325904B2
In various embodiments, compositions and methods are provided for treatment and/or prevention of amyloidogenic diseases. In certain embodiments, the methods entail administering an effective amount of a tropinol ester to a subject in need thereof for prophylactic or therapeutic effect. The methods are particularly useful for prophylactic and therapeutic treatment of Alzheimer's disease. In certain embodiments, methods of reducing the risk, lessening the severity, or delaying the progression or onset of a disease characterized by beta-amyloid deposits in the brain of a mammal are also provided. In certain embodiments, methods of directly or indirectly inhibiting the C-terminal cleavage of APP resulting in the formation of APP-C31 peptide and APPneo (AP-P664) in a mammal are provided.
US11325898B2
Small molecule disruptors of Beclin-1/Bcl-2 protein-protein interactions induce autophagy and hence are useful for treating a variety of indications where stimulation of autophagy is therapeutically useful, including cancer, infection immunity, neurodegeneration, longevity.
US11325892B2
This document provides compounds, compositions, and methods for treating cancers including renal cancer (e.g., renal cell carcinoma) as well as ovarian, breast, prostate, colon, pancreatic, bladder, liver, lung, and thyroid cancers and melanoma. For example, compounds, compositions, and methods for using one or more inhibitors of SCD1 to treat renal cell carcinoma (e.g., clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)), thyroid cancer, or liver cancer; or to increase the efficacy of treatment for the same.
US11325888B2
The present invention relates to a method for the synthesis of compounds useful in the preparation of antibody drug conjugates (ADC), namely, monoprotected dimeric bifunctional prodrugs based on duocarmycin analogs. In a further aspect, compounds obtained by the method according to the present invention are provided. The monoprotected bifunctional prodrug is used for preparing antibody drug conjugates composed of an antibody moiety and the monoprotected bifunctional prodrug. The antibody compound conjugates thus obtained are provided. Further, a method of preparing an antibody drug conjugate composed of two identical or two different antibody moieties is provided as well as the antibody compound conjugate containing two different antibody moieties accordingly. These conjugates can be used in pharmaceutical compositions, in particular, for use in treatment of tumors, e.g. for use in ADC therapy.
US11325887B2
The present invention relates generally to methods for forming peroxyformic acid, comprising contacting formic acid with hydrogen peroxide. The methods for forming peroxyformic acid can include adding formic acid with a relatively lower concentration of hydrogen peroxide, or adding formic acid to a peroxycarboxylic acid composition or forming composition to react with hydrogen peroxide in the compositions. The present invention also relates to peroxyformic acid formed by the above methods. The present invention further relates to the uses of peroxyformic acid for treating a variety of targets, e.g., target water, including target water used in connection with oil- and gas-field operations. The present invention further relates to methods for reducing or removing H2S or iron sulfide in the treated water source, improving clarity of the treated water source, or reducing the total dissolved oxygen or corrosion in the treated water source, using peroxyformic acid, including peroxyformic acid generated in situ.
US11325877B2
A process for the recovery of ethylene glycol from an aqueous stream comprising ethylene glycol is disclosed. The process comprises (a) subjecting an aqueous stream 5 comprising ethylene glycol to an evaporation step in a multiple-effect evaporator to obtain a concentrated stream comprising ethylene glycol; (b) subjecting said concentrated stream comprising ethylene glycol to a first dehydration step in a first dehydrator 10 operating at an overhead pressure in the range of 0 barg (bar gauge) to 4 barg (bar gauge) to obtain a partially dehydrated ethylene glycol stream, and (c) subjecting said partially dehydrated ethylene glycol stream to a second dehydration step in a second dehydrator operating under 15 vacuum to obtain a dehydrated ethylene glycol stream.
US11325876B2
Disclosed is a process for producing a chlorinated C3-6 alkane comprising providing a reaction mixture comprising an alkene and carbon tetrachloride in a principal alkylation zone to produce chlorinated C3-6 alkane in the reaction mixture, and extracting a portion of the reaction mixture from the principal alkylation zone, wherein: a) the concentration of the chlorinated C3-6 alkane in the reaction mixture in the principal alkylation zone is maintained at a level such that the molar ratio of chlorinated C3-6 alkane:carbon tetrachloride in the reaction mixture extracted from the alkylation zone does not exceed 95:5 when the principal alkylation zone is in continuous operation; and/or b) the reaction mixture extracted from the principal alkylation zone additionally comprises alkene and the reaction mixture is subjected to a dealkenation step in which at least about 50% or more by weight of the alkene present in the reaction mixture is extracted therefrom and at least about 50% of the extracted alkene is fed back into the reaction mixture provided in the principal alkylation zone; and/or c) the reaction mixture present in the principal alkylation zone and extracted from the principal alkylation zone additionally comprises a catalyst, and the reaction mixture extracted from the principal alkylation zone is subjected to an aqueous treatment step in which the reaction mixture is contacted with an aqueous medium in an aqueous treatment zone, a biphasic mixture is formed and an organic phase comprising catalyst is extracted from the biphasic mixture.
US11325856B2
The present invention relates to the field of glass manufacturing, and discloses aluminoborosilicate glass, and a preparation method and an application thereof. Based on the total weight of components in the composition of the glass, the glass comprises: 33-60 wt % SiO2, 3-10 wt % Al2O3, 10-30 wt % B2O3, 1-15 wt % ZnO+TiO2+Sc2O3, and 7-27 wt % alkaline-earth oxide RO, wherein RO is at least one of MgO, CaO, SrO and BaO, and 0.001 wt %≤Sc2O3≤1 wt%. The aluminoborosilicate glass provided in the present invention has advantages including low density, high index of refraction, low thermal expansion coefficient, high thermostability, high flexibility, and easy bending, etc.
US11325855B2
The embodiments described herein relate to chemically and mechanically durable glass compositions and glass articles formed from the same. In an embodiment the glass composition may include from about 67 mol. % to about 80 mol. % SiO2; from about 3 mol. % to about 13 mol. % alkaline earth oxide; from about 2 mol. % to about 10 mol. % Al2O3; from about 2 mol. % to about 18 mol. % alkali oxide, wherein the alkali oxide comprises non-zero amounts of Na2O; from 0 mol. % to about 4 mol. % B2O3; and from about 0.01 mol. % to about 1 mol. % of a fining agent.
US11325848B2
The inventive device efficiently cools, with a simple construction, heat generated from an ultraviolet light-emitting diode (UV-LED). The UV-LED is accommodated in a housing that has an open end and an ultraviolet-transparent closing end. A portion of the housing adjacent to the closing end contacts to-be-treated liquid, ultraviolet rays generated from the UV-LED are irradiated to the to-be-treated liquid, and the housing is cooled by the to-be-treated liquid. In this way, the heat generated from the UV-LED can be cooled with a simple construction without use of arrangements for introducing dedicated cooling fluid for cooling the UV-LED. A heat discharge block for discharging to the outside the heat generated from the UV-LED may be provided at or adjacent to the open end of the housing. Further, the present invention may be constructed in such a manner that a portion of the discharge section directly contacts the to-be-treated liquid.
US11325843B2
The invention relates to a fixture and a method for cleaning a drinking water purification system including the following steps: removal of a filter cartridge from a cartridge holder of a filtering unit in a cold water line, insertion of a connection adapter into the cartridge holder to form a fluid connection with the cold water line, connection of a connecting piece of a hot water line to the connection adapter, heating of water with a heater interconnected with the hot water line, delivery of heated water via the connecting piece of the hot water line and the connection adapter into the cold water line.
US11325835B2
This invention relates generally to a process to perform controlled alkaline and acid treatments on inorganic porous solids, yielding superior physico-chemical and catalytic properties, whereas the particle and crystal size is not negatively influenced. Accordingly, the solids obtained in this fashion can be easily recovered from the alkaline solution. The latter being problematic in the state of the art.
US11325834B2
A process for the conversion of hardwood and bamboo to engineered carbon is disclosed. The biomass feedstock of hardwood and bamboo is placed into a holding canister, and the holding canister is lowered into the sealable reactor vessel. The biomass feedstock is ignited, and superheated stream and/or water is metered, or alternately steam is created in situ by introduction of water, into the process. The process is controlled by supplying compressed air and steam, or in situ water, and releasing process gases. The process is performed in an oxygen deprived state. Steam, or in situ water, is injected at the end of the cycle to end the thermal conversion and clean the resulting engineered carbon.
US11325830B2
An aluminum nitride particle including: a plurality of planes randomly arranged in a surface of the particle, the plurality of planes forming an obtuse ridge part or an obtuse valley part in the surface of the particle, the plurality of planes being observable in a scanning electron micrograph with 500 times magnification; wherein the particle has a longer diameter L of 20 to 200 μm; a ratio L/D of the longer diameter L (unit: μm) to a shorter diameter D (unit: μm) of the particle is 1 to 1.25; and the plurality of planes comprise a first plane, wherein an area S (unit: μm2) of the first plane satisfies S/L≥1.0 μm.
US11325827B2
Methods are provided for manufacturing well-controlled, solid-state nanopores and arrays thereof. In one aspect, methods for manufacturing nanopores and arrays thereof exploit a physical seam. One or more etch pits are formed in a topside of a substrate and one or more trenches, which align with the one or more etch pits, are formed in a backside of the substrate. An opening is formed between the one or more etch pits and the one or more trenches. A dielectric material is then formed over the substrate to fill the opening. Contacts are then disposed on the topside and the backside of the substrate and a voltage is applied from the topside to the backside, or vice versa, through the dielectric material to form a nanopore. In another aspect, the nanopore is formed at or near the center of the opening at a seam, which is formed in the dielectric material.
US11325821B2
A water ejecting apparatus includes a case and a water ejection unit coupled to the case and at least partially protruding therefrom. The water ejection unit includes a fixed cover separably coupled to one side of the case and allowing a rack gear extending in a horizontal direction to be fixed thereto, a moving cover accommodated to be movable in the horizontal direction inside the fixed cover, a driving motor coupled to inside of the moving cover, a gear module configured to interwork with the driving motor, and a water ejection nozzle installed at a lower end of the moving cover and configured to eject water, in which the moving cover appears or disappears, while moving from the inside of the fixed cover in the horizontal direction or moving to the outside form the inside of the fixed cover in the horizontal direction, when the driving motor operates.
US11325818B2
The present application provides a dispensing nozzle for use with a flow of a diluent and a flow of a concentrate. The beverage dispenser may include an annular concentrate path of the flow of the concentrate and an annular diluent path surrounding at least in part the annular concentrate path for the flow of the diluent. The annular diluent path may include a shallow angle leading towards the flow of the concentrate such that the flow of the diluent and the flow of the concentrate mix in or downstream of the dispensing nozzle.
US11325813B2
An elevator includes a car with at least two car doors, each car door being provided with a door contact, a shaft being provided with corresponding landing doors, each landing door being provided with a door contact, each landing door opening in synchronism with the corresponding car door, the door contacts forming part of a safety circuit of the elevator, a car door contact input being connected to a middle point in the safety circuit between a series connection of the car door contacts and a series connection of the landing door contacts. A status information of the car door contact input is monitored in order to determine whether the door contacts are operational or not when the car doors are opened and/or closed with a predetermined time delay at a landing.
US11325806B2
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by an alignment system for aligning tethers of a drop stitch fabric prior to feeding the drop stitch fabric to a drop stitch fabric processing machine. The alignment system feeds a drop stitch fabric having a first layer and a second layer tethered by drop stitch tethers, wherein the first layer is moving with a first velocity and the second layer is moving with a second velocity. The disclosure also relates to an alignment system in accordance with to the foregoing.
US11325797B2
The invention relates to a device for gas and/or vacuum distribution (1) for a sheet processing machine (100), the device includes: at least one controllable pilot valve (4; 40), a fixed body (5) including: at least one main gas inlet (7) to be connected to a gas or vacuum source, at least one main gas outlet (8) intended to be connected to at least one suction cup and/or to at least one nozzle, at least a first and a second control gas openings (10, 11), at least one of the openings being connected to the controllable pilot valve (4; 40), at least one housing (9) having a first chamber (9a) communicating with the main gas inlet (7) and outlet (8) and a second chamber (9b) communicating with the first and second control gas openings (10, 11), at least one mobile piston (6) axially movable in the housing (9) by the action of a control gas or vacuum supplied in the second chamber (9b) through the at least one control gas opening (10, 11) connected to the controllable pilot valve (4; 40), the mobile piston (6) being movable between: a closed position in which the mobile piston (6) blocks a gas path (16) between the main gas inlet (7) and outlet (8) in the first chamber (9a), and an open position in which the mobile piston (6) releases the gas path (16), first and second chambers (9a, 9b) isolated from each other by cooperation of shapes between the mobile piston (6) and the housing (9) without frictional seal between the mobile piston (6) and the housing (9). Also disclosed are a suction unit and a feeder including such a device for gas and/or vacuum distribution and a sheet processing machine comprising such feeder or such a device for gas and/or vacuum distribution.
US11325793B2
A star wheel for a rotary packing machine, which includes a vertical shaft, a movable assembly with a frame fixed to said shaft, a plurality of pairs of arms, each arm is hinge mounted on the frame about an axis of rotation, an activation mechanism for each pair of arms, which activation mechanism moves the arms between an open position and a closed position, an adjustment mechanism, which moves the axis of rotation of each arm between two positions, and a locking mechanism, which locks the position of the axis of rotation, and a fixed cam.
US11325783B2
A system for assembling and installing a modular spiral chute includes a base support assembly having a plurality of rear rollers and a slot, where the slot is orientated in the base support assembly to receive a vertically positioned stanchion of the modular spiral chute. The system also includes a removable roller clamp having a front roller and configured to be inserted into the slot to form an aperture in the base support assembly to encircle the stanchion so that when the roller clamp is inserted into the slot the stanchion is rotatably secured vertically within the base support assembly between the plurality of rear rollers and the front roller. In addition, the system includes a caster mounted plate positioned on top of the base support assembly and configured to increase stability of the stanchion when secured within the base support assembly.
US11325781B2
This invention provides a rack apparatus, a delivery carriage and the automated storage and distribution system thereof. In the rack apparatus, there are only two racks at both sides of the rack apparatus extending in a generally vertical direction. And in the carriage, there are only two driving wheels. Therefore, both the rack apparatus and the carriage simplify the structure of the rack apparatus and the carriage and reduce the installation accuracy and the failure points thereof, but still provide new improvements to keep the carriage body horizontal with the ground.
US11325774B2
A polymeric aerosol dispenser that is recyclable. The recyclable polymeric aerosol dispenser including all polymeric components. These components being selectively either fixedly joined or separably joined based on the material composition of the component. Further, components may be selected for their density and, thus, their ability to float or sink during the recycling process. The recyclable polymeric aerosol dispenser is designed to minimize its impact on the PET recycling stream and to align with industry recyclability guidelines.
US11325772B2
A method of assembling a box from a blank including obtaining a blank including a plurality of outer side panels, the outer side panels connected to each other by a plurality of fold lines, a plurality of outer bottom panels each joined to each of the outer side panels by a fold line, a plurality of connecting strips each joined to each of the outer side panels by a fold line, a plurality of inner side panels each joined to each of the connecting strips by a fold line, and a plurality of inner bottom panels each joined to each of the inner side panels by a fold line; and joining the outer side panels at opposite ends such that the outer side panels form a ring.
US11325761B2
Provided is a reusable container cap adapted to help identify a container belonging to a particular user or to help identify contents of a container when there are several containers similar in appearance. The reusable bottle cap includes a cap housing that encases one or more rotating dials. The dials are stacked inside of the cap housing. A visible surface of each of the dials features letters, numbers, or symbols near its outer edge. The cap housing has a cutout that allows the user to rotate the dials using his or her fingers. When the dials are rotated, a combination of letters, numbers, or symbols are displayed, enabling the user to identify his or her bottle or contents within the bottle. The present invention fits over openings and bottle caps of various sized bottles and containers.
US11325760B2
A die-cut lid for closing a container is formed from a flexible composite sheet material. The lid comprises a functional area bearing human-readable and/or machine-readable data. One or more rigidifying indentations are provided on the lid to promote flatness of the functional area in a resting state of the lid. The one or more rigidifying indentations can be in the form of one or more encircling indentations that border the functional area; and/or a planar indentation that encompasses the functional area.
US11325752B2
A bottle cap is disclosed. The bottle cap includes a cap body having a cover plate and a cylinder part integral with the cover plate. A stopper member protrudes from an inner surface of the cover plate. The stopper member includes a sealing part supported by a support structure integral with the cover plate. An annular guiding plate protrudes from a sidewall surface of the cylinder part and is inclined toward the stopper member to engage with the sealing part.
US11325740B2
The invention is directed to straight, consistent body scores on plastic corrugated boxes and a process for making the body scores.
US11325738B1
According to an aspect of the present invention, a stackable storage rack system suitable for storing containers is provided. The system includes a base. The system also includes a plurality of compartments positionable within the base, wherein the compartments form a cavity within the base and have an opening on a top of the base designed to store containers. The system further includes at least 4 legs, wherein a top of the legs are connected to a bottom of the base at four separate bottom corners of the base. Additionally, the system includes an operational space formed by stacking at least two storage racks one on top of another wherein users of the system can retrieve containers from the bottom storage rack without interference from the top storage rack.
US11325731B2
A method for wrapping hygroscopic products includes feeding a succession of products and wrapping each product in wrapping material to define a wrapper for the product, The wrapping includes 1) folding a sheet of wrapping material into a U-shape around a respective product and sealing to each other at least two edges of the sheet of wrapping material along a first, longitudinal sealing line defining a tubular body in which the product is disposed and having a first and a second open end; 2) sealing two portions of the tubular body along second and third sealing lines transverse to the first longitudinal sealing line, thereby enclosing the product in the wrapper; and 3) creating a vacuum in the tubular body before the sealing the portions of the tubular body along at least one between the second and the third sealing lines.
US11325730B2
A winding device for loads includes a reel-holder roll adapted for receiving a reel of an extensible plastic film; a vertical column, along which the reel-holder roll is movable; and a lifting plane adapted to receive a load movable along the column, so that the winding device can be used as both a winder and a lifter for forming the load.
US11325722B2
A wireless engine monitoring system for an aircraft engine includes a housing and wireless transceiver that receives engine data, including engine data relating to environmental engine emissions. A processor processes the engine data and generates an alarm report when the environmental engine emissions exceed a threshold.
