US11341877B2
The present disclosure provides a compensation device, a display screen, a display device, and a compensation method. The compensation device includes a detection circuit and a processor. The detection circuit includes a resistance-sensitive element provided in a deformation area of the display screen. A resistance of the resistance-sensitive element changes when the resistance-sensitive element is deformed. The detection circuit is configured to detect a resistance change amount of the resistance-sensitive element. The processor is configured to obtain a drift amount of a characteristic curve of a driving transistor in the deformation area according to the resistance change amount, and adjust a driving voltage signal output to the driving transistor according to the drift amount.
US11341871B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a stretchable flexible display panel and a display device. By providing a metal connecting structure having a buffering effect in a stretching region on the flexible display panel, it is possible to achieve electrical signal transmission among a plurality of first display sub-regions and achieve stretchability of the flexible display panel. Moreover, problems such as breakage of a metal trace inside the display panel caused by a stretching operation are less likely to occur, such that good stretchability is achieved.
US11341860B2
Systems and methods for package pickup and delivery, in an air traffic control system configured to manage Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight in a geographic region, include communicating to one or more UAVs over one or more wireless networks; directing a UAV to pick up a package at a pickup location and to deliver the package to a delivery location, wherein; and directing the UAV to follow an outbound flight path including a plurality of locations to travel to, in a specific order, while outbound to deliver the package, and an inbound flight path including the plurality of locations to travel to, in an order reverse of the specific order, while inbound from delivering the package.
US11341847B1
An approach is provided for determining map improvements based on detected accidents. The approach involves determining that a vehicle was involved in an accident. The approach also involves receiving a report indicating map data configured in the vehicle at a time of the accident. The approach further involves determining an association between the configured map data and the accident. The approach further involves performing one or more of the following operations: (1) transmitting the association and/or at least a portion of the configured map data to a database and/or a computing device; or (2) determining at least one map change to the configured map data based on the determined association, and transmitting the at least one map change to the vehicle, at least one other vehicle, the database, and/or the computing device.
US11341846B2
Disclosed are systems and methods relating to defining a road network used by vehicles for movement and/or parking. A classifier may be employed for identifying portions of the road network via machine learning techniques and processing of historical telematic data.
US11341837B1
RFID ICs sense and indicate changes in their surrounding environment, such as changes in temperature, humidity, chemical presence, RF signals, and similar. An RFID IC indicates when a significant environmental change has occurred, for example by adjusting the value of a flag, writing data to memory, transmitting a message to an external entity, exiting a sleep state, and/or responding repeatedly to an inventorying reader. In some cases, RFID IC actively notifies an external entity that a significant environmental change has been sensed. For example, RFID IC may alert the external entity by participating in a special inventory process meant for RFID ICs sending environmental change. The RFID IC may alert the external entity by interjecting itself into an inventory round, re-participating in an inventory round, refraining from entering a sleep state after inventorying, and/or adjusting timing of a scheduled reply to communicate with an RFID reader ahead of schedule.
US11341833B2
An industrial plant monitoring system includes: a first terminal attached to a worker and having a gyro sensor generating inclination information based on a movement of the worker; a server receiving the inclination information; and a second terminal configured to communicate with the server. The server performs processing of acquiring a number of pieces of the inclination information generated during a predetermined period and exceeding a predetermined inclination angle, processing of determining whether the acquired number of pieces of the inclination information exceeds a predetermined value or not, and processing of transmitting first alarm information to the second terminal when it is determined that the number of pieces of the inclination information exceeds the predetermined value.
US11341827B2
A mesh network-based environmental data capture system and method for providing communication between a base system having at least one wireless input capture device ICD(s) and other ICD(s), wherein the ICD(s) are capable of smart cross-communication with each other and remote access to their inputs via a server computer, including the steps of providing this base system; at least one user accessing the ICDs and inputs remotely via a user interface through a remote server computer and/or electronic device communicating with it, for providing a secure surveillance system with extended inputs range and wireless smart cross-communication for monitoring a target environment.
US11341820B1
Systems and methods for providing, conducting and modifying wagering games involving standard playing cards to include multiple sources of randomly ordered one or more decks of standard playing cards, either remotely or locally, and electronically or virtually provided cards, or through physical card shuffling sources, from which a player may select to receive cards in the wagering game for any purpose, such as to form initial or final hands in the wagering game.
US11341818B2
Systems and methods described herein include an application comprising instructions for execution on first and second devices including one or more processors and memory, the application being configured to purchase one or more certificates by a first process via one or more blockchain transactions. The application may redeem the one or more certificates received by a second process via one or more blockchain transactions. The second device may exchange one or more codes to designate the one or more certificates as used on the first device. The system may include one or more servers in communication with the application, and may generate a message containing updated redemption information of the one or more certificates when the updated redemption information has been stored in one or more databases, retrieve data from a plurality of data sources, and generate one or more smart contracts based on the retrieved data.
US11341805B2
A symbol frame mechanic for a gaming device is described. The symbol frame mechanic generates a random based game outcome in a game instance of a base game that triggers a supplemental game feature. The random based game outcome includes a plurality of target feature symbols. The symbol frame mechanic generates a plurality of feature symbol frames at symbol window positions with the target feature symbols. The target feature symbols trigger generation of the feature symbol frames. The symbol frame mechanic determines a current symbol frame state according to the feature symbol frames and generate a random based game outcome in a game instance of the supplemental game feature. The symbol frame mechanic updates the current symbol frame state based on combining the random based game outcome in the game instance of the supplemental game feature with the current symbol frame state.
US11341798B2
An information processing device detects that a user has exited a shop, and transmits recommendation information based on information of the shop to a user who is detected to have exited the shop.
US11341769B2
A face posture analysis method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The face posture analysis method includes: obtaining a face key point of a to-be-processed face image; and inputting the face key point of the to-be-processed face image into a neural network, to obtain face posture information of the to-be-processed face image output by the neural network.
US11341765B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device having a sensor module performing a plurality of functions, the electronic device comprising: the sensor module comprising a plurality of piezoelectric elements including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, a first signal terminal connected to the plurality of first electrodes, a second signal terminal, and a plurality of switches capable of selectively connecting at least some electrodes of the plurality of second electrodes to the second signal terminal; and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to: in a state where the second signal terminal is connected to the at least some electrodes by means of the plurality of switches, detect a pressure inputted into the sensor module by means of the first signal terminal, by using at least some of the plurality of piezoelectric elements; on the basis of the pressure, in a state where the second signal terminal is connected to the at least some electrodes by means of the plurality of switches, output an ultrasound signal by using at least some of the plurality of piezoelectric elements by means of the first signal terminal; in a state where the second signal terminal is disconnected from the at least some electrodes by means of the plurality of switches, receive the ultrasound signal reflected to an external object, by using at least some of the plurality of piezoelectric elements; and generate biometric information on the external object, at least on the basis of the received ultrasound signal. Thus, when waiting for a user's fingerprint touch, the sensor module operates as a pressure sensor, and when a predetermined pressure due to the user's fingerprint touch is detected, the sensor module can operate as a fingerprint sensor. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11341760B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for an augmented reality interaction, modeling, and annotation system. An embodiment operates by receiving an image including unknown data in an unknown format, including pixels. Each of the pixels is classified as one of a background pixel, a key pixel, or a value pixel representing the unknown data. For a plurality of the pixels classified as key pixels or value pixels, a plurality of locational data values associated with the unknown format are generated. Based on the locational data values, a key image and a corresponding value image from the received image are identified. The key image and the corresponding value image are output.
US11341759B2
A device may receive a target document. The device may segment the target document into multiple segments. The device may determine, for each segment of the multiple segments, a set of color parameters for a corresponding set of pixels included in that segment. The device may determine, for each segment of the multiple segments, an average color parameter for that segment based on the set of color parameters for the corresponding set of pixels included in that segment. The device may generate a target color profile for the target document based on determining the average color parameter for each segment. The device may compare the target color profile and a model color profile associated with classifying the target document. The device may classify the target document based on comparing the target color profile and the model color profile.
US11341757B2
Systems and methods for generating text corpora comprising realistic optical character recognition (OCR) errors and training language models using the text corpora are provided. An example method comprises: generating, by a computer system, an initial set of images based on an input text corpus comprising text; overlaying, by the computer system, one or more simulated defects over the initial set of images to generate an augmented set of images; generating an output text corpus based on the augmented set of image; and training, using the output text corpus, a language model for optical character recognition.
US11341741B2
A method for controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to track a monitored person is provided. The method includes directing the UAV toward a target location the target location being based on past or present location information provided by a personal monitoring device attached to a monitored person, the location information representing the location of the personal monitoring device; assuming with the UAV a surveillance position relative to the target location; and determining that the monitored device is proximate to the target location by receiving signals from the personal monitoring device and/or observing the monitored person through a camera on the UAV.
US11341740B2
An object identification method and an object identification device, the object identification method comprises: capturing color images and depth images that are aligned; performing motion detection on the captured color images and depth images to acquire a motion start frame and a motion end frame; comparing the motion end frame with the motion start frame in the color images to acquire a set of motion pixels; performing connected component analysis on the acquired set of motion pixels to obtain at least one connected component; and identifying an object in the at least one connected component.
US11341735B2
This disclosure provides an image recommendation method, a client, a server, a computer system and a medium. The method includes acquiring an image, sending the acquired image to a server, such that the server extracts a scale invariant feature of the acquired image and performs retrieval of identical images according to the scale invariant feature of the acquired image, and such that the server extracts a multi-scale feature of the acquired image and performs retrieval of similar images according to the multi-scale feature of the acquired image, and receiving at least one recommended image. The at least one recommended image is based on result of the identical image retrieval and result of the similar image retrieval.
US11341731B1
A method for immersively displaying a scanned environment of a region to a set of users in a training environment wearing augmented reality head display units. The training environment includes a pseudo-GPS system, which allows position tracking over time. This enables rehearsing military operations before they occur.
US11341721B2
A system for generating formal premises designs is discussed. The system begins by inputting an informal two-dimensional rendering of the premises. The system continues by analyzing the informal two-dimensional rendering and determining features found on the premises depicted by the two-dimensional rendering. The system then generates a three-dimensional model of the premises and populates it with interactive objects. Finally, the system provides multiple views of the three-dimensional rendering containing interactive objects.
US11341720B2
The disclosure is directed to a method for generating a three dimensional (3D) volume including a treatment target including receiving a plurality of two dimensional (2D) input images of a patient, determining a metal artifact in each of the plurality of 2D input images, removing the metal artifacts from the plurality of 2D input images based on the determination of the metal artifact, and replacing metal artifacts with alternative pixel data to generate a plurality of filtered 2D images. A 3D volume is generated from the plurality of filtered 2D images. The plurality of 2D input images including a treatment target.
US11341712B2
A virtual reality (VR) video processing apparatus and a VR method divides a received video image into a plurality of regions, establishes a region popularity table of the video image and updates the region popularity table by tracking an angle of view of a user when a video is playing, to collect information about a hotspot region in a panoramic video, and sends a hotspot region prompt to the user.
US11341709B2
An apparatus and method for merging primitives and coordinating between vertex and ray transformations on a shared transformation unit. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: a queue comprising a plurality of entries; ordering circuitry/logic to order triangles front to back within the queue; pairing circuitry/logic to identify triangles in the queue sharing an edge and to merge the triangles sharing an edge to produce merged triangle pairs; and shared transformation circuitry to alternate between performing vertex transformations on vertices of the merged triangle pairs and to performing ray transformations on ray direction/origin data.
US11341703B2
An aspect provides a computer-implemented method for training controls for an animation control rig using a neural network. The method comprises receiving 502 a combination of training data, wherein the combination of training data includes a first set of training data derived from image capture poses of a physical object and a second set of training data derived from posing an animation version of the physical object; receiving 504 a set of coarse error data derived from a first training process of the combination of training data, the first training process comprising passing at least some of the combination of training data to the neural network as a sequence of training steps; determining 506 a rate of change of training errors associated with the coarse error data; in response to detecting 512 a rate of change of training errors that crosses a rate of change threshold, during a second processing of the combination of training data, varying 514 a learning rate over time based on a slope of the rate of change of training errors.
US11341689B1
One or more computer processors create a user-event localization model for an identified remote audience member in a plurality of identified remote audience members for an event. The one or more computer processors generate a virtual audience member based the identified remote audience member utilizing a trained generated adversarial network and one or more user preferences. The one or more computer processors present the generated virtual audience member in a location associated with the event. The one or more computer processors dynamically adjust a presented virtual audience member responsive to one or more event occurrences utilizing the created user-event localization model.
US11341687B2
Disclosed herein is a point cloud data transmission method. The transmission method may include encoding point cloud data, and transmitting point cloud data. Disclosed herein is a point cloud data reception device. Disclosed herein is a point cloud data reception method. The reception method may include receiving point cloud data, decoding the point cloud data, and rendering the point cloud data.
US11341686B2
An image decoder includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions configured to cause the processor to perform operations. The operations receive an encoded image, perform a first decoding of the encoded image to generate a first decoded image, store the first decoded image in the memory, process the first decoded image for displaying, perform a second decoding of the first decoded image and generate a second decoded image, and process the second decoded image for displaying.
US11341684B1
The disclosure provides for a method of calibrating a detection system that is mounted on a vehicle. The method includes detecting characteristics of the mirror and characteristics of a vehicle portion using the detection system. The mirror reflects the vehicle portion to be detected using the detection system. The method also includes determining a first transform based on the detected one or more of mirror characteristics, determining a second transform based on the one or more vehicle portion characteristics, and determining a third transform based on a known position of the vehicle portion in relation to the vehicle. Further, the method includes determining a position of the detection system relative to the vehicle based on the first, second, and third transforms and then calibrating the detection system using the determined position of the detection system relative to the vehicle.
US11341661B2
Described herein is a method of registering a medical image of a subject with a 3D model of a subject, including calibrating the 3D model globally by aligning markers on the subject with corresponding markers on the 3D model; and calibrating the 3D model locally by aligning a scanning image of an internal structure of the subject with a corresponding internal structure of the 3D model. Also described herein is an apparatus of performing the method.
US11341659B2
A cross-sensor object-space correspondence analysis method for detecting at least one object in a space by using cooperation of a plurality of image sensing devices, the method including: the image sensing devices sending raw data or grid code data of multiple frames of sensed images to a main information processing device to determine a corresponding projection point or a moving track of each of the at least one object on a reference plane corresponding to the space, where each of the image sensing devices has an image plane, and the raw data and each of the grid code data all correspond to a time record.
US11341642B2
A tissue type fraction within a biological object is determined by a phase-cycled acquisition of several images of the object and deriving a complex signal profile for each voxel of the acquired images; generating a multidimensional dictionary of simulated signal profiles, wherein each simulated signal profile is configured for simulating the previously derived complex signal profile; using a weight optimization algorithm configured for expressing the complex signal profile as a weighted sum of the simulated signal profiles, wherein the weight optimization algorithm provides as output for each voxel a matrix M of optimized weights; for each voxel and each dimension of the obtained matrix M, extracting from the matrix M a distribution of the obtained optimized weights; and determining a type of tissue composing each voxel from the obtained distributions.
US11341641B2
A system for preparing a pharmaceutical compound comprises: a scale having a platen configured for placement of an object thereon; a supporting arm comprising a first end coupled to a portion of the scale and a second end extending to a position above the platen of the scale; and an enclosure housing extending from the second end of the supporting arm and configured to house at least one input device. The enclosure housing has a curved front profile to minimize flow disturbance when the system is positioned within a flow hood.
US11341640B2
A probability map of prostate tumor location is generated and displayed in response to receiving anatomic diagnostic medical imaging, such as from magnetic resonance (MR) scanning. A registration process is performed on the images in relation to a model built of prostate anatomy across different subjects in an enhanced prostate template. A probability map is created of tumor locations followed by transforming the imaging to incorporate the probability map and output a resultant image.
US11341639B2
Three-dimensional medical image analysis method and system for identification of vertebral fractures
A machine-based learning method estimates a probability of bone fractures in a 3D image, more specifically vertebral fractures. The method and system utilizing such method utilize a data-driven computational model to learn 3D image features for classifying vertebra fractures. A three-dimensional medical image analysis system for predicting a presence of a vertebral fracture in a subject includes a 3D image processor for receiving and processing 3D image data of a 3D image of the subject, producing two or more sets of 3D voxels. Each of the sets of 3D voxels corresponds to an entirety of the 3D image and each of the sets of 3D voxels consists of equal 3D voxels of different dimensions. The system also includes a voxel classifier for assigning the 3D voxels one or more class probabilities each of the 3D voxels contains a fracture using a computational model, and a fracture probability estimator for estimating a probability of the presence of a vertebral fracture in the subject.
US11341638B2
A medical image diagnostic system includes processing circuitry configured (to): (a) acquire a trained model generated by using, as learning data, images or signals corresponding to a first group of time-series images acquired by performing a first pre-scan on a first patient injected with a contrast agent in a first examination, as well as timing information about timing of a transition from a first pre-scan to a first main scan in a first examination, and information about appropriateness of the timing; and (b) determine appropriate timing of a transition from a second pre-scan to a second main scan by inputting, to the trained model, images or signals corresponding to a second group of time-series images acquired by performing the second pre-scan on a second patient injected with a contrast agent in the second examination different from the first examination.
US11341633B2
An ultrasound system (100) includes an ultrasound transducer, a processing circuit (210, 300), and a display. The ultrasound transducer is configured to detect ultrasound information regarding a patient and output the ultrasound information as an ultrasound data sample. The processing circuit (210, 300) is configured to segment the ultrasound data sample into a binary image including at least one first region and at least one second region, obtain a first location of a first vascular feature of the binary image based on a boundary between the at least one first region and the at least one second region, and modify the binary image based on the first location of the first vascular feature. The first vascular feature is associated with an intima media thickness. The display is configured to display the modified image.
US11341628B2
A method for compensating a design image of a workpiece and a system for processing the design image of the workpiece are disclosed. The method includes the following steps. Obtaining a real image of the workpiece, with the real image having registration holes. Calculating a slope value for each of the registration holes. Determining an amount of interpolation points between each two neighboring registration holes of the registration holes according to the slope value corresponding to each of the registration holes. Obtaining positions of control points in blocks formed by the registration holes. Compensating the design image of the workpiece according to positions of the registration holes, positions of the plurality of interpolation points and the positions of the control points for generating a mapping image. Outputting the mapping image adapted to be mapped onto the workpiece. The system, together with the method, will be introduced.
US11341624B2
Methods and systems for reducing banding artifacts when displaying high-dynamic-range images are described. Given an input image in a first dynamic range, and an input backward reshaping function mapping codewords from the first dynamic range to a second dynamic range, wherein the second dynamic range is equal or higher than the first dynamic range, statistical data based on the input image and the input backward reshaping function are generated to estimate the risk of banding artifacts in a target image in the second dynamic range generated by applying the input backward reshaping function to the input image. Separate banding alleviation algorithms are applied in the darks and highlights parts of the first dynamic range to generate a modified backward reshaping function, which when applied to the input image to generate the target image eliminates or reduces banding in the target image.
US11341610B2
A deployable airborne sensor array system and method of use are provided herein. The system includes a tether configured to be coupled to and deployed from an aircraft and a plurality of airborne vehicles coupled to the tether. Each of the plurality of airborne vehicles includes different lift characteristics to form a three-dimensional (3D) array of airborne vehicles. Each airborne vehicle includes a sensing device configured to generate sensor data associated with a target. The system also include a computing device configured to process the sensor data received from each of the plurality of airborne vehicles and generate an image of the target based on the sensor data.
US11341609B2
A method for generating a panoramic image of a patient includes obtaining a digital 3D surface representation of at least a part of the patient's teeth; using the obtained digital 3D surface representation to define a customized path following the arch form of the patient's teeth; obtaining a plurality of x-ray images of at least a part of one of the patient's jaws and/or teeth; and generating the panoramic image of the patient using the customized path.
US11341605B1
Techniques for document rectification via homography recovery using machine learning are described. An image rectification system can intelligently make use of multiple pipelines for rectifying document images based on the detected type of device that generated the images. The image rectification system can provide high-quality rectifications without requiring human cooperation, multiple views of the document in multiple images, and/or without being constrained to only be able to process images from one source context.
US11341603B2
An image processing electronic device includes a pipeline configured to process frames of image data; an internal memory coupled to the pipeline, wherein a set of descriptors arranged according to an order is stored in the internal memory, each descriptor of the set of descriptors is associated with a corresponding function to be activated by the pipeline on at least one frame of image data; a controller configured to read each descriptor of the set of descriptors sequentially and cyclically according to the order at a rate of at least one descriptor per one frame of image data and store information corresponding to each read descriptor, wherein the pipeline is configured to activate on each frame of image data, the function associated with each read descriptor based on the stored information.
US11341601B2
A cache system in a graphics processing system stores graphics data items for use in rendering primitives. It is determined whether graphics data items relating to primitives to be rendered are present in the cache, and if not then computation instances for generating the graphics data items are created. Computation instances are allocated to tasks using a task assembly unit which stores task entries for respective tasks. The task entries indicate which computation instances have been allocated to the respective tasks. The task entries are associated with characteristics of computation instances which can be allocated to the respective tasks. A computation instance to be executed is allocated to a task based on the characteristics of the computation instance. SIMD processing logic executes computation instances of a task outputted from the task assembly unit to thereby determine graphics data items, which can be used to render the primitives.
US11341597B2
An image processing method for reading additional information from image data obtained by an imaging device capturing an image of a printed product with the additional information embedded therein as an electronic watermark includes acquiring, a plurality of times, distance information about a distance between the imaging device and the printed product, and causing a display to display a predetermined object in such a manner that a display form of the predetermined object changes according to the acquired distance information.
US11341596B2
A robot can include a position measuring sensor to measure a position of the robot as the robot moves in an outdoor space; a camera to acquire an image of surroundings of the robot; a memory configured to store place information including positions and appearance feature information of a plurality of places existing in the outdoor space; and at least one processor to extract one or more appearance features of M first places in the image, where M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, select one or more positions of N second places from the place information stored in the memory based on the one or more appearance features of the M first places in the image, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to M, and generate a corrected position for the robot.
US11341581B2
A system and method for generating regular expressions to identify vendors to enable improved financial data transfer from a first computer system to a second computer system is provided.
US11341580B1
An aerial image system may generate images of structures providing views that might otherwise be difficult to obtain. These images may be used to determine various characteristics of the structure, which may then be processed for a variety of tasks including product marketing, claim processing and post-claim analysis. The images may be analyzed by the aerial image system or by a ground-based processing system to determine the structural characteristics such as roof age, roof type and roof pitch. In some examples, image analysis techniques such as edge detection and contrast determination may assist in determining the requisite data. Additionally or alternatively, the processing system may direct or control one or more image capture devices to obtain desired images.
US11341579B1
Systems and methods provide customizable insurance according to consumer preferences. Demand simulators may be used to guide the creation of optimized packages of features, which consumers may select from to form an insurance product appropriate for their particular needs. Packages may be formed with a particular appeal to consumers with common characteristics. In addition, methods are provided for selling insurance products formed through an optimization process and providing corresponding insurance services.
US11341576B2
[Problem] Provided are a management device and a cryptocurrency system capable of smoothly operating an entire system by detecting fraud on cryptocurrencies without using enormous calculation amounts. [Solution] A management device connected to a plurality of user devices via a network, the management device including: an issued information storage area that stores a cryptocurrency ID of an issued cryptocurrency; an account information storage area that stores account information in association with one or a plurality of cryptocurrency IDs; and a history information storage area that stores history information of a cryptocurrency in association with a cryptocurrency ID.
US11341573B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving first voice data from a user, receiving behavior data associated with the user, and determining that the user is authentic at least partially based on voice recognition of the first voice data, and behavior analysis of the behavior data, and subsequently: prompting one or more spoken commands from the user, receiving second voice data representative of at least one spoken command of the user to trade at least one financial instrument, providing trade data for executing the trade of the at least one financial instrument, and determining that the trade data is valid at least partially based on the second voice data, and in response, initiating execution of the trade.
US11341563B2
Systems, methods, and media for optimizing and facilitating 3D printing services in a marketplace environment are provided. In one example, a system comprises a hosting system to enhance a 3D printing service marketplace environment including marketplace participants and a federated network of 3D printing service providers. In one aspect, operations include receiving a 3D printing request to print a 3D object selected from among a selection of 3D objects, responsive to the 3D printing request and the 3D object selected from among the selection of 3D objects, listing at least some of the 3D printing service providers based on a 3D printer identifier metric, wherein the 3D printer identifier metric includes one or more of a 3D printing quality metric, a 3D printer model number, a 3D printer serial number, and a 3D digital model type. The operations further include receiving a selection of a preferred 3D printing service provider from among the list of at least some of the 3D printing service providers.
US11341562B2
Methods, devices, and systems for a tag for order fulfillment are described herein. One or more embodiments include a number of tags each associated with a corresponding inventory bin of a warehouse, each tag configured to broadcast unique identification information, and a mobile device configured to receive, from a database, order information including identification information of one of the number of tags and a type and a quantity of an item of an inventory bin of the warehouse corresponding to the tag, and scan for identification information of the tag.
US11341559B2
A system for categorizing, visualizing, and recommending cannabis products based on objective data of the chemical composition of products is described. This system allows cannabis products to be visualized and compared based on their chemical composition, even by laypeople with little or no knowledge of the underlying objective data. A recommendation system is built upon this which can recommend products for consumption, including a user interface for receiving user input, which includes at least one of demographic data, desired level of psychoactivity, or prior experience with the product, a merchant interface for receiving merchant input, including at least one of general data descriptive of the regulated product, lab data descriptive of the regulated products chemical composition, and user data descriptive of subjective effects of the regulated product on a user; and a decision engine making a recommendation of product according to correlation of the lab data with the user data.
US11341558B2
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented system within an e-commerce platform may receive and analyse digital images of scenes in order to generate a recommendation for one or more products offered for sale by a merchant. For example, a user may use their device to capture an image of a room that the user wishes to furnish, and the system may use a trained machine learning algorithm to recommend a product to be placed in the room. The recommended product may be superimposed on the image of the room.
US11341557B2
A method of and system for recommending one or more products to a consumer from a plurality of products, the system comprising: a user interface; and a processor configured to: provide a list of questions for the consumer at the user interface, each question having a defined set of answers; calculate a consumer score for each question using the answer chosen by the consumer at the user interface; calculate a recommendation score for each question, using the consumer score; and select the one or more products for recommendation to the consumer based on the recommendation score.
US11341552B2
Systems and methods for generating location-based retail pricing options are discussed herein. In an example, a method for generating location-based retail pricing options includes receiving, over a network from a user, a pricing request. The pricing request includes information identifying the user, a merchant, and an intended purchase. In this example, the method further includes determining a pricing option associated with the merchant and the intended purchase, and transmitting the pricing option to the user. The method still further includes processing a purchase transaction, associated with the user, for the intended purchase based on the pricing option.
US11341532B2
This technology relates to requesting missing data associated with a geographic location. The system may comprise a memory for storing lists of information elements each associated with one or more physical types of geographic locations and a processor. The processor may be programmed to receive a current location of a client device and determine the current location is proximate to a first geographic location. The processor may determine a physical location type of the first geographic location and retrieve a list of information elements associated with the physical location type. The list of items may be compared to a set of information elements associated with the first geographic location and a determination of a missing information element may be made. A notification may be generated based on the missing information element and the determination that the client device is proximate to the first geographic location.
US11341529B2
A wearable device and a method for providing a widget thereof are provided. A method for providing a widget in a wearable device of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: sensing status information of a user; transmitting the status information of the user to an external server; selecting an application type to be provided from the external server according to a user command; receiving, from the external server, information on at least one application corresponding to the status information of the user on the basis of the selected application type and the status information of the user; and providing, on a screen, a widget corresponding to an application selected by the user among the at least one application.
US11341527B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining the efficacy of digital assets provided to an audience. One embodiment is a system that includes a brand management server. The brand management server includes a memory that stores assets comprising digital media. The brand management server also includes a controller. The controller distributes the assets for consumption by members of an audience at remote devices. The controller also selects one of the assets, determines a look-back period, acquires metrics indicating at least two different types of consumption of the asset by the audience during the look-back period, and calculates an asset score for the asset that indicates a popularity of the asset and is based on the metrics indicating the at least two different types of consumption.
US11341525B1
A telematics data marketplace (TDM) computing device including a processor in communication with a memory device is provided. The processor may be configured to: (i) receive registration data from a provider, wherein the registration data includes desired user data sets and an associated purchase price, (ii) retrieve, from the memory device, user data associated with a plurality of users, wherein the user data includes at least telematics data, (iii) match the provider to one or more users of the plurality of users based upon the user data associated with the users matching the desired user data sets of the provider, (iv) prompt the matched users to allow the provider access to the user data for the purchase price, (v) transmit the user data of the matched users to the provider, and (vi) provide the matched users with a reward corresponding to the purchase price of the desired user data set.
US11341521B2
A system and a method allow for the provision of an incentive between different applications. A server stores information including, in association, a user identifier, a first identifier, and a second identifier received from a client terminal, and when receiving an incentive request, causes an application server to provide an incentive to the user pertaining to the first identifier corresponding to the second identifier based on the information.
US11341520B2
Systems for determining a price of goods, reducing food waste, optimizing markdowns for the goods, and controlling prices of the goods in a retail setting are described. A scanner scans a readable identification tag affixed to a good during a time period. A pricing engine of at least one server queries, dynamically and in real-time, a database to identify, from the readable identification tag, the good and the information associated with the good. The pricing engine then applies algorithms to the identified good to calculate a price of the good and modify the calculated price of the good during the time period to optimize a target function. The optimization of the target function depends on price-calculation factors associated with a shelf-state of the good and associated with a future stock of the good. At least one calculated price based on the expiration date of the good is displayed.
US11341517B2
A method of comparing performance of a first entity and a second entity uses performance indexing based on comparable performance metrics. A first entity performance rate and a first growth ability for the first entity are determined based on a first plurality of entity characteristics for the first entity. The first performance rate and the first growth ability are weighted based of the first plurality of entity characteristics and a first entity index value is determined based on the weighted first performance rate and first growth ability. A comparison between the first entity and the second entity is generated using the first entity index value and a second entity index value for the second entity.
US11341507B2
Techniques are provided for facilitating creation, modification, provisioning and transfer of trusted electronic compliance documents. For each of multiple user requests to provide or receive trusted electronic compliance documents, automated operations are performed to determine whether the request is directed to one of a plurality of maintained trusted electronic compliance documents. Each trusted electronic compliance document references information regarding parties to a potential transaction and confers at least partial eligibility for parties to participate in the potential transaction. When it is determined that the request is directed to a maintained trusted electronic compliance document, access to the indicated trusted electronic compliance document is provided, including modifying a copy of the indicated trusted electronic compliance document to include information referenced with respect to an entity associated with the user request and an originator of the trusted electronic compliance document. A secure interface is provided for creating an indicated compliance document when it is determined that the request is not directed to a maintained compliance document.
US11341505B1
A computer-implemented method and system for automating electronic content delivery of predictive information to a customer service representative of a company. A first customer data set is entered in the computer system for identifying a customer. Displayed on a first desktop on a representative's computer system is information related to the customer which may include purchased company products and services of the customer based on the first data set. A second data set is entered in the computer system by the representative contingent upon interaction between the representative and the customer. Perform predictive analytics upon at least a portion of the first and second data sets to determine predictive information relevant to the customer. Display on a second desktop on the representative's computer system the predictive information for review by the representative during an interaction with the customer.
US11341503B2
Systems and methods for the deployment of cloud-based systems using a distributed ledger are disclosed. The system may include a cloud provider system and a distributed ledger. The cloud provider system may be configured to deploy cloud-based systems and APIs to enable one or more participant systems to leverage cloud-based resources. The distributed ledger may record events, functionalities, and operations from the cloud provider system, the participant systems, and the deployed cloud-based systems and APIs.
US11341497B2
A method for sending a transactional message assigns a universal transactional account (UTA) identifier to a customer, associates the assigned UTA identifier with a customer account corresponding to the customer, assigns an account network address corresponding to a service provider, stores, in a routing database, the UTA identifier in association with the account network address, creates, using a second terminal including a processor, the transactional message comprising the UTA identifier and a value, and sends the transactional message to the service provider, the sending the transactional message to the service provider including using the routing database to look up the account network address corresponding to the UTA identifier and transmitting the transactional message to the account network address.
US11341491B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for implementing a mobile tokenization hub with a common tokenization capabilities (CTC) module that may provide tokenization for various entities in various contexts. For example, the CTC module can provide and store tokens for mobile payment transactions, transit transactions, digital wallet applications, merchant point of sale (POS) applications, personalization services, and the like.
US11341485B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for machine learning based system for authorization of autonomous resource transfers between distributed IoT components. The present invention is configured to receive, from a first autonomous IoT device, a transaction authorization request to execute a transaction with a second autonomous IoT device; receive information associated with the first autonomous IoT device, information associated with the second autonomous IoT device, and information associated with the transaction; initiate an execution of one or more machine learning algorithms; determine that the first autonomous IoT device is authorized to execute the transaction with the second autonomous IoT device; transmit a transaction authorization to the first autonomous IoT device to execute the transaction; and receive, from the first autonomous IoT device, an indication that the transaction has been executed.
US11341482B2
Provided are systems, methods, techniques, instruction sequences, and computer program products associated with and configured to the technical field of special purpose machines that facilitate generation and provision of application program interfaces (or APIs). The APIs automatically compare the geographic position of a user resource with a known database of events to determine the likelihood that the user is attending the event. In response to determining that the likelihood exceeds a predetermined limit, the APIs communicate notifications to update user information to service providers, such as financial networks, to improve the performance of the user's portable financial devices and reduce financial fraud associated with offline transactions.
US11341479B2
A payment system is disclosed including a point of sale device and an issuer. A payment device can be used to initiate a first payment request with a contactless reader. The first payment request is transmitted to an issuer. If the issuer refuses the payment request, then the point of sale device stores information related to the payment device (such as the Primary Account Number) in a storage unit. When a second payment request is received from the payment device the point of sale device can check whether information related to the payment device matches the information stored in the storage unit. If a match is found, then the point of sale device can request verification from a user by way of a user verification unit.
US11341478B2
A payment processing method and method and an intelligent device are provided. The method may include: intercepting a payment request in a target application program (application, APP) in the intelligent device, the payment request including a payment parameter; obtaining attribute information of the target application program by using a preset executable file; generating a graphic code according to the payment request; outputting the graphic code, so that a terminal device submits the payment parameter to a payment server by scanning the graphic code and reports account information to the payment server, and the payment server performs payment processing according to the payment parameter and the account information and returns a payment result; and feeding back the payment result to the target application program according to the attribute information of the target application program. The method can simplify a payment process and improve the payment efficiency.
US11341469B2
Systems and methods for mobile enrollment in automated clearing house (ACH) transactions using mobile-captured images of financial documents are provided. Applications running on a mobile device provide for the capture and processing of images of documents needed for enrollment in an ACH transaction, such as a blank check, remittance statement and driver's license. Data from the mobile-captured images that is needed for enrolling in ACH transactions is extracted from the processed images, such as a user's name, address, bank account number and bank routing number. The user can edit the extracted data, select the type of document that is being captured, authorize the creation of an ACH transaction and select an originator of the ACH transaction. The extracted data and originator information is transmitted to a remote server along with the user's authorization so the ACH transaction can be setup between the originator's and receiver's bank accounts.
US11341453B2
Examples provide a system for dynamically resolving negative PI. A negative reset component resets a negative PI value in an inventory record for a selected item to zero if there is an absence of activity associated with instances of the item. There is an absence of activity if there are no shipments, transactions, or items scans associated with instances of the item during a threshold time-period. An analysis component analyzes real-time data associated with the selected item, including invoice data, transaction data, and sensor data to determine whether there is activity associated with an item during the threshold time-period. A receiving component resets a negative PI value associated with an identified item to a positive PI value representing the number of instances of the item received during the threshold time-period.
US11341445B1
Systems and methods for measuring and visualizing threshold of user workload. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information describing units of work assigned to individual users within the collaboration environment, individual units of work having individual start dates and individual end dates; determine threshold information including individual values of a threshold parameter for the individual users; effectuate presentation of a user interface based on the values of the work unit parameter, the values of the threshold parameter for the individual users, and/or other information; and/or perform other operations.
US11341440B2
A work machine control device including a memory and a processor is disclosed. The processor may be configured to receive work order data associated with a haul machine. The work order data may identify the haul machine, a material requested for the haul machine, an amount of the material requested for the haul machine, and/or a work machine associated with the material. The processor may be configured to set an operating parameter of the work machine to perform an operation according to the work order data, and receive payload data associated with a payload of the work machine. The payload data may relate to a weight of the payload, a volume of the payload, and/or an operating state of the work machine. The processor may be configured to determine productivity data associated with the operation, and cause an action to be performed in connection with the productivity data.
US11341435B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include matching transportation requests to transportation providers using a dynamic transportation matching system. Matching transportation requestors which have varying preferences for waiting times and transportation pricing with transportation providers having varying levels of available supply may involve matching methods that satisfy the transportation requestors while maintaining an appropriate level of supply. A method which provides immediate service for transportation requestors that may be willing to pay a premium fare while placing transportation requestors not willing to pay a premium fare and may be willing to wait may provide a balance of supply and demand of transportation providers. Accordingly, immediately matching transportation requestors not willing to wait while placing the transportation requestors willing to wait in a queue may provide the balanced approach to managing transportation provider availability. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed.
US11341421B2
A dynamic, distributed directed activity network comprising a directed activity control program specifying tasks to be executed including required individual task inputs and outputs, the required order of task execution, permitted parallelism in task execution, task adjacency to subsequent tasks, and reachability from each task to other tasks; a plurality of task execution agents, individual of said agents having a set of dynamically changing agent attributes and capable of executing different required tasks; a plurality of task execution controllers, each controller associated with one or more of the task execution agents with access to dynamically changing agent attributes; a directed activity controller for communicating with said task execution controllers for directing execution of said activity control program; and, a communications network supporting communication between said directed activity controller and task execution controllers for directing execution of said directed activity control program using selected task execution agents.
US11341417B2
A method, apparatus and program for completing a knowledge graph from a plurality of predicates and associated entities, the predicates each providing information on a relationship between a pair of entities, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input comprising the plurality of predicates and associated entities; searching an axiom database and identifying predicates among the plurality of predicates that are equivalent to one another, or inverses of one another; identifying further predicates that are related to one another, using the axiom database and identified predicates; and embedding the identified predicates and associated entities into a vector space to complete the knowledge graph.
US11341410B1
Machine-learning methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine critical state or other parameters related to fluid-driven failure of a terrestrial locale impacted by anthropogenic activities such as hydraulic fracturing, hydrocarbon extraction, wastewater disposal, or geothermal harvesting. Acoustic emission, seismic waves, or other detectable indicators of microscopic processes are sensed. A classifier is trained using time series of microscopic data along with corresponding data of critical state or failure events. In disclosed examples, random forests and artificial neural networks are used, and grid-search or EGO procedures are used for hyperparameter tuning. Once trained, the classifier can be applied to live data from a fluid injection locale in order to assess a frictional state, assess seismic hazard, assess permeability, make predictions regarding a future fluid-driven failure event, or drive engineering solutions for mitigation or remediation. Variations are disclosed.
US11341408B2
Memristive learning concepts for neuromorphic circuits are described. In one example case, a neuromorphic circuit includes a first oscillatory-based neuron that generates a first oscillatory signal, a diode that rectifies the first oscillatory signal, and a synapse coupled to the diode and including a long-term potentiation (LTP) memristor arranged in parallel with a long-term depression (LTD) memristor. The circuit further includes a difference amplifier coupled to the synapse that generates a difference signal based on a difference between output signals from the LTP and LTD memristors, and a second oscillatory-based neuron electrically coupled to the difference amplifier that generates a second oscillatory signal based on the difference signal. The circuit also includes a feedback circuit that provides a feedback signal to the LTP and LTD memristors based on a difference or error between a target signal and the second oscillatory signal.
US11341390B2
A method of forming a contactless transaction card. The method may include providing a card body, defining a window, and attaching an antenna assembly layer to the card body, where the antenna assembly layer includes an antenna, a set of curable connectors, disposed on a set of end regions of the antenna within the window, and a UV-transparent layer, supporting the antenna. The method may include providing a contactless chip module within the window on a first side of the antenna assembly layer, and directing radiation through the UV-transparent layer, wherein the contactless chip module is electrically connected to the antenna via the curable connectors.
US11341389B2
A “core” or “inlay” for a smartcard may comprise a first metal layer and a second metal layer, and may be formed by folding a single metal layer upon itself. A module cavity may be formed in the first metal layer by laser cutting, prior to laminating. An adhesive layer may be disposed between the two metal layers. A module opening may be formed in the second metal layer by milling, after laminating the first metal layer to the second metal layer. A slit in a metal layer may extend from an outer edge of the layer to the cavity or opening, thereby forming a coupling frame. The slit may have a termination hole at either end or at both ends of the slit. The slits of two metal layers may be positioned differently than one another.
US11341378B2
An information processing apparatus includes an input, a blood-relative list generator, a similar image searcher, and a suspect information generator. The input receives DNA information of a suspect and facial image relating to a plurality of facial images. The blood-relative list generator generates a list of blood relatives who are presumed to be blood relatives of the suspect from a plurality of pieces of DNA information. The similar image searcher calculates degree of similarity between facial images of persons on the blood-relative list and each of the plurality of facial images, and searches for and retrieves a facial image resembling the image of the person on the blood-relative list based on the calculated degree of similarity. The suspect information generation part generates suspect information by associating information relating to the retrieved facial image with information relating to the person on the blood-relative list who resembles the retrieved facial image.
US11341374B2
Systems and methods for data anomaly detection include recommending one or more algorithms from a set of algorithms to process received time series data, wherein the one or more algorithms are recommended based at least in part on a type of workload for processing the received time series data. Assisted parameter tuning is provided for a detected anomaly alert and calibration, and the received time series data is processed based on a user selected algorithm that is parameter tuned.
US11341369B2
A technique for performing data parallel training of a neural network model is disclosed that incorporates batch normalization techniques using partial populations to generate normalization parameters. The technique involves processing, by each processor of a plurality of processors in parallel, a first portion of a sub-batch of training samples allocated to the processor to generate activations for the first portion of the sub-batch. Each processor analyzes the activations and transmits statistical measures for the first portion to an additional processor that reduces the statistical measures from multiple processors to generate normalization parameters for a partial population of the training samples that includes the first portion from each of the plurality of processors. The normalization parameters are then transmitted back to each of the processors to normalize the activations for both the first portion and a second portion of the sub-batch of training samples allocated to each processor.
US11341368B2
Methods and systems for advanced and augmented training of deep neural networks (DNNs) using synthetic data and innovative generative networks. A method includes training a DNN using synthetic data, training a plurality of DNNs using context data, associating features of the DNNs trained using context data with features of the DNN trained with synthetic data, and generating an augmented DNN using the associated features.
US11341366B2
A cross-modality processing method is related to a field of natural language processing technologies. The method includes: obtaining a sample set, wherein the sample set includes a plurality of corpus and a plurality of images; generating a plurality of training samples according to the sample set, in which each of the plurality of the training samples is a combination of at least one of the plurality of the corpus and at least one of the plurality of the images corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of the corpus; adopting the plurality of the training samples to train a semantic model, so that the semantic model learns semantic vectors containing combinations of the corpus and the images.
US11341365B2
A processor-implemented neural network method includes: determining, using a neural network, a feature vector based on a training image of a first class among a plurality of classes; determining, using the neural network, plural feature angles between the feature vector and class vectors of other classes among the plurality of classes; determining a margin based on a class angle between a first class vector of the first class and a second class vector of a second class, among the class vectors, and a feature angle between the feature vector and the first class vector; determining a loss value using a loss function including an angle with the margin applied to the feature angle and the plural feature angles; and training the neural network by updating, based on the loss value, either one or both of one or more parameters of the neural network and one or more of the class vectors.
US11341363B1
A system for optimizing results of processed assets for provision to software applications based on determined sequences of operation is disclosed, the system having a cloud-based engine and a plurality of models that are each usable by the engine to provide artificial intelligence in connection with software applications. Multiple software extensions are executed by the engine in accordance with a respective model for at least one of the general-purpose software applications. Input data are processed as a function of at least one of the models and a set of the plurality of extensions, wherein a given sequence of executing the set of extensions on one of the inputs impacts results provided by the engine. The engine is configured by executing each of the extensions in different sequences to grade a respective degree of inference and selecting an optimum sequence, which is communicated to the general-purpose software application.
US11341361B2
An analysis method executed by a computer includes acquiring a refine image that maximizes a score for inferring a correct label by an inferring process using a trained model, the refine image being generated from an input image used when an incorrect label is inferred; generating a map indicating a region of pixels having the same or similar level of attention degree related to inference in the inferring process, of a plurality of pixels in the generated refine image, based on a feature amount used in the inferring process; extracting an image corresponding to a pixel region whose level in the generated map is a predetermined level, from calculated images calculated based on the input image and the refine image; and generating an output image that specifies a portion related to an inference error in the inferring process, among the calculated images, based on image processing on the extracted image.
US11341358B2
In an approach to creating models utilizing optimally clustered training sets, one or more computer processors determine an optimal cluster size. The one or more computer processors generate one or more clusters from one or more classes and respectively associated training statements that are contained in a training set, based on the determined optimal cluster size, wherein the one or more generated clusters, respectively, contain fewer classes than the training set. The one or more computer processors identify one or more isolated high confidence classes and associated training statements from one or more cluster classifications generated by a static model trained with the one or more generated clusters. The one or more computer processors create one or more dynamic models trained with the one or more identified isolated high confidence classes. The one or more computer processors perform one or more classifications utilizing the one or more created dynamic models.
US11341352B2
A method 140 of assessing an operator emotional state 131 and sending an alert 144 based on the emotional state 131. The method 140 includes tracking 141 during a time period, using at least one sensor 103, 105, 106, 112, 117, one of an image sensor data, voice data or a biometric parameter of an operator. Determining 142, using a controller 120 that is operatively connected to at least one sensor 103, 105, 106, 112, 117, a probability of a likely emotional state 131 from a list of emotional states 131 of an operator based on one of the image sensor data, voice data or the biometric parameter. Comparing 143, using a processor, the probability of one of the likely emotional states 131 of the operator with a baseline emotional state 131 of the operator. Sending 144, using the controller 120, an alert if most likely emotional state deviates from the baseline emotional state by a predetermined threshold.
US11341340B2
Adapters for neural machine translation systems. A method includes determining a set of similar n-grams that are similar to a source n-gram, and each similar n-gram and the source n-gram is in a first language; determining, for each n-gram in the set of similar n-grams, a target n-gram is a translation of the similar n-gram in the first language to the target n-gram in the second language; generating a source encoding of the source n-gram, and, for each target n-gram determined from the set of similar n-grams determined for the source n-gram, a target encoding of the target n-gram and a conditional source target memory that is an encoding of each of the target encodings; providing, as input to a first prediction model, the source encoding and the condition source target memory; and generating a predicted translation of the source n-gram from the first language to the second language.
US11341339B1
Techniques for creating and calibrating natural-language understanding (NLU) machine learning models are described. In certain embodiments, a training service tunes parameters of a function, taking the output from an NLU machine learning model as an input of the function, to calibrate the NLU machine learning model's output to optimize the interpretability of the resulting output, e.g., confidence score(s). Embodiments herein include generating, by the NLU machine learning model, an output based at least in part on an input (e.g., utterance) from a user, and applying a tuned, output modifying function to the output from the NLU machine learning model to generate a modified output. An inference may be generated based at least in part on the modified output.
US11341335B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input from a client system associated with a user, determining a task based on the user input and a confidence score associated with the task, generating one or more first dialog acts based on a task policy which specifies dialog acts associated with the task, generating one or more second dialog acts based on an override policy responsive to the confidence score being less than a threshold score, wherein the override policy specifies dialog acts that modify dialog acts specified by the task policy; and sending instructions for presenting a response to the user input to the client system, wherein the response is based on one or more of the first dialog acts or the second dialog acts.
US11341334B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to evaluate natural language input to identify actions and landmarks, such as for the generation of a landmark graph. In a method, one or more word representations are encoded in context based upon one or more other word representations within a sentence of the natural language input. The method also generates an action context vector defining actions that occur during each of a plurality of time steps and generates a state context vector defining one or more landmarks associated with each of the plurality of time steps. The method predicts the state for a respective time step by defining the one or more landmarks associated with the respective time step. The method also predicts an action for the respective time step based on the action context vector and the state context vector.
US11341329B2
The present application relates to a system language switching method, a computer readable storage medium, a terminal device, and a device. The method includes first obtaining a preset image for setting a system language of a target terminal, then extracting text information in the image and determining a target language corresponding to the text information, and finally switching the system language of the target terminal to the target language. Through the present application, the user only needs to prepare an image for setting the system language of the target terminal in advance, for example, a piece of paper with Chinese written, and a system can obtain the text information on the image through the processes of image acquisition, text information extraction, and the like, determine that the text message is Chinese, and finally switch the system language of the target terminal to Chinese.
US11341320B1
A method may include obtaining a knowledge graph including entities, and determining, for the knowledge graph, a first state including a first selectable entity subset of the entities that are selectable by a user. The first selectable entity subset may include an entity. The method may further include receiving, from the user and via a graphical user interface (GUI), a selection of the entity from the first selectable entity subset, and responsive to the selection, adding the entity to a report schema. The report schema may be used to populate a report. The method may further include, responsive to the selection, transitioning the knowledge graph to a second state including a second selectable entity subset of the entities that are selectable by the user.
US11341313B2
Dynamic web content personalization may be used to alter a web page such that two different people who view that web page do not see the exact same content on that page. The present disclosure includes techniques that allow a web page to be structured, via underlying source code, so that content can be dynamically generated based on a user transaction history. Further, dynamic content customization can effectively change the layout and functionality of a web page in ways not previously contemplated. For example, different control elements may become accessible based on a particular contextual user profile assigned to a user based on a transaction history. Modular content modules may also have a different appearance for different users.
US11341309B1
A method of designing a 3D Integrated Circuit, including: performing partitioning to at least a logic strata, the logic strata including logic, and to a memory strata, the memory strata including memory; then performing a first placement of the memory strata using a 2D placer executed by a computer, where the 2D placer includes a Computer Aided Design tool, where the 3D Integrated Circuit includes a plurality of connections between the logic and the memory strata; and performing a second placement of the logic strata based on the first placement, where the memory includes a first memory array, where the logic includes a first logic circuit connected so to write data to the first memory array, where the first placement includes placement of the first memory array, and where the second placement includes placement of the first logic circuit based on the placement of the first memory array.
US11341304B2
A method for integrated circuit design with delay verification includes storing configuration files for a slew-rate Machine Learning (ML) model, a net-delay ML model and a cell-delay ML model. A user design is received, slew-rate feature values, net-delay feature values and cell-delay feature values are extracted from the user design, the configuration files are loaded to form inference cores, and operations of the slew-rate inference core are performed to calculate predicted slew-rate values that are sent to ML design tools. Operations of the net-delay inference core are performed to calculate predicted net-delay values that are sent to the ML design tools. Operations of the cell-delay inference core are performed to generate predicted cell-delay values that are sent to the ML design tools. The user design is iterated until a user design is obtained that is free of timing violations.
US11341302B1
An analog circuit netlist translation system is disclosed. The analog circuit netlist translation system comprises a model translation module configured to receive an analog circuit netlist; and transform the analog circuit netlist into a digital model. In some embodiments, the digital model comprises a set of zero-delay loops. The analog circuit netlist translation system further comprises a translation methodology module configured to determine a set of closed loop values respectively associated with the set of zero-delay loops, in order to eliminate the set of zero-delay loops within the digital model. In some embodiments, the set of closed loop values are determined by the translation methodology module in a single timeslot.
US11341297B2
Embodiments of an obstacle distribution simulation method, device and terminal based on a probability graph are provided. The method can include: acquiring a plurality of point clouds of a plurality of frames; acquiring real labeling data of an acquisition vehicle at vehicle labeled positions, and acquiring data of a simulation position of the acquisition vehicle; determining the number of obstacles to be simulated at a position to be simulated; extracting real labeling data of the obstacles, and constructing a labeling data set; dividing the labeling data set into a plurality of grids and calculating occurrence probabilities of the plurality of obstacles; selecting the determined number of obstacles to be simulated according to the occurrence probabilities; and acquiring a position distribution of the selected obstacles to be simulated for the position to be simulated based on the real labeling data of the selected obstacles to be simulated.
US11341296B2
A computer-implemented method computes an unfolded part of a modeled bended 3D object in a 3D scene of a computer-aided design system. The method a) provides the 3D object; b) selects a fixed portion (FP) of the 3D object; c) selects a mobile portion (MP) of the 3D object; d) determines a 1D interface (INT) forming an intersection between the fixed portion (FP) and the mobile portion; e) computes a transformed portion resulting from a linear transformation of the mobile portion (MP) according to an drawing direction (DD); f) trims the transformed portion in the vicinity of the 1D interface (INT), thereby forming a trimmed transformed portion (TTP); g) creates a fillet (FI) between the 1D interface (INT) and the trimmed transformed portion (TTP); and h) defines the unfolded part as an union of the fixed portion (FP), the trimmed transformed portion (TTP) and the created fillet (FI).
US11341294B2
Systems and methods for level set discrete element method particle simulation in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a particle simulation device includes a processor and a memory storing a particle analysis application, wherein the processor, on reading the particle analysis application obtains image data describing a plurality of particles, models a plurality of grains based on the image data, where each modeled grains includes a level set function corresponding to one of the plurality of particles, calculates the motion of each of the plurality of grains based on a force applied to the plurality of grains, and generates a transformed particle model based on the plurality of grains and the calculated motion.
US11341291B2
A tool path for treating a shoe upper may be generated to treat substantially only the surface of the shoe bounded by a bite line. The bite line may be defined to correspond to the junction of the shoe upper and a shoe bottom unit. Bite line data and three-dimensional profile data representing at least a portion of a surface of a shoe upper bounded by a bite line may be utilized in combination to generate a tool path for processing the surface of the upper, such as automated application of adhesive to the surface of a lasted upper bounded by a bite line.
US11341290B2
Example systems and methods for virtual visualization of a three-dimensional model of an object in a two-dimensional environment. The method may include moving and aligning the three-dimensional model of the object along a plane in the two-dimensional environment.
US11341278B2
A system is provided and includes a securable resource, a locking element configured to assume a locked condition in which the securable resource is locked and an unlocked condition in which the securable resource is unlocked, a controller and a physical authentication interface. The controller is receptive of an instruction to authorize users to unlock the securable resource and configured to perform operating system (OS) level authentication of the users and OS level control of the locking element in accordance with the instruction to authorize users and the OS level authentication. The physical authentication interface is configured to enable or disable a capability of the controller to perform the OS level authentication.
US11341272B2
Methods and apparatus to assign demographic information to panelists are disclosed. An example disclosed apparatus disclosed herein includes a database proprietor identifier (DPID) extractor to extract a panelist database proprietor identifier from a cookie, the panelist database proprietor identifier associated with credentials used by a panelist to access a website. The example apparatus further includes a collector to send a message to a first server of an audience measurement entity, the message including the panelist database proprietor identifier and a panelist identifier associated with the panelist, the panelist database proprietor identifier to be distributed with decoy database proprietor identifiers in a query to a second server at a database proprietor to obtain demographic information, the decoy database proprietor identifiers determined based on a probability density function so that a quantity of the decoy database proprietor identifiers is less than would be used if the decoy database proprietor identifiers were selected by a random selection process, the panelist identifier to be used to associate the panelist with a portion of the demographic information.
US11341271B2
Disclosed are embodiments for information barriers that are conditional on the type of information being communicated. Information barrier polices provided by the disclosed embodiments selectively allow communication between accounts or groups based on characteristics of the content of the communication. For example, communication between a marketing department and an engineering department may be conditional on the communication not including any sensitive information. The determination of whether the communication includes sensitive information is further designed to provide good performance even in environments that maintain substantial portions of data in an offsite or cloud environment, where latencies associated with searching large datastores can be prohibitive.
US11341268B2
The present invention provides a storage device (100) which consists of multiple access levels to access data or information depending on its importance, usefulness, severity, criticality and vulnerability. Further, the storage device (100) ensures data protection through confidentiality, integrity and accessibility for information security by disabling any connection with external communication channels such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and so on. Further, the storage device (100) is designed to erasing all the credentials data after 5 unsuccessful attempts ensuring security of the data or information. Authenticated data or information stored on the device can only be accessed by the owner of the device thereby preserving the integrity of the stored data. Reminders may be set for authentication related data which helps change the authentication credentials in time.
US11341267B1
A system includes at least one processor and at least one memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, where the at least one memory stores instructions. When executed by the at least one processor, the instructions are configured to receive death certificate information from a node of a distributed ledger system, determine, a record to be updated based at least in part on the death certificate information, and update the record. The death certificate information and the record are associated with an individual.
US11341263B2
Disclosed is a method, a device, a system and/or a manufacture of efficient data query and utilization through a semantic storage model. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a unique identifier (UID) to uniquely address a domain within a datastore, defining a content element (NT element) storing a primitive data and/or drawing reference(s) to other domains within the datastore according to a directed acyclic graph architecture, an identity entity element (TY element) of the domain storing data that alone or in combination distinguishes the domain from one or more other domains within the datastore, and a context element (XT element) of the domain that further characterizes the domain and/or draws reference(s) to other domains within the datastore which may violate the directed acyclic graph architecture to define a flexible contextual reference. A key may be generated such that the TY element is individually addressable within the datastore.
US11341257B1
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a plurality of identifiers of first versions of electronic documents that have been stored in a distributed data storage system and queuing the identifiers in a queue table of a database; obtaining, from the queue table, a set of the identifiers of the first versions of the electronic documents; invoking, using the set of the identifiers, a query indexing function of a search engine system and receiving a set of matching identifiers of electronic documents, from among the set of identifiers, that match queries that have been registered using the query indexing function; storing the matching identifiers in a last-processed table; processing second versions of the electronic documents associated with the matching identifiers, using the query indexing function; updating a feed associated with a user account to show messages referring to the first versions of the electronic documents in response to determining that the second versions of the electronic documents do not match the queries.
US11341256B2
A computing device includes a processor and a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to: cause a file management sub-system to detect a request to access a particular file belonging to a specific user entity, and to send an authorization request to a security sub-system; cause the security sub-system to check user metadata for the specific user entity in response to the authorization request, to determine whether the file is expired based on the user metadata for the specific user entity, and to, in response to a determination that the file is expired based on the metadata, send a denial of the authorization request to the file management sub-system; and cause the file management sub-system to, in response to the denial, block access to the particular file.
US11341254B2
Securing data using random bits uses a TRNG disk with a plurality of random bits and a universally unique identifier (UUID). At least one TRNG disk copy is created, which is identical to the TRNG disk. The TRNG disk copy is stored in a separate physical location than the TRNG disk. Source data is received and encrypted with a block of random bits of the TRNG disk to produce encrypted data. The block of random bits of the TRNG disk has a bit offset which is a positional address of the block of random bits within the TRNG disk. The encrypted source data, the UUID, and the bit offset of the TRNG disk are communicated from a first location to at least a second location. The encrypted source data is decrypted at the second location using the UUID, the offset of the TRNG disk, and the TRNG disk copy.
US11341249B2
A firmware security guarding method and an electronic system using the same are provided. The firmware security guarding method includes the following steps: setting at least one monitoring objective, wherein each of the at least one monitoring objective corresponds to one of at least one behavior reference file stored in a memory device of the electronic system; loading from the memory device the at least one behavior reference file corresponding to the at least one monitoring objective when booting the electronic system; and checking whether an abnormal event is included in a basic input/output system boot behavior of the electronic system according to the loaded at least one behavior reference file.
US11341247B2
Use of a trusted execution environment (TEE) as a safe build environment. A build task is initiated in a TEE of a compute instance. The build task generates a first software component.
US11341243B2
The portable peripheral (100) of communication with the data network (105) utilizing the internet protocol, comprises: a connector (110) to mechanically connect and establish a removable wired connection between the peripheral and a portable terminal, a first means (115) of wired bidirectional communication with the portable terminal, a second means (120) of bidirectional communication with a data network and a unit security (122) protecting the communication between the first and the second means of communication, this communication being established between the first and the second means of communication, the security unit (122) comprising a system (127) of autonomous DNS management, the means of communication and the security unit being embedded in a unique housing (130) removable from the portable terminal.
US11341238B2
A method for detecting an intrusion (i.e. hacking) of an electronic device includes determining an expected activity value associated with one or more software applications executing on a processor, monitoring the one or more software applications executing on the processor to determine a current activity value associated with the one or more software applications, determining whether the current activity value exceeds a threshold associated with the expected activity value, and in response to determining that the current activity value exceeds the threshold, initiating one or more security actions associated with the one or more software applications. A system for detecting an intrusion of an electronic device includes an intrusion detection module configured to perform the steps of the method.
US11341237B2
A computer implemented method to detect a computer system in execution operating in a manner that is not compliant with a definition of a set of compliant operations, the method including receiving a first set of records for the computer system, each record detailing an occurrence in the computer system during a first predetermined time period; generating a sparse distributed representation of the set of records to form a training set for a hierarchical temporal memory (HTM); training the HTM based on the training set in order that the trained HTM provides a model of the operation of the computer system during the predetermined time period; selecting at least a subset of operations in the set of compliant operations and causing the invocation of each operation of the subset in the computer system over a second predetermined time period to generate a second set of records of occurrences in the computer system; generating a sparse distributed representation of the set of records to form an input set for the trained HTM; executing the trained HTM based on the input set to determine a degree of recognition of the records of the input set; and responsive to a determination that a degree of recognition of one or more records of the input set is below a threshold degree, identifying the operation of the computer system as non-compliant.
US11341235B2
A method of identifying anomalous behavior can include determining a first feature value and a second feature value of a series of numbers, identifying whether the determined first and second feature values map to a cell that is a part of a group based on spatial voting (SV) grid data, the SV grid data indicating an extent of each cell in a grid of cells, a number of rows and columns of cells in a group of cells, and, for each group of cells, a point in the center cell of the group of cells and a unique group number, and in response to identifying that the determined first and second feature values do not map to a cell of the grid of cells that is a part of a group, tagging the first and second feature values as corresponding to an anomalous behavior.
US11341233B2
Disclosed are various approaches for enforcing policies for unmanaged applications. A user supplied script can be evaluated to determine whether an application is installed on a computing device. In response to a determination that the application is installed on the computing device, a request can be sent to a management service for at least one policy applicable to the application. The policy can be evaluated to determine whether the application complies with the policy.
US11341231B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product structured for identifying potential misappropriation attempts into a technology resource and enforcing a credential lockout. In some embodiments, a system is structured for receiving a user credential associated with a first log-on attempt to access a technology resource, determining whether the user credential matches a stored valid credential, and, if it does not match, performing a misappropriation assessment. The misappropriation assessment includes evaluating and weighting a plurality of potential misappropriation factors, determining a misappropriation score from the weighted plurality of potential misappropriation factors, and adding the misappropriation score to a cumulative misappropriation score for the technology resource. The system is also structured for determining whether the cumulative misappropriation score has reached or exceeded a threshold and, if it has, enforcing a credential lockout for the technology resource.
US11341229B2
In order to provide improved matching of records between different sources, systems and methods include generating a data link between a stored interaction profile of the user and activity data records that identify activities performed by the user. Online interaction data associated with the user is received, including tracking data indicative of online interactions with content. The online interaction data is stored in the stored interaction profile associated with the user. An activity model is used to predict correlation parameters representing groupings of online interactions of the online interaction data with activities performed by the user, where the prediction is based on the tracking data and each activity in the interaction profile. The interaction profile is updated with the groupings and user activities are authenticated based on the interaction profile.
US11341226B2
A combination lock system includes a mobile communication device (10, 10′), a cloud server (20) and a combination lock (30, 30′). When the cloud server (20) determines that the mobile communication device (10, 10′) matches authentication information, the cloud server (20) outputs password information (22) corresponding to the authentication information to the mobile communication device (10, 10′), and the combination lock (30, 30′) obtains an electric energy and the password information (22) from the mobile communication device (10, 10′). When the combination lock (30, 30′) determines that one of the characters of the password setting module (31, 31′) matches one of the characters of the password information (22) corresponding to a corresponding arrangement order, the mobile communication device (10, 10′) displays display information.
US11341218B2
A messaging application configured to provide a messaging interface on which outgoing messages from a user, to contacts can be composed and incoming messages from the contacts can be viewed. Moreover, the messaging application is configured to store message data in an encrypted form as a database file. Furthermore, the messaging application is configured to require the user to input a predetermined access code before giving access to the messaging interface. Moreover, the messaging application is configured to provide a first mode in which the user is given access to all message data when a first predetermined access code is input, and a second, secret mode in which the user is given access to only a subset of all the message data, when a second predetermined access code is input by the user.
US11341215B2
According to an embodiment disclosed in this specification, a display device may include an input interface, a display, a memory for storing a plurality of applications, and a processor operatively connected to the input interface, the display, and the memory. The plurality of applications may include a first application, and a first code may be set for the first application with respect to at least a first user identification (ID).
US11341212B2
An apparatus and method for protecting content in a graphics processor. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: encode/decode circuitry to decode protected audio and/or video content to generate decoded audio and/or video content; a graphics cache of a graphics processing unit (GPU) to store the decoded audio and/or video content; first protection circuitry to set a protection attribute for each cache line containing the decoded audio and/or video data in the graphics cache; a cache coherency controller to generate a coherent read request to the graphics cache; second protection circuitry to read the protection attribute to determine whether the cache line identified in the read request is protected, wherein if it is protected, the second protection circuitry to refrain from including at least some of the data from the cache line in a response.
US11341211B2
Aspects for vector operations in neural network are described herein. The aspects may include a vector caching unit configured to store a first vector and a second vector, wherein the first vector includes one or more first elements and the second vector includes one or more second elements. The aspects may further include one or more adders and a combiner. The one or more adders may be configured to respectively add each of the first elements to a corresponding one of the second elements to generate one or more addition results. The combiner may be configured to combine a combiner configured to combine the one or more addition results into an output vector.
US11341203B2
This disclosure relates to methods and systems to generate information about news source items from a corpus of news sources, where identified news source items describe or are associated with a news event or topic of interest. The generated information can be presented as collections of news source items describing a news event or topic in, e.g., a newsfeed format, a report, a dashboard configuration, or for use in machine learning processes. News sources can be associated with a rating. The news source items, news sources, and collections can be analyzed to generate information including differences in coverage of generated or selected news events or topics according to various considerations, such as news source characteristics (e.g., bias/skew/viewpoint rating, age, location of news source or event, etc.), time, and presence, absence, or frequency of news sources ratings in a collection of news source items describing the news event or topic.
US11341201B1
A compatibility method for determining the likelihood that two individuals will be compatible wherein the method of the present invention implements a testing protocol that utilizes music. The present invention operably integrates with a music library of each user prior to implementing a testing protocol. The testing protocol incorporates a plurality of questions wherein the questions are provided to a user with an answer set for a user to select an answer therefrom. Subsequent selecting an answer, the software application of the present invention will cross-reference keywords in the answer with keywords in the lyrics of the songs within the music library of the user. The software application will then play an alternate song based on the keyword correlation of the aforementioned wherein the song initiates play prior to presenting the user with an additional question. The protocol continues with the software application determining an emotional quotient value.
US11341200B1
In certain embodiments, a presentation of a user interface may be dynamically modified for a user based on data related to the user's email address or other user identifier. As an example, the user interface may be caused to reflect the look and feel of an interface of an entity trusted by the user, incorporate data items related to the user's identifier, or effectuate other modifications. In some embodiments, a user identifier of a user may be received via a user interface associated with the third party, and a query for data related to one or more user accounts associated with the user identifier may be generated. Based on the query, multiple datasets associated with different user accounts may be received, and a first dataset associated with a first account of the user may be selected over other datasets associated with the user's other accounts effectuate the presentation modification.
US11341199B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for delivery of content based on matching of user profiles with content metadata. The system enables delivery of personalized content, without the overhead of managing segment targeting rules, while providing content publishers or marketers with complete control over such personalization. A recommendation service or application program interface, provided by a computer, cloud computing environment, or other type of computer system, enables receipt and processing of requests, from client devices, for personalized content. A recommendation engine delivers content assets in response to a request from a client device. The recommendation engine determines a content channel and a user identity associated with the request, and then delivers content assets based on rules governing the matching of content asset metadata with the user profile. While content classification evolves over time, so also does the personalization of delivered content.
US11341197B2
A process receives, via a processor, a plurality of rules corresponding to a plurality of virtual indicium attributes that are displayed in conjunction with a virtual indicium. Each of the plurality of rules associates a data object with at least one of the plurality of virtual indicium attributes. Further, each of the plurality of virtual indicium attributes corresponds to a time-based metric. Moreover, the process retrieves, from a web portal database, one or more pre-generated web portal features corresponding to at least one of the plurality of rules. The process also generates, via the processor, a web portal based on the plurality of rules by composing the pre-generated web portal features with remaining web portal features to diminish redundancy of computing resources. Additionally, the process receives, via the processor, a user input via the virtual indicium corresponding to the time-based metric.
US11341181B2
The present invention relates to an edge-computing-oriented construction method for a container image, and the construction method for a container image at least comprising steps of: having an image reconstruction module reconstruct an old container image so as to obtain a new container image comprising an index and a set of spare files that correspond to each other, and having an image management module store the index and the spare files separately from each other in an image repository and a spare file storage module respectively; having a download engine module scrape the index from the image repository to a corresponding container in the edge end, so that a container instance service module conducts search in a local file sharing module according to configuration information contained in the index and thereby retrieves a local shared file corresponding to the configuration information, an image file consulting module is configured to download a default file from the spare file storage module that does not exist in the local shared file retrieved according to the configuration information, and a service processor uploads the local shared file and the default file recorded according to the configuration information to the image reconstruction module, so that to match and to generate the index.
US11341175B2
For query auto completion (QAC) in an eCommerce platform with constantly changing product supply and demand, a Query Mover's Distance (QMD) framework for ranking queries is used, which formulates QAC as an optimal transport problem balancing product demand and supply.
US11341174B2
The present disclosure provides a method for providing voice-based knowledge through intelligent automated chatting. An input is received. A knowledge message is selected from a set of knowledge messages in response to the input, wherein a length of a voice corresponding to each of the set of knowledge messages is no more than a predefined length. The voice corresponding to the knowledge message is output in a conversation of the intelligent automated chatting.
US11341171B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for configuring, designing, and/or implementing integrated data modeling methods for configuring interoperability between multiple data system based upon compliance with data integration standards.
US11341169B2
The present disclosure provides a method for generating a classification model in a database system. The method comprises generating a plurality of database tables by performing data clustering on a database, acquiring a plurality of queries associated with information from the database, generating training data by executing each of the plurality of queries on the plurality of database tables, and training a classification model using the training data, wherein the classification model is used to select a database table for a query based on corresponding performance information associated with the query on the database during executing of the query. The present disclosure also provides a method for executing a query on a database using a classification model. The method comprises obtaining the classification model, obtaining a database query, generating a target table by inputting the database query into the classification model, and executing the database query on the target table. In addition, the present disclosure provides database systems and non-transitory computer-readable media for generating a classification model or executing a query on a database using a classification model.
US11341159B2
In-stream data load in a replication environment includes extracting source data from a source data store that is in a replication relationship with a target data store. A replication facility replicates to a target system changes made to the source data store. The replication facility includes a replication engine that reads a replication log into which the replication facility records the changes and sends the changes to the target system for application to the target data store. The extracting is performed by an extract utility separate from the replication engine. The in-stream data load also includes injecting, by the extract utility, the extracted source data into the replication log in-line with the changes recorded in the replication log by the replication facility and according to a format such that the replication engine can read and send the source data to the target system.
US11341157B2
A multipath explorer may allow a user to quickly visualize an entire population of data hierarchically in a tree-like structure. For example, a user can select a first filter to be applied to a data set, and the multipath explorer can display data in the data set that satisfies the first filter requirements and data in the data set that does not satisfy the first filter requirements. A second filter can be applied to the data in the data set, and the multipath explorer can display data in the data set that satisfies the first and second filter requirements, data in the data set that satisfies the first filter requirements and not the second filter requirements, data in the data set that satisfies the second filter requirements and not the first filter requirements, and data in the data set that does not satisfy the first or second filter requirements.
US11341152B2
Systems and methods are provided for automatically recommending content. One example method includes receiving, from a computing device, a request for content and generating an initial result set in response to the request. A user profile associated with the request is identified. Based on the initial result set and the user profile, a positivity index score for the initial result set is determined. Based on the positivity index score, a type of additional content to add to the initial result set is determined. A modified result set is generated by adding the additional content to the initial result set. At least a portion of the modified result set is transmitted to the computing device.
US11341151B2
Information is collected from a management target device having a drive unit such as a machine tool, and this collected information is more practically used. An information collection device includes a collection unit that collects, from management target devices having a drive unit, operating state information which is information indicating an operating state of the management target device while operating accompanying movement of the drive unit; and a comparison unit that extracts a plurality of sets of information matching in a predetermined condition from the operating state information thus collected, and outputs a comparison result of the plurality of sets of information thus extracted.
US11341150B1
The long-lived and recently modified (LLRM) partitioning is a system and method for partitioning slowly changing aged data for a given year into one long-lived partition (LLP) and multiple recently modified partitions (RMP) where the RMP corresponds to a time period of a first time granularity. Each record has a start and end time to indicate its lifetime. A record in a RMP is modified at a timepoint corresponding to the time period of a RMP. RMP records can be sampled every second, minute, hour or day. The LLP holds records whose lifetime is greater than the time period of a first time granularity. Queries pertaining to a given timepoint is performed on data that is a union of the LLP and the RMP pertaining to that timepoint instead of the unpartitioned table thus leading to shorter query processing time and better utilization of memory storage.
US11341142B2
Techniques and solutions are described for defining metadata artefacts and, using a framework, which can be referred to as a decorator framework, updating data artefacts. The data artefacts can be artefacts in a virtual data model, such as data artefacts representing views that can correspond to a view, or one or more tables, of a relational database system. A metadata artefact can include semantic elements, such as annotations, that are processable by the decorator framework in updating data artefacts. Annotations can specify an operation type, such as to include, remove, replace, or synchronize, for content a metadata artefact, where the operation will be carried out on data artefacts to which the metadata artefact is applied and which contain specified content. Multiple metadata artefacts can be applied to a given data artefact, and a given metadata artefact can be applied to multiple data artefacts.
US11341141B2
A method includes receiving a search query from a user device and generating an application name stream query and an original stream query based on the search query. The application name stream query indicates an application name. The original stream query includes the search query. The method includes generating stream metadata for each of the stream queries that indicates a type of the stream query. The application name stream query is an application name type. The original stream query is an original stream type. The method includes, for each stream query, identifying a set of search records and generating a stream result score for each set of search records based on the type of stream query used in identifying the set of search records. Additionally, the method includes selecting a set of search records based on the stream result scores and generating search results based on the selected search records.
US11341140B2
A device, method and computer-readable medium for generating unique identification for records in a data streaming processing system are disclosed. A method may collect an identification of a source of a data record, a timestamp of the data record and a count of a number of records a data source has added to the stream with that timestamp, generate a unique identification with the identification of the source of the data record, the timestamp of the data record and the count of the number of records the data source has added to the stream with that timestamp, apply the unique identification to the data record and transmit the data record with the unique identification to a downstream operator within a data stream processing system.
US11341128B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for range queries over encrypted data include actions of receiving a range query token, determining one or more of whether a tree list of an encrypted search index is empty and a range of the token intersects with a range accounted of a tree in the tree list, the encrypted search index including the tree list and a point list, receiving encrypted query results based on one of a search tree, if the tree list is not empty and a range of the token is at least a sub-range of a range accounted for in the tree list, and the point list, if the tree list is empty or the range of the token is not at least a sub-range of a range accounted for in the tree list, and updating the encrypted search index based on the token.
US11341121B2
An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a service discovery node, to a blockchain configured to store workloads and stakes of a plurality of endorser nodes, receiving, by the service discovery node, a discovery query that contains an endorsement policy from a user node, generating, by the service discovery node, cryptographic sortition parameters based on the endorsement policy, sending, by the service discovery node, the cryptographic sortition parameters to the plurality of the endorser nodes, collecting, by the service discovery node, sortition labels from the plurality of the endorser nodes, the sortition labels generated based on the sortition parameters, determining, based on the sortition labels, a set of the endorser nodes from the plurality of the endorser nodes that qualify the endorsement policy, and providing, by the service discovery node, identifiers of the set of the endorser nodes to the user node for an endorsement of a user transaction proposal.
US11341118B2
Multiple edits to a hierarchical data structure may be atomically applied. A request to perform modifications with respect to a portion or the entire hierarchical data structure may be received. A copy of the requested portion of the hierarchical data structure may be created separate from the hierarchical data structure. The portion of the hierarchical data structure may remain available for read access. Modifications may be applied to the copy of the portion of the hierarchical data structure. In response to a request to commit the modifications to the portion of the hierarchical data structure, the copy of the portion of the hierarchical data structure may atomically replace the portion of the hierarchical data structure.
US11341117B2
System and methods for evicting and inserting eviction an entry for a deduplication table are described.
US11341111B2
A data processor for transferring or maintaining a data sample, includes: a table management unit that manages a data value table that relates a data type of the data sample, usage attribute information defined by a pair of at least one attribute type and a value concerning a utilization form, and information for defining a value index; and a prioritizing unit that defines the value index for the data sample based on the data value table, the value index belonging to a specific data type and associated with the usage attribute information, and sets a priority of the transferring or the maintaining of the data sample using the value index.
US11341109B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores program code including instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or processors to perform operations including storing and managing social network data in a social network database; receiving location information from a plurality of electronic devices associated with the social network data; specifying users of electronic devices present in a specific space at a specific time among the plurality of electronic devices; filtering relation information between the specified users in the social network database; and calculating an analysis index for the specific space and the specific time based on the filtered relation information.
US11341108B2
A hardware accelerator device detects duplicate data blocks independently from a processor of an information handling system. The device includes an interface, a hash function, a bloom filter, and a data comparator. The interface receives data blocks. The hash function determines a hash of a received data block. The bloom filter includes comparison hashes, each associated with a comparison data block. The bloom filter determines if the hash matches a comparison hash. The data comparator directs the interface to receive the comparison block when the hash matches the comparison hash, and compares the received data block with the comparison data block to determine if they are identical. The device stores a pointer when the data comparison block determines that the blocks are identical.
US11341106B2
A deduplicated storage system is provided according to certain embodiments that uses one or more mechanisms to update the deduplication database and remove records corresponding to data blocks that have been or will be erased from the secondary copies, without using or tracking reference counting values. Some embodiments described herein use a secondary table (for tracking archive file contents) and a bitmap to mark which primary records are present in the secondary table. In another embodiment, once the marking phase is completed, the deduplication system uses the marked-up bitmap to identify the corresponding records from the primary table that can be moved to another table for storing “zero-reference” data blocks. In other embodiments, the system will then traverse the “zero-reference” table and remove those primary data blocks from secondary storage devices.
US11341103B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for replicating and migrating files to secondary storage sites. Files in a fileset at the primary storage site are migrated to a file container, wherein data for the files migrated to the file container is distributed among the secondary storage sites. File metadata for each of the migrated files is updated to include access information on the migrated file in the file container. Data for the migrated files is deleted in a local storage. The file metadata for the migrated files is replicated to the secondary storage sites over the network to store in filesets at the secondary storage sites without replicating file data for the migrated files to store in the filesets the secondary storage sites.
US11341102B1
A multi-tier blockchain-based method for document transformation and accountability is provided. A set of transaction documents for transfer of real property is received. At least a portion of the transaction documents is processed by providing the transaction documents to a tier of supernodes and selecting one of the supernodes. The transaction documents are added via the selected supernode to a blockchain maintained by each supernode. An immutable record of the transaction documents is transmitted from the selected supernode to a different tier of network nodes. One of the network nodes is identified to commit the immutable record of the transaction documents to a blockchain of the different tier. The immutable record of the transaction documents is committed to copies of the blockchain stored by the other network nodes.
US11341089B2
A self-optimizing interval detection data structure is provided herein. A data storage system as described herein can include a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include a candidate assignment component that maps properties of a resource of the data storage system to respective candidate data structures; a latency estimation component that estimates respective latencies associated with the respective candidate data structures; and a selection component that selects a candidate data structure of the respective candidate data structures having a latency that is less than a threshold latency, resulting in a selected data structure.
US11341077B2
A method assigns addresses from a master unit to a number of slave units. The slave units are connected to the master unit for the transmission of information. An address output of the master unit is connected to an address input of a first slave unit and the address output of an n-th slave unit is connected to the address input of an n+1-th slave unit. The slave units, when a first level is applied to their address input, set the level at their address output to the first level and change to the first, “non-addressed” state, in the event of a transition of the level at their address input from the first level to a second level, change to the “addressable” state, upon receiving an address from the master unit, check the received address for validity in the “addressable” state and, acknowledge the reception to the master unit.
US11341074B2
In some examples, universal host and NVMe™ storage domain discovery for NVM Express™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) may include broadcasting location parameters to a host and a plurality of NVMe™ storage domains for discovery of a NVM Express™ over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) service. Based on host parameters and NVMe™ storage domain parameters received in response to the broadcast location parameters, the host and the NVMe™ storage domains may be respectively registered with the NVMe-oF™ service. A mapping that indicates a specified NVMe™ storage domain that is to communicate with the host may be obtained. Communication may be implemented between the host and the specified NVMe™ storage domain by forwarding the mapping and associated discovery target parameters to the host to implement discovery of the specified NVMe™ storage domain by the host, and connection of the specified NVMe™ storage domain to the host.
US11341065B2
A method for providing a datum in a receive buffer memory. The method includes storing the datum to be provided in the receive buffer memory, and retrieving an old datum from the receive buffer memory, if the receive buffer memory overflows as a result of storing the datum to be provided.
US11341060B2
In a data processing environment, a communication interface of a second host data processing system receives, from a first host data processing system, a host command in a first command set. The host command specifies a memory access to a memory coupled to the second host data processing system. The communication interface translates the host command into a command in a different second command set emulating coupling of an attached functional unit to the communication interface. The communication interface presents the second command to a host bus protocol interface of the second host data processing system. Based on receipt of the second command, the host bus protocol interface initiates, on a system fabric of the second host data processing system, a host bus protocol memory access request specifying the memory access.
US11341057B2
Apparatuses and methods for managing a coherent memory are described. These may include one or more algorithmic logic units (ALUs) and an input/output (I/O) interface. The I/O interface may receive one or more commands and retrieve data from or write data to a memory device. Each command may contain a memory address portion associated with a memory device. The apparatus may also include a memory mapping unit and a device controller. The memory mapping unit may map the memory address to a memory portion of the memory device, and the device controller may communicate with the memory device to retrieve data from or write data to the memory device. The apparatus may be implemented as a processing element in a configurable logic block network, which may additionally include a control logic unit that receives programming instructions from an application and generate the one or more commands based on the instructions.
US11341056B2
Techniques are provided for atomic writes for persistent memory. In response to receiving a write operation, a new per-page structure with a new page block number is allocated. New data of the write operation is persisted to a new page of the persistent memory having the new page block number, and the new per-page structure is persisted to the persistent memory. If the write operation targets a hole after the new data and the new per-page structure have been persisted, then a new per-page structure identifier of the new per-page structure is inserted into a parent indirect page of a page comprising the new data. If the write operation targets old data after the new data and the new per-page structure have been persisted, then an old per-page structure of the old data is updated with the new page block number.
US11341043B2
A storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of memory blocks. The storage device performs an alignment operation in response to receipt of an align command. The alignment operation converts a received logical address of a logical segment into a physical address and allocates the physical address to a physical block address corresponding to a free block. The storage device is further configured to performs a garbage collection in units of the physical block address that indicates one memory block.
US11341042B2
A storage apparatus includes a storage device that stores a table mapping a logical address to a physical address and a controller that manages the table and controls write of data to and read of data from the storage device according to a request from a host. The controller allocates, in a memory, a cache area for temporarily storing a part of the table, and a write buffer area for storing a part of the table that has been updated by the host and is to be written to the storage device, upon receipt of a request that requires update of the table from the host, determines whether a first part of the table to be updated is in the write buffer area, and upon determining that the first part is in the write buffer area, updates the first part in the write buffer area according to the request.
US11341038B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to data movement operations in non-volatile memory. An example apparatus can comprise an array of non-volatile memory cells including a plurality of sections each with a plurality of rows and a controller configured to move data stored in a first portion of the array from a first row of a first section to a second row of the first section and move data stored in a second portion of the array from a second section to the first to create an open row in the second section in response to data from a particular number of portions of memory cells in the first section being moved within the first section.
US11341037B2
An information handling system includes a first Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) on a first memory channel of the information handling system, and a second DIMM on a second memory channel of the information handling system. A processor trains the first memory channel to a first speed based upon a first performance level of the first DIMM, trains the second memory channel to a second speed based upon a second performance level of the second DIMM, and allocates a portion of the first DIMM to the application based upon the first speed.
US11341036B2
A system includes a memory device and a processing device, coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to sample a first subset of data units from a set of data units of the memory device using a biased sampling process that increases a probability of sampling particular data units from the set of data units based on one or more characteristics associated with the particular data units. The processing device is to identify a first candidate data unit from the first subset of data units and perform a wear leveling operation in view of the first candidate data unit.
US11341035B2
Systems and methods for aligning needs of virtual devices with hardware resources. The performance of virtual devices are tested using different groupings to determine mappings or relationships between the virtual devices and the physical devices from which they are drawn. Based on the results of the tests, spindle groups can be optimized.
US11341034B2
Techniques for analysis of verification parameters and reduction of training data are provided. A plurality of test results is received, where each of the plurality of test results specifies a respective one or more parameters and a respective one or more events. A list of parameters used to stimulate computing logic is determined. Additionally, a plurality of relevant parameters is generated, corresponding to parameters in the list of parameters that have at least two distinct values specified in the plurality of test results. A plurality of training cases is generated based on the plurality of test results and the plurality of relevant parameters. Further, a neural network is generated for design verification of the computing logic based on the plurality of relevant parameters. The neural network is trained based on the plurality of training cases.
US11341033B2
A method and system for automated generation of test scenarios and automation scripts. The system is configured to record details of the application at micro level (page level), index based on the page navigation. The system is further configured to create a mind map or a tree using a traverse algorithm. This creates the necessary test scenarios based on flows or page navigation. At the same time, the system captures all the underlying screen properties and labels. The system connects the field type to the action library (built in) and also ensures a dataset is created while capturing the recording. Further utilizing the test scenarios, the dataset, and the screen properties, the system generates the automation script automatically.
US11341027B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for facilitating improved defect resolution. Defect information and defect criteria information may be obtained. The defect information may identify defects of software and/or hardware in development. The defect criteria information may define one or more criteria for measuring the defects. The defects may be measured based on the one or more criteria. A defect analysis interface may be provided. The defect analysis interface may list a limited number of the defects based on the measurements of the defects. The defect analysis interface may provide costs (e.g., computing resources, time, personnel) of solving the defects.
US11341025B2
A system includes a memory and at least one processor in communication with the memory. A processor is configured to receive a first log message denoting an event associated with a first application executing in the system. A machine learning model generates a predicted log message based at least in part on the first log message. The predicted log message represents a prediction of a subsequent log message to be received from the first application. First metric data associated with the predicted log message is determined. The first metric data describes system conditions of the system associated with the predicted log message. A tuning profile associated with the system conditions is determined and the current system configuration of the system is modified using the tuning profile.
US11341021B2
Systems and methods directed to generating a predicted quality metric are provided. Telemetry data may be received from a from a first group of devices executing first software. A quality metric for the first software may be generated based on the first telemetry data. Telemetry data from a second group of devices may be received, where the second group of devices is different from the first group of devices. Covariates impacting the quality metric based on features included in the first telemetry data and the second telemetry data may be identified, and a coarsened exact matching process may be performed utilizing the identified covariates to generate a predicted quality metric for the first software based on the second group of devices.
US11341020B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes detecting events relating to user equipment on a communication network, collecting first event data including event times and locations, and collecting second event data regarding second event dimensions determined at least in part by the event type. The method also includes generating, for each of the event types, an event data structure associated with the user, based on the first event data and second event data. The event data structures are concatenated to generate an event history flow associated with the user; the event history flow is analyzed to identify causal events for a detected event. The method also includes generating a model for performance of the user equipment based on the causal events to predict a future event, and identifying potential adjustments to the communication network to prevent that event. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11341012B2
A method of testing a data storage system includes maintaining libraries of test routines, a first library including a set of normal-functional tests each operable to test corresponding normal functionality of the data storage system, a second library including a set of fault inserters each being independently operable to induce a corresponding fault condition into the data storage system. Normal-functional tests are executed concurrently with one or more of the fault inserters to cause the normal-functional tests to encounter the corresponding fault conditions during execution and thereby test a response of the normal functionality of the data storage system to the occurrence of the fault conditions.
US11341010B2
Techniques for rebuilding a failed drive of a plurality of drives are provided. The techniques include: (a) determining a number of empty data stripes that have been allocated from the plurality of drives; (b) applying a set of decision criteria to the determined number to yield a decision, wherein applying the set of decision criteria yields a first decision at a first time and a differing second decision at a second time; (c) in response to the first decision at the first time, deallocating an empty data stripe that was allocated from the plurality of drives to yield a plurality of data extents on disparate drives of the plurality of drives and continuing to rebuild the failed drive onto at least one of the plurality of data extents; and (d) in response to the second decision at the second time, pausing rebuilding the failed drive until applying the set of decision criteria yields the first decision.
US11341008B2
While the management module of an information handling system is set as a standby module, an enclosure controller provides first requests for attribute data of the information handling system, and receives and stores first response data for attribute data associated with a first subset of the first requests in a local memory of the enclosure controller. The enclosure controller receives request failure responses associated with a second subset of the first requests directed to a subset of the attributes data for the information handling system stored in a shared memory. While the management module is set as an active module, the management module is granted access to the shared memory. The enclosure controller provides retry requests for attributes associated with the request failure responses, and receives and stores second response data associated with the retry requests in the local memory.
US11341007B2
Two or more nodes respectively provided with two or more storage control programs constituting each redundantization group maintain redundantization of metadata at the two or more nodes. When a node failure occurs, a failover from the corresponding active storage control program to a standby storage control program is performed. As regarding at least one standby storage control program, a node with the standby storage control program arranged therein compresses a target metadata portion including a metadata portion capable of being accessed after the failover, of metadata existing in the node as regarding the corresponding redundantization group, and stores the same in a memory of the node.
US11341005B2
a data store and a proxy system. The data store may store state data relating to a cell of the application, each cell having a state. The proxy system may identify whether the cell is operating in the active state, the passive state, or the fenced state and access a database of acceptable and unacceptable commands for the cell's state. For each request directed to the cell received, the proxy system may identifies the request as an acceptable request based on identifying that one or more commands of the request are acceptable to process in the cell's state or identifies the request as an unacceptable request based on identifying that one or more commands of the request are unacceptable to process in the cell's state. The proxy system then conveys the acceptable requests and unacceptable requests appropriately.
US11341000B2
The disclosure herein describes generating a protected entity of a VCI. A state document is generated based on the metadata state of the VCI and an entity data stream is set to a URI associated with the data of the VCI. Components and associated URIs of the VCI are identified. A combined data stream is set to a URI configured to provide access to the state document, the entity data stream, and the URIs of the components of the VCI. A snapshot API for providing a snapshot of the state of the protected entity, a serialization API for providing a serialized version of the protected entity, and a de-serialization API for converting a serialized version of the protected entity into a de-serialized version of the protected entity are defined. The protected entity is configured to enable the data and metadata of the VCI to be efficiently backed up.
US11340995B2
An integrated circuit includes a processing core, memory coupled to the processing core, a plurality of pins, an input/output (IO) control module operably coupled to provide control signaling indicating desired functions for the plurality of pins, and a plurality of programmable IO interface modules. A programmable IO interface module includes: a front-end module coupled to at least one pin of the plurality of pins, a back-end module coupled to at least one of the processing core and the memory, and an IO configuration module coupled to the IO control module. Each of the front-end module and the back-end module are configurable, via the control signaling, to configure the at least one pin to operate as one of: a bidirectional interface, an input, an output, a concurrent drive & sense interface, and a concurrent transmit-receive data interface.
US11340988B2
A method includes encoding data via erasure coding to produce a plurality of data slices. The method further includes determining a plurality of identifiers corresponding to the data. The method further includes generating integrity information based on the plurality of identifiers by performing a cyclic redundancy check. The method further includes storing the plurality of data slices, the plurality of identifiers, and the integrity information in a storage system.
US11340979B2
Read error mitigation in solid-state memory devices. A solid-state drive (SSD) includes a read error mitigation module that monitors one or more memory regions. In response to detecting uncorrectable read errors, memory regions of the memory device may be identified and preemptively retired. Example approaches include identifying a memory region as being suspect such that upon repeated read failures within the memory region, the memory region is retired. Moreover, memory regions may be compared to peer memory regions to determine when to retire a memory region. The read error mitigation module may trigger a test procedure on a memory region to detect the susceptibility of a memory region to read error failures. By detecting read error failures and retirement of a memory regions, data loss and/or data recovery processes may be limited to improve drive performance and reliability.
US11340965B2
A computerized platform provides centralized access for users to for on-line (electronic) services, such as social media, travel, education, and online banking including payments, via public Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
US11340961B2
Disclosed are various approaches for dynamically integrating a client application with multiple third-party services. An integration service receives a request to perform an action relative to a particular third-party service from a client device. The request is received through a first application programming interface (API) generic to a plurality of third-party services. The integration service communicates with the particular third-party service to perform the action using a second API specific to the particular third-party service. The integration service sends a response to the client device through the first API. The response is based at least in part on a result of the action and includes an indication of one of a plurality of predefined user interfaces.
US11340960B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to implement lockstep of processor cores are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor comprises a first processor core comprising a first control flow signature register and a first execution circuit, a second processor core comprising a second control flow signature register and a second execution circuit, and at least one signature circuit to perform a first state history compression operation on a first instruction that executes on the first execution circuit of the first processor core to produce a first result, store the first result in the first control flow signature register, perform a second state history compression operation on a second instruction that executes on the second execution circuit of the second processor core to produce a second result, and store the second result in the second control flow signature register.
US11340940B2
An application may be migrated from a first to a second computing system. Configuration parameter values associated with executing the migrated application on the second computing system may be determined by computational optimization based on configuration parameter values and/or monitored performance metrics associated with the application on the first computing system. Configuration parameter values associated with executing the migrated application on the second computing system may be determined by performing simulations of the migrated application configured for execution on the second computing system based on multiple sets of configuration parameter values, monitoring performance metrics associated with the simulations, and performing computational optimization based on the multiple sets of configuration parameter values and monitored performance metrics associated with the simulations. Configuration parameter values associated with executing the migrated application on the second computing system may be updated based on monitored performance metrics associated with executing the migrated application.
US11340937B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more methods may: register a subroutine configured to store multiple network resource addresses via a volatile memory medium; for each information handling system (IHS) initialization executable of multiple IHS initialization executables: retrieve, from a non-volatile memory medium, the IHS initialization executable; execute the IHS initialization executable via an environment associated with IHS firmware; call, by the IHS initialization executable, the subroutine; and store, by the subroutine, a network resource address associated with an operating system (OS) executable via command line arguments, where the command line arguments are stored via a data structure in the volatile memory medium; and for each network resource address of the command line arguments: retrieve, based at least on the network resource address, an OS executable associated with the network resource address from another IHS via a network.
US11340935B2
A method for processing virtualization of computers that are part of a group into virtual computers is provided. The method includes obtaining relationship data from the computers, where the relationship data identifies parameters used to communicate within the group. Then, the method analyzes utilization parameters for each of the computers of the group. A visual model for proposed virtualization of the group of computers is then generated. The visual model identifies hosting machines designated to define a virtual computer for each of the computers, where the visual model provides a graphical illustration of the group of computers once converted to virtual computers. The method enables adjustment of the proposed virtualization of the group of computers. Then, an execution sequence of virtualization operations to be carried out is generated, if execution of the proposed virtualization is triggered, and the execution sequence is saved to storage and accessed upon execution.
US11340928B2
The method includes performing virtual machine (VM) discovery on a transitioned VM to obtain secondary information, classifying, using a tag mapping, the transitioned VM using at least the secondary information to identify a tag, associating the transitioned VM with a backup policy based on the tag, and sending the backup policy and the tag to a production host hosting the transitioned VM.
US11340923B1
A plurality of messages are received and for each respective one of the received plurality of messages: a series of steps can be performed, including identifying language in the respective message, determining at least one heuristic, generating a first modified version of the respective message and generating at least one second modified version of the respective message. The second modified version(s) include language not in the respective message and not in the first modified version of the respective message. Further the at least one second modified version represents the determined at least one other heuristic. A device can be prompted to respond to a survey that includes the respective message(s), at least one first modified version, and/or at least one second modified version. A second survey can be generated of the respective message(s), modified version(s), and/or second modified version(s).
US11340917B2
Use of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) models is disclosed to determine sequences of user interactions with computing systems, extract common processes, and generate robotic process automation (RPA) robots. The AI/ML model may be trained to recognize matching n-grams of user interactions and/or a beneficial end state. Recorded real user interactions may be analyzed, and matching sequences may be implemented as corresponding activities in an RPA workflow.
US11340912B2
Disclosed is a method, a system and a computer readable medium for additive independent object modification. The method includes determining an association between an independent object modification and a base object of a software application, modifying at least one element of the base object based on the associated independent object modification, and configuring the software application to execute in a computer system using the modified base object.
US11340905B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a device for implementing resource index replacement, comprising an instruction scheduling unit configured to receive a first type resource index from a resource allocating unit and then issue an instruction to an instruction executing unit for execution, to receive a second type resource index from the resource allocating unit, to execute the instruction from the instruction scheduling unit, and to issue a result of the instruction execution and the second type resource index to a result storing unit. The result storing unit comprises a plurality of resource for storing instruction execution results and execution results. The result storing unit is configured to allocate the first type resource index to an instruction entering the instruction scheduling unit and to allocate the second type resource index to an instruction entering the instruction execution unit. The present disclosure also provides a processor comprising the above device for implementing resource index replacement. In addition, the present disclosure provides a method for implementing resource index replacement.
US11340896B2
A library model addition engine adds library models to a library knowledge base by defining a library configuration file format for conveying information about each library model, custom inputs and code snippets to facilitate library comparison operations, and education content for the library model. The library configuration file format may be automatically loaded and validated to ensure that the file is in the correct format and satisfies the constraints provided by the library recommendation engine.
US11340891B2
A control device according to this disclosure includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with an on-vehicle control device via an in-vehicle communication line; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit. The control unit executes: an acquisition process of acquiring a first time and a second time described below; and a determination process of determining, based on a result of comparison between the first time and the second time that have been acquired, whether or not rollback to a control program before update is necessary in the on-vehicle control device that is updating the control program. First time: a time from a present time in which the control program is being updated to when the update is completed Second time: a time from the present time to when the rollback to the control program before update is completed.
US11340887B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for performing a software update in a control unit of a motor vehicle. The present disclosure provides that, during driving operation of the motor vehicle, a first analysis device of the motor vehicle is used to predict, for a predefined future time interval in which the control unit is operated in order to generate control data, an idle time interval in which the generation of the control data of at least one software module of the control unit is interrupted during the driving operation at least for a predefined minimum duration because of a vehicle state existing then, and the software update is started at the beginning of the idle time interval.
US11340864B2
A method can include obtaining audio data corresponding to a user of a communication device. The communication device can be configured to transmit the audio data. The method can further include obtaining proximity data indicating a user distance between the user and the communication device. The method can further include determining that the user distance exceeds a threshold distance. The method can further include determining, based at least in part on the audio data, an activity status of the user. The method can further include determining that the activity status is an inactive status. The method can further include modifying, in response to the determining that the threshold distance is exceeded and that the activity status is the inactive status, a transmission of the audio data from the communication device.
US11340850B2
The disclosure discloses a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a virtual label display process program for executing steps. The steps include a composite image generating step, a composite image output step, a determining step, and a notifying step. In the composite image generating step, a real image data of a desired field of view and a virtual image data of a label are combined. In the composite image output step, a composite image data is output to a display device, and a virtual image of the label on the display device is superimposed and displayed. In the determining step, it is determined whether a desired suitability is satisfied between an exterior appearance of a background object and an exterior appearance of the label based on the real image data and the virtual image data. In the notifying step, a predetermined suitability notification is made.
US11340849B2
When establishing a connection with an external apparatus for wireless communication, an information processing apparatus suppresses the connection establishment based on an unauthorized connection request, by determining whether or not information showing a name of the external apparatus included in each of a plurality of received wireless connection requests in a state capable of accepting the wireless connection request is the same, determining whether or not apparatus intrinsic information included in each of the plurality of received wireless connection requests in the state capable of accepting the wireless connection request is the same, and shifting, in a case where it is determined that the information showing the name of the external apparatus is the same and it is determined that the apparatus intrinsic information is not the same, the information processing apparatus to a state incapable of accepting the wireless connection request.
US11340841B2
Systems and methods are provided for visual timelines for printer management of a print system. One embodiment includes a printer terminal device that receives printer statuses of the first printer and the second printer, and displays a GUI that includes a first visual timeline of printer statuses at the first printer and a second visual timeline of printer statuses at the second printer. The GUI also includes a line at a location of user interaction, the line extending across the first visual timeline and the second visual timeline to indicate a historical point of time. The printer terminal device retrieves event data of one or more print jobs of the first printer and the second printer based on the historical point of time, and displays at the GUI the event data along with the line to visually indicate context for a user entering the description for the printer status.
US11340839B2
The method disclosed includes scanning data items stored in the first plurality of nodes of a first cluster. While scanning, creating a partition group index indexing the data items into a plurality of partition groups. Each partition group corresponds to a node of the first plurality of nodes and comprises a subset of data items stored in the node. Storing the index. Instantiating a second cluster, comprising generating per node data, for each node of a second plurality of nodes, based on mappings between the partition groups and the first plurality of nodes. Identifying the data items included in the partition groups according to the partition group index and loading the data items included in the partition groups onto the second plurality of nodes.
US11340829B1
Write operation may be persistently recorded in a log using PDESC (page descriptor)-PB (page block) pairs. The PDESC-PB pairs of the log may be flushed. Flushing the log may include: determining a working set of PDESC-PB pairs; partitioning the working set into buckets by mapping each PDESC-PB pair of the working set to a bucket using a function; flushing a portion of the PDESC-PB pairs of a first bucket of the working set; updating, at a point in time, a first BHFS (bucket highest flushed sequence ID) value for the first bucket, wherein the first BHFS denotes a first sequence ID and each sequence ID associated with a PDESC-PB pair of the portion flushed prior to the point in time is less than the first sequence ID; and reclaiming PBs of the portion. As part of recovery processing, BHFSs for the buckets may be used to detect invalid PDESCs.
US11340825B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for managing a storage system. The method for managing a storage system includes: in response to migration of data from a source storage system to a target storage system, if it is determined that a target client terminal that uses the source storage system to back up data generates data to be backed up, determining whether the amount of data stored in the target storage system for the target client terminal exceeds a threshold; and if it is determined that the amount of data exceeds the threshold, storing the data to be backed up into the target storage system. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the data to be backed up can be stored into the target storage system before data of a source storage device is completely migrated to a target storage device. In this way, the performance of the storage system can be improved, and the time required to migrate the data of the source storage device to the target storage device can be reduced.
US11340822B2
A method includes obtaining data from a plurality of data sources associated with an n-gram indexing data structure and storing at least a portion of the obtained data in a first storage, the stored data comprising one or more n-gram strings. The method also includes estimating frequencies of occurrence of respective ones of the n-gram strings in the stored data, the estimated frequency of occurrence of a given n-gram string being based at least in part on a size of a given n-gram index in the n-gram indexing data structure corresponding to the given n-gram string. The method further includes, in response to detecting one or more designated conditions, selecting a portion of the stored data based at least in part on the estimated frequencies and moving the selected portion of the stored data from the first storage to a second storage having different read and write access times.
US11340817B2
A data transfer request is received from an application program hosted at a first location in a computing environment for transferring a given data set to a second location in the computing environment. The data transfer request comprises information identifying one or more data types of the given data set and one or more preferences associated with the transfer of the given data set. The second location is notified of the data transfer request. The method causes deployment of one or more data-aware services to optimize the given data set prior to transfer to the second location, wherein optimizing the given data set is performed based on the one or more data types of the given data set and the one or more preferences associated with the transfer of the given data set. For example, the data-aware services at the first location may comprise data deduplication and/or data compression.
US11340812B2
A first plurality of block identifiers is sorted based, at least in part, on a measure of spatial locality. A second plurality of block identifiers is sorted based, at least in part, on the measure of spatial locality. At least the first plurality of block identifiers and the second plurality of block identifiers are incrementally merged into a third plurality of block identifiers based, at least in part, on the measure of spatial locality. A block of data corresponding to metadata associated with a plurality of block identifiers of the third plurality of block identifiers is updated.
US11340800B1
Content masking within a storage system includes: responsive to receiving a first request to access a portion of a stored snapshot, creating a transformed snapshot portion by applying a transformation specified in an access policy to one or more data objects contained within the portion of the stored snapshot; and presenting the transformed snapshot portion.
US11340789B2
A storage array includes a scalable drive cluster and non-scaling drive clusters on which RAID (D+P) protection groups are implemented using partition as protection group members. The scalable drive cluster is scaled by adding one or more new drives and moving protection group members onto the new drives. Reserve capacity is calculated based on scaling of the scalable drive cluster by converting unused partitions to reserve capacity when the cluster is scaled. When W=(D+P) new drives are added to the storage array the reserve capacity is replenished, if any was used, by moving protection groups from the scalable drive cluster to a non-scaling drive cluster created with the W new drives. Maintaining the reserve capacity on the scaling drive cluster improves function of the storage array because unutilized reserve capacity can be relocated during scaling without moving data.
US11340785B1
Performing a non-disruptive upgrade of data in a storage system that includes a plurality of storage devices and a storage controller, including: creating new data in a new data format, wherein the new data includes a reference to old data in an old data format, wherein system software in the storage system can utilize data in the new data format and the old data format; determining that a portion of the volume has changed; and responsive to determining that the portion of the volume has changed, updating the new data to include a reference to old data associated with a portion of the volume that precedes the changed portion of the volume, new data associated with the changed portion of the volume, and a reference to old data associated with a portion of the volume that follows the changed portion of the volume.
US11340783B2
In embodiments of the present invention, a virtual phone is provided which includes a touch screen mounted on an enclosure that includes a processor, memory, wireless communication port, and a power port. The virtual phone further includes a software application executing on the processor to control image display on the touch screen and emulate features of a handheld device presented in the image in response to a user touching a presented feature. The virtual phone further includes a configuration of a user-specific handheld device that is derived from the user-specific handheld device is stored in a memory that is accessible to the processor; wherein the virtual phone presents a visual representation of the user-specific handheld device on the touch screen based on the configuration.
US11340782B2
A control device controls display of a display device for displaying a display screen for setting operations of the control device that controls an industrial machine and soft keys for operating the display screen. The control device includes: a key input processing unit that receives input from an input device; an input content determining unit that determines a content of the input received by the key input processing unit; a storage unit that stores a soft key definition information table in which operation contents on the display screen to be allocated to the soft keys are defined in advance; a soft key allocation selecting unit that selects the operation contents to be allocated to the soft keys; and a soft key display processing unit that displays the soft keys allocated with the operation contents selected by the soft key allocation selecting unit on the display device.
US11340780B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The disclosed electronic device comprises: a touch screen display structure; a first wireless communication circuit; a second wireless communication circuit; a stylus pen including at least one button which can be pressed or touched; a processor operationally connected to the touch screen display structure and the first wireless communication circuit; and a memory operationally connected to the processor. A first application program including a first user interface, and a second application program including a second user interface are stored in the memory. The memory has instructions stored therein which are configured to cause, when executed, the processor to: execute the first application program and second application program when a user input is received; display at least one of the first user interface and second user interface by means of the touch screen display structure; receive a first signal, which is generated by the press or touch of the button for a first time period, from the stylus pen through the first wireless communication circuit; select one from the first application program and second application program on the basis of the first signal; change at least part of information displayed on the screen, at least partly on the basis of the selection; receive a second signal, which is generated by the press or touch of the button for a second time period different from the first time period, from the stylus pen through the first wireless communication circuit; and at least partly on the basis of the selection, perform a function of the first application program or a function of the second application program in response to the second signal. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11340777B2
A method for editing text and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving a first input of a user on target text; displaying a preset text deletion control on a first preset side of the target text in response to the first input; receiving a second input of the user on the text deletion control; and deleting, in response to the second input, target sub-text selected by the second input, where the target text includes the target sub-text.
US11340776B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuitry, at least one memory storing instructions, a display, and at least one processor. The at least one processor, when executing the instructions, is configured to display, using the communication circuitry, a first user interface of an application being executed in the electronic device on a display of an external device, while displaying the first user interface on the display of the external device, receive a specified input, and in response to receiving the specified input, display, on the display of the electronic device, a virtual touch pad in a first area and a virtual keyboard in a second area distinct from the first area.
US11340772B2
A device includes a memory storing a computer program and a processor configured to read the computer program to obtain a content including information acquired in a time sequence, extract characteristics at a plurality of time points from the information, determine a color or a brightness at each of the time points based on the characteristic at the time point, and generate drag bar images each corresponding to one of the time points and including a pixel having the color or the brightness at the one of the time points.
US11340759B2
A user terminal device capable of attaching and detaching a pen is provided. The device includes a detector configured to detect a user manipulation regarding a screen, and a controller configured to change a layout of the screen to correspond to a pen use mode in response to the pen being removed from the user terminal device, perform a control operation corresponding to the detected user manipulation in response to the user manipulation using the pen being detected, and restore the layout of the screen to its original state in response to the pen being remounted on the user terminal apparatus.
US11340753B2
The case is directed to portable or client devices that are adapted to instantiate a client application that is communicably coupled to one or more remote host services. The client application is also adapted to cause a display of a graphical user interface having various regions. A first interface region of the graphical user interface may be associated with a first microfunction installed on the device and a second region may be associated with a second microfunction installed on the device. The various microfunctions may enable the client application to interface with one or more remote host services and may be shared across different client applications. In some cases, multiple microfunctions are used to define a custom, user-defined integrated application.
US11340750B1
A user interface is provided for allowing a user to interact with a graphical display. Quantitative data is initially displayed in a graphical format representing absolute values. A comparative graph is also made available, either automatically or in response to user input; the comparative graph presents each data entry according to its relative value as compared with one specific baseline entry.
US11340747B1
A touch sensor having a visible area and a peripheral area on at least one side of the visible area includes a substrate and a first touch electrode layer. The substrate has a hole area corresponding to the visible area, and the hole area has a first edge. The first touch electrode layer is disposed on the substrate and corresponding to the visible area. The first touch electrode layer includes a first electrode line extending along a first direction, and the first electrode line has a first portion close to the hole area and a second portion far from the hole area along the first direction. The first portion of the first electrode line is connected to the second portion of the first electrode line, and the first portion of the first electrode line is disposed adjacent to the first edge along a contour of the hole area.
US11340745B2
A touch structure includes an insulating layer, first touch electrodes, second touch electrodes, and dummy electrodes that are insulated from each other. The second touch electrode includes second touch sub-electrodes and bridge portions, and every two adjacent second touch electrodes are electrically connected via a bridge portion. The second touch sub-electrodes and the bridge portions are disposed on two opposite sides of the insulating layer, and the second touch sub-electrodes and the first touch electrodes are disposed on a same side of the insulating layer. The dummy electrodes and the bridge portions are disposed on a same side of the insulating layer. Orthographic projections of the dummy electrodes on the insulating layer do not overlap with orthographic projections of the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes on the insulating layer.
US11340744B2
A touch sensor includes a base layer including a first to third sensing region and a non-sensing region surrounding the first to third sensing region; a plurality of touch electrode rows provided in the first to third sensing regions and including a plurality of first touch electrodes connected in a first direction; and a plurality of touch electrode columns including a plurality of second touch electrodes connected in a second direction crossing the first direction. At least one of the first to third sensing regions has an area larger than that of other sensing regions. The non-sensing region includes an additional non-sensing region disposed between the second sensing region and the third sensing region and a bridge line provided in the additional non-sensing region and electrically connecting the first touch electrodes of the second sensing region to the first touch electrodes of the third sensing region.
US11340740B2
An electronic pen includes a core body including a tip portion having a tip and a tapered side surface tapered toward the tip and having a recessed section recessed toward a tip side of the core body from a side of the core body that is opposite to the tip side of the core body, and including a core rod that passes through a center axis of the recessed section from a side of the tip portion that includes the tip and extends away from the tip; and a tubular casing in which a pen-pressure detector is installed, the core body being attached to the tubular casing in an axially movable manner such that the core rod is pressable against the pen-pressure detector, and the tubular casing having a surface that is adjacent to an inner or outer surface of the recessed section of the core body.
US11340738B2
A method for force sensing using information from a display panel with a touch sensor and a fingerprint sensor is introduced. The method includes: obtaining, based on touch sensing data from a touch sensing circuit coupled to the touch sensor, first sensing information indicating capacitance value distribution over a touch sensing area due to pressing of an object on the display panel; obtaining, based on fingerprint sensing data from a fingerprint sensing circuit coupled to the fingerprint sensor, second sensing information indicating an effective pressing area due to the pressing of the object; and generating third sensing information indicating a force corresponding to the pressing of the object, based on the first sensing information and the second sensing information. An electronic module capable of facilitating force sensing and computing apparatus capable of force sensing are also provided.
US11340737B2
The present disclosure provides a touch structure and a method for manufacturing the touch structure, a touch substrate and a display substrate. The touch structure includes: a touch electrode; a first signal line and an auxiliary conductive structure provided at a side of the touch electrode, the auxiliary conductive structure has a conductivity greater than that of the touch electrode; and a first insulation layer provided between the auxiliary conductive structure and the first signal line, the auxiliary conductive structure is coupled to the touch electrode at multiple coupling positions and is coupled to the first signal line through a first via-hole penetrating through the first insulation layer.
US11340734B2
A touch control micro light emitting diode (micro LED) display apparatus is provided. The touch control micro LED display apparatus includes a base substrate; a first electrode layer on the base substrate; a second electrode layer on a side of the first electrode layer away from the base substrate, wherein the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes spaced apart from each other; an insulating layer on a side of the second electrode layer away from the base substrate; and a third electrode layer on a side of the insulating layer away from the base substrate, wherein the third electrode layer includes a plurality of third electrodes spaced apart from each other. The touch control micro LED display apparatus is operated in a time-division driving mode including an image display mode and a touch control mode.
US11340729B2
Provided are a touch substrate and a display panel. The touch substrate includes a base; multiple touch units provided on the base, each touch unit includes a driving electrode and a sensing electrode, the driving electrode includes a first main body portion and multiple first limb portions positioned on an edge of the first main body portion, the first limb portions are connected to the first main body portion; the sensing electrode includes a second main body portion and multiple second limb portions positioned on an edge of the second main body portion, the second limb portions are connected with the second main body portion; orthographic projections of the first and second limb portions on the base are alternately engaged with each other, at least parts of profiles of opposite edges of the first limb portions and the second limb portions are arcuate and substantially consistent with each other.
US11340725B2
A force input sensor includes a load cell to adapt a compressive force applied to the force input sensor into a strain experienced by a strain sensor in the load cell. In particular, the load cell includes two compression plates separated from one another by a gap so as to define a volume between them. A flexible substrate (a “diaphragm”)—includes a strain sensor and is disposed and supported within the volume. One of the two compression plates includes a feature (a “loading feature”) that extends toward a central region of the flexible substrate. As a result of this construction, when the compression plates receive a compressive force, the loading feature induces a bending moment in the flexible substrate, thereby straining the strain sensor.
US11340723B2
A touch sensor includes sensing blocks. Each of the sensing blocks includes first sensing cells of a first group, first sensing cells of a second group, and second sensing cells. The first sensing cells of the first group are arranged in a first direction, spaced apart from each other with first separation areas therebetween, and coupled to an identical first electrical node. The first sensing cells of the second group are arranged in the first direction, spaced apart from each other with second separation areas therebetween, and coupled to an identical second electrical node. The second sensing cells respectively extend in a second direction in the first separation areas and the second separation areas. First sensing cells at borders of respective sensing blocks adjacent in the first direction are coupled to different electrical nodes.
US11340720B2
Allocation of slots to different styluses is flexibly changed in units of the slot that is shorter than a frame. A stylus bi-directionally transmits and receives signals to and from a sensor controller connected to a sensor via capacitive coupling. The stylus includes a memory that temporarily stores a value of a local ID. The stylus includes a controller that determines whether or not a detected uplink signal includes the value of the local ID stored in the memory every time the uplink signal transmitted by the sensor controller is detected. The controller, in response to determining the detected uplink signal includes the value of the local ID stored in the memory, generates a downlink signal that is based on an operation state and transmits the downlink signal to the sensor controller.
US11340709B2
In an example method, a target object is detected via a camera in a mobile device based on an embedded identifier on the target object. Sensor data of the mobile device is tracked to estimate a relative location or a relative orientation of the mobile device in relation to the target object. A relative gesture is detected via the mobile device based on the relative location or the relative orientation of the mobile device. One or more actions are performed in response to detecting the relative gesture.
US11340701B2
Machine learning systems and methods that learn glare, and thus determine gaze direction in a manner more resilient to the effects of glare on input images. The machine learning systems have an isolated representation of glare, e.g., information on the locations of glare points in an image, as an explicit input, in addition to the image itself. In this manner, the machine learning systems explicitly consider glare while making a determination of gaze direction, thus producing more accurate results for images containing glare.
US11340699B2
Systems and methods for device and content management include determining a user is viewing virtual reality content from a user device, and receiving, through a network from the user device, body information associated with the user while the user is viewing the virtual reality content. A user device management configuration associated with the body information is determined. A user device management action is retrieved using the user device management configuration. A notification associated with the user device management action that causes the user device to perform the user device management action and modify the virtual reality content being viewed by the user is sent through the network to the user device.
US11340698B2
Eye movements and/or physiological characteristics of a user viewing a subject are detected and quantified to produce data to determine one or more details that is or was observable in the scene or image of which the user may or may not be consciously aware. Eye movement data includes the number of times a user looks at each area of a subject (“fixation number”), the length or duration of the fixation (“fixation duration value”), the number of times a user returns to look at a particular area (“fixation repeats”), and additionally any changes to pupil size based on dilation/constriction (“pupil size”). Physiological characteristic data includes heart rate, pulse or skin conductance. Advantageously, the system and methods may be used for a variety of purposes including evaluation improvement and training.
US11340697B2
The present invention provides a system 100 and a method 200 to create extended reality using wearables and virtual environment set in accordance with the present invention is illustrated. The system 100 includes a virtual reality environment set 110, a work station 120, a wearable device 130, a server 150 and a sensory device 140. A module is provided inside the server 150. The module is preinstalled with a 3D model of the virtual reality environment set 110, the module is having a preprogrammed virtual reality environment set boundary to differentiate the projections of the object. The module differentiates the objects or visuals which has to be displayed on the wearable device 130 and the workstation 120 and facilitate in selectively displaying complete and a part of virtual objects and shift the display seamlessly between VR projections and the wearable device 130.
US11340696B2
An event driven sensor (EDS) is used for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and in particular is used in conjunction with a constellation of light emitting diodes (LED) to simultaneously localize all LEDs and track EDS pose in space. The EDS may be stationary or moveable and can track moveable LED constellations as rigid bodies. Each individual LED is distinguished at a high rate using minimal computational resources (no image processing). Thus, instead of a camera and image processing, rapidly pulsing LEDs detected by the EDS are used for feature points such that EDS events are related to only one LED at a time.
US11340693B2
Methods and systems for the delivery of interactive messaging and instructions through an augmented reality device in a batch production or a sequential operation, can involve displaying a menu through a user interface associated with an augmented reality device configured with a scope of responsibility awareness that allows the augmented reality device to display a visualization of batch production data associated with a batch production or sequential operation data associated with a sequential operation that is within an assigned scope of responsibility of a user, and graphically expanding the menu in response to an input by the user. The expanded menu can include graphically displayed buttons that allow the user to select and view the batch production data or the sequential operation data. The visualization of the batch production data or the sequential operation data can be displayed without the need for an operator station.
US11340689B2
A method of thermal mitigation in a device having a plurality of non-real-time processing units (PUs) and a plurality of real-time PUs, including connecting each of the plurality of real-time PUs and the plurality of non-real-time PUs to a first power supply, and performing thermal mitigation. Performing thermal mitigation includes disconnecting each of the plurality of non-real-time PUs except one of the plurality of non-real-time PUs from the first power supply resulting in an active non-real-time PU, and connecting a second power supply that derives power from the first power supply to the active non-real-time PU, wherein a voltage supplied by the second power supply is less than a voltage supplied by the first power supply.
US11340685B2
A system on chip (SoC) includes a plurality of intellectual property (IP) blocks and a clock management unit (CMU) configured to perform clock gating on at least one of the IP blocks. The IP blocks and the CMU interface with one another using a full handshake method. The full handshake method may include at least one of the IP blocks sending a request signal to the CMU to begin providing a clock signal or to stop providing the clock signal, and the CMU sending an acknowledgement signal to the corresponding IP block in response to receipt of the request signal.
US11340684B2
An information handling system includes an embedded controller to capture a current battery power level of a battery that is a sole source of power of the information handling system. A service module may update a configuration table with anticipated power consumption associated with a component of the information handling system, wherein the anticipated power consumption is based on an operation, and predict whether the current battery power level is sufficient to complete the operation, including comparing the current battery power level with the anticipated power consumption of the component. If the current battery power level is sufficient to complete the operation, then the service module may execute the operation. If the current battery power level is insufficient to complete the operation, then the service module may provide one or more options associated with the operation based on a power management policy.
US11340678B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may convert first analog signals to first digital values, in which the first analog signals are proportional to current of a battery of an information handling system (IHS); convert the second analog signals to second digital values, in which the second analog signals are proportional to current from a power supply; convert the third analog signals to third digital values, in which the third analog signals are proportional to power consumption of components of the IHS and the battery; and provide a first mean digital value determined from the first digital values, a second mean value determined from the second digital values, and a third mean digital value determined from the third digital values to at least one of IHS firmware, an application, and an operating system.
US11340676B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a connector including one or more signal terminals for communication with an external electronic device, at least one processor operatively connected to the connector, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, the memory stores instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to identify a connection to the external electronic device through the connector, receive one or more pieces of information about power that is supported by the external electronic device from the external electronic device in the connection to the external electronic device through the connector, and identify the external electronic device, based on a part of the one or more pieces of power information. Other embodiments are possible.
US11340660B2
A hinge structure of a foldable electronic apparatus is provided. The hinge structure includes a hinge member fixed to each of a first housing member and a second housing member, a rotation support portion rotatably supporting the hinge member and including a rotation guide that guides a rotation of the hinge member, and an angle maintaining structure configured to maintain a position of the hinge member. The first housing member and the second housing members are maintained at a predetermined angle with respect to each other. The angle maintaining structure includes an elastic pressing portion arranged between the rotation guide and the hinge member, the angle maintaining structure extending along a rotation direction of the hinge member, and being elastically deformable, and at least one position maintaining groove into which a portion of the elastic pressing portion is insertable and which is formed in a surface of the hinge member opposite to the rotation guide.
US11340652B2
This application relates to an enclosure for a portable electronic device. The enclosure includes a titanium substrate having a textured surface that includes randomly distributed peaks separated from each other by valleys, where tops of the peaks are separated from bottoms of the valleys by at least a minimum separation distance such that the textured surface is characterized as having an Sq (root mean square height) that is greater than 0.3 micrometers.
US11340647B2
A noise component of a reference voltage is reduced in a circuit that generates a constant reference voltage that does not depend on a power supply voltage or a temperature. A reference voltage generation circuit includes a transistor, a first resistor, a diode, a second resistor, and a control unit. One of both ends of the transistor is connected to an output signal line. The first resistor is connected to another end of the transistor. Both ends of the second resistor are connected to one end of the diode and the output signal line. The control unit controls a potential of the another end of the transistor and a potential of the one end of the diode to the same potential.
US11340638B2
An electronic component handling apparatus for handling a DUT and pressing the DUT against a socket electrically connected to a tester, including: a temperature adjuster adjusting a temperature of the DUT; a first calculator calculating the temperature of the DUT on the basis of a detection result of a temperature detection circuit disposed in the DUT; a temperature controller controlling the temperature adjuster; and a first controller outputting a first signal to the temperature controller. A temperature control includes a first temperature control based on the temperature of the DUT calculated by the first calculator and a second temperature control, and when the first signal is input from the first controller to the temperature controller after the temperature controller starts the first temperature control, the temperature controller switches the temperature control from the first temperature control to the second temperature control.
US11340636B2
To diagnose an abnormality of a fluid control device from an operation of an entire fluid supply line including a plurality of fluid control devices. Provided is an abnormality diagnosis method of a fluid supply line including a plurality of fluid control devices F, V1, and V2 communicating with each other fluid-tightly. The abnormality diagnosis method has: a valve operation step of opening/closing any one or more of a valve FV in a flow rate control device, a valve V1, and a valve V2; a pressure adjustment step of setting a part or all of flow passages R1 and R2 leading from the valve V1 to the valve V2 via the flow rate control device to a vacuum state or a pressurization state; a pressure detection step of acquiring temporal pressure characteristics in a flow passage of the flow rate control device F by pressure detection mechanisms P1 and P2; and an abnormality determination step of comparing pressure characteristics at the time of abnormality diagnosis acquired by the pressure detection mechanisms P1 and P2 and pressure characteristics at the time of normality measured in advance under the same conditions, and determining whether or not there is an abnormality.
US11340629B1
Autonomous vehicle for handling goods in cooperation with unmanned aerial vehicle and method thereof
Provided is a method for an autonomous vehicle to handle goods in collaboration with an unmanned aerial vehicle. The method comprises recognizing an unmanned aerial vehicle loading goods by the autonomous vehicle, capturing an image of the recognized unmanned aerial vehicle by the autonomous vehicle, analyzing the captured image to recognize a marker by the autonomous vehicle, adjusting a relative position of the autonomous vehicle and the unmanned aerial vehicle by moving the autonomous vehicle based on a recognition result of the marker, and taking over the goods from the unmanned aerial vehicle by the autonomous vehicle after position adjustment is completed.
US11340626B2
A method of controlling a cleaning robot includes: acquiring a marked position of a charging station in a map; controlling the cleaning robot to travel to a front position of the marked position and identifying the charging station; when the charging station is not identified, generating a finding path based on the marked position; and controlling the cleaning robot to travel in accordance with the finding path and identifying the charging station in a traveling process.
US11340620B2
A method for controlling a robot includes receiving image data from at least one image sensor. The image data corresponds to an environment about the robot. The method also includes executing a graphical user interface configured to display a scene of the environment based on the image data and receive an input indication indicating selection of a pixel location within the scene. The method also includes determining a pointing vector based on the selection of the pixel location. The pointing vector represents a direction of travel for navigating the robot in the environment. The method also includes transmitting a waypoint command to the robot. The waypoint command when received by the robot causes the robot to navigate to a target location. The target location is based on an intersection between the pointing vector and a terrain estimate of the robot.
US11340619B2
Disclosed is a control method of an autonomous including: generating driving information by merging meta information, including location information, and image information; receiving an object detection algorithm selected based on the meta information; based on the object detection algorithm, setting a driving path while monitoring a main object that has appeared in a place indicated by the location information; and when dangerous object information is received from a server, resetting the driving path to avoid an dangerous object. One or more of an autonomous vehicle, a user terminal, and a server of the present invention may be in conjunction with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an Augmented Reality (AR) device, a Virtual Reality (VR) device, and a device related to a 5G service, etc.
US11340618B2
In the present invention, a transformable robot has been developed that can both drive and fly in the air to detect the different safety conditions and is referred to as a hybrid UAV/UGV. The invention relates to a transformable robot capable of flying and driving for survey of humps, visual sight lines, gates, lights, grades, rail deformations, culverts, drainage pipes, or signs at railroad crossings that comprise a ground locomotion system, an air locomotion system, controls, and a sensor that is necessary to do the survey of the different safety related conditions.
US11340617B1
Without human intervention, an autonomous mobile device (AMD) uses motors to move through a physical space along a path, controlled by computing devices processing sensor data from sensors. Electrical components such as the motors and computing devices generate heat during operation. The heat generated by the motors depends on time of operation and how hard they are being driven. The more data the computing devices process, the greater the heat generated. An overheated component may protectively shut down or fail. Internal temperature is used to constrain AMD movement. The AMD path may be planned to avoid overheating along the way and avoid arriving too hot to complete an expected or scheduled task at the destination. Speed along the path may be less than maximum speed, and the amount of data sent to the computing devices is also reduced, reducing heat generation and allowing the electrical components time to cool off.
US11340602B2
A method includes converting time-series data from a plurality of prognostic and health monitoring (PHM) sensors into frequency domain data. One or more portions of the frequency domain data are labeled as indicative of one or more target modes to form labeled target data. A model including a deep neural network is applied to the labeled target data. A result of applying the model is classified as one or more discretized PHM training indicators associated with the one or more target modes. The one or more discretized PHM training indicators are output.
US11340583B2
The invention relates to a device designed to determine manufacturing data for producing objects that have variable, freely orientable orthotropic elasticity characteristics, by calculating data relating to grains of branches, which combined define branches, the number of grains of branches and the thickness of each branch being related to the desired elasticity characteristics.
US11340580B2
A machine state monitoring device is a machine state monitoring device that is intended for a motor drive device of a machine tool. The motor drive device includes: a motor; a converter and an inverter that adjust a power supply voltage; a power failure detection unit that acquires an input voltage of the motor drive device so as to detect a power failure in the motor drive device; and a communication unit that transmits, based on the result of the detection of the detection unit, a time when the power failure is started, and a time when the power failure is completed. The machine state monitoring device includes: a communication unit that receives information of the time when the power failure is started and the time when the power failure is completed from the communication unit of the motor drive device; and a storage unit that stores the information.
US11340562B2
Disclosed are a self-adaptive configuration method and system for linkage response of a construction type, a motion type, a control type and an optimization type. The disclosure aims to provide the self-adaptive configuration method and system for linkage response of quick adjustment and design of a workshop production line. The self-adaptive configuration method comprises the following steps of step A: construction type configuration; step B: motion type design; step C: control type design; and step D: optimization type evolution, wherein the step D comprises first-level iterative optimization, second-level iterative optimization and third-level iterative optimization. A closed optimization cycle is formed by the first-level iterative optimization, the second-level iterative optimization and the third-level iterative optimization jointly, and the multi-level iterative optimization is performed on the production line linkage design framework, so that the workshop production line can be self-adaptively and quickly adjusted and designed.
US11340561B2
Provided is a control system which can support a user with respect to the designation of a data group to be collected. The control system (1) includes: first and second controllers (100, 200); a drive device (300) which has a plurality of safety functions for a motor (400); a data tracing module (154) which traces a state value for indicating an operation state of the motor (400); and a support device (500) which receives a setting of the data group to be collected including the state value. The support device (500) includes: a storage (510) which stores collection candidate information in which a data group of collection candidates is associated with a type of a safety function; and an output section (508) which outputs, as the data group to be collected, the data group of collection candidates associated with one selected safety function.
US11340557B2
A moving indicator for an analogue display device, in particular for a timepiece. The indicator includes a multi-layer part including an opaque metal layer and a transparent light guide layer and forming a body and a head of the indicator. The head is centred relative to a rotational axis of the indicator and arranged to receive a luminous flux on the bottom face thereof. A fluorescent material is arranged on the transparent light guide layer at the head of the indicator to absorb at least part of said luminous flux and to re-emit a second luminous fluorescence flux in the transparent light guide layer. Other aspects comprise a set of indicators, a display device and a watch comprising one or more moving indicators.
US11340554B2
A toner cartridge according to one example includes first and second alignment guides that extend outward from a first side and a second side of the toner cartridge, respectively, for positioning the toner cartridge. The first and second alignment guides define a pivot axis about which the toner cartridge is pivotable relative to an imaging unit when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit. An engagement member is positioned on a rear of the toner cartridge for receiving a bias force for biasing the toner cartridge about the pivot axis when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit. The engagement member is positioned next to the bottom of the housing. The engagement member includes an angled contact surface that faces upward and rearward for contacting a corresponding hold-down on the imaging unit when the toner cartridge is installed on the imaging unit.
US11340553B2
The process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member having a first support and a photosensitive layer; and a charging member. In the photosensitive member when an electric current is measured which flows when a voltage is applied to a surface while being varied, a gradient a1 of a low electric field region and a gradient a2 of a high electric field region satisfy a2/a1≥1.50, in a graph. The charging member includes a second support having an electroconductive outer surface, and a second electroconductive layer including a matrix and a plurality of domains being dispersed in the matrix, at least a portion of the domain is exposed to an outer surface which includes at least the matrix and at least a portion of the domain, and a volume resistivity ρM of the matrix is 1.00×105 times or higher of a volume resistivity ρD of the domain.
US11340550B2
A cleaning rod includes a rod-like member, a slidable portion which is provided on a free end side of the rod-like member with respect to a direction in which the cleaning rod is inserted and which is slidable on a light emergent surface of a lens of an image forming apparatus, and a restricting portion configured to restrict movement of the slidable portion in a direction away from the light emergent surface with respect to an optical axis direction by contacting the holder at each of free ends of opposing wall portions of a holder of the image forming apparatus from a side opposite from a side where a photosensitive member of the image forming apparatus is provided with respect to the optical axis direction in a state in which the slidable portion contacts the light emergent surface.
US11340543B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit including a heater including a heating element, a fixing belt having a surface to which a lubricant is applied and contacting the heater through the lubricant, and a pressing roller capable of pressing and rotating the fixing belt, a power supply configured to supply electric power to the heating element, a first thermometer configured to measure temperature of the heating element, and a controller configured to determine a first amount of electric power to be supplied to the heating element based on the temperature of the heating element, and control the power supply to supply the determined first amount of electric power to the heating element, before controlling the pressing roller to start rotation.
US11340536B2
In one example of the disclosure, a developer system includes a housing and a developer roller. A first electrode and a second electrode are disposed in the housing, the first and second electrodes to create an electrical charge to cause transfer of printing fluid to a developer roller surface. The developer roller is rotatably connected to the housing. The developer includes a surface, a bearing to support and enable rotation of an axle attached to the developer roller, and a plurality of stop pins. The plurality of stop pins are connected to the housing. The stop pins are to support the bearings and to establish target distances between the developer roller surface and the first electrode and second electrodes.
US11340518B2
The disclosure provides a projection system and a projection operation method. The projection operation method causes the projection device disposed inside the biologically-modeled housing to project the facial image onto the face projection area of the biologically-modeled housing. The face projection area is light-transmissive and curved. The controller identifies the voice signal received by the sound-receiving device. When the controller obtains the identification result, if the projection data stored in the storage device includes the target projection data corresponding to the identification result, the controller controls the projection device to project the facial image according to the target projection data, or, if the projection data stored in the storage device does not include the target projection data, the controller controls the communication device to receive the target projection data from the external device and stores it in the storage device.
US11340514B2
A topological photonic system configured as a robust source of indistinguishable photons pairs with tunable spectral correlations. The system includes a two-dimensional silicon-photonic ring resonator array configured to implement an anomalous-quantum Hall model that exhibits topologically robust edge states. Linear dispersion of the edge states ensures efficient and robust phase matching and tunability of the spectral bandwidth of photon pairs generated via spontaneous four-wave mixing. Spectral tunability is manifested in the temporal correlations in the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between photons. The generated photon pairs are energy-time entangled.
US11340513B2
An electro-holographic light field generator device is disclosed. The light field generator device has an optical substrate with a waveguide face and an exit face. One or more surface acoustic wave (SAW) optical modulator devices are included within each light field generator device. The SAW devices each include a light input, a waveguide, and a SAW transducer, all configured for guided mode confinement of input light within the waveguide. A leaky mode deflection of a portion of the waveguided light, or diffractive light, impinges upon the exit face. Multiple output optics at the exit face are configured for developing from each of the output optics a radiated exit light from the diffracted light for at least one of the waveguides. An RF controller is configured to control the SAW devices to develop the radiated exit light as a three-dimensional output light field with horizontal parallax and compatible with observer vertical motion.
US11340511B2
A display panel, a method for preparing a display panel and a method for adjusting an intensity of ambient light reflected on a display panel are provided in embodiments of the disclosure. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a plurality of sub-pixel units (20) on the base substrate comprising a plurality of light emitting portions respectively; an electrochromic assembly on a light-emergent side of the plurality of light emitting portions; and a light intensity detector configured to detect an incident intensity of ambient light, and the electrochromic assembly comprises a plurality of electrochromic portions covering the plurality of light emitting portions, respectively; and transmittance of the plurality of electrochromic portions for ambient light varies with a change in the incident intensity of ambient light.
US11340509B2
A display device includes a display panel, and a front panel overlapping with the display panel and being switched into a reflection state in which incident light is reflected and a transmission state in which incident light is transmitted. The front panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer sealed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a first translucent electrode provided on a side of the first substrate on which the liquid crystal layer is located, a second translucent electrode provided on a side of the second substrate on which the liquid crystal layer is located, a discharge resistor that is electrically coupled to the second translucent electrode and is provided on the second substrate, and a first conductive pillar that electrically couples the first translucent electrode and the discharge resistor.
US11340499B2
The present invention discloses a chromaticity optimization method for a liquid crystal display and the liquid crystal display. Since there are different combinations between liquid crystal panels and backlight units, a cross-matching operation is conducted to get optimized results in matching pairs each made up of one of the liquid crystal panels and one of the backlight units, so that chromaticity coordinates (x, y) at a white point of each assembled liquid crystal display have a tolerance range of ±0.015. This effectively improves chromaticity errors of the assembled liquid crystal display and can be implemented in automated production.
US11340493B2
Disclosed is a display device including an array substrate, a liquid crystal layer over the array substrate, a counter substrate over the liquid crystal layer, a first resin film located under the array substrate and having a first opening overlapping with the liquid crystal layer, a first wavelength plate in the first opening, and a first linear polarizing plate located under and overlapping with the first resin film and the first wavelength plate. The first resin film may be in contact with or spaced apart from the first wavelength plate.
US11340474B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The integrated display panel has a light emitting area and a transparent area, and includes: a transparent display layer including a display portion located in the light emitting area and a transparent portion located in the transparent area; a polarizing layer including a first alignment layer and a polarizing film; and a liquid crystal lens film layer including a second alignment layer and a liquid crystal lens layer.
US11340473B2
The present disclosure belongs to the field of display technology, and particularly relates to a 3D display panel, a method for driving the same and a display apparatus. The 3D display panel is divided into a plurality of pixel regions and comprises a light emitting unit, and the light emitting unit includes a plurality of light emitting devices arranged in the plurality of pixel regions. The plurality of light emitting devices are configured to form a barrier pattern of alternating bright and dark bands during display of the 3D display panel.
US11340464B2
Provided is a head-mounted display apparatus including a frame extending in a first direction, a display unit configured to emit image light in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a casing attached to one end, in the first direction, of the frame and housing a part of the display unit, and a temple portion arranged on a center side of the head-mounted display device, in the first direction, with respect to the casing. The casing includes a side surface positioned on a side on which the temple portion is arranged, and a first recessed portion, in the side surface, opening in the second direction to form a first gap with the temple portion that is arranged along the side surface.
US11340462B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device. More particularly, the present invention relates to an electronic device used in virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), etc. Disclosed herein is an electronic device including: a frame including at least one opening; a control unit fixed to the frame and generating an image; and an optical display unit positioned at the opening of the frame and receiving the image from the control unit and emitting the received image, in which the frame includes a front frame including the at least one opening and extending in a first horizontal direction and first and second side frames which is extended in a second direction crossing the front frame and are fixed at both ends of the front frame, and the first and second side frames parallel to each other, and the control unit has a structure in which a location of the control unit is adjusted on the any one of the first and second side frames so that the location of the image provided from the control unit and shown on the optical display unit is changed.
US11340459B2
A helmet mounted display system is described. A visor has an inner reflective surface and is mountable to head gear. A light source is arranged to emit light. Directing optics are arranged to image light from the light source onto the inner reflective surface of the visor to provide a reticle image on the inner reflective surface of the visor. An eye tracker is configured to determine the orientation of an eye of a wearer of the head gear. A controller is configured to receive an indication of the determined orientation of the eye, and to control the at least one actuator to change the orientation and shape of the directing optics to change the position of reticle image based on the indication of the determined orientation of the eye such that the eye views the reticle image.
US11340456B1
A projector for illuminating a target area is presented. The projector includes an array of emitters positioned on a substrate according to a distribution. Each emitter in the array of emitters has a non-circular emission area. Operation of at least a portion of the array of emitters is controlled based in part on emission instructions to emit light. The light from the projector is configured to illuminate the target area. The projector can be part of a depth camera assembly for depth sensing of a local area, or part of an eye tracker for determining a gaze direction for an eye.
US11340448B2
A photographing lens module includes a plurality of lens elements, wherein one of the lens elements is a plastic lens element, and at least one surface of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the plastic lens element includes an effective optical portion and a peripheral portion. The effective optical portion is aspheric. The peripheral portion surrounds the effective optical portion, and includes a plurality of strip rib structures and a plurality of light absorbing coatings. Each of the strip rib structures has a strip shape along a radial direction of an optical axis of the plastic lens element, and the strip rib structures are arranged around the effective optical portion. The light absorbing coatings are coated on the strip rib structures respectively.
US11340442B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods for generating color video with a monochrome sensor include the acts of (i) selectively energizing each of a plurality of light sources in a sequence, (ii) capturing a monochrome image of the illuminated sample at a monochrome sensor at each stage of the sequence, and (iii) generating a color video from the monochrome images. The sequence can have a series of stages with each stage of the sequence corresponding to activation of a different wavelength of light from the light sources to illuminate a sample. Generating the monochrome video can include the acts of compiling a plurality of monochrome images captured at the monochrome sensor with a single light source into a series of monochrome video frames comprising the monochrome video.
US11340438B2
An optical fiber splitter device comprising at least two optical fibers of different lengths is disclosed for partial or complete compensation of the optical path difference between waves interfering to generate a hologram or an interferogram. Various implementations of this fiber splitter device are described in apparatuses for holographic and interferometric imaging of microscopic and larger samples.
US11340420B2
A lens driving device having a movable frame on which a magnet is secured, supporting the lens; a base member supporting the movable frame movably; and a cover member, equipped with an opening enabling light to be incident into the lens, covering the movable frame and a supporting face of the base member, wherein: either a coil or a position sensor that faces a magnet is provided on the supporting face of the base member. The other, either the position sensor or the coil that faces the magnet, is provided on a supporting face of the cover member, and an interconnection member that is connected to the coil or the position sensor that is provided on the cover member is formed integrally with the cover member.
US11340419B2
The present disclosure provides an optical lens and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the optical lens comprises: a lens barrel and at least one lens sheet fixed in the lens barrel, wherein the lens sheet on the most object side is overlapped by the lens barrel on a side surface and an upper surface of the lens sheet, wherein the lens barrel comprises a main body and an edge fastener, and wherein the edge fastener integrally extends from the main body and overlaps the lens sheet on the most object side, so that the lens sheet is smoothly wrapped and fixed to the lens barrel. In the case where the stability of the lens sheet on the most object side is ensured, excessive stretching and bending and excessive deformation of the lens barrel is avoided at the same time, thereby improving the reliability of the overall structure.
US11340415B1
In one form, an organizing member for optical components includes an elongate body extending about a hollow interior portion and including a peripheral sidewall. The organizing member also includes an optical fiber routing surface extending from the peripheral sidewall toward the hollow interior portion, and a recessed portion is positioned between the peripheral sidewall and the hollow interior portion. The recessed portion includes a number of receptacles offset from the optical fiber routing surface and corresponding in configuration to a respective optical component positionable therein.
US11340402B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of connector track elements, each extending substantially perpendicularly from a coupling plane, wherein a particular connector track element of the plurality of connector track elements includes a distribution of at least two magnets adjacent unattached end thereof, a polarity of the magnets on the particular connector track element being selected to provide magnetic repulsion as to at least one adjacent connector track element.
US11340401B2
A photodiode including a p-type region and an n-type region formed in a core of a grating coupler is provided. The p-type region and the n-type region are each formed as a region having a rectangular shape extending in an array direction of a grating as seen in plan view and are arranged in a direction orthogonal to the array direction of the grating and parallel to a plane of a substrate. A plurality of the p-type regions and a plurality of the n-type regions are formed and alternately arranged.
US11340400B2
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) enable manipulation of light on a chip for telecommunications and information processing. They can be made with silicon and silicon-compatible materials using complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) fabrication techniques developed for making electronics. Unfortunately, most light sources are made with III-V and II-VI materials, which are not compatible with silicon CMOS fabrication techniques. As a result, the light source for a PIC is either off-chip or integrated onto the PIC after CMOS fabrication is over. Hybrid integration can be improved by forming a recess in the PIC to receive a III-V or II-VI photonic chip. Mechanical stops formed in or next to the recess during fabrication align the photonic chip vertically to the PIC. Fiducials on the PIC and the photonic chip enable sub-micron lateral alignment. As a result, the photonic chip can be flip-chip bonded to the PIC with sub-micron vertical and lateral alignment precision.
US11340393B2
A backlight module, a method of manufacturing the backlight module, a display device and an illuminating device are disclosed. The backlight module includes: a light guide plate having a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other and at least one side surface between the first surface and the second surface, the side surface being provided with a first light reflecting structure and having an acute angle with respect to the first surface; a light source disposed at a side of the first surface, an orthographic projection of the light source onto the first surface being at an edge portion of the first surface adjacent to the side surface, wherein the light emitted by the light source is at least partially reflected by the first light reflecting structure after entering the light guide plate through the first surface of the light guide plate.
US11340390B2
A color conversion sheet that converts incident light into light with a wavelength longer than that of the incident light, the color conversion sheet including the following layer (A) and layer (B): the layer (A): a layer containing an organic light-emitting material (a) that exhibits light emission with a peak wavelength observed in a region of 500 nm or more and 580 nm or less by using excitation light in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 500 nm or less, and a binder resin; and the layer (B): a layer containing an organic light-emitting material (b) that exhibits light emission with a peak wavelength observed in a region of 580 nm or more and 750 nm or less by being excited by either or both of excitation light in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 500 nm or less and light emission from the organic light-emitting material (a), and a binder resin; wherein SPA>SPB where SP values as solubility parameters of the binder resin contained in the layer (A) and the binder resin contained in the layer (B) are SPA (cal/cm3)0.5 and SPB (cal/cm3)0.5, respectively.
US11340369B2
Systems and methods for editing multi-Z horizons interpreted from seismic data are provided. A multi-Z horizon having a plurality of surfaces is visualized within a two-dimensional (2D) representation of seismic data displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application executable at a computing device of a user. Input is received via the GUI from the user for editing one or more of the plurality of surfaces of the multi-Z horizon within a current view of the displayed 2D representation of the seismic data. A location of the received input relative to each of the plurality of surfaces within the current view is determined. The one or more surfaces of the multi-Z horizon are modified based on the location of the received input within the current view. The visualization of the multi-Z horizon within the GUI is updated, based on the modified one or more surfaces.
US11340367B2
A method for characterizing a hydraulic fracture in a subsurface formation includes inducing a pressure change in a borehole drilled through the subsurface formation. At least one of pressure and a time derivative of pressure is measured in the borehole for a selected length of time. At least one physical parameter of at least one fracture is determined using the measured pressure and/or the time derivative of pressure. A method for characterizing hydraulic fracturing rate uses microseismic event count measured through the borehole and its real-time implementation.
US11340357B2
The disclosure relates to a method for detecting a position of a vehicle having a high level of automation, the method comprising a first reading step, at least one position data signal being read by means of a vehicle-side receiver and the position data signal representing a position of an antenna device of a different vehicle and/or a high building. The method also comprises a determining step, in which a position of the vehicle is determined using the position data signal. Finally, in a provision step, a position signal is provided, using the determined position of the vehicle, to a controller of the vehicle in order to control the vehicle.
US11340348B2
A collision determination apparatus includes an acquisition section, a setting section, a target object information detection section, a target object path prediction section, an own vehicle path prediction section, and a collision determination section. The acquisition section acquires detection information based on a reflected wave from a search device. The setting section sets filter characteristics of a filtering process used when the detection information is filtered. The target object information detection section detects a position of a target object using the filtered detection information. The target object path prediction section predicts a path of the target object based on changes in the position of the target object detected by the target object information detection section. The own vehicle path prediction section predicts a path of an own vehicle. The collision determination section makes a determination of a collision between the own vehicle and the target object. The setting section estimates a detectable time or a detectable distance in which the position of the target object can be detected in the path of the target object based on the position of the target object and the traveling condition of the own vehicle and sets the filter characteristics in accordance with the detectable time or the detectable distance that has been estimated.
US11340342B2
A high performance, low-cost automotive radar is designed by mounting receivers around a 3D printed Luneburg lens. With this configuration, the antenna radiation pattern is maintained for all angles, (which means no beam deformation). Further, the present radar is capable of performing detection at all azimuth and elevation angles with high angle resolution and broadband operation. The radar adaptively adjusts its spatial sensing pattern, sweeping frequency band, pulse repetition frequency and coherent processing interval according to the environment. This is accomplished by initially performing a rough scan, which updates sensing results via a narrow bandwidth waveform and wide beam scanning. When interested objects are identified, a high-resolution detailed scan is performed in a specific region of interest. In this way, a much more effective detection can be obtained. Moreover, a method of mitigating interference of the 3D printed Luneburg lens based radar and a method of improving the angle resolution using a lens based MIMO approach is disclosed.
US11340341B2
A method of a first device which performs ranging by using an ultra-wide band (UWB) and the first device are provided. The method of the first device includes performing ranging with a second device in a first ranging round among a plurality of ranging rounds included in a first ranging block, determining whether to perform hopping, based on a result of the performing of the ranging, when it is determined to perform the hopping, determining an index of a second ranging round for performing ranging with a second device, based on a random-number generation function, and performing the ranging with the second device in the second ranging round of a second ranging block.
US11340340B2
Provided are a method of identifying light reflected from an object, from among light incident from a plurality of different directions, based on information about an irradiation angle of light irradiated by a light source, and a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) apparatus therefor.
US11340339B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that facilitate light detection and ranging operations. An example method includes determining, for at least one light-emitter device of a plurality of light-emitter devices, a light pulse schedule. The plurality of light-emitter devices is operable to emit light along a plurality of emission vectors. The light pulse schedule is based on a respective emission vector of the at least one light-emitter device and a three-dimensional map of an external environment. The light pulse schedule includes at least one light pulse parameter and a listening window duration. The method also includes causing the at least one light-emitter device of the plurality of light-emitter devices to emit a light pulse according to the light pulse schedule. The light pulse interacts with an external environment.
US11340336B2
A light ranging system including a shaft having a longitudinal axis; a light ranging device configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the light ranging device including a light source configured to transmit light pulses to objects in a surrounding environment, and detector circuitry configured to detect reflected portions of the light pulses that are reflected from the objects in the surrounding environment and to compute ranging data based on the reflected portion of the light pulses; a base subsystem that does not rotate about the shaft; and an optical communications subsystem configured to provide an optical communications channel between the base subsystem and the light ranging device, the optical communications subsystem including one or more turret optical communication components connected to the detector circuitry and one or more base optical communication components connected to the base subsystem.
US11340332B2
A radar data processing method and apparatus. The radar data processing apparatus calculates phase information of a radar signal received by a radar sensor, calculates noise representative information from the calculated phase information, and determines driving-related information based on the noise representative information and radar data calculated from the radar signal.
US11340328B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless vital monitoring are described. In one example, a described system comprises: a transmitter configured for transmitting a first wireless signal through a wireless channel of a venue; a receiver configured for receiving a second wireless signal through the wireless channel; and a processor. The second wireless signal comprises a reflection of the first wireless signal by at least one living being having at least one repetitive motion in the venue. The processor is configured for: obtaining a time series of channel information (TSCI) of the wireless channel based on the second wireless signal; generating, for each living being of the at least one living being, a vital signal representing all repetitive motions of the living being based on the TSCI; extracting, from the vital signal of each living being, a heartbeat signal; and monitoring, for each living being in the venue, a heart rate variability based on the heartbeat signal.
US11340326B2
A method for correcting magnetic resonance (MR) object movements includes performing a recording of an MR object with multiple echo trains. k-space data pertaining to an echo train regarded as impaired by an MR object movement is corrected by linking the k-space data to corresponding k-space data reconstructed from k-space data of other echo trains by a PPA method.
US11340322B2
A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomograph includes a transmitting antenna for emitting a pilot tone, and a receiving antenna for receiving the pilot tone. The local coil also has a decoupling device for decoupling the receiving antenna from the transmitting antenna.
US11340310B2
This voltage imbalance assessment method is for a power conversion device comprising a forward converter for rectifying the voltage of a three-phase AC power supply, a smoothing capacitor for smoothing the rectified voltage, a detection unit for detecting the smoothed voltage, and a control unit. The control unit: uses the detected voltage to generate data indicating frequency components; compares, in the data indicating frequency components, the magnitude of the component that is four times the power supply frequency with the magnitude of the component that is six times the power supply frequency; and assesses the voltage imbalance of the three-phase AC power supply on the basis of the comparison.
US11340308B1
A system for state determination of a battery module configured for use in an electric vehicle. The system including a battery module including at least a battery cell, a sensor including a proximity sensor configured to detect a status datum corresponding to the battery module, a processor configured to receive the status datum from the sensor, generate a charge datum as a function of the status datum corresponding to the battery module, generate a health datum as a function of the status datum corresponding to the battery module, transmit the charge datum and the health datum, and a display configured to receive the charge datum and the health datum corresponding to the battery cell, and display the charge datum and the health datum corresponding to the battery cell.
US11340305B2
An apparatus for estimating a state of a secondary battery (SB), including: a charging unit electrically connected to two terminals of the SB, the charging unit charging the SB, a voltage measuring unit electrically connected to and measuring a voltage across the two terminals of the SB, a time measuring unit for: receiving a voltage value of the SB from the voltage measuring unit, and during charging of the SB, in a predefined voltage range, measuring a charge time of the SB corresponding to the voltage range multiple times, and a control unit for: transmitting/receiving an electrical signal to/from the charging unit, the voltage measuring unit, and the time measuring unit, calculating a ratio of a first charge time and a second charge time measured by the time measuring unit sequentially at a time interval, and estimating a state of the SB.
US11340302B2
By a first energization process of applying a voltage with the power supply to cause a current for charging the electrical storage device to flow through the circuit and a second energization process of, when a transition condition is satisfied during the first energization process, decreasing the voltage of the power supply to cause the current to further flow, a condition of an electrical storage is determined. An effective resistance value of the circuit is set to 0.1Ω or below. A decrease in the voltage of the power supply in transition from the first energization process to the second energization process is set such that the effective resistance value in the second energization process is an intermediate value between a parasitic resistance value of the circuit and the effective resistance value in the first energization process.
US11340293B2
Systems, devices, and methods for performing a non-contact electrical measurement (NCEM) on a NCEM-enabled cell included in a NCEM-enabled cell vehicle may be configured to perform NCEMs while the NCEM-enabled cell vehicle is moving. The movement may be due to vibrations in the system and/or movement of a movable stage on which the NCEM-enabled cell vehicle is positioned. Position information for an electron beam column producing the electron beam performing the NCEMs and/or for the moving stage may be used to align the electron beam with targets on the NCEM-enabled cell vehicle while it is moving.
US11340291B2
A testing holder for a chip unit, a multi site holding frame for plural chip units and a method for testing a die thereof are provided. The proposed multi site holding frame for testing plural chip units simultaneously includes a first holder frame having a plurality of testing holders. Each of the plurality of testing holders includes a holder body containing a specific one of the plural chip units, and a pressure releasing device formed on the holder body to release an insertion pressure when the specific one of the plural chip units is inserted in the holder body.
US11340284B2
A first light source is directed at an outer surface of a workpiece in an inspection module. The light from the first light source that is reflected from the outer surface of the workpiece is directed to the camera via a first pathway. The light from the first light source transmitted through the workpiece is directed to the camera via a second pathway. A second light source is directed at the outer surface of the workpiece 180° from that of the first light source. The light from the second light source that is reflected from the outer surface of the workpiece is directed to the camera via the second pathway. The light from the second light source transmitted through the workpiece is directed to the camera via the first pathway.
US11340282B2
The invention relates to a reflectometry system for detecting faults on a hardened multipoint connector of an electrical network, of the type that comprises a measuring probe, characterized in that it comprises an interfacing and impedance matching part that is electrically suitable for mounting on the connector to be tested and comprises a body provided with at least one element in the form of a collector ring for the contact masses of the connector and a measuring opening for the probe of the reflectometry system.
US11340280B2
The present invention provides a system and a method for performing electromagnetic compatibility measurements. A signal source generates a test signal which is amplified by an amplifier. Overdriving of the amplifier is prevented by limiting the test signal applied to the amplifier below a predefined threshold value.
US11340271B2
A method includes performing by a processor: receiving a plurality of synchrophasor measurements of a power system signal associated with a time interval from a plurality of phasor measurement units (PMUs), respectively, each of the plurality of synchrophasor measurements including a phase angle, frequency value, and a timestamp associated with the synchrophasor measurement; determining, for each of the plurality of PMUs, a dominant mode frequency of a forced oscillation signal component of the power system signal based on the frequency value and the phase angle; determining, for each of the plurality of PMUs, a mode angle of the forced oscillation signal component at the dominant mode frequency; and determining a geographic forced oscillation source location for a source of the forced oscillation signal component based on the plurality of mode angles associated with each of the plurality of PMUs, respectively, and geographic locations of the plurality of PMUs.
US11340269B2
A circuit includes a peak detector, a diode, a dynamic clamp circuit, and an offset correction circuit. The peak detector generates a voltage on the peak detector output proportional to a lowest voltage on the peak defector input. The anode of the diode is coupled to the peak detector input. The dynamic clamp circuit is coupled to the peak detector input and is configured to clamp a voltage on the peak detector input responsive to a voltage on the diode's anode being greater than the lowest voltage on the peak detector's input. The offset correction circuit is coupled to the peak detector output and is configured to generate an output signal whose amplitude is offset from an amplitude of the peak detector output.
US11340268B2
A method may include pressing a sensor module onto a control board such that the sensor module is at an initial position where an air gap is present between a module body of the sensor module and the control board such that compliant pins of the sensor module are partially inserted into the control board. The method may include mounting the control board on a power module to cause pins of the power module to be at least partially inserted into the control board and the sensor module to be at least partially inserted in the power module such that a protrusion is through an opening in a busbar. The method may include pressing the control board onto the power module to cause the pins of the power module to be further inserted into the control board, the sensor module to be further inserted in the power module, and the sensor module to be at a final position.
US11340263B2
There is provided a probe device for inspecting a wafer. The probe device includes: an upper camera provided in a wafer alignment unit; a lower camera provided in a stage; a target member provided in any one of the wafer alignment unit and the stage; and a control circuit configured to control each operation of the upper and lower camera. The target member has an end surface on which a target mark is provided, wherein any of the upper and lower camera is configured to capture an image of the target mark. The control circuit is configured to acquire a captured image of the target mark using any of the upper camera and the lower camera; and calculate a correspondence between a specific physical parameter and a value represented in the captured image for a parameter represented in the captured image among physical parameters, based on the acquired captured image.
US11340262B2
A contact probe for a testing head of an apparatus for testing electronic devices comprises a body extending along a longitudinal axis between a first end portion and a second end portion, the second end portion being adapted to contact pads of a device under test. Suitably, the contact probe comprises a first section, which extends along the longitudinal axis from the first end portion and is made of an electrically non-conductive material, and a second section, which extends along the longitudinal axis from the second end portion up to the first section, the second section being electrically conductive and extending over a distance less than 1000 μm.
US11340258B2
A prober head to interface an E-testing apparatus to a device under test, which may be an unpackaged die, for example. In some embodiments, the prober head includes an array of conductive pins, each of the pins extending outwardly from a first pin end anchored to a substrate. At least a partial length of each of the pins is coated with a hydrophobic monolayer. The conductive pins may be composite metal wires including a core metal encased by one or more peripheral metal. At a tip of the pins, opposite the first pin end anchored to the substrate, the peripheral metals are recessed from the core metal. In further embodiments, the hydrophobic monolayer is disposed on an outer surface of the peripheral metals, but is substantially absent from a surface of the core metal exposed at the tip.
US11340255B1
A method for reducing bias drift in electrical-mechanical systems sensor such as an accelerometer is provided. The method includes the steps of arranging at least one accelerometer in a chamber and initiating a plurality of temperature cycle sets. Each temperature cycle set has a minimum temperature, a maximum temperature, and a ramp rate. The conditioning method monitors the accelerometers until a bias drift is stabilized within a desired bias drift range. The minimum temperature and the maximum temperature limit a temperature range in which the accelerometer is cycled. Use of temperature limiting can quickly accelerate stabilization of the bias drift while also reducing degradation.
US11340253B2
There is provided a resonant sensor comprising: a substrate; a proof mass suspended from the substrate to allow for relative movement between the proof mass and the substrate along at least one sensitive axis; at least one resonant element coupled to the proof mass; an electrode assembly adjacent to the at least one resonant element; drive and sense circuitry connected to the electrode assembly configured to drive the electrode assembly to cause the at least one resonant element to resonate, wherein a measure of acceleration of the proof mass can be determined from changes in the resonant behavior of the at least one resonant element; at least one substrate electrode on the substrate, adjacent to the proof mass; and electric circuitry connected to the substrate electrode configured to apply a voltage to the substrate electrode providing an electrostatic force on the proof mass. The substrate electrode may be used to provide a number of different functions.
US11340250B2
A synchronization system for an acoustic signal-based and inertial signal-based positioning system is provided that generates a magnetic field as a synchronization signal. The modulated magnetic synchronization signal is transmitted by a transmitter of the positioning system and received by the receiver of the positioning system. The receiver may make an acoustic position determination for the transmitter based on a received modulated synchronization signal and may make an inertial position determination for the transmitter based on the received inertial signal, such that the acoustic position determination and the inertial position determination are fused.
US11340235B2
The invention relates to a method for binding or capturing autoantibodies directed to various Glycoprotein 2 (GP2) isoforms. In particular the invention provides an in vitro method for the diagnosis of an autoimmune disorder by the detection of autoantibodies that bind one or more isoforms of GP2. The invention is characterized by the provision of multiple isoforms of GP2 as autoantibody targets and encompasses the practical utilization of the finding that the isoform specificity of anti-GP2 autoantibodies enables determination of particular autoimmune diseases. The invention also provides a system and kit developed for carrying out the claimed method. The present invention is useful for determining whether a sample from an individual comprises autoantibodies associated with an autoimmune disease, and for differentiating between multiple autoimmune diseases that exhibit similar symptoms, such as Celiac disease (CeD), Crohn's disease (CD), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and/or ulcerative colitis (UC).
US11340234B2
Herein is reported an anti-drug antibody immunoassay for the determination of the presence of an anti-drug antibody against an effector function suppressed human or humanized drug antibody in a sample comprising the incubation of a sample comprising mammalian blood serum with full length human Fcgamma receptor I or an Fc-region binding fragment thereof so that a complex between the anti-drug antibody against the effector function suppressed human or humanized drug antibody present in the sample and the human Fcgamma receptor I or the Fc-region binding fragment thereof forms, whereby the full length human Fcgamma receptor I or the Fc-region binding fragment thereof is conjugated to a detectable label, and the determination of the formed complex by the detectable label.
US11340233B2
The present invention relates to a new method for capturing and analysing antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) in biological samples, such as e.g., serum. Methods for analysing the structure of an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) in a biological sample and methods for assessing the stability of an ADC are also provided.
US11340232B2
The present invention provides methods for constructing peptide construct sets and methods of use of these peptide construct sets in assay systems for peptide analysis, and in particular for use in high throughput peptide analysis. The methods allow for analysis of large sets of peptide constructs in a cost-effective manner, employing molecular biological techniques that are both robust and easily parallelized. Thus, the methods allow for the construction of peptide construct sets encompassing, e.g., the human proteome.
US11340225B2
The present disclosure provides methods of assaying for antibody-dependent cell-mediated phagocytosis (ADCP). In some embodiments, the methods include monomerizing and labeling a protein, contacting the protein with a protein-specific antibody to form an antibody-protein complex, contacting the antibody-protein complex with a phagocytic cell to permit phagocytosis, and assessing the amount of internalized fluorescence.
US11340223B2
Methods of determining infection type are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises measuring the amount of TRAIL and/or IP10 no more than two days from symptom onset.
US11340221B2
Disclosed are a protein molecular marker Dkk-3 protein associated with age-related muscle atrophy and the use thereof in the diagnosis of age-related muscle atrophy. The expression level of the Dkk-3 protein in amyotrophic cells is significantly higher than that in normal myocytes or tissues, and thus the Dkk-3 protein can be used as an effective marker for the detection of age-related muscle atrophy.
US11340202B2
A method for calibrating an oxygen sensor of a household appliance includes a calibration process which is automatically started when at least one status parameter of the household appliance has at least reached a predetermined threshold value. The household appliance can be a steam cooking appliance, and the oxygen sensor can be a lambda probe.
US11340200B2
A spray-capillary device is configured to process ultra low-volume samples. The spray-capillary device includes a spray capillary that includes an inlet end and a discharge end. The spray capillary includes a porous section at the discharge end. A downstream connector provides an interface between the porous section of the spray capillary, a conductive fluid, and a high voltage electrical source. The application of voltage to the downstream connector causes electrospray ionization, which can be used to draw ultra law volume samples into the inlet end. A gas injection assembly can be used to increase the pressure on the inlet end of the spray capillary to encourage movement of the sample through the spray capillary. The spray-capillary device is well suited for providing ultra low samples to a mass spectrometer detection device.
US11340197B2
The disclosure relates to a system for liquid sample introduction into a chromatography system. The system includes a metering device for drawing up the liquid sample, a first multi-port valve in fluid communication with a first end of the metering device and the liquid sample, a second multi-port valve in fluid communication with a second end of the metering device and a chromatography column, and a pump in fluid communication with the second multi-port valve and a mobile phase. When the valves are in a first position the metering device draws up the liquid sample filling a portion of the metering device. When the valves are in a second position, a remaining portion of the metering device is filled with the mobile phase thereby mixing with and pressurizing the liquid sample. When the valves are in a third position, the mixed and pressurized sample flows to the chromatography column.
US11340182B2
A breathing apparatus includes a tube having a proximal end connected to a breathing mask and a distal end connected to a splitter. A first branch has a proximal end connected to the splitter and an open distal end. A first sensor is arranged within the first branch and operatively connected to a processing module. A first flow control valve is arranged in the first branch and operatively connected to the processing module. A second branch has a proximal end connected to the splitter and a distal end connected to an inflatable reservoir. A second sensor is arranged within the second branch and operatively connected to a processing module. A second flow control valve arranged in the second branch and operatively connected to the processing module. The breathing apparatus can adjust a pneumatic resistance according to a programmed training protocol and counteract hyperventilation by recirculating exhaled air.
US11340162B2
For comparing first optical properties of a first fluid with second optical properties of a second fluid a first transparent grating having a grating constant is made of the first liquid, and a second transparent grating also having the grating constant is made of the second liquid. The second transparent grating is arranged at a lateral offset of less than 45% of the grating constant with regard to the first transparent grating such that grating bars of the first and second transparent gratings are arranged side by side. Coherent light is directed onto the first and second transparent gratings such that light which passed through the grating bars of the first and second transparent gratings forms a diffraction pattern comprising intensity maxima. Two light intensities of two intensity maxima of a same order higher than zero are measured and compared to each other.
US11340158B2
A system is provided for detecting non-metallic, non-aqueous substances in an aqueous sample, comprising a transmitter section, which emits electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz range towards the sample, a receiver section, which detects radiation components of said electromagnetic radiation which are modified by the sample and/or the substances therein and an evaluation section, which evaluates radiation components which are detected by the receiver section in order to establish whether non-metallic, non-aqueous substances are present or not in the aqueous sample, a transition of the aqueous sample from the liquid aggregate state into the solid aggregate state or vice versa taking place, radiation components which are modified respectively, for a plurality of different states of the aqueous sample, during this transition being detected by means of the receiver section, and the radiation components thus detected being evaluated by means of the evaluation section.
US11340151B2
A rotational viscometer for measuring a viscosity of substances contains a measuring shaft and a hollow shaft which is driven by a drive. The measuring shaft is arranged within the hollow shaft. A measuring body is arranged at one end of the measuring shaft and can be supplied with a sample. A coupling element is provided for connecting the hollow shaft to the measuring shaft. An angle measuring unit is arranged relative to the measuring shaft such that an angular difference and/or a rotational phase difference between the hollow shaft and the measuring shaft can be measured. The hollow shaft and the measuring shaft end opposite the measuring body and protrude into a housing. The coupling element is arranged in the housing, and the housing and the coupling element are connected to the measuring shaft and to the hollow shaft such that the housing is removable from the rotational viscometer.
US11340148B2
A system for mixing solutions includes: a first container and at least one second container capable of containing solutions, each second container being capable of entirely containing the first container; means for displacing the first container and/or each second container capable of entirely immersing the first container in each second container; and rotational drive means for the first container so as to mix the solutions present in the first and second containers when the first container is entirely immersed in the solution present in the second container.
US11340137B2
There are provided techniques for characterizing and testing a cable routing connection configuration connection arrangement comprising a plurality of optical fiber links connected between at least a first connection device at a first end and a second multi-fiber connection device at a second end. Test light is injected into one or more of the optical fiber links via corresponding optical fiber ports of the first connection device. At least one image of the second multi-fiber connection device is captured. Test light exiting the optical fiber link(s) through optical fiber port(s) of the second multi-fiber connection device is imaged as light spot(s) in the captured image. Positions on the second multi-fiber connection device that corresponds to the optical fiber port(s) are determined based on a pattern of the light spot(s) in the captured image. In some implementations, the provided techniques allow detection or verification of cable routing connection configurations at multi-fiber distribution panels.
US11340134B2
A method for fluid flow measurement for a discrete area of a fluid supply network, where the fluid supply network includes a network of pipes that includes a main pipe for transporting fluid from a source into the fluid supply network for delivery to consumers, wherein the main pipe crosses a boundary between the discrete area and a further area of the fluid supply network, which is outside of the discrete area, and a plurality of distribution pipes each transport fluid from the main pipe to a consumer, where fluid pressure and the fluid consumption on at least two selected key metering points located inside and outside of the discrete area are measured, and where the fluid pressure and the fluid consumption measured on these selected key metering points the fluid flow in the main pipe that crosses the boundary of the discrete area is calculated.
US11340133B2
A system and method of detecting gas leakage along an underground pipeline system accurately determines the presence of a gas leak while minimizing cost and preserving energy. The system includes at least one underground pipeline with a plurality of stack vents, a plurality of sensor units, and at least one remote server. Each sensor unit is mounted within a stack vent. The method begins by tracking a current time with each sensor unit. A gas-concentration reading with at least one specific unit is captured and then communicated along with a sensor location and a sensor identification to the remote server and recorded with the remote server. The tracking, capturing, and communicating of the gas-concentration reading is repeated so that actual gas-concentration data is compiled and compared to a baseline gas-concentration data or a defined gas-concentration threshold. A leak notification for a gas leak is then sent with the remote server.
US11340130B2
A pressure gauge has a shell, a scale panel, an index pointer, a piston set, and a gear transmission set. The shell has a front end board, a back end board, and a piston base mounted on the inner surface of the back end board. The scale panel is mounted between the front end board of the shell and the back end board of the shell. The index pointer is mounted on a front surface of the scale panel. The piston set is mounted in the piston base of the shell. The gear transmission set is mounted between the back end board of the shell and the scale panel.
US11340127B2
Methods and apparatuses for indicating the presence of a threshold directional differential pressure between separated adjacent spaces. An inclined conduit contains at least one movable element that indicates whether the pressure difference between the two spaces is at least as high as a threshold pressure difference. The apparatus may include an on-board pitch indicator and a roll indicator which are used together to calibrate the apparatus and its installation. The apparatus may provide only one or more discrete number of pressure difference set points and be non-adjustable once installed. The inclined conduit may be non-rotatable relative to the baseplate, and the baseplate may be rotatable to change threshold pressure difference set points. The apparatus may provide a tamper-resistant indication of whether a threshold pressure differential is present.
US11340125B2
To provide a pressure sensor that has high pressure resistance performance, small measurement error by suppressing hysteresis with respect to pressure, and high sensitivity and high productivity, a pressure sensor includes a diaphragm unit with a first main surface that receives a measurement target fluid's pressure and a second main surface located on the opposite side of this first main surface, a housing, and a sensing unit that outputs the diaphragm unit's deformation as an electric signal, in which at least part of the diaphragm unit has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of thin plate members are stacked, and the plurality of thin plate members are deformed independently of each other while at least part of the plurality of thin plate members is in press-contact to each other in a pressure receiving state in which the measurement target fluid's pressure is applied to the first main surface.
US11340120B2
A sensor mounting structure includes an insulator and a temperature sensor. The insulator is attached to a wall of a case of an electric storage component to hold an electrode terminal projecting from the case and insulating the electrode terminal from the case. The temperature sensor includes a temperature sensing portion, a locking portion, and a spring portion. The temperature sensing portion holds a temperature sensing component and includes a temperature sensing surface that contacts the wall of the case. The locking portion is locked to the insulator. The spring portion presses the temperature sensing portion to hold the temperature sensing surface in close contact with the wall of the case.
US11340119B2
A method of manufacturing a sensor body used in an oil temperature sensor includes mounting a thermistor on a scheduled first resin mold portion and a scheduled second resin mold portion. The manufacturing method includes molding the scheduled first resin mold portion, the scheduled second resin mold portion, and the thermistor to form a resin mold portion. The manufacturing method includes cutting connecting portions, after the resin mold portion is formed, and separating a scheduled first-terminal-portion forming portion and a scheduled second-terminal-portion forming portion.
US11340116B2
Disclosed are an optical gradation system and method. The optical gradation system comprises: a first device configured to emit broad-spectrum linearly polarized light in a first polarization direction; a second device provided with at least one first region for splitting lights of different wavelengths mixed in the broad-spectrum linearly polarized light incident by the first device into emergent lights in different polarization directions without changing a beam propagation path; a third device configured to filter out linearly polarized light in a second polarization direction from the emergent lights from the second device in different polarization directions; and, a rotator configured to drive at least one of the first device, the second device and the third device to rotate, wherein the first device, the second device and the third device are arranged coaxially.
US11340109B2
A digital light detector includes a clock signal generator configured to generate a clock signal comprised of clock pulses generated at a predetermined frequency; a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) configured to turn on and generate an avalanche current in response to receiving a photon, the SPAD including an internal capacitor coupled internally between an anode terminal and an cathode terminal; and an active quenching-recharging circuit that is triggered by the clock signal. The active quenching-recharging circuit is configured to be activated and deactivated based on the clock signal, where the active quenching-recharging circuit is configured to recharge the internal capacitor on a condition the active quenching-recharging circuit is activated, and where the active quenching-recharging circuit is configured to discharge the internal capacitor on a condition the active quenching-recharging circuit is deactivated.
US11340098B2
The present invention relates to a device, containing a first sensor, designed and arranged for sensing a first measurement variable of a fluid, and a second sensor, designed and arranged for sensing a second measurement variable of the fluid, a first electrode assembly has a substrate and a first planar electrode overlying the substrate. A second electrode assembly has a second planar electrode. The first planar electrode and the second planar electrode are dielectrically spaced apart from each other. The first electrode assembly and the second electrode assembly form a first capacitor as the first sensor such that a first capacitance, formed by the first planar electrode and the second planar electrode, can be varied under the influence of a fluid and in accordance with a flow velocity of the fluid as the first measurement variable.
US11340097B1
A safety system for residential and commercial use includes a plurality of sensor modules that may be distributed about the environment, and that are in communication with a remote server environment and with other devices over a wireless communication network (e.g., cellular, Wi-Fi). Each sensor module includes a plurality of sensors that are capable of measuring or detecting characteristics of the environment such as smoke, small particulate, large particulate, chemicals, gasses, temperature, humidity, pressure, geolocation, and other characteristics. Analysis of sensor data is performed locally on the sensor module, as well as remotely on a server, in order to fuse and consider multiple sensor data points to identify emergency and non-emergency scenarios. By fusing and analyzing sensor data emergencies can be detected more quickly, and false alarms can be filtered out and avoided.
US11340096B2
An analyzer for a grease interceptor for measuring levels of fat, oils, and grease (FOG), water, sludge and air having a probe which includes a controller and a sensor sub-unit. Sensor circuits include a microcontroller, timers, and sampling capacitors. The sensor sub-unit includes a plurality of electrode ring pairs coupled to a plurality of timers for converting capacitance measurements to frequencies under the control of a microprocessor in the controller. The frequencies identify the measured levels.
US11340093B2
A method includes obtaining map data associated with a map of a geographic location including one or more roadways, the map including a first submap represented by a first local Euclidean space and a second submap represented by a second local Euclidean space. A route that includes a first roadway in the first submap and a second roadway in the second submap is determined using a first projection between a global coordinate system and the first local Euclidean space and a second projection between the global coordinate system and the second local Euclidean space. The route is provided to an autonomous vehicle (AV) for driving on the first roadway and the second roadway.
US11340080B2
Among other things, we describe techniques for automatic annotation of environmental features in a map during navigation of a vehicle. The techniques include receiving, by the vehicle located within an environment, a map of the environment. Sensors of the vehicle receive sensor data and semantic data. The sensor data includes a plurality of features of the environment. A geometric model of a feature of the plurality of features is generated. The feature is associated with a drivable area within the environment. A drivable segment is extracted from the drivable area. The drivable segment is segregated into a plurality of geometric blocks, wherein each geometric block corresponds to a characteristic of the drivable area and the geometric model of the feature includes the plurality of geometric blocks. The geometric model is annotated using the semantic data. The annotated geometric model is embedded within the map.
US11340076B2
The present disclosure provides a positioning system, a positioning method, a shopping cart and an electronic equipment. The system includes an image acquisition device and a processing device. The image acquisition device is configured to acquire image information about a shopping cart, and the processing device is configured to process the image information so as to acquire identification information of the shopping cart, determine a location area of the shopping cart in an image according to the identification information, and determine location information of the shopping cart according to location information of the image acquisition device and the location area of the shopping cart in the image.
US11340068B2
Provided is a scanning range setting method using a surveying instrument configured to measure a distance to a measurement point by using a distance measuring light and measure an angle to the measurement point, and a scanner configured to scan with a scanning light around a rotation axis to acquire three-dimensional point group data. The method includes steps of: (A) measuring a distance to one or more measurement points by the surveying instrument, (B) storing coordinates and angles of the measurement points, (C) automatically setting an area including all of the measurement points as a scanning range by the scanner, and (D) scanning the scanning range by the scanner, wherein a coordinate system of the scanner and a coordinate system of the surveying instrument match each other.
US11340067B2
A panel installation assist device for supporting one end of a panel during installation includes a bar, which has a set of holes extending therethrough from a first face thereof. Respective holes are selectively alignable with studs or rafters. Mounting hardware inserted through the holes mounts the bar to the studs or the rafters. The bar has a set of orifices positioned therethrough, each of which has a spirit bubble tube positioned therein, which is engaged to the bar. Respective spirit bubble tubes indicate an orientation of a longitudinal axis of the bar relative to horizontal and vertical. A notch extends into the bar from a first edge thereof and the first face, and between opposed ends of the bar. The notch is configured for insertion of an edge of a panel so that one end of the panel is supported by the bar to facilitate installation of the panel.
US11340065B2
An optical fiber inclination measurement apparatus and a differential inclination measurement system are provided, which is related to the field of monitoring technology. The apparatus includes a supporting mechanism with a base and a base frame, a swinging mechanism with a pendulum, a cycloid, and a first reflective film is disposed on the pendulum. The measurement mechanism includes a first optical fiber, and an end surface of the first optical fiber is disposed opposite to the first reflective film. During an earthquake generating process, a landform changes and the pendulum swings, resulting in changes in displacement. The end surface of the first optical fiber together with the first reflective film form a Fabry-Perot cavity. The cavity length of the Fabry-Perot cavity changes before and after the landform deforms, and an angle of inclination is equal to a value obtained by dividing the cavity length variation of the Fabry-Perot cavity by the pendulum length.
US11340060B2
An overlay metrology system is disclosed. The overlay metrology system includes a controller configured to be communicatively coupled with an overlay metrology subsystem. The controller receives overlay measurements from the overlay metrology subsystem and generates one or more quality metrics. The controller extracts a set of principle components from the one or more quality metrics. The controller generates input data and inputs the input data into an input matrix of a supervised machine learning algorithm to train a predictive model. The controller then identifies a recipe or hardware configuration with a minimum residual value.
US11340057B2
A system to generate image representations includes a first objective that receives a first light beam emitted from a sample and a second objective that receives a second light beam emitted from the sample, where the first light beam and the second light beam have conjugate phase. The system also includes a first diffractive element to receive the first light beam and separate it into a first plurality of diffractive light beams that are spatially distinct, and a second diffractive element to receive the second light beam and separate it into a second plurality of diffractive light beams that are spatially distinct. The system further includes a detector that receives the first and second plurality of diffractive light beams. The first plurality of diffractive light beams and the second plurality of diffractive light beams are simultaneously directed and focused onto different portions of an image plane of the detector.
US11340053B2
The present invention includes a powder compaction device comprising a loading platform positioned above a lower platform; a compaction rod aperture positioned in the loading platform; a vertical tube positioned in communication with the compaction rod aperture; a compaction rod positioned in the compaction rod aperture and extending through the compaction rod aperture, wherein the compaction rod comprises one or more reliefs having a powder volume; a drive motor in communication with the vertical tube and connected to the compaction rod to move the compaction rod through the compaction rod aperture; a first funnel-shaped device positioned below the loading platform, wherein the first funnel-shaped device comprises a first funnel aperture, wherein the first funnel aperture aligns with the compaction rod aperture to move the compaction rod through the compaction rod aperture and the first funnel aperture; an adaptor platform secured to the lower platform and aligned with the compaction rod aperture; an ammunition cartridge fixture slidably secured in the adaptor platform, wherein the ammunition cartridge fixture comprises a funnel-shaped opening, an interior cartridge shaped void, and a funnel aperture connecting the funnel-shaped opening to the interior cartridge shaped void, wherein the funnel aperture is aligned with the compaction rod aperture and the first funnel aperture to accommodate the compaction movement of the compaction rod; an ammunition cartridge positioned in the ammunition cartridge fixture; a powder reservoir positioned in communication with the first funnel-shaped device to transport powder to the first funnel-shaped device; a compaction controller in communication with the drive motor and one or more sensors to control the direction of the motor to control the direction of movement of the compaction rod and the force applied to the compaction rod to control the compaction of the powder; and a powder metering controller in communication with the gate and one or more second sensors to control the amount of powder delivered and he powder is despised.
US11340052B2
A wing deployment initiator initiates penetration of frangible cover seals by missile guidance wings during wing deployment. The initiator includes a central, rotatable hub extending above a baseplate. Lobes extending from the hub prevent rotation of associated flippers by torsion springs. Locking and deployment tabs extend from the flippers into corresponding notches in proximal ends of the wings. The locking tabs prevent deployment of the wings until the central hub is rotated, whereupon the flippers are released, causing the deployment tabs to transfer deployment energy from the torsion springs to the wings. The hub can be rotated by an electrical actuator such as a solenoid or motor, or the lobes can be rotationally offset so that feedback pressure from the flippers applies a torque to the hub, and missile electronics can cause a wing control surface to inhibit and then enable hub rotation via a rocker link.
US11340047B2
A shaped charge liner having a plurality of metal powders including at least one high purity level metal having a purity level of at least about 99.5%. The metal powders and high purity level metal are compressed to form the shaped charge liner, and the shaped charge liner is for installation in a shaped charge. Once installed in the shaped charge, the shaped charge liner is for being thermally softened so that it has a porosity level of less than about 20 volume % and is able to maintain its mechanical integrity when thermally softened. A shaped charge including such liners is disclosed, as well as a method of perforating a wellbore using such shaped charge having such liners positioned therein.
US11340042B2
A command control system includes an interception predicting section and an assigning section. The interception predicting section calculates a predicted intercept point of a target to be shot down and a guided missile to shoot down the target. The assigning section acquires first weather data of the predicted intercept point, and generates a launching instruction based on the first weather data so as to launch one of a first guided missile and a second guided missile as the guided missile. A method by which the first guided missile detects the target and a method by which the second guided missile detects the target are different.
US11340036B2
A firearm sound suppressor and associated methods. The suppressor can include first and second firearm connectors at opposite ends of the suppressor for connecting to firearm mounts of different types. The suppressor can include symmetrical baffling and/or symmetrical gas flow passaging such that sound reduction performance of the suppressor is generally the same notwithstanding whether the first or second firearm connectors is used to connect the suppressor to the firearm. A protector can be used to protect the firearm connector that is not connected to the firearm.
US11340035B2
A trigger assembly apparatus includes spherical portion(s) and spherical bearing(s), rounded sear, stabilizing catch, and complimentary shield. In an exemplary embodiment, the spherical portion(s) and spherical bearing(s) respond to non-linear movement. Further, the interaction of the spherical portion(s) and spherical bearing(s) results in the mobility of the trigger in relation to the 6 degrees of freedom thereby resulting in the firearm being generally unaffected by side to side movement of the trigger during activation. The trigger assembly may also include but is not limited to a rounded sear, stabilizing catch, and complimentary shield. The rounded portion of the sear engages the hammer stop notch at a single point further resulting in the firearm being generally unaffected by side to side movement of the trigger. Additionally the stabilizing catch and shield helps facilitate the proper reset of the trigger assembly.
US11340032B2
A Pack & Load ammunition packaging and loading device, containing thirty round, with a coupling mechanism for directly and mechanically loading ammunition rounds into standard rifle and pistol magazines. The device has a cup to engage the magazine and a pusher mechanism to quickly force the ammunition into the magazine as it mechanically feeds the round from the sleeve of the device made of a clam shell set of side rails coupled with a hinge on one side and interlocking teeth on the other. Filament brushes in the cup retain the ammunition and the device has a removable tab and slot to enable partial fills from the device. It eliminates the manual feed and quickly places the rounds into a standard magazine ready for use.
US11340027B2
A tube for a heat exchanger includes a tube outer body enclosing a tube inner volume, and a corrugated insert received within the tube inner volume. The tube outer body has a pair of broad planar walls joined by arcuate end walls. The corrugated insert defines flow channels through the tube, with opening in flanks of the insert allowing for flow communication between adjacent flow channels. Bypass channels adjacent the arcuate end walls are fluidly isolated from the adjacent flow channels by the absence of such openings in the end flanks. Flow through the bypass channels is obstructed by flow blocks at one or both ends of the bypass channels.
US11340019B2
Systems and methods that involve distributing water droplets onto a media, particular but nonlimiting examples of which include systems and methods for exchanging heat between process water and air in an evaporative cooling system that includes media with a plurality of individual elements each having a surface. The surfaces of at least some of the individual elements individually have a static electrical charge, and the static electrical charges are different among the surfaces of the individual elements.
US11340018B2
A refractory article having a support structure including a first plurality of posts coupled by a first member; and a second plurality of posts substantially parallel with the first plurality of posts, the second plurality of posts coupled by a second member, wherein the support structure has a height, H, and wherein the first and second members are positioned between 0.3H and 0.7H. In another aspect, the support structure has a height to width ratio of at least 1.5, a stiffness factor of no greater than 100 mm, and a solid to open volume ratio of no greater than 5%. In another aspect, the support structure has a weight of no greater than 1200 kg, a stiffness factor of no greater than 100 mm, and a solid to open volume ratio of no greater than 5%.
US11340015B2
A data collector for use in monitoring a lyophilisation process of a product in a test product container in a lyophilisation chamber, said data collector comprising a battery, a measuring device including an electronics unit and a sensor configured for being arranged in said test product container, a first compartment in a first portion, a second compartment in a second portion, a first end surface configured for resting on the support surface, and a second end surface opposite to the first end surface, wherein said first and second portions are arranged side-by-side when seen in a plane defined by the first end surface, and wherein the battery is housed in the first compartment and the electronics unit of the measuring device is housed in the second compartment, such that the battery and the electronics unit are separate from each other.
US11340012B2
The present invention relates to a refrigerant composition. According to the invention it is envisioned that the composition comprises comprising an inert gas selected from nitrogen, argon, neon and a mixture thereof, and a mixture of at least two C1-C5 hydrocarbons. The present invention further relates to the use of the refrigerant composition in a method for liquefying a gaseous substance, particularly hydrogen or helium.
US11340010B2
A tray is mounted inside a storage compartment of an entrance refrigerator. A bottom portion of the tray is spaced apart from a bottom portion of the storage compartment, and gaps are provided between the sides of the tray and the sides of the storage compartment. With this configuration, it is possible to minimize a blockage of a cold air flow path by goods stored on the tray in the storage compartment.
US11340006B2
A storage container includes a body defining a first opening at a top of the body, a second opening at a bottom of the body, and a space between the first opening and the second opening, a cover configured to open or close the first opening, the cover including an insulation material to thermally insulate the space from an outside of the body, a housing disposed in the space to store items, a thermoelectric element disposed in the second opening, the thermoelectric element including a heat-absorbing surface and a heat-emitting surface, a heat-absorbing heat exchanger that surrounds the housing, contacts the heat-absorbing surface, and is configured to transfer heat from the housing to the heat-absorbing surface, a heat transfer part configured to transfer heat generated from the heat-emitting surface to a wall of the body, and a heat-dissipating part configured to dissipate heat from the heat transfer part.
US11339998B2
A transport refrigeration unit (TRU) system is provided and includes a TRU and an energy storage device (ESD). The TRU includes components which are configured to control an environment and a TRU controller configured to control the components in accordance with component operating settings. The ESD includes an ESD controller receptive of identification data identifying the components, current condition data reflective of current conditions and control data reflective of a temperature profile. The ESD controller is configured to determine the component operating settings in accordance with the identification, current condition and control data and to issue the component operating settings to the TRU controller.
US11339997B2
An air conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor device that is configured to circulate refrigerant and that includes a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger, a plurality of indoor devices configured to circulate water, and a heat exchange device connecting the outdoor device with the indoor device. The heat exchange device includes a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and the water, and a switch device configured to control flow of refrigerant between the indoor devices and the heat exchanger.
US11339993B2
A mounting bracket includes a support frame and a stop member. The support frame includes a support rod and a leg connected to the support rod and angularly arranged relative to the support rod. The support rod includes a first end and a second end opposite each other. The stop member is located at the first end of the support rod and extends in a direction perpendicular to a length direction of the support rod.
US11339992B2
The present disclosure is related to a sensor mounting assembly for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit that includes a cover configured to couple to a panel of the HVAC unit and occlude an opening formed in the panel and a sensor support configured to couple to the cover and support a sensor coupled to the sensor support. The sensor support is also configured to extend into the HVAC unit via the opening in an installed configuration of the sensor mounting assembly.
US11339984B2
Provided is a humidifier, including a machine base, a water tank, a water suction pump, and a water inlet pipe. The machine base is located on the water tank, which includes an atomization water reservoir, a water feed base, a control base, an atomization air channel and an atomizer disposed inside. The water feed base includes a water feed opening and a first outflow opening, and the first outflow opening is in communication with the water tank; a water inlet is disposed on the atomization water reservoir, and water in the water tank will flow into the atomization water reservoir through the water inlet pipe by the water suction pump; the atomizer is in communication with the atomization water reservoir through an atomization opening disposed at the atomization water reservoir, and water vapor flows into the atomization air channel and flows to outside along the atomization air channel.
US11339977B2
An apparatus and a method for providing adequate cooling inside control box of an electrical equipment. A method includes receiving air from one or more air ducts in a first section wherein the first section is coupled with the one or more air ducts. The method also includes providing the air to a first fan associated with the first section and transferring the air by the first fan to one or more second fans. The method further includes receiving air from the one or more air ducts associated with the first section to one or more vents in the second section and transferring the air from one or more vents to the one or more louvers and the first fan. Air transferred to the one or more louvers and the first fan is further transferred to the one or more second fans.
US11339975B2
A domestic cooking appliance includes: a main housing; a cooking compartment; a gas burner that provides heat to the cooking compartment; a cooling air passageway located between the cooking compartment and a rear wall of the main housing, the cooling air passageway being separated from the cooking compartment by a rear wall of the cooking compartment; and a gas flue. The gas flue has an exhaust gas inlet open to the cooking chamber, the exhaust inlet being located in a lower panel of the gas flue, a cooling air inlet open to the cooling air passageway, an outlet located above the exhaust gas inlet, above the cooling air inlet, and above an uppermost portion of the cooking compartment, and an upper deflector located above the outlet and angled relative to vertical at a non-zero first angle such that the upper deflector extends over at least a portion of the outlet.
US11339972B2
A door for sealing a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance includes a rear wall and a condensate collection device for collecting a condensate draining from a rear side of the rear wall. The condensate collection device includes a collection and guide rail to collect condensate draining from the rear side and to divert the condensate in the direction of a collection container of the condensate collection device.
US11339967B2
A fuel injector including: a plurality of air swirler passages; at least one fuel supply passage arranged to supply fuel into at least one of the air swirler passages; and at least one cavity separating an exterior of the fuel supply passage from a body of the fuel injector; wherein the cavity is at least partially filled with a thermally insulating material.
US11339959B2
A light emitter includes a first portion, a light emitting element, a second portion, a pocket positioned in one of the first portion and the second portion, and an electrical connector. The first portion includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The light emitting element is positioned adjacent the first surface of the first portion. The second portion is coupled to the second surface of first portion. The electrical connector is disposed in the pocket, and the electrical connector is recessed relative to the first surface of the first portion.
US11339955B1
A rotary joint for a lighting fixture includes: a first mounting member having a first housing; a second mounting member having a second housing and a positioning plate; a number of first metal connecting plates fixed to the first mounting member; a number of second metal connecting plates fixed to the second mounting member; and a shaft passing through the first housing, the second housing, the positioning plate, the first metal connecting plates, and the second metal connecting plates. The shaft rotatably connects the first mounting member to the second mounting member.
US11339950B2
A backlight module comprising an optical component, a frame and an elastic member is presented. The frame has a first sidewall and a second sidewall. An end of the first sidewall is connected to an end of the second sidewall to form a corner portion. The first sidewall and the second sidewall are located at different sides of the optical component. The first sidewall and the second sidewall include a first angle therebetween. The elastic member is configured to be disposed on the frame. The elastic member includes a flange portion, a first extension portion and a second extension portion. The flange portion is configured to be disposed on the corner portion. The first extension portion extends along a first direction away from the flange portion and has a first surface. The second extension portion extends along a second direction away from the flange portion and has a second surface. A second angle is included between the first extension portion and the second extension portion. Wherein before the elastic member is disposed on the frame, the second angle is greater than the first angle; when the elastic member is disposed on the frame, the flange portion engages with the corner portion, the first surface is against an inner surface of the first sidewall, and the second surface is against an inner surface of the second sidewall.
US11339938B2
A vehicle headlight includes a light source and an adjustable objective. The light source is designed as a field having a plurality of microlight sources. The adjustable objective includes at least three lens groups, at least two of which are designed to be displaceable along the optical axis in order to adjust the focal length and the focal plane.
US11339936B2
Disclosed is a swinging flame head device, comprising a fixed housing (1), a flame head housing (5), a light source (61) and a spring (4). The fixed housing (1) has an internal space and an upper opening, the flame head housing (5) comprises a stereoscopic flame-shaped portion and has an internal hollow structure, and the flame head housing (5) is at least partially located above the upper opening of the fixed housing (1). The light source (61) is arranged inside the flame head housing (5), and light rays emitted from the light source (61) illuminate the flame head housing (5) from inside to outside from the interior of the flame head housing (5). The spring (4) has an upper and a lower end, wherein the flame head housing (5) is supported on the upper end of the spring (4), and the disturbance of the spring (4) brings about the movement of the flame head housing (5) relative to the fixed housing (1), or the light source (61) is fixed to the upper end of the spring (4), and the disturbance of the spring (4) brings about the movement of the light source (61) relative to the fixed housing (1). The device has a simple structure, and generates a decorative lighting effect of flame flickering at any angle.
US11339933B2
A LED module mount, kit and method for mounting LED modules into lighting apparatuses, in particular for retrofit applications for retrofitting lighting apparatus frames with LED modules. Two module connectors connect to an LED module at opposite sides of the LED module so as to be in a parallel arrangement spaced apart by the LED module. Additional LED modules can be added to form a row of LED modules between the module connectors, with further rows of LED modules being added by adding a third and sequential modular connectors to stack rows of LED modules separated by a modular connector. One or more arms attaches to the modular connectors to connect the connectors to a light fixture. The arms are configured to be rotationally adjusted relative to the modular connectors to provide adjustability for accommodating varying light fixtures. The modular connectors and arms are configured to be adjusted in size, preferably by cutting the modular connectors and arms.
US11339930B1
The present invention pertains to devices and applications for lamps to produce color mixing effects with a desired color distribution output within a translucent cylindrical housing. More specifically, the invention pertains to a device or devices that utilize a multidirectional light engine constructed in opposite directions with programmed light intensity with a spatial distribution of photons at single or varying wavelengths, which result in a large percentage of those photons entering the translucent cylinder producing a non-linear effect being emitted from the cylinder. Embodiments use two or more coaxial light engines with programmed light intensities producing a variety of non-linear lighting effects, which emit the majority of the light rays in opposing directions within a dedicated color mixing chamber. In some embodiments, the color mixing lighting device comprises two or more coaxial light engines which beam light in a 360 degree radial pattern forming an approximate 110 degree cone.
US11339928B2
A solid state lamp includes a connector and a bulb portion with multiple strips.
US11339924B2
A method for producing a high-pressure tank capable of suppressing break of a surface resin layer due to gas pressure as well as degradation in the tank quality. The method includes winding a thermosetting resin-impregnated fiber bundle around a liner so as to form an uncured fiber-reinforced resin layer thereon, first heating in which the uncured fiber-reinforced resin layer is locally heated at a first temperature so as to leach the thermosetting resin out of the uncured fiber-reinforced resin layer to form the surface resin layer, and the surface resin layer is cured to have cracks generated therein, and second heating in which the tank is entirely heated at a second temperature lower than the first temperature, so that the fiber-reinforced resin layer and surface resin layer are entirely cured, so as to obtain the tank with the surface resin layer locally having cracks generated therein.
US11339916B2
A tripod combines a ball mount base with a tilt/pan head includes a ball stud that is attached to the center column of the tripod. A lockable ball mount is attached to the ball stud and a tilt/pan head is attached to the ball mount. The tilt/pan head thus can be leveled using the ball mount irrespective of the orientation of the tripod itself. The tripod may also have telescoping legs each with a friction lock. The friction locks have identical threads notwithstanding that each successive telescoping leg segment is smaller in diameter than the previous. A universal end cap can be attached to any one of the leg segments. Telescoping arms attached to the legs form a V-shaped cradle to support an item attached to the tripod head.
US11339914B2
Afforded is a linear stage including first, second, and third supporting parts disposed on a supporting flat surface, a first shaft supported by the first and second supporting parts and extending in a first direction, a second shaft supported by the third supporting part and provided extending in the first direction, and a translating carriage translated in the first direction, guided by the first shaft and the second shaft. At least one supporting part among the first, second, and third supporting parts supports the shaft supported by that supporting part in a way such as to be displaceable in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and parallel to the supporting flat surface.
US11339912B2
A coupling arrangement (100) for connecting thermally insulated, fluid-conducting lines (102, 104) has a coupling (101) comprising a first coupling part (106) and a second coupling part (108), and connecting means (110) for connecting the two coupling parts (106, 108). A covering (112) surrounding the coupling (101) is provided, which covering, on both sides of the coupling (101), in each case lies against the thermal insulation of the fluid-conducting lines (102, 104). A cavity (114) formed by the covering (112) is configured for thermal insulation between the coupling (101) and the exterior of the covering (112).
US11339908B2
A heat resistant hose is described. The hose may include a first outer protective and structural woven reinforcing layer comprising a first tubular fabric structure, a second inner protective and structural woven reinforcing layer comprising a second tubular fabric structure, where the second inner protective and structural woven reinforcing layer is within the first outer protective and structural woven reinforcing layer, a hose innermost extruded waterproofing layer comprising an elastomeric material, the hose layer being bonded to, adhered to, or impregnated into or through the second protective layer, the innermost extruded waterproofing layer is within the inner protective and structural woven reinforcing layer, and an intermediate layer interposed between the first outer protective and structural woven reinforcing layer and the second inner protective and structural woven reinforcing layer, the intermediate layer comprising a fabric laminated with a reflective material.
US11339905B2
An adapter for connecting a water pipe and a high-pressure spray gun includes a connection assembly, a clamping assembly, and a covering member. The connection assembly includes a connector body defined by a side wall and extending between a proximal end and a distal end, and a chute that extends along the connection body between the proximal and distal ends. The water pipe is coupled along the proximal end and the spray gun is coupled along the distal end. The chute includes grooves, and tapered regions seamlessly extending below from the grooves. The clamping assembly is operatively coupled to the connector body. The covering member sleeves over the connection assembly to movably engage with the clamping assembly, and is pressed and released to realise the buckle to move down from the grooves towards the tapered regions and back from grooves to the tapered regions, to clamp the water pipe.
US11339903B2
The clamping system comprises a collar that comprises a belt suitable for being clamped around clamping surfaces projecting from tubes. The collar carries a series of angularly distributed foldable fingers, each finger presenting a free operating end projecting axially beyond the first edge of the belt over a distance that is sufficient to enable it to be manipulated by hand. Starting from an initial position in which the fingers define a rest minimum diameter, the fingers are suitable for being folded manually and plastically towards the axis of the belt in order to define a folded-in minimum diameter that is less than said rest minimum diameter.
US11339891B2
A flow control device includes a valve body having an inlet, an outlet, and a flow path connecting the inlet and the outlet. A cage is disposed in the flow path, and a bonnet is coupled to the cage and includes a portion overlapping with a portion of the cage. A retaining ring is disposed between the cage and the bonnet. The retaining ring includes an interior side, an exterior side, and a cavity formed between the interior and exterior sides.
US11339887B2
A system for regulating fluid flow having a processor configured to reduce image noise is provided. The system includes an image sensor to capture an image of the drip chamber. The processor captures the image of the drip chamber using the image sensor, performs an edge detection on the image to generate a first processed image, and performs an AND-operation on a pixel on a first side of an axis of the first processed image with a corresponding mirror pixel on a second side of the axis of the first processed image to generate a second processed image.
US11339878B2
A throttling valve that allows staged pressure drop increments upstream and/or downstream of a primary flow trim assembly within a valve body to help prevent cavitation and freezing effects. The flow trim assembly can be quickly and efficiently removed from the throttling valve (and repaired or replaced) without requiring disassembly of the throttling valve from a flow line or other fluid conduit, and without requiring removal of an automated actuator. A throttling valve body that allows direct mounting of actuators to the valve without the need for brackets and linkages.
US11339877B2
A valve assembly, comprising a first fluid port, a second fluid port, a valve seat comprising an inner valve seat and an outer valve seat, and a moveable plunger, being moveable between a closed position and an open position arranged to simultaneously seal the inner valve seat and the outer valve seat when in the closed position. A first fluid pathway passes via the inner valve seat, and a second fluid pathway passes via the outer valve seat between the first and second fluid ports when the movable plunger is in the open position. At least one fluid flow path is provided through the body of the moveable plunger. The cross-sectional area of the flow path through the moveable plunger is at least half of the cylindrical cross-sectional area of the gap between the plunger and the respective inner or outer valve seat.
US11339875B2
A park release mechanism for a vehicle, including an upper housing and an assembleable lower housing. A cam with a projecting handle is arranged between the upper and lower housings and defines a range of pivotal rotation relative the housings. A cable is secured at one end to the cam and adapted to secure at an opposite end to a transmission of the vehicle. An unlock component is incorporated into the housing in communication with the cam and handle and, upon actuating, to shift the vehicle to and from a Park position upon actuation of the handle and displacement of the cable.
US11339870B2
A planetary carrier includes first and second support hole parts that support a pinion shaft on which a pinion gear is provided from both sides in an axial direction. The planetary carrier includes a first holding member and a second holding member. The first holding member includes a connection end that extends in an axial direction toward a second holding member and that is connected to and faces the second holding member. The second holding member includes a fragile part formed on an end part in a circumferential direction in a region to which the connection end is connected.
US11339867B2
A driving apparatus has a problem in that foreign matter, such as grease, in a reduction gear moves from the reduction gear to a coupling side. Therefore, a driving apparatus includes an input shaft with a hollow space, a motor that rotates the input shaft, a reduction gear that receives the power of the motor from the input shaft, an output shaft inserted through the hollow space of the input shaft and adapted to rotate about the rotation axis of the motor, and a coupling connected to a tip end of the output shaft. A first limiting member for limiting the movement of foreign matter in the reduction gear toward the coupling side is arranged between the reduction gear and the coupling.
US11339862B2
A method for operating a drive-train of a motor vehicle. The drive-train having a transmission connected between a drive aggregate and a drive output. A hydrodynamic starting element is connected between the drive aggregate and transmission. The starting element includes a converter and converter lock-up clutch. A Power Take-Off (PTO) can be coupled to the drive aggregate on the drive aggregate side to take up drive torque delivered by the drive aggregate. In order to determine the torque taken up by the PTO, the lock-up clutch is operated in a rotational-speed-regulated manner at least when the PTO is coupled to the drive aggregate in order to set a defined target slip at the lock-up clutch. As a function of the actuation pressure of the lock-up clutch required for setting the target slip when the PTO is coupled, the torque taken up by the PTO is determined.
US11339857B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides an actuator comprising: a housing having a mounting space part formed therein; a motor part provided inside the housing and generating power; a reduction gear part of which a plurality of gears respectively having an internal gear and an external gear sequentially engage with each other so as to transmit the power generated in the motor part; and a rod part engaging with the gear disposed at the last position, and linearly moving according to the rotation of the gear, wherein one of the plurality of gears is formed such that the internal gear and the external gear can rotate together or rotate independently.
US11339839B2
The reverse input shutoff clutch includes: an input member, an output member coaxially arranged with the input member, a pressed member having a pressed surface, and an engaging element. The engaging element, when rotational torque is inputted to the input member, moves in a direction away from the pressed surface due to engagement with the input member and transmits the rotational torque to the output member, and when rotational torque is reversely inputted to the output member, moves in a direction toward the pressed surface due to engagement with the output member, and prevents or suppresses relative rotation between the output member and the pressed member.
US11339832B2
A homokinetic joint includes a joint socket shaft having a joint socket flange; a housing nut, which surrounds the joint socket shaft and has an internal thread; a joint head shaft, which has an external thread, wherein the external thread is of complementary design to the internal thread of the housing nut, wherein the joint socket shaft can be pivoted in a first pivoting direction and in a second pivoting direction relative to the joint head shaft; and a torsion disc between the joint socket shaft and the joint head shaft for transmitting torsional loads between the joint socket shaft and the joint head shaft; wherein a respective ball bearing is formed between the housing nut and the joint socket flange, between the joint socket flange and the torsion disc, and between the torsion disc and the joint head shaft.
US11339827B2
A load-variable rolling bearing includes: an outer ring having an outer ring raceway surface with spherical surface contact portions having concave arch sections and a variable contact portion having a shape of a cylinder in such a manner as to be adjacent to the spherical surface contact portions in an axial direction of the spherical surface contact portions; an inner ring having an inner ring raceway surface with spherical surface contact portions having concave arch sections and a variable contact portion having a shape of a cylinder in such a manner as to be adjacent to the spherical surface contact portions in an axial direction of the spherical surface contact portions; and a plurality of rolling elements each having a cylindrical variable contact portion and spherical surface portions formed with convex spherical surfaces on both sides of the variable contact portion.
US11339816B2
A fastening and releasing pushing module includes a base, a pivot shaft provided at the base, a fastening portion provided at the pivot shaft, two pushing members provided at the pivot shaft, two elastic members, and a releasing switch. Each pushing members includes a body and a positioning shaft assembled at the body. One end of each of the elastic elements is directly connected to the positioning shaft of the pushing member, and the other end is connected to the base. The releasing switch is provided at the pivot shaft, and is movable between a fastening position and a releasing pushing position. When the releasing switch moves to the fastening position or the releasing pushing position, the releasing switch drives the pivot shaft to rotate, such that the fastening portion and the pushing members simultaneously rotate to the fastening position or the releasing pushing position.
US11339813B2
A joint structure includes a first member having a fit-in groove, a second member made of a material different from a material of the first member and having an insertion section to be inserted into the fit-in groove, and a plurality of bonding layers having different hardness and formed between the fit-in groove and the insertion section.
US11339812B2
This multi-couplings plate (P1) includes a locking device comprising a frame (14) fixed on the plate (P1), locking members and a drive mechanism, comprising a rotary element (18) rotatable in the frame (14), a sliding element translatable relative to the frame (14) and which cooperates with the locking members. The locking device also comprises several ratchet notches (301-309) secured to an element (18) of the drive mechanism (16) and juxtaposed in the movement direction relative to the frame (14) of the element (18) of the drive mechanism, the ratchet notches (301-309) comprising a final notch (309) and at least one intermediate notch (303-308), and a pawl movable in a housing (326) of the frame (14) and pushed back by a spring (28) toward one of the ratchet notches (301-309). When the pawl cooperates with the intermediate notch (303-308), the pawl limits the movement of the sliding element toward its forward position to a position midway between the forward position and the withdrawn position, and in the coupled configuration, the pawl cooperates with the final notch (309) and keeps the sliding element in the withdrawn position.
US11339806B2
A flow controller that changes the flow rate of air exhausted from an air cylinder in mid-stroke includes a first switching valve displaced from a first position to a second position under the effect of pilot air, and causing one port of the air cylinder to communicate with a first channel at the first position, exhausting air exhausted from the one port of the air cylinder while reducing the flow rate of the air using a first regulating valve at the second position. Since the pilot air is taken into the first switching valve from a second channel in a system different from the system of the first channel, a second regulating valve can be adjusted without being affected by the degree of opening of the first regulating valve.
US11339805B2
An artificial muscle that includes a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region and an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region, the electrode pair having a first electrode fixed to a first surface of the housing and a second electrode fixed to a second surface of the housing. The first and second electrodes each have two or more tab portions and two or more bridge portions. Each of the two or more bridge portions interconnects adjacent tab portions and at least one of the first and second electrodes includes a central opening positioned between the two or more tab portions and encircling the expandable fluid region. A dielectric fluid is housed within the housing and the electrode pair is actuatable between a non-actuated and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated to actuated state directs the dielectric fluid into the expandable fluid region.
US11339797B2
A scroll shape of a compressor forms into a spiral shape a flow path of fluid discharged from a diffuser provided on a downstream side of the compressor in a fluid flow direction. The scroll shape has a scroll outer diameter that is not constant in a circumferential direction. An increase degree of a ratio A/R is set to be increased in a range from a winding start position to a winding end position of a scroll portion where A is a passage cross-sectional area of the scroll portion and R is a radius from a center of the compressor to a center of a passage cross section of the scroll portion.
US11339793B2
Systems and methods are provided for mitigating recirculation of backflow fluid through a fan. The fan includes a housing having a channel that extends from an inlet to an outlet of the housing. A rotor assembly is positioned within the channel and is configured to direct a fluid flow from the inlet to the outlet. The rotor assembly includes a hub, a plurality of fan blades, and a shroud disposed about a circumference of the fan blades, where a radial gap extends between the shroud and the housing. The radial gap is configured to receive a portion of the fluid flow from the outlet as backflow fluid. The rotor assembly also includes an inlet flange that is configured receive the backflow fluid from the radial gap and to direct the backflow fluid in a direction away from the inlet prior to discharge of the backflow fluid from the radial gap.
US11339789B2
A diffuser anti-rotation system and apparatus is described. A diffuser anti-rotation system includes a circumferential coupling ring interlocked between a top of a first diffuser and a bottom of an adjacent diffuser. One end of the first diffuser includes at least one male register tab, the opposing end of the adjacent diffuser has at least one female register slot, and the coupling ring interlocks with the male register tab and the female register slot. One of the male register tabs and one of the female register slots are aligned axially and a single projection from the coupling ring interlocks with both the male register tab and the axially aligned female register slot. Impellers are mated with and rotating within each of the first diffuser and the adjacent diffuser, and the interlocked coupling ring prevents rotation of the first diffuser with respect to the adjacent diffuser.
US11339788B2
This disclosure includes subsea pumping apparatuses and related methods. Some apparatuses include one or more subsea pumps, each having an inlet and an outlet, and one or more motors, each configured to actuate at least one pump to communicate a hydraulic fluid from the inlet to the outlet, where the subsea pumping apparatus is configured to be in fluid communication with a hydraulically actuated device of a blowout preventer. Some subsea pumping apparatuses include one or more of: a desalination system configured to produce at least a portion of the hydraulic fluid; one or more valves, each configured to selectively route hydraulic fluid from an outlet of a pump to, for example, a subsea environment, a reservoir, and/or the inlet of the pump; and a reservoir configured to store at least a portion of the hydraulic fluid. Some apparatuses are configured to be directly coupled to the hydraulically actuated device.
US11339785B2
A compressor is provided. The compressor may include a fixed wrap, and an orbiting scroll having an orbiting wrap engaged with the fixed wrap to form compression chambers. The fixed wrap and the orbiting wrap may have irregular wrap curves. At least one interference avoiding portion at which a spacing between the wraps is greater than an orbiting radius or at least one gap compensating portion at which the spacing between the wraps is smaller than the orbiting radius, in a state in which a center of the fixed scroll and a center of the orbiting scroll are aligned with each other, may be provided on a sidewall surface of the fixed wrap or the orbiting wrap, whereby frictional loss or abrasion due to interference between the wraps or a refrigerant leakage due to a gap between the wraps may be prevented.
US11339783B2
A pump housing structure of a three-axis multi-stage Roots pump is provided, comprising a first-stage pump housing, a second-stage pump housing and a third-stage pump housing, wherein the first-stage pump housing is provided with a first center axial hole, a first left axial hole and a first right axial hole; a fixed bearing end cover is mounted on the side of the first-stage pump housing, three fixed bearing chambers are provided on the surface of the fixed bearing end cover; the second-stage pump housing is provided with a second center axial hole, a second left axial hole and a second right axial hole, the third-stage pump housing is provided with a third center axial hole, a third left axial hole and a third right axial hole, and the end surface at the outer side of the third-stage pump housing is fixedly mounted with a non-driving end bearing end cover. The present invention can accommodate and fix three axes through three fixed bearing chambers, respectively. Moreover, since the sum of the axial lengths of the second-stage pump housing and the third-stage pump housing is equal to the axial length of the first-stage pump housing, it not only can strengthen the center stiffness of the three axes of the Roots pump, but also can ensure that the total axial expansion is evenly divided, reducing the cumulated amount of thermal expansion at the end of the axis.
US11339779B2
A sealed connection device configured to connect a pump head with a pump on an additive pump. The sealed connection device may comprise an adapter and a sealing collar that inserts into the adapter. The sealing collar may comprise a body with a bore forming open ends, a shoulder disposed between the open ends, an annular detent adjacent the shoulder, annular grooves, one being disposed on the shoulder two others found on either side of the shoulder, and o-rings disposed in the annular grooves. The pump may couple with a first side of the adapter, the pump comprising a shaft that inserts in the bore of the sealing collar. The pump head may insert into a second side of the adapter so as to contact one of o-rings on the sealing collar.
US11339769B2
An electric drive pump system includes a power end and a detachable transmission assembly. The transmission assembly is mounted to the power end and is configured to provide rotational power to the power end through a plurality of electric motors. The plurality of electric motors use a gearbox to drive an output spline that engages the power end. A control module is used to regulate the performance characteristics of the plurality of electric motors. A temperature regulation assembly is configured to regulate the temperature of the transmission assembly and the power end.
US11339761B2
A bolt sleeve connector, a blade of a wind turbine generator system and manufacturing method thereof and a wind turbine generator system are provided. The bolt sleeve connector includes at least two extension portions arranged side by side and spaced apart, and each extension portion has a first end and a second end. The first ends of the extension portions are connected together and the second end of each extension portion is connected with the corresponding bolt sleeve. By using the bolt sleeve connectors to connect multiple pre-embedded connection sleeves at the position of the blade root of the blade of the wind turbine generator system, the multiple pre-embedded connection sleeves are connected as a whole, thus can disperse the stress of the bolt and the bolt sleeve and then improve the bearing capacity of the blade root bolt and facilitate reducing the weight of the blade root.
US11339755B2
Electronic fuel injection for an internal combustion engine maintains an operator-specified air-to-fuel ratio during engine operations in high-speed, high-volume, mixed fuel applications. A microprocessor-based controller executes a program stored in memory to calculate a fuel flow value as a function of the specified air-to-fuel ratio and specified density ratio of mixed fuels. The controller outputs a control signal to a variable fuel flow relief valve and receives feedback from an engine fuel flow sensor. The controller adjusts the control signal until the feedback matches the fuel flow value. The program optimizes the fuel flow value by accounting for engine air flow, water vapor density, and dry air density effects in the calculation, based on signals received by the controller from various environmental sensors. The system has particular application in dragster engines that burn a mixture of nitromethane and methanol.
US11339746B2
The present invention relates to an electromagnetic device (10) comprising: —an electromagnetic system (60), —a fuel vapour outlet conduit (30) extending the electromagnetic system (60), —a first housing (61), in which the electromagnetic system (60) is arranged. The invention is characterized in that the fuel vapour outlet conduit (30) is arranged in an intermediate housing (71).
US11339744B1
A dual flow path exhaust assembly for use with a combined turbofan and ramjet engine includes a turbofan engine exhaust duct, a ramjet engine exhaust duct, a combined outlet, and door configured to move between an open position and a closed position to selectively isolate the turbofan engine exhaust duct from the combined outlet.
US11339739B2
An internal combustion engine control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform determining whether a start of the internal combustion engine is complete, determining whether a warm-up of an exhaust catalyst device is needed, acquiring an information on a temperature inside a cylinder, switching an injection mode, and controlling the fuel injector to inject the fuel in accordance with the injection mode, the switching including switching the injection mode to the first injection mode when the start of the internal combustion engine is complete and the warm-up of the exhaust catalyst device is needed, and switching the injection mode to the second injection mode or the third injection mode in accordance with the information on the temperature when the start of the internal combustion engine is complete and the warm-up of the exhaust catalyst device is not needed.
US11339737B1
A fuel filter monitoring method includes receiving pressure signals that are indicative of a pressure drop across at least one fuel filter of a fuel supply system configured to supply fuel to at least one fuel injector of an internal combustion engine and receiving a condition signal indicative of a condition of a fuel supply system, the condition signal being generated by one or more of a geographic location sensor, an altitude sensor, and/or a fuel temperature sensor. The method includes estimating a remaining life of at least one fuel filter of the fuel supply system based on the pressure signal and the condition signal and outputting a notification indicative of the estimated remaining life.
US11339732B1
A turbocharger control method and related systems are provided. An operational command to control a level of boost provided by the turbocharger is received. In response to receiving the operational command, an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve is instructed to move from a current position to a desired position. A time taken for the EGR valve to move from the current position to the desired position is determined. A maximum rise rate of exhaust manifold pressure corresponding to a predicted EGR valve position is determined. A permitted exhaust manifold pressure limit for the turbocharger is determined based on a current exhaust manifold pressure, the maximum rise rate of exhaust manifold pressure and the time taken. An operation of the turbocharger is controlled such that the permitted exhaust manifold pressure limit is not exceeded.
US11339725B2
A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, this reduction gear including a sun gear having an axis of rotation, a ring gear which extends around the sun gear and which is configured to be fixed in rotation around the axis, planet gears which are in mesh with the sun gear and the ring gear and which are held by a planet carrier which is configured to be fixed or in rotation around the axis, each planet gear including a first toothing of average diameter D1 for the meshing with the sun gear, and a second toothing of average diameter D2, different from D1, for the meshing with the ring gear, wherein the first and second toothings of each planet gear include herringbone teeth and are symmetrical with respect to a plane perpendicular to the axis and passing substantially in the middle of the planet gear.
US11339722B2
An interface for a gas turbine engine. The interface includes a full-hoop vane ring around the engine axis, the full-hoop vane ring comprises a forward vane rail with a vane ring forward contact surface and a vane ring anti-rotation tab, the vane ring anti-rotation tab engaged with the anti-rotation case slot; and a multiple of BOAS segments around the engine axis, each of the multiple of BOAS segments comprise a BOAS aft engagement feature and a BOAS aft contact surface, the BOAS aft engagement feature engaged with the outer case and the anti-rotation case slot, the BOAS aft contact surface abuts the vane ring forward contact surface.
US11339720B2
Disclosed is an acoustic liner for a gas turbine engine, having: a face sheet; a first plurality of resonator chamber cavities, distributed non-uniformly against the face sheet, the first plurality of resonator chamber cavities defining a first aggregated volume that is configured to target noise attenuation at a first frequency, the first plurality of resonator chamber cavities include first and second resonator chamber cavities fluidly coupled to each other, which have different configurations with respect to each other; and a second plurality of resonator chamber cavities, distributed non-uniformly against the face sheet, the second plurality of resonator chamber cavities define a second aggregated volume that differs from the first aggregated volume and is configured to target noise attenuation at a second frequency, the second plurality of resonator chamber cavities include third and fourth resonator chamber cavities fluidly coupled to each other, which have different configurations with respect to each other.
US11339709B2
A system is disclosed for monitoring and controlling the air intake of combustion motor with a forced air turbine electronically coupled thereto for the purposes of controlling the same. A processor electrically linked to the forced air turbine electric motor controller and configured with defined parameters to correlate forced air turbine instructions with engine and intake air pressure conditions. The system includes sensors electrically coupled to the forced air turbine electric motor controller configured to send information from the air intake, forced air turbine, throttle position and other conditions of the engine coupled thereto. The forced air turbine electric motor controller is configured to control the air intake based upon the input received from the various sensors as compared to the data contained in the processor. The system provides turbine speed control to the mass of intake air.
US11339702B2
Systems and methods are described for performing a diagnostic on an exhaust gas aftertreatment system. A gas entry parameter into a portion of an exhaust system of an engine is determined. In response to determining that the gas entry parameter is less than the predetermined threshold, a level of NH3 in the exhaust gas is determined. In response to determining that the level of NH3 is above a threshold value, degradation of a particulate filter of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system is indicated.
US11339681B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the operating state of an overpressure valve of a turbine engine, the turbine engine comprising a fluid circuit, at least one pressure sensor for the fluid in the fluid circuit, a temperature sensor for the fluid in the fluid circuit, said overpressure valve being configured to limit the maximum fluid pressures in the fluid circuit, and the method comprising the following steps: —(E2) determining an opening or closing indicator of the overpressure valve on the basis of the change in the fluid pressure over time; —(E3) determining an operating state of the valve as a function of a fluid threshold temperature and of the determined opening or closing indicator of the overpressure valve.
US11339678B2
A system for controlling blade tip clearances in a gas turbine engine may comprise an active clearance control system and a controller in operable communication with the active clearance control system. The controller may be configured to identify a cruise condition, reduce a thrust limit of the gas turbine engine to a de-rated maximum climb thrust, determine a first target tip clearance based on the de-rated maximum climb thrust, and send a command signal correlating to the first target tip clearance to the active clearance control system.
US11339672B2
A method for disassembling/assembling a gas turbine including a seal plate disposed on a first side of a rotor disc in an axial direction of the rotor disc, and a seal plate restraint part for restricting movement of the seal plate in a radial direction of the rotor disc. The method includes a seal-plate-restraint-state switching step of operating the seal plate restraint part from a second side in the axial direction via a clearance between a platform of a blade and a region of an outer peripheral surface of the rotor disc except a blade groove for receiving the blade to switch between a seal plate non-restraint state where the seal plate restraint part does not restrict movement of the seal plate in the radial direction and a seal plate restraint state where at least a part of the seal plate restraint part protrudes in the axial direction.
US11339660B2
The present invention is directed to in situ methods for maintaining turbine assemblies. One such method includes: disposing a maintenance apparatus on the rotor; positioning the maintenance apparatus proximate to the damaged region by rotating the rotor; and repairing the damaged region by operating a repair tool disposed on the apparatus. Another method includes: disposing a maintenance apparatus on the stator; positioning the damaged region proximate to the maintenance apparatus by rotating the rotor; and repairing the damaged region by operating a repair tool disposed on the apparatus.
US11339654B2
A bit tip insert on a bit/holder, tool, and/or pick for road milling operations that includes a body including a tip and a base subjacent the tip The bit tip insert also includes at least one heat transfer bore extending from a distal end and/or bottom of the body to a bore termination disposed within the base and/or the tip of the bit tip insert. The at least one bore of the bit tip insert is adapted to allow inward contraction when the overlay transfers heat into the base during operation.
US11339651B2
Systems and methods for determining a continuous grain size log from a collection of petrographic thin section images are provided. Thin section images from core samples from one or more wells may be obtained and analyzed to estimate grain sizes. Using wireline logs from the one or more wells and the estimated grain sizes, a data structure (for example, a database) of grain sizes and wireline logs at depths may be constructed. The data structure may be used to train a machine learning model. Next, a wireline tool may be used to obtain wireline logs in a new well, and a continuous grain size log may be determined from the wireline logs of using the machine learning model. Computer-readable media for determining reservoir rock grain sizes from a collection of petrographic thin section images is also provided.
US11339650B2
A compact sub assembly and well measurement system. The compact sub assembly may comprise a deep transmitter disposed about one end of the compact sub assembly, a shallow dual transmitter disposed on the compact sub assembly between the deep transmitter and a second end of the compact sub assembly, a shallow dual-collocated receiver disposed on the compact sub assembly between the deep transmitter and a second end of the compact sub assembly, and a deep receiver disposed about the second end of the compact sub assembly. A well measurement system for decoupling a component signal may comprise a logging tool. The logging tool may comprise a first sub assembly and a conveyance attached to the logging tool. In examples the first sub assembly is a compact sub assembly comprising a deep transmitter, a shallow dual transmitter, a shallow dual-collocated receiver, and a deep receiver.
US11339649B2
An apparatus for generating pressure variances in a flowing fluid includes a first member having a body and a second member. The second member is displaceable about a rotational axis to at least partially block fluid flow through one or more channels in the first member and at least partially reduce the blockage of this fluid flow. The second member has a hub and at least one section extending axially and radially from the hub relative to the rotational axis of the second member. A related method includes guiding fluid across the first member using the channel(s); selectively blocking the fluid flow through the channel(s) using at least one section of a second member; and moving the second member using an actuator to reduce the blockage of the flow of fluid through the channel(s).
US11339647B2
A method for determining discharge area in hydraulic stimulation operations is provided that includes obtaining one or more treatment data inputs from a well system, and determining a discharge area by applying the one or more treatment data inputs to a function that determines discharge area in terms of volumetric flow rate of the fracturing fluid, wherein the discharge area is a total area of all downhole exits through which the fracturing fluid exits a wellbore into a subterranean formation.
US11339635B2
An artificial lift system can include an actuator operable to reciprocate a rod string in the well, the actuator including a piston reciprocably disposed in a cylinder, and a piston rod connected to the piston, and a rod rotator that continuously rotates the piston rod relative to the cylinder as the piston displaces in a longitudinal direction relative to the cylinder. A method of rotating a rod string can include connecting the rod string to a piston rod of an actuator, longitudinally reciprocating the piston rod relative to a cylinder of the actuator and a mandrel of a rod rotator, and rotating the piston rod relative to the mandrel in response to the reciprocating, the mandrel being disposed at least partially within the piston rod during the rotating. A rod rotator can include a mandrel having a helical external profile configured to attach to a cylinder of a hydraulic actuator, an internal profile complementarily shaped relative to the external profile, and a one-way clutch.
US11339633B1
The disclosure provides a manifold comprising a trailer and a piping system. The piping system is disposed on top of the trailer, wherein the piping system comprises a first set of conduits and a second set of conduits. Each of the first set of conduits and the second set of conduits comprises a first line comprising an inlet disposed at a first side of the trailer and a second line comprising an inlet disposed at the first side of the trailer, wherein the first line is disposed above the second line. There is a plurality of outlets and a plurality of valves disposed along the second line.
US11339632B2
A perforating gun housing includes a housing wall extending between a first housing portion defining a chamber, and a second housing portion defining a bore. The housing wall includes a first outer surface, a second outer surface, and a face extending substantially perpendicularly to the second outer surface between the first outer surface and the second outer surface. A perforating gun tool string comprises a first gun housing coupled to a second gun housing, wherein each gun housing includes a housing wall having a first threaded portion and a second threaded portion for attachment to an adjacent gun housing. A method for assembling a wellbore tool string includes providing a first gun housing and a second gun housing, inserting the second end of the first gun housing into the first end of the second gun housing, and rotating the first gun housing relative to the second gun housing.
US11339631B2
The present disclosure relates to a system having an inner structure, wherein the inner structure comprises at least one inner tube made of stainless steel and at least one sensor device with at least one sensor to measure at least one condition of the system. Under an aspect of the present disclosure a system of this type is suggested, wherein the inner structure is coated with at least one layer of at least one plastic material.
US11339628B2
A hydraulic line balance manifold includes a housing having first and second open ports for fluidly coupling an upper open line to a downhole tool, first and second close ports for fluidly coupling an upper close line to the downhole tool, and bypass channel for fluidly coupling the second open port with the second close port according to pressure within the upper open line and the upper close line. A sensor piston having first and second positions relative to the housing is slidably disposed within the housing, the second open port fluidly uncoupled from the second close port through the bypass channel when the sensor piston is in the first position, second open port fluidly coupled to the second close port through the bypass channel when the piston is in the second position for reducing fluid resistance to mechanical operation of the slave valve in a mechanical override intervention operation.
US11339614B2
An alignment sub may include a first sub body part rotatably coupled to a second sub body part. The first sub body part and second sub body part may be respectively non-rotatably coupled to a first wellbore tool and a second wellbore tool. A lock screw switchable between an unlocked state and a locked state may fix an angular position of the first sub body part relative to an angular position of the second sub body part when the lock screw is in the locked state.
US11339599B2
A drive device for a pivoting vehicle flap, includes a first housing part (3), a second housing part (4), wherein the first housing part (3) and the second housing part (4) are designed to be movable toward each other in the direction of the axial extension (x) of the drive device (1), a spindle rod (12) rotatably arranged on one of the first housing part (3) and the second housing part (4) and a spindle nut (13) arranged in a rotatably fixed manner on the other of the first housing part (3) and the second housing part (4), a braking device (19), comprising a first brake element, which is connected to the spindle rod (12) in a rotatably fixed manner, a second brake element, which is connected to one of the first housing part (3) and the second housing part (4) in a rotatably fixed manner, wherein the first brake element can interact with the second brake element in order to generate a brake force, and a magnet arrangement for generating a magnetic field. The drive device (1) is for a pivoting vehicle flap, to provide automatic pivoting and a flexible holding force for the vehicle flap, such that at least one of the first brake element and the second brake element can be displaced in the axial direction (x) of the spindle rod (12) by the magnetic field.
US11339594B2
A dual axis hinge assembly couples first and second hinges to each other with a central barrel and routes cables across hinge axles with cable channels formed in the axles. The dual axis hinge assembly rotationally couples information handling system housing portions to each other and routes cables between the housing portions distal the barrel by running the cables through a channel formed in each axle of one of the hinges with the cable entering one axle distal the barrel, routing through the axle to a position proximate the barrel, crossing the hinge to enter the other hinge axle proximate the barrel and routing though the other axle to exit distal the barrel.
US11339592B2
The locking mechanism is adapted to a door system having a door unit slidably mounted to a door frame to open and close by sliding longitudinally along the door frame. The locking mechanism includes: a pivoting member pivotally mounted to one of the door frame and the door unit for pivoting about a pivot axis, and a hook member spaced apart from the pivot axis such that the hook member can pivot about the pivot axis via the pivoting member; and a guide member secured to the other one of the door frame and the door unit, the guide member having a channel formed therein to receive the hook member when the pivoting member is moved toward the guide by said sliding of the door, and subsequently maintain engagement with the hook member.
US11339590B2
A vehicle hood latch and method of unlatching a vehicle hood is provided. The vehicle hood latch includes a housing; a ratchet pivotally mounted on the housing; a pawl pivotally mounted on the housing and biased into engagement with the ratchet; a pin fixed for conjoint movement with the pawl; a double pull lever operably mounted to the housing and having an abutment surface configured for operable engagement with the pin, and a primary safety catch lever operably mounted to the housing. The primary safety catch lever is configured to pivot from a locked first position to an unlocked second position. The primary safety catch lever moves from the first locked position to the second unlocked position in response to translational movement of the double pull lever caused by engagement of the pin with the abutment surface of the double pull lever.
US11339579B1
An electrically powered pool cleaner may include a housing defining an axial passageway. A rotatable sleeve impeller may be supported by the housing within the axial passageway. The axial passageway may include an unobstructed central portion for passage of fluid and pool debris therethrough into a filter bag removably connected to the housing. A motor may be operatively connected to the sleeve impeller and a power supply operatively connected to the motor. Rotation of the sleeve impeller may accelerate fluid flow through the axial passageway for drawing into the filter bag. The pool cleaner may include a rigid cover enclosing the filter components. The rigid cover may include a handle for handheld operation of the pool cleaner.
US11339577B2
A stocker includes a transporter that travels through a traveling space within a stocker and transports an article, a pair of rails that flank the traveling space extend in parallel or substantially in parallel in a horizontal direction, platforms movable along the pair of rails, and a housing provided on a stocker outer side of a door that separates an inside and an outside of the stocker, and that houses the platforms. The pair of rails extend from the inside of the stocker to the housing through an opening directly under the door. At least one of the platforms includes a fence in an upright standing manner and an upper end of the fence is higher than an upper end of the opening. The platform that includes the fence extends across the inside of the stocker and the outside of the stocker via the opening while the fence is arranged on a stocker inner side.
US11339575B2
A handrail system includes a top rail and one or more support posts. The rail and post/s may be formed from a synthetic material such as a fibre reinforced plastics material. The or each connector has a rail connection part for connection to a rail section at either end thereof and a post connection part for connection to a support post, the connector forming part of the top rail whereby a continuous top rail is provided, in which the connection of the post/s to the connector/s is articulated so that in use the rail slope is adjustable. The system also includes one or more adjustable corner connectors including first and second parts hingedly connected to each other and being attachable to a rail section and a support post or leg.
US11339572B1
The present disclosure is directed to a method of manufacturing gypsum board as well as the resulting gypsum board. The method comprises providing a gypsum slurry with a shrinkage-reducing additive comprising a metal salt of an acid, a silica, or a mixture thereof. As a result, the gypsum board includes gypsum and a shrinkage-reducing additive comprising a metal salt of an acid, a silica, or a mixture thereof. The gypsum board exhibits an area shrinkage of less than 10%.
US11339569B2
A process for fabricating a unitized structure comprises creating a multilayer structure by applying a flame-retardant resin to a first layer and stacking, on the first layer, an intermediate layer comprising a honeycomb structure. Further, a second layer is stacked on the intermediate layer and the flame-retardant resin is applied to the second layer. The multilayer structure is then heated to a desired temperature and a pressure is applied about the multilayer structure for a predetermined process time. Moreover, the flame-retardant resin is prevented from entering spaces of the honeycomb structure. After elapse of the predetermined process time, the pressure is released, creating the unitized structure.
US11339561B2
A method of constructing a modular building, the method can include the following sequential steps: constructing a multi-floor building frame by connecting a plurality of like open topped-trays and column assemblies, with the trays forming floors and the column assemblies separating the floors; assembling walls or walls formwork to the frame; and pouring wet concrete into the trays to form the building.
US11339559B2
A flush toilet includes a toilet main body and a tank device, and the tank device includes a storage tank and a tank mounting member to which the storage tank is detachably attached. At a time of attachment of the storage tank to the tank mounting member, an attaching portion of the storage tank is engaged with an attachment-receiving portion of the tank mounting member by the storage tank being lowered onto a base of the tank mounting member from above. Then, when the storage tank is moved in a horizontal direction relative to the tank mounting member, the attaching portion of the storage tank is configured to be fixed to the attachment-receiving portion of the tank mounting member.
US11339558B1
A sink mounting apparatus includes a mounting bracket comprising a mounting flange configured to couple to a mounting surface and a support flange coupled to the mounting flange which extends horizontally from the mounting flange. The apparatus also includes an adjustable support extending vertically from the support flange and a contact pad disposed on a distal end of the adjustable support configured to support a fixture.
US11339555B2
A process for determining a setpoint rotational speed of a work machine engine, having a continuously variable transmission, based on operation of power hydraulics. The setpoint rotational speed for highly productive operation is determined, without knowledge current operation of the power hydraulics, by a basic engine speed setting. With knowledge of the current operating state, the setpoint rotational speed is determined by the basic speed settings and low or high engine speed settings. The low speed setting alone determines setpoint rotational speeds that are lower than the basic speed setting or a combination of the low and basic speed settings. The high speed setting alone determines setpoint rotational speeds that are higher than the basic speed setting or a combination of the basic and high speed settings. The speed settings can comprise a setpoint rotational speed range of above a reciprocal transmission range of the variable transmission.
US11339552B2
The invention relates to a skid segment (10) for an edge protection (5) on a road milling machine or similar ground processing machine having a base part (11) and at least one first skid section (12) mounted thereupon, wherein the first skid section (12), in a first operating position of the base part (11), can be directed in direction (A) onto the surface of the road or ground. At least one second skid section (13) is mounted on the base part (11), which, in a second operating position of the base part (11), can be directed in direction (A) onto the surface of the road or ground. The invention further relates to an edge protection for a road milling machine or similar ground processing machine having skid segments of this kind, wherein the edge protection has an edge which is designed to receive at least one skid segment.
US11339545B2
The sound absorbing board includes a body and multiple sound absorbing elements. The body has a first side surface and a second side surface. The multiple sound absorbing elements are formed on the body at spaced intervals, and each one of the multiple sound absorbing elements has a protrusion, a groove, and two sound absorbing openings. The protrusion is formed on the first side surface of the body. The groove is formed on the second side surface of the body and has multiple concave portions and at least one convex portion. The multiple concave portions are formed on a bottom surface of the groove. The at least one convex portion is formed on the bottom surface of the groove, and is formed between two adjacent ones of the multiple concave portions. The two sound absorbing openings are formed on the two opposite side surfaces of the protrusion, respectively.
US11339542B2
The invention relates to a device for processing a hard surfacing, the device comprising a rotatable hammering unit configured to process the hard surfacing under the hammering unit with hammers, the hammering unit comprising a substantially flat first and second disc with a number of hammer wheels on the underside of the second disc, wherein the coupling between the first and second disc is formed by one or more vibration-damping coupling elements. The invention also relates to a method for processing a hard surfacing with a vehicle provided with the device described herein.
US11339538B2
The disclosure discloses nano TiO2-doped anti-ultraviolet para-aramid nano paper and a preparation method thereof. First, nano TiO2 is selected as an ultraviolet absorbent which has a good absorption effect on ultraviolet rays, and the anti-ultraviolet characteristic of aramid paper-based material can be well improved through addition of nano TiO2. Second, macroscopic para-aramid fiber is dissolved under the action of a DMSO/KOH system, and the surface of the prepared aramid nano fiber is rich in C═O and N—H. This method is simple in process and does not harm the fiber itself, and can effectively improve the mechanical strength, interface binding performance and processability of a base material. The nano TiO2-doped anti-ultraviolet para-aramid nano paper prepared by the disclosure is simple in preparation process, excellent in material property.
US11339532B2
Methods of forming crosslinked cellulose include mixing a crosslinking agent with cellulose mat fiber fragments composed of hydrogen-bonded cellulose fibers and having a solids content of about 45-95% to form a substantially homogenous mixture of non-crosslinked, individualized cellulose fibers, drying the resulting mixture to 85-100% solids, then curing the dried mixture under conditions effective to crosslink the cellulose fibers. Some of such methods may include fragmenting a cellulose fiber mat to form the mat fragments. Systems include a mixing unit (such as a high-consistency mixer) configured to form, from the mat fragments and a crosslinking agent, a substantially homogenous mixture of non-crosslinked, individualized cellulose fibers and crosslinking agent, at ambient conditions, a drying unit to dry the substantially homogenous mixture to a consistency of 85-100%, and a curing unit and to cure the crosslinking agent to form dried and cured crosslinked cellulose fibers.
US11339531B2
Disclosed is a leather-like sheet having a lightness L* of 35 or less, and including a fiber structure including fiber dyed with a dye composition including C.I. Basic Blue 3 and at least one blue cationic dye other than C.I. Basic Blue 3, and an elastic polymer contained in internal voids of the fiber structure, or the fiber structure. Also disclosed is a leather-like sheet having a lightness L* of 35 or less, and including a fiber structure including fiber dyed with an azo-based blue cationic dye, and an elastic polymer contained in internal voids of the fiber structure, wherein the leather-like sheet or the fiber structure has a color difference (ΔE), determined when treated for 48 hours under moist and hot conditions of 80° C. and a moisture of 90%, of ΔE≤2. or the fiber structure.
US11339530B2
Disclosed is a napped artificial leather including: an artificial leather base material that includes a non-woven fabric of polyester fibers having a Young's modulus of 1 to 6 GPa, an average fiber-toughness of 8 to 40 cN·%, and a crystallinity of 35% or less, and an elastic polymer, the artificial leather base material having, on at least one surface thereof, a napped surface on which the polyester fibers are napped. Also disclosed are polyester fibers having a Young's modulus of 1 to 6 GPa, an average fiber-toughness of 8 to 40 cN·%, and a crystallinity of 35% or less, and a non-woven fabric including the polyester fibers.
US11339525B2
A laundry treating apparatus is provided that may include a cabinet having a laundry opening formed therein, a door mounted to the cabinet to open and close the laundry opening, and a control panel arranged at or on the cabinet. The control panel may include a control panel body that projects forward from a front plate. A front side of the control panel body may be sloped to face upward, thereby permitting enhanced utilization of an inside space of the cabinet, easy display of information on the control panel to a user, and easy operation of the control panel by a user.
US11339520B2
A laundry treating appliance comprising a chassis including a chassis opening, a tub with a tub opening, a drum defining a treating chamber, an annular bellows extending between the tub opening and the chassis opening having an inner peripheral surface, a closure to selectively open/close the chassis opening, and an air recirculating system including a recirculating conduit and deflection component that can crate a circumferential airflow about the annular bellows.
US11339515B2
Provided is a sewing machine that can be reduced in size by employing a simple configuration for a feed dog drive device. A lateral feed drive unit (8) and a vertical drive unit (9) transmit rotation of a drive shaft (7) to a feed dog (3). The feed dog (3) is supported by a swingable feed base (5). A square piece (18) is provided at a lower end of a raising and lowering link (15) of the vertical drive unit (9). A guide member (19) including a guide groove (20) configured to guide the square piece (18) is disposed right under the feed base (5). An upper end of the raising and lowering link (15) is connected to a part of the feed base (5) between the swinging shaft (6) and the feed dog (3).
US11339508B2
A yarn comprising a plurality of bicomponent filaments having a first region comprising a first polymer composition and a second region comprising a second polymer composition, each of the first and second regions being distinct in the bicomponent filaments; each bicomponent filament comprising 5 to 60 weight percent of the first polymer composition and 95 to 40 weight percent of the second polymer composition; wherein the first polymer composition comprises aramid polymer containing 0.5 to 20 weight percent discrete homogeneously dispersed carbon particles and the second polymer composition comprises modacrylic polymer being free of discrete carbon particles; the yarn having a total content of 0.1 to 5 weight percent discrete carbon particles.
US11339504B2
A process for producing an elastic fiber comprising: melt-spinning a raw material composition, which comprises a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer, at a spinning rate of 2,500 m/min to 10,000 m/min. The thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer comprises soft-segments obtained by reacting a polyether polyol as a long chain polyol.
US11339503B2
A network of microfibers are fabricated with a core-shell construction from sustainable materials, where the core includes a phase-change material, such as coconut oil, and the shell includes a biomass, such as cellulose. The microfibers are made via a wet-wet electrospinning process utilizing a coaxial spinneret with an inner conduit and an outer conduit. The biomass and the phase-change material are coaxially extruded into a coagulation bath including a mixture of ethanol and water. The collected microfibers exhibit a beaded structure of PCM aggregates and biomass connecting regions between the aggregates and are effective to aid in the thermoregulation of the immediate environment surrounding the network. The microfibers are suitable for use in a variety of sustainable products such as wearable thermoregulating textiles, wall/ceiling panels, insulation, packaging material, and more.
US11339502B2
Field of application: The invention relates to organic and bioorganic combinatorial chemistry, namely, to new combinatorial libraries of derivatives oligopeptides and supramolecular structures based on them, which when used without separation into individual components possess powerful antiviral properties. The essence of the invention: The invention is based on the task of synthesizing combinatorial derivatives of oligopeptides with antiviral properties and with a new mechanism of action, the use of which will significantly increase the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the treatment time for viral diseases such as influenza, herpes virus infections.
US11339498B2
A method in which a carbonaceous protective film is formed on a rear surface of a single crystal SiC seed, the seed is placed in a reaction container without adhesion, and then single crystal SiC is grown from a SiC raw material on a front surface of the seed allows the seed to grow to a single crystal ingot having a large diameter since the absence of adhesion of the seed to a holder prevents the generation of warps or cracks attributed to a difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the seed and the holder during heating.
US11339497B2
A silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system are provided. The silicon carbide ingot manufacturing method and the silicon carbide ingot manufacturing system may change a temperature gradient depending on the growth of an ingot by implementing a guide which has a tilted angle to an external direction from the interior of a reactor, in an operation to grow an ingot during a silicon carbide ingot manufacturing process.
US11339481B1
Methods and systems for production of lithium hydroxide and lithium carbonate are described. One or more embodiments of the method include producing lithium hydroxide from potassium chloride, lithium chloride, and water. One or more embodiments of the method include producing lithium carbonate from potassium chloride, lithium chloride, water, and a carbon dioxide source. One or more embodiments of the method include producing lithium carbonate from sodium chloride, lithium chloride, water, and a carbon dioxide source.
US11339468B2
A magnetron sputtering scanning method for manufacturing a silicon carbide optical reflector surface modification layer and improving surface profile includes (1) for a silicon carbide plane mirror to be modified, first utilizing diamond micro-powders to grind and roughly polish an aspherical silicon carbide reflector with a conventional polishing or CCOS numerical control machining method; (2) after the surface profile precision of the silicon carbide reflector satisfies a modification requirement, utilizing a strip-shaped magnetron sputtering source to deposit a compact silicon modification layer on the surface of the silicon carbide reflector; (3) then, utilizing a circular sputtering source to modify and improve the surface profile of the reflector; and (4) finally, finely polishing the modification layer, and achieving the requirements for machining the surface profile and roughness of the reflector.
US11339464B2
Rapid plasma nitriding is achieved by harnessing the power and increased density of plasma discharges created by hollow cathodes. When opposing surfaces are maintained at the proper voltage, sub atmospheric pressure, and spacing, a phenomenon known as the hollow cathode effect creates additional hot oscillating electrons capable of multiple ionization events thereby increasing the number of ions and electrons per unit volume (plasma density). The present invention describes the harnessing of this phenomenon to rapidly plasma nitride metal surfaces and optionally rapidly deposit functional coatings in a continuous operation for duplex coatings.
US11339463B1
A local phase transformation strengthened nickel-base superalloy includes at least 8.0 wt % eta phase formers; at least 7.0 wt % of chi phase formers; less than 12 wt % chromium; at least 18 wt % cobalt; and aluminum. A ratio of eta phase formers:aluminum is (3.2-3.4):1. The eta phase formers can include titanium, tantalum, hafnium, and niobium. The chi phase formers include tungsten and molybdenum. When the superalloy is subjected to elevated temperatures, these levels of components promote eta and chi phase formation along superlattice stacking faults, thereby resulting in a local phase transformation at the stacking faults, which strengthens the superalloy and inhibits creep deformation.
US11339460B2
Disclosed are a ferritic stainless steel capable of inhibiting high temperature oxidation through generation of an effective oxide scale, and manufacturing method thereof. The ferritic stainless steel excellent in oxidation resistance at high temperature according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, in percent (%) by weight of the entire composition, Cr: 10 to 30%, Si: 0.2 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.1 to 2.0%, W: 0.3 to 2.5%, Ti: 0.001 to 0.15%, Al: 0.001 to 0.1%, the remainder of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, and satisfies a following equation (1). W/(Ti+Al)≥10 (1)
US11339457B2
Disclosed herein are processes and systems relating to separation, handling, and disposal of undesirable metals to facilitate recovery of desirable metals, including lithium. Undesirable metals may be precipitated at high pH and separated from a liquid resource to facilitate recovery of the desirable metals. The precipitated undesirable metals may then be redissolved and recombined with the liquid resource for disposal.
US11339443B2
A method for detecting genes sensitive to low-level ionizing radiation and genes detected by the method. More specifically, genes sensitive to low-level ionizing radiation and related to suppressing thymic cancer, discovered in a carcinogenic entity and verified in a normal entity are detected by subjecting a cancerous AKR/J mouse and a normal ICR mouse to low-level radiation. Thymus is collected therefrom, immunogenic and apoptotic genes are classified via microarray processing of the thymus. The genes are amplified and the levels of gene expression are measured. Thus, a gene having a specific reaction to radiation can be accurately detected by preventing the interference of confounding variables.
US11339429B2
The present disclosure provides methods for determining the ploidy status of a chromosome in a gestating fetus from genotypic data measured from a mixed sample of DNA comprising DNA from both the mother of the fetus and from the fetus, and optionally from genotypic data from the mother and father. The ploidy state is determined by using a joint distribution model to create a plurality of expected allele distributions for different possible fetal ploidy states given the parental genotypic data, and comparing the expected allelic distributions to the pattern of measured allelic distributions measured in the mixed sample, and choosing the ploidy state whose expected allelic distribution pattern most closely matches the observed allelic distribution pattern. The mixed sample of DNA may be preferentially enriched at a plurality of polymorphic loci in a way that minimizes the allelic bias, for example using massively multiplexed targeted PCR.
US11339422B2
Presented herein are methods and compositions for analyzing rare nucleic acid species. Some methods presented herein use DNA reassociation kinetics following thermal denaturation to define populations of nucleic acid sequences, e.g., highly abundant (e.g., cDNA from rRNA), moderately abundant, and less abundant or rare sequences (e.g., cDNA from mRNA).
US11339414B2
The present disclosure provides recombinant microorganisms and methods for the production of 4-HMF, 2,4-furandimethanol, furan-2,4-dicarbaldehyde, 4-(hydroxymethyl)furoic acid, 2-formylfuran-4-carboxylate, 4-formylfuran-2-carboxylate, and/or 2,4-FDCA from a carbon source. The method provides for engineered microorganisms that express endogenous and/or exogenous nucleic acid molecules that catalyze the conversion of a carbon source into 4-HMF, 2,4-furandimethanol, furan-2,4-dicarbaldehyde, 4-(hydroxymethyl)furoic acid, 2-formylfuran-4-carboxylate, 4-formylfuran-2-carboxylate, and/or 2,4-FDCA. The disclosure further provides methods of producing polymers derived from 4-HMF, 2,4-furandimethanol, furan-2,4-dicarbaldehyde, 4-(hydroxymethyl)furoic acid, 2-formylfuran-4-carboxylate, 4-formylfuran-2-carboxylate, and/or 2,4-FDCA.
US11339413B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for rapid production of chemicals in genetically engineered microorganisms in a large scale. Also provided herein is a high-throughput metabolic engineering platform enabling the rapid optimization of microbial production strains. The platform, which bridges a gap between current in vivo and in vitro bio-production approaches, relies on dynamic minimization of the active metabolic network.
US11339407B2
A cell modification device, comprising a centrifugation chamber with at least one cell modifying surface with a normal vector having an angle of 135-45° to the rotational axis of the centrifugation chamber, wherein the centrifugation chamber comprises at least one input/output port and the cells to be modified are immobilized at the cell modifying surfaces by the rotation of the centrifugation chamber at 2 to 2000 g. In an embodiment, the device is used as a point-of-care and/or portable device. Further, the present disclosure describes software that, when executed by a processor, causes the device to perform the disclosed functions.
US11339404B2
Provided is technology for conferring enhanced tolerance and/or enhancing tolerance to herbicide of a plant and/or algae using amino acid variants of protoporphyrinogen oxidase derived from prokaryotes.
US11339396B2
Modified viral genomes are able to reduce induction of inflammatory and immune anti-viral responses. This manifests itself in reduced NF-kB activity, increased viral transduction rates, and increased expression of transgenes. Viral genomes are modified by incorporating one or more oligonucleotide sequences which are able to bind to TLR9 but not induce activation of it. The oligonucleotide sequences may be synthetic, bacterial, human, or from any other source.
US11339379B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant host cell which is capable of producing a dicarboxylic acid and which comprises a mutant malate dehydrogenase resulting in an increased production of the dicarboxylic acid. The invention also relates to a process for producing a dicarboxylic acid, which method comprises fermenting said recombinant host cell in a suitable fermentation medium and producing the dicarboxylic acid.
US11339376B2
Provided is a host cell for stably propagating a virulent hand, foot and mouth disease virus, the host cell expressing no heparan sulfate and overexpressing primate scavenger receptor class B member 2 (SCARB2). Also provided is a method for screening for an anti-hand, foot and mouth disease virus vaccine or an anti-hand, foot and mouth disease virus drug using a stably cultured virulent hand, foot and mouth disease virus.
US11339367B2
Hyperblebbing Shigella strains are generated by disrupting one or more components of the Tol-Pal system. The blebs from these strains are useful immunogens for vaccination. The individual proteins found in these blebs can also be used as immunogens.
US11339365B2
Described herein is a device and method for translocating a protein through a nanopore and monitoring electronic changes caused by different amino acids in the protein. The device comprises a nanopore in a membrane, an amplifier for providing a voltage between the cis side and trans side of the membrane, and an NTP driven unfoldase which processed the protein to be translocated. The exemplified unfoldase is the ClpX unfoldase from E. coli.
US11339355B2
The invention relates to polypeptides having hydrolytic activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US11339352B2
The need for an antimicrobial hard surface cleaning composition which provides improved removal of greasy residues, especially greasy soap scum, is met by formulating the antimicrobial hard surface cleaning composition with an alkyl pyrrolidone surfactant and additional nonionic surfactant.
