US11324867B2
Graphical user interfaces for use with extracorporeal blood treatment systems may include a blood circuit pressure graphical element. The blood circuit pressure graphical element may include a venous portion and an arterial portion. The venous portion may depict, or include, a presently-monitored venous blood circuit pressure value and a graphical representation of previously-monitored venous blood circuit pressure values, and the arterial portion may depict, or include, a presently-monitored arterial blood circuit pressure value and a graphical representation of previously-monitored arterial blood circuit pressure values.
US11324865B2
A method for facilitating milk extraction from a female breast may involve applying a breast contacting portion of a breast pump system to a breast, activating the breast pump system to administer multiple breast pumping cycles, and applying vibrations to the breast during at least a portion of each of the breast pumping cycles, using a vibration device. A vibration generating device may be a component of a breast pump system, an added attachment on a breast pump system or a separate component that works in conjunction with a breast pump system.
US11324862B2
An endoluminal device includes a composite yarn with a polymer yarn and an alloy wire. The polymer yarn includes a biodegradable polymer, and the alloy wire includes a biocompatible alloy. An endoluminal device can include a plurality of polymer yarns and at least one alloy wire, in which the polymer yarns include a biodegradable polymer, and the least one alloy wire includes a biocompatible alloy. A surgical system or kit includes an endoluminal device and a delivery instrument.
US11324849B2
A fragrance dispenser and a corresponding method of dispensing fragrance, comprising at least one receptacle having a major open end, with a porous diffuser layer occlusively overlying the major open end of the receptacle, wherein at least a sectional area of the porous diffuser layer is removable to uncover a portion of the receptacle to control of the release rate of a fragrance source. The fragrance dispenser may comprise a plurality of receptacles and the porous diffuser layer comprises a plurality of sections that are individually removable to uncover each receptacle. The fragrance dispenser could comprise a removable cover sheet that is peelably detachable from the porous diffuser layer. Porous diffuser layer could be an organic polymeric nonwoven web and/or the receptacle is made of a thermoplastic organic polymeric resin. The fragrance dispenser may further comprise a secondary diffuser layer that has 50% more permeability that the porous diffuser layer.
US11324846B2
A sanitizer using radiation comprises a hollow housing with an aperture, the housing being generally opaque to the radiation utilized. Mounted to the interior surfaces of the housing are radiation sources that produce radiation when powered. In operation, multiple objects to be sanitized are placed within the interior and the radiation sources powered, thereby sanitizing by radiation any pathogens present on the objects be irradiated. An easily adjustable shelving system that is substantially non-opaque to the radiation utilized, such as wire shelving with minimal opaque surfaces, may be used to support the objects to be sanitized. Depending on size, the portable box allows for multiple objects to be sanitized at the same time. The sanitizer in certain embodiments includes a plurality of UVC radiation sources mounted in the interior of the housing so as to surround the object to be sanitized on multiple sides.
US11324841B2
The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent, particularly an MRI contrast agent derived from nanoparticle that is porous first metal-doped second metal oxide nanoparticle with a central cavity, and a method for producing the same. The MEI contrast agent made in accordance with the present invention can be used not only as a drug-delivery agent for therapy but also as an MRI contrast agent for diagnosis.
US11324840B2
The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents.
US11324838B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating joint disorders that are characterized by an inflammatory component. In some aspects, the compositions and methods are to prevent the progression of osteoarthritis and other arthritides and to treat osteoarthritis and other arthritides in a mammalian joint.
US11324834B2
Provided are methods of treating myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), oligoblastic acute myelogenous leukemia (O-AML), or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) using 765IGF-MTX and other IGF-receptor-targeted agents, and formulations for delivering 765IGF-MTX and other IGF-receptor-targeted agents to patients. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions for use in treating MDS, O-AML, and CMML.
US11324829B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel application of meglumine or a salt thereof. The present invention is an antiseptic agent consisting of meglumine or a salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antiseptic agent according to the present invention, and pertaining to: a pharmaceutical composition which does not comprise benzalkonium chloride and which is placed in a reusable container; a product that comprises the pharmaceutical composition comprising the antiseptic agent according to the present invention and a reusable container; and a method of improving the antiseptic effect of the pharmaceutical composition by comprising meglumine or a salt thereof in the pharmaceutical composition that has been placed in the reusable container.
US11324825B2
There are described novel compounds of formula I: (I) in which, in which A1, A2, A3, A4, R1 and R2 are each as herein defined, for use in the treatment or alleviation of an RAR mediated condition; and methods related thereto.
US11324821B2
The present application relates to triterpene glycoside saponin-derived adjuvants, syntheses thereof, and intermediates thereto. The application also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the present invention and methods of using said compounds or compositions in the treatment of and immunization for infectious diseases and cancers.
US11324820B2
The present invention provides methods for the treatment of a subject having a Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, e.g., a chronic HBV infection, using a combination of an RNAi agent that targets HBV and an HBV vaccine. It is disclosed a RNAi agent and an HBV vaccine for use in treatment of HBV infection, comprising sequentially administering to the subject having an HBV infection: a) an RNAi agent that inhibits expression of at least three HBV transcripts, wherein the RNAi agent forms a double stranded region; b) a protein-based vaccine comprising a first HBV core antigen (HBcAg) polypeptide, and a first HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) polypeptide; and c) a nucleic acid-based vaccine comprising an expression vector construct encoding a second HBcAg polypeptide, and/or a second HBsAg polypeptide, wherein the second HBcAg polypeptide, and/or the second HBsAg polypeptide, shares at least one epitope with at least one of the first HBcAg polypeptide, and/or the first HBsAg polypeptide.
US11324809B2
Provided are: a pharmaceutical composition for curing, treating, or preventing a disease involving a biological mechanism controlled by a dendritic cell immunoreceptor, in which the pharmaceutical composition contains a carbohydrate modifying enzyme as an active ingredient; and a method of curing, treating, or preventing a disease involving a biological mechanism controlled by a dendritic cell immunoreceptor.
US11324807B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising anakinra, buffer, and optionally at least one osmolyte and optionally further excipients. Further, the present invention relates to use of said compositions for treatment of for example ophthalmic disorders.
US11324795B2
Disclosed is a composition, which comprises Hordeum vulgare extract as an active ingredient and is effective at promoting longitudinal bone growth.
US11324787B2
The present invention relates to a method for identifying the skin sensitizer potency of a test agent, and arrays and analytical kits for use in such methods.
US11324777B2
A method of generating an isolated population of cells comprising anti-third party cells having a central memory T-lymphocyte (Tcm) phenotype, the cells being tolerance-inducing cells and/or endowed with anti-disease activity, and capable of homing to the lymph nodes following transplantation is disclosed. The method comprising: (a) contacting peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) with a third party antigen or antigens in the presence of IL-21 so as to allow enrichment of antigen reactive cells; and (b) culturing the cells resulting from step (a) in the presence of IL-21, IL-15 and IL-7 in an antigen free environment so as to allow proliferation of cells comprising the central memory T-lymphocyte (Tcm) phenotype.
US11324758B2
Disclosed in some forms is a process of limiting the impact of surgery on a nerve, the process comprising applying a therapeutic substance to the nerve during surgery. In some aspects, disclosed is a formulation for reducing nerve trauma comprising an active pharmacological ingredient adapted to intervene in the activation of pathways of cellular degradation within the nerve and a carrier adapted to reduce dissemination of the active pharmacological ingredient beyond the site at which its effect is intended.
US11324754B2
A method of forming a dietary supplement can include steps of creating a composition of matter comprising tianeptine, sakae naa, and optionally, at least one of kava, CDP Choline, and Alpha GPC; and providing the composition of matter in a liquid or solid form. The ingredient of tianeptine can be tianeptine sodium, tianeptine free acid, or both. Providing the composition of matter can include filling a container with the composition of matter.
US11324750B2
Disclosed herein are methods for treating an individual having a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The method may comprise administering a JAK inhibitor, for example ruxolitinib (JAKAFI®), to an individual in need thereof, such individual generally being an individual having, or suspecting of having, SARS-CoV-2 infection. The individual in need thereof may be an individual having, or suspected of having or at risk for developing SARS-CoV-2 infection-related cytokine storm. The individual in need thereof may further be an individual having, or suspected of having SARS-CoV-2 infection-related pneumonia.
US11324742B2
The present invention relates generally to methods of using nalfurafine for treating and/or preventing demyelinating disease in a subject, and in particular for treating and/or preventing multiple sclerosis (MS). Also disclosed is nalfurafine for use in treating and/or preventing MS as well as pharmaceutical compositions and unit dosage forms comprising nalfurafine for use for treating and/or preventing demyelinating disease in a subject, and in particular for treating and/or preventing MS.
US11324739B2
Novel combination therapies involving nitroxoline, its analogue or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof with at least one additional anti-cancer chemotherapy or immunotherapy agent are described. Related kits, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of production arlinee also described.
US11324735B2
This application relates to a method of treatment with tradipitant, and more particularly, to a method of treatment of pruritus with tradipitant.
US11324732B2
The disclosure is directed to methods of treating dyskinesia in cerebral palsy in human patients using deutetrabenazine and its active metabolites.
US11324723B2
Compositions and methods are provided that are useful for diagnosing, treating, and monitoring alcohol dependence and disorders, susceptibility to alcohol dependence disorders, as well as drug related dependence and disorders. The methods include treating patients with an antagonist of the serotonin receptor 5-HT3 for such disorders, wherein the patient's serotonin transporter gene SLC6A4 is known to have particular genotypes.
US11324722B2
The present disclosure is directed to compositions comprising oxymetazoline and methods of treating various eye disorders related to drooping eyelids, such as ptosis, in a subject comprising administering to the subject compositions comprising oxymetazoline.
US11324721B2
Embodiments are directed to secnidazole formulations and the use of a secnidazole formulation for the treatment of trichomoniasis in a subject in need thereof.
US11324720B2
Methods for inhibiting cell growth, inhibiting DNA polymerase activity, and inhibiting DNA replication and repair are provided. In a method of inhibiting cell growth, a cell, such as a cancer cell, is contacted with zelpolib or a derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The cell growth can be inhibited in vivo, and in certain embodiments, the cell growth is inhibited in vitro. In a method for inhibiting DNA polymerase activity, a DNA polymerase is contacted with zelpolib or a derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In certain embodiments, the DNA polymerase is Pol δ. In a method for inhibiting DNA replication and repair, a cell, such as a cancer cell, is contacted with zelpolib or a derivative or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The DNA replication and repair can be inhibited in vivo, and in certain embodiments, the DNA replication and repair is inhibited in vitro.
US11324715B2
The invention relates to bismuth-thiol compounds and pharmaceutical preparations thereof. The invention further relates to methods for treating a topical wound, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising a bismuth-thiol compound, wherein the composition is applied to the infection. Methods for treating microbial infections such as diabetic foot infections are also provided.
US11324714B2
A method for treating a lymphoma selected from non-Hodgkin's and Hodgkin's lymphoma comprising administering an organoarsenic compound having a structure of the formula (I) wherein X is S or Se and R1 and R2 are independently C1-30alkyl (R3, R3′, R4, R5, W and “n” are as defined in claim 1) in particular where the compound is S-dimethylarsinoglutathione, N-(2-S-dimethylarsinothiopropionyl)glycine, 2-amino-3-(dimethylarsino)thio-3-methylbutanoic acid, S-dimethylarsino-thiosuccinic acid or S-dipropylarsino-1-thioglycerol.
US11324713B2
A method for treating a lymphoma selected from non-Hodgkin's and Hodgkin's lymphoma comprising administering an organoarsenic compound having a structure of the formula (I) wherein X is S or Se and R1 and R2 are independently C1-30alkyl (R3, R3′, R4, R5, W and “n” are as defined in claim 1) in particular where the compound is S-dimethylarsinoglutathione, N-(2-S-dimethylarsinothiopropionyl)glycine, 2-amino-3-(dimethylarsino)thio-3-methylbutanoic acid, S-dimethylarsino-thiosuccinic acid or S-dipropylarsino-1-thioglycerol.
US11324708B1
The invention relates to a method of treating a viral infection caused by or associated with SARS-CoV-2 in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject by inhalation intraorally and/or intranasally a therapeutically effective amount of a formulation comprising niclosamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a cyclodextrin.
US11324706B2
Disclosed are a composition and a perfume composition for inhibiting growth of breast cancer stem cells containing phenylacetaldehyde or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active (effective) ingredient, and a pharmaceutical composition, a food composition or the like for inhibiting metastasis of breast cancer, or treating or preventing breast cancer, including the composition. The phenylacetaldehyde inhibits growth of breast cancer cells and formation of breast cancer stem cells. In addition, the phenylacetaldehyde inhibits expression of self-renewal genes such as Nanog, Sox2, Oct4, and CD44 known to be specifically expressed in breast cancer stem cells, inhibits production of IL-6 known to be involved in formation of mammospheres of breast cancer stem cells, and inhibits STATS signaling pathways. Accordingly, the compound inhibits growth of breast cancer stem cells and is useful for the treatment of breast cancer.
US11324705B2
Provided herein is a water- and sweat-resistant transdermal drug delivery system for application to the skin of a mammal that comprises a patch having a diameter between 1 and 8 cm in length and a surface area between 4 and 8 cm2. Also provided are methods of producing the transdermal drug delivery system and methods of treatment comprising the use of the transdermal drug delivery system.
US11324700B2
A method of preparing a pharmaceutical formulation which is suitable for inhalation, the method comprising: providing a solution comprising a first solvent or mixture of solvents and a poorly water soluble active agent; providing a second solution comprising a second solvent or mixture of solvents and an excipient. The first and second solvents or mixture of solvents are removed by simultaneously drying both solutions in a spray dryer equipped with a three-fluid nozzle to produce particles comprising an active agent and an excipient.
US11324697B2
Described herein are emulsion compositions comprising fish oil and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) and/or omega-3 fatty acids and medium-chain triglycerides (MCT). In some embodiments, the compositions further comprise, e.g., alpha-tocopherol, or one or more fatty acids. Further provided herein are methods of using the compositions, e.g., to provide nutrion, e.g., parenteral nutrition to a subject and/or to treat or prevent certain conditions described herein.
US11324696B2
Suspensions of metronidazole or baclofen and/or salts or ester derivative thereof, such as metronidazole benzoate, are disclosed. The suspension my include metronidazole or baclofen, and/or a salt or ester derivative thereof a hydrocolloid stabilizer, simethicone emulsion, a buffer, such as sodium citrate, (dihydrate), a preservative, a thickening agent, a sweetener, and water.
US11324695B2
Described herein are transdermal solvent systems comprising at least one active agent in solution in a base solution, the base solution comprising at least one fatty acid ester compound, at least one monoterpene compound and a co-solvent in the form of DMSO or DMI and at least one plant oil. The base solution was found to be highly versatile and provide superior or at least comparable skin penetration efficacy and active agent compatibility. Methods of treatment, uses of the solvent system and methods of manufacture are also described.
US11324693B2
A solid matrix sustained release ophthalmic formulation for topical delivery of a solid ophthalmic drug to the eye, medical devices, drug cores, drug inserts and drug delivery systems comprising the formulation, methods of manufacturing the formulation, medical devices and their methods thereof for delivering the ophthalmic drug for a treatment period provided herein. The formulation disclosed herein is an admixture of an ophthalmic drug, and a combination of a hydrophobic polymer, a hydrophilic polymer and a surfactant, wherein the drug is eluted daily over an extended period of time at therapeutic dose of drug.
US11324690B2
A composition for restorative vaginal lubrication and a method of use thereof facilitates enhances the overall vaginal health. The composition includes a quantity of water, a quantity of glycerin, a quantity of cetearyl alcohol, a quantity of glyceryl stearate, a quantity of avocado oil, a quantity of squalene oil, a quantity of lecithin, a quantity of benzoin oil, a quantity of xanthan gum, a quantity of citric acid, a quantity of potassium sorbate, a quantity of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), a quantity of elderberry extract, a quantity of damiana extract, a quantity of progesterone, a quantity of pomegranate oil, and a quantity of sodium benzoate. The composition is homogeneously mixed into a vaginal salve that may be both externally and internally applied with the vaginal area in order to moisturize the vaginal area and enhance sexual pleasure during sexual activity. The vaginal salve also promotes blood circulation for the vaginal area.
US11324689B2
The present invention relates to composition for styling hair comprising: (a) a first phase comprising: at least one alkoxysilane having at least one solubilizing functional group and at least one amino substituent; at least one water-soluble metal salt; at least one acidifying agent; and at least one cosmetically acceptable carrier comprising water; and (b) a second phase comprising: at least one silsesquioxane resin and at least one volatile solvent. The present invention also relates to methods of styling hair.
US11324677B1
Disclosed herein are oral care compositions comprising a peroxide whitening complex in an amount to provide from 3.5% to 7% of hydrogen peroxide by weight of the composition, and a block copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide in an amount of from 40% to 60% by weight of the composition. Methods of making and using the dentifrices are also provided.
US11324676B2
The present disclosure concerns a cosmetic product for modifying the natural color of keratinous fibers, in particular human hair. The cosmetic product includes at least one packaging (VP) and a cosmetic composition (KM) contained in this packaging (VP). The packaging is made of a multi-layer film (F) including at least two polymer layers (P1) and (P2) and at least one barrier layer (BS). The cosmetic composition includes at least one oxidizing agent, at least one C8-C30 alcohol, at least one specific anionic surfactant, at least one non-ionic surfactant and at least one acrylic-based thickening agent. The use of the packaging (VP) in combination with the cosmetic composition (KM) does surprisingly not lead to an inflation of the packaging or an excessive water loss of the agent (KM) during storage.
US11324673B2
The present invention is directed to targeted delivery of a cold slurry underneath a patient's skin to improve the cosmetic appearance of the skin. The “target” tissue can be muscle tissue that when cooled cannot contract and cause wrinkles/lines in the skin to appear. The target tissue can also be adipose tissue that causes overlying tissue to sag and form wrinkles/lines. The cold slurry induces apoptosis, and reduces the size of the tissue, and causes the connective tissue supporting the skin to thicken and tighten, thereby reducing wrinkles/lines. Skin can also be tightened with cold slurry injected into the dermis layer of the skin or within the layers of the oral mucosa making a cold slurry treatment ideal for reducing the appearance of baggy skin after a patient loses weight and or for treating obstructive sleep apnea. Cold slurry can also be used to treat cellulite and acne.
US11324670B2
The present invention is a cocoa butter powdered moisturizer with the addition of cocoa powder serving as a stabilizing agent. The cocoa butter is grated and/or shredded into a fine granulated form and is supplemented with the stabilizing cocoa powder such that the resulting moisturizer attains a consistent, usable form. The resulting moisturizer is stable at room temperature and provides an SPF-15 level of sun protection for the skin.
US11324660B2
A container, in particular an ampule, of a plastic material has a container part (10) for receiving the contents of a container (14) to be dispensed via a container opening (12). Opening (12) is closed by a head part (18) that can be separated along a separation line (16). The head part (18) is adjoined by a neck part (20), which has a plurality of different functional surfaces on the inner circumference. One functional contact surface (44) is used to seal against a withdrawal body (32), which is provided for withdrawing the contents of a container (14) when the container opening (12) is opened. A lead-in area (50) is provided as a further functional surface on the interior of the neck part (40) and differs geometrically from the functional contact surface (44). The lead-in area (50) seamlessly merges into the functional contact surface (44). The lead-in area (50) and the functional contact surface are located between the other functional surfaces in the neck part (20).
US11324651B2
A body weight support system includes a trolley, a powered conductor operatively coupled to a power supply, and a patient attachment mechanism. The trolley can include a drive system, a control system, and a patient support system. The drive system is movably coupled to a support rail. At least a portion of the control system is physically and electrically coupled to the powered conductor. The patient support mechanism is at least temporarily coupled to the patient attachment mechanism. The control system can control at least a portion of the patient support mechanism based at least in part on a force applied to the patient attachment mechanism.
US11324650B2
A patient repositioning apparatus includes a mounting frame configured to couple to an underside of a bed frame. A motor housing is rotatably coupled to the mounting frame for rotation about an axis. The motor housing carries a motor and a winch. The motor is operable to turn the winch. A strap is coupled to the winch and configured to be wound around the winch by the motor. The strap has at least one coupling mechanism configured to couple to a bed sheet.
US11324646B2
A dispenser (100) for medical articles (163), comprising a base (110) and a cover (120), wherein the base (110) comprises at least one stopper arrangement (170) integrated in the main wall of the base (110) and protruding from the inside surface (111b) of the main wall of the base (110), wherein each of the at least one stopper arrangement (170) has at least one cut-out (171) configured to to hold medical articles (163), received in a respective opening in the cover (120) when the dispenser (100) is in a closed configuration, and configured to release receive and hold at least one medical article (163), or a container (160) configured its hold on the at least one medical article (163) or the container (160) when the dispenser (100) is in an open configuration.
US11324638B2
The base of this bandaging system is attached to the skin around a wound by adhesive and supports the edges of the lid, which covers the wound and can easily be removed and replaced or re-used many times to facilitate examining or treating the wound while the base remains in place. The bandaging system has multiple embodiments to accommodate various situations. An embodiment with generally planar components is very simple but may cause vertical pressure on the skin near the wound when the lid is removed or attached. Such pressure is avoided by alternative embodiments in which the components have non-planar parts. Some embodiments have a hinge on an edge of the lid which allows the wound to be uncovered without detaching the lid. The components which latch lids to bases contribute to making the systems easy, quick, convenient, and comfortable to use.
US11324636B2
The present application provides a cerumen removing device, comprising a container section comprising a recovery hole and a discharge hole; a head section exposed to the outside through the recovery hole and having at least one air ejection hole; and a pump configured to discharge air to the outside through the air ejection hole.
US11324632B2
The present invention discloses a helmet with an inwards flipping type goggle, which includes a helmet body, a goggle, a front protection lens and a link mechanism; the front protection lens is fixed to the front side of the helmet body, the goggle is fixed to the link mechanism, the link mechanism is capable of adjusting the goggle to move up and down and to be rotatably connected to the two sides of the helmet body, and the goggle are located in the helmet body. The present invention has the following beneficial effects: by adopting the inwards flipping type, the goggle are prevented from being easily contaminated by welding splash, grinding splash and dust when the goggle are upwards flipped outside; the defects that the gravity center of the entire helmet moves forwards and the helmet is heavy are avoided; the goggle can be upwards flipped inside the helmet, the sight is not affected under the situation that the helmet is not taken off, and it is applicable to wider occasions, is more flexible and is more convenient to operate.
US11324631B2
Systems and methods for adjusting an angle of incidence of a laser surgery system include a laser source to produce a laser beam and an optical delivery system to output the laser beam pulses to an object at an adjustable incident angle. A first rotator assembly receives the beam from the laser source along a first beam axis. The first rotator assembly rotates around the first beam axis and the first rotator assembly outputs the beam along a second beam axis different from the first beam axis. A second rotator assembly receives the beam from the first rotator assembly along the second beam axis. The second rotator assembly rotates around the second beam axis. The second rotator assembly follows the rotation of the first rotator assembly and the first rotator assembly is independent of the rotation of the second rotator assembly.
US11324617B2
The present disclosure includes an endoprosthesis delivery system comprising an elongate member, such as a catheter, an endoprosthesis, a covering member disposed about the endoprosthesis, and at least one flexible element situated between the endoprosthesis and the covering member. The covering member can extend beyond an end of the endoprosthesis. In operation, as the covering member is removed, the flexible element can guide the covering member over the end of the endoprosthesis to prevent entanglement between the end of the endoprosthesis and the covering member.
US11324616B2
A system for deploying a shape memory catheterization device within a patient, includes a catheter for endovascular insertion of the shape memory catheterization device. A heat source heats the shape memory catheterization device above the transition temperature. A transformation data generator includes a circuit driver for driving a circuit that includes at least one capacitive element of the shape memory catheterization device and a detection circuit for generating transformation data based on a capacitance of the at least one capacitive element, wherein the transformation data indicates a shape transformation of the shape memory catheterization device from a catheterization shape to a transformed shape.
US11324608B2
Placement apparatus and methods of use for impanation of spacers within an inter-vertebral disc space. In one embodiment, the load-bearing superstructure of the implant is subdivided and the bone forming material is positioned within an internal space of the placement instrument but external to the load bearing elements themselves. At least a portion of the bone graft material is freely contained within the disc space. A method of using the device is also described. In one embodiment, the placement device is used to place the implantable spacers at opposing ends of the disc space using a directly lateral surgical approach.
US11324606B2
Spinal interbody cages are provided that include a bulk interbody cage, a top face, a bottom face, pillars, and slots. The pillars are for contacting vertebral bodies. The slots are to be occupied by bone of the vertebral bodies and/or by bone of a bone graft. The spinal interbody cage has a Young's modulus of elasticity of at least 3 GPa, and has a ratio of the sum of (i) the volumes of the slots to (ii) the sum of the volumes of the pillars and the volumes of the slots of 0.40:1 to 0.90:1.
US11324604B2
An interbody at least one surface including a plurality of members that are independently configured and dimensioned to move from a first position to a second position is disclosed.
US11324599B2
According to one example, a femoral prosthesis system is provided that has a plurality of sizing options using two families of femoral prostheses is disclosed. The second family of femoral prostheses can have a predetermined increase in femoral posterior condylar offset relative to the first family of femoral prosthesis. In one example, the second family of femoral prostheses can have the predetermined increase in the femoral posterior condylar offset while maintaining substantially a same femoral medial-lateral condylar extent relative to a comparably sized one of the first family of femoral prostheses.
US11324598B2
Methods are disclosed for designing a tibial implant to minimize cortical impingement of a keel or other fixation structure when the tibial implant is implanted in the tibia bone. The design of the keel or other fixation structure on the tibial baseplate can be based on determining a common area between defined cancellous regions of at least two tibia bones. Methods are disclosed for designing a femoral component having a stem extension such that the stem can be sufficiently placed in the diaphysis of the femur when the femoral component is implanted. The method includes determining a canal axis in a femur that creates adequate engagement between a reamer and the diaphysis of the femur.
US11324597B2
Provided is an implantable composite which includes a plurality of resorbable ceramic particles with or without a biodegradable polymer. The resorbable ceramic particles can be granules including carbonated hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate in a ratio of 5:95 to 70:30. Some resorbable ceramic particles are granules, which include carbonated hydroxyapatite and β tricalcium phosphate in a ratio of 5:95 to 70:30. The resorbable ceramic particles have a particle size from about 0.4 to about 3.5 mm. The implantable composite is configured to fit at or near a bone defect as an autograft extender to promote bone growth. Methods of using the implantable composite are also provided.
US11324596B2
According to an aspect, an implant includes an inflatable member and a pump assembly configured to facilitate a transfer of a fluid from the reservoir to the inflatable member. The inflatable member defining a lumen and including a structural member. The inflatable member includes a coating.
US11324595B2
According to an aspect, an implant includes an inflatable member and a pump assembly configured to facilitate a transfer of a fluid from the reservoir to the inflatable member. The inflatable member has a sidewall that defines a lumen. The sidewall has an outer surface and an inner surface disposed opposite the outer surface. The inner surface has a series of undulations.
US11324592B2
A mitral valve prosthesis to be implanted in a heart, comprises an asymmetrical ring, the asymmetrical ring is dimensioned to mimic a native mitral annulus of a patient; an anterior flexible leaflet and a posterior flexible leaflet, said leaflets suspended from the asymmetrical ring and configured to substantially coapt with each other; and at least four sets of cords, each set of cords attached to the anterior or posterior leaflet on a first end and attached into a cap on a second end, the cap is configured to be attached onto papillary muscles of the heart on another end of the cap.
US11324588B2
The present invention refers to an intraocular lens provided with specific diffractive profile, in which each step height is individually defined, with no fixed pattern. The intraocular lens provides a better control of the luminous efficiency of each focal point, guaranteeing more flexibility and customization, being adaptable to the optical quality that the patient needs.
US11324587B2
A corneal implant and methods of forming and implanting the implant are described. The corneal implant comprises a portion of corneal endothelial tissue and a portion of scleral tissue. The corneal implant is keyhole shaped, with a disc portion and a tail portion. The tail portion may further comprise a perforated section.
US11324585B2
A method for manufacturing a breast implant includes producing a silicone shell of the breast implant by rotating a mold containing a silicone material to evenly spread the silicone material over an inner surface of the mold. Subsequently, an elastic filler material including silicone foam is formed in the shell by (i) injecting into the mold a mixture comprising silicone gel and gas bubbles and (ii) rotating the mold to homogenize the mixture.
US11324576B2
The invention relates to a suction device for intraoral use, comprising a suction line and a tongue protection, said suction line being bent substantially U-shaped, which are configured by a molded part, in particular integrally with one another. The suction tube comprises a connection which points mesially for a suction hose. In the course of the suction tube the connection is adjoined by an upper U-leg, a mesial U-central portion and a lower U-leg, said legs extending distally from the U-central portion. The lower U-leg comprises suction openings and is surrounded by a suction sponge which covers the suction openings. The suction tube terminates at the distal end of the lower U-leg in an end suction opening which is covered by the suction sponge.
US11324575B2
A pump body of an oral irrigator includes a mount, a motor disposed at a rear end away from the mount, a pinion disposed on a shaft of the motor, an annular gear disposed on a shaft member to mesh with the pinion, a cam disposed in the annular gear and adjacent to one side, a linkage secured to the cam, front and rear plungers disposed on a front end of the linkage, and a cylindrical tube disposed on the plungers in the mount. The rotation of the cam only allows the linkage to repetitively move in a back-and-forth linear motion. Wear between the plungers and the cylindrical tube is decreased to a minimum and leakage is prevented.
US11324574B2
An accurate and precise surgical guide for dental procedures, especially a procedure involving a subject with few or no teeth as well as methods for making and use of such guides.
US11324563B2
Protective coverings are provided for hand-held medical devices that have a measuring port for a disposable analytical test element. The coverings also include a sleeve having a reception opening and can be slipped over the devices to at least partially enclose the devices in a usable protected state. The coverings further include a test element adapter formed as an integral part of the sleeve to receive the test element in alignment with a measuring port, where the sleeve includes the test element adapter and is arranged as a sealing barrier between the test element and the device port in a protected state.
US11324562B2
A latex glove inflation assembly includes a housing that is fluidly coupled to a vacuum source for purging the housing of air. The housing has a pair of glove apertures extending into an interior of the housing. A plurality of engagements is each distributed around a respective one of the glove apertures. Each of the engagements engages a wrist opening on a respective pair of latex gloves when the engagements are turned on. The latex gloves are inflated when the housing is purged of air thereby facilitating a user to insert their hands into the gloves. Each of the engagements releases the latex gloves when the engagements are turned off. A release is coupled to the housing and the release facilitates air to fill the housing when the release is turned on thereby facilitating each of the latex gloves to deflate around the user's hands.
US11324560B2
A surgical instrument according to one or more embodiments may include: a base; an end effector; an elongated element to drive the end effector; a flexible shaft including a distal end coupled with the end effector; a winding member provided to the base rotatably about a rotational axis orthogonal to the second surface such that the elongated element from the flexible shaft is wound around the winding member; a drive receiving member rotatable about a rotational axis orthogonal to the second surface, to receive drive for rotating the winding member; a first guide pulley; and a second guide pulley. The first guide pulley guides the elongated element drawn from the shaft toward the second guide pulley along the rotational axis of the winding member, and the second guide pulley guides the elongated element from the first guide pulley toward the winding member in a direction intersecting the rotational axis.
US11324557B2
A surgical instrument is disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a shaft, a sensing array and a fluid detection circuit. The sensing array is positioned within the shaft. The fluid detection circuit is electrically coupled to the sensing array, and is configured to determine when a fluid originating from an environment external to the shaft is present within the shaft.
US11324554B2
Floating electromagnetic field generator systems and methods are provided. The system comprises a surgical bed portion. The system also comprises a brace component disposed within the surgical bed portion. Additionally, the system comprises a first arm that is attached to the brace component. The first arm is positioned adjacent to the surgical bed portion. Additionally, the first arm has at least one field generator coil embedded therein. The system also comprises a second arm that is attached to the brace component. The second arm is positioned adjacent to the surgical bed portion. Additionally, the second arm has at least one field generator coil embedded therein. The second arm is positioned parallel to the first arm.
US11324542B2
A device is provided for generating RF power for an electrosurgical instrument, wherein the circuit provides the electrosurgical current according to a specified set of predefined parameters. The invention further includes at least one read and write RFID that reads information from a RFID tag. The circuit changes the parameters based on the information.
US11324537B2
Multi-mode torque drivers employing anti-backdrive units for managing pedicle screw attachments with vertebrae, and related systems and methods are disclosed. A spinal column includes vertebrae in an articulating structure protecting a spinal cord. Medical intervention may involve limiting the relative motion between vertebrae by fusing vertebrae together with mechanical assemblies, including pedicle screws attached to the vertebrae. A torque driver may be used to form the pedicle screw attachments with vertebrae. By including an anti-backdrive unit and a motor assembly enclosed within a handle body as part of a multi-mode torque driver, the user may apply sequential combinations of manual and motorized torques to the screws with high levels of tactile feedback as desired. In this manner, pedicle screw attachments may be efficiently achieved with fewer injuries to the patient and surgeon while minimizing screw attachment failures.
US11324536B2
A deformable seal for use together with a laparoscopic port has a deformable body with an upper region, a lower region, and a narrowed waist. A plurality of tool passing channels are individually formed in an axial direction through the deformable body, and each tool passing channel has a tool entrance on a surface of the upper region and a tool exit on a surface of the lower region. The tool passing channels are sufficiently elastic to conform to and seal about a shaft of a laparoscopic tool present in the channel and to close to inhibit leakage of an insufflation gases when the tool is removed from the tool passing channel.
US11324533B2
An ultrasonic probe comprising a housing, a first ultrasonic transducer array, a second ultrasonic transducer array, a first light source, and a second light source. The first ultrasonic transducer array is coupled to the housing and configured to emit a first planar ultrasonic beam in a first direction within a first plane. The second ultrasonic transducer array is coupled to the housing and configured to emit a second planar ultrasonic beam in the first direction within a second plane, which is substantially perpendicular to the first plane. The first light source is coupled to the housing and configured to project a first light line substantially within the first plane. The second light source is coupled to the housing and configured to project a second light line within a third plane, which is substantially perpendicular to the first plane and intersects the second plane at an oblique angle. The first light line intersects and is substantially perpendicular to the second light line.
US11324531B2
A medical drill assembly includes a probe connectable at a proximal end to an electromechanical transducer for generating mechanical vibration of an ultrasonic frequency. The probe has a shaft with a central lumen or channel, the shaft being formed at a distal end with a head having a tapered distal side. A source of pressurized liquid communicates with the lumen or channel of the probe, and a translatory or linear drive is operatively connected to the probe for applying a distally directed force to the probe. A controller is operatively connected to the translatory or linear drive for periodically at least reducing the magnitude of the distally directed force.
US11324526B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for the removal of objects from the body. The device may be a urethral catheter configured to aspirate kidney stones from the urinary tract through one or more aspiration ports at the distal face or along a lateral side of the catheter. The catheter may include one or more irrigation ports at the distal face or along the lateral side of the catheter for dislodging kidney stones. The device may be steerable. The spatial arrangement of the one or more irrigation ports with respect to the one or more aspiration ports may vary. The device may include an irrigation tube and/or a shield member configured to spatially confine the kidney stones adjacent the catheter. Various temporal patterns of aspiration and irrigation are disclosed for optimizing removal of kidney stones.
US11324524B2
A weight-bearing stance corrected foot orthotic (12) is adapted to be used on the foot (2) of a anaesthetised patient in the supine or prone position, the weight bearing stance corrected foot orthotic (12) adapted to dorsiflex the toes of the forefoot of the patient an angle of between 30° to 50° to the plane of the foot (2). A surgical foot orthotic (12) is formed by the steps of disposing a patient's foot (2) or both feet in a weight bearing neutral position and dorsiflexing the forefoot or forefeet of the patient such that patient's foot (2) or feet are in or towards the Windlass configuration. A first orthotic (5) correcting the stance of the patient in the weight bearing position with dorsiflexed forefoot is formed and this is scanned to form an electronic image of the corrective load bearing surface. The electronic image is modified to include one or more guide apertures or cut-outs (9) and a surgical corrected weight-bearing orthotic from the modified electronic image is 3-D printed with the one or more guide apertures or cut-outs.
US11324520B2
A system and method for harvesting autologous tissue, mincing it into fragments that are visible and measureable when filtered, and delivering a portion of the tissue back into the patient without the need to directly touch the tissue. During the same surgical procedure, the tissue can be mixed with a biocompatible agent before introduction into the repair site.
US11324514B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for closing a tubular structure within a patient's body. The apparatus includes a needle including a proximal end including a hub, a distal end including a sharpened distal tip, a lumen having an oblong cross-section extending proximally from the distal end, and defining a longitudinal axis between the proximal and distal ends, and a clip deliverable from the lumen. The clip is compressible between a relaxed state in which a plurality of tines of the clip are shaped to engage and close a tubular structure within a patient's body, and a stressed state in which the tines are compressed to allow the clip to be loaded into the. The apparatus may also include a pusher member for deploying the clip from the distal tip of the needle such that the tines engage and close a tubular structure through which the tubular member is directed.
US11324512B2
A sphincter augmentation device includes a plurality of bodies and a flexible band coupled with the bodies. The bodies define a first circumferential portion of the device and are magnetically biased toward one another. The flexible band defines a second circumferential portion of the device such that the bodies are arranged non-axisymmetrically about a central axis of the device. The device is sized to be positioned around a human urethra so that the bodies and the flexible band bear inwardly against the urethra. The device is configured to transition between a radially expanded state and a radially contracted state by the magnetic bias of the bodies to constrict the urethra.
US11324511B2
Tissue ligation devices and methods are provides to mechanically strangulate abnormal or undesirable tissue. Tissue ligation devices include a catheter having an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of a standard endoscope channel such that the catheter can be inserted into the endoscope. Tissue ligation devices also include a ligation system with an expandable hood disposed located at the distal end of the catheter. A suture extends through a lumen of the catheter and has a distal loop portion exposed outside of the expandable hood.
US11324509B2
A method for obviating spline crash in a surgical stapler that utilizes a motor of the surgical stapler includes oscillating an anvil retainer of the surgical stapler in a first oscillation pattern, oscillating the anvil retainer in a second oscillation pattern that is different from the first oscillation pattern after the first oscillation pattern, and retracting the anvil retainer until an anvil of the surgical stapler is in a clamped position relative to a shell assembly after the second oscillation pattern. Oscillating the anvil retainer in the first oscillation pattern includes oscillating the anvil retainer in a longitudinal direction between extension and retraction with the motor such that the anvil moves towards and away from the shell assembly. Oscillating the anvil retainer in the second oscillation pattern includes moving the anvil towards and away from the shell assembly.
US11324500B2
A surgical stapling device includes a tool assembly that has a staple cartridge that includes a perfluorocarbon (hereinafter “PFC”) solution that is injected into tissue when the surgical stapling device is fired to improve oxygenation of tissue being treated. In aspects of the disclosure, the tool assembly of the surgical stapling device includes a staple cartridge that has staples that are supported on pushers and an actuation sled that is movable through the staple cartridge into engagement with the pushers to eject staples from the staple cartridge. In certain aspects of the disclosure, the PFC solution is contained within the pushers of a staple cartridge of the tool assembly and the actuation sled includes protrusions that engage the pushers to eject the PFC solution from the pushers when the stapling device is fired.
US11324499B2
A surgical instrument including a housing, an endoscopic portion, a shaft portion and an end effector is disclosed. The endoscopic portion extends distally from the housing and defines a longitudinal axis. The shaft portion is selectively connectable to a distal end of the endoscopic portion. The end effector is selectively connectable to a distal end of the shaft portion.
US11324497B2
Described herein are examples of illustrative orthopedic staples, systems and methods. In an illustrative orthopedic staple for fusion of a foot or ankle bone fracture, the staple includes a bridge, a first staple leg and a second staple legs. The bridge of the illustrative staple extends from a first end portion to a second end portion along a first direction. The bridge also includes a step down region located between the first end portion and the second end portion, the step down region having a height along the insertion axis of the staple. In some examples, the first staple leg has a first staple leg height extending from the bridge to the first distal tip and the second staple leg has a second staple leg height extending from the bridge to the second distal tip, and the first staple leg height is greater than the second staple leg height.
US11324489B2
A device for soft tissue biopsy or excision for either handheld or stereotactic table use may comprise a work element configured to selectively open and close at least one articulable beak configured to penetrate tissue, or follow a central lumen of another device or over a wire in a longitudinal direction. Flush and vacuum tissue transport mechanisms may be incorporated. A single tube or an inner sheath and an outer sheath which may be co-axially disposed relative to a work element may be configured to actuate a beak or beaks and provisions for simultaneous beak closing under rotation may be incorporated.
US11324488B2
The present embodiments relate generally to methods for providing viewing access to an ultrasound image feed generated at an ultrasound imaging machine. A multi-use display device may form a first link-layer connection with the ultrasound image machine for transmitting commands that control imaging parameters of the ultrasound image feed. The multi-use display device may then: determine link-layer connection parameters that allow the ultrasound imaging machine to form a second link-layer connection with a receiving device (the receiving device having no link-layer connection with the ultrasound imaging machine), and provide the connection parameters to the receiving device. The ultrasound imaging machine forms a second link-layer connection with the receiving device, based the connection parameters. The second link-layer connection is then used for receiving, at the receiving device, the ultrasound image feed controlled by the multi-use display device.
US11324484B2
An ultrasound circuit comprising a multi-stage trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) is described. The TIA is coupled to an ultrasonic transducer to amplify an electrical signal generated by the ultrasonic transducer in response to receiving an ultrasound signal. The TIA may include multiple stages, at least two of which operate with different supply voltages. The TIA may be followed by further processing circuitry configured to filter, amplify, and digitize the signal produced by the TIA.
US11324476B2
A device is provided for automatically assessing functional hemodynamic properties of a patient is provided, the device comprising: a housing; an ultrasound unit coupled to the housing and adapted for adducing ultrasonic waves into the patient at a vessel; a detector adapted to sense signals obtained as a result of adducing ultrasonic waves into the patient at the vessel and to record the; and a processor adapted for receiving the recorded signals as data and transforming the data for output at an interface. Other devices, systems, methods, and/or computer-readable media may be provided in relation to assessing functional hemodynamics of a patient.
US11324475B2
Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for providing sterile and cost-affordable handheld surgical devices with tactile operable controls. In some aspects, a surgical device includes a surgical probe including a probe detector and a set of operable controls; an exterior shell casing including an opening at one end leading to an interior cavity structured to have a size and shape to fit the surgical probe within and position the probe detector in a first region and a handle of the surgical probe in a second region, in which the first region of the exterior shell casing is configured to be inserted into an incision of a patient's body and the second region is configured to provide a user of the surgical device utilization of the operable controls of the surgical probe through the exterior shell casing; and a cap attachable to the exterior shell casing to close the opening.
US11324467B2
A full-angle coincidence brain PET detector and apparatus, including a plurality of PET detection modules, each of which includes PET detection crystals, a photoelectric sensor array and light guides, all the detection crystals being arranged towards a cavity. The detection modules form a chamber having an opening, each dimension of the cavity is no greater than 35-50 cm, the opening is located at a lower side of the chamber. A cross-sectional area at the opening is greater than a maximum cross-sectional area of a head in a horizontal direction. Except for the opening, all the detection modules are non-detachably connected together. All cross-sectional areas of gaps between the detection modules are less than ½ to ⅓ of the area of the smallest one of the detection crystals. At least 75% to 80% of a coincidence event occurring at a center of the chamber is detected by the detection modules.
US11324465B2
A method includes receiving, from a volumetric imager, a first image including a target of a patient. The method further includes receiving a second image including the target of the patient. The method further includes tracking, by a processing device, a position of the target using the first image and the second image by maintaining a fixed alignment between a treatment beam of a linear accelerator (LINAC) and a source and detector pair of the volumetric imager during operation of the LINAC.
US11324464B2
A mobile radiography apparatus includes a moveable transport frame and an adjustable support arm attached thereto to support an x-ray source. At least one digital detector storage slot in the transport frame is configured to receive and to controllably lower at least one portable radiographic detector into the slot at a controlled speed.
US11324462B2
Methods and systems are provided for fasting switching a filter of an imaging system during scan. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining a first contrast enhancement of an injected contrast agent; responsive to the first contrast enhancement being higher than a first threshold, acquiring a first dataset by transmitting a radiation beam to an imaging subject via a first filter; switching to a different, second filter; acquiring a second dataset by transmitting the radiation beam to the imaging subject via the second filter, wherein an average contrast enhancement of the injected contrast agent during the acquisition of the first dataset is substantially the same as an average contrast enhancement of the injected contrast agent in the imaging subject during the acquisition of the second dataset.
US11324460B2
According to one embodiment, an X-ray mammography apparatus includes a breast support, a compression plate, and a compression controller. The breast support where the breast is placed. The compression plate is arranged such that the breast is sandwiched between the breast support and the compression plate. The compression controller is configured to control the breast support to move toward the compression plate so as to compress the breast from below between the breast support and the compression plate.
US11324457B2
There is included an apparatus and system including an intra-heartbeat (HB) extraction code configured to extract intra-HB features from electrocardiography (ECG) signals, and an inter-HB extraction code configured to extract inter-HB features from the ECG signals, and at least one attention mechanism code configured to control at least one of the intra-HB extraction code and inter-HB extraction code based on at least one attention mechanism.
US11324432B2
A signal processing apparatus includes an input voltage selector configured to select an input voltage from a plurality of input voltages; an input element connected to the input voltage selector; and an input current controller configured to control an inflow of an input current in conjunction with an operation of the input voltage selector.
US11324428B2
In one aspect, a computer-implemented method corrects a multi-sphere head model used in dipole localization for a set of magnetic field sensors (MEG sensors) by replacing ghost spheres with replacement spheres that are not ghost spheres. One type of ghost sphere completely encloses the brain volume but is so large that a center of the sphere is outside the brain volume. Another type of ghost sphere lies entirely outside the brain volume. Various approaches for correcting ghost spheres are disclosed.
US11324426B1
A system including a mobile device with at least one sensor to collect data about a user based on movement of the user in possession of the mobile device, a movement feature analyzer configured to determine out-of-the-ordinary movement pattern made by the user, a physiological/psychological state classifier configured to classify a physiological/psychological state of the user based on the out-of-the-ordinary movement of the user based on the movement feature analyzer and report at least one of a magnitude and a level of the physiological/psychological state experienced by the user based on at least one of data collected about the motion experienced by the mobile device and data collected about the geographic location of the mobile device, and a notification device to provide notification that the user is experiencing a physiological/psychological state measured on the at least physiological/psychological state level and the physiological/psychological state magnitude.
US11324423B2
Disclosed is a non-invasive system for testing blood sugar and a method of the same. The system includes a case, a control key unit, an input electrode unit, a signal filter unit, a signal transformation unit, a control processing unit, a signal amplification unit, an output electrode unit, a driver, a display unit, and a battery unit for preliminarily testing and instantly showing blood sugar or glucose in a non-invasive manner. Owing to a simple structure without any additional device or connection wire, the system is easy to use and practical to assist the user to readily test blood sugar. As a result, the present invention effectively avoids any potential risk of infection of bacteria or other microorganism due to frequently sampling the blood by pricking the finger, and particularly provides a function of fast and readily testing blood sugar everywhere for long term monitoring.
US11324417B2
A magnetic resonance coil frame includes a frame structure, forming in between a receiving space for at least a body portion of a recumbent patient located in a lying plane, wherein at least a first air-operated body-fixation means having a variable shape for immobilizing the body portion is arranged outside the lying plane at a side of the frame structure facing the receiving space. Thus, immobilizing a patient during magnetic resonance imaging and/or treatment can be improved.
US11324416B2
The invention relates to sensing compositional information about material by measuring thermal properties of the material. In one arrangement there is provided a needle probe for sensing compositional information. The probe comprises a needle having a tip region. A resistive element is attached to the needle at the tip region. A measurement system is configured to: 1) drive an electrical current through the resistive element to apply heating to the resistive element, and 2) measure an electrical response of the resistive element to the heating. A processing unit analyses the measured electrical response of the resistive element to the heating to determine compositional information about material in contact with the tip region.
US11324414B2
A probe device provides an enhanced bioelectric and spring-loaded sensing tip with an integrated force sensor. The probe device measures the bioelectric conductance value from a patient for therapeutic and/or diagnostic purpose using the spring-loaded sensing tip. In addition, the probe device measures the force applied by the spring-loaded sensing tip against the patient using the integrated force sensor. Using feedback from the force sensor and the bioconductive data of the patient, the force applied at the spring-loaded sensing tip may be adjusted to obtain improved results.
US11324413B1
A method to increase the reliability and clinical utility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in single subjects and a semi-automated method of identifying and quantifying small hemorrhages using susceptibility-weighted images (SWI) of single subjects include storing an image template formed from control subjects, storing a brain image of the single subject, correcting for image acquisition differences of the control subjects and single subject, and performing regional analysis of the brain image of the single subject. The method may include analysis of fractional anisotropy values that are age-corrected between the control subjects and the single subject before performing voxel-based analysis (VBA), and a hybrid VBA and tract-based spatial statistical (TBSS) analysis with the VBA and TBSS results combined using a statistical calculation. The resulting combined DTI image may be further combined with an SWI image, FLAIR image, and/or T1 image of the single subject.
US11324410B2
Intravascular devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. In some instances, the intravascular device is a guide wire with electrical conductors embedded within a core wire. In some instances, the electrical conductors are coupled to conductive bands adjacent a proximal portion of the guide wire and a sensing element adjacent a distal portion of the guide wire. Methods of making, manufacturing, and/or assembling such intravascular devices and associated systems are also provided.
US11324409B2
An implantable device for sensing intravascular pressure, the device comprising a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator arranged to be deflected by changes in intravascular fluid pressure to provide a pressure dependent sensing signal and an acoustic reflector arranged to separate the BAW resonator from the intravascular fluid and to mediate pressure from the intravascular fluid to the BAW resonator wherein the acoustic reflector comprises a layer structure arranged to provide a series of transitions in acoustic impedance between the intravascular fluid and the BAW resonator.
US11324392B2
A vacuum storage system (40) for storing an article, comprises a sealable outer chamber (30) and a sealable inner chamber (20). The sealable outer chamber (30) has an evacuation valve (21) for connection to a suction device (48) for evacuation of said outer chamber (30). The sealable inner chamber (20) is adapted to receive said article and has a one-way valve (13) in communication with the outer chamber (30). The one-way valve (13) is adapted to open upon the application of suction to the outer chamber (30), thereby to enable evacuation of said inner chamber (20), but to close upon discontinuation of said suction.
US11324390B2
The present disclosure relates to an endotherapy camera coupler. The coupler may detachably couple an endotherapy eyepiece cap to a camera and may support a drape for covering the camera. In one example, the coupler comprises an optically transmissible and liquid impermeable member configured to be arranged in an optical path between the eyepiece cap and the camera, a base holding the optically transmissible and liquid impermeable member in the optical path, a receiving portion for the eyepiece cap, wherein the receiving portion comprises a base-side receiving portion configured to receive the eyepiece cap along an insertion path extending in one direction, and a liquid barrier provided in the receiving portion and configured for hindering or preventing liquid from entering between the eyepiece cap and the optically transmissible and liquid impermeable member when the eyepiece cap is coupled to the camera. Other examples of devices and methods of use are described.
US11324389B2
The invention relates to an endoscope having an endoscope head and an Albarran lever that is attachable to the endoscope head. The Albarran lever has the following: a tool guide surface with which a tool that is guidable through a working channel of an endoscope may come into contact, and a detent device for form-fit locking to a force transmission section of the endoscope head of the endoscope that is actuatable from a proximal side of the endoscope, wherein the force transmission section transmits a force to the Albarran lever in order to pivot the Albarran lever.
US11324385B2
An endoscope system according to the present invention includes: a first illuminating portion that emits first illumination lights having low-spatial-frequency and high-spatial-frequency and changes the intensity distribution of the first illumination lights over time; a second illuminating portion that emits a second illumination light; an imaging unit that images first and second illumination images of an subject respectively illuminated by the first and second illumination lights; and an image-processing portion that processes the first and second illumination images. The imaging unit images four images including images that correspond to the first illumination lights having low-spatial-frequency and high-spatial-frequency and images in which light and dark portions of the first illumination lights are exchanged with each other. The image-processing portion separates three image information for different depths, and processes the second illumination image by the image information other than the image information about the outermost surface side.
US11324383B2
A dishwasher including a nozzle capable of widening an injection region of washing water includes a main body, a washing tub provided inside the main body, and a nozzle configured to inject washing water into the inside of the washing tub, wherein the nozzle includes an injection port through which the washing water is injected, a guide portion configured to spirally guide the washing water injected through the injection port, and a leg portion configured to connect the guide portion and the injection port.
US11324377B2
A driving mechanism for an autonomous planar surface cleaning robot is disclosed. The driving mechanism includes a first transmission component and a second transmission component spaced apart in parallel relationship relative to the first transmission component. Each of the first and second transmission components defines first and second ends and first and second sides, wherein the first sides face each other and the second sides face away from each other in a direction transverse from the direction of motion and the first and second ends are oppositely spaced along the direction of motion. Each of the first and second transmission components are independently controllable by a control unit of the autonomous planar surface cleaning robot.
US11324362B2
Embodiments are directed to a dispensing device and methods of using a dispensing device having an improved out indicator. The dispensing device includes a housing having a cavity. A tissue stack is disposed within the cavity, the tissue stack including a plurality of tissue sheets folded along a crease. An aperture is formed in a top surface of the housing such that a tissue sheet is removable from the cavity through the aperture. A portion of the tissue sheets includes an out indicator formed along a centerline of each tissue sheet and across the crease.
US11324354B2
A Thermos Coffee Maker having a main thermos body, a lid member, a screen member and a screen retaining assembly. The screen retaining assembly includes a threaded cylindrical member and a screen retaining ring. The lid has internal threads and is attached to the upper portion of the screen retaining assembly. The screen retaining assembly is attached at its lower end to the internally threaded portion of the main thermos body. The screen is trapped between the screen retaining ring and a ledge located on the interior of the screen retaining assembly. The user to pours ground coffee into the main thermos body then pours in hot water and screws on the lid. The coffee is allowed to brew-steep. The brewed coffee can be poured through the screen member thereby blocking the coffee grounds and allowing brewed coffee to be poured from the main thermos to a coffee cup.
US11324351B1
The present invention pertains to a Magnetized Multiple Media Memorabilia/Tool Stand apparatus assembly device mechanism, aimed particularly at enabling an end user to have object(s) securely, safely, easily, quickly and in a cost effective method and it/they are mounted/attached in/on a singularly base and be used in multiple locations. This “Magnetized Memorabilia Media Stand”, allows an item(s) including but not limited to work, employment, sports, etc., or the like to be usable as well as displayed. Said can be hung on a Wall-Post, Garage-Refrigerator-House Door, Window Seal, be a Desk Paper Weight, PencilPen-Clip Holder, on Mailboxes, etc. Said has multiple purposes and be used in multiple locations. As “Helmet Hoodie Stand”, it doesn't have multiple magnets nor bolted to a Vehicle, for effectiveness as described herein. Said configuration allows it to be superior to prior art, because its shaft/rod/brace/bracket/magnet mechanism embodiments, etc., are not exclusively for a hood purpose.
US11324341B2
The invention relates to display equipment and is directed toward providing greater variety in terms of converting a tray. The present tray comprises a base consisting of a flat rectangular bottom delimited by a front wall and a rear wall, which are disposed perpendicular to the upper surface of the bottom, and legs disposed on the lower surface of the bottom, close to the back wall of the base, and further comprises removable vertical side walls. The legs are configured in the form of hollow parallelepipeds, the bottoms of the legs are cut away at an acute angle to the longitudinal axes of the parallelepipeds, causing the base to be inclined, the top of the rear wall of the base is provided with two triangular protuberances, the distance between which coincides with the distance between the inner surfaces of the cavities of the legs, the rear sides of the triangular protuberances are parallel to the axes of the legs, and the left and right edges of the base of the tray are provided with fastening elements. The legs of a tray and the top of the rear wall of a base equipped with triangular protuberances are provided with elements for the mutual fastening thereof.
US11324335B2
An inflatable furniture design has a user-interfacing surface, such as the sleeping surface of an air mattress, which includes a breathable multilayer mesh which separates the user from the underlying air-impermeable sheet. The breathable mesh is made from a material such as 3D fabric, which is resiliently deformable while also allowing for airflow through and around the volume of the mesh material of the breathable interface material. When a person contacts the inflatable furniture, her or his body comes into direct contacts with the breathable mesh. The mesh then resiliently deforms such that airflow through and around the mesh is still permitted. This airflow allows heat and moisture from the user to dissipate through mesh of the breathable interface material. This, in turn, enhances the comfort of the breathable mesh, while also reducing the potential for the proliferation of bacteria and mites on the user-contacting surface.
US11324323B2
A body support structure includes a structural lattice structure having a first stiffness, and a compressive lattice structure supported by the structural lattice structure and having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness. A skin lattice structure is supported by the compressive lattice structure, wherein the skin lattice structure is resistant to shear deformation in response to a normal force and is expandable in a direction transverse to the normal force.
US11324322B2
A body support structure includes a shell having a central region, an outer peripheral region spaced from the central region, and at least one array extending between the central region and the outer peripheral region. The at least one array includes a plurality of spaced apart support members and at least one connector connecting adjacent support members within each array. The support members of the at least one array are progressively divided between the central portion and the outer peripheral edge.
US11324315B2
A refrigerator includes a housing, a plurality of openings and a drawer. The housing includes a plurality of side surfaces which define an accommodating cavity. The plurality of openings are respectively formed in different side surfaces. The drawer is arranged in the accommodating cavity and can be pulled out along any one of the plurality of openings. The drawer is arranged in the accommodating cavity so that a user can pull out the drawer to take and place food from the openings located in different side surfaces of the housing.
US11324310B2
An elevation working platform includes a lower support and an upper support. At least one group of X-type elevation mechanisms is provided between the lower support and the upper support. The elevation working platform further includes an elastic element. A first end of the elastic element is connected between two end points of a first support rod or a second support rod. A second end of the elastic element is connected to the lower support or a second hinging seat capable of sliding relative to the lower support. Using the X-type elevation mechanisms, the front and back positions of the upper support do not change in an elevating process of the upper support, the structure is simple and practical, and the cost is relatively low.
US11324309B2
A latch release assembly for folding furniture is provided for simultaneously releasing a plurality of latchable hinges. A rigid elongate member is connected at each end to a latch release lever of a latchable hinge. The rigid elongate member simultaneously transfers a releasing force to each release lever in order to actuate and open the connected latches to allow the latchable hinges to open and pivot. The latch release assembly may be fitted to a table top and table support frame to provide a latching hinge system for a folding table to allow a user to actuate a table from a horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation to facilitate compact and space-saving storage.
US11324292B2
A ring-type wearable device is disclosed. The disclosed ring-type wearable device comprises: an outer ring member; an inner ring member separably inserted into the outer ring member; a sensor unit disposed in the outer ring member; and a control unit disposed in the outer ring member so as to be electrically connected to the sensor unit, wherein the sensor unit can maintain constant sensitivity in correspondence to the thickness of the inner ring member.
US11324289B2
A clasp includes a base member with a first magnetic element and a detachable member with a second magnetic element. The first magnetic element is positioned within a lateral groove in the base member and the second magnetic element is position on a tongue of the detachable member. A first cleat in the base member engages second cleat on the tongue when the tongue is secured in a seated position within the lateral groove. The magnetic elements bias the tongue into the seated position within the lateral groove in response to positioning the second cleat over the first cleat and then moving the second magnetic element into proximity with the first magnetic element. The detachable member may be detached from the base member by applying a lateral force that overcomes friction between the members and magnetic forces between the magnetic elements to slide the tongue laterally through the lateral groove.
US11324288B2
A restrain adjustment mechanism (100) has a buckle (122) with a rotatable dial (302) which is connected by a gear to a pair of strap adjusters (118, 120). Rotation of the dial 302 adjusts the straps (102, 104). The adjusters (118, 120) are removably mounted to the buckle (122).
US11324287B2
The present disclosure provides a detachable buckle, including a belt head, a tail clamp, a fixing base, buckle buttons. One end of the fixing base is a hollow slot, the one end of the fixing base is connected with the tail clamp, and at least one socket is disposed on the one end of the fixing base. An opening is disposed on an edge of the hollow slot. Sliding grooves are disposed on both ends of the tail clamp, and the one end of the tail clamp is near the fixing base. Insert blocks sliding along the sliding grooves are disposed inside the sliding grooves. The insert blocks are connected with the buckle buttons, the buckle buttons drive the insert blocks to enter the hollow slot of the fixing base by pushing the tail clamp, and the buckle buttons are fixed with the sockets.
US11324279B2
A corrective shoe insole system is configured to produce and promote a positive forefoot. A corrective shoe insole system includes an insole having a forefoot portion and a heel portion. The forefoot portion is be thicker than the heel portion to promote forefoot striking when walking or running. An insole may have one or more forefoot risers coupled thereto to provide a specific positive forefoot insole for the user. A user may gradually increase the thickness of live forefoot portion of the insole by adding or changing out forefoot risers. This gradual increase in forefoot thickness of the insole may prevent injury and muscle strain from the adjusted foot striking position. A forefoot riser may be detachably attachable to the forefoot portion of the insole and an attachment feature may provide positive and secure attachment to prevent movement of the forefoot riser.
US11324277B2
An all-in-one footwear spike wrench and dirt removal tool includes a footwear spike wrench key and also a footwear dirt removal prong. The prong is adjustable between a stored position in which the prong is inoperative and a deployed position in which the prong is operative. The tool may include a compartment configured and dimensioned for storing running spikes. A tool kit includes the tool, a separate wrench key bit and a separate dirt removal prong bit, the latter two being selectively retained in a base member of the tool.
US11324265B2
A pocket structure for a waistband of a garment, comprising: an outer pocket panel attached to an inner pocket panel along respective first side edges, second side edges, and bottom edges thereof forming a pocket therebetween and a back portion of the waistband; wherein respective unattached top edges of the outer and inner pocket panels are narrower than the respective bottom edges thereof. And, a waistband for a garment, comprising: an outer pocket panel attached to an inner pocket panel along respective first side edges, second side edges, and bottom edges thereof forming a pocket therebetween and a back portion of the waistband; and, a front portion of the waistband attached to the back portion of the waistband along respective first side edges and second side edges thereof; wherein respective unattached top edges of the outer and inner pocket panels are narrower than the respective bottom edges thereof.
US11324260B2
A shirt collar stiffening device comprises an elongated bendable main body, a first elongated bendable length adjustment member with a first collar stay member pivotably attached, and a second elongated bendable length adjustment member with a second collar stay member pivotably attached. The elongated bendable main body has a first plurality of loops projecting outward from a first side, and a second plurality of loops projecting outward from a second side. The first elongated bendable length adjustment member is slidably engageable with the main body by inserting a proximal end of the first length adjustment member through two of more of the first plurality of loops of the main body. The second elongated bendable length adjustment member is slidably engageable with the main body by inserting a proximal end of the second length adjustment member through two of more of the second plurality of loops of the main body.
US11324257B2
An electronic cigarette, including: a cigarette holder assembly; a threaded sleeve; a meshed heating disc; e-liquid conducting cotton; an e-liquid load module; and a base assembly. The cigarette holder assembly includes a cigarette holder, an air adjusting ring, and a threaded gasket. The air adjusting ring includes a bottom wall and is embedded in the cigarette holder. The threaded gasket is in threaded connection to the air adjusting ring, and a plurality of holes is disposed in the bottom wall of the air adjusting ring. The e-liquid load module includes a cotton support, an e-liquid feeding hopper, a compression ring, a telescopic column, a spring, an anode connecting piece and an end plug. The spring, the telescopic column, the compression ring and the e-liquid feeding hopper are mounted in the anode connecting piece in that order. The cotton support is embedded in the anode connecting piece.
US11324252B2
An aerosol generating article (10) comprises an aerosol generating substrate (12); a mouthpiece (14) comprising an element (20) defining a cavity having a longitudinal axis; and a particulate aerosol altering material (30) partially filling the cavity. The particulate aerosol altering material (30) is adhered to the cavity-defining segment (20) by means of a permanent adhesive provided over at least a portion of an inner surface of the cavity-defining segment (20) to define an aerosol passage (32) substantially concentric with the longitudinal axis of the cavity.
US11324243B2
The disclosure provides methods and processes for the preparation of oil-in-water emulsions by mechanical means and injection of the emulsions into meat and poultry to improve eating qualities associated with flavour, juiciness, tenderness and fat content. The disclosure also provides a meat or poultry product prepared by the methods described herein.
US11324239B2
The present invention relates to high pressure processing (HPP) methods of and containers for preparation of food products such as solid or semi-solid foods, beverages and food supplements containing high-pressure sensitive probiotics and other high-pressure sensitive substances, which maintain their viability, biological activity and other beneficial properties in the prepared food product. The present invention also relates to pasteurized food products containing biologically active high-pressure sensitive probiotics, other high-pressure sensitive substances, or their combinations.
US11324237B2
The invention describes products, uses thereof, compositions thereof, and methods to prepare products formed from Maillard reaction products from a sugar donor and/or sweet tea extracts, stevia extracts, swingle (mogroside) extracts, one or more sweet tea extract components, one or more steviol glycosides, one or more mogrosides, one or more glycosylated sweet tea glycosides, one or more glycosylated steviol glycosides or one or more glycosylated mogrosides and an amine donor/reactant.
US11324233B2
The present invention relates in general to the field of pet food. In particular the present invention relates to a meat like chunk that can be incorporated into a complete pet food. One embodiment of the present invention is a method of using multiple scraped surface heat exchangers and a steam tunnel to produce a meat like chunk. Another embodiment is a composition of meat ingredients, dried egg product, egg whites, and pea protein that results in a meat like chunk having an improved appearance that closely resembles that of actual pieces of meat.
US11324230B2
The present invention relates to food compositions, in particular soft food compositions comprising amorphous porous particles, the amorphous porous particles comprising sweetener, bulking agent and surfactant. Further aspects of the invention relate to a spread having an enhanced sweetness perception and a process for manufacturing a food composition having a soft texture.
US11324229B2
The present invention relates to anew method of producing a high-protein, acidified, liquid, dairy product. The invention furthermore relates to new high-protein acidified, liquid dairy product, to protein/mineral compositions and uses of these for producing liquid dairy products having a high-protein content and a low viscosity.
US11324224B2
The subject invention provides microbe-based compositions comprising cultivated microorganisms and/or growth by-products thereof, as well as methods and systems for producing and using these compositions. More specifically, the subject invention provides microbe-based compositions comprising biologically pure yeast selected from the Pichia clade, and/or growth by-products thereof, such as biosurfactants, enzymes and solvents. Methods of using these compositions to enhance production in agriculture, horticulture, livestock rearing and aquaculture industries are also provided.
US11324223B2
This invention relates to an improved system for releasing beneficial mites and the use of such a system. Mite species that can be used beneficially for human purposes may for example be employed in the control of pests, such as in the field of agriculture, including agricultural production systems for plant products, agricultural production systems for animal products, and animal husbandry, or in the field of storage of food products. The system of the invention may find use in any of these fields.
US11324215B2
A viable disc regenerative composition has a micronized material of nucleus pulposus and a biological composition made from a mixture of mechanically selected allogeneic biologic material derived from bone marrow having non-whole cellular components including vesicular components and active and inactive components of biological activity, cell fragments, cellular excretions, cellular derivatives, and extracellular components; and wherein the mixture is compatible with biologic function and further includes non-expanded whole cells. The biological composition is predisposed to demonstrate or support elaboration of active volume or spatial geometry consistent in morphology with that of disc tissue. The viable disc regenerative composition extends regenerative resonance that compliments or mimics disc tissue complexity.
US11324209B2
The current invention concerns an aqueous synergistic solution for promoting non-lethal migration of acarids from their habitat towards a carrier comprising an attractant for the attraction of acarids, wherein said attractant is limonene, one or more attraction enhancers chosen from the group citronellal, linalool, geranyl acetate, caryophyllene, caryophyllene oxide and/or neryl acetate, and an emulsifier, preferably polysorbate. The current invention also concerns a method for attracting and holding acarids, comprising of the steps: providing a sheet having interstices sufficiently large and a thickness sufficiently large to hold acarids; and applying on said sheet the aqueous synergistic solution in a non-lethal dose per area. The synergistic solution promotes migration of acarids from their habitat into said sheet, after which the sheet can be disposed or the acarids removed therefrom.
US11324203B2
Systems and methods for sorting livestock including a livestock processing station, a computer network system, and a livestock routing mechanism. The livestock processing station confines the individual livestock, allowing individual livestock data to be collected and analyzed. The computer network system includes a programmable logic controller (PLC) for data input at the livestock processing station and a sorting application coupled to the PLC via a computer network, the sorting application for analyzing individual livestock data and assigning livestock to pens.
US11324199B2
An equine ankle brace including a panel of a resilient thermally insulating, heat retaining material, having a cup-shaped bottom portion for enabling the panel to be wrapped around the horse's ankle to readily conform to it. The panel has an inner surface and an outer surface, a pair of front marginal edges including releasably securable fastening straps for securing the brace in place. A stabilizing, e.g., leather, patch is fixedly secured to the panel at the location of the cup-shaped bottom portion. A fetlock support strap is fixedly secured to the stabilizing patch and includes respective portions configured to be pulled into an X-shaped overlapping relationship over the front of the brace for releasable securement to portions of the outer surface of the brace.
US11324190B2
One embodiment relates to seed and plants of pepper hybrid XHP16841. Another embodiment relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid XHP16841, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves, with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype, or with vegetatively propagating said plant. Another embodiment further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. Further embodiments relate to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US11324187B1
The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line SVGV2089. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of bean line SVGV2089 and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line SVGV2089 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line SVGV2089, including the pods and gametes of such plants.
US11324185B2
A novel garden bean cultivar, designated HMX0164423, is disclosed. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the seeds of garden bean HMX0164423, to the plants and plant parts of garden bean HMX0164423, and to methods for producing a garden bean plant by crossing the garden bean HMX0164423 with itself or another garden bean plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing other garden bean plants derived from the garden bean HMX0164423.
US11324183B2
A soybean cultivar designated 90250820 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 90250820, to the plants of soybean cultivar 90250820, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 90250820, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 90250820. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90250820. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 90250820, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 90250820 with another soybean cultivar.
US11324178B2
Plants with resistance to glyphosate are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the disclosure relate to human induced non-transgenic mutations in the EPSPS gene in plants.
US11324175B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the lettuce line SVLD9013. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of lettuce line SVLD9013 and to methods for producing a lettuce plant produced by crossing a plant of lettuce line SVLD9013 with itself or with another lettuce plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of lettuce line SVLD9013 including the gametes of such plants.
US11324171B2
An aeroponic plant-growth system includes growth space and a control unit that may be assembled using factory made modules. The growth space includes layers at different heights, and each layer includes plant holders and misters positioned to apply a mist to roots of plants in the plant holders. The control unit employs a controller to execute a program that operates a liquid supply system to provide liquid flows to the misters in the layers. Each of the liquid flows may be regulated according to the height of the layers.
US11330749B2
A component mounting device configured to mount a component, which has a feature portion on an upper surface, on a board. The component mounting device picks up the component, images a lower surface of the picked-up component, temporarily loads the picked-up component on a target temporary loading position to a temporary loading stand which is corrected based on a pickup deviation amount of the component to be recognized based on a lower surface image of the imaged component. Subsequently, the component mounting device images an upper surface of the temporarily loaded component, picks up again the component which is temporarily loaded on the temporary loading stand, and images a lower surface of the re-picked up component. Then, the component mounting device mounts the re-picked up component on a target mounting position of the board corrected based on a positional deviation amount of the feature portion.
US11330748B2
An electronic component mounting method including a preparatory imaging step of storing preparation position information of component holding sections obtained based on preparation images imaged with no electronic component held by the component holding sections and with a rotary head indexed to multiple indexing angles; a pick-up step of picking up electronic components; an angle information acquisition step of acquiring indexing angle information of the rotary head; a component imaging step of imaging the electronic components with the indexing angle of the rotary head made to coincide with an indexing angle of the rotary head that corresponds to the specific positional information; and a measurement step of measuring a positional deviation amount between a position of the multiple component holding sections that is recognized from the specific positional information and a position of the electronic component that is recognized from the component image obtained in the component imaging step.
US11330744B2
Discrete, individualized carbon nanotubes having targeted, or selective, oxidation levels and/or content on the interior and exterior of the tube walls are claimed. Such carbon nanotubes can have little to no inner tube surface oxidation, or differing amounts and/or types of oxidation between the tubes' inner and outer surfaces. These new discrete carbon nanotubes are useful in treatment compositions for contaminated soil and ground water. Additives such as plasticizers, can be used in compounding and formulation of elastomeric, thermoplastic and thermoset composite for improvement of mechanical, electrical and thermal properties.
US11330743B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display panel, a metal layer disposed on a surface of the display panel, a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) disposed on a surface of the metal layer, a bending part connecting the display panel to the DDI, and a cover member connected to the metal layer while covering the DDI. The cover member includes at least one conductive layer. The metal layer and the cover member form a space in which the DDI is disposed, and the bending part is connected to the DDI via a connection part in the space.
US11330736B1
A video recorder (100) is configured and assembled to provide improved ventilation for cooling and improved protection against liquid intrusion. The video recorder is formed of a main chassis housing, a top cover, and a bezel for coupling the top cover to the main chassis housing. Once assembled, channels are formed which provide paths for both liquid egress and airflow intake. The channels allow airflow into fan intake openings located within a top portion of the main chassis housing. The channels further provide for liquid to be diverted away from the fan intake openings.
US11330732B2
According to various embodiments, a method for manufacturing a metal housing can be provided, comprising: a step of forming a metal base made of a metal material; a step of pretreating the surface of the metal base such that the surface has a predetermined gloss and flatness; an anodizing step of forming a predetermined oxide film on the flat surface of the metal base; a step of coloring the oxide film by using a colorant having a desired color; a sealing step for maintaining the performance and characteristics of the colorant on the colored oxide film; and a step of laminating at least one deposition layer on the upper part of the sealed oxide film.
US11330717B2
The present disclosure is related to a power module power structure and an assembling method thereof. The power module structure includes a first printed-circuit-board (PCB) assembly, a second PCB assembly, and a conductive connection component. The first PCB assembly includes a first circuit board, a power switch and a magnetic component. The first circuit board includes a first side, a second side and a through hole. The power switch is disposed on the first circuit board. The magnetic component includes a first magnetic core and a second magnetic core fastened on the first circuit board through the through hole. The second PCB assembly includes a second circuit board having a third side, a fourth side and a hollow slot passing therethrough. The second magnetic core is exposed through the hollow slot. The conductive connection component is disposed and electrically connected between the first PCB assembly and the second PCB assembly.
US11330711B2
The present invention is directed to flexible conductive articles (600) that include a printed circuit (650) and a stretchable or non-stretchable substrate (610). In some embodiments, the substrate has a printed circuit on both sides. The printed circuit contains N therein a porous synthetic polymer membrane (660) and an electrically conductive trace (670) as well as a non-conducive region (640). The electrically conductive trace is imbibed or otherwise incorporated into the porous synthetic polymer membrane. In some embodiments, the synthetic polymer membrane is microporous. The printed circuit may be discontinuously bonded to the stretchable or non-stretchable substrate by adhesive dots (620). The printed circuits may be integrated into garments, such as smart apparel or other wearable technology.
US11330702B2
A conductive signal transmission structure for an electronic device (e.g., a printed circuit board of an electronic device) includes a copper material and a graphene layer disposed within the copper material at a depth below a surface of the structure. The depth of the graphene layer is further within a skin depth region of the structure when a transmission signal is applied to the structure that is in the GHz frequency range.
US11330697B2
A laser-produced plasma X-ray system includes a liquid metal flow system enclosed within a low-pressure chamber, the flow system including a liquid metal, wherein in at least one location on the liquid metal forms a metal target beam, a circulation pump within the flow system for circulating the liquid metal, a laser pulse emitter configured to transmit a plurality of laser pulses into the chamber via a laser window, focusing optics, located between the emitter and the metal target beam, the focusing optics directing the laser pulses to strike the metal target beam at a target location to form X-ray pulses, and an X-ray window positioned within the chamber to allow the X-ray pulses to exit the chamber.
US11330687B2
A method of controlling a power supply electrically coupled to a dimmer includes receiving a current pulse-width-modulated (PWM) pulse of a plurality of PWM pulses corresponding to a dimmer level, calculating a current duty cycle of the current PWM pulse, comparing the current duty cycle with a window of validity to determine whether the current duty cycle is within the window of validity, and in response to determining that the current duty cycle is not within the window of validity, determining whether a count of out-of-range PWM pulses having duty cycles not within the window of validity is greater than a threshold, and in response to determining that the count of out-of-range PWM pulses is greater than the threshold generating a sample value corresponding to the current duty cycle for transmission to the power supply.
US11330685B2
The present invention discloses a method, device, terminal setting and readable storage medium for correcting mixed color. The method first acquiring color coordinates of standard mixed color and color coordinates of mixed color to be corrected, when the first difference coordinates of the two color coordinates exceed preset threshold, calculating a ratio of Y coordinate and X coordinate of the first difference coordinates to obtain first ratio, calculating coordinates difference between the first color coordinates and color coordinates of each monochromatic light to obtain difference coordinates to be processed, calculating ratios of Y coordinate and X coordinate of each difference coordinates to be processed to obtain ratios to be processed, selecting monochromatic light corresponding to a ratio to be processed with the smallest difference from the first ratio as monochromatic light to be adjusted, then realizing color correction by adjusting color channel value of the monochromatic light to be adjusted.
US11330672B2
A method of controlling a heat wire of a seat includes: a classification operation of determining whether or not a passenger rides on a vehicle; a calculation operation of calculating a difference with a target temperature by measuring a current temperature of the seat; and a heating operation of heating the heat wire of the seat by differently setting a heating rate so that the temperature of the seat reaches the target temperature up to a heating target time set differently depending on whether or not the passenger rides on the vehicle.
US11330668B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for Fifth Generation New Radio (5G NR) frequency range two (FR2) based communications beam management. The UE may configure, via communications with a base station, serving the UE, a group ID for PUCCH resources within a group of PUCCHs, e.g., for FR2 based communications. The UE may receive, from the base station, an update to one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs via a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) that may include one of a resource ID indicating an update to a PUCCH resource or the group ID to update the group of PUCCH resources. The UE may update, based on the MAC-CE, the one or more PUCCH resources within the group of PUCCHs.
US11330663B2
A base station transmits to a wireless device, a first message indicating a RRC state transition of the wireless device from an RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state. The first message indicates a value associated with a wireless device radio-access-network notification area (RNA) update timer for a periodic RNA update procedure. The base station receives an RNA update from the wireless device in response to expiry of the wireless device RNA update timer. A determination is made that the periodic RNA update is unsuccessful based on expiry of a network RNA update timer. A second message is transmitted by the base station to an AMF in response to the determination. The second message indicates a wireless device context release request for the wireless device. The second message comprises an identifier of the wireless device.
US11330654B2
A communications apparatus includes a radio transceiver transmitting or receiving wireless signals in a wireless network and a processor. The processor is configured to perform operations comprising: storing cell information of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) cell supporting Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (EUTRA)-New Radio (NR) Dual Connectivity (EN-DC); and performing a mobility procedure to camp on the LTE cell according to the stored cell information of the LTE cell supporting EN-DC.
US11330642B2
An aspect of the disclosure relates to a method for supporting a local access data network (LADN) service by an access and mobility management function (AMF) in a wireless communication system, and the method may comprise the steps of: providing LADN information for the LADN service to a terminal, wherein the LADN information includes LADN service area information and LADN data network name (DNN) information; acquiring location information of the terminal; when establishment of a packet data unit (PDU) session for providing the LADN service is determined on the basis of the location information of the terminal, transmitting to the terminal a preset message including a request for the establishment of the PDU session; and receiving, from the terminal, a request message for initiating the establishment of the PDU session.
US11330640B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal; and a processor for processing the wireless signal. The processor is configured to perform a transmission based on a transmission opportunity (TXOP) limit which is a maximum value of a TXOP, which is a time interval in which a wireless communication terminal has a right to initiate a frame exchange sequence in a wireless medium.
US11330638B2
A wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more messages comprising configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters indicate a plurality of slot format combinations. The configuration parameters indicate a slot format combination repetition indicator. A downlink control information is received. The downlink control information indicates one of the plurality of slot format combinations. A channel occupancy time structure of the cell is determined based on: the one of the plurality of slot format combinations, and the slot format combination repetition indicator. Transport blocks are transmitted, based on the channel occupancy time structure, via uplink resources of the cell.
US11330636B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may identify that the UE is configured to use a two-step random access channel (RACH) procedure. The two-step RACH procedure may include an uplink request message and a downlink response. The UE may transmit the uplink request message as part of the two-step RACH procedure, and the uplink request message may include a preamble portion that is one of a set of predefined sequences and a payload portion that includes a physical uplink shared channel waveform. The UE may receive the downlink response as part of the two-step RACH procedure and in response to the uplink request message.
US11330633B2
The disclosure relates to a random access method and device. The method includes: determining a first target uplink carrier among a plurality of uplink carriers corresponding to a target base station, the plurality of uplink carriers includes at least one supplementary uplink (SUL) carrier; transmitting a random access preamble to the target base station using the first target uplink carrier. In the technical solution, a terminal device can determine the first target uplink carrier used for transmitting the random access preamble among the plurality of uplink carriers corresponding to the target base station, and transmit the random access preamble to the target base station using the first target uplink carrier to initiate a random access, so that the random access is implemented in cells configured with the SUL carrier, thus the success rate of the random access is increased.
US11330630B2
A device and method and system for dynamically processing a random access response (RAR) signal to perform wireless communications is disclose. In some embodiments, the device is configured to receive one or multiple random access response (RAR) signals, wherein when the processor receives multiple RAR signals, it selects a RAR signal and responses to the selected RAR signal based on a content of the one or multiple RAR signals and proceeds with subsequent wireless communication using information contained in the selected RAR signal.
US11330626B2
A wireless device may communicate with multiple base stations via different cell groups. A listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure may be performed. Based on a failure of the LBT procedure, a base station may be reconfigured.
US11330614B2
The present disclosure relates to a user device, a base station, a method for data transmission/reception by a user device, and a method for data reception/transmission by a base station. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, receives a parameter defining a rule for assigning to ports respective resources for carrying reference signals, generates, based on a mapping known to the user device and the base station, a set of layer-to-port mapping combinations, and receives, from the base station, control information indicating one of the set of layer-to-port mapping combinations which is to be applied for data transmission and/or reception.
US11330603B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums to enhance the functionality of directional repeaters (wireless nodes that relay directional wireless signals). For example, by adding even limited capability to buffer digital samples, repeater functionality may be enhanced to provide better coverage and make more efficient use of time, frequency, and spatial resources.
US11330600B2
A system and method for optimizing access points (APs) within a network comprises receiving, at a first AP, parameters corresponding to a second AP, and determining that the first AP and the second AP are part a first and a second wireless local area network (WLAN), respectively. The first and second WLANs support client credential sharing allowing seamlessly transitioning of a client device between the first and second WLANs using common credentials. Further, co-channel interference between the first AP and the second AP is detected based on the parameters corresponding to the second AP and parameters of the first AP, and at least one of a channel and transmission power of one or more of the first AP and the second AP is changed in response to the detection of the interference.
US11330598B2
A method includes: receiving, by a terminal, at least one piece of first transmission resource pool configuration information sent by a network device, where the first transmission resource pool configuration information includes at least a first transmission resource pool identifier and first transmission resource pool resource configuration information; when the terminal determines that a first transmission resource pool corresponding to the first transmission resource pool identifier is in a first state, independently selecting, by the terminal, a direct link transmission resource from time-frequency transmission resources corresponding to the first transmission resource pool resource configuration information; and sending, by the terminal, direct link service data by using the direct link transmission resource.
US11330597B2
According to some embodiments, a method for use in a wireless transmitter of a wireless communication network comprises providing control information relating to a slot. The control information includes an indication of whether the slot is of a first type or a second type. A slot of the first type starts at a slot interval boundary, and a slot of the second type either starts between slot interval boundaries and has arbitrary length or starts at a slot interval boundary and has reduced length. The control information includes an implicit or explicit reference signal timing indication if the slot is of the second type. The method further comprises transmitting the control information to a wireless receiver.
US11330594B1
A configuration for optimized UE beamforming with a null space report. The apparatus establishes a connection with a base station. The apparatus transmits, to the base station, a UE report comprising one or more beamforming capabilities of the UE. The apparatus receives, from the base station, a null space report comprising null space information for the UE based on the beamforming capabilities reported by the UE.
US11330592B2
The present disclosure relates to 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). The disclosure is for controlling congestion of a channel in a wireless communication system According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises determining a plurality of granted transmission resources for a sidelink communication, performing a transmission or a retransmission using at least one transmission resource among the plurality of granted transmission resources, receiving an acknowledgement (ACK) for the transmission or the retransmission, in response to the ACK, releasing one or more transmission resources among the plurality of granted transmission resources, measuring a channel occupancy ratio (CR) from transmission resources other than the released one or more transmission resources from the plurality of granted transmission resources, and transmitting a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) to satisfy a condition that the measured CR does not exceed a configured CR limit so that a congestion control is performed.
US11330590B2
A communication method and a system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with an internet of things (IoT) technology are provided, which may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and an apparatus for transmitting a reference signal are provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, a first parameter and a second parameter associated with a sound reference signal (SRS) by higher layer signaling, identifying a bandwidth for the SRS based on the first parameter and the second parameter, and transmitting, to the base station, the SRS based on the identified bandwidth for the SRS.
US11330584B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for interference management with adaptive resource block (RB) allocation. In an exemplary method, a base station (BS) obtains an indication that downlink transmissions to a first user equipment (UE) potentially interfere with uplink transmissions by a second UE, the BS dynamically allocates, based on the indication, a first set of one or more resource blocks (RBs) for the downlink transmissions to the first UE, and the BS then transmits an indication of the first set of RBs to the first UE. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US11330581B2
In order for a first terminal apparatus to transmit a physical uplink control channel to a base station without retuning regardless of a bandwidth part used by the first terminal apparatus, a base station 100 according to the present disclosure includes a communication processing unit 141 configured to communicate with the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A) within a bandwidth part of an uplink system band, the bandwidth part being used by the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A), wherein the bandwidth part includes a physical uplink control channel region used by the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A).
US11330578B2
One or more devices, systems, and/or methods for facilitating transmission of a configuration corresponding to an uplink carrier are provided. The configuration may be transmitted to a node. The configuration may be used to identify the uplink carrier. The node may access the uplink carrier responsive to receiving an add instruction. The node may release the uplink carrier responsive to receiving a delete instruction.
US11330575B2
A UE includes a transceiver configured to receive an adaptation request (AR) via a DCI format in a PDCCH. The UE further includes a processor configured to configure the transceiver to operate in a first state associated with a reception of a first DCI format in a first search space set in response to an AR reception outcome, and to operate in a second state associated with a reception of a second DCI format in a second search space set. A BS includes a transceiver configured to transmit an AR via a DCI format in a PDCCH. The BS includes a processor configured to configure the transceiver to operate in a first state associated with a transmission of a first DCI format in a first search space set, and to operate in a second state associated with a transmission of a second DCI format in a second search space set.
US11330573B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for providing point-to-multipoint transmission in a single cell in a mobile communication network. The method may include receiving system information for single-cell multi-transmission in a primary cell (PCell); receiving single-cell multi-transmission control information in the primary cell; and checking whether a neighboring cell provides a single-cell multi-transmission, using the single-cell multi-transmission control information.
US11330565B2
Aspects of the present disclosure propose a mechanism whereby a nearby device may detect scenarios where one device is unable to receive communications from a transmitting device. For example, the nearby device may detect that concurrent transmissions of a transmitting device and intended recipient prevent reception by the intended recipient and provide feedback to the transmitting device. Rather than blindly retransmitting, the transmitting device may only retransmit when it receives feedback from the nearby device, saving power and avoiding unnecessary transmissions.
US11330563B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a user equipment in a radio access network, the user equipment being configured with a transmission resource pool. The transmission resource pool includes resources for transmission of response control signaling by the user equipment. The method includes transmitting response control signaling utilising a resource structure, the resource structure being selected from the transmission resource pool based on a signaling characteristic of characterising signaling, the resource structure further being selected based on selection control information included in a received selection control message. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US11330562B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses and systems for wireless communication. In some embodiments, a wireless communication system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry of the wireless communication system operates based on a first radio access technology. The processing circuitry receives a sidelink control request from a first user equipment that accesses the wireless communication system using the first radio access technology. The sidelink control request requests sidelink control information for a second radio access technology. The processing circuitry then obtains the sidelink control information for the second radio access technology, and provides, via the first radio access technology, the sidelink control information for the second radio access technology, to the first user equipment. The sidelink control information is used to configure a sidelink between the first user equipment and a second user equipment using the second radio access technology.
US11330557B2
A system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for reducing and/or optimizing signaling messages between a radio access network (RAN) node and a core network based on an operation mode of the RAN node may include a core network server including: a memory storing computer readable instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the computer readable instructions to establish a control plane connection with at least one radio access network (RAN) node, the at least one RAN node supporting at least a first connection mode and a second connection mode, determine a connection mode of the at least one RAN node, and restrict transmission of at least one signaling message to the at least one RAN node based on results of the determining the connection mode of the at least one RAN node.
US11330553B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for intelligent routing of notifications of incoming voice communication requests. A device, such as a smartphone, may receive an incoming voice communication request, such as a cellular voice call. The smartphone may then identify devices connected to it, such as headsets, tablets, etc., and request each device activate a microphone or camera to attempt to locate the user with respect to the connected devices. The smartphone may then select one of the connected devices, or itself, as the device best able to notify the user of the incoming call based on captured audio, images, or video. The smartphone may then request the selected device output a notification, such as a ring tone, to notify the user of the incoming call. Such a technique may avoid inundating the user with simultaneous call notifications from multiple devices.
US11330539B2
This application discloses a synchronization signal sending method and a related device. The method includes: generating, a first synchronization signal sequence and a second synchronization signal sequence, where the first synchronization signal sequence is a sequence obtained based on a first m-sequence, the second synchronization signal sequence is a sequence obtained based on a Gold sequence, the Gold sequence is generated based on a second m-sequence and a third m-sequence, and a generator polynomial of the first m-sequence is the same as a generator polynomial of the second m-sequence; mapping, the first synchronization signal sequence onto M subcarriers in a first time unit to obtain a first synchronization signal, and mapping the second synchronization signal sequence onto M subcarriers in a second time unit to obtain a second synchronization signal, where M and N are positive integers greater than 1.
US11330530B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose are a power control method and a terminal apparatus. The method comprises: a terminal apparatus receiving downlink control information (DCI) sent by a network apparatus and used for scheduling a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), the DCI comprising a first sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indication; the terminal apparatus determining, according to the DCI, an uplink power control parameter value corresponding to the first SRS resource indication; and the terminal apparatus controlling, according to the uplink power parameter value corresponding to the first SRS resource indication, actual transmit power of first uplink data carried by the PUSCH and corresponding to the first SRS resource indication. The method, the terminal apparatus, and the network apparatus of the embodiments of the present application facilitate an improvement in spectral efficiency.
US11330522B2
A method of operating an access node (112) of a sub-area (161) of a communication network (100) includes transmitting configuration data (4001) for wake-up signal (700, 711, 712, 4003) transmission in the sub-area (161) and in at least one further sub-area (162-168) of the communication network (100).
US11330516B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide a radio access technology selection (RAT) service. The RAT selection service includes using traffic pattern information, coverage level information, and load information as a basis to select a RAT of use for an end device that has multi-RAT capabilities. The RAT selection service may select power preservation configurations for each RAT of the end device.
US11330514B2
A communications system is described in which a communication device is able to communicate with a base station via a first communication path and with an access node via a second communication path. The communication device provides to the base station an indication of whether or not the communication device is enabled to use the second communication path. The communication device receives, from the base station and in dependence on the indication, control data for changing between the first and the second communication paths, and changes between the first and second communication paths in accordance with the received control data.
US11330510B2
An apparatus for accessing a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network, including a Wi-Fi processor and N Wi-Fi access circuits. N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2. The Wi-Fi processor is shared by the N Wi-Fi access circuits and implements an operation function related to Wi-Fi. The N Wi-Fi access circuits receives and transmits data at a same time through N Wi-Fi networks that operate on different radio frequency bands. Each Wi-Fi access circuit of the Wi-Fi access circuits comprises a Media Access Control (MAC) hardware and a physical layer (PHY) hardware.
US11330498B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods related to reducing or making more efficient handovers from one cell to another cell in a communications network. The method includes receiving mobility data for a device being serviced by a first cell, classifying the device based on the mobility data to yield a classification and making a handoff decision when handing off the device from the first cell to a second cell based at least in part on the classification. An example of the mobility data is a speed at which the device is moving or time a device is in a cell.
US11330491B2
A method for handing over a call from a first communication network to a second communication network, comprising the steps of: registering, by a first mobile client, in particular, an IP-PBX VoIP client, running on a mobile device, the mobile device with an IP-based PBX for the first communication network, following a naming convention, by sending a registration message from the first mobile client to the IP-based PBX, the registration message comprising an endpoint ID, establishing an active conversation over the first communication network, detecting, on the mobile device, a connectivity change with respect to the first communication network, wherein the further steps of retrieving, by the first mobile client, the status of the call impacted by the connectivity change, and subsequently transferring the call to the second communication network are carried out using SIP NOTIFY messages. Further, a communication system for carrying out the method is provided.
US11330490B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a vehicle communication system which distributes information which is necessary in vehicle units. A vehicle communication system according to the present invention includes: a vehicle base station which performs wireless communication with a vehicle terminal installed in a vehicle to receive vehicle related service; and a server apparatus which specifies the vehicle base station of a message distribution destination according to the vehicle related service to be provided, and distributes a message related to the vehicle related service to be provided, to the specified vehicle base station. When receiving the message transmitted from the server apparatus, the vehicle base station transmits the message to the vehicle terminal which subscribes to the vehicle related service related to the message, from a plurality of vehicle terminals and located in a communication area formed by the vehicle base station.
US11330481B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for configuring one or more measurement parameters. The method is applied to a base station, and includes acquiring signal transmission information from a neighboring cell. The signal transmission information includes first information about the transmission of a synchronization signal and/or second information about the transmission of a reference signal for beam measurement. According to the present disclosure, it is able to solve the problem in the related art where it is impossible for a conventional measurement gap configuration mechanism to ensure that a UE is capable of successfully receiving a signal from a neighboring cell.
US11330480B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A handover method of a terminal in a mobile communication system according to the present disclosure includes transmitting UE capability information including a random access-free handover indicator to a first base station, receiving a handover command message from the first base station, and transmitting, when the handover command message includes uplink resource information, a handover complete message to a second base station based on the uplink resource information.
US11330474B2
Disclosed herein are a method and procedure for processing protection data for protecting data privacy in an M2M system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, an M2M apparatus located in an M2M platform in an M2M system includes a communicator configured to transmit and receive a signal and a processor configured to control the communicator. Herein, the processor generates a resource at a resource generation request for administering data received by the communicator, generates a resource at a resource generation request for storing the data received by the communicator, determines whether the data received by the communicator are protection data, and when the data are determined as protection data, performs data processing for privacy protection.
US11330472B2
Embodiments described herein provide for the pseudo-cooperative load balancing and/or distribution of traffic and/or other types of data by independent nodes. Techniques described herein may be considered “pseudo-cooperative” in that the resulting distribution of traffic and/or other data may resemble load balancing techniques in which various nodes, that serve as an ingress for data for distribution and/or other types of processing, communicate with each other (e.g., share context information) in order to perform load balancing in a coordinated or cooperative manner. In contrast, nodes in accordance with some embodiments described herein may perform load balancing with the same or similar results (e.g., a relatively even distribution of traffic and/or other data), without communicating with each other, thus saving time, processing resources, and/or other resources.
US11330467B2
There may be a gap between the time a beam pair link (BPL) impacted by a beam failure (BF) event is deactivated and the time a replacement BPL is activated and becomes fully functional at a UE. The gap may be called a blackout period. A base station may not know the blackout period and may continue transmitting to the UE on the impacted BPL during the blackout period. This may result in a transmission failure. Disclosed herein are apparatus and methods for determining a blackout period associated with a beam failure (BF) event and communicating a blackout indication to a base station, the blackout indication including the blackout period.
US11330463B2
An invention relates to methods for transmitting a buffer status report (BSR) in a mobile communication system, more particularly to the definition of rules for triggering, generating and transmitting BSRs. The invention also relates to a data transmission method utilizing new rules to decide data of which radio bearers is transmitted within a given transmission time interval. Moreover, the invention relates to scheduling method for radio resources that is taking into account additional scheduling-relevant information from the buffer status reporting and/or data transmission method. To avoid unnecessary grants from the network and to suggest an advanced handling of data transmissions the invention suggests a buffer status reporting and data transmission schemes that take into account the scheduling mode of data of radio bearers pending for transmission to decide whether to report on it in a buffer status report, respectively, whether to multiplex the data to a transport block for transmission.
US11330454B2
The present disclosure provides a radio link monitoring method and a UE. The radio link monitoring method includes: determining configuration information for performing a radio link monitoring operation on one or more BWPs of a system bandwidth; and performing the radio link monitoring operation on one or more target BWPs in accordance with the configuration information.
US11330451B2
A system can include an evaluation platform that applies models to improve the quality of experience of users impacted by uplink interference at a network cell, such as at a base station. For a user session at a cell, an expected performance with optimized uplink interference can be compared to an actual performance to determine whether the session is impacted. This can include iteratively increasing a hypothetical power parameter and determining uplink interference based on source and neighboring cells. When positively impacted sessions exceed a threshold, the platform can dynamically change the power parameter of the base station to reflect the hypothetical value.
US11330434B2
A method of security detection for a physical layer authentication system takes into account the signal-discriminating ability of an active adversary. The distance to the active adversary is estimated by an authorized transmitter based on its broadcast signal and, based on the distance estimate, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the adversary is also estimated.
US11330420B2
A wireless local area network roaming method and a communications apparatus are provided, to improve a roaming effect of a terminal device in a wireless local area network. In the method, a control device selects, in place of a terminal device, an optimal roaming access point of the terminal device, to reduce a time consumed for determining the optimal roaming AP. After the optimal roaming access point of the terminal device is determined, an associated access point instructs the terminal device to attempt to roam to the optimal roaming access point. Because duration required for searching for the optimal roaming AP is reduced, a probability of data loss of the terminal device in a roaming process can be reduced, and a roaming effect of the terminal device in the wireless local area network is improved.
US11330415B2
In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a near field communication (NFC) device is provided, comprising: an NFC front-end circuit configured to perform a communication with an external device; at least one processing unit configured to process one or more transactions between the NFC device and the external device; an NFC controller configured to control the NFC front-end circuit; wherein the NFC controller is configured to block a current data frame, which is being received by the NFC front-end circuit, if the processing unit has not fully processed a previous data frame. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of operating a near field communication (NFC) device is conceived. In accordance with a third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding computer program is provided.
US11330412B2
A vehicle communication system includes an in-vehicle router. The in-vehicle router includes a Wi-Fi module, a GPS, a vehicle speed acquirer, and an in-vehicle CPU. The Wi-Fi module is a module mounted on a vehicle and provided connectable to an access point of a wireless LAN. The GPS acquires vehicle position information indicating the position of the vehicle. The vehicle speed acquirer acquires vehicle speed information indicating the speed of the vehicle. The in-vehicle CPU determines the access point to be connected to the Wi-Fi module based on the vehicle position information and the vehicle speed information.
US11330410B2
Pathside communication relay (PCR) for collecting and distributing pathside data among client devices. The PCR collects client data from client devices (such as vehicles, pedestrians, and roadside infrastructure) and sensor data from sensors. The PCR processes the collected client data and sensor data and generates pathside data to be distributed among the client devices. In some examples, the PCR includes wireless telecommunication circuitry for distributing the pathside data over dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) signals using the Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE) protocol and/or Cellular-Vehicle to everything (Cellular-V2X) communications. The pathside data can include location data of client devices and other objects, ambient conditions, traffic data, and other information to facilitate improved decision-making (such as collision avoidance) by client devices.
US11330408B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus that effectively utilizes contexts and has the highly convenient messaging function, a method thereof and a terminal device used for message communication. The information processing apparatus includes a communication section and a control section. The communication section communicates a message between respective terminal devices used by a plurality of users. The control section acquires is a context of one or more users among the plurality of users, and controls at least one of creation or communication of message-related information including content or a format of the message on the basis of the acquired context.
US11330407B2
According to an aspect of the embodiments, a base station device in a wireless communication system including a terminal device and a base station device that is wirelessly connected to the terminal device and transmits signals to the terminal device, the base station device includes, an acquirer which acquires a first version of a signal format corresponding to the terminal device, and a transmitter that transmits, to the terminal device, difference information relating to a signal used for a different purpose from a purpose of a signal of a second version corresponding to the base station device when the first version differs from the second version.
US11330398B2
A method and system for determining a suspected data source among one or more data sources reporting geo coordinate data in a location based services network is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes, receiving geo coordinates of a user device reported by the one or more data sources over a period of time, calculating a notional speed between geo coordinates reported at two consecutive times, flagging simultaneously, one or more data sources that reported the geo coordinates at the two consecutive times resulting in a notional speed that exceeds a predefined notional speed, and analysing a data on at least one of, the number of instances of geo coordinates reported by a data source, the number of instances a data source was flagged, the data sources that were also flagged simultaneously with each flagging, for determining the suspect source of data.
US11330394B2
The present disclosure provides an early warning method and an early warning device based on WIFI signal strength disturbance, and a storage medium. The early warning method includes receiving and analyzing WIFI signals in a monitoring area in real time to obtain amplitude and phase of a current WIFI signal in the monitoring area; determining whether the amplitude and the phase of the current WIFI signal are disturbed according to a difference between the amplitude and the phase of the current WIFI signal and those of a previous WIFI signal; and sending out an early warning signal when it is determined that the amplitude and the phase of the current WIFI signal are disturbed.
US11330393B2
Method performed by a first communication device operating in a wireless communications network. The wireless communications network comprises a group of communication devices. The first communication device determines that a number of communication devices, comprised in the group of communication devices, having reported that data about a position of a second communication device comprised in the group of communication devices has not been received within a time period, is above a threshold. The first communication device then initiates transmitting an indication to at least one receiving device, indicating a result of the determination. Also disclosed is a method by a third communication device comprised in the group. The third communication device starts a timer defining the time period and, in the absence of the data received within the period, sends a notification of expiration of the timer.
US11330387B2
An audio signal controlling method includes identifying whether an audio zooming effect is used for at least one audio object present in a virtual reality (VR) through an audio zooming effect field included in metadata, and controlling an audio signal corresponding to the audio object based on a preset method when the audio zooming effect is identified as being used.
US11330385B2
A method and system dynamically adjusts the audio of an audio and video signal to improve its overall sound quality and dialog intelligibility. Some embodiments use gain, equalization, audio signal compression and spatial enhancement (reverb) on individual channels of a multichannel audio signal.
US11330379B2
A hearing system includes a hearing aid (10) and personal communication device (20) connected via a short range data communication link. The hearing aid has a signal processor (13) processing an audio signal according to audio processing parameters, a sub-system applying respective sets of processing parameters for at least two modes, a classifier component (51) statistically analyzing the environment by comparing specific characteristics of an electrical input signal to one or more thresholds. A program selector component (16) selects automatically an appropriate mode for the signal processing sub-system according to the classifier output. The personal communication device offers the user an interface for controlling and interacting with the program selector component of the hearing aid, and for generating and transmitting a notification to the hearing aid. Upon reception of the notification, the processor adjusts at least one of the one or more thresholds used by the classifier component.
US11330372B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to orientation-aware surround sound playback. A method for processing audio on an electronic device that includes a plurality of loudspeakers is disclosed, the loudspeakers arranged in more than one dimension of the electronic device. The method includes, responsive to receipt of a plurality of received audio streams, generating a rendering component associated with the plurality of received audio streams, determining an orientation dependent component of the rendering component, processing the rendering component by updating the orientation dependent component according to an orientation of the loudspeakers and dispatching the received audio streams to the plurality of loudspeakers for playback based on the processed rendering component. Corresponding system and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11330370B2
Audio data in a first format may be processed to produce audio data in a second format, which may be a reduced or simplified version of the first format. A loudness correction process may produce loudness-corrected audio data in the second format. A first power of the audio data in the second format and a second power of the loudness-corrected audio data in the second format may be determined. A second-format loudness correction factor for the audio data in the second format may be based, at least in part, on a power ratio between the first power and the second power. A first-format loudness correction factor for the audio data in the first format may be based, at least in part, on the power ratio and a power relationship between the audio data in the first format and the audio data in the second format.
US11330365B2
A speaker module includes a first cavity body, a second cavity body disposed adjacent to the first cavity body and a vibration module disposed in the first cavity body and including a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm which are horizontally spaced apart. The first cavity body includes a first sub-cavity and a second sub-cavity which are respectively located on two opposite sides of the vibration module, and the second sub-cavity is communicated with the second cavity body.
US11330360B2
A headphone includes an electro-acoustic transducer, a housing, a noise cancelling circuit, a resonant frequency converter, and a switch. The electro-acoustic transducer is configured to reproduce sound from electrical signals. The housing is attached to the electro-acoustic transducer. The noise cancelling circuit is configured to attenuate a noise sound by adding an antiphase sound to the noise sound. The resonant frequency converter is configured to change a resonant frequency of a Helmholtz resonator configured to include a cavity in the housing and a tubular cavity communicating with the cavity. The switch is configured to perform alteration of the resonant frequency and switching of the noise cancelling circuit, in conjunction with each other.
US11330357B2
A flat headset is provided, comprising: a flexible belt body (1) configured to be looped around a head, and two headset bodies (4) fixed to the flexible belt body (1). The headset bodies (4) have flat structure, and at least parts of the headset bodies (4) protrude from one edge of the flexible belt body (1), and are provided with sound output holes (2) on a side away from the flexible belt body (1). When the flexible belt body (1) is fixed to the head, the two headset bodies (4) are held on front upper sides of two ears, and the sound output holes (2) are close to ear canals. The flat headset of the present disclosure does not compress the ear canals and ears, is more comfortable to use, and can prevent the headsets from falling off due to vibration and sweat during exercise.
US11330352B2
A device for holding an audio microphone is disclosed. The microphone holding device includes a base section having a base plate connected to a riser block that engages with a tube of a microphone holding section to enable rotation of the microphone holding section from a horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation. The device also includes an expander shaft section including an expander shaft coupled at one end with the tube and at another end with base plate. The expander shaft expands from a compressed shaft to an expanded shaft when the microphone holding section rotates from the horizontal orientation to the vertical orientation to assist in holding the microphone holding section in the vertical orientation.
US11330344B2
This technology relates to a receiving apparatus, a transmitting apparatus, and a data processing method for displaying emergency information communicated in an emergency at appropriate positions. The receiving apparatus acquires metadata transmitted by a digital broadcast signal, the metadata including first emergency information required to be announced urgently and display position information indicating whether there is second emergency information embedded in uncompressed video data, the display position information further indicating, if the second emergency information is embedded in the uncompressed video data, the display position of the second emergency information on a screen. The receiving apparatus processes the metadata to determine whether the second emergency information is embedded in the uncompressed video data and, if the second emergency information is embedded in the uncompressed video data, displays the first emergency information at a position different from the display position of the second emergency information on the screen. This technology applies to television receivers, for example.
US11330338B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for displaying comments on videos. The disclosed techniques include obtaining a first list comprising a plurality of comment messages and a second list configured to store address information corresponding to at least one reusable comment style; determining whether the second list comprises the address information in response to a determination that a target comment message among the plurality of comment messages is initialized; selecting a piece of address information corresponding to a target comment style among the at least one reusable comment style in response to a determination that the second list comprises the address information; and generating a target comment object based on the target comment message and the target comment style corresponding to the selected piece of address information, wherein the target comment style comprises data indicative of effects of presenting the target comment message on a display device.
US11330325B2
Disclosed is a broadcasting signal transmission device, a broadcasting signal reception device, and a method for transmitting/receiving a broadcasting signal using same. The method for receiving the broadcasting signal comprises the following steps: receiving the broadcasting signal, which includes a transmission frame, wherein the transmission frame includes a plurality of PLPs, which transmit components that constitute a broadcasting service, first signaling information and second signaling information, which include the signaling information of the plurality of PLPs, a first preamble signal, which has been signaled with a preamble format, and a second preamble signal, which has been signaled with pilot pattern information, wherein one of the plurality of PLPs is a base PLP, which includes a program number that corresponds to the broadcasting service and program map table information, which has been signaled with identifying information for each of the PLPs; demodulating the broadcasting signal based on the first and the second preamble signals; FEC decoding the demodulated broadcasting signal; and identifying a PLP group that includes the plurality of PLP from the FEC decoded broadcasting signal based on the first and the second signaling information, decoding at least one PLP of the identified PLP group, and providing the broadcasting service.
US11330322B2
The example system and method enable a user to post comments to appear as textual content in a streaming graphical content presentation. The textual content and the graphical content may be provided to the user's set top box for presentation on an associated display device and may be provided to another user's set top box for presentation on the other user's display device. Each of the users utilize a wireless remote control enabled to accept text and/or voice inputs of a comment for inclusion in the streaming graphical content. The set top box generates a comment based on the inputted text and/or voice received from the remote control. The set top box provides the generated comment to a media server which distributes textual content based on the generated comment to other set top boxes for presentation with the streaming graphical content.
US11330317B2
Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.
US11330313B2
In some examples, a computing device initiates playback of media content on a display device. The computing device receives one or more images from a camera having a field of view that includes one or more viewers of the display device. The computing device may analyze at least one of the images and determine, based on the analysis, a micro-expression being expressed by at least one of the viewers. The computing device may determine a sentiment based on the micro-expression. A timestamp derived from the one or more images may be associated with the sentiment and sent to a server to create a sentiment map of the media content. If the sentiment matches a pre-specified sentiment then the computing device may skip playback of a remainder of a current portion of the media content that is being displayed and initiate playback of a next portion of the media content.
US11330303B2
To favorably transmit both of HDR image data and LDR image data. First transmission image data and second transmission image data are divided into layers and encoded, the first transmission image data being obtained by applying photo-electric conversion to first input image data having a contrast ratio of from 0 to 100% to brightness of a white peak of a conventional LDR image, and the second transmission image data being obtained by applying photo-electric conversion to second input image data having a contrast ratio of from 0 to 100%*N (N is a number larger than 1), the contrast ratio exceeding the brightness of the conventional white peak, and a video stream having encoded image data of pictures of the layers is generated. A container in a predetermined format including the video stream is transmitted.
US11330295B2
An apparatus comprising a multi-camera device including at least two cameras and a controller for receiving image data from the cameras, determining which areas of the images to enable for inter-view prediction, wherein the determination is based on imaging characteristics of the cameras and relative locations and orientations of the cameras within the multi-camera device, and enabling inter-view prediction for the determined areas of the images.
US11330289B2
A method for video processing is provided. The method includes determining that a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the current video block is based on a non-affine inter AMVR mode; and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein the coded representation of the current video block is based on a context based coding, and wherein a context used for coding the current video block is modeled without using an affine AMVR mode information of a neighboring block during the conversion.
US11330272B2
In one example, an apparatus is disclosed for coding coefficients associated with a block of video data during a video coding process, the apparatus comprising a video coder configured to code information that identifies a scanning order associated with the block, wherein to code the information that identifies the scanning order associated with the block, the video coder is configured to determine a most probable scanning order for the block, and code an indication of whether the scanning order associated with the block is the most probable scanning order. In another example, to code the information that identifies the scanning order associated with the block, the video coder is further configured to, in the event the scanning order associated with the block is not the most probable scanning order, code an indication of the scanning order associated with the block.
US11330268B2
A method for encoding a video signal includes generating an extension region of a first face of a reference frame, where the extension region includes a plurality of extension samples, and a sample value of each extension sample is based on a sample value of a sample of a second face of the reference frame, determining a use of an extension region, providing, based on the use, picture level extension usage information based on the extension region, and encoding the picture level extension usage information into an encoded video signal.
US11330264B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a training method, an image encoding method, an image decoding method and apparatuses thereof. The image encoding apparatus includes: an image encoder configured to encode input image data to obtain a latent variable; a quantizer configured to perform quantizing processing on the latent variable according to a quantization step to generate a quantized latent variable; and an entropy encoder configured to perform entropy coding on the quantized latent variable by using an entropy model to form a bit stream.
US11330262B2
A local image enhancing method includes: obtaining a region or object selected by a user; generating selection parameters according to the selected region or object; enhancing the selected region or object according to the selection parameters, and generating an image of the enhanced selected region or object; or, sending the selection parameters to a peer end; the peer end enhancing the selected region or object according to the selection parameters; returning the image of the enhanced selected region or object. The embodiments of the present document further provide a local image enhancing apparatus. The embodiments of the present document may enhance the corresponding region according to the user selection.
US11330258B1
Methods and systems for adjusting bit usage during encoding of the image blocks of a picture or a frame are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for adjusting bit usage in video compression. The method includes obtaining an estimated bit or byte size of an image block of a video frame, and determining whether the estimated size is less than a first selected threshold. An adjustment to a quantization parameter (QP) is selected based on the determination, so that the actual bit/byte size of the block may be adjusted according to a target size.
US11330257B2
The present application relates to extended application of combined intra-inter prediction. A method for processing video includes: storing a combined inter-intra prediction (CIIP) flag and/or intra mode of the CIIP mode with motion information in a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) table; and performing, at least based on the HMVP table, a conversion between a current block in a video data and a bitstream representation of the current block.
US11330245B2
Apparatus and methods for providing a frame packing arrangement for the encoding/decoding of, for example, panoramic content. In one embodiment, the frame packing arrangement utilizes overlapping imaging data so as to enable, for example, a post-decode stitching operation to be performed. The frame packing arrangement may utilize a number of projection formats, such as a cubemap projection, and may utilize any number of differing aspect ratios such as, without limitation, 4×3, 3×2, 4×2, 2×4 aspect ratios. Additionally, the overlapping imaging data may be positioned within the frame packing arrangement chosen so as to improve upon coding efficiency. For example, the overlapping imaging data may be positioned within the frame packing arrangement so as to emphasize image continuity. An encoder apparatus and decoder apparatus for use with the aforementioned frame packing arrangements are also disclosed.
US11330239B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining image content over a communication network, determining a predicted viewpoint of a user associated with the image content, and adjusting the image content to equirectangular image content according to the predicted viewpoint. Further aspects can include downscaling the equirectangular image content according to a display capability of a mobile device resulting in a downscaled equirectangular image content, cropping the downscaled equirectangular image content resulting in a cropped equirectangular image content, and providing, over the communication network, the cropped equirectangular image content to the mobile device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11330237B2
The invention relates to a medical inspection apparatus (1), such as a microscope or endoscope, and to a medical inspection method such as microscopy or endoscopy. Visible image data (11) representing a visible-light image (49) and fluorescence image data (12) representing a fluorescent-light image (51) and a pseudocolor (70, 71) are merged to give an improved visual rendition of an object (2) which comprises at least one fluorophore (6) to mark special features of the object (2). This is accomplished in that an image processing unit (18) of the microscope (1) or endoscope is configured to compute a color (ro, go, bo) of an output pixel (54) in the pseudocolor image (53) from at least one pseudocolor (rp, gp, bp), a color (ri, gi, bi) of a first input pixel (50) in the visible-light image (49) and an intensity (f) of a second input pixel (52) in the fluorescent-light image (51). In particular, the color (ro, go, bo) may result from a linear interpolation in a color space (RGB) between the pseudocolor and the color of the first input pixel (50) of the visible-light image (49) depending on the intensity (f) of the second input pixel (52) in the fluorescent-light image.
US11330224B2
A system and method of entering a low power mode includes an external tuner module having a first external tuner and a receiving device having a first receiving tuner. The receiving device has a controller determining an unused tuner from one of the first external tuner or first receiving tuner and controls entering a low power mode at the unused tuner.
US11330217B2
An image sensing device includes a Bayer pixel group configured include pixels that form a Bayer pattern and are arranged in a 2×2 matrix, a 4SUM pixel group configured to include pixels that correspond to the same colors and are arranged in a 2×2 matrix, a Bayer floating diffusion disposed at a center portion of the Bayer pixel group, a 4SUM floating diffusion (FD) region disposed at a center portion of the 4SUM pixel group, a sensing node, and a gain conversion transistor coupled between the sensing node and any one of the Bayer floating diffusion (FD) region and the 4SUM floating diffusion (FD) region.
US11330211B2
An imaging device with a plurality of image sensing pixels and a plurality of event detection pixels is provided. Each image sensing pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element and an imaging signal generation readout circuit. The image sensing readout circuit can be shared by a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. Each event detection pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element and an event detection readout circuit. The event detection readout circuit can be shared by a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. In addition, the photoelectric conversion element of an event detection pixel can be selectively connected to a shared imaging signal generation readout circuit. The number of image sensing pixels is greater than the number of event detection pixels. In addition, the area of a photoelectric conversion element of an event detection pixel can be greater than the area of a photoelectric conversion element of an image sensing pixel.
US11330205B2
The photosensor includes an APD that has a multiplication region including a photoelectric converter and includes a first capacitor connected to the multiplication region in parallel, and a first transistor connected between the APD and a first power supply (voltage VC). The first transistor applies a reverse bias of a power supply voltage (VC-VA), which is larger than a breakdown voltage VBD, between an anode and a cathode of the APD during a bias setting period by connecting the APD to the first power supply, and stops an avalanche multiplication phenomenon during a light exposing period by disconnecting the APD from the first power supply to accumulate charges generated by the avalanche multiplication phenomenon in the first capacitor.
US11330204B1
Examples are described of automatic exposure timing synchronization. An imaging system includes a first image sensor configured to capture a first image according to a first exposure timing, including by exposing first region of interest (ROI) image data at the first image sensor for a first ROI exposure time period. Based on the first exposure timing, the imaging system sets a second exposure timing for a second image sensor to capture a second image. Capture of the second image according to the second exposure timing includes exposure of second ROI image data at the second image sensor for a second ROI exposure time period. The second exposure timing may be set so that the start of the second ROI exposure time period aligns with the start of the first ROI exposure time period, and/or so that the first and second ROI exposure time periods overlap.
US11330203B2
The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic device which enable image capturing based on the global shutter system, without reducing the amount of saturated signal charge. Pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit that converts light received thereon into electric charge, and a holding unit that holds the electric charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit, a floating diffusion that is shared among a plurality of the pixels, and that holds the electric charge transferred from the holding unit, and a boost line through which the floating diffusion is boosted are included. The present technology is applicable, for example, to an imaging device to capture images on the basis of a global shutter system.
US11330192B2
An acquisition method includes: acquiring a first image without a flicker band; acquiring a second image with the flicker band; generating a third image of an extracted flicker band based; determining a division method of dividing the third image; dividing the third image into a plurality of areas based on the division method; calculating brightness of each area of the third image; acquiring at least one of a brightest value of the brightness and a darkest value of the brightness; acquiring peak timing of the flicker; calculating the number of frames captured by an image sensor to detect the peak timing; causing the image sensor to continuously capture images to generate a plurality of pieces of image data; acquiring the first image from the plurality of pieces of image data; and acquiring the second image from the plurality of pieces of image data.
US11330189B2
An imaging control device includes: an exposure control portion configured to control an exposure length of an imaging unit, which is capturable an image of a region where an occupant is allowed to occupy in a vehicle cabin, to at least a first exposure period and a second exposure period longer than the first exposure period; an image acquisition portion configured to acquire first captured image data captured in the first exposure period and second captured image data captured in the second exposure period; and a processing unit configured to separately process the first captured image data and the second captured image data.
US11330182B2
Various embodiments include a damper arrangement that may be used to dampen motions of a dynamic component. In some embodiments, the damper arrangement may be used in a camera module that includes a stationary component and a dynamic component. For instance, the dynamic component may hold a lens such that the lens moves together with the dynamic component. In various examples, the damper arrangement may include an interface member that extends from the stationary component or the dynamic component to at least partially into a viscoelastic material within a pocket configured in the stationary component, the dynamic component, or both. The interface member may be configured to traverse within the viscoelastic material to dampen motion of the dynamic component, for example, during operation of a lens actuator to move the dynamic component along an optical axis of the lens.
US11330170B2
Methods and systems for acquiring and/or projecting images from and/or to a target area are provided. Such a method or system can include an optical fiber assembly which may be driven to scan the target area in a scan pattern. The optical fiber assembly may provide multiple effective light sources (e.g., via a plurality of optical fibers) that are axially staggered with respect to an optical system located between the optical fiber and the target area. The optical system may be operable to focus and/or redirect the light from the multiple light sources onto separate focal planes. A composite image may be generated based on light reflected from and/or projected onto the separate focal planes. The composite image may have an extended depth of focus or field spanning over a distance between the separate focal planes while maintaining or improving image resolution.
US11330160B2
An observation and designation apparatus includes a first image sensor and a second image sensor that are connected to an electronic image processor circuit connected to a display. The first image sensor and the second image sensor provide fields that are superposed to supply respectively at least a first image and a second image of the same scene. The appliance further includes a laser emitter for emitting a laser beam lying in a predetermined range of wavelengths into a predetermined zone of the field of the second sensor; a region-of-interest filter extending in front of the second sensor. The electronic processor circuit superposes the two images by using the zone of the second image that corresponds to the third region of the filter to register the second image spatially relative to the first image. An observation and designation method makes use of such filtering.
US11330159B2
A mobile device and lens module including a lens barrel and a plurality of lenses sequentially stacked from an object side to an image side in the lens barrel, wherein the plurality of lenses includes one or more D-cut lenses having respective straight line rim portions, and wherein a straight line portion of a D-cut lens, of the one or more D-cut lenses, overlaps an image sensor for imaging light passing through the plurality of lenses.
US11330157B2
An image pickup apparatus is capable of decreasing a space capacity occupied by component elements and being downsized compared to a case where an actuator is arranged independently of a supporting unit. The image pickup apparatus has an image pickup unit driven by the actuator, a base unit, and the supporting unit provided in a standing manner from the base unit and rotatably supports the image pickup unit. The actuator has a piezoelectric element and an oscillator including a transmission unit which transmits driving force caused by vibration excited by the piezoelectric element. The transmission unit is arranged in the supporting unit so that it is in pressure contact with the image pickup unit. The image pickup unit has a transmitted plane with which the transmission unit is brought into pressure contact, and the vibration excited by the oscillator causes the transmitted plane to move relatively to the oscillator.
US11330156B2
An image capturing device includes a movable mirror including a half mirror and circuitry to set a superimpose display mode that superimposes and displays an optical image of a finder optical system and an electronic image captured by an image sensor, and a consecutive photographing mode, control the movable mirror to rotate between a mirror-down position, in which the mirror is inserted in a photographing optical path, reflects light to a finder optical system, and transmits the light to an image sensor, and a mirror-up position in which the mirror is retracted from the photographing optical path and the light passes through to the image sensor, and prohibit the movable mirror from rotating to the mirror-up position and maintain the mirror-down position, when the superimpose display mode and the consecutive photographing mode are both set.
US11330140B2
An image processing apparatus, comprises a recording control unit configured to perform control to, when extracting a frame from a RAW file in which RAW data of a plurality of frames is recorded and recording the extracted frame as a RAW still image file, record RAW data of the extracted frame and information indicating that predetermined image processing has been applied to the RAW data into the RAW still image file.
US11330138B2
An image scanning unit optically scans a document image of a document. A transportation device performs transportation of the document set at a front insertion-ejection port as an insertion port and ejection port of the document. A controller performs in a first scanning mode image scanning of a top sheet of the document if the document has been bound with a staple. In the first scanning mode, the controller performs image scanning of a partial scanning area in the top sheet while transporting the document using the transportation device, and reverses a transportation direction of the document at a time point that the image scanning of the partial scanning area is finished. The partial scanning area is from a front end to a predetermined position of the top sheet, and the predetermined position is a position nearer to the front end than a binding position of the staple.
US11330135B2
An image reading apparatus for reading an image of an original includes an illumination portion for illuminating the original with light, a reflection member including a reflecting surface for reflecting the light from the original; a converting portion for photoelectrically converting the light reflected by the reflection member, and a casing for accommodating the reflection member. The casing is provided with an opening which is open to an outside of the casing. A surface of the reflecting member opposite from the reflecting surface and a portion defining the opening are bonded to each other with an adhesive.
US11330133B2
An electronic apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires, from an external server, information related to software that is downloadable on the electronic apparatus through a network and installable on the electronic apparatus. The circuitry determines whether at least conditions of authentication settings with respect to the electronic apparatus are satisfied. The circuitry displays, on a display, a notification screen for notifying the acquired information, according to a determination result.
US11330117B2
An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry; and a memory storing computer-executable instructions that cause the processing circuitry to transmit an image acquisition request to an image display apparatus upon detecting that a predetermined condition is satisfied; receive image data of an image displayed on the image display apparatus, transmitted from the image display apparatus in response to the image acquisition request; and store the received image data in a shared storage destination.
US11330115B2
An image scanning device has a platen, an openable cover, a cover sensor, a scanning unit, a condition setting unit enabling a user to set a first condition, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect an opening state of the cover based on a detection signal output by the cover sensor and obtain the image data representing a partial image which is an image of a first end portion of a scannable area of the scanning unit. When the cover is in the closed state, the controller applies an image processing based on the first condition set through the condition setting unit, and when the cover is in the opened state, the controller applies the image processing based on a second condition which is a particular condition set in advance and different from the first condition.
US11330114B2
A quota management method includes: sending, by a client, a charging request to a server, where the charging request carries quota request information and information of quota usage; receiving, by the client, a granted quota and indication information from the server; processing, by the client, the granted quota and a remaining quota on the client based on the indication information, where the remaining quota is a difference between a quota granted by the server last time and the quota usage in the charging request; and using, by the client, a processed quota, and reporting information of usage of the processed quota when a reporting condition is met.
US11330112B2
Various methods for a 3GPP defined Charging and Collection Function are employed that may use a microservices approach. The microservice approach may decompose the function of the network elements into component level functions that may be deployed as separate functional elements.
US11330100B2
Systems and methods for augmenting an appliance device with an intelligent personal assistant. Exemplary methods include: receiving, by the appliance device, an identifier for a called party; initiating a voice call using the received identifier; monitoring audio of the voice call; determining the monitored audio includes a predetermined wake word; beginning communications with the intelligent personal assistant, the communications including at least a portion of the monitored audio, the portion of the monitored audio comprising a request for the intelligent personal assistant; receiving a result from the intelligent personal assistant, the result being responsive to the request; receiving indicia that the voice call is over from at least one of the called party and a calling party; and terminating the voice call using the indicia.
US11330098B1
A system and method of verifying a caller identification utilizing a server that communicates with a computing device capable of monitoring communication networks for specific communications from an enterprise voice network. The server can push a spoof prevention contact list to user devices. Additionally, the server can receive notifications from the computing device in response to user inputs that allow match analysis to occur with the information in the received notifications. When a match is found, the server can send a notification to a user device to modify a contact name in the spoof prevention list stored in the user device. After a specified time, the contact name can be altered back to the original state. As an example, the contact name in the spoof prevention list may start out as “unverified call,” and be changed temporarily to “verified call” upon receipt of the notification.
US11330097B2
A system and method for incoming and outgoing RCS messages with inmates includes a database including a plurality of user records, wherein the user records include a plurality of user profiles and a plurality of inmate profiles, wherein each of the user profiles includes a user ID, a mobile ID, a carrier, and at least one inmate account number. Each of the inmate profiles includes an inmate user ID, a carrier, a current account balance, and at least one user account number. The system and method also includes an application server including a processor programmed to receive a RCS message from a new user profile, determine a carrier of the user profile, process the new user profile based on the carrier, wherein the carrier is determined by a triggering event, and send the new user profile to an appropriate list for future RCS messaging.
US11330092B2
The present disclosure relates an LCD display module and a mobile terminal, the LCD display module includes: a display screen and a flexible printed circuit led out from a top of the display screen, where the top of the display screen is provided with a recessed portion for accommodating a functional module of a mobile terminal, and the flexible printed circuit is provided with an opening at a position corresponding to the recessed portion.
US11330091B2
A device having a hand-held form factor (e.g., smartphone, tablet computer) has a transparent display that allows viewing of real world content through the display, while rendering virtual content to the display. The display may take the form of a touch-sensitive display, allowing user input directly through physical interaction with the display. The display may include a pair of major outer-most faces and a pair of inner faces, one of the inner faces angled to reflect light from a projector, outward via one of the major outer-most faces. The gap may advantageously be formed via a pocket extending inwardly from an edge of an optical substrate that comprise the touch-sensitive display.
US11330085B2
The present disclosure discloses a data transmission protection method, a data transmission protection device, a data transmission protection system and a computer readable storage medium, the method includes: encapsulating a packet header for a data flow to be transmitted at an ingress node to form an encapsulated data flow, where the packet header includes a control word and a flow identification; copying the encapsulated data flow to obtain a copied data flow, and transmitting the encapsulated data flow and the copied data flow together; and recovering the data flow at a terminating node according to the control word and the flow identification.
US11330070B1
Containerized workflow engines executing metadata for user-defined applications are described. A system utilizes user selections for configuring a user-defined application to identify application definition metadata. The system stores the application definition metadata for the user-defined application into a persistent storage. A workflow engine executes in a software container in response to receiving user context details and an invocation of the user-defined application. The workflow engine retrieves the application definition metadata from the persistent storage. The workflow engine inputs the user context details and executes the application definition metadata. The workflow engine outputs a result based on executing the application definition metadata.
US11330053B1
Techniques for making eventual consistency cache updates deterministic. One technique includes receiving, at a control plane, a request to execute an operation on data, executing the operation on the data, creating a replication event for the operation and a replication identifier associated with the replication event, sending a response that includes a custom header having the replication identifier, receiving, at a data plane, a subsequent request to execute an operation involving the data, the subsequent request includes the replication identifier, retrieving a replication identifier for a latest replication event executed on the data plane, comparing the replication identifier from the subsequent request and the replication identifier for the latest replication event, determining the replication event associated with the replication identifier from the subsequent request has not been executed on the data plane based on the comparison, and sending a deterministic error message to the client device.
US11330032B2
A technique for content proxying is described. The technique includes receiving from a first device a stream of data. The stream of data is formatted in a format that does not indicate content length in a header. A received payload of the stream of data is encoded into a data chunk including a chunk length header and the received payload. The data chunk is forwarded to a second device that does not support the format.
US11330029B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for sharing content with a detected device. A method includes presenting, by a processor, content on a first information handling device. The method includes detecting a second information handling device that is communicatively coupled to the first information handling device. The method includes sending information about the content presented on the first information handling device to the second information handling device for presentation on the second information handling device in response to determining that the second information handling device is configured to present the content.
US11330013B2
A method for monitoring data communications in a communications system, which includes a plurality of subscribers and a communications medium jointly usable by the subscribers. The method includes the following steps: ascertaining the subscribers of the communications system; forming a first collection of possible messages, which may be sent by at least one of the ascertained subscribers via the communications medium; and ascertaining messages transmitted via the communications medium; evaluating the ascertained messages.
US11330008B2
Systems and methods are described to enable a DNS service to encode information into a network address to be advertised by the DNS service. Information encoded by a DNS service may include, for example, an identifier of a content set to which the network address corresponds (e.g., a domain name) and validity information, such as a digital signature, that verifies the validity of the network address. On receiving a request to communicate with the network address, a destination device associated with the network address may decode the encoded information within the network address to assist in processing the request. In some instances, the encoded information may be used to identify malicious network transmissions, such as transmissions forming part of a network attack, potentially without reliance on other data, such as separate mappings or contents of the data transmission.
US11330007B2
An interactive display system enables a user to compose a graph pattern for a temporal graph on a display screen. The system comprises a canvas that provides an interactive editing surface. The editor receives an input a set of user interactions, such as the drawing of lines and boxes, the specifying of attributes, and the like, that together compose a graph pattern. During the graph pattern composition, the user may retrieve other graph patterns (e.g., from a data store) and integrate them into the pattern being composed. Once the graph pattern is composed (or as it is being composed), the system converts the graphical pattern into a text-based representation, such as a computer program in a particular graph programming language, which is then used for subsequent processing and matching in a cybersecurity threat discovery workflow. The pattern (program code) also is stored to disk, from which it may be retrieved and converted back into its graphical view on the screen, e.g., for further editing and revision.
US11329995B2
There is disclosed a blockchain-based system, and an electronic apparatus and a method in the system. The electronic apparatus at a control node end includes a processor configured to: verify, in response to an ownership declaration for a new object that is first introduced from a to-be-verified node in the system, the ownership declaration; and sign, in a case that the verification is successful, the ownership declaration to be returned to the to-be-verified node, so that the signed ownership declaration is verified by other nodes in the system and a record regarding the ownership declaration is added to the blockchain. According to the embodiment of the disclosure, it is possible to verify the newly introduced object in the blockchain-based system without binding with a cipher coin, while maintaining a peer-to-peer architecture of the blockchain-based system.
US11329988B2
There is provided mechanisms for handling access to a service in a network. A method is performed by a network controller. The method comprises obtaining an indication of the service is accessible in the network. The indication is received from a network switch operatively connecting a server of the service to the network. The indication causes a timer to start. The method comprises obtaining an indication of a client requesting to access the service. The indication is received from the network switch. The method comprises recording, only when the timer has not yet expired, identity information of the client in an access control list. The method comprises providing the access control list at least to the network switch upon expiration of the timer.
US11329984B2
A limited input device, such as a camera, is authenticated based on a request received from an authenticated application. The application can request an application server to provide the application with a one-time authorization code. The request includes the device identifier associated with the camera. The server stores an association between the one-time authorization code and the device identifier of the camera, and provides the application with the one-time authorization code. The application provides the camera with the one-time authorization code. The camera transmits a request for an access token to the server, the request for the access token including the one-time authorization code and the device identifier associated with the camera. The server verifies the device identifier associated with the camera with that associated with the one-time authorization code, and upon a positive verification authenticates the camera by providing the camera with the access token.
US11329980B2
Secure communications are provided between a user computing device and a server computing device. An enrollment request is received from a user computing device that is configured via a distributed client software application and is processed. The enrollment request is usable to enroll the user computing device in a network and includes an encrypted partial initial biometric vector associated with a user. An authentication request is processed that is subsequently received that includes an encrypted partial second biometric vector and that is associated with a user of the user computing device. A comparison of the encrypted partial initial biometric vector and the encrypted partial second biometric vector is performed, and a value representing the comparison is generated and transmitted to the user computing device. The user computing device is authenticated where the value is above a minimum threshold.
US11329970B2
Systems and methods for sharing authentication between applications include receiving a request to share authentication from a first application with a second application. An account identifier and identity token for a user are obtained from the first application. Access to a communication application associated with the account identifier is verified as available. The account identifier and identity token are sent to a second application server for verification with a first application server. A verification message is received in the communication application from the second application server. The verification message is determined to contain confirmation information and authentication is shared from the first application with the second application. Related systems and methods include retrieving information associated with an operating system to facilitate sharing authentication between applications.
US11329969B2
In an aspect, a network supporting client devices includes one or more network nodes implementing network functions. Such network functions enable a client device to apply a security context to communications with the network when the client device is not in a connected mode. The client device obtains a user plane key shared with a user plane network function implemented at a first network node and/or a control plane key shared with a control plane network function implemented at a second network node. The client device protects a data packet with the user plane key or a control packet with the control plane key. The data packet includes first destination information indicating the first network node and the control packet includes second destination information indicating the second network node. The client device transmits the data packet or control packet.
US11329968B2
Permitting a decentralized identity to authenticate on behalf of a centralized identity to a centralized identity system, and/or permitting a centralized identity to authenticate on behalf of a decentralized identity to a decentralized identity system. Thus, the principles described herein permit authentication across decentralized and centralized domains. The identity system receives and registers a delegation for the first identity to authentic as the second identity, where one of the identities is a decentralized identity and one is a centralized identity. Thereafter, when the identity system receives a communication from the first identity to access a resource owned by the second identity, the identity system accesses the registration to determine that the first identity is authorized to authenticate as the second identity, authenticates the first identity as the second identity, and grants the first identity access to the resource owned by the second identity.
US11329964B2
A method of managing messages in a messaging system, the method including: identifying a policy associated with the messaging system, the policy including directives associated with the privacy and integrity of messages; applying the policy to a message, the policy including configuration data that determines when the message should be expired; sending the message to the messaging system; using the configuration data to calculate the expiry of the message and passing the calculated expiry of the message to the messaging system; determining whether the expiry has been reached; responsive to the expiry being reached, sending a report message to the message producer; and responsive to the expiry not being reached, attempting to deliver the message to the message consumer.
US11329959B2
Systems and methods for a VRF-aware socket are provided. According to one embodiment, a user-space application of a network device, maintaining a virtual routing table for each of multiple VRF domains, creates a VRF-aware listening socket. The socket includes information regarding: (i) which of the virtual routing tables is to be used to look up routing or forwarding information for outgoing traffic; (ii) the VRF domain(s) from which the socket is able to receive incoming traffic; and/or (iii) the last VRF domain from which the socket read data. The socket is configured to be a super-VRF listening socket capable of receiving incoming traffic from all VRF domains by setting its VRF domain(s) to a wildcard value. The super-VRF listening socket then receives from a client device associated with a first VRF domain of the multiple VRF domains a request on behalf of the user-space application.
US11329924B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining, by a first network component, a sender shaper drop value based on the following: a maximum sequence number; a minimum sequence number; and a sender sequence counter number associated with the first network component. The method also includes determining, by the first network component, a wide area network (WAN) link drop value based on the sender sequence counter number associated with the first network component and a receiver sequence counter number associated with a second network component. The method further includes determining, by the first network component, whether to adjust a sender shaper rate based on the sender shaper drop value and the WAN link drop value.
US11329913B2
Systems and methods are described for automatically controlling network routing between downstream side and upstream side of a communication network to enforce symmetric routing. According to one embodiment, a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SDWAN) controller of a network device associated with a spoke site of an SDWAN manages links forming the SDWAN. The controller receives information regarding route maps, including a preferred route-map and an un-preferred route-map. Further, the controller configures a local BGP daemon with the route maps to exchange routing information including a BGP attribute with the BGP peers and selects a link on which network traffic is to be transmitted. The controller causes the BGP daemon to (i) use the preferred route-map to advertise the routing information to the BGP peer associated with the selected link, and (ii) use the un-preferred route-map to advertise the routing information to a remainder of the BGP peers.
US11329908B2
A communication device for transmitting a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) segment over a communication network using a Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) includes: a communication interface configured to establish an MPTCP data flow comprising a plurality of data sub-flows to a further communication device, and to receive a priority indicator from a network entity, wherein the priority indicator indicates a respective priority of a respective data sub-flow; and a scheduler configured to select, for the TCP segment, a data sub-flow from the plurality of data sub-flows based on the priority indicator. The communication interface is further configured to transmit the TCP segment via the selected data sub-flow to the further communication device.
US11329899B2
A system for managing system performance of one or more customer systems, the system comprising: a memory for storing one or more objects; a gateway communicatively coupled to a customer system, the customer system separated from a wide area network by a firewall, and including one or more computer systems and databases within a customer premises; one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory and the gateway, the firewall being disposed between the gateway and the one or more processors, the one or more processors and the gateway configured to receive data related to speed, performance of the customer system over a first period of time, receive data related to speed and performance of the customer system over a second period of time, and provide one or more displays related to comparisons of speed and performance over the first and second periods of time based on a user input.
US11329896B1
An embodiment for cognitively aligning data protection (DP) and disaster recovery (DR) policies is provided. The embodiment may include ingesting a variety of data associated with one or more applications into a repository. The embodiment may also include executing differential analysis on the data and changes to the data to identify differences between the data and the changes to the data. The changes to the data may be obtained by periodically polling internal and external data sources. The embodiment may also include translating the differences between the data and the changes to the data into an updated SLA. The embodiment may further include in response to determining that the differences between the data and the changes to the data warrant a change in the current DP and DR policies, generating one or more recommendations to modify the current DP and DR policies and/or create new DP and DR policies.
US11329892B2
It is disclosed a network node (200, 220, 300, 400, 500, 600, 80) and a method for executing an analytics task. The network node is adapted to reside in a telecommunication network, and to be supported by a distributed cloud infrastructure. The network node is adapted to execute at least one service application (202) executing a first service and at least one analytics application (204) executing at least part of a distributed analytics service, where the network node further is adapted to comprise a node policy agent (206, 226, 304, 504, 606) and a node manager (210, 230, 306, 406, 506, 608). By applying a policy restrictions on the analytics task executed on the same network node as a service application, service level agreements for the service application in a telecommunication cloud can be upheld.
US11329887B2
A computer network discovery system may involve a computing system and a database disposed within a remote network management platform, and a proxy server application disposed within an enterprise network. The computing system may be configured to: transmit first instructions causing the proxy server application to obtain configuration and operational information for virtual machines; store the configuration and operational information for the virtual machines in a first set of tables of the database; transmit second instructions causing the server device to obtain configuration and operational information for services; and store the configuration and operational information for the services in a second set of tables of the database, where the first set and the second set of tables have tables in common that store at least part of the configuration and operational information for the virtual machines and the services.
US11329883B2
Systems and methods for dynamically establishing network overlay tunnels between edges within different groups of a network architecture are provided. According to an embodiment, a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SDWAN) controller associated with a private network, receives a request to initiate a dynamic Virtual Private Network (VPN) link for a network session between a source edge and a destination edge. The SDWAN controller determines configuration information for each of the source edge and the destination edge, which includes VPN and SDWAN configuration information determined based on pre-configured rules managed by the SDWAN controller for generating the dynamic VPN link between the source edge and the destination edge. The SDWAN controller directs the source edge and the destination edge to set up a VPN overlay tunnel in accordance with the determined configuration information by pushing the determined configuration information to each of the source edge and the destination edge.
US11329880B2
An automatic route reflector configuration system includes a plurality of router devices that are coupled to each other in an autonomous system, with each of the router devices exchanging discovery communications, using information included in the discovery communications to generate a route reflector configuration database, and electing a closest one of the router devices as a route reflector based on the route reflector configuration database. Each router device elected as a route reflector then transmits automatic route reflector peering communications to each of the other router devices that include a role for that router device, receives an acceptance of the role for that router device from at least some of the router devices to which it transmitted automatic route reflector peering communications, and exchanges routes with each of the router devices that accepted the role for that router device.
US11329876B2
Technologies for multi-cloud routing and policy interconnectivity are provided. An example method can include assigning different sets of data plane routers to data plane traffic associated with different address spaces in a cloud site of a multi-cloud fabric to yield a distributed mapping of data plane traffic and data plane routers. The method can further include providing, to an on-premises site in the multi-cloud fabric, routing entries from a control plane router on the cloud site, the routing entries reflecting the distributed mapping and identifying, for each address space, which data plane router handles data plane traffic for that address space; and when a data plane router is deployed at the cloud site, providing, to the on-premises site, updated routing information from the control plane router, the updated routing information identifying the data plane router as a next hop for data plane traffic associated with a respective address space.
US11329866B2
The present disclosure provides a battery management system and a communication method. The method includes: determining, by a main BMU, from a plurality of managed units a fault unit that communicates abnormally with the main BMU, and transmitting, by the main BMU, to a backup BMU a fault frequency at which the fault unit communicates abnormally with the main BMU; selecting, by the backup BMU, from the managed units a managed unit that communicates normally with the backup BMU and the fault unit as a target unit; transmitting, by the backup BMU, frequency-conversion information to the fault unit through the target unit based on the fault frequency; converting, by the fault unit, its frequency to a frequency; transmitting the frequency to the main BMU if the backup BMU communicates normally with the fault unit using the frequency; and communicating, by the main BMU, with the fault unit using the frequency.
US11329863B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for dynamic prioritization of monitoring system related alerts. A plurality of alerts generated for a monitoring system are accessed. A first set of alert features predefined as high-level features are identified, wherein each of the high-level features is mapped to one or more alert features in a second set of alert features predefined as low-level features. The plurality of alerts are processed to determine a plurality of the most central high-level features. The plurality of alerts are grouped according to the plurality of the most central high-level features. Each group of alerts is processed to determine a plurality of the most central low-level features for the alerts in the group of alerts. A prioritized set of alerts are selected from the plurality of alerts based on the plurality of the most central low-level features.
US11329860B2
A system provides for management of a managed infrastructure. A processor is coupled to various engines. An extraction engine is in communication with the managed infrastructure. The extraction engine in operation receives messages from the managed infrastructure, produces events that relate to the managed infrastructure and converts the events into words and subsets used to group the events into clusters that relate to failures or errors in the managed infrastructure, including managed infrastructure physical hardware. The managed infrastructure supports the flow and processing of information. A sigalizer engine includes one or more of an NMF engine, a k-means clustering engine and a topology proximity engine. The sigalizer engine determines one or more common steps from events and produces clusters relating to events; the sigalizer engine determining one or more common characteristics of events and producing clusters of events relating to the failure or errors in the managed infrastructure, where membership in a cluster indicates a common factor of the events that is a failure or an actionable problem in the physical hardware managed infrastructure directed to supporting the flow and processing of information.
US11329853B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a resource allocation indicating a plurality of transmission tones comprising a subset of data tones of a plurality of data tones and a subset of peak reduction tones (PRTs) of a plurality of PRTs, wherein the resource allocation indicates locations for the plurality of data tones and locations for the plurality of PRTs within a particular bandwidth, wherein the locations for the plurality of PRTs are arranged relative to the locations for the plurality of data tones according to a PRT subsequence of a universal PRT sequence, and wherein the PRT subsequence corresponds to a sub-band of the particular bandwidth; and transmit a data transmission using a waveform based at least in part on the resource allocation. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11329846B2
An edge system (100) transfers data to a cloud server (400). A flow controller (140) controls dataflow that is a flow of data processing in the edge system (100) of data collected from equipment. A gateway communicator (170) communicates with the cloud server (400) in compliance with a specification of an external interface that is publicly-released and defined with respect to receiving and sending of data from and to the cloud server (400). A gateway connector (180) connects the flow controller (140) to the gateway communicator (170) to enable communication between the gateway communicator (170) and the flow controller (140). The gateway communicator (170) communicates with the gateway connector (180) in compliance with a specification of an internal interface that is publicly-released and defined with respect to receiving and sending of data in the data processing system.
US11329843B1
A method of multichannel acquisition and geophysical data is provided. Individual and autonomous node operating systems are provided. Separate communication channels for upstream and downstream data transfer, high voltage transfer and synchronization signals are provided. The method provides for an alternating waveform of injected current to maximize data precision and minimize soil ionization. Node type assignment interleaving is also provided to compress survey time. Self calibration of nodes is provided as is self addressing of a node array.
US11329825B2
A system for authenticating user identities and exchange data via a blockchain is described. Initially, first data related to a commitment being made by a user is obtained by a client device. The first data is partly based on information identificatory or a characteristic of the user. The first data is sent by the client device to a verification system. The verification system then verifies that the first data corresponds with second data generated using identification documentation of the user. The data representing the commitment to a blockchain is posted by the verification system responsive to a successful verification.
US11329823B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to token-based authentication mechanism. A computing device may receive information, determined by one or more sensors systems, corresponding to a user. The user information may comprise user biological information as measured by the one or more sensor systems. The computing device may generate a token based on the received user information. The computing device may store the generated token, in a memory associated with the computing device. The computing device may transmit the token to a user token device corresponding to the user. The user token device may be used to authenticate the user.
US11329821B2
Systems and methods for updating a Domain Name System (DNS) registry are disclosed. Embodiments perform operations including maintaining a domain name record of a DNS registrant recorded in a database of the DNS registry by a primary DNS interface. The operations also include receiving a request to update the domain name record of the DNS registrant via a secondary DNS interface. The operations further include modifying the domain name record of the DNS registrant in the DNS database in accordance with the request.
US11329819B2
An information processing system 100 comprising at least one first node 1, second nodes 2 for providing a public key change assistance service, and a blockchain 3, wherein the first node 1 comprises a new public key creation unit 151, a second node group selection unit 152, an old and new key information request unit 153, a draft contract preparation unit 154, a signature request unit 155, a first signature execution unit 156, and a registration unit 157; each second node 2 comprises an old and new key information transmission unit 251, a second signature execution unit 252, and a draft contract return unit 253; the draft contract preparation unit 154 randomly determines the order of new public keys as transmission destinations; and the signature request unit 155 and the first signature execution unit 156 perform signature request and execution, respectively, so that the order of the nodes that sign a draft transaction contract is random.
US11329818B2
Systems and methods for active state synchronization between distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms are provided. A system may store an origin blockchain compliant with an origin DLT. The system may further store a target blockchain compliant with a target DLT. The target DLT may be different from the origin DLT. The system may include a DLT object synchronizer with access to the origin blockchain and the target blockchain. The DLT object synchronizer may receive, from an exchange node, a request to synchronize an origin instance of a DLT object between the origin blockchain and the target blockchain. The DLT object synchronizer may select a target instance of the DLT object on the target blockchain. The DLT object synchronizer may format origin data from the origin instance for compliance with the target DLT. The DLT object synchronizer may synchronize the origin instance and the target instance.
US11329813B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including: dividing data provided for storage into data segments; encrypting each data segment of the data segments with an encryption key, thereby creating encrypted data slices; arranging a cluster of sectorized servers in an ordered list of sectorized servers; selecting a first sectorized server from the ordered list of sectorized servers; generating an access key; and sending a first encrypted data slice of the encrypted data slices and the access key to the first sectorized server, wherein the first sectorized server stores the first encrypted data slice in a sector of the first sectorized server, and retrieves the first encrypted data slice from the sector upon presentation of the access key. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11329810B2
This application discloses a continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) device and method. The device includes a light source, a modulation unit, a first random number generator, and a processor, where the processor is configured to obtain a first data sequence based on a preset quantity of modulation format symbols, a distribution probability of each symbol, and a first random number sequence generated by the first random number generator, and obtain a second data sequence based on the first data sequence; and the modulation unit is configured to modulate, based on to the first data sequence, a signal emitted by the light source to output a second optical signal, where the second optical signal does not need to include quantum states with a quantity in an order of magnitude of 28×28 required in an existing Gaussian protocol.
US11329802B2
Various embodiments provide for data object collection, management, tracking, or control with a blockchain. In particular, some embodiments collect, manage, track, or control one or more data objects between two or more nodes, where each node is associated with a particular user and each particular user controls their respective data objects through their associated node. A node associated with a particular user can effectively serve as a computer container for storing data objects associated with the particular user, and further for supporting one or more functions (e.g., collection, management, tracking, or control functions) with respect to the data objects associated with the particular user.
US11329801B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for generating and utilizing improved initialization vectors (IVs) when performing encryption and authentication in wireless communications. In some scenarios, a wireless communication device may generate one or more pseudorandom multi-bit values, e.g., using a respective plurality of key derivation functions (KDFs). A first portion of each value may be used as a respective key for encryption or authentication of traffic on the user plane or the control plane. A second portion of each value may be used as a nonce value in a respective IV for use with a respective key for encryption or authentication of traffic on the user plane or the control plane. In some scenarios, the nonce values may instead be generated as part of an additional pseudorandom value (e.g., by executing an additional KDF), from which all of the IVs may be drawn.
US11329796B2
A calculation is performed on a first number and a second number. For each bit of the second number a first function is performed. The first function inputs include contents of a first register, contents of a second register and the first number. A result of the first function is placed in a third register. For each bit of the second number, a second function is performed which has as inputs contents of the third register and the contents of a selected one of the first and the second register according to a state of a current bit of the second number. A result of the second function is stored in the selected one of the first and second register.
US11329795B2
A required time specification unit specifies time it took for a round-trip communication in half-duplex wireless communication. A bitrate determination unit determines a value corresponding to a size of data generated by a video data generation unit per unit time based on the specified time and a given target time regarding the round-trip communication. The search occurrence estimation unit estimates whether or not a communication path search process with an HMD is occurring. The bitrate determination unit changes the determined value so that magnitude of change in the value corresponds to a result of the estimation.
US11329784B2
A method for implementing signaling detection includes: information for identifying a detection capability is determined based on a signaling detection capability supported by UE; and the information for identifying a detection capability is reported to a base station. Therefore, the UE can report the information for identifying a detection capability to the base station to enable the base station to configure a detection control parameter based on the signaling detection capability of the UE, such that success rate of signaling detection and the detection efficiency of the UE can be improved.
US11329781B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission in multiple SRS symbols in a subframe based on multiple SRS configurations, including determining for each of the multiple symbols a SRS pattern index. In some examples, the present disclosure provides a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). In certain aspects, the method includes receiving, from a base station, information corresponding to a plurality of SRS configurations for a subframe, and determining a plurality of symbols in the subframe for transmitting SRS based on the plurality of SRS configurations.
US11329776B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: transmitting, by a transmitting node, configuration information of a pre-scheduling period, where the configuration information of the pre-scheduling period is used for instructing a receiving node to prepare data to be transmitted according to the configuration information of the pre-scheduling period; and receiving, by the transmitting node, the data to be transmitted which is transmitted from the receiving node. The embodiments of the present disclosure may solve the problem in the existing art of a large feedback time interval after data transmission and achieve effects of shortening a data transmission time interval and improving data transmission efficiency.
US11329773B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide sequences of spreading codes and hopping patterns that may be used in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communications between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. A codebook of spreading codes and the associated hopping patterns may be systematically constructed by closed form formulas or look up table. The base station may receive multiple concurrent transmissions from multiple different UEs, and the sequences of spreading codes and hopping patterns, may be used to identify a particular UE of the multiple UEs.
US11329772B2
A system for a redundant star network is disclosed. The system consists of a control hub, one or more backup hubs, and at least one peripheral device (PD), the peripheral device comprising a housing having at least one selectable side transparent or opaque to radio frequency (RF) transmissions while the remaining sides are opaque to RF transmissions. The control hub controls the PD, for example by controlling how the PD operates under certain conditions. The PD includes a long-range, wireless transceiver and a microcontroller, which includes instructions for periodically testing, via test signals, whether the control hub is functional. In the case that the control hub does not respond to the test signals, the PD includes instructions for switching control of the PD to the backup hub, which also stores control instructions for the PD, similar to the control hub.
US11329769B2
Techniques for a node to adjust or update its CW are provided. The node transmits at least one transmission during a channel occupancy time (COT). The node can determine or adjust a contention window (CW) size following the end of COT based on whether feedback for a transmission is received or could be scheduled during the COT.
US11329758B2
Embodiments of this application provide an information processing method and a wireless transmission device. The method includes: obtaining, by a wireless transmission device, a target modulation and coding scheme MCS level; determining, by the wireless transmission device based on a correspondence among MCS levels, modulation schemes, and transport block parameters, a target modulation scheme and a target transport block parameter that correspond to the target MCS level; and performing, by the wireless transmission device, low-density parity-check code LDPC coding or decoding on a transport block based on the target modulation scheme and the target transport block parameter. According to the foregoing technical solution, a wireless transmission device in a system in which LDPC coding is used may perform LDPC coding or decoding on a transport block.
US11329757B2
A telecommunication network associated with a wireless telecommunication provider can be configured to transmit application data using different quality of service (QoS) specifications. In some configurations, data, other than voice and video data, can be transmitted using VoLTE or ViLTE data streams. According to some examples, network hardware and/or software (e.g., in the core network of a telecommunications network), and/or an application on the UE (smartphone, tablet, etc.) may translate data to be compatible with the VoLTE or ViLTE specifications. The translated data is transmitted from the device to the telecommunications network as a VoLTE or ViLTE packet stream. The converted packets may be identified (e.g., a unique digital signature) so that the corresponding hardware and software in the MSO can identify that a stream of VoLTE or ViLTE packets is to be converted back into the native format of the application before being routed to a destination.
US11329750B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may generate a pseudorandom noise (PN) sequence, modulate the PN sequence based at least in part on a modulation order parameter, and transmit the PN sequence in one or more symbols prior to transmitting sidelink data. The one or more symbols used to transmit the PN sequence may be used for automatic gain control (AGC) training at a receiving device. The user equipment may then transmit the sidelink data in a plurality of symbols that are subsequent in time relative to the one or more symbols used to transmit the PN sequence, and the receiving device may process the sidelink data based on the AGC training. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11329747B2
Various example embodiments for supporting scheduling of deterministic flows in time synchronized networks are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting scheduling of deterministic flows in a time synchronized network may be configured to support scheduling of deterministic flows in the time synchronized network based on assignment of transmission start times to data flows of communication devices such that the communication devices may transmit data of the data flows at the transmission start times in a manner tending to reduce or eliminate collisions in the time synchronized network.
US11329740B2
The conversion circuit adapts a legacy radio to play digital broadcasts using a sensing circuit coupled to a control device of the legacy radio to produce a control device position signal. A processor detects changes in this position signal and interprets a pattern of predetermined changes in position signals to generate at least digital radio broadcast scan command. The conversion circuit also includes a digital radio receiver that performs a scan operation in response to the scan command and supplies the processor with a channel list of detected digital stations. The processor associates each of the detected digital stations to a different positional setting of the control device. The processor also interprets different positional settings of the control device as a content selection commands, which it uses to cause the receiver to select a particular content component for playback through an audio amplifier.
US11329737B1
A system described herein may provide for the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning (“AI/ML”) techniques to generate models for various locations or regions (e.g., sectors) associated with one or more radio access networks (“RANs”) of a wireless network. The system may further use AI/ML techniques to generate interference models to reflect types and/or amounts of channel propagation metrics measured within the RAN. The system may further determine, based on attributes of a given sector, a sector model and/or a channel propagation model associated with the sector. Based on the sector model and/or the determined channel propagation model, one or more actions may be determined in order to enhance channel propagation metrics within the sector, such as at portions of the sector at which increased demand for wireless service is detected.
US11329736B2
An equipment comprising an array of radio antennas and a switching device placed as a cutoff between the antennas and the associated reception channels, the switching device comprising a first so-called operational operating mode wherein each input interface is then connected directly to a different output interface so as to connect each antenna with at least the associated reception channel thereof, and a second so-called calibration operating mode, wherein an input interface corresponding to a predetermined antenna is then connected to all the output interfaces so as to transmit the electrical signal coming from the predetermined antenna to all the reception channels, the equipment being adapted for implementing a method for autocalibration of the reception channels when the switching device is in the second operating mode.
US11329735B2
An electronic apparatus, method, and algorithm achieve synchronization between video data executed on a video sink device and audio data executed on one or more Bluetooth audio sink devices. The electronic apparatus, method, and algorithm obtain calibration information for the one or more Bluetooth devices, determine a delay for outputting the video and audio data to the video sink device using the calibration information, control the Bluetooth transceiver to output the audio data to the one or more Bluetooth devices, and control the output circuit to output the video and audio data to the video sink device in accordance with the determined delay.
US11329734B2
Described are methods and apparatuses pertaining to stacked integrated circuits having application in ultra-low-power and small form factor design, with fast prototyping and mass-production cycle time, including application for millimeter wave radio frequency circuits.
US11329731B2
A method for a transmission and reception point (TRP) for controlling cross-link interference comprises the steps of: determining a timing advance (TA) value, for measuring or eliminating cross-link interference, in a set subframe if a section in which cross-link interferences occur between the TRP and one or more adjacent TRPs is configured; and transmitting the determined TA value in the set subframe to a terminal, wherein the section in which cross-link interference occurs can correspond to a section that is configured as an uplink section for the TRP, and as a downlink transmission section for the one or more adjacent TRPs.
US11329730B2
A quantum communications system may include a transmitter node, a receiver node, and a quantum communications channel coupling the transmitter node and receiver node. The receiver node may be configured to arrange a received bit stream of optical pulses from the transmitter node into time bins, convert the optical pulses in the time bins into corresponding optical pulses in frequency bins, and detect respective optical pulse values from each of the frequency bins.
US11329729B2
An optical receiver circuit includes a light receiving element to convert an optical signal into a current signal, a submount substrate on which the light receiving element is mounted, a wiring connected to an anode pad of the light receiving element and a wire connected to a preamplifier on the submount substrate, a wiring to which a bias voltage is applied on the submount substrate; a wiring connected to a cathode pad of the light receiving element on the submount substrate; and a resistor connected to the wiring to serve as a path when the bias voltage is applied to the light receiving element via the wiring on the submount substrate. A resistance value of the resistor is determined such that a resonance peak between the preamplifier and ground is suppressed and that oscillation in the preamplifier is suppressed.
US11329725B2
A device system for constituting a 3D image sensor based on optical phased array is provided. The device system includes an optical modulator that is integrated on the same photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip as a laser diode array with different output wavelengths and a multiplexer for transmitting an optical wave having a wavelength selected from the laser diode array to an optical waveguide and modulates the optical wave into a specific optical signal, an optical phased array that radiates the optical signal received via an optical switch to the free space using a tunable transmit and receive (TRx) antenna array, and a photodetector that converts an Rx optical signal received by a Tx optical signal transmitted via the optical phased array into an electrical signal.
US11329721B2
A communication device includes a zoom lens that collects signal light.
US11329720B2
A ranging method for an optical network, an OLT, an ONU, and an optical network system are provided. The OLT sends a bandwidth allocation message to the ONU; an OLT receiving a response message sent by an ONU in a first sending mode, wherein the first sending mode comprises sending power and a transmission rate; and the OLT performs ranging on the ONU according to the response message.
US11329703B2
A method of transmitting an amplitude shift keyed signal uses a multi-layered transmission over a plurality of transmit antennas with different precoding of different symbols for the respective layers. The method comprises obtaining a sequence of bits to be conveyed, keying the sequence of bits to a signal, precoding the signal to respective layer, and transmitting the precoded signal. A transmitter for transmitting the amplitude shift keyed signal, and a computer program for implementing the method are also disclosed.
US11329700B2
A method for downlink transmission in a cloud radio access network for a number of users is applied in a central unit. The central unit determines a specific number of remote radio heads (RRHs) as non-serving RRHs based on a predetermined data compression ratio. For each of many pieces of user equipment (UEs), the central unit determines a combination of RRHs which are non-serving in coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) from a plurality of RRHs based on the determined specific number, and then performs CoMP downlink transmission based on the combination of RRHs which are non-serving in the CoMP.
US11329696B2
A wireless power system has a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The devices in the wireless power system may communicate using in-band communication. The wireless power transmitting device may transmit data to the wireless power receiving device using frequency-shift keying (FSK) modulation. The wireless power receiving device may transmit data to the wireless power transmitting device using amplitude-shift keying (ASK) modulation. While transmitting data to the wireless power receiving device using FSK modulation, the wireless power transmitting device may monitor for ASK modulation from the wireless power receiving device. In response to detecting the ASK modulation from the wireless power receiving device, the wireless power transmitting device may abort the FSK data transmission and process the detected ASK modulation to receive data from the wireless power receiving device.
US11329682B2
A portable communication device (100) comprises a housing that provides an elongated aperture (114) having a non-touch user interface (116) residing therein. The non-touch user interface (116) is formed of an elongated rounded rectangular shaped body. A plurality of non-touch user interface features (118) are spaced apart side-by-side along the single elongated rounded rectangular shaped body of the non-touch user interface (116). The elongated aperture (114) with non-touch user interface (116) residing therein define a visible non-touch user interface zone (120) on the surface of the portable communication device for the protection of the non-touch user interface features (118).
US11329671B2
A method for use in a wireless transmitter of interleaving coded bits includes: determining an integer number (M) of polar coded bits {e(0), . . . , e(M−1)} for wireless transmission; determining a smallest integer number (T) such that T(T+1)/2>=M; and determining a one-dimensional interleaving index array, interleavingId( ), that represents the column by column non-zero elements of a two-dimensional matrix. The two-dimensional matrix includes a hypothetical T by T matrix containing the polar coded bits {e(0), . . . , e(M−1)} input row by row without using the lower right corner elements of the T×T matrix. The method further includes: interleaving the polar coded bits {e(0), . . . , e(M−1)} using the one-dimensional interleaving index array resulting in the output sequence {f(0), . . . , f(M−1)} wherein f(i)=e(interleavingId(i)); and transmitting the interleaved polar coded bits to a wireless receiver.
US11329670B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode outer-encoded bits to generate an LDPC codeword including LDPC information bits and parity bits; a puncturer configured to puncture some of the parity bits included in the LDPC codeword; and a mapper configured to map the LDPC codeword except the punctured parity bits to symbols for transmission to a receiver, wherein the puncturer calculates a number of parity bits to be punctured among the parity bits included in the LDPC codeword based on a number of the outer-encoded bits, a number of the LDPC information bits, and a minimum number of parity bits to be punctured among the parity bits included in the LDPC codeword.
US11329666B2
A method of transforming a data file, the method executed by a processor. The method includes segmenting the data file into data segments and creating a bit index for each data segment having a size that is based on a configurable or preset data group unit. The method then involves indexing each data segment into its corresponding bit index by reading all data group unit values within the data segment and updating the bit index based on the read values, and generating an output data file or files comprising the bit indexes that represent the original data file.
US11329653B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip configured to receive a timing signal and a reference clock signal; and a second IC chip configured to receive the timing signal and the reference clock signal. The first and second IC chips are configured to generate respective first and second reference time signals based on the timing signal and the reference clock signal. The first and second IC chips include a respective first phase lock loop (PLL) and second PLL. The first PLL and the second PLL are synchronized to each other based on the first reference time signal and the second reference time signal.
US11329648B2
A discharge control circuit includes discharge elements, logic circuits, and at least one delay circuit. Each of the logic circuits controls turning-on and turning-off the discharge elements based on a control signal inputted externally. The delay circuit delays an output signal of a first logic circuit among the logic circuits. The discharge control circuit pulls out charges from a corresponding terminal in response to turning-on of the discharge elements. A signal delayed by the delay circuit is inputted to a second logic circuit among the logic circuits so that the discharge elements are controlled in a predetermined order by one control signal.
US11329647B2
In a communication system, a communication terminal device transmits and receives RF signals frequently. Subsequent to an antenna of the communication terminal device, the communication terminal device includes a radio frequency switch (also referred to as transmit/receive (T/R) switch) that switches between two states at a high frequency, where one state is for receiving RF signal and other state for transmitting RF signal. In the exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) switch is provided, where the CMOS switch is deigned to have a high reliability by coupling a body of a transistor of the CMOS switch to a bias voltage through a switch, where the insertion loss and isolation are improved for the operation of the CMOS switch.
US11329645B2
A driving apparatus including: gate driving circuit to drive gates of a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element connected in series between a positive side power supply line and a negative side power supply line; a first timing generating circuit to generate a first timing signal when voltage applied to the second semiconductor element becomes reference voltage during a turn-off period of the first semiconductor element; and a first driving condition change circuit, wherein the gate driving circuit relaxes change in a charge amount of the gate of the first semiconductor element, according to the first timing signal.
US11329644B2
A gate drive apparatus is provided. The gate drive apparatus includes a gate drive unit configured to drive a gate of a switching device; a parameter measuring unit configured to measure a parameter corresponding to current flowing through the switching device; a discrepancy detection unit configured to detect discrepancy between current flowing through the switching device during an on-state of the switching device and a reference value, based on the parameter; and a control unit that, if the discrepancy is not detected, switches a change speed of a gate voltage of the switching device at a timing when a reference time has elapsed since a turn-off start of the switching device during a next turn-off time period of the switching device, and if the discrepancy is detected, keeps the change speed of the gate voltage during the next turn-off time period of the switching device.
US11329638B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate multi-resonant couplers for preserving ZX interaction while reducing ZZ interaction are provided. In various embodiments, a first qubit can have a first operational frequency and a second qubit can have a second operational frequency, and a multi-resonant architecture can couple the first qubit to the second qubit. In various embodiments, the multi-resonant architecture can comprise a first resonator and a second resonator. In various cases, the first resonator can capacitively couple the first qubit to the second qubit, and a second resonator can capacitively couple the first qubit to the second qubit. In various aspects, the first resonator and the second resonator can be in parallel. In various instances, the first resonator can have a first resonant frequency less than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency, and the second resonator can have a second resonant frequency greater than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency. In various other embodiments, the multi-resonant architecture can comprise a resonator, a first end of which can be capacitively coupled to the first qubit and to the second qubit, and a second end of which can be coupled to ground. In various instances, the resonator can have a first harmonic less than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency, and can have a second harmonic greater than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency. In various other embodiments, the multi-resonant architecture can comprise a resonator and a direct coupler. In various embodiments, the resonator and the direct coupler can both capacitively couple the first qubit to the second qubit, and the resonator and the direct coupler can be in parallel. In various cases, the direct coupler can couple opposite pads of the first qubit and the second qubit. In various embodiments, a first end of the resonator can be capacitively coupled to the first qubit and the second qubit, a second end of the resonator can be coupled to ground, and the direct coupler can capacitively couple common pads of the first qubit and the second qubit.
US11329623B2
A bulk-acoustic wave resonator includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a piezoelectric layer covering at least a portion of the first electrode, and a second electrode covering at least a portion of the piezoelectric layer. When an active region, in which the first electrode and the second electrode are disposed to overlap each other, is viewed from above, among four sides of a rectangle with which at least three vertices of a polygon formed by the active region are in contact, a longest side is defined as a side B and a side connected to side B is defined as a side A, and an aspect ratio (side B/side A) is 1.3 to 3.
US11329596B2
A control circuit for a multi-phase motor (57) comprises a plurality of inverter bridges, a plurality of outputs, and at least one isolation switch (62, 63). Each inverter bridge is arranged to provide an output voltage for a phase of the motor (57). Each output is arranged to be coupled to one phase of the motor (57) to provide the output voltage to that phase of the motor (57). Each isolation switch (62, 63) is coupled between one of the inverter bridges and one of the outputs, so as to selectively isolate the output from the inverter bridge. Each isolation switch (62, 63) comprises a Gallium Nitride (GaN) transistor.
US11329594B2
An apparatus that reduces leakage current and noise in various environments. The apparatus includes a motor, an inverter to supply power to the motor and a plurality of switching elements configured to convert input DC power into three-phase AC power, and a processor to control the plurality of switching elements. The processor generates a carrier, obtains a rising and falling edge timing of a PWM control signal of each phase based on superposition of a zero phase voltage, and drives a motor by shifting the PWM control signal of each phase to allow a rising edge timing and a falling edge timing of a PWM control signal of one phase among the PWM control signal of the each phase to be different from a rising edge timing and a falling edge timing of a PWM control signal of other phase among the PWM control signal of the each phase.
US11329591B2
A power conversion apparatus includes: an inverter unit; a first capacitor group, an positive electrode of the first capacitor group connected to an positive electrode on the DC input side of the inverter unit; a second capacitor group, a negative electrode of the second capacitor group connected to a negative electrode of the DC input side of the inverter unit; a first terminal portion connected to the positive electrode of the first capacitor group; a second terminal portion connected to a negative electrode of the first capacitor group; a third terminal portion connected to an positive electrode of the second capacitor group; and a fourth terminal portion connected to the negative electrode of the second capacitor group, wherein a distance between the first terminal portion and the third terminal portion is approximately equal to a distance between the second terminal portion and the fourth terminal portion.
US11329586B1
In one embodiment, a motor control circuit may be configured as a current circuit that forms a sense current that is representative of at least a BEMF voltage from a motor, and to use the sense current to detect a substantially zero-crossing of the BEMF voltage.
US11329577B2
Embodiments provide a multiaxial motor control system for controlling motors for a plurality of shafts included in a multiaxial machine, and including a plurality of motor control devices and a controller. The controller is connected with the motor control devices, and transmits a command signal to the motor control devices. Each motor control device includes a communication controller, a rotation controller, and a drive unit, and drives a motor of a corresponding shaft. The communication controller transmits and receives signals including the command signal, and determine whether the command signal is received normally. The rotation controller generates a torque command to operate the corresponding motor. The drive unit generates a drive voltage for electrification to drive the corresponding motor in accordance with the torque command. When a motor control device detects failure in reception, the motor control device outputs a torque command for braking torque to stop the corresponding motor.
US11329576B2
A power generating element is provided that includes first and second plate-like structures, a pedestal that supports the first plate-like structure, and first and second piezoelectric elements that generate charges on the basis of the deflections of the two plate-like structures. A base end portion of the first plate-like structure is connected to the pedestal, and a direction from the base end portion toward the tip end portion of the first plate-like structure is a Y-axis positive direction. A base end portion of the second plate-like structure is connected to the tip end portion of the first plate-like structure via a connection body, and a direction from the base end portion toward the tip end portion of the second plate-like structure is a Y-axis negative direction. A frequency band of a half-value width of a resonance system formed on the basis of the flexibility of the second plate-like structure at least partially overlaps a frequency band of a half-value width of a resonance system formed on the basis of the flexibility of the first plate-like structure.
US11329569B2
A power conversion system includes a power conversion circuit and a start-up circuit. The power conversion circuit includes an output capacitor, a first switching unit, a second switching unit, a flying capacitor and a magnetic element. The second switching unit includes two switch groups. The flying capacitor is connected between a first terminal and a second terminal of the power conversion circuit. The magnetic element includes two first windings that are electromagnetically coupled with each other. A first one of the two first windings is electrically connected between one switch group and the second terminal of the power conversion circuit. A second one of the two first windings is electrically connected between the other switch group and the second terminal of the power conversion circuit. The start-up circuit includes a third winding and an inductor. The third winding is electromagnetically coupled with the first windings.
US11329565B2
The present invention provides regulation for an output voltage of a DC-DC voltage converter. The controlled variable provided to the regulator of the DC-DC voltage converter is in this case made up of a controlled variable from a voltage regulator and a further controlled variable from an initial controller. The controlled variable from the voltage regulator is in this case obtained directly from the comparison of the output voltage with a setpoint voltage. The controlled variable from the initial controller takes into consideration, inter alia, the input voltage of the DC-DC voltage converter, the value of the input DC voltage being able to be corrected such that the voltage regulator can be operated close to the zero point during steady-state operation. In this manner, faster and more precise regulation of the output voltage is obtained.
US11329552B2
In a power converter, a switching network having switches that operate at a common frequency and duty cycle interconnects circuit elements. These circuit elements include capacitors that are in a capacitor network and a magnetic filter. When connected to the capacitors by a switch from the switching network, the magnetic filter imposes a constraint upon inter-capacitor charge transfer between the capacitors to maintain the filter's second terminal at a voltage. The switching network transitions between states. These states include a first state, a second state, and a third state. In both the first state and the third state, the first magnetic-filter terminal couples to the capacitor network. In the second state, which occurs between the first and third state, the switches ground the first magnetic-filter terminal.
US11329540B2
An actuator may include a movable body; a support body; a connecting body arranged where the movable body and the support body face each other to contact both of the movable body and the support body; and a magnetic drive circuit. The magnetic drive circuit may include an air-core coil provided on a first-side member among the movable body and the support body; and a permanent magnet provided on a second-side member among the movable body and the support body to face the coil in a first direction, the magnetic drive circuit being configured to vibrate the movable body with respect to the support body in a second direction crossing the first direction. In the first-side member, the coil may be fixed by an adhesive to a surface of a plate-shaped coil holder on a first side in the first direction while an air-cores is directed in the first direction.
US11329538B2
According to one embodiment, in a lateral cross section, a rotor core includes a plurality of layers of barrier regions formed to be arranged in a radial direction with intervals in each magnetic pole. Each barrier region includes a flux barrier extending from near a part of an outer circumferential surface through d axis to near another part thereof. At least a flux barrier of a barrier region provided at an outermost circumferential surface side is filled with a nonmagnetic conductive material. A barrier-side edge on a side of the central axis, which defines the flux barrier of the barrier region provided in an outermost circumferential surface side is located within a range of 0.55<2a/R2 <0.84.
US11329534B2
A temperature abnormality detection device that detects an abnormality in temperature of a motor including a stator and a rotor, includes: a temperature acquisition unit that acquires a temperature of a winding of the stator; a speed acquisition unit that acquires a rotation speed of the rotor; an allowable value changing unit that changes an allowable value for the temperature of the winding in accordance with an acquired rotation speed of the rotor; a comparison unit that compares an acquired temperature of the winding with a changed allowable value for the temperature of the winding based on the rotation speed of the rotor; and an output control unit that controls an external output of a warning signal indicating an excess of the temperature of the winding with respect to the allowable value.
US11329533B2
A structure for assembling a temperature sensor of an annular terminal unit for a drive motor. The structure includes a terminal holder having an annular shape, a temperature sensor fixed to the terminal holder, a plurality of cores radially arranged on a lower surface of the terminal holder, a bobbin inserted into each of the plurality of cores, and a stator coil wound around each of the bobbins. The temperature sensor passes through the terminal holder in a vertical direction of the terminal holder and is inserted between the bobbins around which the stator coils are wound.
US11329528B2
An electric machine includes a conductive element disposed in such a way as to connect a first track and a second track of an electric power circuit to close the circuit; the conductive element being held in position by at least one mechanically breakable joint which, if subjected to a predetermined force, mechanically yields or breaks and thereby opens the electric power circuit; the machine includes a system for releasing the conductive element from the first and/or the second track if the casing of the electric machine is moved near the cap which covers the machine.
US11329526B2
A stator member may include a columnar stator core, a linear coil, and an insulating insulator. The linear coil may be wound around the stator core. The insulator may be disposed between the stator core and the coil. Furthermore, the insulator may include a central member and an outer member. The central member may cover the stator core. The outer member may be connected to an outside of the central member in an axial direction of the stator core. The outer member may include a surface extending in a thickness direction in which the central member and the outer member are arranged, and a groove recessed in a direction orthogonal to the thickness direction from the surface. A connection terminal of a busbar member may be inserted into the groove.
US11329518B2
According to a first aspect of a long-distance wireless charging system for charging at least one receiver in a venue that is used by humans or animals, the long-distance wireless charging system comprises a plurality of antennas aligned for transmitting RF radiation to a space within the venue; at least one sensor for determining a position of at least one animal and a location of the at least one receiver in the space; and a transmitter, having a controller, configured to shape the RF radiation to peak the RF radiation on the location of the at least one receiver and null the RF radiation around the position of the at least one animal by controlling amplitudes and phases of the RF radiation transmitted from each antenna of the plurality of antennas.
US11329517B2
The present disclosure describes various embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods of fabricating a metamaterial-inspired dual-function loop antenna. One such antenna device comprises a loop antenna and a metamaterial slab integrated on top of the loop antenna. Accordingly, the metamaterial slab metamaterial has a negative refractive index value at a first frequency and a near zero refractive index at a second frequency, wherein the first frequency is less than the second frequency, each unit cell of the metamaterial slab is coupled to a capacitor in parallel, the first frequency is attributed to a capacitance value of the capacitor, and the second frequency is attributed to a dimension of the unit cell. As such, the antenna device is configured to receive wireless power transfer signals over the first frequency and wireless communication signals over the second frequency. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also presented.
US11329512B2
When a communication unit receives an end power transfer (EPT) packet including information about a power transmission stop period from a power reception apparatus, a power transmission apparatus controls a power transmission coil to transmit a checking signal for checking existence of the power reception apparatus during the power transmission stop period, detects at least one of a voltage or a current applied to the power transmission coil when the checking signal is transmitted, and determines whether the power reception apparatus that has transmitted the EPT packet exists, based on the detection result.
US11329511B2
Systems include a coil, a drive circuit, a sense circuit, and a communication and control circuit for providing power inductively to a portable device comprising a battery and an inductive receiver unit including a receiver coil and a receiver circuit. A portable device includes a battery and a receiver unit capable of receiving inductive power from a compatible inductive charging system including a base unit with a primary coil and associated circuit.
US11329506B2
A modular wireless power bank system providing supplemental power for an electronic device includes: a power bank with a battery, a charge surface for wireless magnetic induction coupling, a power bank electromechanical connector and a means for coupling with the electronic device, aligned for power transfer via wireless magnetic induction coupling; and a desk stand comprising: a power bank socket configured to receive the power bank, the power bank socket including a stand electromechanical connector aligned to mate with the power bank electromechanical connector upon insertion of the power bank into the power bank socket; and an electronic device cradle configured to receive the electronic device; the power bank socket and the electronic device cradle aligned to receive the power bank and the electronic device either separately or while the power bank is coupled to the electronic device via the attachment means. A corresponding vehicle mount may also be included.
US11329503B2
A synchronization control circuit transforms a three-phase AC voltage supplied from a commercial AC power supply to a vector on rotational coordinates and calculates a first phase difference between the vector and a d axis. When magnitude of the first phase difference is larger than a prescribed value, the synchronization control circuit sets the first phase difference as it is as a second phase difference. When magnitude of the first phase difference is smaller than the prescribed value, the synchronization control circuit generates the second phase difference in reverse polarity to the first phase difference, and controls a frequency of a clock signal so as to set the second phase difference to 0 degree.
US11329495B2
A power adaptor for an information handling system may provide a higher power output level by monitoring a temperature inside a transformer of the power adaptor. When the transformer temperature is below a threshold below a rated temperature, the power adaptor may be allowed to operate at high power output levels. For example, a power adaptor rated for 45 Watts at 100 degrees Celsius may be allowed to operate at 65 Watts at 70 degrees Celsius. A feedback circuit may use transformer temperature information to determine when a power output level of the power adaptor may be adjusted to a higher level and then reconfigure the power adaptor to operate at the higher power output level.
US11329491B2
A distributed battery balance management method includes: performing a battery system balancing procedure by a battery system balance management unit and performing battery module balancing procedure by module balance management circuit (MBMC) of corresponding battery module (BM). The battery system balancing procedure includes: obtaining lowest module voltages of corresponding BMs; obtaining a lowest system voltage and an average system voltage of the battery system; determining whether the lowest module voltage of the corresponding BM is greater than the average system voltage; when yes, setting a balance time duty ratio of the corresponding MBMC as a first duty ratio; when no, setting the balance time duty ratio of the corresponding MBMC as a second duty ratio; and setting module balance enable signal of corresponding MBMC to be enable, thus allowing the corresponding BM to perform voltage balance control on the batteries in the corresponding BM.
US11329490B2
A management device includes a manager configured to manage power stored in a secondary battery provided to a user for stationary use and execute a power exchange business, the power exchange business being performed by connecting the secondary battery to a power network, and a deriver configured to derive return information for returning part of a profit obtained through the power exchange business to the user.
US11329465B2
A lock structure includes: an engaged body; and an engaging body capable of inserting and removing the engaged body along insertion and removal directions opposite to each other. An engaged body includes first and second engaged walls disposed opposite to each other at an interval, a connection wall which connects end portions on the insertion direction side thereof, and an engaged protrusion protruding from an outer wall surface of the second engaged wall. An engaging body has first and second engaging walls in which a space between the respective inner wall surfaces is defined as an accommodation space of the engaged body, an engaging protrusion protruding from the inner wall surface of the second engaging wall and capable of locking the engaged protrusion on the removal direction side, and a third engaging wall disposed between the first and second engaging walls.
US11329460B2
A shield trim is performed by tearing bunched shield strands circumferentially along a circular edge. The apparatus includes a pair of aligned metal plates that have been drilled through multiple times such that holes of varying diameters pass through both plates. A cable gripper on the entry side of the device clamps the cable in place. A shield gripper on the rear side of the device closes over the exposed shielding of the cable, and the two plates are pushed together. The shield gripper travels with the rear plate, pushing the shield over the wires and causing the shield to bunch between the two plates. With the two plates pushed together, both grippers open and the cable is pulled free from the device. This pull forces a stress concentration which tears the shield strands across the sharp edge of the hole, producing a uniformly trimmed shield.
US11329456B2
An ionic wind generator and an electronic device having a heat dissipation function using the same are proposed. The ionic wind generator includes a power module; a first electrode configured to receive power from the power module by being connected to the power module to become an emitter electrode; and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and grounded and at the same time connected to the power module to become a counter electrode. In addition, the first electrode is configured as a carbon brush including multiple carbon fibers. Accordingly, in the ionic wind generator, the emitter electrode is configured as the carbon brush having multiple carbon fibers.
US11329450B2
A electro-absorption optical modulator includes a multiple quantum well composed of a plurality of layers including a plurality of quantum well layers and a plurality of barrier layers that are alternately stacked, the plurality of quantum well layers and the plurality of barrier layers including an acceptor and a donor; a p-type semiconductor layer in contact with an uppermost layer of the plurality of layers; and an n-type semiconductor layer in contact with a lowermost layer of the plurality of layers, the multiple quantum well being 10% or more and 150% or less of the p-type semiconductor layer in a p-type carrier concentration, and in the multiple quantum well, an effective carrier concentration which corresponds to a difference between the p-type carrier concentration and an n-type carrier concentration is ±10% or less of the p-type carrier concentration of the multiple quantum well.
US11329443B2
A laser device includes a laser oscillator that generates a laser beam, condenser lens that condenses laser beam emitted from the laser oscillator, transmission fiber that includes at least core that transmits laser beam condensed by condenser lens, and cladding provided around core, and a lens driving unit that adjusts a position of condenser lens. The lens driving unit automatically adjusts the position of condenser lens to reduce light intensity of laser beam incident on cladding.
US11329441B2
A method for aligning a crimper of a first tool of a crimping press relative to an anvil of a second tool of the crimping press, wherein the crimper and the anvil make a crimp connection jointly by moving the crimper relative to the anvil in a first direction, includes: determining a lateral offset of a center line of the crimper to a center line of the anvil in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the center line of the crimper runs through a center of the crimper and in the first direction and wherein the center line of the anvil runs through a center of the anvil and in the first direction; and moving the crimper relative to the anvil in the second direction for lowering the lateral offset.
US11329434B2
An electrical connector for connecting a plurality of conductor pairs is provided. The electrical connector has a plurality of conductor pairs. The electrical connector has a metal housing. The metal housing comprises or defines a first region and a second region. Each conductor pair of the plurality of conductor pairs extends through the first region and the second region. The first region is provided with an electrically conductive potting compound.
US11329428B2
A service plug includes first and second main terminals, first and second signal terminals, a lock part that locks a lever to a second connector housing to regulate rotation of the lever in a state in which the lever is positioned at a half-engaged position between a completely engaged position and a non-engaged position, and a lock releasing part that releases a lock state. A configuration is made such that, as the lever is rotated from the completely engaged position to the half-engaged position, part of a plurality of contact pieces of the second main terminal that is brought into elastic contact with the first main terminal at a position displaced in an approaching direction, and the other part of the contact pieces maintains elastic contact at a position that is not displaced in the approaching direction and a separating direction.
US11329418B2
A connector plug has a connector plug body, a slider supported on the connector plug body and a jig attachable to the slider. The jig has an insertion portion which can be inserted into a slot of the slider and an operation portion extended from the insertion portion. The insertion portion has first and second insertion portions separated from each other by a predetermined distance. The slider can be moved in the detaching direction when the jig is moved in the detaching direction in a state that a first locking portion of the first insertion portion and a second locking portion of the second insertion portion are locked to the inner wall of the slot, and the locked state of the first locking portion and the second locking portion can be released when a force is applied to the operation portion in an inside direction to shorten the predetermined distance.
US11329410B2
An electrical connector adapted to electrically connect a conductive strip to a circuit board includes a housing having a main body with a receiving chamber, a first terminal fixed in the receiving chamber and electrically connected to the conductive strip, and a second terminal fixed on the circuit board. The first terminal has a movable contact portion extending out of the receiving chamber. The movable contact portion of the first terminal electrically contacts the second terminal while being moveable with respect to the second terminal.
US11329409B2
The present disclosure provides a housing for wire to board connectors. The housing comprises a main body, a first end cover, and a second end cover. The main body comprises an accommodating groove, the bottom of which is provided with a plurality of terminal openings disposed at intervals. A terminal module is disposed in the accommodating groove. A plurality of terminal groups are respectively inserted into the corresponding terminal openings. The first end cover disposed on one end edge of the main body comprises a plurality of first partition parts disposed at intervals. The second end cover disposed on the other end edge of the main body comprises a plurality of second partition parts disposed at intervals, and is opposite to the first end cover. The plurality of second partition parts and the plurality of first partition parts are alternately disposed.
US11329406B2
A system and method are disclosed for an electrical earthing or grounding system to protect electrical systems and structures. Such systems and structures are efficient at dissipating broadband energy. An earthing mix system in contact with a grounding electrode is separated into functional components; a conductive earthing mix which is in contact with an electrical conductor and an impedance transitioning earthing composition which is in contact with the conductivity earthing mix. The conductive earthing mix absorbs, radiates, conducts, and dissipates electrical energy. The impedance transitioning earthing mix acts as a lossy impedance matching media to reduce reflections and improve energy transfer. A conductive slurry mix fills in voids and aids in contact between the other elements. A grounding electrode system connects an electrically conductive electrode with an earthing mix system to achieve reduced impedance mismatch between the local soil and the grounding system itself while expanding the bandwidth of the overall system's grounding capability beyond traditional solutions.
US11329400B2
The female electrical terminal includes an attachment piece. The attachment piece has a terminal body that is located around a terminal axis and defines an interior space. The terminal body has one or more flanges located on opposed sides of the terminal axis. The terminal body also has one or more body stops located on opposed sides of the terminal axis. The female electrical terminal also includes a contact piece. The contact piece has a contact body located around the terminal axis. A plurality of contact arms extend from the contact body at least partially in the interior space. The contact body is located at least partially between the flanges and the terminal axis. The contact piece also includes contact stops engaged with the body stops.
US11329394B2
The present disclosure discloses a flexible antenna structure and an electronic device having the same. The flexible antenna structure includes a flexible printed circuit board, a mm-Wave antenna disposed on the flexible printed circuit board and conformal with the flexible printed circuit board, and a non-mm-Wave antenna disposed on the flexible printed circuit board and conformal with the flexible printed circuit board. Compared with the existing art, by means of the flexible antenna structure provided with the mm-Wave antenna and the non-mm-Wave antenna on the flexible printed circuit board, the present disclosure realizes integration of the mm-Wave antenna and the non-mm-Wave antenna, solves a challenge of numerous antennas in the electronic device, and realizes conformation with a bent part of a shell 1, thereby increasing the space utilization rate in a limited space. Furthermore, the overall size and cost cannot be increased, thus improving the competitiveness of a product.
US11329390B2
A multiband antenna array includes a radiating element array having first and second rows of MIMO radiating elements. The two rows of MIMO radiating elements include a plurality of dual-polarised radiating elements. The radiating element array includes a dual-polarised low-band radiating element. A reflector array is provided, from which a) the dual-polarised radiating elements of the first and second rows of MIMO radiating elements and b) the dual-polarised low-band radiating element are spaced. The dual-polarised low-band radiating element includes at least four directive radiating element devices, which are each offset relative to one another by at least approximately 90° and delimit an accommodation space. In the accommodation space there are at least one or at least two dual-polarised radiating elements from the first row of MIMO radiating elements and at least one or at least two dual-polarised radiating elements from the second row of MIMO radiating elements.
US11329389B2
A method for fabricating a hyperbolic metamaterial coating having a near-zero refractive index is disclosed. The direction of propagating light changes by means of generating subwavelength structures that alter the coatings permittivity and permeability. The coating can be deposited on lenses or incorporated into optical devices. This type of metamaterial can be utilized to direct light towards sensors or to collect light efficiently.
US11329382B1
An antenna structure includes a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a fourth radiation element, a fifth radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The first radiation element has a positive feeding point. The second radiation element is coupled to the first radiation element. The third radiation element has a negative feeding point. The fourth radiation element is coupled to the third radiation element. The fifth radiation element is floating. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface which are opposite to each other. The first radiation element and the third radiation element are both disposed on the first surface of the dielectric substrate. The second radiation element, the fourth radiation element, and the fifth radiation element are all disposed on the second surface of the dielectric substrate.
US11329375B1
A quadrature fed four-port radiating element is fed by an active quadrature combiner feed network. The active quadrature four-port combiner is ultra-wide band and includes RF signal amplification. The resulting feeder exhibits a size reduction over existing passive balanced/unbalanced technology on the order of five thousand to one. Such antennas may be incorporated into radio frequency integrated circuit transmit/receive modules. Such antennas may also be integrated with front end low noise amplifiers. Such feeder network enables practical implementation of two-port feeders compatible with AESA array lattice restrictions.
US11329374B2
An antenna device, an electronic apparatus and a method for antenna switching are disclosed by embodiments of the present disclosure. The antenna device includes: a near field communication chip configured to provide a differential excitation current; a ground plane forming a conductive path thereon; a plurality of first conductive assemblies; a first switch configured to selectively be in communication one or more of the first conductive assemblies; a second conductive assembly. The communicating first conductive assembly, the conductive path, and the second conductive assembly together constitute a conductive loop for transmission of the differential excitation current.
US11329370B2
Disclosed is a combo antenna module in which an accommodation groove is formed in a coil pattern and a connection pattern connected to a coil pattern disposed on another surface is disposed in the accommodation groove so as to minimize a mounting space and provide antenna performance greater than or equal to that of a conventional antenna module. The disclosed combo antenna module comprises a coil pattern for short-range communication and a coil pattern for wireless power transmission. The coil pattern for wireless power transmission has the accommodation groove formed by varying the line width of the coil pattern disposed on one surface, and the connection pattern for connecting the coil patterns disposed on the other surface is disposed in the accommodation groove so as to minimize a mounting space and provide antenna performance greater than or equal to that of a conventional antenna module.
US11329364B2
A communication apparatus includes a plurality of antenna parts configured to receive or transmit a wireless signal, a communication control part configured to control transmitting or receiving the wireless signal via at least any of the plurality of antenna parts, and a casing housing the communication control part, in which each of the plurality of antenna parts is held near each of a plurality of partial regions normal directions of which cross each other or the normal directions of which are mutually twisted in outer faces of the casing, and transmit or receive a first wireless signal and a second wireless signal propagating in directions substantially orthogonal to the partial regions and having mutually different polarization directions.
US11329361B2
An electronic device with high frequency antenna integration is described herein. The electronic device may comprise a trackpad and at least one antenna element. The trackpad is configured in a housing to receive input. The at least one antenna element is operable in a high frequency range integrated into a region adjacent to the trackpad, wherein at least a portion of the region is transparent to radio wave transmission enabling a dual use of the region.
US11329350B2
A bus bar module includes a case assembled to a battery assembly including single cells, a bus bar held in the case and fastened to electrodes of the single cells, a circuit body connected to the bus bar and is wired in the case, and a circuit board to which the circuit body is connected. The case includes a case main body including a board accommodation space, and a lid body attached to one side at which the board accommodation space in the case main body is open. The circuit body is led from an opening portion into the board accommodation space, the opening portion being formed on a surface of the other side opposite to the one side of the board accommodation space in the case main body. The circuit body is soldered to the circuit board from the one side.
US11329348B2
A cylindrical battery cell includes an electrode assembly of a cathode/separator/anode structure and an electrolyte disposed in a battery case, a cylindrical metal container forms the battery case with the electrode assembly and the electrolyte disposed therein, a cap assembly is mounted on the open upper end of the metal container and a gasket of an elastic material is interposed between the metal container and the cap assembly. The upper end of the metal container is clamped and bent inward toward the central axis of the battery cell to enable the upper portion of the metal container to surround the exterior surface of the gasket. A recessed groove configured to partially receive the gasket by clamping, is formed on the interior surface of the inward-bent portion of the metal container. Accordingly, damage to the gasket interposed between the metal container and the cap assembly is reduced and inhibits electrolyte leakage.
US11329342B2
This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles. An exemplary battery pack may include an enclosure assembly, one or more battery arrays housed within the enclosure assembly, a first battery internal component (e.g., an array holding device, heat exchanger plate, tray, etc.) adjacent to the battery array, a mounting bracket mounted to the first battery internal component, and a second battery internal component (e.g., a wiring harness of an electrical distribution system) elevated above the first battery internal component by the mounting bracket.
US11329340B2
A battery pack having a bottom connection type tray is provided. The battery pack includes a tray configured to load a plurality of battery modules therein, a plurality of tray terminals provided on a bottom plate of the tray, a connection wire for interconnecting the tray terminals or connecting the tray terminals to an external circuit, and a battery terminal provided in each of the battery modules to be connected to a corresponding one of the tray terminals. Terminal connection is achieved while the battery modules are assembled with the tray, and therefore, an assembly procedure is more easily performed, and the reliability of a terminal connection structure is improved. In addition, automated assembly and production using a robot are possible.
US11329338B2
A rechargeable battery according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an electrode assembly formed by spirally winding a first electrode, a separator, and a second electrode; and a pouch that forms a sealing portion by thermally bonding an outer edge of a first external material and an outer edge of a second external material that receive the electrode assembly to withdraw tabs respectively connected to the first electrode and the second electrode to the outside, wherein the electrode assembly includes first curved portions that are convex at opposite sides of a first planar portion in a spiral-wound cross-section, the pouch includes a second planar portion corresponding to the first planar portion, and second curved portions that are connected to the second planar portion corresponding to the first curved portions, and the sealing portion is disposed in spaces, each set by an extension plane set in an extension direction of the first planar portion, external surfaces of the second curved portions, protruding in the extension direction, and a cross plane that is set in a direction crossing the extension direction at the end of the extension direction of the second curved portion.
US11329337B2
Provided is an energy storage device which can sufficiently reduce a resistance of a current path. An energy storage device includes: an outer case having a lid plate on which an external terminal is mounted; a plate having a tab and housed in the outer case; a conductive shaft portion penetrating the lid plate and having one end thereof connected to the external terminal; and a conductive plate portion housed in the outer case, and having a first surface to which the other end of the conductive shaft portion is connected and a second surface to which the tab is connected, wherein a size of the conductive plate portion and a size of the tab are respectively set larger than a size of the external terminal in a planar direction of the lid plate.
US11329336B2
In a laser welding step, a laser beam is irradiated fin a thickness direction of an external terminal from a side of a front surface of a bus bar toward a space. This irradiation melts a separated portion of the external terminal, i.e., a portion located apart from the insulating part by the space between the insulating part and the separated portion in the thickness direction, and an opposed portion of the bus bar, i.e., a portion opposed to the space via the separated portion in the thickness direction, thereby forming a welded portion including the separated portion and the opposed portion melted together.
US11329333B2
The heat transfer device includes a sealed bag, a working fluid, and a contact component. The working fluid is enclosed in the bag. The contact component includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion that are separated from each other via a spacer. A left edge portion of the bag is disposed between the first contact portion and the second contact portion. The left edge portion contacts the first contact portion and the second contact portion when the bag expands due to vaporization of the working fluid.
US11329329B2
Various arrangements for a battery module cooling system are presented. A thermal tower may be contoured to contact one or more battery cells. The thermal tower may include a holding member and a cooling member. A hollow interior region having a top aperture may be defined by the holding member. A portion of each of the one or more battery cells may be contacted by the cooling member to provide localized cooling to each of the one or more battery cells. A seal may be formed between the holding member and the cooling member by positioning the cooling member on the top aperture of the holding member. Optionally, the portion that the cooling members may contact to provide localized cooling may include a hot region having a higher temperature than other portions of each of the one or more battery cells.
US11329322B2
A battery module is provided whereby loss of productivity can be minimized even when producing multiple exterior body parts for different battery module sizes. The battery module of the disclosure has an exterior body and an all-solid-state battery stack encapsulated in the exterior body. The exterior body has a tubular body and a pair of covers. The tubular body has flanges at both open ends. The flanges at both ends of the tubular body and the outer edge sections of the pair of covers are each joined forming joints, with the exterior body being sealed by the joints. The all-solid-state battery stack has one or multiple constituent unit cells. The direction of stacking of each of the layers of the constituent unit cell is in the axial direction of the tubular body.
US11329320B2
The present invention has for its object to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium air batteries capable of simultaneously holding back positive electrode overvoltage, reactions of the negative electrode with the electrolyte and dendrite growth during charging thereby making an improvement in the output performance, and a lithium air battery using the same. The invention provides a non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium air batteries, containing an organic solvent and a lithium salt. The lithium salt contains at least LiX (where X stands for Br and/or I) and lithium nitrate. The molar concentration (mol/L) of LiX in the non-aqueous electrolyte satisfies a range of no less than 0.005 to no greater than 2.0, and the molar concentration (mol/L) of the lithium nitrate in the non-aqueous electrolyte satisfies a range of greater than 0.1 to no greater than 2.0.
US11329319B2
The present disclosure relates to a lithium ion battery including an electrode assembly; and an electrolytic solution for infiltrating the electrode assembly and an electrical apparatus including the same, wherein the electrode assembly includes an electrode body, a positive electrode tab, and a negative electrode tab. The electrode body includes a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator that are wound together around an axis. The positive electrode plate includes a positive current collector and a positive electrode material layer provided on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector. In an axial direction (X), the electrode body has two opposite side portions, and the positive electrode tab and the negative electrode tab extend from the two side portions of the electrode body, respectively. A diffusion rate v of the electrolytic solution to the electrode body is from 0.01 μg/s to 5 μg/s.
US11329313B2
A lithium secondary battery is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a lithium secondary battery which includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material represented by Formula 1, and the non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a non-aqueous organic solvent, a first lithium salt, lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide as a second lithium salt, and an additive, wherein a molar ratio of the first lithium salt to the second lithium salt is in a range of 1:0.01 to 1:1, and the additive is a mixed additive which includes fluorobenzene, tetravinylsilane, and tertiary butylbenzene in a weight ratio of 1:0.05:0.1 to 1:1:1.5. Li(NiaCobMnc)O2 [Formula 1] (in Formula 1, 0.65
US11329311B2
A lithium-sulfur battery comprises a cathode electrode comprising from 80% to 100% lithium polysulfide based on the total weight of sulfur adsorbed at the cathode when the lithium sulfur battery is fully charged, and a high specific surface area electrically conductive material. An anode electrode comprises lithium. A porous and electrically insulating membrane is provided between the cathode and the anode electrodes. An electrolyte is adsorbed into and between cathode electrode, the anode electrode, and the membrane. A cathode current collector is electrically connected to the cathode and an anode current collector is electrically connected to the anode. A porous and electrically conductive interlayer can be provided between the membrane and at least one selected from the group consisting of the cathode and the anode. A method of making a battery is also disclosed.
US11329294B2
A laminated electrolyte membrane of an embodiment includes: a first electrolyte membrane; a second electrolyte membrane; and a nanosheet laminated catalyst layer provided between the first electrolyte membrane and the second electrolyte membrane and including a laminated structure in which a plurality of nanosheet catalysts is laminated with a gap.
US11329277B2
A secondary battery includes a positive electrode; a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer which is provided on the negative electrode current collector and contains a negative electrode active material, and an electrolytic solution. The negative electrode active material includes a carbon-containing material and a silicon-containing material, and a spreading resistance distribution in the negative electrode active material layer is 1.03 or more and 10 or less as measured using a scanning spreading resistance microscope.
US11329276B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a cathode mixture with good rate property. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a cathode mixture comprising: a solid solution of a sulfur simple substance, P2S5 and Li3PO4, and a conductive auxiliary material, and a molar ratio of the Li3PO4 to the P2S5 is 0.05 or more and 0.67 or less.
US11329271B2
Provided is a slurry composition for a positive electrode that has excellent dispersibility and enables production of a secondary battery that can display good output characteristics. The slurry composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material, a conductive material, a particulate polymer, and a polyhydric alcohol polycondensate. The positive electrode active material includes an iron-containing compound. The particulate polymer includes a hydroxyl group-containing monomer unit.
US11329265B2
Provided is a means capable of improving the flatness of a surface of an electrode active material layer in which an electrode active material slurry without assuming addition of a binder. Upon producing a battery electrode which has a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on a surface of the current collector and containing an electrode active material, in a coating step of coating an electrode active material slurry in which the electrode active material is dispersed in a solvent on the surface of the current collector to form the electrode active material layer, an electrode active material slurry which has flow characteristics that a region A in which a shear stress is not increased according to an increase in shear rate is present and a region B in which a shear stress is increased and an increase rate thereof is decreased according to an increase in shear rate is present in a region having a shear rate larger than that of the region A, in a shear rate (horizontal axis)-shear stress (vertical axis) curve of the electrode active material slurry, is used as the electrode active material slurry, and, coating of the electrode active material slurry is performed at a coating rate at which the shear rate at the time of coating is a value in which a shear stress equal to or more than a yield stress of the electrode active material slurry is applied in the coating step.
US11329263B2
A display device includes a display module configured to display an image, and a flexible board in which a flat area and a bending area arranged in one direction in a plan view are defined, wherein at least a portion of the flat area is connected to the display module, and wherein the flexible board includes a base substrate connected to the display module, a cover member on the flat area, and covering a boundary at which the base substrate and the display module are connected to each other, and a blocking member on the flat area, and in contact with the cover member.
US11329260B2
A touch display device exhibiting low reflectivity is disclosed. The touch display device includes a light-blocking stack composed of at least two light-blocking color layers overlapping a plurality of touch electrodes disposed on an encapsulation unit, and a low-reflection layer disposed on the light-blocking stack, thereby absorbing external light without a separate polarizing plate, thus exhibiting low reflectivity.
US11329251B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing an organic film structure. The method for preparing the organic film structure may include forming a pigment mixture layer outside a region where an organic film is to be formed using a pigment liquid mixture, forming a liquid organic layer in the region where the organic film is to be formed with a first liquid organic material, and curing the pigment mixture layer and the liquid organic layer to form an indicator film and the organic film, respectively. The pigment mixture layer may include a pigment.
US11329250B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a front surface and a rear surface, the rear side being opposite to the front side; a front stacked structure on the front surface including a front bonding member disposed on the front surface; and a rear stacked structure on the rear surface including a rear bonding member disposed on the rear surface. A loss tangent of the front bonding member has a value greater than a loss tangent of the rear bonding member, the loss tangent being represented by an equation: (loss tangent)=(loss modulus)/(storage modulus), wherein the loss modulus refers to energy lost by viscosity of a material, and the storage modulus refers to energy stored without loss by elasticity of the material.
US11329248B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a lower substrate with a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, an upper substrate facing the lower substrate and a display unit disposed on the display area. The display also includes a sealant disposed on the peripheral area and sealing the lower and upper substrates and a first metal layer interposed between the lower substrate and the sealant. The first metal layer includes a plurality of first through-portions extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. The display also includes a second metal layer disposed on the first metal layer and comprising a plurality of second through-portions respectively corresponding to the first through-portions.
US11329247B2
According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device can comprise: a housing; a flexible display of which at least a portion is accommodated in the housing, wherein the flexible display comprises a window forming at least a portion of the outer side surface of the electronic device, a light-emitting layer arranged below the window, and a protective layer arranged below the light-emitting layer, a transparent region for transmitting light incident from the outside of the electronic device is formed in a portion of a region of the light-emitting layer, and an opening of which at least a portion is aligned with the transparent region is formed in a portion of a region of the protective layer; and a sensor of which at least a portion is accommodated in the housing and at least a portion is aligned with the opening. The electronic device can vary according to embodiments.
US11329246B2
An organic light emitting diode panel and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The organic light emitting diode panel includes a substrate; a pixel defining layer disposed over a portion of the substrate; an organic light emitting diode device and an auxiliary cathode contacting device disposed over the substrate, wherein the organic light emitting diode device includes an anode layer, a hole injecting layer, a hole transporting layer, a light emitting layer, and an electron transporting layer sequentially formed over a portion of the substrate, and the auxiliary cathode contacting device includes an auxiliary cathode and a conductive contact sequentially formed over another portion of the substrate; a conductive contact, including a conductive mixture consisting of the electron transporting layer and a solvent material used to dissolve the electron transporting layer; and a transparent electrode layer, covering the electron transporting layer, the pixel defining layer, and the conductive contact.
US11329244B2
A light emitting device includes a first electrode, a hole transporting layer in contact with the first electrode, a second electrode, an electron transporting layer in contact with the second electrode; and an emissive layer between the hole transporting layer and the electron transporting layer. The emissive layer includes a phosphorescent emitter, a fluorescent emitter, and a host, and the phosphorescent emitter harvests electrogenerated excitons and transfers energy to the fluorescent emitter.
US11329241B2
Disclosed herein are exciton-blocking treatments for buffer layers used in organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices. More specifically, the organic photosensitive optoelectronic devices described herein include at least one self-assembled monolayer disposed on the surface of an anode buffer layer. Methods of preparing these devices are also disclosed. The present disclosure further relates to methods of forming at least one self-assembled monolayer on a substrate.
US11329234B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic electroluminescent element containing an organic layer interposed between an anode and a cathode, the organic layer containing at least one light emitting layer, wherein the at least one light emitting layer contains a π-conjugated compound having an electron donor portion and an electron acceptor portion in the molecule; the π-conjugated compound has a direction vector from an atom having a HOMO orbital in the electron donor portion to an electron cloud of the HOMO orbital, and a direction vector from an atom having a LUMO orbital in the electron acceptor portion to an electron cloud of the LUMO orbital, and the two direction vectors form an angle θ in the range of 90 to 180 degrees; and the π-conjugated compound has a plurality of the electron donor portions or a plurality of the electron acceptor portions.
US11329229B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) based on enamine derivatives and used as organic hole conductors or hole transporting material in an optoelectronic or photoelectrochemical device. The present invention relates to the hole transporting compounds based on enamine derivatives for efficiency perovskite or dye sensitized solar cells and optoelectronic devices, organic light-emitting diode (OLED), field-effect transistors (FET).
US11329223B2
A nonvolatile memory apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode separated from the first electrode, a resistive-change material layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and configured to store information due to a resistance change caused by an electrical signal applied through the first electrode and the second electrode, and a diffusion prevention layer provided between the first electrode and the resistive-change material layer and/or between the second electrode and the resistive-change material layer and including a two-dimensional (2D) material having a monolayer thickness of about 0.35 nm or less.
US11329220B2
The present invention relates to a non-volatile memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The non-volatile memory device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; a first oxide layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and having a reversible filament formed therein; and an oxygen reservoir layer disposed between the first oxide layer and the second electrode, and absorbing oxygens of the first oxide layer to form oxygen vacancy constituting the reversible filament in the first oxide layer. The concentration of the oxygen vacancy may increase from the first oxide layer toward the oxygen reservoir layer.
US11329218B2
A metal hard mask layer is deposited on a MTJ stack on a substrate. A hybrid hard mask is formed on the metal hard mask layer, comprising a plurality of spin-on carbon layers alternating with a plurality of spin-on silicon layers wherein a topmost layer of the hybrid hard mask is a silicon layer. A photo resist pattern is formed on the hybrid hard mask. First, the topmost silicon layer of the hybrid hard mask is etched where is it not covered by the photo resist pattern using a first etching chemistry. Second, the hybrid hard mask is etched where it is not covered by the photo resist pattern wherein the photoresist pattern is etched away using a second etch chemistry. Thereafter, the metal hard mask and MTJ stack are etched where they are not covered by the hybrid hard mask to form a MTJ device and overlying top electrode.
US11329216B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ), a top electrode, and a residue. The bottom electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The MTJ is disposed over the bottom electrode. The top electrode is disposed over the MTJ layer. Sidewalls of the bottom electrode, the MTJ, and the top electrode are vertically aligned with each other. The residue of the MTJ is located on the sidewall of the bottom electrode.
US11329215B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a substrate, a first layer stack, and a second layer stack at a same side of the first layer stack relative to the substrate, and farther than the first layer stack from the substrate. Each of the first and second layer stack includes a reference layer, a tunnel barrier layer provided in a direction relative to the reference layer, the direction being perpendicular to the substrate, a storage layer provided in the direction relative to the tunnel barrier layer, and a first nonmagnetic layer provided in the direction relative to the storage layer. A heat absorption rate of the first nonmagnetic layer of the first layer stack is lower than a heat absorption rate of the first nonmagnetic layer of the second layer stack.
US11329212B2
In one general aspect, a composite foam comprises a non-layered mixture of a polymeric foam with a plurality of voids; and a plurality of conductive fillers disposed in the polymeric foam. The conductive fillers are disposed in an even manner from outer surface to outer surface. In some implementations, the conductive fillers are up to 25% by weight of the composite foam. In some implementations, the composite foam may be used as padding. In some implementations, the composite foam may be used as a strain gauge.
US11329207B2
An emissive display device including LEDs, including a plurality of pixels, each including: an elementary control cell formed inside and on top of a semiconductor substrate; a first LED capable of emitting in a first wavelength range, arranged on the upper surface of the elementary control cell and having a first conduction region connected to a first connection pad of the elementary control cell; and a second LED capable of emitting in a second wavelength range, having a surface area smaller than that of the first LED, arranged on the upper surface of the first LED opposite a central region of the first LED, and having a first conduction region connected to a second connection pad of the elementary control cell via a first conductive via crossing the first LED.
US11329206B2
A lead frame and housing sub-assembly for use in a light emitting diode package, including: a lead frame, wherein the lead frame includes a substrate metal alloy having a top surface and a bottom surface, and wherein the top surface and the bottom surface of the substrate have been pre-plated with a layer of nickel; and a housing, wherein the housing includes a top surface and a bottom surface, and wherein at least a portion of the bottom surface of the housing contacts the top surface of the lead frame that has been pre-plated with the layer of nickel.
US11329191B1
Disclosed herein are multi-layered optically active regions for semiconductor light-emitting devices (LEDs) that incorporate intermediate carrier blocking layers, the intermediate carrier blocking layers having design parameters for compositions and doping levels selected to provide efficient control over the carrier injection distribution across the active regions to achieve desired device injection characteristics. Examples of embodiments discussed herein include, among others: a multiple-quantum-well variable-color LED operating in visible optical range with full coverage of RGB gamut, a multiple-quantum-well variable-color LED operating in visible optical range with an extended color gamut beyond standard RGB gamut, a multiple-quantum-well light-white emitting LED with variable color temperature, and a multiple-quantum-well LED with uniformly populated active layers.
US11329189B2
The present disclosure relates to a light emitting diode that includes a charge control layer disposed between a charge transfer layer and one electrode and including polysiloxane-based material chemically bonded to a surface of the charge transfer layer and a light emitting device having the same. The charge control layer is configured to remove a surface defect of the charge transfer layer, to transport charges stably, and to reflect a part of light passing through the charge transfer layer, and thereby enhancing out-coupling efficiency. In addition, the charge control layer regulates a charge flow from the electrode to the charge transfer layer, so that charges may be injected into an emitting material layer in a balanced manner.
US11329188B2
A method of manufacturing electronic devices, including the successive steps of: a) growing, on a surface of a first substrate, a stack including at least one semiconductor layer; b) bonding a second substrate on a surface of the stack opposite to the first substrate, and then removing the first substrate; c) bonding a third substrate to a surface of the stack opposite to the second substrate, and then removing the second substrate; d) cutting the assembly including the third substrate and the stack into a plurality of first chips each including a portion of the stack; and e) bonding each first chip, by its surface opposite to the third substrate, to a surface of a fourth semiconductor substrate inside and on top of which a plurality of integrated control circuits have been previously formed.
US11329182B2
A monolithic multiple solar cell includes at least three partial cells, with a semiconductor mirror placed between two partial cells. The aim of the invention is to improve the radiation stability of said solar cell. For this purpose, the semiconductor mirror has a high degree of reflection in at least one part of a spectral absorption area of the partial cell which is arranged above the semiconductor mirror and a high degree of transmission within the spectral absorption range of the partial cell arranged below the semiconductor mirror.
US11329179B2
A multiplication layer on a semiconductor substrate of n-type contains Al atoms. An electric field control layer on the multiplication layer is of p-type, and includes a high-concentration area, and a low-concentration area lower in impurity concentration than the high-concentration area which is formed outside the high-concentration area. An optical absorption layer on the electric field control layer is lower in impurity concentration than the high-concentration area. A window layer of n-type formed on the optical absorption layer is larger in band gap than the optical absorption layer. A light-receiving area of p-type is formed apart from an outer edge of the window layer, and at least partly faces the high-concentration area through the window layer and the optical absorption layer. The guard ring area of p-type which the window layer separates from the light-receiving area penetrates through the window layer to extend into the optical absorption layer.
US11329175B2
A semiconductor relay includes: a substrate; a semiconductor layer of a direct transition type which is on the substrate and which has semi-insulating properties; a p-type semiconductor layer on at least part of the semiconductor layer; a first electrode; and a second electrode. The first electrode is electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and in contact with the p-type semiconductor layer. The second electrode is spaced apart from the first electrode and at least partially in contact with one of the semiconductor layer and the substrate, and the first electrode includes a first opening part.
US11329174B2
A meta optical device configured to sense incident light includes a plurality of nanorods each having a shape dimension less than a wavelength of the incident light. Each nanorod includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, an intrinsic semiconductor layer, and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer. The meta optical device may separate and sense wavelengths of the incident light.
US11329171B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for user-preference driven control of electrical and thermal output from a photonic energy device are provided herein. A system includes a solar photovoltaic module, and a fluid positioned on the solar photovoltaic module. The system also includes configurable reflective surfaces that collect and distribute direct solar and diffuse solar radiation across multiple portions of the fluid and/or portions of the solar photovoltaic module. Additionally, the reflective surfaces is physically connected to the solar photovoltaic module at an angle that is variable in relation to the surface of the solar photovoltaic module. Further, the system includes a controller that modulates an amount of thermal output and/or electrical power output generated by the solar photovoltaic module by transmitting a signal to adjust at least one variable pertaining to the fluid, and transmitting a signal to adjust at least one variable pertaining to the reflective surfaces.
US11329164B2
A metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) device is provided. The device comprising: a substrate; an oxide layer on the substrate; a gate on the oxide layer; a source and a drain on the substrate, wherein the source and the drain are doped with a dopant of a first type; and a cold source coupled to the source, wherein the cold source comprises a junction between a semiconductor doped with a dopant of a second type, and a material selected from the group consisting of metal and semimetal.
US11329144B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a first region; forming a plurality of first initial fin structures on the first region of the semiconductor substrate; forming a dummy gate structure across the first initial fin structures by covering portions of top and sidewall surfaces of the first initial fin structures; forming a dielectric layer covering sidewall surfaces of the dummy gate structure and exposing a top surface of the dummy gate structure; removing the dummy gate structure to form a first opening in the dielectric layer and expose portions of top and sidewall surfaces of the first initial fin structures; and performing at least one trimming process on the first initial fin structures to form fin first structures. A width of each first fin structure is smaller than a width of each first initial fin structure.
US11329135B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first, second and third electrodes, first and second semiconductor layers, first and second insulating members, and a first member. The third electrode includes a first electrode portion. The first electrode portion is between the first and second electrodes. The first semiconductor layer includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth partial regions. The fourth partial region is between the first and third partial regions. The fifth partial region is between the third and second partial regions. The first insulating member includes first and second insulating regions. The second insulating member includes first and second insulating portions. The first insulating portion is between the fourth partial region and the first insulating region. The second insulating portion is between the fifth partial region and the second insulating region. The second semiconductor layer includes first, second, and third semiconductor portions.
US11329129B2
The disclosure provides transistor cells for integrated circuits and methods to form the same. A transistor cell according to the disclosure may include a substrate region including width between a first end and a second end, and a length between a third end and a fourth end in a direction orthogonal to the width. A first doped well (FDW) within the substrate region may be oppositely doped and may extend from the first end to a first interior boundary between the first and second ends of the substrate region, and from the third end to a second interior boundary between the third and fourth ends. A second doped well (SDW) within the substrate region may extend from the second end to a third interior boundary between the first and second ends, and the fourth end to a fourth interior boundary between the third and fourth ends.
US11329126B2
In an embodiment, a method of fabricating a superjunction semiconductor device includes implanting first ions into a first region of a first epitaxial layer using a first implanting apparatus and nominal implant conditions to produce a first region in the first epitaxial layer comprising the first ions and a first implant characteristic and implanting second ions into a second region of the first epitaxial layer, the second region being laterally spaced apart from the first region, using second nominal implanting conditions estimated to produce a second region in the first epitaxial layer having the second ions and a second implant characteristic that lies within an acceptable maximum difference of the first implant characteristic.
US11329123B2
An OLED display panel is provided which can control the problem of shedding even in high definition panels. Metal wiring 5 which conducts with an earth line of a flexible printed substrate 15 is provided on a substrate 1. A display area 2 comprised from a plurality of OLED elements is provided at the center of the substrate 1 and four low resistance metal films 3 are provided along each of four edges of the display area 2 on a surface of insulation films 8, 10 at the periphery of the display area 2. Among these, one low resistance metal film 3 conducts with the metal wiring 5 via a 3a.
US11329121B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a wire having an inner edge including first and second portions, a first insulating layer covering a portion of the substrate, and a second insulating layer. The portion of the substrate covered by the first insulating layer is closer to a center of the substrate than the wire, the first insulating layer covers a part of the first portion of the wire and a part of the second portion of the wire, and a first end of the first insulating layer is disposed on the wire. The second insulating layer covers the first insulating layer and has a second end disposed on the wire. A distance between the first end and the second end covering the first portion of the wire is different from a distance between the first end and the second end covering the second portion of the wire.
US11329118B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor pattern, a first gate insulating film covering the first semiconductor pattern, a first conductive layer and a second semiconductor pattern are on the first gate insulating film, a second gate insulating film on the second semiconductor pattern, a third gate insulating film covering the first gate insulating film and the second gate insulating film, a second conductive layer on the third gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film covering the second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer on the interlayer insulating film, wherein the first and second semiconductor patterns respectively form semiconductor layers of the first and second transistors, wherein the first conductive layer includes a gate electrode of the first transistor and a first electrode of the capacitor, and wherein the second conductive layer includes a gate electrode of the second transistor and a second electrode of the capacitor.
US11329116B2
A display device includes a first substrate including a display area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a light transmitting area disposed in the display area, an interlayer insulating layer covering the display area and exposing the light transmitting area, an inner sidewall of the interlayer insulating layer defining the light transmitting area, and an inorganic film disposed directly on the first substrate in the light transmitting area and overlapping the entire light transmitting area. A size of the light transmitting area is larger than a size of a pixel of the plurality of pixels.
US11329115B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel structure. The pixel structure may include a base substrate; a first insulating island on a side of the base substrate; a first electrode on a side of the first insulating island opposite front the base substrate; a second electrode on the base substrate and at a peripheral area of the first insulating island; an active layer electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode; a second insulating layer on a side of the active layer opposite from the base substrate; a gate electrode on a side of the second insulating layer opposite from the base substrate; and a third insulating layer on a side of the gate electrode opposite from the base substrate.
US11329113B2
The disclosure relates to an array substrate, a display panel, a display device, and a method for manufacturing the array substrate. The array substrate includes a first substrate, a light emitting device on the first substrate, the light emitting device including a first electrode, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode sequentially disposed in a direction away from the first substrate, wherein the first electrode is transparent, and wherein the second electrode is reflective, an opaque portion between the first substrate and the light emitting device, wherein a projection of the light emitting device on the first substrate partially overlap with a projection of the opaque portion on the first substrate, and a reflective member between the opaque portion and the light emitting layer.
US11329112B2
A display panel and a manufacturing method of a display panel are provided. The display panel includes an, a plurality of pixel definition portions, and a plurality of light-emitting portions. The plurality of pixel definition portions are disposed on the array substrate and separated apart from each other. A quantum dot material is provided on a side of one of the pixel definition portions, and the side of the pixel definition portions faces an adjacent pixel definition portion. Each of the light-emitting portions is disposed between two adjacent pixel definition portions, the light-emitting portions are configured to emit light, and the quantum dot material on the side of the pixel definition portion is illuminated under excitation of the light.
US11329108B2
A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, first signal lines, second signal lines, a first insulation layer, active components, a display medium, and ultrasonic transducers. The first insulation layer is located between the first signal lines and the second signal lines. Cavities are located in the first insulation layer having thin films located on the cavities. Each of the ultrasonic transducers includes first and second electrodes. A first electrode and a corresponding first signal line belong to a same layer and are electrically connected with each other. A second electrode and a corresponding second signal line belong to a same layer and are electrically connected with each other. A corresponding cavity and a corresponding thin film are sandwiched between the first and second electrodes.
US11329107B2
Disclosed is a display device with integrated touch screen, which prevents external light from being reflected by touch electrodes without a polarizer. The display device includes an organic light emitting device layer disposed on a substrate, a plurality of color filters disposed on the organic light emitting device layer, a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes disposed on the plurality of color filters to overlap a boundary portion between the plurality of color filters, and a black matrix disposed on the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes to overlap the plurality of first touch electrodes and the plurality of second touch electrodes.
US11329104B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate layer, a light emitting layer, a package layer, a filter layer and an organic flat layer. The organic flat layer covers the filter layer. The light emitting layer further includes a pixel area and a pixel interval area. The filter layer further includes an R/G/B filter area and a layer stacked area. The layer stacked area is a stacked structure of R/G/B three-layer filter layers. The layer stacked structure can thin the thickness of the display panel and improve the flexibility of the display panel.
US11329101B2
In some embodiments, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first semiconductor material layer separated from a second semiconductor material layer by an insulating layer. A first access transistor is arranged on the first semiconductor material layer, where the first access transistor has a pair of first source/drain regions having a first doping type. A second access transistor is arranged on the first semiconductor material layer, where the second access transistor has a pair of second source/drain regions having a second doping type opposite the first doping type. A resistive memory cell having a bottom electrode and an upper electrode is disposed over the semiconductor substrate, where one of the first source/drain regions and one of the second source/drain regions are electrically coupled to the bottom electrode.
US11329078B2
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of on-chip lenses. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. Each of the pixels has a photoelectric conversion portion configured to photoelectrically convert light incident from a rear surface side of a semiconductor substrate. The plurality of on-chip lenses are arranged for every other pixel. The on-chip lenses are larger in size than the pixels. Each of color filters at the pixels where the on-chip lenses are present has a cross-sectional shape whose upper side close to the on-chip lens is the same in width as the on-chip lens and whose lower side close to the photoelectric conversion portion is shorter than the upper side.
US11329075B2
An array substrate, its fabricating method, a display panel and a display device are disclosed. The method includes forming an active layer on a substrate, forming a gate layer on a side of the active layer facing or away from the substrate; forming an interlayer dielectric layer on a side of the active layer away from the substrate, which includes a first, second, third and fourth film stacked in this order in a direction away from the substrate; forming a via hole extending from the interlayer dielectric layer to the active layer; forming a source and drain layer on a side of the interlayer dielectric layer away from the substrate, and in a region not covered by the source and drain layer, removing the fourth film in the interlayer dielectric layer at a same time as forming the source and drain layer.
US11329067B2
An electronic integrated circuit chip includes a first transistor arranged inside and on top of a solid substrate, a second transistor arranged inside and on top of a layer of semiconductor material on insulator having a first thickness, and a third transistor arranged inside and on top of a layer of semiconductor material on insulator having a second thickness. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness. The solid substrate extends underneath the layers of semiconductor material and is insulated from those layers by the insulator.
US11329064B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. The insulative levels have a same primary composition as one another. At least one of the insulative levels is compositionally different relative to others of the insulative levels due to said at least one of the insulative levels including dopant dispersed within the primary composition. An opening extends vertically through the stack. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11329062B2
A method used in forming a memory array comprises forming a stack comprising vertically-alternating insulative tiers and wordline tiers. The stack comprises an insulator tier above the wordline tiers. The insulator tier comprises first insulator material comprising silicon, nitrogen, and one or more of carbon, oxygen, boron, and phosphorus. The first insulator material is patterned to form first horizontally-elongated trenches in the insulator tier. Second insulator material is formed in the first trenches along sidewalls of the first insulator material. The second insulator material is of different composition from that of the first insulator material and narrows the first trenches. After forming the second insulator material, second horizontally-elongated trenches are formed through the insulative tiers and the wordline tiers. The second trenches are horizontally along the narrowed first trenches laterally between and below the second insulator material. Elevationally-extending strings of memory cells are formed in the stack. Structure independent of method is disclosed.
US11329061B2
A method for forming a three-dimensional memory device includes disposing a material layer over a substrate, forming a plurality of channel-forming holes and a plurality of sacrificial holes around the plurality of channel-forming holes in an array-forming region of the material layer, and forming a plurality of semiconductor channels based on the channel-forming holes and at least one gate line slit (GLS) based on at least one of the plurality of sacrificial holes. A location of the at least one GLS overlaps with the at least one of the plurality of sacrificial holes.
US11329057B2
An integrated circuit device includes a memory including a memory cell insulation surrounding a memory stack and a memory cell interconnection unit, a peripheral circuit including a peripheral circuit region formed on a peripheral circuit board, and a peripheral circuit interconnection between the peripheral circuit region and the memory structure, a plurality of conductive bonding structures on a boundary between the memory cell interconnection and the peripheral circuit interconnection in a first region, the first region overlapping the memory stack in a vertical direction, and a through electrode penetrating one of the memory cell insulation and the peripheral circuit board and extended to a lower conductive pattern included in the peripheral circuit interconnection in a second region, the second region overlapping the memory cell insulation in the vertical direction.
US11329055B2
Semiconductor cell and its forming method and operating method are provided. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate with a first region; a first nanopillar, formed on a substrate surface of the first region and perpendicular to the substrate surface; a first source/drain region, formed at a bottom of the first nanopillar and in a portion of the substrate in the first region; a first gate structure, surrounding the first nanopillar and formed on the first source/drain region; and a second source/drain region, formed at a top of the first nanopillar and on the first gate structure.
US11329054B2
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method are provided. The method includes providing a substrate; forming a first gate structure and source/drain doped layers over the substrate, where the source/drain doped layers are on both sides of the first gate structure; forming a dielectric layer covering the first gate structure and the source/drain doped layers over the substrate; forming a first trench exposing the first gate structure through the dielectric layer; forming a first conductive structure in the bottom region of the first trench; after forming the first conductive structure, forming an insulation layer in the top region of the first trench; using the insulation layer as a mask, forming recesses on source/drain doped layers through the dielectric layer on both sides of the insulation layer; and forming second conductive structures in the recesses.
US11329052B2
Methods of forming a DRAM bit line to improve line edge roughness (LER) and lower resistance are described. The method comprises implanting an inert species into a bit line metal layer having a first grain size on a substrate to form an amorphized bit line metal layer having a second grain size smaller than the first grain size. A film stack is then deposited on the amorphized bit line metal layer. The film stack and amorphized bit line metal layer are etched to form a patterned film stack on the substrate. The patterned film stack on the substrate is thermally annealed.
US11329049B2
A memory transistor comprises a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the substrate further comprising a first trench having an opening formed in the first surface; a first dielectric layer formed on an inner surface of the first trench; a gate layer formed on the first dielectric layer in the first trench, the gate layer having a top surface lower than the first surface; and a second dielectric layer filled in the first trench and located on the top surface of the gate layer, the second dielectric layer covering the gate layer and connecting to the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer having a cavity formed therein.
US11329047B2
Described herein are embedded dynamic random-access memory (eDRAM) memory cells and arrays, as well as corresponding methods and devices. An exemplary eDRAM memory array implements a memory cell that uses a thin-film transistor (TFT) as a selector transistor. One source/drain (S/D) electrode of the TFT is coupled to a capacitor for storing a memory state of the cell, while the other S/D electrode is coupled to a bitline. The bitline may be a shallow bitline in that a thickness of the bitline may be smaller than a thickness of one or more metal interconnects provided in the same metal layer as the bitline but used for providing electrical connectivity for components outside of the memory array. Such a bitline may be formed in a separate process than said one or more metal interconnects. In an embodiment, the memory cells may be formed in a back end of line process.
US11329044B2
An integrated circuit device is provided. The integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active region that extends in a first direction on a substrate, a gate structure that intersects with the fin-type active region and extends in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, on the substrate, and a first contact structure that is disposed on the gate structure, and has a greater width at a top surface than a bottom surface thereof.
US11329037B2
A display module and an electronic device are provided. The display module includes a substrate, a display part, a driving chip, a flexible circuit, and a buffer part. The substrate includes a soldering portion. The display part is disposed on a light emitting side of the substrate. The driving chip is disposed on a light emitting side of the soldering portion. The flexible circuit board is bent from a first surface of the soldering portion to a second surface of the soldering portion. The buffer part is disposed between the flexible circuit board and the soldering portion.
US11329036B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a mounting board and memory dies. The memory dies include first pad electrodes, first pull-up circuits connected to the first pad electrodes, a first output circuit that outputs a first parameter to the first pull-up circuits, first pull-down circuits connected to the first pad electrodes, a second output circuit that outputs a second parameter to the first pull-down circuits, a second pad electrode, a second pull-up circuit connected to the second pad electrode, a third output circuit that is connected to the second pad electrode, a third pad electrode, a second pull-down circuit connected to the third pad electrode, and a fourth output circuit that is connected to the third pad electrode. The second pad electrode of the second memory die is connected to the third pad electrode of the first memory die.
US11329032B2
A semiconductor device includes a first package, and a second package stacked on the first package. Each of the first and second packages includes a first redistribution substrate having a first redistribution pattern, a first semiconductor chip on the first redistribution substrate and connected to the first redistribution pattern, a first molding layer covering the first semiconductor chip on the first redistribution substrate, a first through-electrode penetrating the first molding layer so as to be connected to the first redistribution pattern, and a second through-electrode penetrating the first molding layer and not connected to the first redistribution pattern. The first redistribution pattern of the second package is electrically connected to the second through-electrode of the first package.
US11329019B2
A semiconductor device includes a wiring board, a semiconductor chip arranged on the wiring board, and a plurality of bumps arranged between the wiring board and the semiconductor chip, wherein the wiring board includes a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, a first via, a second via, and a third via, wherein the second conductor is arranged at a position closer to a center of the semiconductor chip than the first conductor is to the center, as seen in a thickness direction, the first conductor and the second conductor are arranged next to each other without another conductor interposed therebetween, as seen in the thickness direction, and a first distance between the first conductor and the second conductor is larger than a second distance between the first conductor and the third conductor.
US11329011B2
An integrated circuit is protected against at attack. An electrically conductive body at floating potential is situated in the integrated circuit. The electrically conductive body has an initial amount of electric charge prior to the attack and functions to collect electric charge as a result of the attack. A detection circuit operates to detect an amount of electric charge collected on the electrically conductive body and determine whether the collected amount is different from the initial amount. If the detected amount of charge is different from the initial amount, a control circuit trigger the taking of a protective action.
US11329007B2
A wiring structure includes a conductive structure, a surface structure and at least one through via. The conductive structure includes at least one dielectric layer and at least one circuit layer in contact with the dielectric layer. The surface structure is disposed adjacent to a top surface of the conductive structure. The through via extends through the surface structure and extending into at least a portion of the conductive structure.
US11329003B2
A method of printing structures on a reconstructed wafer includes positioning a plurality of semiconductor dies on a support substrate, anchoring the plurality of semiconductor dies to the support substrate by printing a plurality of anchors that extend across edges of the semiconductor dies onto the support substrate and thus form a reconstructed wafer, and printing one or more device structures on the pluralities of semiconductor dies while anchored on the support substrate. The printing operations include ejecting droplets of a liquid precursor material and curing the liquid precursor material.
US11329001B2
A security region is provided. The security region includes a plurality of parallel conductive lines on a substrate, wherein each of the parallel conductive lines has a width and includes a bend, and wherein at least a portion of the plurality of parallel conductive lines is discontinuous, and an electrically insulating material between each adjacent pair of parallel conductive lines.
US11329000B2
A package includes: a package body having an outside housing including first and second package sides and package sidewalls that extend between the first and second package sides; first and second electrically conductive interface layers spaced apart from each other at the outside housing; and first and second power semiconductor chips arranged within the package body, both chips having a respective first load terminal and a respective second load terminal. The first load terminals are electrically connected to each other within the package body. The second load terminal of the first chip is electrically connected to the first electrically conductive interface layer. The second load terminal of the second chip is electrically connected to the second electrically conductive interface layer. The outside housing of the package body further includes a creepage structure having a minimum dimension between the first electrically conductive interface layer and the second electrically conductive interface layer.
US11328999B2
A semiconductor device package includes a lower-density substrate and a higher-density substrate. The higher-density substrate is attached to the lower-density substrate. The higher-density substrate has a first interconnection layer and a second interconnection layer disposed over the first interconnection layer. A thickness of the first interconnection layer is different from a thickness of the second interconnection layer.
US11328997B2
A package substrate for connecting together semiconductor devices with other semiconductor device packages. The package substrate includes an exposed core layer with at least one via exposing a conductive layer of the package substrate. A first portion of the package substrate may include a solder mask on top and bottom surfaces. A first semiconductor device may be connected to the first portion of the package substrate. Layers of a second portion of the package substrate are removed to expose a core layer and vias are created in the exposed core layer to expose the conductive layer. Conducive material at least partially filling the vias may be used to connect a semiconductor device package to the second portion of the package substrate. The semiconductor device packages may communicate through conductive layers in the package substrate. The package substrate may be used to connect the semiconductor packages to a motherboard.
US11328993B2
An embodiment includes a metal interconnect structure, comprising: a dielectric layer disposed on a substrate; an opening in the dielectric layer, wherein the opening has sidewalls and exposes a conductive region of at least one of the substrate and an interconnect line; an adhesive layer, comprising manganese, disposed over the conductive region and on the sidewalls; and a fill material, comprising cobalt, within the opening and on a surface of the adhesion layer. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11328992B2
Disclosed herein are integrated circuit (IC) components with dummy structures, as well as related methods and devices. For example, in some embodiments, an IC component may include a dummy structure in a metallization stack. The dummy structure may include a dummy material having a higher Young's modulus than an interlayer dielectric of the metallization stack.
US11328959B2
Methods and associated devices including the fabrication of a semiconductor structure are described that include epitaxially growing a stack of layers alternating between a first composition and a second composition. The stack of layers extends across a first region and a second region of a semiconductor substrate. The stack of layers in the second region of the semiconductor substrate may be etched to form an opening. A passivation process is then performed that includes introducing chlorine to at least one surface of the opening. After performing the passivation process, an epitaxial liner layer is grown in the opening.
US11328958B2
A device includes first and second transistors and first and second isolation structures. The first transistor includes a raised structure, a first gate structure over the raised structure, and a first source/drain structure over the raised structure and adjacent the first gate structure. The first isolation structure surrounds the raised structure and the first source/drain structure of the first transistor. A bottommost surface of the first source/drain structure is spaced apart from a topmost surface of the first isolation structure. The second transistor includes a fin structure, a second gate structure over the raised structure, and a second source/drain structure over the fin structure. The second isolation structure surrounds a bottom of the fin structure of the second transistor. A bottommost surface of the second source/drain structure is in contact with a topmost surface of the second isolation structure.
US11328951B2
A transistor cell including a deep via that is at least partially lined with a dielectric material. The deep via may extend down to a substrate over which the transistor is disposed. The deep via may be directly connected to a terminal of the transistor, such as the source or drain, to interconnect the transistor with an interconnect metallization level disposed in the substrate under the transistor, or on at opposite side of the substrate as the transistor. Parasitic capacitance associated with the close proximity of the deep via metallization to one or more terminals of the transistor may be reduced by lining at least a portion of the deep via sidewall with dielectric material, partially necking the deep via metallization in a region adjacent to the transistor.
US11328941B2
A light diffusion plate made of quartz and provided with a plurality of grooves each having an inclined surface is placed on an upper chamber window so as to be in opposed relation to a central portion of a semiconductor wafer. Flashes of light emitted from flash lamps and passing by the side of the light diffusion plate impinge upon a peripheral portion of the semiconductor wafer. On the other hand, flashes of light emitted from the flash lamps and entering the light diffusion plate are refracted by the inclined surfaces of the plurality of grooves. Part of the light entering the light diffusion plate is diffused toward the peripheral portion of the semiconductor wafer. As a result, this increases the amount of light impinging upon the peripheral portion of the semiconductor wafer, and decreases the amount of light impinging upon the central portion of the semiconductor wafer. Thus, the in-plane uniformity of an illuminance distribution on the semiconductor wafer is increased.
US11328936B2
A structure and a formation method of a package structure are provided. The method includes forming one or more solder elements over a substrate. The one or more solder elements surround a region of the substrate. The method also includes disposing a semiconductor die structure over the region of the substrate. The method further includes dispensing a polymer-containing liquid onto the region of the substrate. The one or more solder elements confine the polymer-containing liquid to being substantially inside the region. In addition, the method includes curing the polymer-containing liquid to form an underfill material.
US11328933B2
A technique enables etching of a film on a substrate with reduced etching on the surface of a side wall. An etching method includes forming a protective layer on a surface of a side wall defining a recess in a substrate. The protective layer contains sulfur atoms. The etching method further includes etching a film on the substrate to increase a depth of the recess after forming the protective layer.
US11328931B1
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a mask pattern is formed over a target layer to be etched, and the target layer is etched by using the mask pattern as an etching mask. The etching is performed by using an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma etching apparatus, the ECR plasma etching apparatus includes one or more coils, and a plasma condition of the ECR plasma etching is changed during the etching the target layer by changing an input current to the one or more coils.
US11328922B2
Ions are injected into an orbital electrostatic trap. An ejection potential is applied to an ion storage device, to cause ions stored in the ion storage device to be ejected towards the orbital electrostatic trap. Synchronous injection potentials are applied to a central electrode of the orbital electrostatic trap and a deflector electrode associated with the orbital electrostatic trap, to cause the ions ejected from the ion storage device to be captured by the electrostatic trap such that they orbit the central electrode. Application of the ejection potential and application of the synchronous injection potentials are each started at respective different times, the difference in times being selected based on desired values of mass-to-charge ratios of ions to be captured by the orbital electrostatic trap.
